Currently not on view
New England Shore,
1917–1919
Maurice Brazil Prendergast, American, 1858–1924
x1985-47
Although Prendergast settled in New York City, he frequently spent the summers in his hometown of Boston. There, he produced numerous scenes of working-class leisure in parks or at nearby coastal venues such as Revere Beach in Nahant, which is perhaps the setting for New England Shore. Characteristically frieze-like, this later work features schematized, faceless figures—at once contemporary in their dress and classical in their poses—locked into Prendergast’s logic of compressed space and abstract pattern.
Information
Title
New England Shore
Dates
1917–1919
Medium
Watercolor and touches of white gouache over graphite with traces of black chalk and pastel
Dimensions
28.6 x 40.1 cm (11 1/4 x 15 13/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. Eugénie Prendergast
Object Number
x1985-47
Place Depicted
United States, New England
Signatures
Signed in blue watercolor, lower right: Prendergast
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Bequeathed to the artist' brother, Charles Prendergast, 1924; bequeathed to Mrs. Charles Prendergast, 1948;
- "Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1985," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 45, no. 1 (1986): p.16–42, p. 42 (illus.)
- Carol Clark, Nancy Mowll Mathews and Gwendolyn Owens, Maurice Brazil Prendergast, Charles Prendergast: a catalogue raisonné, (Williamstown, MA; Munich, 1990)., p. 522, no. 1291 (illus.)
- Maurice Prendergast: learning to look, (Williamstown, MA: Williams College Museum of Art; Andover, MA: Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, 2001).
- John Wilmerding et al., American Art in the Princeton University Art Museum: volume 1: drawings and watercolors, (Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum; New Haven, CT; London: Yale University Press, 2004), p. 160, cat. no. 36; p. 161 (illus.); p. 319, checklist no. 477
