Harry Chase
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| Born | February 2, 1853 Woodstock, Vermont, U.S. |
| 💀Died | October 1, 1889 (aged 36) Sewanee, Tennessee, U.S.October 1, 1889 (aged 36) |
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Henry Seymour Chase Jr. (February 2, 1853 in Woodstock, Vermont - October 1, 1889 in Sewanee, Tennessee), was better known by his professional name Harry Chase. He was a 19th Century American artist who specialized in marine paintings.
Birth and early life[edit]
Harry Chase was born on February 2, 1853, to Dr. Henry Seymour Chase Sr. and Sarah Denison Chase (née Haskell) in Woodstock, Vermont.[1] In 1857, the family moved to Independence, Iowa, where Dr. Chase tried his hand at farming. Harry grew up in Iowa, and showed an early interest in art.[2]
In 1868, the Chases moved to St. Louis, Missouri, where Dr. Chase took a position as the Chair of Operative Surgery at the Missouri Dental College.
Formal Studies and Early Career[edit]
In 1868, Harry Chase joined the atelier of displaced Southern aristocrat and itinerant portrait painter, James Reeve Stuart, who kept his studio on Olive Street in St. Louis.[3] Chase studied under Stuart until 1870, when he departed for New York where he entered the Antique Class under Lemuel Wilmarth at the National Academy of Design.
Returning to St. Louis in 1871, Chase had determined to further his studies at the Royal Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. In the summer of 1872, Harry Chase departed St. Louis for Munich with another young hopeful William Merritt Chase, and they traveled together to Europe. Harry Chase studied in Munich from 1872 until 1875.[4]
Chase returned to St. Louis in 1876, where he staged a very successful solo show and auction, selling 40 works and pocketing enough from the profits to return to Europe to study in Paris.
Before he left, he married Laura Emeline Eames in January 1877.[5] She was known to family and friends as Emma. Together, Chase and his bride left St. Louis for Paris, where he would study under Paul Constant Soyer for two years. During his time in Paris under Soyer, Chase was successful in having a painting accepted to the Salon de Paris in 1878, establishing a reputation for himself as an up-and-coming artist in the broader United States.[6]
In 1879, Chase changed masters and became the protege of Hendrik Willem Mesdag, the great Dutch marine painter, in Scheveningen, the Netherlands. It was Mesdag and Dutch Impressionism that would have the greatest influence on Chase's style.[7] Under Mesdag, Chase was again successful in having a painting accepted at the Salon de Paris of 1879.[8]
At the end of 1879, Chase returned to St. Louis and held another even more successful solo show and auction, selling a total of 64 works.
Manhattan[edit]
In the 1880s, Chase established himself as one of the most notable artists in the United States, opening a studio in Manhattan, and exhibiting at the most important exhibitions around the country. During the summers, he could often be found sailing on his yacht Bonnie, using her as a mobile studio.[9] In 1883, he was elected an Associate of the National Academy of Design. In 1885, he won the prestigious Hallgarten Prize for his painting New York Harbor, North River, now part of the collection of the National Art Gallery, Washington D.C. [10][11]
Harry Chase was elected a member of the following artists' societies and clubs during his career:
- A.N.A., National Academy of Design
- Board of Control, American Art Union
- Member, American Water Color Society
- Vice President, Salmagundi Sketch Club
- Member, Artists' Fund Society
- Member, Boston Art Club
- Member, St. Louis Sketch Club
- Academician, St. Louis Academy of Fine Arts
Exhibitions[edit]
- 1869-1888 - St. Louis Fair & Expo
- 1874 & 1875 - Kunstverein, Munich, Germany
- 1875-1885 - Brooklyn Art Association
- 1878 & 1879 - Salon de Paris
- 1878, 1880-1889 - Annual Exhibition of National Academy of Design
- 1880s - Salmagundi Sketch Club, American Water Color Society, Philadelphia Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia Society of Artists, Boston Art Club, Southern Exposition, Chicago Interstate Industrial, New England Mechanics and .
- 1883 - International Art Exhibition, Munich, Germany
Illness and Death[edit]
Tragically, at the end of 1885, Chase went insane and his career came to an end.[12] From 1886 to 1889, Harry Chase was treated for his ailments in both Poughkeepsie, New York, at the Hudson River State Asylum for the Insane, and later in Sewanee, Tennessee, under the treatment of Dr. William M. Harlow. Harry Chase died in Sewanee on October 1, 1889, and was brought back to St. Louis where he was buried in Bellefontaine Cemetery.[13]
Gallery[edit]
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Running for an Anchorage, Oil on Canvas, 1883, Indianapolis Museum of Art.
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On the Sands, Oil on Canvas, 1883, Hood Museum of Art.
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Low Tide, Dutch Coast, Oil on Canvas, 1884, Private Collection.
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Pen & Ink Drawing for Harper's Young People, 1883, Cabinet of American Illustration, Library of Congress, Washington D.C.
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The Return to Port, Oil on Canvas, 1882, from the collection of Laurence Rockefeller. Sold at Sotheby's, 11 October 2005.
References[edit]
- ↑ Johnson, Rossiter PhD, LLD, (1906). The Biographical Dictionary of America, Vol II, American Biographical Society, Boston.
- ↑ James Jebusa Shannon’s Portraits Rescued From Obscurity, New York Times, 12 June 2014.
- ↑ Gerdts, William H. (1991). Art across America: two centuries of regional painting, 1710-1920, Volume 3.
- ↑ Dearinger, David B. (2004). Paintings & Sculpture at the Nat. Academy of Design, Vol. 1: 1826-1925. New York ; Manchester : Hudson Hills Press.
- ↑ Dearinger, David B. (2004). Paintings & Sculpture at the Nat. Academy of Design, Vol. 1: 1826-1925. New York ; Manchester : Hudson Hills Press.
- ↑ Clement, Clara Erskine and Hutton, Laurence (1883). Artists of the nineteenth century and their works. A handbook containing two thousand and fifty biographical sketches. Vol I. Houghton Mifflin, Boston.
- ↑ Lurie, Maxine N., Mappen, Marc (2004). Encyclopedia of New Jersey. Rutgers University Press.
- ↑ Clement, Clara Erskine and Hutton, Laurence (1883). Artists of the nineteenth century and their works. A handbook containing two thousand and fifty biographical sketches. Vol I. Houghton Mifflin, Boston.
- ↑ The summer haunts of American artists. The Century Magazine, October 1885.
- ↑ Dearinger, David B. (2004). Paintings & Sculpture at the Nat. Academy of Design, Vol. 1: 1826-1925. New York ; Manchester : Hudson Hills Press.
- ↑ Johnson, Rossiter PhD, LLD, (1906). The Biographical Dictionary of America, Vol II, American Biographical Society, Boston.
- ↑ A Well Known Artist Insane, New York Times, 1 January 1886.
- ↑ James Jebusa Shannon’s Portraits Rescued From Obscurity, New York Times, 12 June 2014.
External Links[edit]
- Official Website of Harry Chase, Artist
- Entry in Encyclopedia of New Jersey
- Biographical Dictionary of America, 1906 - entry on Harry Chase
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