How the teaching of art, especially that of William Merritt Chase, brought artistic independence to the USA in the late 19th century, painters from Lydia Field Emmet to Louise Upton Brumback.
Emmet
Tony Robert-Fleury’s pupils included Lovis Corinth, Cecilia Beaux, Lydia Field Emmet, Marie Bashkirtseff, George Clausen, Édouard Vuillard, and Ker-Xavier Roussel.
His golden age, when each summer the family moved up to their house at Shinnecock, where he taught, and painted like never before.
A survey of some of his better-known students, from Emma Lampert Cooper, Joseph Stella, and George Bellows, to Georgia O’Keeffe.
The Eclectic Light Company 