Frank Swift Chase
| Frank Swift Chase | |
|---|---|
| Born |
March 12, 1886 St Louis, Missouri |
| Died | July 3, 1958 (aged 72) Benedictine Hospital Kingston, New York |
| Education | Art Students League |
| Known for | Painting, drawing |
| Movement | Post-Impressionism |
Frank Swift Chase (12 March 1886 – 3 July 1959) was an American Post-Impressionist landscape painter and a founder of the Woodstock Artists Association in , the art colony at Nantucket, Massachusetts, and the Sarasota School of Art in Florida.
Chase was born in St Louis, Missouri, on 12 March 1886. The fourth child of Grace (née Metcalfe) and Charles Denison Chase, he attended public elementary school and high school in St Louis. Despite a mathematical mind, he did not progress to college, instead working as an assistant in his father’s laboratory at the Aluminum Company of America in Bauxite, Arkansas. His father was an Alcoa chemist noted among the pioneers of experimentation with the use of nitroglycerin in mining.
In his early twenties he traveled to New York City to join his elder brother, Edward Leigh Chase, at the Art Students League, and later followed him again to ASL's Art League School of Landscape Painting at Woodstock, where he studied under L. Birge Harrison and John F. Carlson in 1909. The Chase brothers, both gifted artists, were early members of the Woodstock artist’s colony, whose participants worked and lived in hand-made Catskill Mountain cabins as part of Ralph Whitehead’s experiment with utopian living at Byrdcliffe, the Bohemian settlement nestled in the slopes above the town.
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