1910 (ca.), Maurice Prendergast, St. Malo -- American University Museum (Washington)
From the museum label: After his initial stay in France, Prendergast spent more than twelve years in America before he returned in late May 1907. He was eager to revisit St. Malo, the seacoast town in northwest Brittany that he had known as a student. After several weeks in Paris, where he saw work by Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) at the Champs de Mars, he arrived in this historic port in late June. He spent the next two month creating more than thirty-five oils, as well as watercolors and pencil sketches. With rapid daubs of paint, like those in St. Malo, he captured the beauty and energy he found in the setting. Working with a palette of blue, white, gray, and brown, Prendergast gives the viewer a sense of the weather, as the cloud-covered sky echoes the turbulent motion of the wind-blown water and the angle of the sail speaks to the force of the wind as it propels the small boat safely past the outcropping of rocks.
1910 (ca.), Maurice Prendergast, St. Malo -- American University Museum (Washington)
From the museum label: After his initial stay in France, Prendergast spent more than twelve years in America before he returned in late May 1907. He was eager to revisit St. Malo, the seacoast town in northwest Brittany that he had known as a student. After several weeks in Paris, where he saw work by Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) at the Champs de Mars, he arrived in this historic port in late June. He spent the next two month creating more than thirty-five oils, as well as watercolors and pencil sketches. With rapid daubs of paint, like those in St. Malo, he captured the beauty and energy he found in the setting. Working with a palette of blue, white, gray, and brown, Prendergast gives the viewer a sense of the weather, as the cloud-covered sky echoes the turbulent motion of the wind-blown water and the angle of the sail speaks to the force of the wind as it propels the small boat safely past the outcropping of rocks.