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Maurice Prendergast

Gloucester Harbor

c. 1912
Oil on canvas
48.3 × 61.6 cm (19 × 24.3 in)

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Four well-dressed women gather on a hillside in Gloucester, Massachusetts, overlooking cottages and the boat-filled harbor of this prominent fishing and vacation town. Another figure passes on a horse or mule. In this tranquil seascape, Prendergast adapted classicizing scenes of the Mediterranean—from the Renaissance to his own time—to modern American life.

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