A City Park
William Merritt Chase (American, 1849–1916)
c. 1887
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Archival matte paper, 189 g/m² (10.3 mil), sourced from Japan, printed with multicolor water-based inkjet so every brushstroke stays crisp. Framed prints arrive ready to hang in a .75″ ayous-wood frame with an acrylite front. Sized to standard frames by cropping, never stretching — at most about 3% comes off one edge, which isn’t noticeable on most pieces, and we only offer a size when it stays that small.
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About this work
In the late 1880s, William Merritt Chase painted a series of works focused on the public parks of Brooklyn and Manhattan, including A City Park. Amid rapid growth in New York and other US cities, such green spaces offered respite as well as novel venues for social activity. Inspired by the works of French Impressionism, Chase experimented with dramatic spatial effects, open brushwork, and a high-keyed palette. The composition’s small scale suggests that the artist painted the canvas outdoors, opting for portable materials to work on-site in an urban setting.
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 34.6 × 49.9 cm (13 5/8 × 19 5/8 in.)
Museum record · 4 owners · 8 exhibitions
Provenance
- William Merritt Chase, New York, from 1887 to 1891.
- Renaissance Gallery, Philadelphia, by 1950.
- Graham Gallery, New York City, 1950.
- Dr. John Jay Ireland, Chicago, 1956; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1968.
Exhibitions
- Rochester Art Club, Ninth Annual Exhibition of the Rochester Art Club, May 22–June 2, 1888, as A City Park, lent by William Merritt Chase.
- Paris, Exposition Universelle, May 5–Oct. 31, 1889, as Un Parc de Ville, lent by William Merritt Chase.
- New York, Fifth Avenue Art Galleries, Auction of Paintings by William Merritt Chase, Mar. 6, 1891, as A City Park.
- Southampton, NY, Parish Art Museum, William Merritt Chase in the Company of Friends, May 13–June 24, 1979, as A City Park.
- Seattle, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, William Merritt Chase Retrospective, Oct. 2, 1983–Jan. 29, 1984; Metropolitan Museum of Art, Mar. 9–June 3, 1984, no cat. Norfolk, VA, Chrysler Museum of Art, Paris 1889: American Artists at the Universal Exposition, Sept. 29–Dec. 17, 1989; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Feb. 1–Apr. 15, 1990, Memphis, Brooks Museum of Art, May 6–July 15, 1990, New York Historical Society, Sept. 5–Nov. 15, 1990.
- Brooklyn Museum of Art, William Merritt Chase: Modern American Landscapes, 1886–1890, May 26–Aug. 13, 2000; the Art Institute of Chicago, Sept. 7–Nov. 26, 2000; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Dec. 13, 2000–Mar. 11, 2001.
- Philadelphia, PA, Academy of the Fine Arts, The Artist's Garden: American Impressionism and the Garden Movement, 1887–1920, Feb. 12–May 24, 2015; Norfolk, Chrysler Museum, June 16–Sept. 6, 2015; Winston–Salem, MA, Reynolda House, Oct. 1, 2015–Jan. 3, 2016 (Philadelphia and Norfolk only).
- Washington, DC, The Phillips Collection, William Merritt Chase, A Modern Master, June 4–Sept. 11, 2016; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Oct. 9, 2016–Jan. 16, 2017; Venice, Ca' Pesaro–Galleria Internazionale d'Arte Moderna, Feb. 11–May 28, 2017 (DC and Boston only).
