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accession number: 1926.1653
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On the Beach, No. 3, c. 1915–18. Maurice Prendergast (American, 1858–1924). Oil on canvas; framed: 81 x 103 x 6.5 cm (31 7/8 x 40 9/16 x 2 9/16 in.); unframed: 66 x 85.1 cm (26 x 33 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection 1926.1653
title: On the Beach, No. 3
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creation date: c. 1915–18
creation date earliest: 1915
creation date latest: 1915
current location: 208 American Gilded Age and Realism
creditline: Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection
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culture: America, 20th century
technique: oil on canvas
department: American Painting and Sculpture
collection: American - Painting
type: Painting
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CREATORS
* Maurice Prendergast (American, 1858–1924) - artist
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measurements: Framed: 81 x 103 x 6.5 cm (31 7/8 x 40 9/16 x 2 9/16 in.); Unframed: 66 x 85.1 cm (26 x 33 1/2 in.)
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inscription: signed lower left: Prendergast; annotated on verso, "The Beach."
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: The Maurice Prendergast Memorial Exhibition
opening date: 1926-01-15T05:00:00
The Maurice Prendergast Memorial Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 15-February 15, 1926).
title: The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition
opening date: 1936-06-26T04:00:00
The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 26-October 4, 1936).
title: Exhibition of American Painting from 1860 Until Today
opening date: 1937-06-23T04:00:00
Exhibition of American Painting from 1860 Until Today. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-October 4, 1937).
title: The Eight
opening date: 1944-02-09T05:00:00
The Eight. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (February 9-March 4, 1944).
title: Puvis de Chavannes and The Modern Tradition
opening date: 1975-10-24T04:00:00
Puvis de Chavannes and The Modern Tradition. Art Gallery of Ontario, Ontario M5T 1G4, Canada (organizer) (October 24-November 30, 1975).
title: Verso l'Arte Moderna, da Puvis de Chavannes a Matisse e Picasso
opening date: 2002-02-10T00:00:00
Verso l'Arte Moderna, da Puvis de Chavannes a Matisse e Picasso. Palazzo Grassi spa, 30124 Venice, Italy (organizer) (February 10-June 16, 2002).
title: Cleveland Collects American Art of the Gilded Age
opening date: 2003-02-23T00:00:00
Cleveland Collects American Art of the Gilded Age. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 23-May 18, 2003).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'New York, C.W.Kraushaar Art Galleries, Memorial Exhibition of Paintings and Water Colors by Maurice Prendergast (16 February-4 March 1925), cat. no. 33, title given: Beach Scene, No. 3.', 'opening_date': '1925-02-16T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Chicago, Art Insitute of Chicago, Special Exhibition: Sculpture by Nancy Cox-McCormack, Mural Paintings by Puvis de Chavvanes, Albert Besnard, and the National Society of Mural Painters, Decorative Paintings by Eduard Buk Ulreich, Drawings and Lithographs by C.O. Woodbury, Paintings by Maurice Prendergast (17 March-24 April 1925), cat. no. 22', 'opening_date': '1925-03-17T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Maurice Prendergast Memorial Exhibition (16 January-15 February 1926), cat. no. 9.', 'opening_date': '1926-01-16T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Maurice Prendergast Memorial Exhibition (21 February-22 March 1934).', 'opening_date': '1934-02-21T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Saginaw, MI, Saginaw Museum, An Exhibition of American Painting from Colonial Times Until Today (10 January-15 February 1948), no. 46.', 'opening_date': '1948-01-10T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Maurice Prendergast, 1859-1924 (26 October-4 December 1960); traveled to Hartford, Wadsworth Athenaeum (29 December 1960-5 February 1961); to New York, Whitney Museum of American Art (21 February-2 April 1961); to San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor (22 April-3 June 1961); to Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art (20 June-30 July 1961); cat. no. 43, illus. p. 57.', 'opening_date': '1960-10-26T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Art; simultaneously held at San Francisco, M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, and San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor (see Foreword), Man: Glory, Jest, Riddle, A Survey of the Human Form Through the Ages (10 November 1964-3 January 1965), cat. no. 277.', 'opening_date': '1964-11-10T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Grand Rapids, MI, Grand Rapids Museum, 20th Century American Painting (1-30 April 1967), cat. no. 7, illus. p. 7.', 'opening_date': '1967-04-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, Puvis de Chavannes and The Modern Tradition (24 October-30 November 1970), cat. no. 84, illus. p. 188.', 'opening_date': '1970-10-24T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
(Kraushaar Galleries, New York). (bought by CMA 1926)
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Whitney Museum of American Art. Maurice Prendergast Memorial Exhibition, February Twenty-First to March Twenty-Second, Nineteen-Thirty-Four. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1934.
page number: cat. no. 63, listed p. 14.
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Cleveland Museum of Art. Catalogue of the Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition of the Cleveland Museum of Art: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition : June Twenty-Sixth to October Fourth 1936. [Cleveland, Ohio]: [Cleveland Museum of Art], 1936.
page number: cat. no. 365
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Cleveland Museum of Art. Catalogue of an Exhibition of American Painting from 1860 Until Today at the Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland]: [Printed by the Artcraft Printing Co.], 1937.
page number: cat. no. 154, listed p. 36
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Milliken, William M. "Department of Paintings." Annual Report. 11. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1922.
page number: Mentioned: pp. 33-35
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Milliken, William M. "Two Recent American Paintings Acquired for the Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection." The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art. 14:1 (January, 1927).
page number: Mentioned: pp. 9-11; Reproduced: p. 15
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"The Story of American Painting is Retold in Cleveland Exhibition." The Art Digest. 11:19 (1 August 1937). pp. 5-9.
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National Cyclopedia of American Biography. New York: 1943.
page number: Mentioned: pp. 398-399
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Rhys, Hadley Howell. Maurice Prendergast: The Sources and Development of His Style. Ph.D. dissertation,Harvard University, 1952.
page number: Mentioned: p. 162
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Simon, John. "Maurice Prendergast." The New York Times, February 26, 1967.
page number: Reproduced
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Hamilton, George Heard. 19th and 20th Century Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1970.
page number: Mentioned: pp. 281, 283; Reproduced: p. 287
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Cleveland Museum of Art. "A Check List: American Paintings and Water Colors of the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Early Twentieth Centuries in The Cleveland Museum of Art." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art. 60:1 (January, 1973). pp. 1-36.
page number: Mentioned: p. 32
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Argan, Giulio Carlo, and Rossana Bossaglia. Die Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts, 1880-1940. Berlin: Propyläen-Verlag, 1977.
page number: Mentioned: pp. 115-116, 139; Reproduced: 38b
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"Selection VII: American Paintings from the Museum's Collection, c.1800-1930." Bulletin of Rhode Island School of Design. 63:5 (April, 1977).
page number: Reproduced: cat. 100
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Sims, Patterson. Maurice B. Prendergast: A Concentration of Works from the Permanent Collection. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1979.
page number: Mentioned: pp. 3-9, 26, 30-31
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Clark, Carol, Nancy Mowll Mathews, and Gwendolyn Owens. Maurice Brazil Prendergast, Charles Prendergast: A Catalogue Raisonné. Williamstown, MA: Williams College Museum of Art, 1990.
page number: Mentioned: p. 308; Reproduced: cat. 430
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Adams, Henry. "Maurice Prendergast." International Dictionary of Art and Artists, ed. James Vinson. Chicago: St. James Press, 1990.
page number: Reproduced: p. 751
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Chong, Alan. European & American Painting in the Cleveland Museum of Art: A Summary Catalogue. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1993.
page number: Reproduced: p. 186
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Wattenmaker, Richard J. Maurice Prendergast. New York: Harry N. Abrams in association with the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1994. pp. 117-156
page number: Reproduced: p. 136, fig. 119
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Clark, Carol. "Prendergast, Maurice (Brazil)." The Dictionary of Art, ed. J. S. Turner. 25.New York: Grove, 1996.
page number: Mentioned: pp. 552-554; Reproduced: p. 553
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Hughes, Robert. American Visions: The Epic History of Art in America. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997.
page number: Mentioned: pp. 266-269; Reproduced: p. 269
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Lemoine, Serge. From Puvis De Chavannes to Matisse and Picasso: Toward Modern Art. Milano: Bompiani, 2002.
page number: Reproduced: p. 450, fig. 156
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