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"William Merritt Chase first came to paint the Shinnecock Hills in 1891. He was invited by Mrs. Janet Hoyt, who proposed opening a summer art academy based on the plein-air schools then popular in Europe, a strategy she devised to enhance the importance of Southampton as a summer resort. Chase's own schooling at Munich's Royal Academy and a decade spent traveling abroad made him one of the most worldly and sophisticated American painters and the most renowned teacher of his day. He was the logical choice to become founding director of the Shinnecock Hills Summer School of Art. Chase had begun teaching at New York's Art Students League shortly after returning from Germany in 1879; in 1896 he began his own school, the Chase School of Art, later the New York School of Art, and over the years taught hundreds of young artists, such as Georgia O'Keefe, Charles Demuth, and Rockwell Kent."
This exhibit will go on until November 6th, 2015.
