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Exhibition History"Selections from the Truby Kelly Kirsch Memorial Collection,' Sioux City Art Center, Feb. 4 - 28, 1959; Westmar College, LeMars, Mar. 25 - Apr. 17, 1959

"Selections from the Truby Kelly Kirsch Memorial Collection," Art Lounge of the Iowa Building, Drake University

"Maurice Prendergast," organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston to honor the centennial of the artist's birth. Catalog by Hedley Howell Rhys, pub. by Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1960, cat. no. 131, p. 105, repro. pl. no. 131, p. 152~Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Octt. 26 - Dec. 4, 1960 - circulated to: ~Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Conn., Dec. 27, 1960 - Feb. 5, 1961;~Whitney Museum of American Art, N.Y., Feb. 21 - Apr. 2, 1961;~California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, Apr. 22 - June 3, 1961;~Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio, June 20 - July 30, 1961

"The Kirsch Years 1936-1958," a testimonial exhibiton assembled from the collections of the DMAC and the University of Nebraska Art Galleries, Lincoln, cat. no. 56:~DMAC, Jan. 7 - Feb. 10, 1974;~Sheldon Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Feb. 25 - Mar. 31, 1974

"Maurice Prendergast," organized by the University of Maryland Art Gallery, Sept. 1 - Oct. 6, 1976;~University Art Musuem, University of Texas, Austin, Oct. 17 - Nov. 21, 1976;~DMAC, Nov. 30, 1976 - Jan. 2, 1977;~Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Ohio, Jan. 14 - Feb. 20, 1977;~Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell university, Ithaca, N.Y., Mar. 1 - Apr. 15, 1977

"Maurice Prendergast," Davis & Long Company, N.Y., cat. no. 12, repro. p. 88~(above exhibiton did not include all of the works in the exhibition organized by the Maryland Art Gallery)

"The Monotypes of Maurice Prendergast," Davis & Long Company, N.Y., cat. no. 78, repro. p. 114

"Critters," Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
Published References"Gallery Guide" for the "Critters" Exhibition, Des Moines Art Center

AMERICA'S ROME, by William L. Vance, pub. by Yale University Press, 1986

MAURICE PRENDERGAST, by Richard J. Wattenmaker, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. in association with The National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, New York, 1994, black and white reproduction, pg. 56, plate 39.

Nancy Mowll Mathews with Elizabeth Kennedy, "Prendergast in Italy", Merrell, 2009, color ill. pg.124
DimensionsFrame: 17 3/4 × 21 3/4 × 1 1/4 in. (45.1 × 55.2 × 3.2 cm)
Other (mat): 16 × 20 in. (40.6 × 50.8 cm)
Image: 12 3/8 × 9 1/8 in. (31.4 × 23.2 cm)
Accession Number 1953.21
Classificationswork on paper
CopyrightPublic Domain
SignedMB P (scratched in plate l,r)
InscriptionsThe Roman Campagna (scratched in plate l,l)
Paper/SupportIvory paper
ProvenanceArtist, Italy; Charles Prendergast [inherited from the previous, 1924]; Mrs. Charles Prendergast [inherited from the previous, 1948]; (Kraushaar Galleries, New York); Des Moines Art Center [purchased from the previous, 1953]
The Roman Campagna
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Maurice Brazil Prendergast
ca. 1900
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Maurice Brazil Prendergast
1912-1914
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Maurice Brazil Prendergast
1912
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Blanche Lazzell
1938
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Nathan Oliveira
1973
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Ernest Lawson
date unknown
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Matt Phillips
1977
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Alice Righter Edmiston
date unknown
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Matt Phillips
1977