Central Park
Maurice Brazil Prendergast
ca. 1914–15 · Oil on canvas · The American Wing
America’s most distinctive Post-Impressionist, the well-traveled Maurice Prendergast settled in New York with his artist-brother Charles in 1914, one year after participating in the transformative Armory Show. Deeply influenced by the work of Paul Cezanne and the Fauves, the French-trained Prendergast captured the energy of city life in this tapestry-like park scene of rich color and form.
- Artist
- Maurice Brazil Prendergast
- Date
- ca. 1914–15
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Culture
- American
- Department
- The American Wing
- Credit line
- George A. Hearn Fund, 1950
