Chase, Frank Swift

(1886-1958)

A founder of the Woodstock Artists Association and the Long Boat Key Art Center in Sarasota, Chase studied at the Art Students League in 1909.

Long considered the Dean of the early Nantucket artists colony, he taught painting classes for more than thirty years on island, beginning in the summer of 1920.

He was based in Woodstock, New York and Nantucket, starting on India Street but for a time living as a tenant of his good friend Tony Sarg at North Liberty Street. He moved his base camp often; for instance, to the Linden Cottage in Monomoy for the summer of 1927. He also had a studio on Old North Wharf. 

He joined the AAN in 1948. In 1953 the AAN hosted a special exhibit of thirty of his canvases. He stopped working on island at about that time.