"Sketch for Tanglewood" demonstrates Mary Bauermeister's characteristic mixed media approach, combining offset lithography with hand applied graphite and ink elements on cardboard. The work's incorporation of stones and a glass lens within the artist's wooden frame reveals her experimental practice of layering diverse materials to create optical and tactile complexity. This piece exemplifies Bauermeister's engagement with perception and materiality, hallmarks of her artistic practice that bridged abstraction and conceptual art in the postwar period.