# Shipyard: Children Playing

- By: Maurice Prendergast (American, born Newfoundland \[now Canada\], 1858–1924)
- Date: 1900–1902
- Medium: color monotype
- Classification: Print
- Dimensions: Image: 20 x 25.3 cm (7 7/8 x 9 15/16 in.)
- Culture: America, early 20th Century
- Credit line: Mr. and Mrs. Charles G. Prasse Collection
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/1982.166)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1982.166/1982.166_web.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.