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    Prospect Park, Brooklyn, (painting).
    Artist: 
    Chase, William Merritt, 1849-1916, painter.
    Title: 
    Prospect Park, Brooklyn, (painting).
    Other Titles: 
    Tompkins Park, Brooklyn, (painting).
    Afternoon in the Park, (painting).
    Park, Brooklyn, (painting).
    Dates: 
    ca. 1887.
    Digital Reference: 
    Image
    Medium: 
    Oil on canvas.
    Dimensions: 
    17 3/8 x 22 3/8 in.
    Inscription: 
    (Lower left:) Wm. M Chase. signed
    Description: 
    Two women, one with a baby stroller, are seated on the bench closest to the foreground. Many figures are strolling in the background.
    Subject: 
    Landscape -- Park -- Prospect Park
    Landscape -- Park -- Tompkins Park
    Cityscape -- New York -- Brooklyn
    Figure group
    Landscape -- Road -- Path
    Architecture -- Vehicle -- Stroller
    Recreation -- Leisure
    Object Type: 
    Painting
    Owner: 
    Colby College, Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine 04901 Accession Number: 1963.04
    Provenance: 
    Formerly in the collection of Howell, Frederick Huntting,
    Knoedler & Co., New York, New York
    Gift of Wing, Adeline F. & Caroline R.,
    Remarks: 
    Gallati (1999) lists title as "Tompkins Park, Brooklyn." Pisano (2009) lists title as "Afternoon in the Park."
    References: 
    Coll. Checklist, 1988.
    "Handbook of the Colby College Art Museum," Waterville, ME: Colby College Press, 1973, pg. 54.
    Art Journal (Caa), Winter 1963.
    Montgomery, Elizabeth Miles, "American Impressionists," New York, NY: Crescent Books, 1991, pg. 93.
    Pisano, Ronald G., "The complete catalogue of known and documented work by William Merritt Chase (1849-1916); volume 3. Landscapes in oil," New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009, no. L96.
    Gallati, Barbara Dayer, "William Merritt Chase: modern American landscapes, 1886-1890," Brooklyn, N.Y.: Brooklyn Museum of Art, 1999, pl. 19.
    "Art at Colby: Celebrating the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Colby College Museum of Art," Waterville, ME: Colby College Museum of Art, 2009, pg. 152.
    Illustration: 
    Image on file.
    "Handbook of the Colby College Art Museum," Waterville, ME: Colby College Press, 1973, pg. 54.
    Antiques (Apr. 1994): pg. 549.
    Montgomery, Elizabeth Miles, "American Impressionists," New York, NY: Crescent Books, 1991, pg. 94.
    Pisano, Ronald G., "The complete catalogue of known and documented work by William Merritt Chase (1849-1916); volume 3. Landscapes in oil," New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009, pg. 48.
    Gallati, Barbara Dayer, "William Merritt Chase: modern American landscapes, 1886-1890," Brooklyn, N.Y.: Brooklyn Museum of Art, 1999, pg. 76.
    "Art at Colby: Celebrating the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Colby College Museum of Art," Waterville, ME: Colby College Museum of Art, 2009, pg. 152.
    Note: 
    The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide.
    Repository: 
    Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012
    Control Number: 
    IAP 18830170
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