Wednesday 6 February 2013

Ashcan School - Maurice Prendergast part 7

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



1915-16 Summer Day 
pastel & watercolour 34.3 x 49.5 cm

c1915-16 Road to the Shore 
pencil & watercolour 27.9 x 36.8 cm

c1915-18 Holidays 
oil on canvas 76.2 x 109.9 cm

c1915-18 Outer Harbour 
oil on panel 47 x 81.9 cm

1916-18 The Bathing Cove 
oil on canvas 68.6 x 66 cm

c1915-18 Late Afternoon, New England 
oil on canvas 51.4 x 71.1 cm

c1915-18 Sunset 
oil on canvas 53.3 x 81.3 cm

c1916-18 On the Beach No. 3 
oil on canvas 66 x 84.1 cm

c1916-18 Figures on the Beach 
pencil & watercolour

c1916-18 Landscape - Figures, Cottages and Boats 
oil on canvas 61.3 x 81.6 cm

c1916-19 Bathers, New England 
pencil, pastel & watercolour 39.7 x 57.1 cm

c1916-19 Bathers 
pencil, pastel, chalk & watercolour 13.9  x 19.9 cm cm

c1916-19 Landscape with Figures and Goat 
pastel & watercolour 30.5 x 45.7 cm

c1916-19 Beach Scene, New England 
pencil, charcoal & watercolour 34.3 x 49.5 cm

c1916-19 Picking Strawberries 
pastel & watercolour 27.9 x 33 cm

c1916-19 On the Rocks, North Shore 
pencil, pastel & watercolour 35.2 x 50.5 cm

c1916-19 New England Village 
watercolour 39.4 x 45.7 cm

c1917 Sunset 
oil on canvas 53.3 x 81.3 cm

1918 The Hay Cart 
pencil, pastel & watercolour 34.3 x 49.5 cm

1918 Landscape with Figures No. 2 
oil on canvas

c1918-20 The Seashore 
oil on canvas 61 x 91.4 cm

c1918-20 The Idlers 
oil on canvas 53.3 x 81.6 cm

c1918-21 Beach at Gloucester 
oil on canvas 76.5 x 109.2 cm

c1918-23 Acadia 
oil on canvas 80.6 x 94 cm

c1918-23 Cove with Figures 
oil on canvas 68.6 x 83.8 cm

c1918-23 Bathers 
oil on canvas  44.4 x 61.3 cm

c1918-23 Gloucester Harbour 
oil on canvas 59.1 x 69.8 cm

c1918-23 Group of Figures 
oil on canvas 59 x 70.5 cm

c1918-23 Picnic by the Inlet 
oil on canvas 71.8 x 62.5 cm

c1918-23 Seashore 
oil on canvas 51.4 x 71.8 cm

c1918-23 Sunset and Sea Fog 
oil on canvas 45.7 x 73.7 cm

c1918-23 The Cove 
oil on canvas 71.1 x 101 cm

c1918-23 Twilight 
oil on canvas 53.3 x 68.6 cm

c1919 Bathers and Strollers 
pencil, pastel, gouache & watercolour 40 x 56.5 cm

c1919-23 New England Harbour 
oil on canvas 61 x 71.2 cm

c1920 Promenade Salem 
pastel & watercolour 34.3 x 45.9 cm

c1920 Crepuscule 
oil on canvas 51.4 x 61.6 cm

c1920-23 Farmhouse in New England 
pencil, pastel & watercolour 50.5 x 35.2 cm

c1920-23 Park, Gloucester 
pencil & watercolour 34.9 x 50.5 cm

c1920-23 Gloucester Park 
pencil, charcoal & watercolour 28.3 x 57.1 cm

c1920-23 Landing Stage 
pencil & watercolour 34.9 x 49.5 cm

c1920-23 Long Beach 
pencil & watercolour 39.4 x 57.1 cm

c1920-23 Gloucester Park 
pencil, charcoal & watercolour 28.3 x 57.1 cm

c1920-23 Picnic 
pencil, pastel & watercolour 39.4 x 55.9 cm

c1920-23 Rockport 
pencil, pastel & watercolour 34.9 x 41.6 cm

c1920-23 Salem Harbor No. 1 
watercolour 34.3 x 48.9 cm

c1920-23 Rockport, Mass. 
pencil & watercolour 35.6 x 50.8 cm

c1920-25 The Cove 
watercolour 35.6 x 50.8 cm

c1920-23 View Along New England Coast 
pencil, pastel & watercolour 39.4 x 57.1 cm

c1920-23 The Donkey Driver 
watercolour 34.9 x 50.49 cm

1921 Landscape with Figures 
oil on canvas 82.9 x 108.3 cm