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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1986.471
People
Maurice Brazil Prendergast, American (St. Johns, Newfoundland, Canada 1858 - 1924 New York, NY)
Title
Birches
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1910-1913
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/309363

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Transparent and opaque watercolor, pastel, and graphite on heavy off-white wove paper
Dimensions
38.9 x 47.3 cm (15 5/16 x 18 5/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: gray ink, l.l.: Prendergast
  • inscription: backing board, blue chalk: no. 10 substitute for Jongville
  • inscription: backing board, black chalk: $600
  • gallery label: removed from old backing, now in curatorial file, paper, printed and typed
  • exhibition label: removed from old backing, now in curatorial file, paper, printed, typed and handwritten: [printed:] receipt no. [typewritten in red:] 71.64 [handwritten in blue ink:] 138.65
  • exhibition label: removed from old backing, now in curatorial file, paper, printed and typed: S. E. 2985
  • exhibition label: removed from old backing, now in curatorial file, paper, printed and typed: no. 52
  • watermark: J WHATM[AN]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Kraushaar Galleries, New York] sold; to Mr. and Mrs. McAndrews, 1956, gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1986

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Betty Bartlett McAndrew
Accession Year
1986
Object Number
1986.471
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Works from Private Collections, exh. cat., Boston University Art Galleries (Boston, MA, 1960), n.p., cat. 74
  • Carol Clark and Nancy Mowll Mathews, Maurice Brazil Prendergast: A Catalogue Raisonné, Williams College Museum of Art (Williamstown, MA, 1990), no. 1096, 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. 21 on p. 90

Exhibition History

  • Maurice Prendergast Memorial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 02/21/1934 - 03/22/1934
  • Four Boston Masters, Jewett Arts Center, Wellesley, 04/10/1959 - 05/11/1959; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 05/19/1959 - 06/26/1959
  • Works from Private Collections, Boston University Art Galleries, Boston, 04/23/1960 - 05/14/1960

Verification Level

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