The Harbor from City Point (New England Shore and Harbor Scene; also possibly The Harbour)

Inscriptions

Signed and dated, in graphite, lower left: 1895 / M.B. Prendergast; signed, in ink, below: Maurice B. Prendergast [numerous initials and signatures inscribed in graphite]; inscribed, in graphite, on reverse [not artist's hand]: The Harbor from City Point

Course History

ARTH 17, The Power of Place: Urban and Rural Images in American Art, 1900-1945, Sarah Powers, Winter 2014

ARTH 17, The Power of Place: Urban and Rural Images in American Art, 1900-1945, Sarah Powers, Winter 2014

Exhibition History

American Works on Paper from the Gilded Age, Israel Sack Gallery [American Works on Paper wall], Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 31-July 2011.

Curator's Choice: Dartmouth College Permanent Collection, Jaffe-Friede, Strauss and Barrows Galleries, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 29, 1976-January 16, 1977.

From Copley to Dove: American Drawings and Watercolors at Dartmouth, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, (no cat.), March 11-May 28, 1989.

Marks of Distinction: Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 29-May 29, 2005; Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, Michigan, June 24-September 11, 2005; National Academy Museum, New York City, New York, October 20-December 31, 2005.

Maurice Prendergast: By the Sea, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick Maine, June 29-October 13, 2013.

Possibly Artists' Exhibition and Sale, C. O. Elliett, Malden, Massachusetts, no. 84 (as "The Harbour"), 1897.

Watercolors by Maurice Prendergast from New England Collections, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, no. 3, November 11-December 17, 1978.

Publication History

Carol Clark, Nancy Mowl Mathews, Gwendolyn Owens, Maurice Brazil Predergast, Charles Predergast: A Catalogue Raisonne, Munich: Prestel and Williamstown, Massachusetts: Williams College Museum of Art, 1990, p. 350, no. 596, ill.

Acquisitions 1974-1978, Hanover, New Hampshire: The Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1979, p. 52, ill.

Gwendolyn Owens, Watercolors by Maurice Prendergast from New England Collections, Williamstown, Massachusetts: The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1978, p. 19, no. 3, ill.

Barbara J. MacAdam, Marks of Distinction: Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art, Manchester, Vermont: Hudson Hills Press, 2005, pp. 39, 122, 259, ill. p. 123, no. 32.

Barbara J. MacAdam, Marks of Distinction: Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art, American Art Review, Vol. XVII No. 2, April 2005, pp. 86-93, ill p. 90

Joachim Homann, Trevor J. Fairbrother, Nancy Mowll Mathews, Joseph J. Rishel, and Richard J. Wattenmaker, Maurice Prendergast: By the Sea, New York: Delmonico Books - Prestel Publishing and the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 2013: ill. p. 38, fig. 4; p. 166, no. 4; p. 74-75 discussed.

Provenance

Possibly C. O. Elliett (art dealer), Malden, Massachusetts, 1897; Middleby Estate, Malden, Massachusetts; sold to Margie and Warren F. Upham, Malden, Massachusetts, probably early 1930s; given to present collection, 1976.

Catalogue Raisonne

Clark, Mathews, Owens, no. 596.

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