Series: 1: Ephemera, 1929-1963, undated
Scope and Content Note: The ephemeral materials in this series were not created by Chase but still were found to have historical value. They include articles written about Chase and publications that were donated along with his collection.

Clippings – About or featuring drawings by Joseph Cummings Chase, 1929-1962, undated

The Inauguration of Eugene A. Collegan as Fourth President of Hunter College of the City of New York – in the College Chapel, 1934

The Manuscript – A Guide for Its Preparation, 1941

Miscellaneous, undated

Notes on Color, undated

When the West Came to the East: A Lecture Delivered at the College of Chinese Studies, Peiping, 1935

Series: 2: Exhibits, 1942, undated
Scope and Content Note: The Exhibits series documents an April 1942 exhibit that was put on by Chase in New York City. It includes clippings that are related to the exhibit as well as photographs of the event. The photographs of the exhibit are arranged by approximate size. There is also one folder of photographs of pieces by Chase that are exhibited in unidentified places.

April 1942 Exhibit – Clippings, 1942

April 1942 Exhibit – 3” x 5” Photographs, 1942

April 1942 Exhibit – 3” x 10” Photographs, undated

April 1942 Exhibit – 8” x 7” Photographs,

April 1942 Exhibit – 15” x 10” Photographs, undated

Photographs of Hanging Portraits, 1951-1957

Series: 3: Personal, 1948-1963, undated
Scope and Content Note: These materials are related to the Chase family and Chase’s non-business life. This includes a small collection of chase family photographs, and his personal correspondence. It also includes the guest book for his home, which is signed by many of his visitors, November 18, 1948-July 2, 1963.

Chase Family Photographs, 1948-1963

Christmas Cards – Chase family, undated

Correspondence, 1917

Guest Book from Home, undated

Series: 4: Reproductions of Portraits, 1917, undated
Scope and Content Note: The majority of portrait series includes reproductions of many of the portraits that were either sketched or painted by Chase spanning the entire course of his career. The portraits are arranged alphabetically by the last name of the portraits subject. An alphabetical index of subjects is also included with the portrait prints (see index at end). The portraits are spread throughtout boxes 2–6, 10-11, 15. Oversized portraits are included in box 11 and the portraits in box 15 were more recently added. The series also includes a scrapbook of portraits and portrait lists that were generated by Chase. The portrait lists do not necessarily represent what can be found in the collection of prints.

Libretto of a Winter’s Night, undated

Photographs of Subjects, undated

Portrait Lists, undated

Portrait Scrapbook, undated

Prints

A, undated

A-B, undated

B, undated

C, undated

C, undated

D, undated

D-G, undated

E, undated

F, undated

G, undated

H, undated

I-K, undated

J-K, undated

L, undated

M, undated

M-O, undated

N-P, undated

P, undated

R, 1923-1934, undated

R-S, 1911-1928, undated

S, undated

T-V, 1962

V-W, 1962

W, 1961

Women, unknown, undated

Y-Z, undated

Oversized, children/pets, undated

Oversized, men, 1959

Oversized, miscellaneous, undated

Oversized, military, undated

Oversized, women, undated

Series: 5: Publications, 1911-1961, undated
Scope and Content Note: The publication series includes books/articles, or related materials, in varying stages of completion, that were published by Chase during his career as an artist and as Dean of the Art program at Hunter College. Included in the materials are items relating to Adventures In Art; Approach To Art; Egyptian Sculpture; Face Value: an autobiography of the portrait painter; Modern Art; My Friends Look Better Than Ever, originally titled Deep In Our Hearts; New Era of Color Has Begun; Personal History of Art; and Soldiers All: Portraits and Sketches of the Men of the A. E. F., published by George H. Dorn Co., 1920. The materials are arranged alphabetically by the publication that they relate to.

Adventures in Art (Draft), undated

An Approach to Art

Chapter 1 (Draft), 1920-1955

Chapter 2 (Draft), undated

Chapter 5 (Draft), undated

Chapter 9 (Draft), 1910-1921, undated

Chapter 26 (Draft), undated

Chapter 28 (Draft), 1919-1954

Egyptian Sculpture (Draft), undated

Foreword and Table of Contents (Draft), 1950

Modern Art (Draft), undated

Personal History of Art (Draft), undated

Notes for Book, undated

Clippings – Articles by Chase, undated

Face Value

Final Draft, 1899-1901

Printed Draft with Corrections, undated

Text Only Draft, undated

Material Left Out, undated, undated

Prints of Sketches Used, undated, undated

My Friends Look Better Than Ever

Draft, undated

Draft – Used and Unused, undated

Order Form, 1938-1959

The New Era of Color Has Begun, 1961, undated

Soldier’s All, 1920

Series: 6: Scrapbooks, 1891-1955, undated
Scope and Content Note: The Scrapbook series consists of four scrapbooks of varying contents that were included with the Chase collection. They include illustrations that Chase did for magazines and newspapers, portraits, and various clippings about and written by Chase. For preservation purposes the scrapbooks were unbound and the pages were interlaced with acid free paper between each page.

Number 1, Newspaper days, 1891-1929

Number 2, World War I, World War II, Korea, 1920-1955

Number 3, Advertisements, undated

Series: 7: Sketches and Illustrations, 1899-1954, undated
Scope and Content Note: The Sketches and Illustrations series includes copies of many of the drawings that Chase did both as a contracted artist, such as advertisements, and for more personal reasons such as his drawings for his yearly Christmas Cards.

Advertisements, 1910-1921, undated

Christmas Cards, 1919-1954

Christmas Cards, undated

Christmas Cards – Charles Coburn, 1950

Christmas images, undated

House That Jack Built, undated

Illustrations

Miscellaneous people, undated

Posters, undated

Posters, Lightnin, undated

Scrapbooks, 1899-1901

Silhouettes, undated

"Mrs. Torok", undated

Rough Sketch – Unidentified Subjects, undated

Sketches

Military, undated

Miscellaneous, undated

Various, undated

Series: 8: Speeches, 1938-1961, undated
Scope and Content Note: The Speeches series include transcripts for talks that Chase gave on the subject of art throughout his career as Dean of Hunter College and as an active artist. The speeches include radio talks he gave as well as addresses to assembled groups. The speech transcripts are arranged by the year the talk was given.

Color Lecture Series, undated

Speeches and Talks, 1938-1959

Speeches and Talks, 1961

Speeches and Talks, undated