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Maurice Prendergast and His Associates:
American Impressionist and Early Modernist Works on Paper from the WAM Collection
The Wichita Art Museum is pleased to present a focus exhibition
of Maurice Prendergast and His Associates: American Impressionist and
Early Modernist Works on Paper from the WAM Collection through January
2, 2000. This show encompasses two Murdock Collection watercolors by Prendergast
and 14 additional watercolors and pastels by American artists of the period
who were also experimenting with new ways of seeing and exploring themes
from modern life. (left: John Marin (1870-1953), SUNSET, CASCO
BAY, Watercolor on paper, 1919, Wichita Art Museum, the Roland
P. Murdock Collection, M147.57)
Prendergast
knew and admired the work of the other artists featured in this exhibition
and he counted a number of them as close friends. They were brought together
by their personal associations but also by their mutual contribution to
the opening of American art to a new era of experimentation. Artists represented
in the exhibition are Robert
F. Blum , Arthur
Bowen Davies, Charles
Demuth, Childe
Hassam, John
LaFarge,John
Marin, Theodore
Robinson, Everett
Shinn, and Abraham
Walkowitz. (right: Charles Demuth (1883-1935),
RISE OF THE PRISM, Tempera on paper, 1919, Wichita Art
Museum, the Roland P. Murdock Collection, M63.46 )
Maurice Prendergast and His Associates was organized to complement the showing of the loaned exhibition
Maurice Prendergast: The State of the Estate, which opens October 3 at the
Wichita Art Museum. (See Maurice Prendergast: The
State of the Estate at the Heckscher Museum of Art (5/29/99))
Checklist of the exhibition:
1. Robert Frederick Blum (1857-1903), CELEBRATION, Watercolor
on paper, ca.1890, Wichita Art Museum, the John W. and Mildred L.
Graves Collection, 1998.2
2 Arthur B. Davies (1862-1928), FIGURE STUDY, BACK, Charcoal,
heightened with white, on paper, ca. 1911, Wichita Art Museum, gift of the
S.O. and Marian L. Beren Foundation, 1962.145
3. Charles Demuth (1883-1935), AFRICAN DAISIES, Watercolor
on paper, 1925, Wichita Art Museum, the Roland P. Murdock Collection,
M92.51
4. Charles Demuth (1883-1935), CIRCUS RIDER, Watercolor on
paper, 1916, Wichita, Art Museum, the Roland P. Murdock Collection,
M94.51
5. Charles Demuth (1883-1935), RISE OF THE PRISM, Tempera
on paper, 1919, Wichita Art Museum, the Roland P. Murdock Collection,
M63.46
6. Childe Hassam (1859-1935), THE BIRCHES, Pastel on
board, 1891, Wichita Art Museum, the John W. and Mildred L. Graves
Collection, 1993.1
7. Childe Hassam (1859-1935), THE COVE, Watercolor
on paper, 1912, Wichita Art Museum, the John W. and Mildred L. Graves
Collection, 1998.15
8. John La Farge (1835-1910), CHILDREN IN HUT, AT FALEU, MANONO,
Watercolor and gouache on paper, 1890, Wichita Art Museum, gift
of Mr. and Mrs. Leland Howard, 1983.56
9. John Marin (1870-1953), SUNSET, CASCO BAY, Watercolor
on paper, 1919, Wichita Art Museum, the Roland P. Murdock Collection,
M147.57
10. Willard Leroy Metcalf (1858-1925), STONE BRIDGE, Watercolor
on paper, n.d., Wichita Art Museum, the John W. and Mildred L. Graves
Collection, 1998.30
11. Maurice Prendergast (1859-1924), BOAT LANDING, DINARD,
Watercolor on paper, 1910, Wichita Art Museum, the Roland P.
Murdock Collection, M81.50
12. Maurice Prendergast (1859-1924), RAINY DAY, VENICE,
Watercolor on paper, 1899, Wichita Art Museum, the Roland P.
Murdock Collection, M36.42
13. Theodore Robinson (1852-1896), GIRL SEWING, Watercolor
on paper, ca. 1892, Wichita Art Museum, the John W. and Mildred L.
Graves Collection, 1998.35
14 Theodore Robinson (1852-1896), GIRL AND DUCKS, Watercolor
on paper, 1887, Wichita Art Museum, the John W. and Mildred L. Graves
Collection, 1992.45
15. Everett Shinn (1876-1953), THE MONOLOGIST, Pastel
on paper, 1910, Wichita Art Museum, the Roland P. Murdock Collection,
M22.41
16. Abraham Walkowitz (1880-1965), NUDE FEMALE BATHERS, Watercolor
on paper, ca. 1917-1920, Wichita Art Museum, gift of Virginia M. Zabriskie,
1997.9
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The Wichita Art Museum is pleased to present a focus exhibition
of Maurice Prendergast and His Associates: American Impressionist and
Early Modernist Works on Paper from the WAM Collection through January
2, 2000. This show encompasses two Murdock Collection watercolors by Prendergast
and 14 additional watercolors and pastels by American artists of the period
who were also experimenting with new ways of seeing and exploring themes
from modern life. (left: John Marin (1870-1953), SUNSET, CASCO
BAY, Watercolor on paper, 1919, Wichita Art Museum, the Roland
P. Murdock Collection, M147.57)