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Maurice Brazil Prendergast

Cinerarias and Fruit

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Maurice Brazil Prendergast

1858 - 1924

Cinerarias and Fruit


signed Prendergast (lower center); signed M.B. Prendergast (on the reverse)

oil on canvas

21 by 27 in.

53 by 68 cm.

Executed in 1915.

Charles James Prendergast, Westport, Connecticut (acquired by descent from the artist in 1931)

Acquired from the above in 1932 by the present owner

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Acquisitions for the Year 1932, 1933

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Summer Exh.: Paintings, Sculpture, Prints and Watercolors, 1933

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Sculpture, Paintings, and Prints fr. the PC, 1935, p. 15

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Summer Exhibition, 1937

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Permanent Collection, 1937-1938

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Selection of Works from the Permanent Collection, 1938

Buffalo, New York, Albright Art Gallery; Toledo, Ohio, The Toledo Museum of Art; Detroit, Michigan, Detroit Institute of Replica Handbags s; Amherst, Massachusetts, Amherst College; South Hadley, Massachusetts, Mount Holyoke College, Paintings from the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1940-41

Santa Barbara, California, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Fruits and Flowers in Painting, 1958, no. 48, pp. 22, 24, illustrated

Great Neck, New York, North Shore Art Center, Exhibition of the Eight, 1959

Boston, Massachusetts, Museum of Replica Handbags s; Hartford, Connecticut, Wadsworth Antheneum; New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; San Francisco, California, Legion of Honor; Cleveland, Ohio, Cleveland Museum of Art; Maurice Prendergast, 1960-61, no. 35, p. 51, illustrated in color

Columbia, South Carolina, Columbia Museum of Art, The Ascendancy of American Painting, 1963, no. 62, p. 15

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, 26 Artists from the Colls. of the WMAA and Its Friends, 1963

Garden City, New York, Adelphi College, Long Island Arts Festival, A Century of American Art, 1864 to 1964, 1964, no. 89, p. 23

Palm Beach, Florida, Palm Beach Gallery, 1966

Washington, D.C., The White House, 1967

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Twenty-four 20th Century Americans, Sel. fr. the PC, 1968

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Still Life and Flowers: A Sel. from the PC, 1969

Palm Beach, Florida, The Society of the Four Arts, Still Life and Flowers, 1973

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, The 20th Century: 35 American Artists, 1974

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Selections from the Lawrence H. Bloedel Bequest, 1977, p. 43, illustrated

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Modern Art Pavilion, American Art 1900-1950: Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1977, p. 23

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Introduction to 20th Century American Art: Sel. fr. The PC, 1978-79

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Tradition and Modernism in American Art, 1900-1930, 1979

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Maurice B. Prendergast: A Concentration Of Works From The Permanent Collection, 1980, pp. 5, 24, 25, 32, illustrated

Atlanta, Georgia, High Museum of Art; Miami, Florida, Center for the Replica Handbags s; Brooklyn, New York, The Brooklyn Museum; Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Glenbow Museum, The Advent of Modernism: Post-Impressionism in North American Art, 1900-1918, 1986-87, pp. 148, 149, 188, illustrated in color

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Nature's Bounty: American Floral Painting, 1993

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Hopper to Mid-Century: Highlights from the Permanent Collection, 2003

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Still Life: A Vital Theme, 2005-06

Edward Alden Jewell, "Whitney Museum Opens Show," New York Times, 10 January 1933

New York Herald Tribune, 1934, p. 21

Rhys, 1952, no. 53, pp. 117, 118, 166, illustrated

Van Wyck Brooks, The Eight's Battle for U.S. Art, 1954, p. 43, illustrated

Richard J. Wattenmaker, Maurice Prendergast, New York, 1994, no. 83, p.p. 106, 107, 109, illustrated in color

Lloyd Goodrich & John I. H. Baur, American Art of Our Century, New York, 1961, p. 289

Carol Clark; Nancy Mowll Mathews; Gwendolyn Owens, Maurice Brazil Prendergast, Charles Prendergast: A Catalogue Raisonné, Williamstown, Massachusetts, 1990, no. 308, p. 273, illustrated