Object Details
Artist
Maurice Prendergast, American, b. St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada, 1858–1924
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.
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, Waltham, Massachusetts. "Three Collections," 1-17 June 1955, no. 34.
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
Date
(c. 1918-1921)
Accession Number
66.4130
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
30 5/8 x 43 1/8 in. (77.9 x 109.3 cm)
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School
American Impressionism
Data Source
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Link to Original Record
Record ID
hmsg_66.4130