William Merritt Chase art links 

William Merritt Chase: A Friendly Call (detail), 1895
Source: Artcyclopedia; photograph by Michael Weinberg

Original works by William Merritt Chase available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
 
 

Art Institute of Chicago

Art Institute of Chicago Art Explorer - Images and Text Resources
Detailed information about the artist and his works

Butler Institute of American Art, Ohio
Did You Speak to Me?, 1897

William Merritt Chase at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan

William Merritt Chase at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
Lydia Field Emmet, ca.1892

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
7 works online, including 5 oil paintings

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
8 works online

William Merritt Chase at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City  
13 works by William Merritt Chase online

Musée d'Orsay Collection Database, Paris
Jeune fille en blanc

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas  
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston  

William Merritt Chase at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
2 works by William Merritt Chase

William Merritt Chase at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
3 works from the Horowitz Collection

The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C.
2 works online

Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts

Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art, Missouri
Venetian Balcony, 1913

Amon Carter Museum, Texas
Idle Hours

Arkell Museum at Canajoharie, New York
In the Studio Corner, ca.1881

Ball State Museum of Art, Indiana   NEW!
Rest by the Wayside, ca.1902

Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Maine (Zoomable)
Portrait of William John Curtis, 1915

Brauer Museum of Art at Valparaiso University, Indiana

Brooklyn Museum, New York City   NEW!

Brooklyn Museum/Luce Center for American Art, New York City
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Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia

Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio
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Summer At Shinnecock Hills

Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Colby College Museum of Art, Maine
Tompkins Park, Brooklyn, 1887

Columbia Museum of Art, South Carolina
2 works online

Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
An English Cod, 1904

Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas
A new museum scheduled to open in 2009
Portrait of Worthington Whittredge, ca.1890

Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire
Portrait of Master Otis Barton and his Grandfather, 1903

Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
Dieudonnee, ca.1899
Fish and Still Life, ca.1904-09

Frick Art and Historical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Lydia Field Emmet, ca.1892

Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts

Hood Museum of Art, New Hampshire

Hyde Collection Art Museum, Glens Falls, New York
Landscape, Near Coney Island, ca.1886

Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana

Joslyn Art Museum, Nebraska
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William Merritt Chase in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database

Maier Museum of Art at Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Virginia
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Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York
A Summer Day
Along the Canal

Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin
Still Life with Ladle

Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota  
The Patrician, 1875

Montana Museum of Art and Culture, Missoula
Portrait of Fra Dana

Montana Museum of Art and Culture, Missoula
Priam

National Academy Museum & School of Fine Arts, New York City
4 works online

National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson Hole, Wyoming

Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma
Venice, 1877

Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York
Still Life with Fruit, 1871

Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York
The Bayberry Bush, ca.1895
The Blue Kimono (Girl in Blue Kimono), ca.1888

Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York
6 paintings

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia

Philadelphia Museum of Art
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2 works by William Merritt Chase online

Philbrook Museum of Art, Oklahoma
The Blue Kimono

Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey   NEW!

Reading Public Museum, Pennsylvania
My Palette

Reynolda House Museum of American Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina   NEW!
In the Studio, ca.1884

Richmond Art Museum, Indiana
Self-portrait: The Artist in his Studio

San Antonio Art League Museum, Texas
Duveneck in His Studio

San Diego Museum of Art, California
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Seattle Art Museum

Sheldon Art Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska
Mrs. Chase and Cosy

Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago

William Merritt Chase at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
4 works online

William Merritt Chase at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Self-Portrait

State Museums of Florence, Italy
Self-portrait, 1908

State Museums of Florence Digital Archive, Italy

Swope Art Museum, Indiana
Still Life Urns and Red Peppers, ca.1895

Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago
11 works online

The Huntington Library, California

The Parthenon, Tennessee
Still Life - Fish

Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid   NEW!
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Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio
The Open Air Breakfast
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Wake Forest University Fine Arts Gallery, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Woman in Spanish Shawl (Alice)

Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, Pennsylvania
2 works online

Wichita Art Museum, Kansas   NEW!

 
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:

La Fayette Database of American Art in French National Collections

Smithsonian Institution Art Inventories
List of works nationwide from two sources: the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture (only a few percent of listings have an accompanying image)

 

Art Renewal Center

CGFA  

The Athenaeum  
Numerous works online by Chase

WebMuseum  

Wikimedia Commons Image Database  

Artyzm

Bert Christensen's Cyberspace Home  

California State University WorldImages Database  

Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)  

The History Project at U.C. Davis   NEW!  

USC Annenberg School for Communication

 

Artnet Artist Works Catalogues  

 

Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on William Merritt Chase  
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Grove Dictionary of Art Online (excerpt)  

Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)  
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.

Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia

Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes)   NEW!  

Resource Library Magazine
William Merritt Chase: Modern American Landscapes, 1886-1890

Resource Library Magazine
The Olive Grove, ca.1910

The New York Observer
Article by Hilton Kramer: Stylish Premodern Chase, Coeval of the Avant-Garde

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