Painting Exhibited
The painting remained in the collection of William Merritt Chase, and was never owned by the Hales. In 1914, The Portrait of Mrs. Philip Hale may have been exhibited as a part of the Third Annual Exhibition of the National Association of Portrait Painters in 1914[1]. It is interesting that Mrs. Hale and her husband, both students’ of Chase, would both later become members of the same organization by 1922[2].
The portrait may have also been exhibited at the National Academy of Design in February of 1910[3], and The Detroit Museum of Art in 1916[4]. However, because Chase kept few records, the painting went by several names, and records from these exhibitions did not include images for all of the works exhibited it is difficult to be sure that Mrs. Philip Hale was actually the work shown at these three of these exhibitions.
Text Sources:
[1] American Art Galleries and American Art Association, Catalogue of the Completed Pictures Studies and Sketches Left by the Late William Merritt Chase, May 1917. http://books.google.com/books?id=qhQEAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1835&source=gbs_selected_pages&cad=3#v=onepage&q&f=false. Acessed April 21, 2014.
[2] National Association of Portrait Painters, M. Knoedler and Co., American Fine Arts Society Galleries, Carnegie Institute. Catalogue of An Exhibition of Work by the National Association of Portrait Painters, Tenth Annual Exhibition. (New York Knoedler and Co., 1913) Accessed April 21, 2014. Archive.org, and The Frick Art Reference Library. https://archive.org/details/frick-31072002255067.
[3] Pisano, Ronald G., William Merritt Chase, The Paintings in Pastel, Monotypes, Painted Tiles and Ceramic Plates, Watercolors, and Prints, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 2006. 132.
[4] Pisano, Ronald G., William Merritt Chase, The Paintings in Pastel, Monotypes, Painted Tiles and Ceramic Plates, Watercolors, and Prints, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 2006. 132.
Image Source
http://www.dalnet.lib.mi.us/dia/collections/dma_exhibitions/1916-4.pdf. Accessed April 21, 2014.