Maurice Prendergast

Born in Newfoundland, studied and lived in Boston and Paris, also visited Venice. Post-Impressionist painter whose oils and watercolors are charming scenes of people enjoying the park, the seashore, and other pleasant places.Charles Sullivan, edAmerican Beauties: Women in Art and Literature(New York: Henry N. Abrams, Inc., in association with National Museum of American Art, 1993)