Zinnias
Elsie Rowland Chase (created by)
1925 – 1935 (Date manufactured/created)
oil
canvas, painting
potted zinnias on table with bird and vessels. Elsie Rowland Chase specialized in painting the world of her friends and family. She studied at the Yale School of Fine Arts from 1884 to 1889 and was an active member of the New Haven Paint and lay Club. She was also a member of the National Assoc of Women Painters and Sculptors. In 1890 she married Frederick Starkweather Chase, who was later the founder of the Chase Rolling Mill Company and president of Chase Companies, Inc. The couple lived in Waterbury and Middlebury and raised 6 children. Rowland Park in Waterbury is named after Elsie's family.
gift of Helen Chase "Nina" Millett Miller, 2019
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