Large Boston Public Garden Sketchbook: A woman reading in the park

Maurice Brazil Prendergast

1895–97 · Watercolor over pencil; bordered in pencil · Robert Lehman Collection

This veiled figure, engrossed in her novel, was probably sited in the Boston Common or Public Garden. Brushed in fluid watercolor, the sheet employs the same basic palette of blue, yellow, green, and red found throughout the Boston Public Garden Sketchbook.

Artist

Maurice Brazil Prendergast

Date

1895–97

Medium

Watercolor over pencil; bordered in pencil

Department

Robert Lehman Collection

Credit line

Robert Lehman Collection, 1975