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    East Boston Ferry, (painting).
    Artist: 
    Prendergast, Maurice, 1858-1924, painter.
    Title: 
    East Boston Ferry, (painting).
    Dates: 
    ca. 1911.
    Medium: 
    Oil on wood.
    Dimensions: 
    14 1/4 x 12 1/2 in. (36.2 x 31.8 cm).
    Inscription: 
    (Lower left:) Prendergast signed
    Description: 
    Figures in the foreground looking out at an approaching ferry in Boston Harbor. Some figure stand back, others lean against the railing along the water's edge. In the background there is a ship and row houses.
    Subject: 
    Figure group
    Waterscape -- Harbor -- Boston Harbor
    Waterscape -- Boat
    Cityscape -- Massachusetts -- Boston
    Architecture -- Boat -- Ferry
    Object Type: 
    Painting
    Owner: 
    Potamkin, Meyer P., Mr. & Mrs., the late,
    References: 
    Exh. Catalog: "M. P. Potamkin Coll." Dallas Mfa, Texas, 1970.
    "An Alumnus Salutes Dickinson College 200th Anniversary" from the Collection of Meyer and Vivian Potamkin (William Penn Memorial Museum, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania), Nov. 19, 1972-Jan. 3, 1973, no. 127.
    Potamkin, Meyer P., Mr. & Mrs., 1988.
    Illustration: 
    Ex.cat."M. Prendergast,"Knoedler Galleries, NY,1966, no. 40.
    "An Alumnus Salutes Dickinson College 200th Anniversary" from the Collection of Meyer and Vivian Potamkin (William Penn Memorial Museum, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania), Nov. 19, 1972-Jan. 3, 1973, pg. 14.
    Note: 
    The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide.
    Repository: 
    Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012
    Control Number: 
    IAP 81140035
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