SIDNEY MARSH CHASE (1877-1957)
Sidney Marsh Chase, painter,
illustrator, and writer was born in Haverhill, MA on June 19, 1877 and
died there on June 12, 1957. Active as a painter and illustrator
from 1919 through the 1940’s, he is best known for pieces depicting
landscapes, fishermen, coastal scenes, bathers, pirates, boats,
and beaches. In 1929, his address was 4 Mount Vernon Street in
Haverhill, MA.
Chase received his primary education in the Haverhill school system and then studied at Harvard. Upon graduation, he attended Eric Pape School of Art in Boston. At Pape Chase met and became friendly with Henry Jarvis Peck, Clifford Warren Ashley, and Newell Convers Wyeth . He was a pupil of Edmund Charles Tarbell, Howard Pyle, and Charles Herbert Woodbur, and for the summer of 1901 with George Loftus Noyes in Annisquam, MA.
Chase Illustrated for “Saturday Evening Post”, “Collier’s”, “Harpers Monthly”, and “Scribner’s”. Some of these magazines published stories written and illustrated by Chase. One such yarn is “AYankee Privateer”, with several of Chase’s oil-on-canvas illustrations and was published in Scribner’s Magazine, Vol. LIII, No. 5, May,1913.
Chase was a member of the Salmagundi Club in New York City; the American Watercolor Society in New York City; and the North Shore Artists Association in Gloucester, MA. Chase’s work is in the collections of the Haverhill Public Library in Haverhill, MA; the Wilmington Society of Fine Art in Wilmington, DE; and the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, ME.
Chase received his primary education in the Haverhill school system and then studied at Harvard. Upon graduation, he attended Eric Pape School of Art in Boston. At Pape Chase met and became friendly with Henry Jarvis Peck, Clifford Warren Ashley, and Newell Convers Wyeth . He was a pupil of Edmund Charles Tarbell, Howard Pyle, and Charles Herbert Woodbur, and for the summer of 1901 with George Loftus Noyes in Annisquam, MA.
Chase Illustrated for “Saturday Evening Post”, “Collier’s”, “Harpers Monthly”, and “Scribner’s”. Some of these magazines published stories written and illustrated by Chase. One such yarn is “AYankee Privateer”, with several of Chase’s oil-on-canvas illustrations and was published in Scribner’s Magazine, Vol. LIII, No. 5, May,1913.
Chase was a member of the Salmagundi Club in New York City; the American Watercolor Society in New York City; and the North Shore Artists Association in Gloucester, MA. Chase’s work is in the collections of the Haverhill Public Library in Haverhill, MA; the Wilmington Society of Fine Art in Wilmington, DE; and the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, ME.
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