art and seasons.

cavetocanvas:

Maurice Prendergast, Autumn, c. 1917-18
From the Phillips Collection:

Autumn, or Autumn Festival, as Duncan Phillips called it, is a work of the artist’s mature period. An animated scene painted with broad, expressive strokes in rich tones highlighted with reds; it illustrates Prendergast’s superb command of color. The subject is one favored by Prendergast at this time: a crowd of people in leisurely activity before a forested landscape. The crowd and mass of trees in Autumn Festival dominate the foreground of the composition and form a screen, obscuring the background view. Autumn Festival is characteristic of Prendergast’s later work in its freedom of execution and densely packed, tapestry-like surface.

Sunday 2/19/2012

1:54pm (69 notes)

Maurice Prendergast, Autumn, c. 1917-18

From the Phillips Collection:

Autumn, or Autumn Festival, as Duncan Phillips called it, is a work of the artist’s mature period. An animated scene painted with broad, expressive strokes in rich tones highlighted with reds; it illustrates Prendergast’s superb command of color. The subject is one favored by Prendergast at this time: a crowd of people in leisurely activity before a forested landscape. The crowd and mass of trees in Autumn Festival dominate the foreground of the composition and form a screen, obscuring the background view. Autumn Festival is characteristic of Prendergast’s later work in its freedom of execution and densely packed, tapestry-like surface.