Into the 20th century, and he was busy teaching at Summer Schools in Europe, and trying to come to terms with art of the future.
Impressionism
His golden age, when each summer the family moved up to their house at Shinnecock, where he taught, and painted like never before.
A busy period of work mainly in his New York studio, Chase met and painted with Whistler in London, and Sargent in New York.
First in a series detailing his life and work. This covers his training, and first establishing his studio in New York. Plenty of his paintings are included.
One of the most famous Texan painters, he is known for his bluebonnet works. But he also painted under pseudonyms when in New York.
As an Impressionist painter, his plein air paintings of Shinnecock are central to his works and career. They were also much of his teaching.
Brother of the architect Richard Morris Hunt, he painted portraits of the ‘Boston Brahmins’, then landscapes in Barbizon style.
Oil sketches and studies became accepted as works of art. But not all Impressionist paintings have survived as well as they should.
For 15 years, his delicate nudes seen in dappled light were popular throughout Europe. They shocked the folk back in the US, though.
An American Master in his own right, his paintings were on a par with those of Chase, and he was a successful teacher too.
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