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Maurice Prendergast

Skipping Rope, 1892/1895

Not on View

Medium

color monotype with graphite on thin wove paper

Dimensions

plate: 12.7 x 25.4 cm (5 x 10 in.)

sheet: 21.5 x 34.2 cm (8 7/16 x 13 7/16 in.)

Credit Line

Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

Catalogue Raisonné

Clark et al. 1990, no. 1609

Accession Number

1994.59.30

Artists / Makers

Maurice Prendergast (artist) American, 1858 - 1924

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Inscription

lower left in plate, with graphite additions: M.B.P.

Provenance

Miss Daphne Dunbar, as of 1960; (M. Knoedler and Co., New York); Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, Upperville, VA, gift to NGA, 1994.

Associated Names

Mellon, Paul

Exhibition History

1960: Boston, no. 125, ilus.

Bibliography

1979: The Monotypes of Maurice Prendergast, New York, 1979: 22.

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. 586, no. 1609.

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