The Big Tree Shadow

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Artist William Merritt Chase (American, 1849–1916)

Title The Big Tree Shadow

Date Ca. 1886

Medium Oil on canvas

Dimensions Image: 19 3/8 x 24 1/4 in. (49.2 x 61.6 cm)

Credit Line Given in honor of Mildred and Clarence Long by their sons David and Randy, Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University

Accession Number 2023.62

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Indiana-born William Merritt Chase was one of the leading American Impressionist painters of the late nineteenth century. His work blends the French Impressionists’ attention to light with the painterly brushwork of old masters such as Frans Hals and Peter Paul Rubens. In the second half of the 1880s, Chase produced a series of paintings portraying New York City parks. Parks such as Central Park and Prospect Park were developed to provide city-dwellers with an antidote to the rapidly industrializing urban landscape. In this painting of a Brooklyn park, smokestacks are visible in the background.

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"The Big Tree Shadow | Collections Online." Collections Online. Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University, 2025. https://artmuseum.indiana.edu/collections-online/browse/object.php?number=2023.62