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Maurice Brazil Prendergast
(American, b. Canada, 1859–1924)
Purple Hat, ca. 1898-1899

Color monotype, 6 6/8 x 5 in.
Chazen Museum of Art, gift of D. Frederick Baker from the
Baker/Pisano Collection, 2014.6.13

Maurice Prendergast is considered one of the most inventive
modernist American artists of the early-twentieth century.
His training, however, was rooted in the nineteenth century
and included four years in Paris (1891–1894) at the Académie
Julian where he first began to work with monotypes with an
informal monotype group composed mainly of students. From
1891 until 1902, Prendergast completed an important body of
monotypes, becoming the most practiced artist working in the
medium. Purple Hat was completed after Prendergast returned
to New York.
NOTES:
Clark, Matthews, and Owens, Maurice Brazil Prendergast, Charles
Prendergast, cat. no. 1716, illus.
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