Winter 2016

2016 Antiques & Fine Art 127 William Merritt Chase (1849–1916) At the Seaside, about 1892 Oil on canvas, 20 x 34 inches Lent by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bequest of Miss Adelaide Milton de Groot (1876–1967), 1967; courtesy, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston William Merritt Chase (1849–1916) Hide and Seek , 1888 Oil on canvas, 27½ x 36 inches The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC, Acquired 1923; courtesy, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston William Merritt Chase (1849–1916) Self ‑ Portrait in 4th Avenue Studio, 1915–16 Oil on canvas, 52½ x 63½ inches Purchase by Richmond Art Museum and gift of Warner M. Leeds; courtesy, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston William Merritt Chase is on view at the Museum of Fine Art Boston, through January 16, 2017; it travels to the Ca’Pesaro Galleria Internazionale d ’Arte Moderna, Venice, Italy, February 11–May 28, 2017. The fully illustrated catalogue, William Merritt Chase: A Modern Master , is published by the Phillips Collection in association with Yale University Press; a volume by MFA curator Erica Hirshler, William Merritt Chase , is also available.  D. Frederick Baker is a director of the Pisano/Chase Catalogue Raisonné Project, a foundation established to complete the life’s work of Ronald G. Pisano (1948–2000).