Figure 1.-- We do note a lovely image of chidren sailing their sailboats in a park. We are not sure where or when this was painted.

Maurice Pendergast at this time. He exhibited as a member of a famous group, The Eight, although the delicacy of his compositions and mosaic-like beauty of his style differed from the direction of the artistic intentions and philosophy of the group. Maurice and his twin sister, Lucy, were born at their family's subarctic trading post at St. John's, Newfoundland now part of Canada (1858). When the trading post failed, the family relocated to Boston. Mauruce and Lucy grew up in the South End. Mauruce's talent was recognized and he was apprenticed to a commercial artist. It was here that he developed the brightly colored, flat patterning effects that we see in his subsequent work. He was also influenced by Boston Impressionist Childe Hassam. Maurice was personally shy individual who became increasing deaf as he aged. Prendergast never married. He became closely attached to his younger brother Charles, who was also a noted post-impressionist painter. We do note a lovely image of chidren sailing their sailboats in a park (figure 1). Interestingly we notice another American artist, Edward Henry Potthast, who painted at the same time as Pendergast and also painted park scenes and even more so beach scenes, but with a brighter pallette.

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