William Merritt Chase: A Modern Master

Exhibition Curator Elsa Smithgall introduces William Merritt Chase: A Modern Master, on view at The Phillips Collection June 4 through September 11, 2016. American artist William Merritt Chase (b. Indiana, 1849–d. New York, 1916), a renowned figure in the international art circles of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, was a brilliant observer of contemporary life, an innovative painter, and an influential teacher. This retrospective presented on the centennial year of the artist’s death explores the f