Maurice Brazil Prendergast
Salem Shore
1907-1910
Physical Qualities
Oil on canvas, 14 1/8 x 18 1/8 in. (35.8 x 46 cm)
Credit Line
Purchased as the gift of William A. Dickey, Jr.
Object Number
1954.254
Original frame by the artist's brother, Charles Prendergast (1863-1948).
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1954; purchase by William A. Dickey, 1954 for the museum; from Kraushaar Galleries, NY, 1954; Mrs. Charles Prendergast, Westport, CT, 1948; Charles Prendergast, Westport, CT, 1924; the artist
Kraushaar Art Galleries, NY, "Paintings by Maurice Prendergast," 18 March - 10 April 1940, checklist 12.
California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, "Painters by the Sea," 1-30 July 1961.
BMA, "1914: An Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture Created in 1914," 6 October - 15 November 1964, cat 196.
University of New Mexico Art Gallery (Albuquerque League), "Impressionism in America: An Exhibition Presented by the Junior League of Albuquerque in Collaboration with the University of New Mexico Art Gallery," 9 February - 14 March 1965, circulated, cat. 41.
Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, "The Seashore: Paintings of the 19th and 20th Centuries," 22 October - 5 December, 1965, cat 86 (illus).
Queens Museum, Flushing, NY, "By the Sea: 20th Century Americans at the Shore," 16 June - 9 September 1979, cat 15 (illus).
Rena Hoisington, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "New Arrivals: Gifts of Art for a New Century," February 7-May 8, 2016.
California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, "Painters by the Sea," 1-30 July 1961.
BMA, "1914: An Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture Created in 1914," 6 October - 15 November 1964, cat 196.
University of New Mexico Art Gallery (Albuquerque League), "Impressionism in America: An Exhibition Presented by the Junior League of Albuquerque in Collaboration with the University of New Mexico Art Gallery," 9 February - 14 March 1965, circulated, cat. 41.
Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, "The Seashore: Paintings of the 19th and 20th Centuries," 22 October - 5 December, 1965, cat 86 (illus).
Queens Museum, Flushing, NY, "By the Sea: 20th Century Americans at the Shore," 16 June - 9 September 1979, cat 15 (illus).
Rena Hoisington, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "New Arrivals: Gifts of Art for a New Century," February 7-May 8, 2016.
"Prendergast," Art Digest, 14 (April 1940), p. 9.
"A Picture Book: 200 Objects in the Baltimore Museum of Art," BMA, 1955, p. 76 (illus).
Adelyn D. Breeskin, "Additions to the Collection, 1954-55," Baltimore Museum Bulletin, 18 (April 1955), pp. 1, 4 (illus).
Inscribed: lower left in red paint: "Prendergast"
Artist
Maurice Brazil Prendergast
American, 1858-1924
American, 1858-1924
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