Timeline

1858

Born October 10th in St John’s, Newfoundland

1863

Maurice’s brother, Charles, born May 27th (Charles also becomes established artist)

1868 - 1872

Attends public school in Boston; leaves at age fourteen to earn money working at a dry-goods store

1868

Prendergast family moves to Boston, Massachusetts

1886

Travels with Charles to England and Wales

1891 - 1894

Maurice works in Paris and on the Normandy coast

1891

Maurice and Charles in Paris; both study art at Colarossi; Maurice attends Académie Julian

1894

Returns to Boston via Liverpool

1895

Exhibits works for the first time at the Boston Art Club

1896 - 1897

Shows watercolors in group exhibitions at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1896, and the Art Institute of Chicago, 1897

1898 - 1899

Travels to Italy: Padua, Florence, Siena, Assisi, Orvieto, Rome, Naples, and Capri; stays mostly in Venice; returns to Boston via Berlin and London

1900 - 1901

Solo exhibition at William Macbeth Gallery, New York, 1900; wins bronze medal for a painting exhibited at Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo

1902

Exhibits in various shows in Boston, New York, Chicago, Cincinnati, and Philadelphia

1903 - 1904

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

1907

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

1908

Macbeth Galleries, Exhibition of the Eight, Maurice shows mostly small St. Malo pictures; meets Marsden Hartley

1911 - 1912

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

1913

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

1914

Final trip to France; travels include Brittany and St. Malo; moves with Charles to New York

1915

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)

1917

Group exhibitions: Whitney Studio Club and Society of Independent Artists; avid art collector Duncan Phillips purchases painting

1920

Participates in Venice Biennale

1921

Joint retrospective exhibition with brother Charles at Brummer Galleries, New York (thirty-seven works by Maurice and nine by Charles)

1923

Corcoran Gallery purchases painting

1924

Marice Prendergast dies February 1st