Maurice Prendergast Maurice Prendergast was born in Newfoundland. However, at the age of ten, he relocated with his family to Boston, Massachusetts. Prendergast earliest artistic training appears to have been at the Academie Julian in Paris, circa 1891. The first known inclusion of Prendergast's work in an exhibition was at the Boston Arts Club in 1895. Prendergast, more so than many other artists of his day, kept abreast of new developments in avant-garde European art. By means of frequent and extended travels abroad, the artist was quite familiar with the work of the European Post-Impressionists as is clearly reflected in the flattened forms and intricate patterns in many of his paintings. It was not until 1914 that Maurice Prendergast (along with his brother, Charles--an artist in his own right) relocated to New York City. By this time, Prendergast had already enjoyed considerable exposure and success through inclusion in such New York shows as the 1908 Macbeth Gallery exhibition, the 1910 Exhibition of Independent Artists, and the 1913 Armory Show. Prendergast died in New York City in 1924.

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