“…First West Coast retrospective exhibition of paintings by William Merritt Chase, 1849-1916…”

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Table of Contents: “…The studio, the domestic interior, and the ideology of separate spheres -- Working men and leisurely ladies: tropes of gender and the artist's studio in the late nineteenth century -- 'The prince of the Atelier': negotiating effeminacy in A friendly call by William Merritt Chase -- 'The painter will not sink into the mother': Mary Fairchild's nursery/studio -- Rendering invisible by display: representations of late nineteenth-century American women.…”

Table of Contents: “…--Edwin Austin Abbey, the painter of the past.--William Merritt Chase, the painter of precept.--John White Alexander, the painter of the flowing line.…”