Beach, St. Malo (c. 1907): Art, History and Details

Beach, St. Malo (c. 1907) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Maurice Prendergast (American, born Newfoundland [now Canada], 1858–1924).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

A native of Boston, Prendergast made several excursions to France, where he became interested in the decorative color patterns of such French painters as Edouard Vuillard (1868–1940) and Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947).

Object facts

• Title: Beach, St. Malo
• Date: c. 1907
• Creator attribution: Maurice Prendergast (American, born Newfoundland [now Canada], 1858–1924)
• Culture: America, early 20th Century
• Type: Drawing
• Technique: watercolor with gouache over graphite
• Dimensions: Sheet: 34.9 x 50.5 cm (13 3/4 x 19 7/8 in.)
• Collection: DR - American 19th Century
• Department: Drawings
• Accession number: 1949.543

Collection credit

Gift of William Mathewson Milliken, in memory of H. Oothout Milliken

Further reading listed by the museum

• “A Check List. American Paintings and Water Colors of the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Early Twentieth Centuries in the Cleveland Museum of Art.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 60, no. 1 (January 1973): 21–35.
• Milliken, William Mathewson. “Gifts to the Cleveland Museum of Art.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 61, no. 10 (December 1974): 371–383.

View the collection record

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