In the collection of Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia — check current display status with the museum.
FROM THE BARNES FOUNDATION’S CATALOG
The younger brother of the post-impressionist painter Maurice Prendergast, Charles Prendergast was an artist-craftsman who began making panels in a medieval style and technique in 1912. He used tempera and gold leaf on a ground covered in gesso, rendering his figures with incised lines. This whimsical, fantastical landscape containing people, an angel, quadrupeds, fish, and multicolored trees and hills draws from medieval European, Byzantine, Chinese, Egyptian, and Persian art.
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Encampment in the Mountains
Maurice Prendergast — Landscape with Figures
Jean Guiraud — A Harem in Africa (Un Sérail en Afrique)
Sheikh Taju
Piece
Umed Singh of Kota Hunting Lions
Maurice Prendergast — The Beach "No. 3"
Maurice Prendergast — Idyl
Kalamkari Rumal
Kalamkari Rumal
Henri Matisse — Sketch for Le Bonheur de vivre
Ladies Shooting from a Pavilion
