Pastels

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Some of the Terra collection's most iconic works are pastels, executed by such masters of the medium as William Merritt Chase, Mary Cassatt, and Arthur Dove among others.

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Hall at Shinnecock

William Merritt Chase

Date: 1892

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

Object number: 1988.26

Text Entries: In this pastel Chase used a fine weave canvas as his primary support and prepared it with grey ground that appears to be oil paint. The oil ground was brush applied and the patterns of the horizontal brushstrokes are evident throughout. The pastel was applied over the ground in several layers, and some intermittent fixing of the unedrlayers evident. The majority of the pastel is, however, unfixed. In sevral areas such as the window frame in the upper right, in the flower stand to the right, in the black dress of the sitter and in the large piece of furniture behind her, black and greyish-black gouache were used in combination woth the pastel. In critical light, tide lines of gouache are visible and the aqueous medium is somewhat glossier than the pastel around it. In the sitter's dress and in the furniture behind her, pastel was applied over the gouache. Along the left edge of the composition applications of white pastel are extremely powdery. There is some evidence of fixing of the undermost layer of pastel in the background, but little or no fixative was used in any subsequently applied layers of pastel. To achieve a more painterly quality in this pastel Chase applied the pastel such that the brushstrokes in the ground would remain visible and give the impression of a painting. The execution of the pastel on a stretched and prepared canvas allowed the artist to present the work like a painting and his technique in applying the medium gave the pastel the painterly appearance.

Shinnecock Studio Interior

William Merritt Chase

Date: 1892

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

Object number: 1992.5

Text Entries: Sotheby's New York, New York (Sale 6247, December 5, 1991): lot 64. Text lot 64; ill. cover (color detail), lot 64 (color). The Journal of the American Medical Association 268:6 (August 12, 1992): 765. Ill. p. 765 (color). Southgate, M. Therese. "The Cover." The Journal of the American Medical Association 268:6 (August 16, 1992): 692. Text p. 692; ill. cover (color). The Journal of the American Medical Association Czechoslovakia (June 1993): cover. Ill. cover (color). The Journal of the American Medical Association Pakistan 5:10 (December 1993): cover. Ill. cover (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. 36; ill. pp. 36, 84 (color). Hirshler, Erica E. William Merritt Chase. Boston, MA: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2016. Ill. p. 50 (color). Smithgall, Elsa, Erica E. Hirshler, Katherine M. Bourguignon, Giovanna Ginex, and John Davis, William Merritt Chase: A Modern Master. (exh. cat., The Phillips Collection, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, and the Terra Foundation for American Art). With a foreword by D. Frederick Baker. Washington, DC: Phillips Collection; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016. Text pp. 220 (checklist). Ill. p. 155, plate 55 (color). Dobrzynski, Judith H. “William Merritt Chase: A Modern Master Review: Between Old and New.” The Wall Street Journal (August 10, 2016). Accessed August 10, 2016. <a href=”http://www.wsj.com/article_email/william-merritt-chase-a-modern-master-review-between-old-and-new-1470864662-lMyQjAxMTA2ODEzMTcxOTEzWj” target=”_blank”>http://www.wsj.com/article_email/william-merritt-chase-a-modern-master-review-between-old-and-new-1470864662-lMyQjAxMTA2ODEzMTcxOTEzWj</a>. Text.

Spring Flowers (Peonies)

William Merritt Chase

Date: by 1889

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

Object number: 1999.32

Text Entries: Catalogue of Paintings Exhibited by the Inter-State Industrial Exposition of Chicago, (exh. cat, Inter-State Industrial Exhibition of Chicago). Chicago, 1889. Text p. 16, cat. no. 96 (checklist, as Spring Flowers). "Mr. Chase's Pictures." Chicago Tribune (September 15, 1889). Text (as Spring Flowers). Catalogue of Paintings by William Merritt Chase on exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago, (exh. cat., The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois). Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1897. Text cat. no. 66 (checklist, as Peonies). Important Art Property of the Bendix Foundation, Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, New York (Sale 379, May 29, 1942): lot 31. Text p. 19; ill. p. 19 (as White Peonies). Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, New York (Sale 1166, Engilsh and American Furniture & Decorations, May 18–20, 1950): lot 329. Text p. 58, lot 329 (as Lady with Flowers). Pisano, Ronald G. and Alicia Grant Longwell. Photographs from the William Merritt Chase Archives at the Parrish Art Museum. Southampton, NY: Parrish Art Museum, 1992. Ill. p. 26 (black & white, appears in installation photograph). Sotheby's, New York, New York (Sale 6429 HASSAM, May 27, 1994): lot 32. Text lot 32; ill. lot 32 (color). Southgate, M. Therese. "The Cover." The Journal of the American Medical Association 271, no. 22 (June 8, 1994): 1722. Text p. 1722; ill. cover (color). Spring Flowers (Peonies) , William Merritt Chase. Collection Cameo sheet, Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, Illinois, December 1994. Ill. (black & white). Gallati, Barbara. William Merritt Chase. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., in association with the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1995. Text p. 115; ill. p. 114 (color, as Peonies). Berman, Ann E. "Buy American." Art & Auction (October 1996): 132–37. Ill. p. 135 (color). Bourguignon, Katherine M. and Elizabeth Kennedy. An American Point of View: The Daniel J. Terra Collection. Chicago, Illinois: Terra Foundation for the Arts, 2002. Text pp. 110, 193; ill. pp. 15 (color), 111 (color), 193 (black & white). Bourguignon, Katherine M. and Elizabeth Kennedy. Un regard transatlantique. La collection d'art américain de Daniel J. Terra. Chicago, Illinois: Terra Foundation for the Arts, 2002. Text pp. 110, 193; ill. pp. 15 (color), 111 (color), 193 (black & white). 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. 26; Ill. front cover (color detail); p. 26, pl. 60 (color). Jensen, Kristen M. “The American Salon: The Art Gallery at the Chicago Interstate Industrial exposition, 1873–1890, vol.1.” PhD diss., City University of New York, 2007. Text pp. xxxiv, 212, 500. Marter, Joan M. The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art, Vol. 1. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. Ill. p.x (color). Burns, Thea and Philippe Saunier. The Art of the Pastel. New York: Abbeville Press Publishers, 2014. Ill. p. 304 (color). Hirshler, Erica E. William Merritt Chase. Boston, MA: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2016. Ill. pp. 49 (color), 78 (color, detail). Smithgall, Elsa, Erica E. Hirshler, Katherine M. Bourguignon, Giovanna Ginex, and John Davis, William Merritt Chase: A Modern Master. (exh. cat., The Phillips Collection, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, and the Terra Foundation for American Art). With a foreword by D. Frederick Baker. Washington, DC: Phillips Collection; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016. Text pp. 72, 219 (checklist); ill. p. 145, pl. 48 (color); p. 206 (black & white, appears in installation photograph). Kennicott, Phillip. <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/museums/william-merritt-chase-modernist-in-moderation/2016/06/05/ac309a00-276a-11e6-b989-4e5479715b54_story.html" target="_blank">"William Merrit Chase, modernist in moderation."</a> The Washington Post (June 5, 2016). Accessed June 20, 2016. Ill. (color). Goley, Mary Anne. <a href="http://www.apollo-magazine.com/what-william-merritt-chase-learned-from-europe/" target="_blank">"What William Merritt Chase learned from Europe."</a> Apollo (June 14, 2016). Accessed June 20, 2016. Ill. (color). Meisler, Stanley. <a href="http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-ca-mn-william-merritt-chase-20160526-snap-htmlstory.html" target="_blank">“Restoring the portrait of an artist: How a new exhibition is giving William Merritt Chase his due.”</a> Los Angeles Times (June 23, 2016). Accessed June 24, 2016. Ill. (color). Green, Dominic. “The Body Eclectic: As artist and teacher, William Merritt Chase showed how American art could take its place within European tradition while breaking new ground for the future.” Art & Antiques 39, no. 7 (Summer 2016): 88–93. Ill. p. 91 (color). Smithgall, Elsa. “William Merritt Chase: A Modern Master.” American Art Review 28, no. 4 (July–August, 2016): 48–55, 111. Text p. 54. Ill. p. 49 (color). Dobrzynski, Judith H. <a href=”http://www.wsj.com/article_email/william-merritt-chase-a-modern-master-review-between-old-and-new-1470864662-lMyQjAxMTA2ODEzMTcxOTEzWj” target=”_blank”>“William Merritt Chase: A Modern Master Review: Between Old and New.”</a> The Wall Street Journal (August 10, 2016). Accessed August 10, 2016. Text. Casey Lauren. <a href="http://lebontravel-culture.com/william-merritt-chase.html" target="_blank">“William Merritt Chase.”</a> Le Bon Travel and Culture (October 6, 2016). Accessed October 26, 2016. Baker, D. Frederick. <a href="http://afamag.com/index.php?option=com_zoo&task=item&item_id=434&category_id=9&Itemid=102#120" target="_blank">“Anatomy of an Exhibition: William Merritt Chase.”</a> Antiques and Fine Art Magazine (Winter 2016). Ill. p.125 (color). Ill. Skwire-Routhier, Jessica. “William Merritt Chase.” Antiques and the Arts Weekly (December 9th, 2016): 1, 30–31. Text p. 31. Ill. p. 31. Bourguignon, Katherine M., and Peter John Brownlee, eds. Conversations with the Collection: A Terra Foundation Collection Handbook. Chicago: Terra Foundation for American Art, 2018. Text pp. 138, 139; ill. p. 139, detail pp. 140–141 (color). Carr, Carolyn Kinder. Sara Tyson Hallowell: Pioneer Curator and Art Advisor in the Gilded Age. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2019. Text pp. 80, 330; ill. p. 81 (color).