It manifests a firm belief in the relevance of its ingredients: open-air, vast horizon, and artistic style.
This work, by William Merritt Chase (1849–1916), was painted on the sandy Shinnecock Hills in Long Island while the artist was the director of the tremendously successful Shinnecock Hills Summer School. The eye then moves back to the foreground and rightward to the hound trotting ahead of its master, and, with the animal’s rapid movement, the viewer is led out of the composition. A wide pathway provides an easy and inviting entrance into the illusionary pictorial space its linear perspective induces the eye to follow the path up to the vanishing point where the small figure of a man – the hunter – appears, heading toward the viewer. The painting The Sportsman’s Season (Hunter with a Pointer), hanging in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, depicts a vast, open, semi-dried meadow, with a slightly slanted horizon line ( Fig.
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