Large Boston Public Garden Sketchbook: A woman and two girls sitting in the park

Maurice Brazil Prendergast

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

This is one of the few posed studies in the Large Boston Public Garden Sketchbook. Prendergast’s subjects generally show no awareness of his presence as a casual observer of their idle summer afternoons. The figures sit in silence while their staccato brushwork agitates the whole.

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