REVIEW AMERICAN POST-IMPRESSIONISTS: MAURICE & CHARLES PRENDERGAST NEW BRITAIN MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART 56 LEXINGTON STREET NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT THROUGH JUNE 10 “American Post-Impressionists: Maurice & Charles Prendergast,” now at The New Britain Museum of American Art (NBMAA), serves up a bounteous survey of these two important, early modern masters. More than 100 works — including paintings, sculptures, frames, sketchbooks, photographs, letters and tools — have been drawn from the NBMAA permanent collection and the Prendergast Archive & Study Center at Williams College Museum of Art in Williamstown, Mass. The exhibition begins with Maurice’s early watercolors and a marvelous mosaic, inspired by his encounter with Italy’s Festa Del Redentore (ca. 1898). In just a few years, Maurice would be hailed as a leader of the American avant-garde, while his … [Read more...] about EARLY MODERN MASTERS: THE PRENDERGASTS AT NEW BRITAIN