1991.13.2
Peaches Point, Mass (View from Old Burial Hill, Marblehead (Barnegat) Massachusetts)
Artist
Maurice Brazil Prendergast
(Saint John's, Newfoundland, 1858 - 1924, New York City, New York)
Title
Peaches Point, Mass (View from Old Burial Hill, Marblehead (Barnegat) Massachusetts)
Creation Date
ca. 1920-1923
Century
20th century
Dimensions
13 7/8 in. x 19 7/8 in. (35.24 cm. x 50.48 cm.)
Object Type
watercolor
Creation Place
North America, United States, Massachusetts
Medium and Support
watercolor, pastel, brush & colored ink over graphite on off-white wove paper
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. Charles Prendergast
Copyright
Public Domain
Accession Number
1991.13.2
While Prendergast’s post-impressionist style differed markedly from the urban realists associated with the art group known as The Eight, he was invited to exhibit with them. Like William Glackens, whose Captain’s Pier hangs nearby, Prendergast takes a coastal town as his subject, but turns its focus inward toward community life rather than the sea. The village depicted here is Marblehead, Massachusetts, a harbor town north of Boston. Absent from Prendergast’s work, though, is Glackens’s crowd of tourists, replaced instead by a few seemingly local figures going about their daily business. Prendergast’s bright colors and soft brush strokes give a dream-like quality to this tranquil setting, and it stands in contrast to the darker depictions of city spaces in works such as Martin Lewis’ Shadow Dance and Arnold Newman’s Walls and Ladders.