The Cleveland Museum of Art

• Provenance
  (Kraushaar Galleries, New York). (bought by CMA 1926)
• Citations
  Whitney Museum of American Art. Maurice Prendergast Memorial Exhibition, February Twenty-First to March Twenty-Second, Nineteen-Thirty-Four. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1934. cat. no. 63, listed p. 14.

  Cleveland Museum of Art. Catalogue of the Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition of the Cleveland Museum of Art: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition : June Twenty-Sixth to October Fourth 1936. [Cleveland, Ohio]: [Cleveland Museum of Art], 1936. cat. no. 365

  Cleveland Museum of Art. Catalogue of an Exhibition of American Painting from 1860 Until Today at the Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland]: [Printed by the Artcraft Printing Co.], 1937. cat. no. 154, listed p. 36

  Milliken, William M. "Department of Paintings." Annual Report. 11. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1922. Mentioned: pp. 33-35

  Milliken, William M. "Two Recent American Paintings Acquired for the Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection." The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art. 14:1 (January, 1927). Mentioned: pp. 9-11; Reproduced: p. 15

  "The Story of American Painting is Retold in Cleveland Exhibition." The Art Digest. 11:19 (1 August 1937). pp. 5-9.

  National Cyclopedia of American Biography. New York: 1943. Mentioned: pp. 398-399

  Rhys, Hadley Howell. Maurice Prendergast: The Sources and Development of His Style. Ph.D. dissertation,Harvard University, 1952. Mentioned: p. 162

  Simon, John. "Maurice Prendergast." The New York Times, February 26, 1967. Reproduced

  Hamilton, George Heard. 19th and 20th Century Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1970. Mentioned: pp. 281, 283; Reproduced: p. 287

  Cleveland Museum of Art. "A Check List: American Paintings and Water Colors of the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Early Twentieth Centuries in The Cleveland Museum of Art." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art. 60:1 (January, 1973). pp. 1-36. Mentioned: p. 32

  Argan, Giulio Carlo, and Rossana Bossaglia. Die Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts, 1880-1940. Berlin: Propyläen-Verlag, 1977. Mentioned: pp. 115-116, 139; Reproduced: 38b

  "Selection VII: American Paintings from the Museum's Collection, c.1800-1930." Bulletin of Rhode Island School of Design. 63:5 (April, 1977). Reproduced: cat. 100

  Sims, Patterson. Maurice B. Prendergast: A Concentration of Works from the Permanent Collection. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1979. Mentioned: pp. 3-9, 26, 30-31

  Clark, Carol, Nancy Mowll Mathews, and Gwendolyn Owens. Maurice Brazil Prendergast, Charles Prendergast: A Catalogue Raisonné. Williamstown, MA: Williams College Museum of Art, 1990. Mentioned: p. 308; Reproduced: cat. 430

  Adams, Henry. "Maurice Prendergast." International Dictionary of Art and Artists, ed. James Vinson. Chicago: St. James Press, 1990. Reproduced: p. 751

  Chong, Alan. European & American Painting in the Cleveland Museum of Art: A Summary Catalogue. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1993. Reproduced: p. 186

  Wattenmaker, Richard J. Maurice Prendergast. New York: Harry N. Abrams in association with the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1994. pp. 117-156 Reproduced: p. 136, fig. 119

  Clark, Carol. "Prendergast, Maurice (Brazil)." The Dictionary of Art, ed. J. S. Turner. 25.New York: Grove, 1996. Mentioned: pp. 552-554; Reproduced: p. 553

  Hughes, Robert. American Visions: The Epic History of Art in America. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. Mentioned: pp. 266-269; Reproduced: p. 269

  Lemoine, Serge. From Puvis De Chavannes to Matisse and Picasso: Toward Modern Art. Milano: Bompiani, 2002. Reproduced: p. 450, fig. 156
• Exhibition History
  Cleveland Collects American Art of the Gilded Age. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 23-May 18, 2003).

  Verso l'Arte Moderna, da Puvis de Chavannes a Matisse e Picasso. Palazzo Grassi spa, 30124 Venice, Italy (organizer) (February 10-June 16, 2002).

  Puvis de Chavannes and The Modern Tradition. Art Gallery of Ontario, Ontario M5T 1G4, Canada (organizer) (October 24-November 30, 1975).

  Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, Puvis de Chavannes and The Modern Tradition (24 October-30 November 1970), cat. no. 84, illus. p. 188.

  Grand Rapids, MI, Grand Rapids Museum, 20th Century American Painting (1-30 April 1967), cat. no. 7, illus. p. 7.

  San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Art; simultaneously held at San Francisco, M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, and San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor (see Foreword), Man: Glory, Jest, Riddle, A Survey of the Human Form Through the Ages (10 November 1964-3 January 1965), cat. no. 277.

  Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Maurice Prendergast, 1859-1924 (26 October-4 December 1960); traveled to Hartford, Wadsworth Athenaeum (29 December 1960-5 February 1961); to New York, Whitney Museum of American Art (21 February-2 April 1961); to San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor (22 April-3 June 1961); to Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art (20 June-30 July 1961); cat. no. 43, illus. p. 57.

  Saginaw, MI, Saginaw Museum, An Exhibition of American Painting from Colonial Times Until Today (10 January-15 February 1948), no. 46.

  The Eight. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (February 9-March 4, 1944).

  Exhibition of American Painting from 1860 Until Today. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-October 4, 1937).

  The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 26-October 4, 1936).

  New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Maurice Prendergast Memorial Exhibition (21 February-22 March 1934).

  Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Maurice Prendergast Memorial Exhibition (16 January-15 February 1926), cat. no. 9.

  The Maurice Prendergast Memorial Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 15-February 15, 1926).

  Chicago, Art Insitute of Chicago, Special Exhibition: Sculpture by Nancy Cox-McCormack, Mural Paintings by Puvis de Chavvanes, Albert Besnard, and the National Society of Mural Painters, Decorative Paintings by Eduard Buk Ulreich, Drawings and Lithographs by C.O. Woodbury, Paintings by Maurice Prendergast (17 March-24 April 1925), cat. no. 22

  New York, C.W.Kraushaar Art Galleries, Memorial Exhibition of Paintings and Water Colors by Maurice Prendergast (16 February-4 March 1925), cat. no. 33, title given: Beach Scene, No. 3.
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