Maurice Brazil Prendergast
Circus Audience
1889
Physical Qualities
Monotype with graphite and colored pencil, Sheet: 232 x 203 mm. (9 1/8 x 8 in.)
Credit Line
Blanche Adler Memorial Fund
Object Number
1952.70
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1952; Kraushaar Galleries, NY; Mrs. Charles Prendergast, Westport, CT, by 1948; Charles Prendergast, by 1924; the artist
Kraushaar Galleries, NY, "Maurice Prendergast: Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings, Water Colors, and Monotypes," 3-28 January 1950, cat 44.
Organized by Kraushaar Galleries, NY, "Monotypes by Maurice Prendergast," 18 Feburary - 23 March 1952, at Goucher College and then 25 March- 27 April 1952, in the "Print Alcoves" at the BMA, no cat.
William Cooper Procter Art Center, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, "Maurice Prendergast: The Monotypes," 1 May - 21 May 1967, cat 57.
E.B. Crocker Art Gallery, Sacramento, CA, "19th and 20th Century Prints and Drawings from the Baltimore Museum of Art," 2 November - 2 December 1973, cat 53. circulated?
University of Maryland Art Gallery, College Park, MD, "Maurice Prendergast: Art of Impulse and Color," 1 Sept - 6 Oct 1976, cat. 11, illus. p. 80, entry p. 102. Circulated to University Museum, Austin, TX; Des Moines Fine Arts Center; Johnson Museum, Cornell University through 15 April 1977. Then to final venue: Davis and Long Gallery, New York, May 4- 28, 1977.
Jay Fisher, BMA, "American Art 1900-1930: Paintings and Works on Paper from the BMA Collection," 5 September - 22 October, 1978.
BMA, "19th-Century American Monotypes from the Museum Collection," Autumn 1985 (an appendix exh to "Etchings in America, 1875-1940: Selections from the Museum Collection," 5 November 1985 - 2 March 1986, on view in the Bright foyer).
Jay Fisher, BMA, "Old Master Drawings from the BMA and Gilmor Collections," 10 October - 10 December, 1989.
David Curry & Ann Shafer, BMA, "American Realism: Ashcan Artists," January 9-April 6, 2008.
Organized by Kraushaar Galleries, NY, "Monotypes by Maurice Prendergast," 18 Feburary - 23 March 1952, at Goucher College and then 25 March- 27 April 1952, in the "Print Alcoves" at the BMA, no cat.
William Cooper Procter Art Center, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, "Maurice Prendergast: The Monotypes," 1 May - 21 May 1967, cat 57.
E.B. Crocker Art Gallery, Sacramento, CA, "19th and 20th Century Prints and Drawings from the Baltimore Museum of Art," 2 November - 2 December 1973, cat 53. circulated?
University of Maryland Art Gallery, College Park, MD, "Maurice Prendergast: Art of Impulse and Color," 1 Sept - 6 Oct 1976, cat. 11, illus. p. 80, entry p. 102. Circulated to University Museum, Austin, TX; Des Moines Fine Arts Center; Johnson Museum, Cornell University through 15 April 1977. Then to final venue: Davis and Long Gallery, New York, May 4- 28, 1977.
Jay Fisher, BMA, "American Art 1900-1930: Paintings and Works on Paper from the BMA Collection," 5 September - 22 October, 1978.
BMA, "19th-Century American Monotypes from the Museum Collection," Autumn 1985 (an appendix exh to "Etchings in America, 1875-1940: Selections from the Museum Collection," 5 November 1985 - 2 March 1986, on view in the Bright foyer).
Jay Fisher, BMA, "Old Master Drawings from the BMA and Gilmor Collections," 10 October - 10 December, 1989.
David Curry & Ann Shafer, BMA, "American Realism: Ashcan Artists," January 9-April 6, 2008.
Wick, Peter A., "Maurice Prendergast 1859-1924," Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1960, p. 106.
Langdale, Cecily. Davis and Long Co., "The Monotypes of Maurice Prendergast: A Loan Exhibition" 1979, p. 8, illus. p. 74.
Langdale, Cecily. "Monotypes by Maurice Prendergast in the Terra Museum of American Art," Chicago, 1984, p. 84.
Inscribed: lower right in graphite: " M.B.P."; lower right in crayon: "P."
