Docks, East Boston, 1900/1904

Not on View

Medium

watercolor, graphite, and gouache on wove paper

Dimensions

overall: 36.8 x 54 cm (14 1/2 x 21 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art

Catalogue Raisonné

Clark et al. 1990, no. 814

Accession Number

1992.51.12

Artists / Makers

Maurice Prendergast (artist) American, 1858 - 1924

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in graphite: Prendergast

Provenance

(Kraushaar Galleries, New York); The Phillips Memorial Gallery, Washington, 1927; (Kraushaar Galleries, New York), 1928; Arthur F. Egner, by 1934; (Kraushaar Galleries, New York), 1935; Winthrop Taylor, 1935; by inheritance, Jeremy Taylor; Peter H. Davidson, 1976; Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, Upperville, VA, 1976; gift to NGA, 1992

Associated Names

Davidson & Co., Inc., Peter H.
Egner, Arthur F.
Kraushaar Galleries
Mellon, Paul
Taylor, Jeremy
Taylor, Winthrop

Exhibition History

1991: Art for the Nation: Gifts in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1991, 264-265, color repro.

2003: Maurice Prendergast: Paintings of America, Adelson Galleries, Inc., New York, 2003, no. 28.

2013: Maurice Prendergast: By the Sea, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, 2013, unnumbered catalogue.

Bibliography

1990: Clark, Carol, Nancy Mowll Mathews, and Gwendolyn Owens. Maurice Brazil Prendergast and Charles Prendergast: A Catalogue Raisonné. Williamstown, Massachusetts: Williams College Museum of Art, 1990, p. 417, no. 814.

1991: Art for the Nation: Gifts in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1991: 264-65

2003: Maurice Prendergast, Paintings of America. Exh. cat. Adelson Galleries, New York: 2003, 83-84, no 28.