Sketchbook- The Granite Shore Hotel, Rockport (c. 1916/19): Art, History and Details

Sketchbook- The Granite Shore Hotel, Rockport (c. 1916/19) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Maurice Prendergast (American, born Newfoundland [now Canada], 1858–1924).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

This sketchbook contains 72 pages of pencil drawings and 9 watercolors of Cape Ann. On the inside of the cover Prendergast wrote the address of the Granite Shore Hotel in Rockport, Massachusetts.

Object facts

• Title: Sketchbook- The Granite Shore Hotel, Rockport
• Date: c. 1916/19
• Creator attribution: Maurice Prendergast (American, born Newfoundland [now Canada], 1858–1924)
• Culture: America
• Type: Bound Volume
• Technique: pencil and watercolor
• Dimensions: Sheet: 19.7 x 12.8 cm (7 3/4 x 5 1/16 in.)
• Collection: DR - American 19th Century
• Department: Drawings
• Accession number: 1951.424

Collection credit

Gift of Mrs. Charles E. Prendergast

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