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The White Horse and Circus Rider, (painting)

Catalog Data

Painter:
Prendergast, Maurice 1858-1924  Search this
Medium:
Watercolor on paper
Type:
Paintings
Owner/Location:
Williams College Williams College Museum of Art Main Street Williamstown Massachusetts 01267 Accession Number: 95.4.92
Date:
Ca. 1893-1895
Notes:
Mathews, Nancy Mowll, "The Art of Leisure: Maurice Prendergast in the Williams College Museum of Art," Williamstown, MA: Williams College Museum of Art, 1999, pg. 87.
Clark, Carol, Nancy Mowll Mathews, and Gwendolyn Owens, "Maurice Brazil Prendergast, Charles Prendergast: A Catalogue RaisonneĢ," Williamstown, MA: Williams College Museum of Art; Munich, Germany: Prestel, 1990, no. CR593.
Mathews, Nancy Mowll, "The Art of Leisure: Maurice Prendergast in the Williams College Museum of Art," Williamstown, MA: Williams College Museum of Art, 1999, pg. 87.
unsigned
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Summary:
View of a female circus bareback rider holding on to the mane of a trotting white horse as she balances on the horse's back.
Topic:
Figure female--Full length  Search this
Animal--Horse  Search this
Performing Arts--Circus--Bareback Rider  Search this
Control number:
IAP 23490147
Data Source:
Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museums
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_ari_380612