Idle Hours
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ArtistWilliam Merritt Chase
Year1894
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions90.2 cm × 64.8 cm (35.5 in × 25.5 in)
LocationAmon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth

Idle Hours is an oil-on-canvas landscape painting by the American Impressionist painter William Merritt Chase. Completed in 1894, it measures 90.2 by 64.8 centimeters, and is now housed at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth.[1] It is one of many paintings by Chase that depicted his wife and children at ease.[2]

Description

Idle Hours portrays Chase's wife, sister, and two daughters on the shore at eastern Long Island, where Chase taught a summer school in landscape painting. It depicts a country retreat from urbanization and industrialization.[3]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Amon Carter Museum of American Art
  2. ↑ An American Collection: Works from the Amon Carter Museum ISBN 1555951988
  3. ↑ American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765-1915 ISBN 1588393364
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