Maurice Prendergast: 126 Paintings and Watercolors

Prendergast was additionally one of the first Americans to espouse the work of Paul Cézanne and to understand and utilize his expressive use of form and color.

also studied the work of Vincent van Gogh and Georges Seurat at retrospectives held in Paris in 1891 and 1892.

Post-Impressionist camp.

he met the Canadian painter James Morrice, who introduced him to English avant-garde artists Walter Sickert and Aubrey Beardsley, all ardent admirers of James McNeill Whistler.

He became closely attached to his younger brother Charles, who was also a post-impressionist painter.

Prendergast remained a bachelor throughout his life.

A shy individual who experienced increasing deafness in his later years,

Prendergast was also inspired by the example of Boston Impressionist Childe Hassam.

a commercial artist.This conditioned him from the start to the brightly colored, flat patterning effects that characterized his mature work.

family moved to Boston.