Artist
Maurice Prendergast American, born Canada, 1858–1924
CultureAmerican
Titles
- Marblehead Rocks, Massachusetts
Datec. 1905-1908
MediumWatercolor over black chalk on wove paper
DimensionsSheet: 11 × 15 3/16 in. (27.9 × 38.6 cm)
Frame: 19 5/8 × 23 5/8 × 2 1/4 in. (49.8 × 60 × 5.7 cm)
Frame: 19 5/8 × 23 5/8 × 2 1/4 in. (49.8 × 60 × 5.7 cm)
Credit LineGift of the James William Glanville and Nancy Hart Glanville Collection
Object number2021.112
Not on view
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1 Mrs. Glanville, along with her husband James, were passionate about American art. She spent many years serving on the MFAH subcommittee of American Paintings & Sculpture and had a close relationship with the former curator of American Art at the MFAH, Emily Neff.
Exhibition History1913 Assn American Painters (#898); 1955 Wyoming Valley Artist League (#17); 1956 Wyoming Valley Art League (#11); 1957 Everhart Museum (#46, as The Coast, Marblehead Rocks, Massachusetts); 1963 Munson-Williams-Proctor (no #, p. 200, ill. p. 121); 1965 Monmouth Museum (#36A); 1976 U Maryland (#42, ill.); 1977a Davis & Long (#42); 1979 Wilkes College (#27, ill.)
New York, Macbeth Gallery, Exhibition of The Eight, exh. (1908).
New York, Armory of the 69th Regiment, International Exhibition of Modern Art, Association of American Painters and Sculptors, exh. (February 17-March 15, 1913). It was also exhibited at Copley Hall, Copley Society of Boston, April 28-May 18, 1913).
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Recto: Signed in lower right: Maurice B. Prendergast
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