Hidden excitedly in "Hide and ...

From: The Washington Post | Date: September 19, 2004 | Copyright information

Hidden excitedly in "Hide and Seek" by William Merritt Chase at the Phillips Collection is a girl in shining curls. She doesn't know you're there. If she turned her golden head she'd see that she is being spied on, too.

Chase's proto-modernist genre scene, which was painted in Manhattan in 1888, plays another double game. Radical yet genteel, the picture is at once a fashionable depiction of the well-to-do at play -- and a feint at pure abstraction.

But only a feint. Chase (1849...

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