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January 25, 2001
Barbara Dayer Gallati William Merritt Chase: Modern American Landscapist Harry N. Abrams in association with Brooklyn Museum, 1999. 192 pp.; 54 color ills.; 70 b/w ills. Cloth $37.50 (0810945584)

Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, May 26-August 13, 2000; The Art Institute of Chicago, September 7-November 26, 2000; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, December 13, 2000-March 11, 2001.

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CrossRef DOI: 10.3202/caa.reviews.2001.56

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William Merritt Chase has long been considered a major American artist, if not a New York artist. Brooklyn Museum curator Barbara Dayer Gallati shows how Chase’s reputation first evolved, taking no aspect of his art or identity for granted. The catalogue for William Merritt Chase: Modern American Landscapes, 1886-1890 (which initiated at the Brooklyn Museum of Art in May 2000, and ends at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston in March 2001) aims to...