About This Artwork

William Merritt Chase
American, 1849-1916

North River Shad, c. 1910

Oil on canvas
73.7 x 94 cm (29 x 37 in.)
Signed: Wm. M. Chase, 1.1. n.d.
Friends of American Art Collection, 1914.56

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Dallas Art Association, "American Art from the Days of the Colonists Until Now (Third Annual Exhibition)," November 16-30, 1922, no. 29.

Milwaukee Art Institute, "An Exhibition of Forty Paintings Presented to the Art Institute of Chicago by the Friends of American Art," March 1-29, 1925, no. 9.

California Palace of the Legion of Honor, "Exhibition of Paintings from the Art Institute of Chicago's Friends of American Art Collection," June 1926, no. 4336.

Minneapolis Institute of Arts, "Selection of American Paintings Purchased by the Friends of American Art and Presented to the Art Institute of Chicago," November-December 1926.

Chicago, Garfield Park Art Galleries, "Forty-Eight Paintings from the Friends of American Art Collection," November, 1935.

Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, "The Centennial Exposition, Department of Fine Arts," June 6-November 29, 1936, no. 23.

University of Illinois, Champaign, Architectural Building Gallery, "American Paintings from the Permanent Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago," December 3-27, 1939.

Kalamazoo Civic Theater, "Paintings form the Friends of American Art Collection," January-February, 1945.

South Bend Art Association, "American Painting in the Manner of the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries," February 10-March 31, 1948, no. 15.

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, "The One Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary Exhibition," January 15-March 13, 1955, no. 57.

Southampton, New York, Parrish Art Museum, "William Merritt Chase 1849-1916," June 30-July 27, 1957, no. 103.

Publication History

Judith A. Barter et al, The Age of American Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago/Yale University Press, 2011), no. 61.