Maurice Brazil Prendergast

The artist

Charles Prendergast (by descent from the above in 1924)

Mrs. Charles Prendergast (by descent from the above in 1948)

Kraushaar Galleries, New York

Raymond Chaffetz (acquired from the above in 1949)

Kraushaar Galleries, New York

Collection of Arthur G. Altschul, New York (acquired from the above in 1956)

Acquired as a gift from the above in 1975 by the present owner

Boston, Museum of Fine Arts; Hartford, Connecticut, Wadsworth Atheneum; New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; San Francisco, Palace of the Legion of Honor; Cleveland, Ohio, Cleveland Museum of Art, Maurice Prendergast, 1859-1924, 1960-61, no. 4, p. 135, illustrated

College Park, Maryland, University of Maryland, The Art Gallery; Austin, Texas, University of Texas, University Art Museum; Des Moines, Iowa, Des Moines Art Center; Columbus, Ohio, Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts; Ithaca, New York, Cornell University, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art; New York, Davis and Long Company, Maurice Prendergast: The Art of Impulse and Color, 1976-77, no. 8, p. 87, illustrated

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Maurice B. Prendergast: A Concentration of Works from the Permanent Collection, 1980, pp. 10, 11, 32

Philadelphia, The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; Forth Worth, Texas, Amon Carter Museum; Phoenix, Arizona, Phoenix Art Museum; Washington, D.C., National Museum of American Art, Americans in Brittany and Normandy, 1860-1910, 1982-83, no. 61, p. 176, illustrated

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Williamstown, Massachusetts, Williams College Museum of Art; Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Washington, D.C., Phillips Collection, Maurice Prendergast, 1990-91

San Jose, California, San José Museum of Art, American Art, 1900-1940: A History Reconsidered (part 2), 1995

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Hopper to Mid-Century: Highlights from the Permanent Collection, 2003

Whitney Museum of American Art, The Whitney Museum and its Collection: History, Purpose and Activities, Catalogue of the Collection, New York, 1954, n.p.

Exh. Cat., Chicago, Terra Museum of American Art, Monotypes by Maurice Prendergast in the Terra Museum of American Art, 1984, p. 12

Carol Clark; Nancy Mowll Mathews; Gwendolyn Owens, Maurice Brazil Prendergast, Charles Prendergast: A Catalogue Raisonné, Williamstown, Massachusetts, 1990, no. 6, p. 211, illustrated in color

The first of Maurice Brazil Prendergast’s French works, Dieppe was inspired by James Abbott McNeill Whistler’s coastal compositions. Akin to the iconic Whistlerian beach scenes, the present work “is thinly painted in closely related tones of muted greys; it is also similar to those beach studies in its compositional organization: it is divided into three horizontal bands” (Cecily Langdale, Monotypes by Maurice Prendergast in the Terra Museum of American Art, p. 12). As early as Dieppe is in the artist’s oeuvre, numbered six in a catalogue raisonné documenting his more than two thousand works, it remains a wonderful example of Prendergast’s charming perspective of figures in a landscape.