WILLIAM MERRITT CHASE, Portrait of Helen

Estate of the artist
American Art Galleries, New York, 1917
Content Johnson
Mr. and Mrs. David R. Wintermann
Gift to the present owner from the above, 1985

New York, National Arts Club, Exhibition of Paintings by William Merritt Chase, January 1910, no. 7 (as Helen)
Bridgeport, Connecticut, Bridgeport Public Library, Exhibition of Fifty-four Paintings by William M. Chase, March 1910

James Pattison, "William Merritt Chase, N.A." House Beautiful, Vol. 25, February 1909, p. 50, illustrated (as The Artist's Daughter Helen)
William Howe Downes, "William Merritt Chase, A Typical American Artist," The International Studio, Vol. 39, no. 154, December 1909, p. 30, illustrated p. 36 (as Portrait of the Artist's Daughter)
Ronald G. Pisano, The Complete Catalogue of Known and Documented Work by William Merritt Chase (1849-1916), New Haven, Connecticut, 2007, no. 303, illustrated p. 158

D. Frederick Baker writes: "This work is a portrait of Chase's daughter, Helen Velasquez Chase (1895-1965), one of nine portraits he painted of his daughter Helen. William Downes describes this work as being 'a half-length portrait of a lovely chubby maid holding a doll... a charmingly ingenious head, with straight hair falling over the ears and stray locks coming down over the forehead: spontaneously and rapidly brushed with a light touch, it illustrates Chase's verve.'"