Gathering Autumn Flowers, 1894/1895

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Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 53.34 × 96.52 cm (21 × 38 in.)

framed: 74.14 × 119.7 × 5.24 cm (29 3/16 × 47 1/8 × 2 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

Accession Number

2012.89.1

Artists / Makers

William Merritt Chase (artist) American, 1849 - 1916

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right, WM in monogram: WM.M.Chase.

Provenance

(Chase sale, American Art Galleries, New York, 7 January 1896, no. 1169); Louis Ettlinger [1845-1927], New York. Paul Mellon [1907-1999], Upperville, Virginia; bequest 1999 to NGA, with life interest to Mrs. Mellon; life interest released 2012.

Associated Names

American Art Association
Ettlinger, Louis
Mellon, Rachel Lambert, Estate of

Exhibition History

1894: National Academy of Design Thirteenth Annual Exhibition, New York, 10 December 1894-5 January 1895, no. 222.

1906: Exhibition of American Paintings from the Collection of Louis Ettlinger, Esq., Lotos Club, New York, 1906, no. 9.

1987: William Merritt Chase: Summers at Shinnecock 1891-1902, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, 1987-1988, no. 8, repro.

Bibliography

1895: "The National Academy of Design." Art Amateur (January 1895): 43.

1993: Pisano, Ronald G. Summer Afternoons: Landscape Paintings of William Merritt Chase. Boston, 1993: 101, repro.

2006: Pisano, Ronald G. The Complete Catalogue of Known and Documented Work by William Merritt Chase (1849-1916), vol. 3. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 2009, p. 98, no. L.94.

2009: Baker, D. Frederick. "A Painted Diary: The Landscapes of William Merritt Chase." Antiques & Fine Arts (Summer 2009): 121-122, repro.

2014: Kelly, Franklin. "A Lasting Legacy: The Completion of an Unparalleled Gift." National Gallery of Art Bulletin no. 51 (Fall 2014): 8, repro.