Paintings
On the Beach, No. 3
PaintingLandscape
Details
- Author / creator
- Maurice Prendergast (American, born Newfoundland [now Canada], 1858–1924)
- Object type
- Painting
- Date or period
- c. 1915–18
- Dimensions summary
- Framed: 81 × 103 × 6.5 cm; Unframed: 66 × 85.1 cm
- Support
- Canvas
- Paint medium
- Oil
- Place of origin
- United States
- Acquisition method
- Purchase
- Credit line
- Purchased with the Hartley Bequest Fund, 1926
- Image rights
- Public domain (CC0)
About this object
Prendergast developed a distinctive painting style featuring rounded patches of thickly applied color. Like many of his works, On the Beach, No. 3 visually approximates a densely woven tapestry.
Materials and technique
Oil on canvas
Signature and marks
signed lower left: Prendergast; annotated on verso, "The Beach."
