Sketchbook- The Granite Shore Hotel, Rockport, page 108: Figures in a Boat
1905
This graphite sketch by Maurice Prendergast depicts figures seated in a boat near the Granite Shore Hotel in Rockport, capturing a casual leisure scene typical of the artist's interest in contemporary recreational activities. The drawing demonstrates Prendergast's fluid line work and compositional sensitivity to figures in landscape settings, rendered with the spontaneity characteristic of his sketchbook practice. As part of his working papers, this study reflects the artist's process of observing and documenting everyday moments in the coastal New England town where he frequently sketched.
- Medium
- graphite
- Location
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Spotted works by Maurice Prendergast
Artists in conversation
John Singer Sargent
American · b. 1856
Sargent produced prolific sketchbook and watercolor studies of leisure figures in coastal and lakeside settings with similarly fluid, spontaneous line work and a strong sense of compositional observation rooted in direct observation of everyday life.
Winslow Homer
American · b. 1836
Homer repeatedly depicted figures engaged in marine and coastal leisure activities with graphite and watercolor sketches that share Prendergast's interest in capturing casual recreational scenes along the New England shore with sensitivity and economy of line.
Childe Hassam
American · b. 1859
Hassam created numerous sketches and studies of figures enjoying coastal New England leisure settings in an early twentieth century Post Impressionist style that closely parallels Prendergast's decorative aesthetic and interest in contemporary recreational life near the water.
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