The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of June 26, 2022

Gray Day on the Bay

c. 1886

William Merritt Chase

(American, 1849-1916)

America, 19th century

Oil on wood

Unframed: 23.7 x 34.2 cm (9 5/16 x 13 7/16 in.)

Gift of Mrs. John B. Dempsey 1957.423

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

signed lower right: WM M. Chase [WM in monogram]

Provenance
Homer H. Johnson (donor's father), Cleveland (1913); Jeanette Johnson Dempsey.
Exhibition history

Chicago, Chicago Inter-State Industrial Exhibition (4 September-19 October 1889), no. 102 as Repair Docks, Gowanus Bay.

New York, Ortgies & Co., Paintings by William Merritt Chase (6 March 1891), no. 4 as Repair Docks, Gowanus Bay.

Cleveland, Kinney and Levan Building, Cleveland Art Loan Exposition (25 November-17 December 1913), no. 19A as East River.

"American Paintings Owned in Cleveland," The Cleveland Museum of Art, July 3--September 13, 1920.

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1957.423