A City Park

Rochester Art Club, Ninth Annual Exhibition of the Rochester Art Club, May 22–June 2, 1888, cat. 10, as A City Park, lent by William Merritt Chase. Paris, Exposition Universelle, May 5–Oct. 31, 1889, cat. 49, as Un Parc de Ville, lent by William Merritt Chase. New York, Fifth Avenue Art Galleries, Auction of Paintings by William Merritt Chase, Mar. 6, 1891, cat. 31, as A City Park. Southampton, NY, Parish Art Museum, William Merritt Chase in the Company of Friends, May 13–June 24, 1979, cat. 8, as A City Park. Seattle, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, William Merritt Chase Retrospective, Oct. 2, 1983–Jan. 29, 1984; Metropolitan Museum of Art, Mar. 9–June 3, 1984, no cat. Norfolk, VA, Chrysler Museum of Art, Paris 1889: American Artists at the Universal Exposition, Sept. 29–Dec. 17, 1989; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Feb. 1–Apr. 15, 1990, Memphis, Brooks Museum of Art, May 6–July 15, 1990, New York Historical Society, Sept. 5–Nov. 15, 1990, cat. 49. Brooklyn Museum of Art, William Merritt Chase: Modern American Landscapes, 1886–1890, May 26–Aug. 13, 2000; the Art Institute of Chicago, Sept. 7–Nov. 26, 2000; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Dec. 13, 2000–Mar. 11, 2001, cat. 1. Philadelphia, PA, Academy of the Fine Arts, The Artist's Garden: American Impressionism and the Garden Movement, 1887–1920, Feb. 12–May 24, 2015; Norfolk, Chrysler Museum, June 16–Sept. 6, 2015; Winston–Salem, MA, Reynolda House, Oct. 1, 2015–Jan. 3, 2016 (Philadelphia and Norfolk only), cat. 35. Washington, DC, The Phillips Collection, William Merritt Chase, A Modern Master, June 4–Sept. 11, 2016, cat. 32; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Oct. 9, 2016–Jan. 16, 2017; Venice, Ca' Pesaro–Galleria Internazionale d'Arte Moderna, Feb. 11–May 28, 2017 (Washington, DC and Boston only).

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