William Merritt Chase: A Life in Art

by Alicia G. Longwell, Maureen C. O'Brien (Contribution by)

Overview

The Parrish Art Museum, on Long Island's East End, holds one of the largest public collections of William Merritt Chase in the United States: over forty paintings and works on paper, and a wealth of archival photographs and documents.

This volume features thirty works from his whole career: early still lifes from Europe, famous New York park scenes and studio works from the 1880s, and landscape paintings and portraits from the 1890s and 1900s. It also includes many family photographs taken during summer spent in Shinnecock Hills, Long Island, where Chase founded, and taught at, the Summer School of Art.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781907804434
Publisher:	D Giles Limited
Publication date:	11/18/2014
Pages:	96
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 10.10(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Alicia G. Longwell is the Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Chief Curator at the Parrish Art Museum. She is the author of Dorothea Rockburne: In My Mind’s Eye, with David Anfam and Stéphane Aquin (2011); American Landscapes: Treasures from the Parrish Art Museum (2010); First Impressions: Nineteenth-Century American Master Prints (2010); Sand: Memory, Meaning and Metaphor (2008); North Fork / South Fork: East End Art Now(2004); and Photographs from the William Merritt Chase Archives, with Ronald G. Pisano (1992). She has organized some exhibitions for the Parrish, including solo exhibitions on the work of artists Barbara Bloom, Marsden Hartley, Frederick Kiesler, Malcolm Morley, Charlotte Park, Dorothea Rockburne, Alan Shields, Esteban Vicente, and Jack Youngerman, among others.

Maureen C. O'Brien is Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum.

Table of Contents

Introduction and Acknowledgments
Terrie Sultan

William Merritt Chase Alicia G. Longwell

Chase's Museum Without Walls Maureen C. O’Brien

Plates

Selected Bibliography

Photography Credits

Index

Editorial Reviews

"The magnificent colour plates, detailed notes, intimate archive photos and fascinating essays, provide a wonderful introduction to the life and work of William Merritt Chase"—Katie Campbell, Cassone

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