Tag: Charles Prendergast
Sketches and notes in the Prendergast Book Collection
Our next photo session begins on Monday, March 4, 2013. In preparation I’ve been looking through the pages of the Prendergast book collection in search of notations, inscriptions, and sketches as well as interesting images for the photographers to shoot.
First Photo Shoot of the New Year!
We now have 104 images of books from the Prendergast Study Center. The collection ranges in date from 1666 through 1953 and covers a wide variety of topics including travel guides and maps of Italy and France, exhibition catalogs, works from well-known authors such as Voltaire, Rousseau, Virgil, Hugo, Shakespeare, Milton and Cicero, as well as several books on art.
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!
Explore a Prendergast Sketchbook
Last month, we digitized most of Charles and Maurice Prendergast’s sketchbooks.
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.
