Maurice Prendergast: A collection of 438 works (HD)

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Maurice Prendergast: A collection of 438 works (HD)

Description: "Born in St. John’s, Newfoundland in 1858, Maurice Prendergast moved with his family to Boston in 1868. As an adolescent, Prendergast took courses in mechanical and industrial drawing in Boston public schools and attended one of the city’s Free Evening Drawing Schools for four years. He continued to refine his eye for layout and design as an apprentice producing shop signs for a design firm. In the early 1880s, he was referred to variously as a “designer,” a “painter” and a “decorator” in the Boston directory. Prendergast also spent time refining his skills drawing from direct observation. His brother Charles, also an artist and a longtime companion of Maurice, remembered Maurice frequently sketching views of the countryside surrounding Boston.

Prendergast took his first trip abroad, to England in Wales, in 1886. Accompanied by his brother Charles, he produced small watercolors and sketches of country cottages. In 1891Prendergast studied at the Atelier Colarossi and the Académie Julien. Perhaps more influential on Prendergast than his official fine art training were his travels with the Canadian Impressionist James Wilson Morrice. Morrice introduced him to such seaside resorts as Dieppe and Saint-Malo where Prendergast sketched beach scenes populated by fashionable vacationers. While in France, he was exposed to, and influenced by, the pictorial devices of European modernists like Paul Gaugin and the Nabis, Pierre Bonnard and Edouard Vuillard.

Prendergast returned to Massachusetts in 1895 and continued to paint scenes, in watercolor, oil, and monotype, of leisure activity at parks, gardens and beaches. His work attracted the patronage of prominent Boston collectors and in 1898 his benefactors sponsored a trip to Europe where the artist spent time painting in Venice, Siena, and Capri. During this period, he began to unify his compositions rather than divide his subjects and backgrounds as was his practice previously.

In 1900, the Art Institute of Chicago mounted a solo exhibition of his work which led to increased publicity for the artist in the United States. He began to associate with the Eight, the school of artists surrounding Robert Henri in New York, and exhibited with them at the National Arts Club. Prendergast’s involvement with the anti-establishment group evidences his progressive artist leanings and defiance of the predominant academic style of painting. In 1913, Prendergast exhibited at the controversial and momentous Armory Show which showcased the leading avant-garde artists in Europe and America. Seven of his works were hung among the Post-Impressionists and Fauvists from whom he had drawn inspiration during his multiple trips to Europe.

Prendergast moved to New York with his brother Charles in 1914 and set up a studio on Washington Square. He surrounded himself with decorative objects that displayed the same flat patterns that increasingly dominated his paintings. From around 1900, he had started to show a propensity for flat, separated areas of color that combined to form a highly decorative style. By the 1910s he had taken the technique to the point of almost complete abstraction.

Prendergast resided in New York for the last decade of his life. He continued to draw from life, exploring his personalized take on color relationships while basing his compositions on classical models. In 1921, a retrospective of his work was mounted at Brummer Galleries in New York. A reviewer of the exhibition articulated one of the most admired qualities Prendergast possessed, a lasting ability to borrow from the achievements of the European modernists while maintaining the individualism of his own art: “What he had learned at different times had been assimilated and made a source of growth in the art he already possessed.” Prendergast died in New York City in 1924."

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