Sketchbook, page 108 &109: Beach View with color notations

This two-page sketchbook spread by Maurice Prendergast captures a beach scene rendered in graphite with accompanying color notations that reveal the artist's working process. The notations indicate Prendergast's intended palette, demonstrating how he used sketchbook pages as planning tools before executing finished works. The composition showcases the artist's interest in leisure scenes and atmospheric effects characteristic of his Post-Impressionist approach to American landscape painting.