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Beach Resort

Object Details

Provenance
The artist
Charles Prendergast, 1924
Mrs. Charles (Eugenie) Prendergast, 1948
[Wildenstein Gallery, New York?]
[Babcock Galleries, New York, 1964?]
Jerome Hill, by 1972
Camargo Foundation (established by Jerome Hll and endowed with his art collection), to 2 December 1974
Christie, Manson, and Woods, London, Sale, "Modern Paintings from the Colection of Jerome Hill, Sold by order of the Camargo Foundation," 2 December 1974
Berry-Hill Galleries, New York, 1974-1976 (?)
Thomas M. Evans, New York, to 17 August 1977
Gift of Thomas M. Evans, 1977
Exhibition History
THE WHITE HOUSE, Washington, DC. (Office Exhibition), April 1993-April 1999.
VICE PRESIDENT'S RESIDENCE, Washington, DC. "Extended loan to the Vice President and Mrs. Cheney at the Residence" 14 May 2001- 12 January 2009
Published References
*from the Catalogue Raisonne:
CHRISTIE'S, LONDON. Modern Paintings from the Collection of Jerome Hill. Sale Cornelia (2 December 1974), #7 ill.
*from the old Hirshhorn records:
GOLDIN, AMY. "How Are the Prendergasts Modern?" Art in America, 1976b, p. 61, ill, p. 65.
CLARK, CAROL, et al. Maurice Brazil Prendergast, Charles Prendergast: A Catalogue Raisonne (Williamstown, MA: Williams College Museum of Art; Munich, Germany: Prestel, 1990): cat. no. 456, p.315.
Data Source
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Artist
Maurice Prendergast, American, b. St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada, 1858–1924
Date
(1918-1923)
Credit Line
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of Thomas W. Evans, 1977
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
26 3/8 x 30 1/8 in. (67 x 76.5 cm)
Type
Painting

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