A City Park

1. William Merritt Chase, New York, from 1887 to 1891; Renaissance Gallery, Philadelphia, by 1950; Graham Gallery, New York City, 1950; Dr. John Jay Ireland, Chicago, 1956; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1968.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Rochester Art Club, <em>Ninth Annual Exhibition of the Rochester Art Club</em>, May 22–June 2, 1888, cat. 10, as <em>A City Park</em>, lent by William Merritt Chase.
• Paris, <em>Exposition Universelle</em>, May 5–Oct. 31, 1889, cat. 49, as <em>Un Parc de Ville</em>, lent by William Merritt Chase.
• New York, Fifth Avenue Art Galleries, <em>Auction of Paintings by William Merritt Chase</em>, Mar. 6, 1891, cat. 31, as <em>A City Park</em>.
• Southampton, NY, Parish Art Museum, <em>William Merritt Chase in the Company of Friends</em>, May 13–June 24, 1979, cat. 8, as <em>A City Park</em>.
• Seattle, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, <em>William Merritt Chase Retrospective</em>, Oct. 2, 1983–Jan. 29, 1984; Metropolitan Museum of Art, Mar. 9–June 3, 1984, no cat.
• Norfolk, VA, Chrysler Museum of Art, <em>Paris 1889: American Artists at the Universal Exposition</em>, Sept. 29–Dec. 17, 1989; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Feb. 1–Apr. 15, 1990, Memphis, Brooks Museum of Art, May 6–July 15, 1990, New York Historical Society, Sept. 5–Nov. 15, 1990, cat. 49.
• Brooklyn Museum of Art, <em>William Merritt Chase: Modern American Landscapes, 1886–1890</em>, May 26–Aug. 13, 2000; the Art Institute of Chicago, Sept. 7–Nov. 26, 2000; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Dec. 13, 2000–Mar. 11, 2001, cat. 1.
• Philadelphia, PA, Academy of the Fine Arts, <em>The Artist's Garden: American Impressionism and the Garden Movement, 1887–1920</em>, Feb. 12–May 24, 2015; Norfolk, Chrysler Museum, June 16–Sept. 6, 2015; Winston–Salem, MA, Reynolda House, Oct. 1, 2015–Jan. 3, 2016 (Philadelphia and Norfolk only), cat. 35.
• Washington, DC, The Phillips Collection, <em>William Merritt Chase, A Modern Master</em>, June 4–Sept. 11, 2016; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Oct. 9, 2016–Jan. 16, 2017; Venice, Ca' Pesaro–Galleria Internazionale d'Arte Moderna, Feb. 11–May 28, 2017 (DC and Boston only), cat. 32.

• M.G. Van Rensselaer, “William Merritt Chase,” American Art Review 2 (1881), 91–98.
• Montezuma, “My Notebook,” Art Amateur 18, 2 (Jan. 1888), 28.
• Keon Cox, “William M. Chase, Painter,” Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, 78, 466 (Mar. 1889), 549–57.
• “Mr. Chase’s Pictures,” Chicago Tribune, Sept. 15, 1889.
• Charles DeKay, “Mr. Chase and Central Park,” Harper’s Weekly 35, 17 (May 2, 1891), 327–28.
• “The Slaughter of Mr. Chase’s Pictures,” Art Amateur 24, 5 (Apr. 1891), 115–16.
• A.E. Ives, “Suburban Sketching Grounds,” Art Amateur 25, 4 (Sept. 1891), 80–82.
• James William Pattison, “An Art Lover’s Collection,” Fine Arts Journal 28 (Feb. 1913), 99–111.
• Katharine Metcalf Roof. The Life and Art of William Merritt Chase (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1917).
• Abraham David Milgrome, The Art of William Merritt Chase (Ph.D. Diss., University of Pittsburgh, 1969).
• Ronald G. Pisano, William Merritt Chase (Watson–Guptill Publications, 1969).
• Keith L. Bryant, Jr., William Merritt Chase: A Genteel Bohemian (University of Missouri Press, 1991).

Alice

Art Institute of Chicago

Wind-Swept Sands

Art Institute of Chicago

North River Shad

Art Institute of Chicago

Keying Up

Art Institute of Chicago

Portrait of Whistler

Art Institute of Chicago

Hand Holding a Lump of Sugar to a Parrot

Art Institute of Chicago

Two Female Heads

Art Institute of Chicago

Anti-Slavery Picnic at Weymouth Landing, Massachusetts

Art Institute of Chicago

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