Admirers of the work of Maurice Prendergast will welcome this richly illustrated monograph. Spanning the artist's entire career, the volume interweaves a wealth of information on particular paintings with the intriguing story of Prendergast's life.This monograph reflects the many aspects of the artist's genius, from his early Impressionist street and beach scenes to his middle phase of pointillist still lifes and his later colorful, more flattened figural paintings.