MAURICE B. PRENDERGAST 1858-1924 SIENA Measurements: 12.5in. by 20. 375in. Alternate Measurements: (31.7 by 52.4 cm) signed Prendergast, l.r. watercolor and pencil on paper Executed circa 1898-99. Provenance: The artist Charles Prendergast (his brother), 1924 Mrs. Charles Prendergast (his wife), Westport, Connecticut, 1948 Kraushaar Galleries, New York Lawrence A. Fleischman, Detroit, Michigan, 1952 Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York Acquired from the above, 1962 Exhibited: (possibly) New York, Kraushaar Galleries, Maurice Prendergast: Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings, Water Colors and Monotypes, January 1950 Ann Arbor, Michigan, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence A. Fleischman Collection of American Paintings, November-December 1953, no. 28,11 , illustrated Washington, D.C., United States Information Service; Detroit, Michigan The Detroit Institute of Arts (and travelling), Collection in Progress: Selections from the Lawrence and Barbara Fleischman Collection of American Art, 1955, no. 28, p. 24, illustrated p. 25 Caracas, Venezuela, Museo de Bellas Artes, Coleccion de arte norte- americano prestada por Lawrence A. Fleischman, 1957-1958, no. 32 Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Milwaukee Art Center, American Painting, 1760- 1960: A Selection of 125 Paintings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence A. Fleischman, Detroit, March-April 1960, p. 82, illustrated as Sienna) Brooklyn, New York, The Brooklyn Museum; Andover, Massachusetts, Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, American Painting: Selections from the Collection of Daniel and Rita Fraad, June-November 1964, no. 33, p. 42, illustrated Fort Worth, Texas, Amon Carter Museum, American Paintings, Watercolors, and Drawings from the Collection of Rita and Daniel Fraad, May-July 1985, no. 26, p. 56, illustrated in color p. 57 Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Milwaukee Art Museum; Denver, Colorado, Denver Art Museum; Ottawa, Canada, National Gallery of Canada; Brooklyn, New York, The Brooklyn Museum, Painters of a New Century: The Eight, September 1991-September 1992 Literature and References: Hedley Howell Rhys, "Maurice Prendergast: The Sources and Development of His Style," Ph.D. dissertation, Harvard University, 1952, p. 171 Carol Clark, Nancy Mowll Mathews and Gwendolyn Owens, Maurice Brazil Prendergast, Charles Prendergast: A Catalogue Raisonne, Williamstown, Massachusetts, 1990, no. 735, p. 393, illustrated Note: During Prendergast's 1898-1899 trip to Italy the artist visited numerous cities including Venice, Florence, Rome and the small Tuscan town of Siena, where he executed the present work. Viewed from La Lizza, a public park overlooking the town, Siena depicts a group of well- dressed girls and their fashionable mothers, set against a frieze of Italian architecture, with the campanile of the Palazzo Pubblico visible in the distance.