Frank Swift Chase
(1886 - 1958)
Frank Swift Chase was active/lived in Missouri, California. Frank Chase is known for landscape, some marine.
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Painter. Born in St Louis, MO on March 12, 1886. Chase studied at the ASL in NYC in 1909. He was based in New York and Nantucket, MA except during 1935-36 when he was in southern California where he painted the desert near Palm Springs. He died in Woodstock, NY in July 1958. Exh: Salmagundi Club, 1921; NAD, 1921; AIC, 1922; PAFA, 1923; San Diego FA Gallery, 1928. In: Charleston (SC) Museum; Mechanics Inst.
(Rochester, NY). 1] WWAA 1936-56; NY Times, 7-28-1958 (obit).
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