Marblehead Rocks, Massachusetts
Artist
Maurice Prendergast (American, born Canada, 1858–1924)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).
Published References Clark, Carol, Nancy Mowll Mathews, and Gwendolyn Owens. ed. Maurice Brazil Prendergast, Charles Prendergast : A Catalogue Raisonné. Williamstown, MA: Williams College Museum of Art, 1990. Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, International Exhibition of Modern Art, Association of American Painters and Sculptors, exh. cat., March 24-April 16, 1913, Cat. 297 (as Marble Rocks –watercolor). Rhys, Hedley, Howell, Maurice Prendergast: The Sources and Development of his Style, diss., Harvard University, 1952, p. 39. Wyoming Valley Art League, 1956, Cat. 11. Scranton, Pennsylvania, Everhart Museum, An exhibition of painting and sculpture from the collection of George May of Kingston, Pennsylvania, at the Everhart Museum, Nay Aug Park, Scranton, October 6-December 1, 1957, p. 13, Cat. 46 (as The Coast, Marblehead Rocks, Massachusetts) Utica, NY, Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute; New York, Kraushaar Galleries; New York Armory of the 69th Regiment, 1913 Armory Show 50th Anniversary Exhibition at Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, (New York: Henry Street Settlement and Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, February 17-April 28, 1963), exh, cat., p. 121, Cat. 898 (ill.), pp. 200-201 (as in the collection of George May). (It was also exhibited at the New York, Armory of the Sixty-ninth Regiment, April 6-28, 1963). Brown, Milton. The Story of the Armory Show (Washington: The Joseph H. Hirshhorn Foundation, 1963), p. 277, Cat. 898 (as in the collection of George May). Lincroft, NJ, Monmouth Museum, The Spell of the Sea: an exhibition suggesting the influence of the sea on the life and civilization of the Western World, [The Rotunda, Asbury Park, N.J.] May 2-31, 1965, Cat. 36A. Green, Eleanor and Jeffrey R. Hayes, Maurice Prendergast: Art of Impulse and Color, exh. cat., (College Park, Maryland: University of Maryland Art Gallery 1976), p. 108, Cat. 42, ill p. 109. Butler, Joseph T., “Maurice Prendergast: A New Art of Impulse and Colour,” Connoisseur 194:782 (April 1977), p. 289. New York, Davis & Long Company, Maurice Prendergast: Art of Impulse and Color (loan exhibition organized by University of Maryland), 1977, Cat. 42. New York, Kennedy Galleries, The American View: Art from 1770-1978, exh. cat. December 6, 1978-January 6, 1979 (possibly). Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, Wilkes College, Sordoni Art Gallery, An exhibition of paintings by the Eight: Robert Henri, Arthur B. Davies, Williams Glackens, Ernest Lawson, George Luks, Maurice Prendergast, Everett Shinn, John Sloan, [Wilkes College, Sordoni Art Gallery] March 9-April 1, 1979, p. 12, Cat. 27, ill. Roque, Oswaldo Rodriguez, Directions in American Painting: Works from the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. John J. McDonough, exh. cat. (Pittsburgh, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute; Columbus, Ohio, Columbus Museum of Art; Chattanooga, Tennessee, Hunter Museum of Art, Jacksonville, Florida, Cummer Gallery of Art, 1982-1983), p. 62. Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Recto: Signed in lower right: Maurice B. Prendergast
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