The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of December 21, 2025

Gray Day on the Bay

c. 1886

William Merritt Chase

(American, 1849–1916)
America
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
  • Homer H. Johnson (donor's father), Cleveland (1913); Jeanette Johnson Dempsey.
  • “A Check List. American Paintings and Water Colors of the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Early Twentieth Centuries in the Cleveland Museum of Art.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 60, no. 1 (January 1973): 21–35.
    Published as: Harbor Scene Mentioned and reproduced: p. 23, no. 30 www.jstor.org
  • 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.
    "American Paintings Owned in Cleveland," The Cleveland Museum of Art, July 3--September 13, 1920.
    Cleveland, Kinney and Levan Building, Cleveland Art Loan Exposition (25 November-17 December 1913), no. 19A as East River.
  • {{cite web|title=Gray Day on the Bay|url=false|author=William Merritt Chase|year=c. 1886|access-date=21 December 2025|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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