Near the Beach, Shinnecock

Artist William Merritt Chase (American, 1849-1916)

Dateabout 1895

DimensionsFrame: 41 1/2 × 59 5/8 × 4 1/2 in. (105.4 × 151.4 × 11.4 cm)
Canvas: 30 × 48 1/8 in. (76.2 × 122.2 cm)

Mediumoil on canvas

ClassificationPaintings

Credit LineGift of Arthur J. Secor

Object number

1924.58

On View

Toledo Museum of Art (2445 Monroe Street), Gallery, 29A

Published References

D. Hoopes, The American Impressionists, New York, 1972, p. 44, repr. p. 45 (col.).

Toledo Museum of Art, The Toledo Museum of Art, American Paintings, Toledo, 1979, p. 30, pl. 93.

"A Chase landscape," The Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, no. 53, March 1929, pp. 672-673, repr. p. 672.

Mastai, M-L. D'Otrange, "Landscapists of the South Fork: I," Connoisseur, vol. 153, no. 618, Aug. 1963, p. 282-283, repr. p. 282.

Pierson, William H., Jr. and Martha Davidson, editors, Arts of the United States: a pictorial survey, New York, McGraw-Hill, 1960, no. 2563, p. 301, repr.

Rogers, Millard F., "Painting the Particular Place," The Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, vol. 8, no. 2, Summer 1965, p. 30, repr. p. 30.

Young, Mahonri Sharp, "From howling wilderness to Queensborough Bridge," Apollo, vol. 86, no. 70, Dec. 1967, p. 501, repr. fig. 13.

Damigella, Anna Maria, L'Impressionismo fuori di francia, Milano, 1967, repr. (col.) Tav., XLI, p. 67.

Pisano, Ronald G., A Leading Spirit in American Art: William Merritt Chase, Seattle, Henry Art Gallery, 1983, repr. (col.) p. 129.

Gerdts, William H., American Impressionism, New York, 1984, pl. 144 (col.), p. 135.

Atkinson, D. Scott; Chicago, Terra Museum of American Art, William Merrit Chase: Summers at Shinnecock 1891-1902, Washington, National Gallery of Art, 1987, p. 34, repr. p. 75 (col.) and p. 6 (det. col.). Also repr. on NGA brochure, 1987.

Cikovsky, Nicolai, "William Merritt Chase at Shinnecock Hills," Antiques, vol. 132, no. 2, Aug. 1987, p. 294, pl. IV, (col.).

Bryant, Keith L., William Merritt Chase: a genteel Bohemian, Columbia, MO., 1991, repr. 168.

Pisano, Ronald G., Summer afternoons: landscape paintings of William Merritt Chase, Boston, 1993, repr. p. 95 (col.).

Lucie-Smith, Edward, American Realism, London, 1994, p. 57, fig. 44, (col.), repr. title page (col.).

Burns, Sarah, Inventing the modern artist: art and culture in gilded age America, New Haven, 1996, p. 127, fig. 49.

Pyne, Kathleen, Art and the higher life: painting and evolutionary thought in late nineteenth-century America, Austin, 1996, p. 284, fig. 5.34.

Anderson, Janice, Children in Art, New York, Todtri, 1996, p. 108, 109, repr. p. 110-111 (col.).

Benesch, Evelyn, Impressionismus: Amerika - Frankreich - Russland, Palace Editions, 2002, no. 14, p. 45, 72, repr. (col.).

Rudolph, , Julian Onderdonk: American Impressionist, Dallas, Dallas Museum of Art, 2008, no. 91, repr. (col.) p. 142.

Pisano, Ronald G., William Merritt Chase: Landscapes in Oil (Complete catalog of known and documented work by William Merritt Chase (1849-1916), vol. 3, New Haven, Yale, 2009, L. 234, p. 115-6, repr. (col.) [as Near the Sea Shore].

Bourguignon, Katherine M., ed., American Impressionism: A New Vision, 1880-1900, Paris, Editions Hazan, 2014, p. 43, repr. det. (col.) p. 2, repr. (col.) p. 109.

Duckworth, Christopher S., ed., Dancing in the Light: Masterworks from the Age of American Impressionism, Canton, Ohio, Canton Museum of Art, 2020, p. 20, repr. (col.) fig. 16, p. 19.

Exhibition History

New York, John Levy Galleries, A Group of Paintings by Murphy, Tryon, Walker and Wyant, 1918, no. 31.

Indianapolis, John Herron Art Institute, Chase Centennial Exhibition, 1949, no. 36.

Southampton (N.Y.), Parrish Art Museum, William Merritt Chase, A Retrospective Exhibition, 1957, no. 50.

New York, American Academy of Arts and Letters, The Impressionist Mood in American Painting, 1959, no. 33.

New York, Whitney Museum, Art of the United States: 1670-1966, 1966, no. 46.

Memphis, Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Mary Cassatt and the American Impressionists, 1976, no. 8.

Huntsville (Ala.), Huntsville Museum of Art, American Impressionist Painters, 1978, no. 18.

Mansfield, Mansfield Art Center, The American Landscape, 1981, no. 25.

Seattle, Henry Art Gallery; New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, A Leading Spirit in American Art: William Merritt Chase, 1983.

New York, N.Y., Metropolitan Museum, 1984.

New York, IBM Gallery of Science and Art, American Paintings from the Toledo Museum of Art, 1986.

Washington, National Gallery of Art; Chicago, Terra Museum of American Art, William Merrit Chase: Summers at Shinnecock 1891-1902, 1987-1988.

Vienna, Kunstforum, Impressionismus: Amerika - Frankreich - Russland, 2002-2003.

Dallas, Dallas Museum of Art, Julian Onderdonk: American Impressionist, March 23-July 20, 2008, no. 91.

Giverny, France, Musée des impresssionnismes; Edinburgh, National Galleries of Scotland; Madrid, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, American Impressionism: A New Vision, 1880-1900, March 28, 2014-February 1, 2015.