At the Seaside
Artist: William Merritt Chase (American, 1849–1916)
Original Dimensions: 20" x 34"
Location: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
About Artwork: (ca. 1892) "From 1891 to 1902 Chase served as director of the Shinnecock Hills Summer School of Art, the United States’ first plein-air painting school. Located in the oceanfront village of Southampton, on Long Island, New York, Chase taught two days each week and spent the rest of his time painting and enjoying the company of his family. Here, women and children relax on a beach, probably along Shinnecock Bay. Their pale summer dresses and parasols evoke genteel leisure beneath Chase’s carefully rendered summer clouds and broad blue sky that fills the upper half of the canvas." - (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

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