2019.147: Telegraph Hill, Nahant
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2019.147
- People
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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
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- 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
- Permissions
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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- Hedley Howell Rhys, "Maurice Prendergast: The Sources and Development of His Style" (1953), Unpublished, p. 177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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