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Maurice Prendergast

1858 - 1924

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Maurice Brazil Prendergast (October 10, 1858 – February 1, 1924) was an American artist who painted in oil and watercolor, and created monotypes. His delicate landscapes and scenes of modern life, characterized by mosaic-like color, are generally associated with Post-Impressionism. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Maurice Prendergast has received more than 185,085 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Maurice Prendergast is the 1,879th most popular painter (down from 1,611th in 2019), the 478th most popular biography from Canada (down from 423rd in 2019) and the 8th most popular Canadian Painter.

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  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Maurice Prendergast ranks 1,879 out of 2,023. Before him are Christen Dalsgaard, Karl Schorn, Ben Nicholson, David Cox, Koloman Sokol, and Maxfield Parrish. After him are Morten Müller, Paul Sandby, James Collinson, Jean Jacoby, Randolph Caldecott, and Thomas Sully.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1858, Maurice Prendergast ranks 129. Before him are Richard Friedrich Johannes Pfeiffer, Pedro Nel Ospina Vázquez, Victorino Márquez Bustillos, János Fadrusz, Liberty Hyde Bailey, and May Robson. After him are Alfred Capus, José Leite de Vasconcelos, Willard Metcalf, William Stanley Jr., Tom Clarke, and Edgeworth David. Among people deceased in 1924, Maurice Prendergast ranks 121. Before him are Josefine Swoboda, William Hemsley, Wollert Konow, Sándor Bródy, Lloyd Hildebrand, and Victor Herbert. After him are Georg Selenius, Corrado Segre, Rafael López Gutiérrez, Isabella Stewart Gardner, Henry Cabot Lodge, and Conrad Magnusson.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Maurice Prendergast ranks 478 out of 1,622. Before him are Tom Taylor (1880), Sarah Carter (1980), Dwight Lodeweges (1957), Myrtle Cook (1902), Viola Myers (1927), and Douglas Bennett (1918). After him are Tamara Taylor (1970), Lawrence Lambe (1863), Rae Dawn Chong (1961), Jennifer Granholm (1959), Colin Munro MacLeod (1909), and Ernest Hamilton (1883).

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Among PAINTERS In Canada

Among painters born in Canada, Maurice Prendergast ranks 8. Before him are Jeff Wall (1946), Emily Carr (1871), Jean-Paul Riopelle (1923), Philip Guston (1913), Agnes Martin (1912), and John McCrae (1872). After him are Tom Thomson (1877), and Rob Gonsalves (1959).

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