Large Boston Public Garden Sketchbook: A crowd watching fireworks

Maurice Brazil Prendergast American

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Prendergast uses thin washes of color to lay in this image of figures in a park and an evening sky all ablaze. The firework display is wonderfully handled in vertical bands of spatial narrative, extending across a page spread. The artist has blotted his sheet in areas of light to suggest even greater luminosity.

Large Boston Public Garden Sketchbook: A crowd watching fireworks, Maurice Brazil Prendergast (American, St. John’s, Newfoundland 1858–1924 New York), Verso: watercolor over pencil

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