Figures on a Beach, 1910/1915

Not on View

Medium

watercolor over graphite on wove paper

Dimensions

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

Credit Line

Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

Catalogue Raisonné

Clark et al. 1990, no. 962

Accession Number

1985.64.111

Artists / Makers

Maurice Prendergast (artist) American, 1858 - 1924

Image Use

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Inscription

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

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

Mellon, Paul

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.