AFA Autumn 2018

Autumn 114 www.afamag.com | w ww.incollect.com Edwin Austin Abbey (1852–1911), Sketching at Easthampton, 1878. Watercolor and gouache on paper, 10⅞ x 1613⁄16 inches. Heckscher Museum of Art; Gift of the Baker/Pisano Collection (2001.9.1). This work was done on the first Tile Club summer excursion. The Tilers included in the work are F. Hopkinson Smith, Arthur Quartley, and J. Alden Weir, so identified in “Tile Club Stories” by fellow-club member F. Hopkinson Smith. William Merritt Chase (1849–1916), A Subtle Device, 1881. Oil on canvas, 11⅞ x 1815⁄16 inches. Heckscher Museum of Art; Gift of the Baker/Pisano Collection (2001.9.53). The third Tile Club expedition was to Sands Point, Long Island, where, due to the mosquitoes, Chase fashioned an outdoor studio of netting. A self portrait and originally signed “Briareus,” Chase’s Tile Club nickname, the signature was removed at some point and replaced with that of another artist.