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Shipyard: Children Playing

1900–1902

Maurice Prendergast

(American, born Newfoundland [now Canada], 1858–1924)
Culture
America, early 20th Century
Medium
color monotype
Measurements
Image: 20 x 25.3 cm (7 7/8 x 9 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
Mr. and Mrs. Charles G. Prasse Collection 1982.166
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Location
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Description

In 1891, Maurice Prendergast left Boston for Paris, where he studied art for three years at the Atelier Colarossi and the Académie Julian. It was probably in France that he learned the technique of monotype, a medium that he used throughout the second half of the 1890s. This delicate view of children on a beach—possibly Saint-Malo in France—reflects the influence of James Abbott McNeill Whistler.
A horizontally oriented monotype with soft, layered textures creates a hazy scene of a beach. In the foreground, seven children with light skin tones gather on a pebbled shore, wearing white, muted red, and blue clothing. A wooden pier with large beige and brown boats stretches across the middle. Sailboats dot a blue-gray sea in the background, where land and sky become increasingly muted and hazy toward the distant horizon.

Shipyard: Children Playing

1900–1902

Maurice Prendergast

(American, born Newfoundland [now Canada], 1858–1924)
America, early 20th Century

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