Category: Fine Art Collection
Information about works by Charles and Maurice Prendergast, including oil and watercolor paintings, monotypes, drawings, and sculpture.
Explore a Prendergast Sketchbook
Last month, we digitized most of Charles and Maurice Prendergast’s sketchbooks.
Prendergast Subject Browser
We have a new feature on the Prendergast section of our online collection database and that is the “Prendergast Subject Browser”. We hope that you enjoy exploring the museum’s Prendergast collection, and that it expands your understanding of the locations, themes, and landscape features that relate to the works.
Focus on Frames
Charles Prendergast was a successful framemaker, and the museum has in its collection 67 of his hand-carved frames. As part of our digitization project, we are treating these frames like the decorative art objects that they are.
Re-discoveries
Through the process of unframing the Prendergast works so that the project staff can photograph the versos, many interesting stamps, inscriptions, sketches, and even paintings have reemerged.
Prendergast and African Americans
A work by Charles Prendergast was featured in a show at the museum through April 22nd 2012, African Americans and the American Scene.
