Large Boston Public Garden Sketchbook: A crowd watching fireworks, 1895–97, Verso: watercolor over pencil, 14 1/8 x 11 3/16 in. (35.8 x 28.4 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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Large Boston Public Garden Sketchbook, crowd watching fireworks, 1895–97, Verso, watercolor, pencil, 14 1/8 x 11 3/16, 35.8 28.4 cm, Drawings, Maurice Brazil Prendergast, American, St. John’s, Newfoundland, 1858–1924, New York, Prendergast uses, thin, washes, color, lay, image, figures, park, evening sky, ablaze, firework display, wonderfully handled, vertical bands, spatial narrative, extending across, page spread
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