Sienna

Artist Maurice Prendergast (American, b. Canada, 1858 - 1924)

Datec. 1898–99

MediumWatercolor and pencil on paper

DimensionsOverall: 13-7/8 x 9-15/16 inches (35.2 x 25.2 cm), conservation mat: frame: 22-1/2 x 18-5/8 x 1-1/2 inches (56.9 x 47.2 x 3.8 cm)

Credit LineBequest of James R. and Barbara R. Palmer

Object number2019.102

Collections

American

ClassificationsPainting

Object NamePainting

DepartmentPermanent Collection

CultureNorth American

NationalityAmerican

On View

Not on view

Century

Nineteenth

More Information

Signedbottom left: Prendergast

Inscribedverso: Sienna

Exhibition HistoryAn American Place: Selections from the James and Barbara Palmer Collection, Palmer Museum of Art, January 29–May 1, 2022 "Varied and Untried”: Early Twentieth-Century American Paintings from the James and Barbara Palmer Collection, Palmer Museum of Art, January 13–May 5, 2013 Prendergast in Italy, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA, July 18–September 20, 2009; Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, October 10, 2009–January 10, 2010; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, February 14–May 9, 2010 [shown in Williamstown only] An Intimate Eye: Selections from the Collection of James and Barbara Palmer, Palmer Museum of Art, January 18–May 15, 2005 Capturing the Light: A Collection of Twentieth-Century American Watercolors, Palmer Museum of Art, January 28–May 18, 1997 Paintings and Sculpture from Central Pennsylvania Collectors, Museum of Art, The Pennsylvania State University, April 8–June 24, 1984 People, Places and Things: American Paintings, 1750–1980, Kennedy Galleries, New York, November 5, 1980–January 9, 1981 Water Color Club: Thirteenth Annual Exhibition, Boston Art Club, February 9–24, 1900 [possibly Sienna]ProvenanceThe artist Charles Prendergast, 1924 Mrs. Charles Prendergast, 1948 Kraushaar Galleries, New York Ralph Wilson, 1949 American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture of the 19th and 20th Centuries, Christie’s, New York, May 22, 1980, sale Irene, lot 125 Kennedy Galleries, New York Collection of James and Barbara Palmer, acquired in 1982 from Kennedy Galleries Palmer Museum of Art, bequest of James R. and Barbara R. Palmer, 2019Published ReferencesJoyce Henri Robinson, ed., A Gift From the Heart: American Art from the Collection of James and Barbara Palmer (University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2013), 36, 37 (fig. 4), 200 (ill., color), 201. Nancy Mowll Mathews and Elizabeth Kennedy, Prendergast in Italy (London and New York: Merrell, 2009), 176 (ill., color, no. 737). An Intimate Eye (University Park, PA: Palmer Museum of Art, 2005), 14 (no. 57). Carol Clark, Nancy Mowll Mathews, and Gwendolyn Owens, Maurice Brazil Prendergast, Charles Prendergast: A Catalogue Raisonné (Williamstown, MA: Williams College Museum of Art, 1990), 393 (ill., no. 737). Olga K. Preisner, Paintings and Sculpture from Central Pennsylvania Collectors (University Park: Museum of Art, The Pennsylvania State University, 1984), 16 (no. 109), 66 (ill., no. 109). People, Places and Things: American Paintings, 1750–1980 (New York: Kennedy Galleries, 1980), n.p. (ill., color, no. 16). American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture of the 19th and 20th Centuries, May 22, 1980 (New York: Christie’s, 1980), 77 (ill., color, no. 125).