Artist: Maurice Prendergast (1859 - 1924)
Nationality: Canadian-American
Movement: The Eight
Media: Painting, Printmaking
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Biography:
Born in Canada, Maurice Prendergast moved to Boston, but spent most of his time traveling or painting overseas. He was a member of The Eight, but initially distanced himself from the group. In 1914, he moved to New York and assisted The Eight’s mission of getting American art away from academic tradition. Prendergast typically painted people involved in leisurely activities and was influenced by Post-Impressionism. At the Armory Show in 1913, he displayed seven works that showed his stylistic maturity. Although he predominantly worked in watercolors, he began using oils in his later career. He also produced a large number of mono-types between 1891 and 1902.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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Maurice Brazil Prendergast, After the Review, 1895
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Maurice Brazil Prendergast, American (born in Canada), 1858-1924 Portrait of Maurice Prendergast"s Father about 1888
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Maurice Brazil Prendergast, Rocky Coast Scene, 1912 - 1913
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Maurice Brazil Prendergast, In the Park, 1893 - 1894
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Maurice Brazil Prendergast, The Holiday, 1907 - 1909
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Maurice Brazil Prendergast, Promenade at Nantasket, 1902
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Maurice Brazil Prendergast, Boat Landing at Dinard (also called Quay at Dinard or Processional), circa 1909
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Artist: Maurice Prendergast Title: Holidays Date: 20th century Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: H.34 x
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Maurice Brazil Prendergast, American (born in Canada), 1858-1924 Still Life about 1910-13 Oil on canvas
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Maurice Brazil Prendergast, American (born in Canada), 1858-1924 Woman in Brown Coat about 1910-13 Oil
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Maurice Brazil Prendergast, American (born in Canada), 1858-1924 Four Girls in Meadow about 1913-20 Watercolor,
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Maurice Brazil Prendergast, American (born in Canada), 1858-1924 Sketchbook ("The Boston Water-Color Sketchbook") 1897-98 Watercolor
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Maurice Brazil Prendergast, American (born in Canada), 1858-1924 Race Track about 1895-97 Oil and graphite
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Maurice Brazil Prendergast, American (born in Canada), 1858-1924 Sunlight on the Piazzetta 1898-99 Watercolor over
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Maurice Brazil Prendergast, American (born in Canada), 1858-1924 Two Girls in a New England Woodland
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Maurice Brazil Prendergast, American (born in Canada), 1858-1924 The End Men about 1914 Watercolor over
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Maurice Brazil Prendergast, American (born in Canada), 1858-1924 Eight Bathers about 1918-23 Oil on canvas
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Large Boston Public Garden Sketchbook: The Huntington Avenue Streetcar, 1895-1897 Maurice Brazil Prendergast (American [born
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Maurice Brazil Prendergast, American (born in Canada), 1858-1924 Long Beach 1920-23 Watercolor, graphite and ink
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Maurice Brazil Prendergast, American (born in Canada), 1858-1924 Cape Ann (recto) about 1910-1912 Watercolor and
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Maurice Brazil Prendergast, American (born in Canada), 1858-1924 The Rider about 1913-15 Pencil, watercolor and
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Maurice Brazil Prendergast, American (born in Canada), 1858-1924 Santa Maria Formosa, Venice 1912 Watercolor and
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Maurice Prendergast - On the Beach, No. 3 1915 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art American
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Maurice Prendergast - Promenade 1914-15 oil on canvas The Detroit Institute of Art American
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Maurice Prendergast - A Dark Day c. 1910 oil on canvas Hirshhorn Museum American
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Maurice Prendergast - St. Malo c. 1907 oil on wood Cleveland Museum of Art American
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Maurice Prendergast - Gloucester 1916 watercolor on paper The Art Gallery University of Maryland
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Maurice Prendergast - The Idlers 1916-1918 oil on canvas The Maier Museum of Art American
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Maurice Prendergast - Holidays c. 1920 oil on canvas Minneapolis Institute of Arts American
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Maurice Prendergast - St. Malo c. 1916-1919 watercolor on paper The Maier Museum of Art American
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Maurice Prendergast - Four Dancers c. 1912-15 watercolor and penci Williams College Museum of Art American
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Léon Augustin Lhermitte, French, 1844-1925 Wheatfield (Noonday Rest) Oil on canvas 53.3 x 77.5 cm
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Maurice Prendergast - Park by the Sea 1922 watercolor and graph Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester American
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Maurice Prendergast - Bathers 1919-1920 watercolor, pencil Arkansas Arts Center American
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Maurice Brazil Prendergast, American (born in Canada), 1858-1924 West Church, Boston 1900-01 Watercolor over graphite
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Maurice Brazil Prendergast, American (born in Canada), 1858-1924 Handkerchief Point 1896-97 Watercolor over graphite 50.48
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Maurice Brazil Prendergast, American (born in Canada), 1858-1924 Carnival, Franklin Park, Boston 1897 Watercolor over
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Maurice Prendergast - Rialto, Venice 10/01/1909 watercolor over penc Williams College Museum of Art American
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Maurice Prendergast - Cove, Maine c. 1907-1910 oil on canvas Los Angeles County Museum of Art American
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Maurice Prendergast - Woodland Bathers 1913-15 oil on canvas mounte Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester American

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (21)
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Irish Museum of Modern Art: Kathy Prendergast : The End and the Beginning
This exhibition examines Prendergast's practice over an eight year period from 1992-1999, taking 'The City Drawings' as its starting point. This ongoing drawing project transcribes in pencil the anato...
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Parks and Promenades: Maurice Prendergast
The exhibition is made possible by Robert Lehman Foundation, Inc. Prendergast's highly finished Boston Public Garden watercolors glimpse those intimate details of daily life — mother...
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Summer Selections: American Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
The origins of the Metropolitan's collection of American works on paper can be traced to the 1880s—the decade after the Museum was founded. Now numbering more than 1,500 ...
FORT WORTH INTERNATIONAL CENTER: Photographs by group f. 8
The artists included are Chris Jones, Jenny Garcia, Loli Kantor, Christopher Blay, Nick Prendergast, Tanya Habjouqa and Julie Almendral....
Minneapolis Institute of Arts: American Impressionism: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum
In Boston, Edmund Tarbell, Frank Benson, Robert Reid and Frederick Carl Frieseke developed a genteel version of Impressionism related to the culture of that city. Artists such as Daniel Garber and Maurice Prendergast carried Impress...
Frick Collection: Master Drawings from the Smith College Museum of Art
Among the other artists represented in the exhibition are Northern European masters Matthias Grünewald, Jan van Goyen, Adoph von Menzel, Piet Mondrian, and Paul Klee. Italian artists include Fra Bartolommeo, Rosso Fiorentino, Federico Barocci, Gi...
Yorkshire Sculpture Park / Longside Gallery: Size Matters: Exploring Scale in the Arts Council Collection
Artists represented in the exhibition: Eric Bainbridge, Jordan Baseman, Sara Bradbury, Martin Creed, Alan Currall, Rose Finn-Kelcey, Leo Fitzmaurice, Laura Ford, Mark Francis, Pamela Golden, Andrew Grassie, Steve Johnson, Michael Landy, Abigail L...
Corcoran Gallery of Art: Encouraging American Genius: Master Paintings from the Corcoran Gallery
A number of outstanding individual works complete the selection, including well-known examples by early masters like John Singleton Copley and Joshua Johnson and striking modernist compositions by Maurice Prendergast, Thomas Hart Benton and Aar...
Wexford Art Centre: Down to Earth: Work from the IMMA Collection
The aim of Art Alongside is to provide children and adults of Co Wexford access to and a dynamic and relevant experience of the visual arts, while simultaneously establishing a formal structure through which artists can work professionally in an e...
Irish Museum of Modern Art: Exhibition Selected by Young Curators at the Irish Museum of Modern Art
The Young Curators are a group of eight teenagers who have come together using the Museums Collection as their primary resource. Drawn from schools in Waterford, Meath and Dublin, the Young Curators developed out of Open ...
Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University: The Changing Garden: Four Centuries of European and American Art
The Changing Garden presents nearly 200 works—prints, drawings, paintings, and photographs—by more than 100 artists. The exhibition includes great names from art history, such as Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Jean-Honoré Fr...
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts: Pride in Place: Landscapes by the Eight in Southern Collections
Early in the twentieth century, Macbeth Gallery in New York City was one of the few commercial venues for the exhibition of contemporary American art. Most opportunities for public access to artists' works were obtained through the exhibitio...
Crawford Municipal Art Gallery: 0044 Contemporary Irish Artists in Britain
The artists are: Kathy Prendergast, Daphne Wright, Paul Seawright, Andre Stitt, Cecily Brennan, John Carson, Anne Carlisle, Maud Cotter, Liadin Cooke, John Gibbons, Frances Hegarty, Siobhan Hapaska, Andrew Kearney, Mo Whit...
University Art Museum, CSU Long Beach: By Hand: Pattern, Precision, and Repetition in Contemporary Drawing
In contrast to a recent surge of art made with the aid of technology, the drawings included in By Hand were all created with simple, hand-held tools. This exhibition brings together work that resists the ever-present temptation to generate images ...
Neuberger Museum of Art: Placing Avery
Milton Avery had a strong, “Connecticut Yankee” work ethic. He painted for 50 years, some times spending all day for weeks at a time at his easel, and sometimes creating as many as five or six paintings or studies in one day.  He’s been quoted as...
University of Virginia Art Museum: Re-Imagining Ireland: Irish Art Today
Jointly planned with the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities in conjunction with its major international conference," Re-Imagining Ireland" (May 7-10; re-imagining-ireland.org), the exhibition wil...
Irish Museum of Modern Art: Dorothy Cross: Sculpture, Installation, Performance, Photography and Film
In his foreword to the catalogue IMMA Director, Enrique Juncosa, the curator of the exhibition, describes Cross’s art as “a poetic amalgamation of found and constructed objects; sometimes humorous, sometimes disturbing, always intellectually stimu...
Millennium Monument Museum: Views from an Island: Works from Irish Contemporary Art from the Collection of the Irish Museum of Modern Art
Since the collection is a young one, and not confined to Irish art alone, it is of course important to say that the Collection cannot and would not claim to be representative of all of the best developments in recent Irish art. Instead the Collect...
National Gallery of Art: MASTERWORKS HONORS PAUL MELLON'S LEGACY OF GIFTS TO THE NATION; INCLUDES 14 RARE DEGAS WAXES
This exhibition honors Paul Mellon, whose generosity and service to the nation are unsurpassed, said Earl A. Powell III, director, National Gallery of Art. The full breadth of Mr. Mellons gifts ...
Terra Museum of American Art: The People Work: American Perspectives 1840-1940
"By exploring diverse representations from the Terra Foundation for the Arts collection and several key works on loan, The People Work examines a variety of human activities investigating labor. The exhibition questions common assumptions and atti...
Phillips Collection: Surrealism and Modernism from the Collection of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
Notably, the Atheneum was the first museum in the world to purchase a painting by Salvador Dalí (1931) and the first American museum to acquire works by surrealist Joan Miró (1934), the Paris-born painter known as Balthus (1938), and American surr...

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