My Little Daughter Dorothy

ca. 1894

William Merritt Chase American, 1849-1916

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American, Level 2, West Wing

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Title My Little Daughter Dorothy

Artwork Date ca. 1894

Artist William Merritt Chase

Life Dates 1849-1916

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. American

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Oil on canvas

Dimensions Unframed: 48 × 33 inches (121.9 × 83.8 cm) Framed: 52 3/4 × 37 3/4 × 2 inches (134 × 95.9 × 5.1 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department American Art before 1950

Credit Gift of Mrs. Arthur McGraw

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 31.27

Markings

Signed Signed, lower right: My Little Daughter Dorothy | Wm M. Chase

Inscriptions Inscribed, lower right: My Little Daughter Dorothy | Wm M. Chase

Provenance

until 1917, the artist's family. 1917, American Art Association sale of Artist's Works

1917-1923, William Macbeth (New York, New York, USA)

1923, dealer Newman Montross (New York, New York, USA). ca. 1923-1931, Mrs. Arthur McGraw

1931-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

"The Exhibition of the Society of American Artists." Art Amateur 30, 5 (April 1894): pp. 127-128.

American Art Association Catalogue of Chase Sale (Fourth Evening). Sales cat., American Art Association. 1917, no. 374. [noted as having been painted in Chase's Tenth Street Studio]

American Art Annual 14 (1917): p. 346.

Burroughs, Clyde H. “Growth of the Collections.” Bulletin of the DIA 13, 5 (February 1932): pp. 55-56 (ill.).

Chase Centennial Exhibition. Exh. cat., John Herron Art Museum. Indianapolis, 1949, no. 33 (ill.).

The Artist and His Family. Exh. cat., Dayton Art Institute. Dayton, 1950, no. 9

Chase and Hawthorne. Exh. cat., Toledo Museum of Art. Toledo, 1957.

Retrospective Exhibition of William Merritt Chase. Exh. cat., Parrish Art Museum. Southampton, NY, 1957, no. 45.

Triumph of Realism. Exh. cat., Brooklyn Museum. Brooklyn, 1967, no. 62. [dated 1891]

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