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Biographie |
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1858 |
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Born October 10th in St John’s, Newfoundland |
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1863 |
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Maurice’s brother, Charles, born May 27th (Charles also becomes established artist) |
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1868 |
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Prendergast family moves to Boston, Massachusetts |
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1868 - 1872 |
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Attends public school in Boston; leaves at age fourteen to earn money working at a dry-goods store |
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1886 |
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Travels with Charles to England and Wales |
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1891 |
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Maurice and Charles in Paris; both study art at Colarossi; Maurice attends Académie Julian |
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1891 - 1894 |
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Maurice works in Paris and on the Normandy coast |
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1894 |
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Returns to Boston via Liverpool |
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1895 |
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Exhibits works for the first time at the Boston Art Club |
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1896 - 1897 |
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Shows watercolors in group exhibitions at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1896, and the Art Institute of Chicago, 1897 |
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1898 - 1899 |
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Travels to Italy: Padua, Florence, Siena, Assisi, Orvieto, Rome, Naples, and Capri; stays mostly in Venice; returns to Boston via Berlin and London |
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1900 - 1901 |
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Solo exhibition at William Macbeth Gallery, New York, 1900; wins bronze medal for a painting exhibited at Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo |
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1902 |
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Exhibits in various shows in Boston, New York, Chicago, Cincinnati, and Philadelphia |
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1903 - 1904 |
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Rents his own studio in Boston; exhibits paintings at the National Arts Club, New York, with George Luks, Robert Henri, William Glackens, John Sloan and Arthur B. Davies |
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1907 |
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Travels to Le Havre, France; paints in St. Malo and Paris; impressed with Cezanne’s work that he sees at Salon d’Automne in Paris; returns to Boston |
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1908 |
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Macbeth Galleries, Exhibition of the Eight, Maurice shows mostly small St. Malo pictures; meets Marsden Hartley |
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1911 - 1912 |
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Visits Charles in Capri, stopping en route to Venice, Rome, Florence; sails from Genoa via Palermo; appointed to foreign and American selection committees for the Armory Show; elected member of the Association of American Painters and Sculptors |
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1913 |
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Seven of his paintings shown at the Armory Show, New York, an important exhibition that brought modern European art to America; well-known art patron, Dr. Albert C. Barnes, purchases painting |
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1914 |
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Final trip to France; travels include Brittany and St. Malo; moves with Charles to New York |
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1915 |
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Solo exhibition at Carroll Galleries, New York; important American art collector Ferdinand Howald purchases work (Howald’s art collection later becomes the core collection of the Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio) |
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1917 |
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Group exhibitions: Whitney Studio Club and Society of Independent Artists; avid art collector Duncan Phillips purchases painting |
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1920 |
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Participates in Venice Biennale |
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1921 |
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Joint retrospective exhibition with brother Charles at Brummer Galleries, New York (thirty-seven works by Maurice and nine by Charles) |
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1923 |
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Corcoran Gallery purchases painting |
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1924 |
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Marice Prendergast dies February 1st |
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