
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00001561Wind-Swept Sands
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.
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
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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