Maurice Brazil and Charles Prendergast selected papers
name: label: Creator
content: Prendergast, Maurice Brazil, 1858-1924
label: Creator
content: Prendergast, Charles, 1863-1948
label: Names
content: Brooks, Van Wyck, 1886-1963
label: Names
content: Glackens, Edith
label: Names
content: Glackens, Ira, 1907-1990
label: Names
content: Glackens, William J., 1870-1938
label: Names
content: Hartley, Marsden, 1877-1943
label: Names
content: Pach, Walter, 1883-1958
label: Names
content: Sargent, John Singer, 1856-1925
topic: label: Topic
content: Art, Modern -- 19th century -- United States
label: Topic
content: Art, Modern -- 20th century -- United States
label: Topic
content: Modernism (Art)
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Loaned for microfilming in 1992 by the Prendergast Archive and Study Center. Located in the Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Mass., it contains archival materials pertaining to the Prendergasts, donated by Mrs. Charles Prendergast, as well as research materials and files amassed for the publication of MAURICE BRAZIL PRENDERGAST, CHARLES PRENDERGAST: A CATALOG RAISONNE (1990).
creator: label: Creator
content: Prendergast, Maurice Brazil, 1858-1924
label: Creator
content: Prendergast, Charles, 1863-1948
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Maurice: painter, watercolorist, illustrator and graphic artist; Boston, Mass. and New York, N.Y. Charles: painter, sculptor, craftsman, and framemaker; Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y. and Westport, Conn. Maurice was an Impressionist and early modernist. He painted scenes along the Massachusetts and Maine coasts as well as in Paris, Venice, Rome, and French coastal towns; exhibited with "The Eight" (1908), and was a contributor to the Armory show (1913). Charles achieved prominence as a craftsman and framemaker (1891-1912), and later specialized in painted, gilded, and incised panels of exotic and folk subjects (1912-1948).
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Microfilm reel
unitdate: label: Date
content: [ca.1865]-1992
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.prenmaur
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Microfilm reels
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reel 4543 available for use at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Originals in the Prendergast Archive and Study Center,
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Selected material from the Prendergast Archive, Williams College, Williamstown, Mass. Included are: a descriptive list of contents on the microfilm; letters from Maurice to his brother Charles during trips to Paris, 1907, and Venice, 1911-1912, and a draft of a letter to William Glackens about Marsden Hartley, ca. 1908, with transcriptions by the Prendergast Archive; letters to Charles and his wife, Eugenie, 1900-1956, from John Singer Sargent, Van Wyck Brooks, Walter Pach, Ira Glackens, Edith Glackens, and others. Also included are Maurice's address book, ca. 1914-1923?; Charles' diaries of trips to France, 1927 and 1929, containing 3 pencil sketches;
label: Scope and Contents
content: Maurice's and Charles' diary and addresses, 1918-1925; and a partial record of the Prendergast/Germaine family history recorded in a Bible and birth and death documents of family members. Miscellany pertaining to Maurice includes a sketch on his Macbeth Gallery exhibition catalog, 1900; an informal translation of an article on Paul Cezanne, ca. 1908; a notebook p. inscribed with his name and address; and a bronze medal awarded for third prize in an American oil painting exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery of Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Miscellany of Charles includes his driver's license, a sketch; notes; and signatures. Also included are a photograph of their painting "The Spirit of the Hunt," inscribed by them to a friend, 1918; printed material collected by them; a list of their books; photographs of Maurice, Charles, family, friends, and of works of art by other artists.