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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    Wind-Swept Sands
    William Merritt Chase. Wind-Swept Sands, 1894. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00001561

    Wind-Swept Sands

    by William Merritt Chase

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    Inscriptions

    Signed recto, bottom-left, on ground, in dark paint: "Wm M. Chase.".

    Provenance

    The Dorflinger family, Long Island; John C. Dorflinger, White Milles, Pennsylvania, c. 1950. Robert Schwarz, Frank Schwarz & Son, Philadelphia, sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1991.

    Exhibition history

    Cleveland Art Association, First Annual Exhibition, Jan. 22–Feb. 22, 1895, cat. 204. New York, National Academy of Design, 70th Annual Exhibition, Apr. 1–May 11, 1895, cat. 309. New York, American Art Galleries, Chase sale, Jan. 7, 1896, no. 1179, as The Windswept Sands. New York, National Academy of Design, Seventh Annual Exhibition, Apr. 1–May 11, 1895, cat. 309. New York, American Art Galleries, Catalogue of Paintings belonging to William Merritt Chase, N.A. Jan. 1896, no. 1179. 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, Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, Dec. 13, 2000–Mar. 11, 2001, cat. 54.

    Publications

    Ronald G. Pisano et al., "William Merritt Chase, Landscapes in Oil" (Yale University Press, 2009, vol. 3) cat. L 192, 97, 166 (ill.). Judith A. Barter, et al., The Age of American Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 2011), cat. 60.

    Open-access museum data

    This record comes from the open-access collection data that the Art Institute of Chicago publishes for unrestricted use (Creative Commons Zero). Art Trackers shows a selection of the museum's published fields. The Art Institute of Chicago is not an Art Trackers client and has not reviewed or endorsed this page; the museum's own website is the authoritative record.

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    Quick Overview

    Artist
    William Merritt Chase (American, 1849–1916)
    Date
    1894
    Medium
    Oil on canvas
    Dimensions
    87 × 101.5 cm (34 1/4 × 39 3/4 in.)
    Type
    Painting
    Classification
    painting
    Style
    Impressionism
    Place
    Long Island
    Department
    Arts of the Americas
    Credit line
    Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. Eric Oldberg in honor of Milo M. Naeve; Friends of American Art and R. H. Love Galleries funds; Walter Aitken Endowment; through prior acquisitions of the Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection
    Accession no.
    1991.249

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