Past Exhibitions
All exhibitions took place at the Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA unless otherwise noted. This list includes exhibitions from 1983 to the present.
Charles Prendergast: In Search of “Innocence”
August 21-November 28, 2010
Prendergast in Italy
July 18-September 20, 2009
traveling, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy (October 9, 2009-January 10, 2010); The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX (February 14-May 9, 2010)
American Dreams: American Art to 1950 in the Williams College Museum of Art
January 27, 2006-December 12, 2010
Moving Pictures: American Art and Early Film, 1880-1910
July 16-December 11, 2005
traveling, Reynolda House, Museum of American Art, Winston-Salem, NC (March 10-July 16, 2006); Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York, NY, (September 13-December 9, 2006); The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. (February 17-May 20, 2007)
In the Company of Women
October 30, 2004-April 17, 2005
Summer Afternoon: American Watercolors from the Collection
May 22-October 11, 2004
Maurice Prendergast: Learning to Look
August 11, 2001-January 6, 2002
traveling, Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA
(January 19-April 14, 2002) [Brochure PDF]
Maurice and Charles Prendergast: The Art of Leisure
July 1, 2000-July 22, 2001
Edges of Impressionism
February 28, 1998-June 4, 2000
Maurice Prendergast: The State of the Estate
May 10, 1997-February 1, 1998
traveling, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ (May 17-August 16, 1998); Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY (September 13, 1998-January 3, 1999); Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, LI (June 19-August 29, 1999); Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, KS (October 3, 1999- January 3, 2000) [Brochure PDF]
Dreams and Realities: Charles Prendergast and the Art of the 1940’s
August 24, 1996-April 20, 1997
Painting Changes: Prendergast and His Contemporaries 1890-1930
August 5, 1995-May 11, 1997
The History of American Watercolors
August 5-December 3, 1995
Modernism: European & American Art 1900-1950 from the Williams College Museum of Art Collection
January 29, 1994-July 16, 1995
Beauties…of a Quiet Kind: The Art of Charles Prendergast from the Collections of Williams College and Mrs. Charles Prendergast
August 14, 1993-January 9, 1994 [Symposium]
Maurice Prendergast: Highlights from the Williams College Museum of Art
February 20-August 1, 1993
The Prendergasts and the History of Art
April 25, 1992-January 31, 1993
Maurice Prendergast in the Teens
August 17, 1991-March 5, 1992
Fugitive Colors and Other Issues in Conservation
August 14-November 3, 1991 [Brochure PDF]
Maurice Prendergast Reviewed: The Theme of Decoration
May 4-August 4, 1991
Charles Prendergast
February 16-April 12, 1991
Maurice Prendergast: Pieces of the Picture
December 8, 1990-April 12, 1991
Maurice Prendergast
October 6-December 16, 1990
traveling, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (May 31-September 2, 1990); Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (February 21-April 22, 1991); The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. (May 18-August 25, 1991) [Brochure PDF] [Symposium]
Charles Prendergast
September 29- December 16, 1990
Maurice Prendergast in Context: Selections from Regional Museums
September 15-November 25, 1990 [Brochure PDF]
Maurice Prendergast: Figures and Movement
March 31-August 26, 1990
Maurice Prendergast’s Landscapes
March 31-August 26, 1990
Kindred Spirits: Maurice and Charles Prendergast
December 2, 1989-March 18, 1990 [Brochure PDF]
Maurice Prendergast at the Beach
July 22- November 26, 1989
The Panels of Charles Prendergast
January 21-November 26, 1989
Maurice Prendergast’s Women: Real & Ideal
January 21-November 26, 1989
The Prendergasts and the Arts & Crafts Movement
October 8, 1988-January 8, 1989 [Brochure PDF] [Symposium]
The Artist’s Eye: Maurice and Charles Prendergast
May 7-September 18, 1988
Maurice and Charles Prendergast
October 19, 1986- April 28, 1987
Monotypes by Maurice Prendergast from the Terra Museum of American Art
September 20-November 17, 1985 [Press clipping PDF]
The Art of the Prendergasts
June 6-September 8, 1985
Maurice Prendergast Sketchbooks
April 4-May 26, 1985 [Brochure PDF]
Portraits by the Prendergasts
October 19, 1984–March 24, 1985 [Brochure PDF] [Press Release PDF]
Charles Prendergast: Figures and Carved Panels
April 21-September 16, 1984 [Brochure PDF] [Press clipping PDF]
The Art of Maurice & Charles Prendergast
September 11-December 4, 1983 [Press clipping PDF] [Exhibition Catalogue]
