Artworks

Maurice Prendergast

Venetian Palaces on the Grand Canal, 1899

Watercolor and pencil on paper

14 x 20 3/4 inches

Signed and dated at lower left: Maurice B. Prendergast 1899
Signed and inscribed on original backing: Venetian Palaces / on the / Grand Canal Maurice B.
Prendergast October 1898

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Provenance

Mr. and Mrs. Paul B. Elliot, Milton, Massachusetts;
Mrs. Arthur Hale, Winchester, Massachusetts;
[Vose Galleries, Boston, Massachusetts];
[Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, New York, 1964]; to
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur G. Altschul;
[Sale: Sotheby's, New York, Dec. 4, 2002, lot no. 15]; to
Private collection, New York, until the present

Exhibitions

Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, New York, 1964 // Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1966-1967, 200 Years of Watercolor Painting in America: an Exhibition Commemorating the Centennial of the American Watercolor Society, no. 131 // Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, 1968, American Art from Alumni Collections, no. 133 // Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, 1980, American Impressionism, no. 78 // The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1984-85, Venice: the American View, 1860-1920, no. 44, illus. p. 88 // Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts, and The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., 2005-07, Traditions of America with Moving Pictures: American Art and Early Film, no. 8.B, p. 174, illus. in color no. 56, p. 50 // Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts; Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy; and The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, 2009-10, Prendergast in Italy, no. 711, illus. in color p. 57

Literature

Margaretta M. Lovell, Venice: the American View, 1860-1920 (1984), no. 44, illus. p. 88 // Margaretta M. Lovell, A Visitable Past: Views of Venice by American Artists, 1860-1915 (1989), no. 32, illus. p. 32 // Carol Clark, Nancy Mowll Mathews and Gwendolyn Owens, Maurice Brazil Pendergast, Charles Pendergast: A Catalogue Raisonné (1990), no. 711, illus. p. 386// Nancy Mowll Matthews, Moving Pictures: American Art and Early Film, 1880-1910 (2005), p. 174, no. 56, illus. in color p. 50 // Nancy Mowll Matthews, Prendergast in Italy (2009), no. 711, illus. in color p. 57

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