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Maurice Brazil Prendergast
American Impressionist painter, illustrator, printmaker, designer & watercolorist
born 1859 - died 1924

Student of: Joseph Blanc (1846-1904), Benjamin Jean Joseph Constant (1845-1902), Gustave Claude Etienne Courtois (1853-1923), Jean-Paul Laurens (1838-1931).
Brother of: Charles Prendergast (1863-1948)

Maurice Brazil Prendergast was born in Saint John's, Newfoundland, to a shopkeeper who moved the family to Boston in 1868. Maurice Brazil Prendergast left school after only eight or nine years and went to work for a commercial art firm. Maurice Brazil Prendergast never married and throughout his life was accompanied and supported by his brother Charles, a gifted craftsman and artist in his own right.

According to Charles, Maurice always wanted to be an artist and spent every available moment sketching. In 1892, Maurice traveled to Paris, where Maurice Brazil Prendergast spent three years. Studying first under Gustave Courtois at the Atelier Colorossi, Maurice Brazil Prendergast eventually moved on to the Académie Julian. There Maurice Brazil Prendergast met the Canadian painter James Wilson Morris, under whose influence Maurice Brazil Prendergast began executing pochades, small sketches on wood panels depicting elegantly dressed women and playful children at the seaside resorts of Dieppe and Saint-Malo. Back in Paris, Maurice Brazil Prendergast developed a sophisticated modern style inspired in large part by the postimpressionists, particularly Pierre Bonnard and Edouard Vuillard.

In 1895, home from abroad, Prendergast joined his brother in Winchester, Massachusetts. Working in watercolor, oil, and monotype, Maurice Brazil Prendergast continued to focus on men, women, and children at leisure, strolling in parks, on the beach, or traveling the city streets. In 1898 Maurice Brazil Prendergast went to Venice and returned a year later with a series of watercolors of the city. In 1900 the Macbeth Galleries in New York mounted an exhibition of his work.- Bio Prendergast Maurice Brazil copy original oil painting - Prendergast Maurice Brazil oil painting –original oil paintings Prendergast Maurice Brazil Bio by America original oil paintings of America original painting Prendergast.

In 1907 Maurice Brazil Prendergast returned to France, where Maurice Brazil Prendergast was profoundly influenced by Cézanne and the fauves. Integrating these new influences into his work, Prendergast painted more forceful works of art, with startling bright colors and staccato brushstrokes. As one of The Eight, Prendergast was sharply criticized for his more abstract and brightly colored style.

Following another trip to Venice, in 1911 - 1912, Prendergast returned to New York to select works for and participate in the Armory Show of 1913. A year later, Maurice Brazil Prendergast and Charles moved to New York. In 1915, Maurice Brazil Prendergast was given an exhibition at the Carroll Galleries. Although the critical reception of his work remained mixed, Maurice Brazil Prendergast was able to attract a number of important patrons, among them John Quinn, Lillie B. Bliss, and Dr. Albert Barnes.

During the final years of his career, Prendergast spent his summers sketching in New England and his winters painting in New York. In 1921, the Brummer Gallery in New York held a small retrospective exhibition of his work. By 1923, Prendergast was in frail health, and Maurice Brazil Prendergast died a year later at age sixty-five.

bibliography

Clark, Carol, Nancy Mowll Matthews, and Gwendolyn Owens. Maurice Brazil Prendergast and Charles Prendergast: A Catalogue Raisonné. Williamstown, Mass., 1990.

Glavin, Ellen Marie. "Maurice Prendergast: The Development of an American Post-Impressionist, 1900 - 1915." Ph.D. diss., Boston University, 1988.

Matthews, Nancy Mowll. Maurice Prendergast [exh. cat., Williams College Museum of Art] (Munich, 1990)

Wattenmaker, Richard J. Maurice Prendergast. New York, 1994.

Maurice Prendergast was never a true Impressionist, but Maurice Brazil Prendergast had distant affinities with the movement - Maurice Brazil Prendergast was considerably influenced by Whistler, and by a lesser known figure named Charles Conder, who when very young was one of the "Heidelberg School" painters of tonal impressionist landscape in Australia, but by the early 1890s was painting decorative pictures in Paris.- Bio Prendergast Maurice Brazil copy original oil painting - Prendergast Maurice Brazil oil painting –original oil paintings Prendergast Maurice Brazil Bio by America original oil paintings of America original painting Prendergast.

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