Provenance:

The artist

To her adopted daughter, private collection, Carmel, California

Gifted to private collection, Aiken, South Carolina, 1982

With Vose Galleries, Boston, inventory no. 35105, March 2008

To private collection, Lincoln, Massachusetts, July 2008 to present
 

Inscription:

1). (in pencil on top stretcher, at right) Chase

2). (in pencil on top stretcher, at left) 93
 

Literature:

1). (handwritten old label on stretcher) “May” / Marion Monks Chase / 
                    Price $600. $800

2). (typed old label on stretcher) Mrs. Marion Monks Chase / 
                    Manchester / Massachusetts. Value $800

3). (old label on stretcher) FOGG / ART MUSEUM / LOAN / 
                    (handwritten) 618.1930

4). (old label on frame) Loan / to SANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF 
                    ART / LENDER: Mrs. Percy Chase / TITLE: “May” / 
                    ARTIST Marion Monks Chase.
 

Exhibitions:

1). Exhibition by M. M. Chase, Frank K. M. Rehn Galleries, New 
                    York, September 30 – October 12, 1929, No. 7, May

  2). (likely) New England Society of Contemporary Art Annual 
                    Exhibition, Boston, Massachusetts, 1932

3). (likely) Watercolors and Oils by The Five Bostonians, Vose
                    Galleries, Boston, March 31 – April 12, 1930, no. 4, May