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Maurice Brazil Prendergast

Maurice Brazil Prendergast (1858 - 1924) was active/lived in Massachusetts, New York / France.  Maurice Prendergast is known for Modernist genre-crowds, landscape and still life painting.

Much influenced by the Post-Impressionists* and Fauves* in Paris, Maurice Prendergast became a leading name in modernist American art and is known for his depictions of urban leisure-class people enjoying themselves in idyll landscapes and beach scenes.

His style was based on a carefully adjusted combination of colors, which were applied to the canvas in dots, patches, and layers. His compositions were typically laid out in horizontal zones that flattened forms and emphasized the richness of the surface texture. He stylized his figures, which were mostly female, into monumental goddesses, sometimes nude and sometimes clothed, who assume the stately poses of the antique but keep their humanity by playing with a dog or sporting a fashionable hat.

Early in his career, he painted with watercolor but switched to oil in 1900.

Prendergast was born in St. John's, Newfoundland, and at age ten moved to Boston with his family. In the mid-1870s, he was an apprentice to a pain   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 10885 characters.]  Artist bio

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