Information
Provenance
Private Collection, San Raphael, California
M.R. Schweitzer Gallery, New York
William Merritt Chase, Shinnecock, New York
Sale, Bonhams & Butterfields, San Francisco, California, December 9, 1999, lot 5064 (As The Beach at Shinnecock, Long Island, ca. 1902)
Private collection, Florida
Private collection, New York
Related Work
The Beach, October, oil, 28 x 36 inches; illustrated in The Art of Irving Ramsey Wiles (St. Joseph, Missouri: The Albrecht Gallery – Museum of Art, 1971), plates 18 and 19.
Literature
Geoffrey K. Fleming, Irving Ramsay Wiles, N.A. 1861–1948: Portrait and Pictures, 1899–1948 (Southold, New York: Southold Historical Society, 2010), plate 4, 97, no. 150.
Note: This painting had been erroneously titled The Beach at Shinnecock, Long Island for several years due to an incorrect gallery label from M.R. Schweitzer Gallery on the back of the panel. More recent scholarship by Geoffrey K. Fleming has revealed that the actual location of the scene depicted is the beach outside "The Mooring" in Peconic, Long Island.[1]
[1] Geoffrey K. Fleming, Irving Ramsay Wiles, N.A. 1861–1948: Portrait and Pictures, 1899–1948 (Southold, New York: Southold Historical Society, 2010), 97, no. 150.
