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The Spanish Steps

1898–99

Maurice Prendergast

(American, 1858–1924)

America, 19th century

Color monotype

Image: 29.7 x 19 cm (11 11/16 x 7 1/2 in.)

Mr. and Mrs. Charles G. Prasse Collection 1982.167

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Description

Belying its modest size, The Spanish Steps is Prendergast’s supreme achievement among his Italian monotypes. Executed during the artist’s first trip to Italy, he selected a classic Roman tourist site, theatrical with its sweeping curves, and depicted three dozen red-robed Catholic seminarians flowing down the carefully delineated monumental staircase.

Provenance

?-1982

Leona E. Prasse [1896-1984], Cleveland, OH

November 16, 1982

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

Mathews, Nancy Mowll, Maurice Prendergast, and Elizabeth Kennedy. Prendergast in Italy. 2009. fig. 41, p. 120 and p. 182

Lee, Sherman E. "Year in Review for 1982." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 70, no. 1 (1983): 3-55. p. 52, no. 52 www.jstor.org

Rhys, Hedley Howell. Maurice Prendergast, 1859-1924. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1960. no. 130

Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 357

Exhibition history

Water Color Club Fourteenth Annual Exhibition. Boston Water Color Club, Boston, MA (March 1-16, 1901)

Davis & Long Company, New York, 1979, no. 76, ill. (Exhibition catalogue by Cecily Langdale)

The Art of Maurice Brazil Prendergast, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (February 21-April 22, 1991), The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. (May 18-August 25, 1991)

Centennial Exhibition of Maurice Prendergast, 1859-1924. Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, MA (1960–61).

The Year in Review for 1982. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 5-February 6, 1983).

America Draws. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 28, 1984-March 17, 1985).

Leona E. Prasse, Connoisseur and Curator. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 28-August 25, 1985).

Prendergast in Italy. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (February 14-May 9, 2010).

Treasures on Paper from the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (March 9-June 8, 2014).

Monotypes: Painterly Prints. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (May 31-October 11, 2015).

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