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The Flying Horses

Artist Maurice Brazil Prendergast (American, 1858-1924)

Dateabout 1902-1906

DimensionsFrame: 35 × 43 1/4 × 4 in. (88.9 × 109.9 × 10.2 cm)
Canvas: 23 7/8 × 32 1/8 in. (60.6 × 81.6 cm)

MediumOil on canvas

ClassificationPaintings

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Florence Scott Libbey Bequest in Memory of her Father, Maurice A. Scott

Object number

1957.22

On View

External Site Address (External address), On Loan

Label TextDrawn to colorful scenes of people enjoying themselves at the beach or at the park, Maurice Prendergast often sketched at the coastal resort of Nahant, near Boston. He adapted some of these sketches into paintings. Here he captures the excitement, the whirl of movement, and burst of color of a carousel with his broad brushstrokes and simplified forms. Responding to developments in French painting, he all but eliminates any sense of spatial depth, melding background and foreground to create decorative patterns of shapes and colors.Published References"Prendergast First American Modernist," American Art News, XIX, April 9, 1921, p. 3.

Rhys, H. H., Maurice Prendergast: The Sources and Development of His Style, unpublished PhD dissertation, Harvard University, 1952, pp. 88, 93-94, 153, repr. no. 30.

Brown, M., American Painting from the Armory Show to the Depression, Princeton, 1955, repr. p. 53.

Homer, W., Robert Henri and His Circle, Ithaca, NY, 1969, p. 102, fig. 14.

Young, M., The Eight, New York, 1973, p. 136, repr. (col.).

College Park, University of Maryland Art Gallery, Maurice Prendergast, 1976, in no. 36. (cat. by E. Green and J. Hayes).

Toledo Museum of Art, The Toledo Museum of Art, American Paintings, Toledo, 1979, pp. 91-92, pl. 151. col. pl. VI.

Strickler, Susan E., "American Paintings at the Toledo Museum of Art," Antiques, vol. 116, no. 5, Nov. 1979, p. 1118, repr. (col.) pl. XVII.

Nash, Steven A., Dallas Collects American Paintings: Colonial to Early Modern, Dallas, 1982, p. 111.

Clark, Carol, et. al., Maurice Brazil Prendergast, Charles Prendergast, A Catalogue Raisonné, Williamstown, MA, 1990, p. 228, no. 69., repr. col. pl. 32, p. 139.

Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo Treasures, Toledo, 1995, p. 156, repr. (col.).

Exhibition HistoryNew York, Galleries of Joseph Brummer, Exhibition of Works by Maurice B. Prendergast and Charles Prendergast, 1921, no. 3.

Brooklyn Museum, The Eight, 1943, no. 48, repr. (dated 1906-1912; cat. by J. I. H. Baur).

University of Chicago, Renaissance Society, Exhibition of Paintings in Oil and Watercolor by Maurice Prendergast with Watercolors by Charles Demuth and Carl Kohler, 1946, no. 10.

New York, Kraushaar Galleries, Maurice Prendergast, 1950, no. 5 (dated 1907).

New York, Kraushaar Galleries, Paintings by Glackens, Lawson, Prendergast, Sloan, 1953, no. 11.

Grand Rapids (MI) Art Gallery, The Art of Seeing, 1958.

Washington, D. C., Corcoran Gallery of Art, The American Muse, 1959, no. 56, (dated 1909).

Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Maurice Prendergast, 1960, no. 16, repr. (dated 1908-1909; cat. by H. Rhys).

Hartford, Conn., Wadsworth Atheneum,1960.

Cleveland, Ohio, Cleveland Museum of Art, 1961.

San Francisco, California Palace or the Legion of the Honor, 1961.

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1953.

City Art Museum of St. Louis, 200 Years of American Painting, 1964, p. 34, repr.

New York, Knoedler, Maurice Prendergast, 1966, no. 29, repr.

Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, Celebration: Inaugural Exhibition of the Sarah Scaife Gallery, 1974, no. 35, repr.

Toledo Museum of Art, et. al., Heritage and Horizon: American Painting 1776-1976, 1976, no. 35, repr.

London, Hayward Gallery, 1977.

Edinburgh, Royal Scottish Academy, The Modern Spirit: American Painting 1908-1935, 1977, no. 17, (cat. by M. Brown).

New York, IBM Gallery of Science and Art, American Paintings from the Toledo Museum of Art, 1986.

Moscow, State Tretyakov Museum; Leningrad, State Russian Museum; Minsk, Minsk State Museum of Belorussiya, New Horizons: American Painting 1840-1910, 1987-1988, no. 40, p. 96, repr. (Text in Russian)

Minneapolis Institute of Arts; Saint Louis Art Museum; Toledo Museum of Art; Kansas City, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art; Pittsburgh, Carnegie Museum of Art, Made in America: Ten Centuries of American Art, 1995-1996, p. 82, repr. (col.).

New York, Grey Art Gallery of New York University; Washington D.C., Phillips Collection, Moving Pictures: American Art and Early Film in 1880-1910, 2006-2007, p. 91, fig. 140 (col.). [organizer: Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA]

Brunswick, Maine, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Maurice Prendergast By the Sea, June 29-October 13, 2013, pl. 21 (col.), p. 56-57.