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Exhibition History"Portraits of the Prendergasts," Williams College, Williamstown, MA, Oct. 20 - Mar. 24, 1985

"Maurice Prendergast," Davis & Long Company, N. Y., May 4 - 28, 1977 (This exhibition was, in a way, a continuation of the exhibition organized and circulated by the University of Maryland Art Gallery as it included most of the loans to their exhibition)

"Maurice Prendergast," University of Maryland Art Gallery, College Park, Sept. 1 - Oct. 6, 1976; (Circulated to: University of Texas Art Museum, Austin, Oct. 17 - Nov. 21, 1976; Des Moines Art Center, Nov. 30, 1976 - Jan. 2, 1977; Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Columbus, OH, Jan. 14 - Feb. 20, 1977; Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, Mar. 1 - Apr. 15, 1977)

"The Kirsch Years 1935-1958," a testimonial exhibition assembled from the permanent collections of the Des Moines Art Center and the University of Nebraska Art Galleries, Lincoln; Des Moines Art Center, Jan. 7 - Feb. 10, 1974; Sheldon Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Feb. 25 - Mar. 31, 1974

"Six Decades of American Painting of the Twentieth Century," Des Moines Art Center, Feb. 10 - Mar. 12, 1961

"Current Painting Styles and Their Sources," Des Moines Art Center, June 1 - July 20, 1958
Published ReferencesTHE NATHAN EMORY COFFIN COLLECTION, a portfolio of fifty selections from the collection, published by the Des Moines Art Center to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the death of Nathan Emory Coffin, 1981, b/w ill.

DES MOINES SUNDAY REGISTER, Sept. 28, 1958, ill.

"Current Painting Styles and Their Sources," Des Moines Art Center, 1958, exh. cat. ill.

"Maurice Prendergast," Davis & Long Company, N. Y., 1977, exh. cat. no.45, ill. p.110

"Maurice Prendergast," University of Maryland Art Gallery, College Park, 1976, exh. cat. no.45, ill. p.110

DES MOINES ART CENTER BULLETIN, Oct. 1958, cover ill.

"The Kirsch Years 1936 - 1958," Des Moines Art Center & University of Nebraska Art Galleries, Lincoln, 1974, exh. cat. ref. no.54

AN UNCOMMON VISION: THE DES MOINES ART CENTER, Des Moines Art Center, 1998, ref. p.229, color ill. p.228

"Six Decades of American Painting of the Twentieth Century," Des Moines Art Center, 1961, exh. cat. no.84

DES MOINES ART CENTER: SELECTED PAINTINGS, SCULPTURES AND WORKS ON PAPER, Des Moines Art Center, 1985, ref. pp.176 & 177, b/w ill. pl.114, p.176
DimensionsOverall: 18 1/16 × 14 1/16 in. (45.9 × 35.7 cm)
Accession Number 1958.60
Classificationspainting
CopyrightPublic Domain
SignedPrendergast (l,r oil paint)
ProvenanceArtist; Charles Prendergast [acquired from the previous, 1924]; Mrs. Charles Prendergast [inherited from the previous, 1948]; (Kraushaar Galleries, New York); Des Moines Art Center [purchased from the previous, 1958]
Girl in Blue Dress
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Maurice Brazil Prendergast
1912
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Maurice Brazil Prendergast
ca. 1902
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Maurice Brazil Prendergast
ca. 1900
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Maurice de Vlaminck
ca. 1940
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Maurice de Vlaminck
1923
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Adolph Gottlieb
1965
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Ben Nicholson
1956
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Louisa L. Chase
1983
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Ellsworth Kelly
1963
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Robert Henri
1909