Maurice Prendergast
Picnicking Children - Central Park (Picnic, Boston Garden)

ArtistAmerican, born Canada, 1858–1924
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Picnicking Children - Central Park (Picnic, Boston Garden)
Datec. 1900–1903
MediumWatercolor and graphite on paper
DimensionsSheet: 8 3/4 × 16 5/8 in. (22.2 × 42.2 cm)
Frame: 18 1/8 × 25 13/16 × 1 5/16 in. (46 × 65.5 × 3.4 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. Horowitz Foundation for the Arts
Object number2023.250
Non exposé

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Department
American Art
ProvenanceThe artist; Charles Prendergast (1868-1948), 1924; Mrs. Charles (Eugénie) Prendergast (1894-1994), 1948; [Davis Galleries, New York, 1962]; Mr. and Mrs. Daniel (and Rita) Fraad (1912-1987 and 1915-2004) and Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. Horowitz, 1962; Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. (Margaret) Horowitz (1916-2005 and 1915-2005), 1986; given to MFAH, 2023.
Exhibition HistoryAmerican Paintings: Selections from the Collection of Daniel and Rita Fraad, Brooklyn Museum, New York, and Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., 1964, Cat. 34

American Impressionist and Realist Paintings: From the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Horowitz, Met, New York 1973, Cat. 30

American Mater Drawings and Watercolors, American Federation of Arts, New York 1976 – 1977

American Paintings, Watercolors, and Drawings from the Collection of Rita and Daniel Fraad, Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, 1985, Cat. 28


The Remembered Image: Prendergast Watercolors 1896 -1906, Coe Kerr Gallery, New York, 1986, Cat. 5.

Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Recto: Signed in graphite, right bottom edge: Prendergast [cursive]
Verso: [inaccessible]
Catalogue raisonnéClark, Carol, Nancy Mowll Mathews and Gwendolyn Owens. Maurice Brazil Prendergast, Charles Prendergast: A Catalogue Raisonné. Prestel: Williamstown, MA. 1990. p. 415, #803, illus.

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