Large Boston Public Garden Sketchbook: A woman and two girls sitting in the park

Maurice Brazil Prendergast American

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This is one of the few posed studies in the Large Boston Public Garden Sketchbook. Prendergast’s subjects generally show no awareness of his presence as a casual observer of their idle summer afternoons. The figures sit in silence while their staccato brushwork agitates the whole.

Large Boston Public Garden Sketchbook:  A  woman and two girls sitting in the park, Maurice Brazil Prendergast  (American, St. John’s, Newfoundland 1858–1924 New York), Recto: watercolor over pencil; bordered in pencil and watercolor

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