The Artist's Daughter Alice

Artist William Merritt Chase American, 1849–1916

Datecirca 1899

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions19 1/4 x 15 1/4 in. (48.9 x 38.7 cm)
Frame: 28 15/16 x 25 in. (73.5 x 63.5 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineGift of the North Carolina State Art Society (Robert F. Phifer Bequest)

Object numberG.28.2.7

On View

Not on view

Provenance**Created United States, ca. 1899; collection of the artist; [sale, American Art Galleries, New York, May 14, 1917, no. 71] [1]; Robert Fulenwider Phifer (1849–1928), New York and Concord, NC; bequeathed to the NC State Art Society, Raleigh, NC, 1928; officially transferred by the Society to the NCMA, 1961.

[1] “The Paintings and Other Artistic Property Left by the Late William Merritt Chase, N.A.”
Published ReferencesThe Paintings and Other Artistic Property Left by the Late William Merritt Chase, N.A. (auction catalogue) (New York: The American Art Galleries, 1917), no. 71.

W. R. Valentiner, Catalogue of Paintings: Including Three Sets of Tapestries (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1956), no. 7, illus. (b-w).

American Paintings to 1900: Catalogue of Paintings, Vol. 1, 2nd ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1966), no. 9, illus. (b-w).

Charles W. Stanford, Jr., Selections from British and American Painting and Sculpture (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1967), no. 34, illus. (b-w).

Exhibition Number One from the Permanent Collection (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh, North Carolina Museum of Art, 1970), 120, illus. (b-w) 121.

Robert F. Phifer Collection (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1973), 22, illus. (b-w) 23.

American Paintings from the Permanent Collection of the North Carolina Museum of Art (exhibition catalogue) (Asheville: Asheville Art Museum, 1976), listed (with artist's bio.) 6, illus. (b-w) 6.

Ronald G. Pisano, A Leading Spirit in American Art: William Merritt Chase, 1849-1916 (exhibition catalogue) (Seattle: Henry Art Gallery, 1983), illus. (b-w) 119, titled Head of a Girl (The Artist's Daughter).

Edgar Peters Bowron, ed., Introduction to the Collections (Chapel Hill: Published for the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, by The University of North Carolina Press, 1983), illus. (b-w) 255.

Introduction to the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1992), illus. (b-w) 244.

Romulus Linney, "To an Artist's Daughter," in The Store of Joys, Huston Paschal, ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1997), 82-83, illus. (color) 82.

Ronald G. Pisano, William Merritt Chase: Portraits in Oil (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2006), OP.278 (as Head of a Girl (The Artist's Daughter)), discussed and illus. (color) 150.

Exhibition HistoryRaleigh, NC, North Carolina State Art Society, Temporary Art Museum, Agricultural Building, "An Exhibition of Paintings and Other Works of Art Left as a Bequest to the Society by the Late Robert F. Phifer of Concord, NC, and New York City," February 26, 1929, no. 18.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Exhibition Number One from the Permanent Collection," October 1970, 120, illus. (b-w) 121.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Robert F. Phifer Collection," March 31-May 13, 1973, 22, illus. (b-w) 23.

Asheville, NC, Asheville Art Museum, "American Paintings from the Permanent Collection of the North Carolina Museum of Art," May 16-June 27, 1976, listed (with artist's bio.) 6, illus. (b-w) 6.

Pinehurst, NC, "Beaux-Arts Ball," March 13, 1980.

Wilmington, NC, St. John's Museum of Art, "Inaugural Exhibition of American Paintings," December 7, 1980-January 24, 1981.

Seattle, WA, University of Washington, Henry Art Gallery, "A Leading Spirit in American Art: William Merritt Chase," October 1, 1983-January 29, 1984; New York, NY, Metropolitan Museum of Art, March 9-June 3, 1984, unnumbered, illus. (b-w) 119.

Wilmington, NC, Louise Wells Cameron Art Museum, "18th and 19th Century American Art from the Collection of the North Carolina Museum of Art," June 20, 2003-February 22, 2004.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, “Art for the People: The Foundation of the North Carolina Museum of Art, 1924–1945,” November 27, 2019–February 9, 2020.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Becoming the NCMA: 10 Decades of Collecting, 1924-2022," June 11-August 21, 2022.
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