"American Masters" at Somerville Manning Gallery

26 May 2010
Maurice Prendergast at Somerville Manning Gallery.

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Maurice Prendergast at Somerville Manning Gallery.

"A handsome and piquant show that contains more than a few delights and surprises," writes Edward Sozanski in the Philadelphia Inquirer of "American Masters" at Somerville Manning Gallery.

The Greenville, Delaware, gallery is showing thirty works by leading American artists, mostly from the late 19th-mid 20th century.

Notably, there is an Alfred Maurer nocturne of Paris, the colorful "Bayside Marblehead" by Maurice Prendergast, and Charles Burchfield's effervescent watercolor "The Promise of Spring."

Mary Cassatt, the Wyeths, Winslow Homer, and more top names are represented.




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