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A major show

marks the 100th

anniversary of

William Merritt

Chase’s death.

LEFT: A splendid example of

Chase’s mastery of pastel, Hall

at Shinnecock (1892; pastel on

canvas, 32^11 ⁄ 8 x41), with its repeated

large vases and young girls seated

in white pinafores, appears to ref-

erence John Singer Sargent’s The

Daughters of Edward Darley Boit.

Chase’s self-portrait, refl ected in

the glass door of a distant armoire,

suggests an infl uence vital to

both himself and Sargent, that

of Velázquez’s Las Meninas.

TERRA FOUNDATION FOR AMERICAN ART,

DANIEL J. TERRA COLLECTION

Celebrating a

Moder n

Master

By Jerry N. Weiss

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