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Children at Play

Maurice Brazil Prendergast

Brooklyn Museum photograph

Object Label

Prendergast’s printmaking was limited to monotypes. Produced between 1891 and 1902, these prints are very similar in style and subject to his oils and watercolors of the same time, though often executed with less detail. The monotype process is, in fact, very much like a painting on paper: a single impression is made from an image drawn or painted on an unworked printing plate.

Caption

Maurice Brazil Prendergast (American, 1858–1924). Children at Play, ca. 1895–1897. Monotype with colored inks on wove paper, sheet: 10 9/16 x 14 13/16 in. (26.8 x 37.6 cm) image: 7 5/16 x 11 7/16 in. (18.6 x 29.1 cm). Brooklyn Museum, A. Augustus Healy Fund and Dick S. Ramsay Fund, 46.66. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)

Gallery

Not on view

Collection

American Art

Title

Children at Play

Date

ca. 1895–1897

Medium

Monotype with colored inks on wove paper

Classification

Print

Dimensions

sheet: 10 9/16 x 14 13/16 in. (26.8 x 37.6 cm) image: 7 5/16 x 11 7/16 in. (18.6 x 29.1 cm)

Signatures

Signed lower right, in plate: "Prendergast"

Credit Line

A. Augustus Healy Fund and Dick S. Ramsay Fund

Accession Number

46.66

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Artists and makers

Maurice Brazil Prendergast

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