WILLIAM MERRITT CHASE (1849-1916)

Details

WILLIAM MERRITT CHASE (1849-1916)

The Old Book

signed Wm M Chase with initials conjoined, l.r.--oil on canvas
21¾ x 16¾in. (55.4 x 42.4cm.)

Provenance

The artist
Dr. Soren P. Rees, 1916
Estate of J.I. Holcomb, Indianapolis
Collection of Butler University, Indianapolis
New York, Sotheby Parke-Bernet (Sale: June 4, 1982, lot 6)

Literature

W.D. Peat, Chase Centennial Exhibition: Checklist of Known Work by William M. Chase, Indianapolis, 1949, as Old Book.

Exhibited

Chicago, Young's Art Gallery, Loan Collection of Paintings by Americans: Opening Exhibition of Young's Art Gallery, Dec. 1916, no. 23, as The Old Book
Canton, Ohio, Canton Art Institute, Impressionism : An American View, Feb.-April 1983 (this exhibition travelled to Greensburg, Westmoreland County Museum of Art, April-May 1983; Youngstown, Butler Institute of American Art, June-July 1983)
Palm Beach, The Society of the Four Arts, Directions in American Painting 1875-1925, Jan.-Feb. 1985 (this exhibition travelled to various locations 1985-1987)
Youngstown, Youngstown State University, The John J. McDonough Museum of Art, Inaugural Exhibition, Oct. 1991-May 1992

Lot Essay

According to Ronald G. Pisano, this painting is similar in composition to The Windmill Etching and another work entitled Still Life with Brushes and Pottery, now in the collection of the Cincinnati Art Museum. A label on the back of the painting which reads "From William Merritt Chase/333 Fourth Ave./New York" suggests that the painting was painted after 1908 when the artist first moved into a studio space at this address. This painting will be included in Ronald G. Pisano's forthcoming catalogue raisonné of Chase's work.