Art Image Details
Shinnecock Hills, Long Island
| Title: | Shinnecock Hills, Long Island |
|---|---|
| Artist: | Chase, William Merritt |
| Date of Work: | 1900 |
| Medium/Support: | oil on panel |
| Measurements: | 14 1/2 x 18 5/8 in (36.8 x 47.3 cm) |
| Inscribed: | Yes |
| Inscription Type: | signed |
| Inscription Location: | lower left |
| Inscription Text: | Wm M. Chase. [note: "m" in Wm superscript and underscored] |
| Acquisition Information: | Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Irving Frederick Burton |
| Acquisition Number: | 962.191.1 |
| Credit Line: | The White House Historical Association (White House Collection) |
| Scholar's Notes: |
"Chase's name was to become inseparable from Shinnecock, at the eastern end of Long Island. There [he] opened a summer art school in 1891. . . . To this site at the edge of the Atlantic came hundreds of aspiring art students every summer until 1902. . . . "Shinnecock Hills is painted on a small panel of the type often carried by landscape artists in their search for motifs. Pre-primed with a very light tone, such panels were used by artists to record their chosen segments of the landscape, to capture a transient cloud or a change of light. . . . ". . . [Chase] cropped the gentle hills to stress the dale between them, where the dusty purple and green scrub bushes cluster at the center. . . . "The breeze that blows across the dunes is first stated in the striated sky. . . . Blended, flexible brushstrokes in the foreground suggest the effect of wind in the dune grass." |
| Source of Scholar's Notes: | Kloss, William, et al. Art in the White House: A Nation's Pride. Washington, D.C.: The White House Historical Association, 2008. |
| Page Number(s) in Source: | 222 |
| Categories: | White House Art Collection |
| Type: | landscapes |
