Landscape, near Coney Island
Artist
William Merritt Chase
American, 1849 - 1916
Dateca. 1886
MediumOil on panel
DimensionsPanel: 8 1/8 × 12 5/8 in. (20.6 × 32.1 cm)
Frame Dimensions: 11 3/16 x 15 1/2 x 2 5/8 in. (28.4 x 39.4 x 6.7 cm)
Frame Dimensions: 11 3/16 x 15 1/2 x 2 5/8 in. (28.4 x 39.4 x 6.7 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineGift of Mary H. Beeman to the Pruyn Family Collection
Object number1995.12.7
On View
On viewCollections
- American Paintings & Sculpture
SignedSigned lower left: "Wm M Chase"
MarkingsSticker on reverse: "No. 500".
Label on reverse: "E&A Milch, Inc,/108 West 57th St./NEW YORK/FINE FRAMING".
DescriptionShoreline landscape with two figures in the left mid-round, one wearing a white dress and hat. Beach grass and low bushes, possibly beach roses, in the fore- and mid-ground. The figures appear to be picking something from the bushes, possibly rose hips for jam. In the distance, above the head of the figure in white are two structures that were part of the Coney Island attractions, One, in the form of an elephant, was the Elephant Hotel and the other is the Iron Tower.Exhibition History"William Merritt Chase: Modern American Landscapes, 1886-1890," organized by the Brooklyn Museum of Art; shown at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Dec. 17, 2000 - March 11, 2001."Views of New York: Selections from the Permanent Collection," Wood Gallery, January 13 - March 31, 2002, The Hyde Collection.
"Family Matters: American Impressionism and Realism," Hoopes Gallery, The Hyde Collection, April 27 - July 27, 2003.
"A Glens Falls Legacy: The Pruyn Family; "A Shared Life: Selections from the Pruyn Family Collection", Charles R. Wood Gallery, The Hyde Collection, June 8 - Aug. 24, 2008.
"50 at 50: Five Decades of Collecting at the Hyde". Wood Gallery, Education Wing, Hyde House, The Hyde Collection. Glens Falls, January 16, 2013 -April 14, 2013.
"Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland, 1861-2008" Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT, January 31, 2015 - May 31, 2015; San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA, July 11, 2015 - October 18, 2015, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY, November 20, 2015 - March 12, 2016, McNay Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX, May 11, 2016- September 11, 2016.Provenanceby 1932, New York, NY, Milch Galleries,
Glens Falls, NY, Nell P. Cunningham
1962, Queensbury, NY, Mary Hoopes Beeman (by inheritance)
1995, Glens Falls, NY, The Hyde Collection Trust (by bequest)
