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William Merritt Chase

Self-Portrait, 1915

Not on View

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 63.5 × 51.44 cm (25 × 20 1/4 in.)

framed: 82.55 × 72.39 cm (32 1/2 × 28 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Gallery Fund)

Accession Number

2014.136.15

Artists / Makers

William Merritt Chase (painter) American, 1849 - 1916

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Inscription

lower left: To my friend Annie T. Lang / Wm M. Chase. / 1915.

Provenance

Possibly the artist's student, Annie Traquair Lang [1885-1918].[1] (William Macbeth, Inc., New York); purchased November 1923 by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2014 by the National Gallery of Art.

[1] The inscription on the painting reads: "To my friend Annie T. Lang / Wm. M. Chase. / 1915.

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Lang, Annie Traquair
Macbeth Galleries

Exhibition History

1917: Possibly [Paintings by William Merritt Chase owned by Annie Traquair Lang], M. Knoedler and Co., New York, 1917.[1]

1934: Biennial International Exposition of Art, Venice, 1934.

1939: National Academy of Design Special Exhibition, American Fine Arts Society Galleries, New York, May-June 1939.

1948: William M. Chase, 1849-1916, A Selected Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings, American British Art Center, New York, 9 November - 4 December 1948, no. 10.

1957: William Merritt Chase, 1849-1916, A Retrospective Exhibition, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, Long Island, 30 June - 27 July 1957, repro.

1959: [Chase retrospective], Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, Long Island, 29 June - 27 July 1959.

1961: Directions in Twentieth Century American Paintings, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, 7 October - 12 November 1961.

1962: From the Archives of American Art: The Role of the Macbeth Gallery, AFA Gallery, New York; Tampa Art Institute; Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City; Flint Institute of Arts; Columbia Museum of Art, South Carolina; Portland Museum of Art, Maine; Albany Institute of History and Art, 8 October 1962 - 31 May 1963, no. 4.

1976: William Merritt Chase, M. Knoedler and Co., New York, 4 May - 5 June 1976.

1983: Sargent's Contemporaries, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 4 June - 28 August 1983, unpublished checklist, no. 6.

1985: Henri's Circle, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 20 April - 16 June 1985, unnumbered checklist.

Exhibition History Notes

[1] According to "Early Pictures by Chase," American Art News, vol. 15, no. 28 (21 April 1917): 5, a display of early paintings by Chase owned by Annie Traquair Lang, and including "his well known self-portrait," was on display at Knoedler's. This information was kindly brought to the Gallery's attention by Eve Kahn, e-mail of 6 June 2017, in NGA curatorial files.

Bibliography

1949: Peat, Wilbur D. "Checklist of Known Work by William M. Chase." In Chase Centennial Exhibition. Exh. cat. John Herron Art Institute, 1949: unpaginated.

2006: Pisano, Ronald G. The Complete Catalogue of Known and Documented Work by William Merritt Chase (1849-1916), vol. 2. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 2007, p. 266, no. OP.566.

2011: Cash, Sarah, ed. Corcoran Gallery of Art: American Paintings to 1945. Washington, 2011: 292, repro.