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Bibliography: Object bibliography: Cornelius, Roberta D. The History of Randolph-Macon Woman's College: From the Founding in 1891 through the Year of 1949-1950. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1951, pp.122-123. Pisano, Ronald, with Carolyn K. Lane and D. Frederick Baker. William Merritt Chase: Portraits in Oil. Vol. 2 of The Complete Catalogue of Known and Documented Work by William Merritt Chase (1849-1916). New Haven and London: Yale University press, 2006, p. 234. Schowe, Mary Andrea. A Tradition of Excellence: The Presidential Portrait at Randolph-Macon Woman's College. Lynchburg, VA,: Maier Museum of Art, 1996, fig.1. Sokol, David M. "American Art in the Maier Museum of Art, Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Lynchburg, Virginia," Antiques vol. 136, no. 5 (1989): 1138-9. Williams, Mary Frances. Catalogue of the Collection of American Art at Randolph-Macon Woman's College: A Selection of Paintings, Drawings, and Prints. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1977, pp. 3-4, 54-55. Artist bibliography: Atkinson, D. Scott, Nicolai Cikovsky, and William Merritt Chase. William Merritt Chase: Summers at Shinnecock 1891-1902. Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1987. Gallati, Barbara Daver, and William Merritt Chase. William Merritt Chase: Modern American Landscapes, 1886-1890. Brooklyn: Brooklyn Museum of Art, 1999. Pisano, Ronald G. William Merritt Chase. New York: Watson-Guptill, 1979. Commentary: The subject was the first president of Randolph-Macon Woman's College and the portrait was commissioned by the Class of 1907. It was the first painting acquired by the College. Though students raised only enough money to pay for a bust-length portrait, it is said that Chase felt so strongly about the need to include his sitter's hands that he created a three-quarter length portrait at no extra charge. Interestingly, earlier the same year Chase had painted a portrait of James Monroe Taylor, president of Vassar College, which was also a distinguished all-women's school. Exhibition: Jamestown Exhibition, as part of display of Randolph-Macon educational institutions, 1907. "Randolph-Macon Woman's College Collection," Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, September 11-October 18, 1964. "American Art: American Vision, Paintings from a Century of Collecting," Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, January 25-March 4, 1990; Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, March 17-April 29, 1990; Tampa Museum of Art, May 14-July 8, 1990; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, November 24, 1992-January 17, 1993; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., April 24-July 11, 1993. "A Tradition of Excellence: The Presidential Portrait at R-MWC," Maier Museum of Art, October 26-December 22, 1996. "Randolph-Macon Woman's College Presidential Portraits," Maier Museum of Art, Randolph College, January 20 - August 8, 2009. Provenance: R-MWC Art Collection. Commission from the artist, in 1907. Portfolio List This object is a member of the following portfolios (click any portfolio name to view all objects in that portfolio): Keywords:
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