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Accession #	39.53
Artist	Maurice Brazil Prendergast
Title	Flowers in a Vase (Zinnias)
Date	ca. 1910-1913
Medium	Oil on canvas
Dimensions	23 1/4 x 25 3/16 in. (59.1 x 64 cm) Frame: 27 5/8 x 29 7/8 x 2 3/8 in. (70.2 x 75.9 x 6 cm)
Signed	Signed lower right: "Prendergast"
Credit Line	Gift of Frank L. Babbott, Jr.
Location	American Identities: Inventing American Landscape

Curatorial Remarks:

Flowers in a Vase is one of approximately ten canvases painted by Maurice Prendergast between 1910 and 1913 that feature a simple tabletop arrangement of flowers. In these he synthesized his understanding of the art of the French artists Paul Cézanne and Henri Matisse to arrive at his own decorative Post-Impressionist style. He used deliberate, broadly applied strokes of a paint-loaded brush to describe both form and space--a technique that creates an allover surface of patterns reminiscent of a mosaic.