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Paintings[edit]

I realized when I was ready with the gallery that this painter has so much more to give - not only some one jester and some small landscapes... He was a good painter and many of his different talents and oevres doesn't show in the article. As it is now it lacks quite bit to show he width of his art. Hafspajen (talk) 14:07, 3 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

How about a different gallery- paintings
In The Studio, 1884
Hattie, 1886
Young Woman Before a Mirror
Portrait Of A Lady In Pink, 1888
Making Her Toilet, 1889
Portrait Of A Lady 1890

The painting of Lydia Field Emmet it takes up a lot of place in the article and any of the above is more interesting . "William Merritt Chase's style - VERY GOOD PORTRAIT PAINTER " Hafspajen (talk) 14:14, 3 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Adding a gallery to this article was a good move in my opinion, but your edit left the page in a bad state. A group of seven paintings representing single figures—six women and one jester—was captioned "William Merritt Chase's style". A reader may wonder why these seven works should be represented as more indicative of his style than the other works on the page; nothing in the text explains the puzzling caption. "Keying Up" – The Court Jester is mentioned in the article; it seems to me preferable to keep the jpg near the text where the painting is mentioned. And if we want to demonstrate Chase's range, why add a second, similar jester painting from his Munich period?

Sunlight and Shadow is a very good painting, but the jpg misrepresents it as a monochrome in orange. Chase's interest in the exotic, exemplified by The Moorish Warrior, is also represented in Studio Interior. Opinions will differ as to which of his paintings are more interesting. The Lydia Field Emmet portrait—arguably one of his best—is a good example of Whistler's influence on Chase's portrait style, and as a portrait of one of his students it also ties in with Chase's role as a teacher of many notable artists.

Your edit included a final gallery of twelve paintings, one of which lacked any caption, one of which was captioned "1884", and one of which was captioned ", 1890" (i.e., comma 1890). Such sloppiness is out of place in any respectable encyclopedia, and 29 images is quite a lot for a biographical article of this length, suggesting that images are being used as a substitute for text.

Chase was prolific and the article cannot show every one of his paintings. There is positive value in being selective, and the pictures should be adequately supported by the text. Wikipedia's purpose is didactic after all. Otherwise, anyone simply wishing to see a large number of images of Chase's work would do better by using Google images, visiting Commons, or viewing our article's first-listed EL, "322 images by William Merritt Chase". Ewulp (talk) 02:50, 4 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with Ewulp's comments above. I think of Chase as an important and influential teacher and as an American Impressionist, who painted landscapes and portraits and interiors. I don't think of Chase as the originator of any particular style; but rather an American exponent of the contemporaneous European styles of the time...Modernist (talk) 12:50, 4 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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