A Dark Day
date: label: Date
content: (c. 1910)
name: label: Artist
content: Maurice Prendergast, American, b. St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada, 1858–1924
notes: label: Provenance
content: The artist
label: Provenance
content: Charles Prendergast, Westport, Connecticut, 1924-48
label: Provenance
content: Mrs. Charles (Eugenie) Prendergast, Westport, from 1948
label: Provenance
content: Kraushaar Galleries, New York, by 23 October 1954
label: Provenance
content: Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York, 23 October 1954-17 May 1966
label: Provenance
content: Gift of the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Foundation, 1966
label: Exhibition History
content: BRUMMER GALLERIES, New York. "Exhibition of Works by Maurice B. Prendergast and Charles E. Prendergast," 4-23 April 1921.
label: Exhibition History
content: BROOKLYN MUSEUM, New York, "The Eight,"24 November 1943-16 January 1944, no. 49.
label: Exhibition History
content: MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, New York. "The Eight," no. 49. TOUR: THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART, 8 February-8 March 1944; THE COLUMBUS GALLERY FINE ARTS, Ohio, 15 March-12 April; WORCESTER ART MUSEUM, Massachusetts, 26 April-24 May; CARNEGIE INSTITUTE, Pittsburgh, 7 June-5 July; THE BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART, 19 July-19 September; THE TOLEDO MUSEUM OF ART, Ohio, 1-29 October; MEMORIAL ART GALLERY, The University of Rochester, New York, 10 November-18 December.
label: Exhibition History
content: EAST HAMPTON GUILD HALL, New York. June-July 1951.
label: Exhibition History
content: NORTON GALLERY, West Palm Beach, Florida. December 1951-February 1952.
label: Exhibition History
content: NATIONAL GALLERY OF CANADA, Ottawa. "Some American Paintings from the Collection of Joseph H. Hirshhorn," 10-31 January 1957, no. 62. TOUR: MONTREAL MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, 20-31 March; ART GALLERY OF TORONTO, 12 April-26 May; STRATFORD ARENA, Ontario, 1 July-31 August; WINNIPEG ART GALLERY, Manitoba, 6 October-3 November.
label: Exhibition History
content: (*from the Catalogue Raisonne):
label: Exhibition History
content: DAVIS GALLERIES, New York. The Beach Scene: an American Tradition, 10 March-4 April 1959. Checklist.
label: Exhibition History
content: AMERICAN FEDERATION OF ARTS, New York (organizer). "Paintings from the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Foundation Collection: A View of the Protean Century." TOUR: M. KNOEDLER & CO., New York, 31 October-24 November 1962; CURRIER GALLERY OF ART, Manchester, New Hampshire, 16 December-12 January 1963; CARNEGIE INSTITUTE, Pittsburgh, 30 January-26 February; EVANSVILLE MUSEUM OF ARTS AND SCIENCE, Indiana, 16 March-12 April; MUNSON-WILLIAMS-PROCTOR INSTITUTE, Utica, New York, 30 April-27 May; J.B. SPEED ART MUSEUM, Louisville, Kentucky, 13 June-10 July; THE MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS, 30 July-25 August; SAETTLE ART MUSEUM, 11 September-8 October; SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF ART, 26 October-23 November; COLORADO SPRINGS FINE ARTS CENTER, Colorado, 11 December-7 January 1964; DALLAS MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, 26 January-23 February; OKLAHOMA ART CENTER, Oklahoma City, 12 March-8 April; BROOKS MEMORIAL ART GALLERY, Memphis, 25 April-23 May; ATLANTA ART ASSOCIATION, Georgia, 10 June-7 July; SAGINAW ART MUSEUM, Michigan, 25 July-22 August; MONTREAL MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, 8 September-6 October; ALLENTOWN ART MUSEUM, Pennsylvania, 24 October-21 November; MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, Boston, 9 December-10 January 1965; BROOKLYN MUSEUM, New York, 8 February-5 April.
label: Exhibition History
content: HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. "Inaugural Exhibition," 4 October 1974-15 September 1975.
label: Exhibition History
content: TERRA MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, Evanston, Illinois. "Hirshhorn: American Painting, 1880-1930," 29 July-30 September, no. 14.
label: Exhibition History
content: THE HECKSCHER MUSEUM, Huntington, NY. "Seven/Eight: A Comparative Exhibition of the Canadian Group of Seven and the American Painters, The Eight," 20 June-1 August 1982, p. 40.
label: Exhibition History
content: WILLIAMS COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART, Williamstown, Massachusetts. "Maurice Prendergast," cat. no. 77, p.122, 184, 187. TOUR: WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, New York, 31 May-2 September 1990; WILLIAMS COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART, Williamstown, Massachusetts, 6 October-16 December; LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART, 21 February-22 April 1991; PHILLIPS COLLECTION, Washington, DC, 18 May-25 August.
label: Published References
content: BREUNING, MARGARET. "Artists on the beach…" Arts, 33/6 March 1959, p. 50.
label: Published References
content: LERNER, ABRAM, et al. The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (New York, Abrams, 1974): p. 736, ill. 193.
label: Published References
content: CLARK, CAROL, et al. Maurice Brazil Prendergast, Charles Prendergast: A Catalogue Raisonne (Williamstown, MA: Williams College Museum of Art; Munich, Germany: Prestel, 1990): cat. no. 364, p.288, fig. 66, p. 173.
label: Published References
content: MATHEWS, NANCY MOWLL. Maurice Prendergast (Williamstown, MA: Williams College Museum of Art, 1990), fig. 77, p. 122, p. 189.
label: Published References
content: *from the Catalogue Raisonne:
label: Published References
content: UNSIGNED. "Loan Collection at Arts Museum." Montreal Gazette (23 March 1957), p. 30.
label: Published References
content: FRANKENSTEIN, ALFRED. The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. (New York, 1974). P. 150.
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content: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Collection
label: School
content: American Impressionism
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Foundation, 1966
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66.4129
objectType: label: Type
content: Painting
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Oil on canvas
label: Dimensions
content: 21 1/4 X 27 3/8 IN. (54.1 X 69.6 CM.)