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Market scene / MBP. – Antique Print

Market scene / MBP., [between 1899 and 1901] — historic print
Market scene / MBP., [between 1899 and 1901]. Historic print from the Work & Industry collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Women carrying baskets through a crowded market give this monotype its subject, and the record dates it to roughly 1899 to 1901, when Maurice Brazil Prendergast was working in Italy. He made many small monotypes during those years, painting in oil on a sheet of glass or metal and pressing it onto paper so that each impression came out softer and looser than a finished canvas. The market and the working women who fill it were common subjects for him, and the color, movement, and rapid handling of the figures show how far he had moved toward the vivid, decorative style that defined his later work.

Created / published[between 1899 and 1901]
Medium1 print : monotype.
GenreMassachusetts
NotesPennell Fund 540031. MIA no. 97-53. Exhibited: Prendergast in Italy" at the Williams College Museum of Art
SubjectsMarkets--1890-1910. Baskets--1890-1910. Women--1890-1910.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan5,345 × 4,309 px · prints to 18 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-215932

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