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The Williams College Museum of Art is home to the world’s largest repository of the work of the artist brothers Maurice Prendergast and Charles Prendergast.

This collection, as well as the family archives, came to the museum from Charles’s widow, Eugénie Prendergast, in the years 1983 to 1995 for research and educational purposes. Our collection of over 450 works by Maurice (1858-1924) and Charles (1863-1948) Prendergast is the largest in any museum and includes watercolors, oils, sketchbooks, and frames. The museum’s Prendergast holdings and archives of documents relating to the lives and careers of the brothers make us a center for scholarship on the Prendergasts and their contemporaries. We present exhibitions, publish books, and organize symposia on the Prendergasts and their era, including, most recently, the landmark exhibition Prendergast in Italy.

Header image: detail of watercolor by Maurice Prendergast. Grand Canal, Venice, ca. 1898-1899 (91.18.6).