Tuesday 5 February 2013

Ashcan School - Maurice Prendergast part 6

Post-Impressionist artist who worked in oil, watercolour, and monotype. He exhibited as a member of The Eight associated with the Ashcan School, though the delicacy of his compositions and mosaic-like beauty of his style differed from the philosophy of the group.

Prendergast's work was strongly associated from the beginning with leisurely scenes set on beaches and in parks. His early work was mostly watercolour or monotype, and he produced over two hundred monotypes between 1895 and 1902. He also experimented with oil painting in the 1890s, but didn't focus on that medium until the early 1900s.

He developed and continued to elaborate a highly personal style, with boldly contrasting, jewel-like colours, and flattened, pattern-like forms rhythmically arranged on the canvas.

For fuller biographical notes see part 1. 

This is part 6 of a 7 - part series on the works of Maurice Prendergast:


c1912 Bathers 
oil on canvas 55.9 x 86.4 cm

c1912 Cinerarias and Fruit 
oil on canvas 53.3 x 68.6 cm

c1912-15 Bathers 
pencil & watercolour 28.9 x 44.4 cm

c1912-15 Distant Hills, Maine 
pencil, pastel & watercolour 34.9 x 50.5 cm

c1912-15 Bathers 
watercolour 34.3 x 49.5 cm

c1912-15 Figures in a Landscape 
pencil, charcoal, pastel & watercolour 34.3 x 49.5 cm

c1912-15 The Rider 
pencil & watercolour 29.2 x 41.6 cm

c1913-15 Cherubs 
watercolour 39 x 47.6 cm

c1913-15 Beach Scene with Boats 
charcoal & watercolour 30.5 x 45.7 cm

c1913-15 Decorative Composition 
pencil & watercolour 34.3 x 50.8 cm

c1913-15 Figures and Donkeys 
pencil, crayon & watercolour 36.8 x 44.4 cm

c1913-15 Fantasy 
tempera on paper 36.8 x 47 cm

c1913-15 The Shore 
pencil, pastel & watercolour 44.4 x 55.9 cm

c1913-15 The Cove 
pencil & watercolour 26.3 x 35.6 cm

c1913-15 Landscape with Figures 
oil on canvas 75.6 x 109.2 cm

c1913 Beach No. 3 
oil on canvas 47.9 x 75.9 cm

c1913 Portrait of a Girl with Flowers 
oil on canvas 53.3 x 45.7 cm

c1913-15 Under the Trees 
oil on canvas  60.6 x 80 cm

c1913 Seashore 
oil on canvas 61 x 81.3 cm

c1913 The Promenade 
oil on canvas 76.2 x 86.4 cm

1914 The End Men 
pencil & watercolour 31.4 x 41.6 cm

1914-15 Idyllic Landscape 
oil on canvas 39.4 x 31.7 cm


1914-15 Girls in the Park 
oil on canvas 72 x 101 cm

1914-15 Fantasy 
oil on canvas 56.2 x 80.3 cm

1914-15 Ladies in a Seaside Arbour 
oil on canvas 57.1 x 61.9 cm

1914-15 Marblehead 
pencil, charcoal, pastel & watercolour 29.2 x 45.7 cm

1914-15 Picnic 
oil on canvas 195.6 x 270.5 cm

1914-15 Women at Seashore 
oil on panel 43.2 x 81.3 cm

1914-15 Central Park 
oil on canvas 51.4 x 68.6 cm

c1914-15 Fantasy 
oil on panel 55.9 x 66 cm

c1914-15 Blue Mountains 
oil on canvas 41.3 x 65.1 cm

c1914-15 Along the Shore 
oil on canvas 50.1 x 86.4 cm

c1914-15 Marblehead 
oil on canvas 38.1 x 45.7 cm

c1914-15 Lady in Yellow Dress in the Park 
oil on panel 26.7 x 34.9 cm

c1914-15 Naples 
pastel & watercolour 31.1 x 48.3 cm

c1914-15 Park, Naples 
oil on canvas 48.9 x 61.6 cm

c1914-15 Rider against Blue Hills 
oil on canvas 50.8 x 76.8 cm

c1914-15 Promenade 
oil on canvas 212.7 x 340.4 cm

c1914-15 The Picnic 
94 x 144.8 cm

c1914-15 The Swans 
oil on canvas 76.8 x 109.5 cm

c1914 Boat Landing, Dinnard 
charcoal, gouache & watercolour 38.7 x 56.5 cm


c1914 Quai, Dinard 
pastel & watercolour 38.7 x 55.9 cm

c1914 On the Shore 
oil on canvas 56.2 x 86.4 cm

c1914-16 Summer Afternoon 
pastel & watercolour 42.5 x 58.1 cm

c1914-16 In the Park 
oil on canvas 63.5 x 91.4 cm

1915 Picnic by the Sea 
oil on canvas 61.6 x 81.3 cm

1915 Salem 
pastel, gouache & watercolour 29.8 x 45.7 cm

1915 Gloucester, Fishermen's Houses 
pastel & watercolour 28.6 x 38.7 cm

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