Idle Hours
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“I want all the light I can get,” Chase explained in 1891. “When I have found the spot I like, I set up my easel, and paint the picture on the spot. I think this is the only way to interpret nature.” For more than a decade, Chase imparted this sensibility to students as the director of the Shinnecock Hills Summer School of Art on Long Island. After accepting this position in 1891, he quickly established a reputation as a charismatic teacher of plein-air painting, and he and his students made many works showing the undeveloped coastline near the school, including Idle Hours, one of Chase’s largest Shinnecock Hills landscapes. Portraying four figures lounging in the grass—likely Chase’s wife, two of his children, and his sister-in-law—the picture exemplifies the sunny, brightly painted imagery that helped popularize the area as a hotspot for tourism and real estate development.
—Text taken from the Carter Handbook (2023)
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