Friday 1 February 2013

Ashcan School - Maurice Prendergast part 2

Maurice Brazil Prendergast (1858 – 1924) was an American 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 2 of a 7 - part series on the works of Maurice Prendergast: 




c1896-97 Franklin Park, Boston
pencil and watercolour 32.4 x 49.5 cm

c1896-97 Franklin Park, Boston 
pencil and watercolour 45.1 x 33.7 cm

c1896-97 Float at Low Tide, Revere Beach 
pencil and watercolour 33.7 x 23.5 cm

c1896-97 Handkerchief Point ( Coastal Scene ) 
pencil and watercolour 34.3 x 49.8 cm

c1896-97 Ladies with Parasols 
pencil and watercolour 32.4 x 25.4 cm

c1896-97 Handkerchief Point 
pencil and watercolour 50.5 x 34.9 cm

c1896-97 Low Tide 
pencil and watercolour 30.5 x 47.6 cm

c1896-97 Low Tide 
pencil and watercolour 40 x 28.4 cm

c1896-97 Low Tide 
pencil and watercolour 35.6 x 25.4 cm

c1896-97 Low Tide, Nantucket 
pencil and watercolour 20.1 x 14 cm

c1896-97 New England Beach Scene 
pencil and watercolour 34.9 x 50.2 cm

c1896-97 Revere Beach 
pencil and watercolour 35.2 x 50.8 cm

c1896-97 Revere Beach 
pencil and watercolour 24.1 x 34 cm

c1896-97 Revere Beach, Boston 
watercolour 34.6 x 30.8 cm

c1896-97 The Stony Beach, Ogunquit 
watercolour 53 x 35.6 cm

c1896-97 Strolling in the Park 
pencil and watercolour 35.2 x 25.4 cm

1898 St. Mark's, Venice 
pencil and watercolour 35.9 x 49.5 cm

1898 Venice 
pencil, watercolour and gouache 47 x 38.7 cm

1898 Pincian Hill, Rome 
pencil and watercolour 52.7 x 68.3 cm

1898-99 Market Scene 
monotype and pencil on paper 20 x 23.8 cm

1898-99 Lacemakers, Venice 
pencil and watercolour 34.9 x 24.8 cm

1898-99 Fiesta - Venice - S. Pietri in Volta 
pencil and watercolour 34 x 31.7 cm

1898-99 Roma, Flower Stall 
monotype and pencil on paper 23.8 x 19 cm

c1898-99 Easter Procession, St. Marks 
pencil and watercolour 45.7 x 35.6 cm

c1898-99 Afternoon, Pincian Hill 
pencil and watercolour 38.4 x 27 cm

c1898-99 Head of a Girl ( with Roses ) 
monotype on paper 15.9 x 13.6 cm

c1898-99 Grand Canal, Venice 
pencil and watercolour 23.5 x 34.6 cm

c1898-99 Piazza of St. Marks 
pencil and watercolour 41 x 35.9 cm

c1898-99 Picnic with Red Umbrella 
monotype and pencil on paper 23.5 x 19 cm

c1898-99 Ponte della Paglia 
pencil and watercolour 45.1 x 35.9 cm

c1898-99 Ponte della Paglia 
pencil and watercolour on paper

c1898-99 Rainy Day, Sienna 
pencil and watercolour 47.6 x 33 cm

c1898-99 Riva San Biagio, Venice 
pencil and watercolour 30.5 x 26.7 cm

c1898-99 Riva degli Schiavoni 
pencil and watercolour on paper

c1898-99 Sienna - Column of the Wolf 
pencil and watercolour 48.3 x 24.1 cm

c1898-99 Sienna 
pencil and watercolour 31.7 x 51.5 cm

c1898-99 St. Mark's Square, Venice 
pencil and watercolour 66 x 15.2 cm

c1898-99 The Grand Canal, Venice 
pencil and watercolour 46.4 x 38.1 cm

c1898-99 The Lido, Venice 
pencil and watercolour 26.7 x 38.1 cm

c1898-99 The Porch with the Old Mosaics, St. Marks, Venice 
pencil and watercolour 40.6 x 29.2 cm

c1898-99 Umbrellas in the Rain 
pencil and watercolour 35.6 x 53 cm

c1898-99 The Spanish Steps 
monotype on paper 29.7 x 19 cm

c1898-99 Venetian Canal Scene 
pencil and watercolour 35.2 x 51.7 cm

c1898-99 Venetian Scene 
pencil and watercolour 22.9 x 27.9 cm

c1898-9 Assisi 
watercolour 39.1 x 28 cm

c1898-9 At the Shore ( Capri) 
watercolour 25.4 x 35.6 cm

c1898-99 Venice 
pencil and watercolour 43.8 x 39.4 cm

1899 Procession, Venice 
watercolour and gouache 27.9 x 31 cm


No comments:

Post a Comment

Note: only a member of this blog may post a comment.