Digitization Blog
The Williams College Museum of Art is home to the world’s largest repository of the work of the artist brothers Maurice Prendergast (1858–1924) and Charles Prendergast (1863–1948). Throughout these web pages, you can learn more about the collection itself and get a behind-the-scenes glimpse of the museum staff’s efforts to digitize the Prendergast collection for the purpose of increasing access to these resources. These collections, as well as their family archives, came to the museum during the years 1983 to 1995 for research and educational purposes.
Header image: detail of oil on canvas by Maurice Brazil Prendergast; Snowscape ca. 1907-1910 (91.18.22).
Charles Prendergast: Behind the Scenes
We are now in the midst of digitizing Charles Prendergast’s tools. Take a look, then check back in the future as we digitize more objects connected to the behind-the-scenes artistic processes of the Prendergasts!
Year One Report to IMLS
We have just submitted our year one report to the Institute of Museum and Library Services indicating that we are right on track with our grant activities for the Prendergast Digitization Project.
Wrapping Up Year One
Our professional photographers, Jim Gipe and Stephen Petegorsky, have just this moment photographed the last of the paintings in the museum’s Prendergast collection.
