Large Boston Public Garden Sketchbook: The streetcar on Tremont Street

Maurice Brazil Prendergast

1895–97 · Recto: watercolor over pencil, bordered in pencil and watercolor. · Robert Lehman Collection

The Tremont Street streetcar linked central Boston with Roxbury, Prendergast’s home in 1895 and 1896. Prendergast contrasts the quiet passenger in the foreground with the indecorous female boarding the car, her flouncing costume and rounded silhouette provocatively calling attention.

Artist: Maurice Brazil Prendergast
Date: 1895–97
Medium: Recto: watercolor over pencil, bordered in pencil and watercolor.
Department: Robert Lehman Collection
Credit line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975

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