Shipyard: Children Playing (1900–1902): Art, History and Details

Shipyard: Children Playing (1900–1902) 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:

In 1891, Maurice Prendergast left Boston for Paris, where he studied art for three years at the Atelier Colarossi and the Académie Julian. It was probably in France that he learned the technique of monotype, a medium that he used throughout the second half of the 1890s. This delicate view of children on a beach—possibly Saint-Malo in France—reflects the influence of James Abbott McNeill Whistler.

Object facts

• Title: Shipyard: Children Playing
• Date: 1900–1902
• Creator attribution: Maurice Prendergast (American, born Newfoundland [now Canada], 1858–1924)
• Culture: America, early 20th Century
• Type: Print
• Technique: color monotype
• Dimensions: Image: 20 x 25.3 cm (7 7/8 x 9 15/16 in.)
• Collection: PR - Monotype
• Department: Prints
• Accession number: 1982.166

Collection credit

Mr. and Mrs. Charles G. Prasse Collection

Further reading listed by the museum

• Lee, Sherman E. “Year in Review for 1982.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 70, no. 1 (January 1983): 3–55.

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