In the collection of Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia — check current display status with the museum.
FROM THE BARNES FOUNDATION’S CATALOG
In this crowded beach scene, bathers lounge on a beach in the foreground while others splash in the ocean or climb a rocky hill that juts into the water. Deploying a rainbow palette and impasto brushstrokes, seen most vividly in the blue and green stripes of the churning waves, Prendergast engages recent European styles from impressionism to expressionism while celebrating the novelty of leisure time in early 20th-century America.
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Luigi Settanni — Port-Manech
Maurice Prendergast (American, born Newfoundland [now Canada
Maurice Prendergast (American, born Newfoundland [now Canada
Luigi Settanni — Landscape in Brittany (Pont l'Abbé Figure)
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Adolphe Monticelli — Four Figures
Maurice Prendergast (American, born Newfoundland [now Canada
Paul Cézanne
Chaim Soutine — Landscape with Figure (Paysage avec figure)
Maurice Prendergast (American, born Newfoundland [now Canada
Georges Seurat — Study for "La Grande Jatte"
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
