The Robert Lehman Collection. Vol. 8, American Drawings and Watercolors

The Robert Lehman Collection. Vol. 8, American Drawings and Watercolors

Clark, Carol
1992
272 pages
445 illustrations
8.5 x 11 in
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The five sketchbooks and twenty-two single drawings catalogued in this volume, many of them for the first time, are among the more than 2000 works of art collected by Robert Lehman and his father, Philip Lehman, that since 1975 have been housed in the Robert Lehman Wing of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Robert Lehman acquired most of these American drawings, which range in date from the late nineteenth century to after 1960, in the decade before he died in 1969. The deft and fascinating watercolors in Maurice Prendergast's Large Boston Public Garden Sketchbook, all reproduced here in full color, are the highlights of this collection. Also of great interest are a book of 140 sketches, never before published, that Prendergast made in the parks and on the boulevards of Paris in the 1890s and three of his watercolors and a figure drawing from the early 1900s, as well as a later watercolor by his brother and collaborator, Charles Prendergast. The catalogue opens with a small pencil drawing by Whistler that can be dated to 1901, when he traveled to Corsica to escape the London winter. Another sketchbook records Robert Henri's trip to Spain in 1906, and yet another contains drawings by the young Marjorie Organ, whom Henri married in 1908. George Luks and William Glackens, who with Maurice Prendergast and Robert Henri were part of the group later known as The Eight, are also represented, as is their friend James Preston. Among the more recent works in the collection is a sketchbook that David Levine filled with his impressions of Europe in 1960, a series of quick but astute sketches drawn by a master of caricature.

Carol Clark is Professor of Fine Arts and American Studies at Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts. She is co-author, with Nancy Mowll Mathews and Gwendolyn Owens, of Maurice Brazil Prendergast, Charles Prendergast: A Catalogue Raisonné (Munich, 1990).

Museum Interior (?) with a Man Seated, James McNeill Whistler  American, Pencil
James McNeill Whistler
1901
Farm Scene, American Artist, Watercolor, American
American Artist
second half 19th century
Paris Sketchbook, Maurice Brazil Prendergast   American, Conté crayon, pencil, and watercolor sketches
Maurice Brazil Prendergast
1891–94
Large Boston Public Garden Sketchbook: A Woman Reading a Book, Maurice Brazil Prendergast   American, Watercolor over pencil; bordered in pencil and watercolor
Maurice Brazil Prendergast
1895–97
Large Boston Public Garden Sketchbook: Four vignettes of fashionably dressed women, Maurice Brazil Prendergast   American, Recto: watercolor over pencil; verso: pencil
Maurice Brazil Prendergast
1895–97
Large Boston Public Garden Sketchbook: Two women sitting in a park, Maurice Brazil Prendergast   American, Recto: watercolor over pencil, bordered in pencil and watercolor; verso: pencil
Maurice Brazil Prendergast
1895–97
Large Boston Public Garden Sketchbook: A woman reading in the park, Maurice Brazil Prendergast   American, Watercolor over pencil; bordered in pencil
Maurice Brazil Prendergast
1895–97
Large Boston Public Garden Sketchbook: Design for a bicycle poster, Maurice Brazil Prendergast   American, Recto: watercolor over pencil, bordered in pencil and watercolor; verso: pencil
Maurice Brazil Prendergast
1895–97
Large Boston Public Garden Sketchbook: Two women conversing on the street, Maurice Brazil Prendergast   American, Watercolor over pencil, bordered in pencil and watercolor
Maurice Brazil Prendergast
1895–97
Large Boston Public Garden Sketchbook: A girl holding her hat, Maurice Brazil Prendergast   American, Watercolor over pencil, bordered in pencil and watercolor
Maurice Brazil Prendergast
1895–97
Large Boston Public Garden Sketchbook: A woman walking in the rain under an umbrella, Maurice Brazil Prendergast   American, Recto: watercolor over pencil, bordered in pencil and watercolor; Verso: watercolor over pencil
Maurice Brazil Prendergast
1895–97
Large Boston Public Garden Sketchbook: Young girls in hats and sashed dresses, Maurice Brazil Prendergast   American, Recto: watercolor over pencil
Maurice Brazil Prendergast
1895–97
Large Boston Public Garden Sketchbook:  A young girl and a woman gazing out to sea, Maurice Brazil Prendergast   American, Recto; watercolor over pencil, bordered in pencil and watercolor
Maurice Brazil Prendergast
1895–97
Large Boston Public Garden Sketchbook: A man and two women sitting in the park, Maurice Brazil Prendergast   American, Recto: watercolor and pencil, bordered in pencil; Verso: pencil, bordered
Maurice Brazil Prendergast
1895–97
Large Boston Public Garden Sketchbook: Two women and a girl on a boardwalk, Maurice Brazil Prendergast   American, Recto: pencil, bordered
Maurice Brazil Prendergast
1895–97
Large Boston Public Garden Sketchbook: Night scene with three women in blue, Maurice Brazil Prendergast   American, Recto: watercolor over pencil, bordered in pencil and watercolor
Maurice Brazil Prendergast
1895–97
Large Boston Public Garden Sketchbook:  A  woman in a veiled hat, Maurice Brazil Prendergast   American, Recto: watercolor over pencil, bordered in watercolor
Maurice Brazil Prendergast
1895–97
Large Boston Public Garden Sketchbook:  A  woman in a veiled hat decorated with poppies, Maurice Brazil Prendergast   American, Recto: watercolor over pancil
Maurice Brazil Prendergast
1895–97
Large Boston Public Garden Sketchbook: The streetcar on Tremont Street, Maurice Brazil Prendergast   American, Recto: watercolor over pencil, bordered in pencil and watercolor.
Maurice Brazil Prendergast
1895–97
Large Boston Public Garden Sketchbook: The Huntington Avenue Streetcar, Maurice Brazil Prendergast   American, Watercolor over pencil
Maurice Brazil Prendergast
1895–1897
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