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Ready for a Walk

William Merritt Chase

Date: c. 1885

Credit Line: Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection

Object number: 1992.26

Text Entries: An accomplished portraitist, Chase depicts the young model woman posed for action: dressed for an outdoor excursion with one foot forward she stands on the brink of movement. Her fashionable attire bespeaks her social standing yet Chase opts not to include any additional "props." Set against a monochromatic background and barely casting a shadow, she stares out from the canvas with a self-assured directness and an expression of intelligence. A captured moment before posed inactivity turns to action, Chase's canvas can serve as a study of the changing social expectations of the nineteenth-century woman, and in this sense it achieves Chase's goal of expressing "a perfect type of American womanhood."

Portrait of Alice Gerson

William Merritt Chase

Date: by 1886

Credit Line: Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection

Object number: 1992.11

Text Entries: Gallati, Barbara. William Merritt Chase. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1995. Text p. 30; ill. p. 30 (black & white). Pisano, Ronald G.; completed by D. Frederick Baker and Carolyn K. Lane. William Merritt Chase; Still Lifes, Interiors, Figures, Copies of Old Masters and Drawings (The Complete Catalogue of Known and Documented Work of William Merritt Chase, Vol 4). New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 2010. Ill. p.197, D.67 (color).

Alice Dieudonnée

William Merritt Chase

Date: c. 1892

Credit Line: Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection

Object number: 1992.24

Text Entries: Atkinson, D. Scott et al. A Proud Heritage: Two Centuries of American Art. Edited by Terry A. Neff. (exh. cat., Terra Museum of American Art). Chicago, Illinois: Terra Foundation for the Arts, 1987. Pl. T-69, p. 178 (color). Kennedy, Elizabeth and Sophie Lévy. Faces of America: Portraits of the Terra Foundation for the Arts Collection, 1770-1940. (exh. cat., Musée d'Art Américain Giverny). Chicago, Illinois: Terra Foundation for the Arts, 2004. Text p. 30 (checklist); ill. frontispiece (color). Kennedy, Elizabeth and Sophie Lévy. Visages de l'Amérique: le portrait dans la collection de la Terra Foundation for the Arts, 1770–1940. (exh. cat., Musée d'Art Américain Giverny). Chicago, Illinois: Terra Foundation for the Arts, 2004. Text p. 30 (checklist); ill. frontispiece (color). Pisano, Ronald G.; completed by D. Frederick Baker. William Merritt Chase; The Paintings in Pastel, Monotypes, Painted Tiles and Ceramic Plates, Watercolors and Prints (The Complete Catalogue of Known and Documented Work of William Merritt Chase, Vol 1). New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 2006. Text p. 84 [listed as "location unknown"]; Ill., p. 84, W.35 (color).

Self-Portrait

William Merritt Chase

Date: c. 1915

Credit Line: Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection

Object number: 1987.18

Text Entries: Pisano, Ronald G. William Merritt Chase (1849–1916). (exh. cat., M. Knoedler & Company, Inc.). New York: M. Knoedler & Company, Inc., 1976. Ill. 103, p. 54. [specific reference to Terra print] Christman, Margaret. Fifty American Faces from the Collection of the National Portrait Gallery. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Press, 1978, pp. 214–18 (entry on National Portrait Gallery's monotype). Kiehl, David. "Monotypes in America in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries." In The Painterly Print, Monotypes from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century. (exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1980. No. 50, pp. 152–53. (ill. of National Portrait Gallery monotype, dated c. 1911). Pisano, Ronald G. A Leading Spirit in American Art: William Merritt Chase, 1849–1916. Seattle, Washington: Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, 1983. Text pp. 142, 184 (published with the date c. 1911). [specific reference to Terra print] Gallati, Barbara. William Merritt Chase. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., in association with the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1995. Ill. p. 131 (black & white). [specific reference to Terra print] Moser, Joann. Singular Impressions: The Monotype in America. (exh. cat., National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution). Washington, D.C.: Published for the National Museum of American Art by Smithsonian Institution Press, 1997. Fig. 28, p. 34 (dated c. 1911–1914).