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Gloucester Harbor
Details
MAURICE BRAZIL PRENDERGAST (1859-1924)
Gloucester Harbor
signed 'Prendergast' (lower left)—signed again indistinctly (lower center)
oil on canvas
23 ¼ x 27 ½ in. (59.1 x 69.9 cm.)
Painted circa 1918-23.
Gloucester Harbor
signed 'Prendergast' (lower left)—signed again indistinctly (lower center)
oil on canvas
23 ¼ x 27 ½ in. (59.1 x 69.9 cm.)
Painted circa 1918-23.
Provenance
The artist.
Charles Prendergast, Westport, Connecticut, brother of the above, 1924.
Kraushaar Galleries, New York.
Mary Cabot Briggs, Boston, Massachusetts, 1929.
Eleanor Briggs, New Hampshire, by descent from the above, 1975.
Jordan-Volpe Gallery, Inc., New York.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1993.
Charles Prendergast, Westport, Connecticut, brother of the above, 1924.
Kraushaar Galleries, New York.
Mary Cabot Briggs, Boston, Massachusetts, 1929.
Eleanor Briggs, New Hampshire, by descent from the above, 1975.
Jordan-Volpe Gallery, Inc., New York.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1993.
Literature
H.H. Rhys, Maurice Prendergast: The Sources and Development of His Style, Ph.D. Dissertation, Harvard University, 1952, p. 156.
C. Clark, N.M. Mathews and G. Owens, Maurice Brazil Prendergast, Charles Prendergast: A Catalogue Raisonné, Williamstown, Massachusetts, 1990, p. 318, no. 470, illustrated.
C. Clark, N.M. Mathews and G. Owens, Maurice Brazil Prendergast, Charles Prendergast: A Catalogue Raisonné, Williamstown, Massachusetts, 1990, p. 318, no. 470, illustrated.
Exhibited
Cleveland, Ohio, Cleveland Museum of Art, The Maurice Prendergast Memorial Exhibition, January 15-February 15, 1926, no. 34.
Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard Society for Contemporary Art, Maurice Prendergast (1861-1924): A Memorial Exhibition, May-June 1929, no. 6.
(Possibly) New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Maurice Prendergast Memorial Exhibition, February 21-March 22, 1934, no. 43 (as Shore, Gloucester).
Manchester, New Hampshire, Currier Gallery of Art, Heirlooms: Historical and Decorative Arts from New Hampshire Collectors, September 7-October 1, 1985, no. 20 (as Harbor at Gloucester).
New York, Adelson Galleries, Maurice Prendergast: Paintings of America, May 15-June 20, 2003, pp. 84-85, 98-99, no. 32, illustrated.
Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard Society for Contemporary Art, Maurice Prendergast (1861-1924): A Memorial Exhibition, May-June 1929, no. 6.
(Possibly) New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Maurice Prendergast Memorial Exhibition, February 21-March 22, 1934, no. 43 (as Shore, Gloucester).
Manchester, New Hampshire, Currier Gallery of Art, Heirlooms: Historical and Decorative Arts from New Hampshire Collectors, September 7-October 1, 1985, no. 20 (as Harbor at Gloucester).
New York, Adelson Galleries, Maurice Prendergast: Paintings of America, May 15-June 20, 2003, pp. 84-85, 98-99, no. 32, illustrated.
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