Sketchbook- The Granite Shore Hotel, Rockport, page 171: Landscape

This graphite sketchbook drawing by Maurice Prendergast captures a coastal landscape featuring the Granite Shore Hotel in Rockport with loose, gestural linework characteristic of the artist's preparatory studies. The composition demonstrates Prendergast's interest in capturing the essential forms of the architecture and natural shoreline environment through economical graphite marks. As a working sketch, the drawing reveals the artist's process of translating observed scenery into the colorful, decorative compositions for which he became known.