Large Boston Public Garden Sketchbook: A crowd watching fireworks, Maurice Brazil Prendergast, 1895–97

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Large Boston Public Garden Sketchbook: A crowd watching fireworks, 1895–97, Verso: watercolor over pencil, 14 1/8 x 11 3/16 in. ( x cm), Drawings, Maurice Brazil Prendergast (American, St. John’s, Newfoundland 1858–1924 New York), Prendergast uses thin washes of color to lay in this image of figures in a park and an evening sky all ablaze. The firework display is wonderfully handled in vertical bands of spatial narrative, extending across a page spread

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Size: 5630px × 3437px
Photo credit: © Artokoloro / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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