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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2019.147
People
Maurice Brazil Prendergast, American (St. Johns, Newfoundland, Canada 1858 - 1924 New York, NY)
Title
Telegraph Hill, Nahant
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1896-1897
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/362179

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor and graphite on cream wove paper
Dimensions
34.4 × 51.9 cm (13 9/16 × 20 7/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: lower left, black ink: Prendergast
  • inscription: verso, center, graphite: Telegraph [in red pencil:] Hill / Nahant

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
The artist, gift; to Charles Prendergast, 1924, gift; to Mrs. Charles Prendergast, 1948; to [Kraushaar Galleries, New York], sold; to Helen Pratt Philbin, 1948, bequest; to her son Richard Emmet and his wife, Alan Emmet, gift; to Harvard Art Museums

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Alan Emmet '50 in memory of Richard S. Emmet '46, LL.B '51, Ed.M. '62
Accession Year
2019
Object Number
2019.147
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Exhibition of Paintings and Watercolors by Maurice Prendergast, checklist, Kraushaar Galleries (New York, 1930), no. 8 (checklist)
  • Catalogue of an Exhibition of Paintings by Maurice Prendergast, exh. cat., Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto, 1931), no. 28 (checklist)
  • [Untitled article], Christian Science Monitor (April 22, 1949), p. 8, repr. p. 8
  • Hedley Howell Rhys, "Maurice Prendergast: The Sources and Development of His Style" (1953), Unpublished, p. 177
  • Carol Clark and Nancy Mowll Mathews, Maurice Brazil Prendergast: A Catalogue Raisonné, Williams College Museum of Art (Williamstown, MA, 1990), no. 617, repr.

Exhibition History

  • Exhibition of Paintings and Watercolors by Maurice Prendergast, Kraushaar Galleries, 10/30/1930 - 11/17/1930
  • Exhibition of Paintings by Maurice Prendergast, Art Gallery of Ontario, 10/01/1931 - 10/31/1931

Verification Level

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