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On the Beach, No. 3
c. 1915–18
Maurice Prendergast
Maurice Prendergast (American, 1858–1924)
American Painting and Sculpture
On the Beach, No. 3, c. 1915–18. Maurice Prendergast (American, 1858–1924). Oil on canvas; framed: 81 x 103 x 6.5 cm (31 7/8 x 40 9/16 x 2 9/16 in.); unframed: 66 x 85.1 cm (26 x 33 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection 1926.1653 Prendergast developed a distinctive painting style featuring rounded patches of thickly applied color. Like many of his works, On the Beach, No. 3 visually approximates a densely woven tapestry.
- Maker/Artist
- Prendergast, Maurice Brazil
- Classification
- Painting
- Formatted Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Framed: 81 x 103 x 6.5 cm (31 7/8 x 40 9/16 x 2 9/16 in.); Unframed: 66 x 85.1 cm (26 x 33 1/2 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: signed lower left: Prendergast; annotated on verso, "The Beach."
- Departments
- American Painting and Sculpture
- Accession Number
- 1926.1653
- Credit Line
- Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection
- Exhibitions
- The Maurice Prendergast Memorial Exhibition, The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition, Exhibition of American Painting from 1860 Until Today, The Eight, Puvis de Chavannes and The Modern Tradition, Verso l'Arte Moderna, da Puvis de Chavannes a Matisse e Picasso, Cleveland Collects American Art of the Gilded Age, 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., 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, Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Maurice Prendergast Memorial Exhibition (16 January-15 February 1926), cat. no. 9., New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Maurice Prendergast Memorial Exhibition (21 February-22 March 1934)., Saginaw, MI, Saginaw Museum, An Exhibition of American Painting from Colonial Times Until Today (10 January-15 February 1948), no. 46., 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., 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., Grand Rapids, MI, Grand Rapids Museum, 20th Century American Painting (1-30 April 1967), cat. no. 7, illus. p. 7., Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, Puvis de Chavannes and The Modern Tradition (24 October-30 November 1970), cat. no. 84, illus. p. 188.
- Rights Statement
- Copyrighted
- Museum Location
- 208 American Gilded Age and Realism
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