Figures on a Beach

1910/1915

Maurice Prendergast

Artist, American, 1858 - 1924

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    watercolor over graphite on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 36 × 50.6 cm (14 3/16 × 19 15/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1985.64.111

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Clark et al. 1990, no. 962


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Estate of Arthur B. Davies; (James Graham & Sons, New York); (M. Knoedler and Co., New York), 1964; Paul Mellon, Upperville, VA, 1966, gift to NGA, 1985.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1986

  • Gifts to the Nation: Selected Acquisitions from the Collections of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1986, unnumbered checklist

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. 450 no. 962.

Inscriptions

lower right in graphite: Prendergast; lower right illegible inscription to Arthur B. Davies; upper center verso in graphite by unknown hand: WCA.3438

Wikidata ID

Q64608893


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