{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Beach at St. Malo by Maurice Prendergast","description":" Click here to view artwork     When critics hinted Maurice Prendergast was getting a little repetitive as he approached 50, he could\u2019ve hung up his brushes. After all, he\u2019d been pretty successful. Instead, he headed back to where it all began--Paris--and came away reinvigorated with \u201ca new impulse,\u201d as he called it.  &amp;nbsp;   Today\u2019s episode takes us to the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington DC. We\u2019ll find out how an idea that started with Congress just before the Depression led to an official modern art museum on the National Mall!  &amp;nbsp;   SHOW NOTES   \u201cA Long Look\u201d themes are &quot;Easy&quot; by Ron Gelinas  https:\/\/youtu.be\/2QGe6skVzSs  and \u201cAt the Cafe with You\u201d by Onion All Stars  https:\/\/pixabay.com\/users\/onion_all_stars-33331904\/   &amp;nbsp;   Episode music  \u201cScenes from Childhood, Op. 15 - IX. King of the Hobbyhorse\u201d  by Robert Schumman   Performed by Donald Betts.   &amp;nbsp;  \u201cChildren's Corner, L. 113 - III. Serenade of the doll\u201d  by Claude Debussy   Performed by Edward Rosser   Both courtesy of musopen.org   &amp;nbsp;   \u201cLoopster\u201d  by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)   Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License   https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/3.0\/   &amp;nbsp;   Artwork information   https:\/\/hirshhorn.si.edu\/collection\/artwork\/?edanUrl=edanmdm%3Ahmsg_66.4131   &amp;nbsp;   Prendergast info  https:\/\/www.theartstory.org\/artist\/prendergast-maurice\/   &amp;nbsp;  https:\/\/www.nga.gov\/collection\/artist-info.5270.html   &amp;nbsp;   Maurice Prendergast. Wattenmaker, Richard J, and National Museum of American Art. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1994.&amp;nbsp;   https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/mauriceprenderga0000watt\/page\/n5\/mode\/2up&amp;nbsp;   &amp;nbsp;   Maurice Prendergast\u202f: By the Sea. Homann, Joachim. Brunswick, Maine: Bowdoin college Museum of Art, 2013.   &amp;nbsp;   \u201cThe Early Art Education of Maurice Prendergast.\u201d Glavin, Ellen.  Archives of American Art Journal  33, no. 1 (1993): 2\u201312.  https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/1557569.  (JSTOR)   &amp;nbsp;   Hirshhorn info  https:\/\/hirshhorn.si.edu\/explore\/the-founding-donor\/   &amp;nbsp;  https:\/\/hirshhorn.si.edu\/about-us\/   &amp;nbsp;   https:\/\/siarchives.si.edu\/history\/hirshhorn-museum-and-sculpture-garden     Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden\u202f: The Collection. Brunet, Briana Feston, and Romare Bearden. Edited by Ste\u0301phane Aquin, Anne Reeve, and Sandy Guttman. New York: DelMonico Books, 2022.  &amp;nbsp;    Transcript available at https:\/\/alonglookpodcast.com\/saint-malo\/ ","author_name":"A Long Look Podcast","author_url":"https:\/\/alonglook.libsyn.com","html":"<iframe title=\"Libsyn Player\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/36312270\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/88AA3C\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"600\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe>","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/assets.libsyn.com\/secure\/content\/187489570"}