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Wind-Swept Sands, 1894. Oil on canvas.
Oil on canvas · 87 × 101.5 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · Impressionism
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- Museum title
- Wind-Swept Sands
- Artist
- William Merritt Chase (American, 1849–1916)
- Date
- 1894
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 87 × 101.5 cm (34 1/4 × 39 3/4 in.)
- Credit line
- Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. Eric Oldberg in honor of Milo M. Naeve; Friends of American Art and R. H. Love Galleries funds; Walter Aitken Endowment; through prior acquisitions of the Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.