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On the Beach, No. 3
About the Artwork
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.
Inscriptions
signed lower left: Prendergast; annotated on verso, "The Beach."
Provenance
(Kraushaar Galleries, New York). (bought by CMA 1926)
Exhibition history
The Maurice Prendergast Memorial Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 15-February 15, 1926). The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 26-October 4, 1936). Exhibition of American Painting from 1860 Until Today. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-October 4, 1937). The Eight. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (February 9-March 4, 1944). Puvis de Chavannes and The Modern Tradition. Art Gallery of Ontario, Ontario M5T 1G4, Canada (organizer) (October 24-November 30, 1975). Verso l'Arte Moderna, da Puvis de Chavannes a Matisse e Picasso. Palazzo Grassi spa, 30124 Venice, Italy (organizer) (February 10-June 16, 2002). Cleveland Collects American Art of the Gilded Age. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 23-May 18, 2003).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Maurice Prendergast (American, born Newfoundland [now Canada], 1858–1924)
- Date
- c. 1915–18
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Framed: 81 x 103 x 6.5 cm (31 7/8 x 40 9/16 x 2 9/16 in.); Unframed: 66 x 85.1 cm (26 x 33 1/2 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- Painting
- Department
- American Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection
- Accession no.
- 1926.1653
More by Maurice Prendergast in museum collections
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00009181
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