[1] Born in St. Louis, Chase had moved to Washington, D.C. by 1890, and would spend the majority of her life in that town.
[2] She studied art under Edmund C. Messer, Bertha E. Perrie, William Henry Holmes, Henry B. Snell, William Lester Stevens, and George Pearse Ennis, and attended classes at the Chester Springs Summer School.
Chase received an honorable mention for her work at the Women's National Exhibition in St. Louis, and in 1917 she was awarded a medal from the Washington Water Color Club, on whose board she served and whose president she once was.
[2] She was buried at Arlington National Cemetery next to her husband, Volney Ogle Chase, with whom she had had two children; the grave marker gives her date of birth as 1864.
[4] Chase produced mainly watercolors during her career, many of them depicting scenes from around Washington, D.C.[3] She also worked in gouache.