Background
He was born on October 27, 1861 in Roxbury, Massachussets, United States, was the son of Maurice Prendergast, a wholesale grocer, and Malvina (Germaine) Prendergast.
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He was born on October 27, 1861 in Roxbury, Massachussets, United States, was the son of Maurice Prendergast, a wholesale grocer, and Malvina (Germaine) Prendergast.
He was graduated from the Rice grammar school, Boston, and studied drawing from the cast at the Starr King school in the evening classes.
Arrived in Paris, he first studied painting in the Colorossi Academy, then at the Julian Academy, under Joseph Blanc, Gustave Courtois, and J. P. Laurens.
Returning to Boston after studies in 1889, he practised painting during the daylight hours and in the evening assisted his brother in carving frames whenever there was need of help. The brothers presently moved from Boston to Winchester, Massachussets. It was at this period that Maurice's sketchy but animated street scenes in Boston and bright water colors of Revere Beach with its throngs of pleasure-seekers began to attract the attention of the public to his work. Mrs.
He made his second trip to Europe in 1898-99. He went to Venice, Rome, and Naples, and brought back a group of vivacious and sparkling impressions, some of which were shown at Chase's Gallery, Boston, in 1900. Five years later, in company with Charles Hopkinson and Charles Hovey Pepper, he held an exhibition at the Kimball Gallery, Boston, and the same year he opened an exhibition at the Macbeth Gallery, New York. Then came an exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago, which brought to view not only gay water colors of holiday scenes in Italy but also a score of color prints of children at play in Franklin Park, Boston, and several diverting circus motives. Still another exhibition was held at the Macbeth Gallery, New York, in 1908.
In 1914 the Prendergast brothers moved to New York, where they took a studio in Washington Square and remained until Maurice's death in 1924. During this decade Maurice's style underwent a radical change in the direction of a more abstract and purely decorative art.
In 1926 a memorial exhibtion of his oil paintings, water colors, and pastels was held at the Cleveland Art Museum; three years later another memorial exhibition was held at Cambridge, Massachussets, under the auspices of the Harvard Society for Contemporary Art. Another exhibition was opened at the Kraushaar Gallery, New York, in 1930.
He died February 1, 1924.
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He believed in a "no jury, no prizes" openness that would allow independent or unconventional artists greater opportunities to find a wider, appreciative audience for their work.
There is no information about his marital status.