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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1955.108
People
Maurice Brazil Prendergast, American (St. Johns, Newfoundland, Canada 1858 - 1924 New York, NY)
Title
Landscape
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1899
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/308579

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor and graphite on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
36.3 × 58.9 cm (14 5/16 × 23 3/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: black ink, l.r.: Pr[endergast]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Giovanni Castano, Boston, MA, Sold to Fogg Art Museum.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Dr. Fritz B. Talbot, through the Gifts for Special Uses Fund
Accession Year
1955
Object Number
1955.108
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. 760, repr.
  • Joachim Homann, Margaret Morgan Grasselli, and Miriam Stewart, ed., American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2023), repr. as pl. 13 on p. 82

Exhibition History

  • Unidentified Exhibition, Lincoln Laboratory, 1968, Lincoln Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lexington, 07/01/1968 - 09/01/1968
  • Watercolors from the Fogg: An Historical Collection, St. Paul's School, Concord, 10/12/1971 - 11/20/1971
  • Unidentified Exhibition, Lincoln Laboratory, 1974, Lincoln Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lexington, 12/01/1974 - 12/31/1974
  • The Harvard Society for Contemporary Art, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/29/1992 - 03/07/1993
  • American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/20/2023 - 08/13/2023

Verification Level

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