MAG Collection - The Ships

The Ships

ca. 1895-1897
15 3/8 x 10 15/16 in. (39.1 x 27.8 cm)

Maurice Prendergast
United States (St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada, 1858 - 1924, New York, NY)

Object Type: Print

Medium and Support: Monotype

Credit Line: Gift of Emily Sibley Watson

Accession Number: 1919.29

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Location: Not currently on view

Marks

Artist's signature, lower right, in the plate: Prendergast

Provenance

Artist; Ehrich Galleries, New York, NY; purchased by Emily Sibley Watson, Rochester, NY, for the Gallery, 1919

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19th century

Ashcan School and friends

seascapes

1800-1900

boats

monotypes

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Exhibition List

This object was included in the following exhibitions:

Catalogue of the Summer Exhibition of Selected Works from the Leading Exhibition Memorial Art Gallery 7/2/1919 - 10/4/1919
The Monotypes of Maurice Prendergast Davis and Long Company 4/4/1979 - 4/28/1979
John Sloan: Paintings, Prints, Drawings Hood Museum of Art 10/2/1981 - 1/2/1983
Students of Robert Henri, 1890-1912 Memorial Art Gallery 10/4/1982 - 1/10/1983
Survey of American Printmaking Memorial Art Gallery 5/2/1987 - 10/18/1987
Master Prints from Upstate New York Museums Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art 3/17/1995 - 7/20/1996
To the Sea (study case) 7/11/2000 - 9/17/2000
Connoisseurs Around the Corner: Gifts of Art from MAG’s Founding Family Memorial Art Gallery 9/6/2013 - 1/19/2014

Bibliography

This object has the following bibliographic references:

Article Scope: Reproduction only. Susan Dodge Peters, ed. Memorial Art Gallery: An Introduction to the Collection. New York, New York: Memorial Art Gallery in association with Hudson Hills Press, 1988.
Article Scope: Entry. Carol Clark and Gwendolyn Owens. Maurice Brazil Prendergast, Charles Prendergast: A Catalog Raisonné. Williamstown, MA: Williams College Museum of Art, 1990.
Catalogue of the Summer Exhibition of Selected Works from the Leading Exhibitions of 1918-1919 and A Group of Modern Spanish and French Paintings. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery, 1919.
Article Scope: Entry. The Monotypes of Maurice Prendergast. New York, NY: Davis & Long Co., 1979.
The Memorial Art Gallery Seventh Annual Report of the Director. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery, 1920.
Article Scope: Entry and reproduction. Sandra Haller Olsen. A Survey of American Printmaking from the Collection of the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery, 1987.
Article Author: Owens, Gwendolyn. Article Title: Maurice Prendergast: The Ships; Woodland Bathers. Article Scope: Chapter and reproduction. Marjorie B. Searl, ed. Seeing America: painting and sculpture from the collection of the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery, 2006. Page Number: 128-131
Elizabeth Kennedy, ed. The Eight and American Modernism. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press
Nancy Mowll Mathews. Maurice Prendergast. Munich: Prestel-Verlag, 1990.