Art, literature & history
Shipyard: Children Playing
1900–1902
- Dating
- Date range
- Held at
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Medium
- color monotype
- Dimensions
- Image: 20 x 25.3 cm (7 7/8 x 9 15/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1982.166
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Maurice Prendergast. Shipyard: Children Playing. Maurice Prendergast; The Cleveland Museum of Art; Mr. and Mrs. Charles G. Prasse Collection. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: The Cleveland Museum of Art
About this artwork
Shipyard: Children Playing — Maurice Prendergast. 1900–1902.
Medium: color monotype. Dimensions: Image: 20 x 25.3 cm (7 7/8 x 9 15/16 in.).
Collection record: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
In 1891, Maurice Prendergast left Boston for Paris, where he studied art for three years at the Atelier Colarossi and the Académie Julian. It was probably in France that he learned the technique of monotype, a medium that he used throughout the second half of the 1890s. This delicate view of children on a beach—possibly Saint-Malo in France—reflects the influence of James Abbott McNeill Whistler.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.