American Monotypes from the Baker/Pisano Collection | Page 52

Charles Sprague Pearce (American, 1851–1914)
Channel Boat – Heavy Weather, n.d.

Monotype, 4 3/4 x 8 1/2 in.
Collection of The Heckscher Museum, Huntington, New York. Gift of
the Baker/Pisano Collection, 2001.9.185

Evening, n.d.

Monotype, 3 3/4 x 5 1/4 in.
Collection of The Heckscher Museum, Huntington, New York. Gift of
the Baker/Pisano Collection, 2001.9.186

Charles Sprague Pearce was born in Boston and after completing rudimentary schooling left for Paris in 1873. He studied in
the atelier of Léon Bonnat, a well-regarded academic painter of
the day. While this would be the extent of his art studies, Pearce
became a noted artist who traveled throughout Europe and the
Middle East seeking inspiration for his interest in biblical subject
matter. Mary Lublin, the authority on Pearce, notes: “…from
youth Pearce had wanted to be a religious painter of great Biblical
subject ˸