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accession number: 1926.17
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May Day, Central Park, 1901. Maurice Prendergast (American, 1858–1924). Watercolor over graphite; sheet: 35.4 x 50.6 cm (13 15/16 x 19 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1926.17
title: May Day, Central Park
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creation date: 1901
creation date earliest: 1901
creation date latest: 1901
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creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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culture: America, 19th century
technique: watercolor over graphite
department: Drawings
collection: DR - American 19th Century
type: Drawing
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catalogue raisonne: Clark, Mathews, and Owens 795
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CREATORS
* Maurice Prendergast (American, 1858–1924) - artist
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measurements: Sheet: 35.4 x 50.6 cm (13 15/16 x 19 15/16 in.)
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description: beige(1) wove paper
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inscription: signed, across bottom, in brown ink: Maurice B. Prendergast Central Park. 1901. / New York.; verso, upper left, in graphite: No 22; center, in graphite: May Day Central Park
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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: Painting Today and Yesterday in the United States
opening date: 1941-06-05T04:00:00
Painting Today and Yesterday in the United States. Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA (organizer) (June 5-September 1, 1941).
title: Watercolor USA: A Survey of Watercolor from 1870 to 1946
opening date: 1946-04-24T05:00:00
Watercolor USA: A Survey of Watercolor from 1870 to 1946. Walker Art Center (organizer) (April 24-May 28, 1946); National Gallery of Art (May 17-August 1, 1946).
title: Maurice Prendergast: 1859-1924
opening date: 1960-10-26T04:00:00
Maurice Prendergast: 1859-1924. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (June 21-July 30, 1961).
title: Eight American Masters of Watercolor: Winslow Homer, John Singer Sargent, Maurice B. Prendergast, John Marin, Arthur G. Dove, Charles Demuth, Charles E. Burchfield, Andrew Wyeth
opening date: 1968-04-23T05:00:00
Eight American Masters of Watercolor: Winslow Homer, John Singer Sargent, Maurice B. Prendergast, John Marin, Arthur G. Dove, Charles Demuth, Charles E. Burchfield, Andrew Wyeth. Los Angeles County Museum of Art (April 23-June 16, 1968); Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, de Young Museum (June 28-August 18, 1968); Seattle Art Museum (September 5-October 13, 1968).
title: American Water Colors from the Museum Collection
opening date: 1974-07-23T04:00:00
American Water Colors from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 23-September 25, 1974).
title: Five American Masters of Watercolor
opening date: 1981-05-05T04:00:00
Five American Masters of Watercolor. Terra Museum of American Art (organizer) (May 5-July 12, 1981).
title: Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art
opening date: 2000-08-27T00:00:00
Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 27-October 17, 2000); The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY (May 23-August 19, 2001); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (October 14, 2001-January 6, 2002).
title: Gallery One 2012
opening date: 2012-12-12T05:00:00
Gallery One 2012. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 12, 2012-March 5, 2017).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
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PROVENANCE
(Kraushaar Galleries, New York, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH)
date: 1926
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1926-
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
DeGrazia, Diane, and Carter E. Foster. Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Exh. Cat. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2000.
page number: Mentioned: pp. 224-225, p.296; Reproduced: p. 295
url:
Wattenmaker, Richard J. "Maurice Prendergast." Allen Memorial Art Museum Bulletin 40, no. 1 (1982-1983): 25-37.
page number: Mentioned: p. 36 n. 16
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Milliken, William Mathewson. "The Maurice Prendergast Memorial Exhibition." Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 13, no. 2 (February 1926): 40-41.
page number: Reproduced: p. 38
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Milliken, William Mathewson. "Maurice Prendergast, American Artist." The Arts (April 1926): 181-192.
page number: Reproduced: p. 187
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Maurice Prendergast Memorial Exhibition. Exh. Cat. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1934.
page number: Mentioned: no. 95
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Francis, Henry S. "Museum Water Colors and the Thirteenth Exhibition of Water Colors and Pastels." Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art. 24, no. 3 (March 1937): 39-41.
page number: Mentioned: p. 40
url:
Painting Today and Yesterday in the United States. Exh. Cat. Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1941.
page number: Mentioned: no. 97
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National Cyclopedia of American Biography. Vol. 30. New York, 1943.
page number: Mentioned: pp. 398-399
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Acquarela - E.E.U.U. Watercolor - USA, A Survey of Watercolor - USA from 1870 to 1946. Exh. Cat. Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 1946.
page number: Mentioned: no. 6
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Metcalfe, James J. "Artists." Cleveland News (August 19, 1950): 50.
page number: Mentioned: p. 50
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The Exhibition of American Painting. Exh. Cat. Athens, OH: Ohio University, 1954.
page number: Mentioned: no. 27
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McKinney. Roland. The Eight. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1954.
page number: Reproduced
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American Watercolor Exhibition Exh. Cat. New Delhi: All-India Fine Arts and Crafts Society, 1954.
page number: Mentioned: no. 1
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 563
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n105
Rhys, Hedley Howell. Maurice Prendergast, 1859-1924. Exh. Cat. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1960.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: no. 88
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Dodd, Loring Holmes. "Two Important Shows at Boston Museum." Worcester Evening Gazette (November 5, 1960): 7.
page number: Mentioned: p. 7
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"Holiday Idyls [sic] of Long Ago: Nostalgic Appeal of Prendergast's World." Life Magazine (September 1, 1961).
page number: Mentioned and reproduced
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Simon, John. "Maurice Prendergast." New York Times (February 26, 1961): X-19.
page number: Mentioned: p. X-19
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
page number: Reproduced: p. 189
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n213
Curry, Larry. Eight American Masters of Watercolor. Exh. Cat. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1968.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: no. 36
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
page number: Reproduced: p. 189
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n213
"A Checklist of American Paintings and Water Colors of the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Early Twentieth Centuries in The Cleveland Museum of Art." Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 60, no. 1 (January 1973): 21-32.
page number: Mentioned: p. 32
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Boyle, Richard J. American Impressionism. Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1974.
page number: Mentioned: p.225; Reproduced: p. 1
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Glubok, Shirley. The Art of America in the Early Twentieth Century. New York: Macmillan, 1974.
page number: Reproduced: inside front and back cover
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
page number: Reproduced: p. 235
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n255
The Monotypes of Maurice Prendergast. Exh. Cat. New York: Davis & Long Company, 1979.
page number: Mentioned: p. 12; Reproduced: p. 138
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Perlman, Bennard B. The Immortal Eight: American Painting from Eakins to the Armory Show. Westport, CT: Exposition Press, 1979.
page number: Reproduced: p. 153
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Five American Masters of Watercolor: Winslow Homer, John Singer Sargent, Maurice Prendergast, John Marin, Charles Burchfield. Exh. Cat. Evanston, IL: Terra Museum of American Art, 1981.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 18
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Japanese Artists Who Studied in U.S.A. and the American Scene. Exh. Cat. Toyko: National Museum of Modern Art, 1982.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: no. 62
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Koschatzky, Walter. Die Kunst des Aquarells: Technik, Geschichte, Meisterwerke. Vienna: Residenz Verlag, 1982.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: no. 200
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Langdale, Cecily. "The Late Watercolor/Pastels of Maurice Prendergast." Antiques 132 (November 1987): 1084-1095.
page number: Mentioned: p. 1089
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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 and reproduced: p. 412, no. 795
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Mathews, Nancy Mowll. Maurice Prendergast. Exh. Cat. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1990.
page number: Mentioned: p. 20, p. 98, p. 184, no. 42; Reproduced: p. 87
url:
Anderson, Janice. Children in Art. New York, 1996.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 114-115
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Pride in Place: Landscapes by The Eight in Southern Collections. Exh. Cat. Albany: Albany Museum of Art, 2000.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 19
url:
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