- 46
Maurice B. Prendergast 1858-1924
bidding is closed
Description
- Maurice Brazil Prendergast
- Siena
- signed Prendergast, l.r.
- watercolor and pencil on paper
- 12 1/2 by 20 3/8 in.
- (31.7 by 52.4 cm)
- Executed circa 1898-99.
Provenance
The artist
Charles Prendergast (his brother), 1924
Mrs. Charles Prendergast (his wife), Westport, Connecticut, 1948
Kraushaar Galleries, New York
Lawrence A. Fleischman, Detroit, Michigan, 1952
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York
Acquired from the above, 1962
Charles Prendergast (his brother), 1924
Mrs. Charles Prendergast (his wife), Westport, Connecticut, 1948
Kraushaar Galleries, New York
Lawrence A. Fleischman, Detroit, Michigan, 1952
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York
Acquired from the above, 1962
Exhibited
(possibly) New York, Kraushaar Galleries, Maurice Prendergast: Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings, Water Colors and Monotypes, January 1950
Ann Arbor, Michigan, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence A. Fleischman Collection of American Paintings, November-December 1953, no. 28, p. 11, illustrated
Washington, D.C., United States Information Service; Detroit, Michigan, The Detroit Institute of Arts (and travelling), Collection in Progress: Selections from the Lawrence and Barbara Fleischman Collection of American Art, 1955, no. 28, p. 24, illustrated p. 25
Caracas, Venezuela, Museo de Bellas Artes, Coleccion de arte norte-americano prestada por Lawrence A. Fleischman, 1957-1958, no. 32
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Milwaukee Art Center, American Painting, 1760-1960: A Selection of 125 Paintings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence A. Fleischman, Detroit, March-April 1960, p. 82, illustrated (as Sienna)
Brooklyn, New York, The Brooklyn Museum; Andover, Massachusetts, Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, American Painting: Selections from the Collection of Daniel and Rita Fraad, June-November 1964, no. 33, p. 42, illustrated
Fort Worth, Texas, Amon Carter Museum, American Paintings, Watercolors, and Drawings from the Collection of Rita and Daniel Fraad, May-July 1985, no. 26, p. 56, illustrated in color p. 57
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Milwaukee Art Museum; Denver, Colorado, Denver Art Museum; Ottawa, Canada, National Gallery of Canada; Brooklyn, New York, The Brooklyn Museum, Painters of a New Century: The Eight, September 1991-September 1992
Ann Arbor, Michigan, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence A. Fleischman Collection of American Paintings, November-December 1953, no. 28, p. 11, illustrated
Washington, D.C., United States Information Service; Detroit, Michigan, The Detroit Institute of Arts (and travelling), Collection in Progress: Selections from the Lawrence and Barbara Fleischman Collection of American Art, 1955, no. 28, p. 24, illustrated p. 25
Caracas, Venezuela, Museo de Bellas Artes, Coleccion de arte norte-americano prestada por Lawrence A. Fleischman, 1957-1958, no. 32
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Milwaukee Art Center, American Painting, 1760-1960: A Selection of 125 Paintings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence A. Fleischman, Detroit, March-April 1960, p. 82, illustrated (as Sienna)
Brooklyn, New York, The Brooklyn Museum; Andover, Massachusetts, Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, American Painting: Selections from the Collection of Daniel and Rita Fraad, June-November 1964, no. 33, p. 42, illustrated
Fort Worth, Texas, Amon Carter Museum, American Paintings, Watercolors, and Drawings from the Collection of Rita and Daniel Fraad, May-July 1985, no. 26, p. 56, illustrated in color p. 57
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Milwaukee Art Museum; Denver, Colorado, Denver Art Museum; Ottawa, Canada, National Gallery of Canada; Brooklyn, New York, The Brooklyn Museum, Painters of a New Century: The Eight, September 1991-September 1992
Literature
Hedley Howell Rhys, "Maurice Prendergast: The Sources and Development of His Style," Ph.D. dissertation, Harvard University, 1952, p. 171
Carol Clark, Nancy Mowll Mathews and Gwendolyn Owens, Maurice Brazil Prendergast, Charles Prendergast: A Catalogue Raisonné, Williamstown, Massachusetts, 1990, no. 735, p. 393, illustrated
Carol Clark, Nancy Mowll Mathews and Gwendolyn Owens, Maurice Brazil Prendergast, Charles Prendergast: A Catalogue Raisonné, Williamstown, Massachusetts, 1990, no. 735, p. 393, illustrated
Catalogue Note
During Prendergast’s 1898-1899 trip to Italy the artist visited numerous cities including Venice, Florence, Rome and the small Tuscan town of Siena, where he executed the present work. Viewed from La Lizza, a public park overlooking the town, Siena depicts a group of well-dressed girls and their fashionable mothers, set against a frieze of Italian architecture, with the campanile of the Palazzo Pubblico visible in the distance.