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Maurice Prendergast: By the Sea

Museum of Art Museum of Art

Exhibition: Maurice Prendergast: By the Sea

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Halford Gallery, Focus Gallery, Center Gallery, Bernard and Barbro Osher Gallery
This is the first exhibition to present the seaside work of the Post-Impressionist painter Maurice Prendergast (1858-1924), whose sophisticated and sensitive renderings of beaches, coves, and bathers were often inspired by his visits to Maine. The exhibition brings together works with identifiable locations in Maine and elsewhere, with paintings whose "place" is not defined by geography but by their context in the grand traditions of western art.

Selected Works

Maurice Brazil Prendergast, American, 1858-1924. Along the Shore, ca. 1914-1915. oil on canvas. Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio: Gift of Ferdinand Howald.
Maurice Brazil Prendergast, American, 1858-1924. South Boston Pier, 1896. watercolor and graphite. Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts, Purchased with the Charles B. Hoyt Fund
Maurice Brazil Prendergast, American, 1858-1924, St. Malo, No. 2, ca. 1907, watercolor and graphite on paper. Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio: Gift of Ferdinand Howald
Maurice Brazil Prendergast, American, 1858-1924, The Balloon, ca., 1901, watercolor on paper, Private Collection

About

This is the first exhibition to present the seaside work of the Post-Impressionist painter Maurice Prendergast (1858-1924), whose sophisticated and sensitive renderings of beaches, coves, and bathers were often inspired by his visits to Maine. The exhibition brings together works with identifiable locations in Maine and elsewhere, with paintings whose "place" is not defined by geography but by their context in the grand traditions of western art.

Without our generous donors, this exhibition would not be possible. We are deeply appreciative to major sponsors the Devonwood Foundation, The Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. Horowitz Foundation for the Arts, Eric ’85 and Svetlana Silverman, and the Elizabeth B. G. Hamlin Fund at ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ. Generous additional support for the exhibition has been provided by halley k harrisburg ‘90 and Michael Rosenfeld; The Robert Lehman Foundation; Carolyn Logan P’12; the Maine Arts Commission, an independent state agency supported by the National Endowment for the Arts; the Morton-Kelly Charitable Trust; Thomas A. McKinley ’06; Mary G. O'Connell ’76 and Peter J. Grua ’76; and an anonymous donor; we are also grateful to Furthermore: a program of the J. M. Kaplan Fund for support of the exhibition catalogue.

Autumn Programs

Tuesday, September 24, 2013 | 4:30 PM | Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center