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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2017.81
People
Maurice Brazil Prendergast, American (St. Johns, Newfoundland, Canada 1858 - 1924 New York, NY)
Title
Summer in Venice
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1898-1899
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/148191

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Transparent and opaque watercolor and graphite on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
49.5 × 35.9 cm (19 1/2 × 14 1/8 in.)
frame: 71.8 × 56.4 × 2.2 cm (28 1/4 × 22 3/16 × 7/8 in.)
mat: 66.7 × 50.8 cm (26 1/4 × 20 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: graphite, l.l.: Prendergast
  • inscription: taped to backing, black ink, handwritten: "Summer in Venice" / Venetian Ladies / returning from the / Lido - late / in the afternoon / and embarking / in their gondolas / for their homes. / Maurice B. Prendergast / 1913
  • inscription: l.l., graphite, in artist's hand: The

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Possibly purchased from the artist by Private Collector, by descent; to Private Collector, partial gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2017

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Tunie Hamlen Howe in memory of John Sherman Hamlen
Accession Year
2017
Object Number
2017.81
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Carol Clark and Nancy Mowll Mathews, Maurice Brazil Prendergast: A Catalogue Raisonné, Williams College Museum of Art (Williamstown, MA, 1990), no. 710, repr. in b/w
  • Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., American Watercolors and Pastels 1875-1950 at the Fogg Art Museum, brochure, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2006), checklist, repr. (n.p.)
  • Joachim Homann, Margaret Morgan Grasselli, and Miriam Stewart, ed., American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2023), pp. 17, 83, repr. as pl. 14 on p. 83

Exhibition History

Verification Level

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