Walter Pach

Artist William Merritt Chase American, 1849–1916

Date1905

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions20 x 16 in. (50.8 x 40.6 cm)
Frame: 24 7/8 x 20 3/4 x 1 7/8 in. (63.2 x 52.7 x 4.8 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the State of North Carolina and the Museum Special Gift Fund

Object number70.36.1

On View

Not on view

Provenance**Created Madrid, 1905; collection of the artist; the sitter, Walter Pach, New York, 1905; bequeathed to son, Raymond Peter Pach, Canton, NC, 1958; sold to NCMA, 1970.

Published ReferencesAmerican Art News 4 (March 17, 1906), noted 2. The Evening Mail (New York)(March 21, 1906), noted 7. Homer St. Gaudens, "William M. Chase," The Critic 48 (June 1906), illus. (b-w) 514. Ten American Painters (exhibition catalogue) (New York: Montross Gallery, 1906), cat. no. 5. William Howe Downes, "William Merritt Chase, A Typical American Artist," International Studio 39 (December 1909), xxix-xxxvi, mentioned xxxii. William Merritt Chase Retrospective Exhibition (exhibition catalogue) (New York: National Arts Club, 1910), cat. no. 118. "Check List of Known Work by William M. Chase," in Chase Centennial Exhibition (catalogue) (Indianapolis, IN: John Herron Art Museum, 1949), listed unnumbered (as owned by Walter Pach, New York). Exhibition of the Art of Walter and Magda Pach (catalogue) (Youngstown, OH: Butler Institute of American Art, 1988), illus. (b-w) unnumbered. William H. Gerdts, "The Ten: A Critical Chronology," in Ten American Painters (catalogue) (New York: Spanierman Gallery, 1990), noted 31. Keith L. Bryant, Jr., William Merritt Chase: A Genteel Bohemian (Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1991), noted 233. Bennard B. Perlman, ed., American Artists, Authors, and Collectors: The Walter Pach Letters, 1906-1958 (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2002), 194, illus. (b-w) 195. Ronald G. Pisano, William Merritt Chase: Portraits in Oil (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2006), OP.452, discussed and illus. (color) 221.

Exhibition HistoryNew York, NY, Montross Gallery, "Ten American Painters," March 14-31, 1906, no. 5 (as Portrait of Mr. Pach). New York, NY, National Arts Club, "William Merritt Chase Retrospective Exhibition," January 5-13, 1910, (possibly traveling to Bridgeport, Conn.), no. 118.

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