Admirers of the work of Maurice Prendergast should welcome this monograph. Spanning the artist's entire career, the volume interweaves a 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 colourful, more flattened figural paintings.