him stylistically isolated in genealogies of modern art." A true independent, he fits into no particular category of modern American art. Work Prendergast's work was strongly associated from the beginning with leisurely scenes set on beaches and in parks. His early work was mostly in watercolor or monotype, and he produced over two hundred monotypes between 1895 and 1902. He also experimented with oil painting in the 1890s, but did not focus on that medium until the early 1900s. He developed early in his career and continued throughout his life to elaborate a highly personal style, with boldly contrasting, jewel-like colors, and flattened, pattern-like forms rhythmically arranged on a canvas. Forms were radically simplified and presented in flat areas of bright, unmodulated color. His paintings have been aptly described as tapestry-like or resembling mosaics. Gallery References Sources Kennedy, Elizabeth. "Maurice B. Prendergast: The Modern Spirit" (pp. 109–119) in Elizabeth Kennedy (ed.), The Eight and American Modernisms (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009). Mathews, Nancy Mowll. Maurice Prendergast. New York: Prestel/Williams College Museum of Art, 1990. Roberts, Norma J. (ed.). The American Collections. Columbus, OH: Columbus Museum of Art, 1988. Further reading Adelson, Warren; Seldin, Donna (1987). The Remembered Image: Prendergast Watercolors 1896–1906. New York: Universe Books. . External links Biography at the National Gallery of Art Maurice Brazil Prendergast Virtual Gallery Prendergast Archive & Study Center, Williams College Museum of Art 1858 births 1924 deaths 19th-century American painters 19th-century American male artists American male painters 20th-century American painters American watercolorists Artists from Newfoundland and Labrador People from St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador Post-impressionist painters Académie Julian alumni Académie Colarossi alumni People from South End, Boston 20th-century American printmakers 20th-century American male artists