Wind-Swept Sands

Year	1894
Medium	Oil on canvas
Dimensions	50.8 × 86.4 cm
Type	painting

Chase's beach scene captures the open, wind-driven expanse of the Long Island shore near his famous Shinnecock Hills summer school. The vast sky, the flat plane of the sand, and the sense of wind and light in the grass tufts show him at his most confident as a plein-air painter.