|
|
Biografie Maurice Brazil Prendergast
|
 |
 |
|
1858 |
|
Born October 10th in St John’s, Newfoundland
|
|
1863 |
|
Maurice’s brother, Charles, born May 27th (Charles also becomes established artist)
|
|
1868 |
|
Prendergast family moves to Boston, Massachusetts
|
|
1868 - 1872 |
|
Attends public school in Boston; leaves at age fourteen to earn money working at a dry-goods store
|
|
1886 |
|
Travels with Charles to England and Wales
|
|
1891 |
|
Maurice and Charles in Paris; both study art at Colarossi; Maurice attends Académie Julian
|
|
1891 - 1894 |
|
Maurice works in Paris and on the Normandy coast
|
|
1894 |
|
Returns to Boston via Liverpool
|
|
1895 |
|
Exhibits works for the first time at the Boston Art Club
|
|
1896 - 1897 |
|
Shows watercolors in group exhibitions at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1896, and the Art Institute of Chicago, 1897
|
|
1898 - 1899 |
|
Travels to Italy: Padua, Florence, Siena, Assisi, Orvieto, Rome, Naples, and Capri; stays mostly in Venice; returns to Boston via Berlin and London
|
|
1900 - 1901 |
|
Solo exhibition at William Macbeth Gallery, New York, 1900; wins bronze medal for a painting exhibited at Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo
|
|
1902 |
|
Exhibits in various shows in Boston, New York, Chicago, Cincinnati, and Philadelphia
|
|
1903 - 1904 |
|
Rents his own studio in Boston; exhibits paintings at the National Arts Club, New York, with George Luks, Robert Henri, William Glackens, John Sloan and Arthur B. Davies
|
|
1907 |
|
Travels to Le Havre, France; paints in St. Malo and Paris; impressed with Cezanne’s work that he sees at Salon d’Automne in Paris; returns to Boston
|
|
1908 |
|
Macbeth Galleries, Exhibition of the Eight, Maurice shows mostly small St. Malo pictures; meets Marsden Hartley
|
|
1911 - 1912 |
|
Visits Charles in Capri, stopping en route to Venice, Rome, Florence; sails from Genoa via Palermo; appointed to foreign and American selection committees for the Armory Show; elected member of the Association of American Painters and Sculptors
|
|
1913 |
|
Seven of his paintings shown at the Armory Show, New York, an important exhibition that brought modern European art to America; well-known art patron, Dr. Albert C. Barnes, purchases painting
|
|
1914 |
|
Final trip to France; travels include Brittany and St. Malo; moves with Charles to New York
|
|
1915 |
|
Solo exhibition at Carroll Galleries, New York; important American art collector Ferdinand Howald purchases work (Howald’s art collection later becomes the core collection of the Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio)
|
|
1917 |
|
Group exhibitions: Whitney Studio Club and Society of Independent Artists; avid art collector Duncan Phillips purchases painting
|
|
1920 |
|
Participates in Venice Biennale
|
|
1921 |
|
Joint retrospective exhibition with brother Charles at Brummer Galleries, New York (thirty-seven works by Maurice and nine by Charles)
|
|
1923 |
|
Corcoran Gallery purchases painting
|
|
1924 |
|
Marice Prendergast dies February 1st
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
