Currently not on view
Landscape: Shinnecock, Long Island,
ca. 1896
In 1891, with the support of wealthy patrons such as Mrs. Andrew Carnegie and Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt, the well-connected Chase founded the Shinnecock Hills Summer School of Art in Long Island’s exclusive Southampton, where for over a decade he taught his variety of deftly produced plein air painting. Residing amid the dunes, Chase continued to produce his own art, which in response to his surroundings assumed a lightened appearance. Landscape: Shinnecock, Long Island is a particularly successful example of a group of similar scenes showing members of Chase’s family at rest or play. The carefully balanced image combines in its small squarish format the artist’s favorite subject matter—landscape and the sympathetic depiction of the leisure class.
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ca. 1896
Oil on wood panel
36.3 × 40.9 cm (14 5/16 × 16 1/8 in.)
frame: 65.7 × 69.5 × 8.9 cm (25 7/8 × 27 3/8 × 3 1/2 in.)
Gift of Francis A. Comstock, Class of 1919
United States, New York, Long Island
Signed in brown, lower right: Wm. M. Chase.
- F. J. Mather, "American paintings at Princeton University," Record of the Museum of Historic Art, Princeton University 2, no. 2 (1943): p. 2-15., p. 13
- William Merritt Chase, 1849-1916: a retrospective exhibition, (Southhampton, NY: Parrish Art Museum, 1957)., no. 4
- John Wilmerding et al., American Art in the Princeton University Art Museum: volume 1: drawings and watercolors, (Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum; New Haven, CT; London: Yale University Press, 2004), p. 356, checklist no. 1153
- Princeton University Art Museum: Handbook of the Collection (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007), p. 152, p. 153 (illus.)
- Princeton University Art Museum: Handbook of the Collections (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 2013), p. 286
- Linda S. Ferber, ed., Impressionism: American Gardens on Canvas (Bronx: The New York Botanical Garden, 2016)., fig. 11, p. 24 (illus.)
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