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Preview image of work. watercolor, pastel, brush & colored ink over graphite on off-white wove paper,  Peaches Point, Mass (View from Old Burial Hill, Marblehead (Barnegat) Massachusetts) 10896
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1991.13.2

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Peaches Point, Mass (View from Old Burial Hill, Marblehead (Barnegat) Massachusetts)

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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.