The first in a beautiful four-volume complete catalogue of all known works by the beloved American artist William Merritt Chase A perennial favorite of museum visitors, the works of William Merritt Chase (1849–1916) embody the quintessential characteristics of American Impressionism: outdoor landscapes, a colorful palette, and an energetic brushstroke. He was also a portrait painter of the first rank, a master of still life, a renowned teacher, and a leader of artists’ societies. This gorgeous book, the first of a four-volume definitive catalogue, features Chase’s stunning paintings in pastel, which constitute a major and previously understudied body of work by the artist; monotypes; painted tiles and plates; watercolors; and prints. Reconstructing Chase’s oeuvre is a daunting task, as the artist left few records of any kind, and no documentation of his individual works exists. Furthermore, Chase’s paintings and pastels have been forged in great numbers throughout the years, and many of these works still surface on the art market. Making this long-awaited volume even more valuable is a list of every known exhibition of Chase’s work during the artist’s lifetime, selected examples of major post-1917 exhibitions, and an essay on Chase’s innovative pastel technique.

William Merritt Chase: The Complete Catalogue of Known and Documented Work by William Merritt Chase (1849-1916), Vol. 1: The Paintings in Pastel, ... and Ceramic Plates, Watercolors, and Prints

Arts & Photography

Pisano, Ronald G.

Shelley, Marjorie

Baker, D. Frederick

History & Criticism

Yale University Press

This is the fourth and final volume in the complete catalogue of the work of William Merritt Chase (1849-1916). Included in this handsome book are interiors, primarily paintings of his renowned Tenth Street Studio, and still life paintings, in particular his well-known depictions of fish, which were sought after by major collectors and museums at the time they were painted. In addition, the catalogue contains his figure works, copies of paintings by Old Masters including Diego Velázquez, Anthony van Dyck, Frans Hals, and Rembrandt van Rijn, and a selection of drawings. Finally, the book features a complete list of auction records during Chase’s lifetime. 
Through painstaking care and research, this volume uncovers previously unattributed and unidentified works by Chase, presenting new revelations and serving as a fitting capstone to this ambitious publishing project.

William Merritt Chase: Still Lifes, Interiors, Figures, Copies of Old Masters, and Drawings (Complete Catalogue of Known and Documented Work by William Merritt Chase)

A beautiful exploration of Chase’s beloved park scenes, landscapes, and seascapes Admired for finding beauty in everyday surroundings, William Merritt Chase (1849–1916) brought an autobiographical element to his work, earning him a unique place in late-19th-century American art history. This book, the third of four volumes to document the complete works of Chase, traces his career as a landscape painter. Following Chase’s training in Munich in the 1870s and his many trips to Spain in the early 1880s, his works became light filled and colorful. These paintings anticipate Chase’s well-known park scenes of the 1880s painted in Brooklyn and New York and his 1890s works depicting the hills and shoreline adjacent to his home in Shinnecock Hills, Long Island, now recognized as being among the most important examples of American Impressionism. This book presents all of his known landscapes painted in oil, which include many of his best-loved works, in beautiful reproduction, accompanied by the most current and thorough documentation on them.

William Merritt Chase: Landscapes in Oil (Complete Catalogue of Known and Documented Work by William Merritt Chase (1849-1916))

Lane, Carolyn K.

The great American artist William Merritt Chase (1849–1916) completed a wide variety of portraits over his long career. Among his subjects were presidents, businessmen, celebrities, New York luminaries, and members of his family as well as a number of self-portraits. Chase’s ability to capture a likeness was renowned, yet it was his dashing and bravura brushwork that truly set his portraits apart. This highly anticipated book presents the entire collection of Chase’s known portraits in oil. Each is gorgeously reproduced, and many are published in color for the first time. This is the second of four volumes cataloguing the complete works of William Merritt Chase. The catalogue raisonné project has presented immense challenges, for Chase kept no records at all, and staggering numbers of forgeries of his work appeared soon after he died. Finding many of his portraits was especially difficult, as no log book of sitters has been located and no other records exist for those works that were not publicly exhibited. Nevertheless, Ronald G. Pisano’s meticulous research has uncovered more than six hundred portraits in private and public collections. Among the most notable are Chase’s penetrating portrait of James Abbott McNeill Whistler (The Metropolitan Museum of Art), a commanding portrait of Dora Wheeler (Cleveland Museum of Art), The Feather Fan featuring Chase’s oldest daughter, Alice (Musée d’Orsay, Paris), and a 1908 self-portrait (Uffizi Gallery, Florence).

William Merritt Chase: The Complete Catalogue of Known and Documented Work by William Merritt Chase (1849-1916), Vol. 2: Portraits in Oil

History

The catalogue for a traveling exhibition. The Tile Club, an art and literary club formed in 1877, included such artists as Winslow Homer, William Merritt Chase, John H. Twachtman, Elihu Vedder, Julian Alden Weir, Edwin Austin Abbey, Arthur B. Frost, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, and Stanford White. Text by Ronald G. Pisano; essays by Mary Ann Apicella and Linda Henefield Skalet. 112 pages; color and b&w illustrations throughout; 9 x 10 inches. Notes, bibliography, appendix, index.

The Tile Club and the Aesthetic Movement in America

Harry N. Abrams / The Museums at Stony Brook

Long Island Landscape Painting 1820-1920

Examines the paintings of Long Island scenes by artists such as William Merritt Chase, Winslow Homer, and George Bellows

Painting

NEW YORK GRAPHIC SOCIETY

Themes

A celebration of the Long Island landscape in the work of 20th-century artists such as Georgia O'Keefe, Fairfield Porter, Willem de Kooning, John Marin and Jackson Pollack. Author biographies trace the development of landscape painting on Long Island from a conventional 19th-century approach to the abstract work of the early modernists. This book is a sequel to "Long Island Landscape Painting: 1820-1920" also by Ronald G. Pisano.

Long Island Landscape Painting: The Twentieth Century

Bulfinch Pr

Born in Indiana in 1849, William Merritt Chase, along with Whistler, Cassatt, and Sargent, is recognized today as one of America's premier Impressionist painters. Chase's formative years spanned a period of great change in American painting - a time when eager young artists, trained in the academies, found inspiration both in Europe and, gradually, in their own country. Chase often traveled abroad; unlike many of his contemporaries, he also chose to portray the natural beauty of America, often in city parks and simple beach scenes rather than idealized bucolic vistas. Although for at least a half century after his death Chase was better known for his still lifes and figure paintings, now his landscapes come to light as some of his most beautiful and skilled works. They are at once the most impressionistic of his works and the most American - an important attribute for this man who was an influential educator on the art of his own country, and who, at a ball in Bruges, Belgium, bedecked with all the medals he had won over the years, proudly proclaimed himself "Duke of Indiana." Most celebrated among Chase's American scenes were the Prospect Park and Central Park paintings and the Long Island landscapes. Writing about Chase in Harper's New Monthly in 1889, and objecting to the overriding preference for European subjects among American artists and collectors, one critic described Chase's urban scenes as "new proof, if proof were wanted, that it is not subjects that are lacking in this country, but eyes to see them with." The eighty-eight full-color reproductions of Chase's landscape paintings and pastels in his book go beyond his American scenes. Spanning the years 1875 to 1914, from Chase's early days in Munich to his summer in Carmel-by-the-Sea, the book is full of different locales, all rendered in Chase's adored plein air style. Here is Madrid, Holland, Fiesole, and Venice; later, on to the city parks and the beaches, and finally the California paintings. The text is by Ronald Pisano, the foremost authority on Chase, and is supplemented by documentary photographs from Chase's life and his various working environments. These oils and pastels are pictures of ease, of relaxation; in their portrayal of leisure-class Americans, they are intimate and restrained, but are the work of a consummately talented colorist and an artist fascinated by aesthetic technique. "If one can paint a fence-rail well," Chase once said in defense of his Long Island paintings, "it is far better than an unsuccessful attempt at the most sublime scenery, for it is not what one does, but the way it is done."

Summer Afternoons: Landscape Paintings of William Merritt Chase

Explores the late nineteenth-century artist's versatility as a painter of portraits, figures, landscapes, and still life, analyzing the vitality of his bravura style--the spontaneous brushwork, vibrant color, and appealing texture of his paintings

William Merritt Chase

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Watson/Guptill

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William Merritt Chase: The Complete Catalogue of Known and Documented Work by William Merritt Chase (1849-1916), Vol. 1: The Paintings in Pastel, ... and Ceramic Plates, Watercolors, and Prints

William Merritt Chase: Still Lifes, Interiors, Figures, Copies of Old Masters, and Drawings (Complete Catalogue of Known and Documented Work by William Merritt Chase)

William Merritt Chase: Landscapes in Oil (Complete Catalogue of Known and Documented Work by William Merritt Chase (1849-1916))

William Merritt Chase: The Complete Catalogue of Known and Documented Work by William Merritt Chase (1849-1916), Vol. 2: Portraits in Oil

The Tile Club and the Aesthetic Movement in America

Long Island Landscape Painting 1820-1920

Long Island Landscape Painting 1820-1920

Long Island Landscape Painting: The Twentieth Century

Summer Afternoons: Landscape Paintings of William Merritt Chase

William Merritt Chase