Maurice Prendergast, American, b. St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada, 1858–1924 Search this
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
30 5/8 X 43 1/8 IN. (77.9 X 109.3 CM.)
Type:
Painting
Date:
(c. 1918-1921)
Provenance:
provenance in Catalogue Raisonne:
The artist
to Charles Prendergast, 1924*
to (Kraushaar), 1930
to Joseph Hirshhorn, 1954
to present collection, 1966
*provenance in old Hirshhorn files:
The artist
Charles Prendergast, Westport, Connecticut, 1924-48
Mrs. Charles (Eugenie) Prendergast, Westport, Connecticut, 1948-1954
Kraushaar Galleries, New York, 1954
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York, 1954-17 May 1966
Gift of the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Foundation, 1966
Exhibition History:
KRAUSHAAR ART GALLERIES, New York. "An Important Collection of Paintings and Bronzes by Modern Masters of American and European Art," 3-31 December 1921, no. 35.
ALBRIGHT ART GALLERY, The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, NY. "Eighteenth Annual Exhibition of Selected Paintings and Small Bronzes by American Artists," 20 April-30 June 1924, no. 171, p. 62.
HARVARD SOCIETY FOR CONTEMPORARY ART, Cambridge, MA. "Maurice Prendergast," April-9 May 1929, no.8.
KRAUSHAAR ART GALLERIES, New York, "Maurice Prendergast: Paintings," 6-29 April 1933, no. 5.
WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, New York. "Maurice B. Prendergast Memorial Exhibition," 20 February-22 March 1934, no.123.
ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO. "A Century of Progress Exhibition," 1 June-11 November 1934, no. 459.
PHILADELPHIA ART ALLIANCE. "Maurice Prendergast," December 1936-January 1937.
ADDISON GALLERY OF AMERICAN ART, Andover, Massachusetts. "The Prendergasts," 24 September-6 November 1938, no. 80.
BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART, Maryland. "Modern Painting Isms and How They Grew," 12 January-11 February 1940, cat.
ART GALLERY OF TORONTO. "Benefit Survey of Four Centuries," November-December 1940.
RENAISSANCE SOCIETY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO. "Paintings by Maurice Prendergast with Watercolors by Charles Demuth and Carl Kahler," 29 January-28 February 1946, no.2.
BROOKLYN MUSEUM, New York. "The Coast and the Sea," 19 November 1948-16 January 1949, no. 93.
DES MOINES ART CENTER, Iowa. "The Turn of the Century," September-November 1949, p. 6.
TWEED GALLERY, University of Minnesota, Duluth. "Collector's Choice," 1-30 April 1956.
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, Boston. "Maurice Prendergast 1859-1924," 26 October-4 December 1960, no. 24, ill. P 137. TOUR: WADSWORTH ATHENEUM, Hartford, 29 December 1960-5 February 1961; WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, New York, 29 February-2 April 1961; CALIFORNIA PALACE OF THE LEGION OF HONOR, San Francisco, 22 April-3 June 1961; CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART, 20 June-30 July 1961.
AMERICAN FEDERATION OF ARTS, New York (organizer). "Paintings from the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Foundation Collection: A View of the Protean Century." TOUR: M. KNOEDLER & CO., New York, 31 October-24 November 1962; CURRIER GALLERY OF ART, Manchester, New Hampshire, 16 December-12 January 1963; CARNEGIE INSTITUTE, Pittsburgh, 30 January-26 February; EVANSVILLE MUSEUM OF ARTS AND SCIENCE, Indiana, 16 March-12 April; MUNSON-WILLIAMS-PROCTOR INSTITUTE, Utica, New York, 30 April-27 May; J.B. SPEED ART MUSEUM, Louisville, Kentucky, 13 June-10 July; THE MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS, 30 July-25 August; SAETTLE ART MUSEUM, 11 September-8 October; SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF ART, 26 October-23 November; COLORADO SPRINGS FINE ARTS CENTER, Colorado, 11 December-7 January 1964; DALLAS MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, 26 January-23 February; OKLAHOMA ART CENTER, Oklahoma City, 12 March-8 April; BROOKS MEMORIAL ART GALLERY, Memphis, 25 April-23 May; ATLANTA ART ASSOCIATION, Georgia, 10 June-7 July; SAGINAW ART MUSEUM, Michigan, 25 July-22 August; MONTREAL MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, 8 September-6 October; ALLENTOWN ART MUSEUM, Pennsylvania, 24 October-21 November; MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, Boston, 9 December-10 January 1965; BROOKLYN MUSEUM, New York, 8 February-5 April.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Inaugural Exhibition," 4 October 1974-15 September 1975.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC. "'The Eight' and the Independent Tradition in American Art," 13 January-15 March 1983. TOUR: TERRA MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, Evanston, Illinois, 1 April-8 May, no. 27 (exhibition retitled "Early Rebels in American Art (The Eight)").
WILLIAMS COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART, Williamstown, Ma. "Maurice Prendergast," cat. no. 107, p.152, 189. TOUR: WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, New York, 31 May-2 September 1990; WILLIAMS COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART, Williamstown, MA, 6 October-16 December; LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART, Los Angeles, CA, 21 February-22 April 1991; Phillips Collection, Washington, DC, 18 May-25 August.
NASSAU COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART, Roslyn Harbor, NY. "Town and Country: in pursuit of life's pleasures," 12 May-11 August 1996.
ADELSON GALLERIES, New York. "Maurice Prendergast: Paintings of America," 15 May - 20 June 2003.
Published References:
*from the Catalogue Raisonne:
UNSIGNED. "The Brothers Prendergast in Retrospective." Art Digest 13 (1 OCtober 1938), p 6.
UNSIGNED. "Artist in Isolation." MD: Medical Newmagazine 23 ( January 1979), 98-104.
*from the old Hirshhorn files:
UNSIGNED. "Paintings by Mary Cassatt, Davis, Hassam, Henri, and Other Americans." Art Digest (1 June 1934), p. 20.
RHYS, HEDLEY HOWELL. Maurice Prendergast, 1859-1924. (Boston Museum of Fine Arts; Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1960), cat. no. 24, ill.
ARNASON, H.H. Paintings from the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Collection: A View of the Protean Century (New York: American Federation of Arts, 1962) cat. no. 57, ill, p. 26.
LERNER, ABRAM, ED. The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. (New York: Abrams, 1974), p. 736, fig. 241.
LERNER, ABRAM. Selected Paintings and Sculptures from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (New York: Abrams, 1974), no. 5.
PARKS, EDWARDS. Treasures of the Smithsonian (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Books, 1983) ill.
CLARK, CAROL, et al. Maurice Brazil Prendergast, Charles Prendergast: A Catalogue Raisonne (Williamstown, MA: Williams College Museum of Art; Munich, Germany: Prestel, 1990): cat. no. 459, p.315.
MATHEWS, NANCY MOWLL. Maurice Prendergast (Munich, Germany: Prestel, 1990), fig. 107, p. 152, 189.
SCHWARTZ, CONSTANCE, et al. Town and country: in pursuits of life's pleasures: [exhibition] May 12-August 11, 1996, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, New York/curated by Constance Shwartz and Franklin Perrell (Roslyn Harbor, NY: Nassau County Museum of Art, 1996). [located at American Art Portrait Gallery N6447. T696 1996]
SONNENSTRAHL, DEBORAH M. Deaf artists in America: colonial to contemporary (San Diego, CA: Dawn Sign Press, 2002). [Waiting for at American Art Portrait Gallery Library-no call #]
Credit Line:
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Foundation, 1966
