Sketchbook, page 019: Notes

Maurice Prendergast

Cleveland Museum of Art

Yellowed lined paper with handwritten text in blue ink. The paper is rectangular and has a rounded corner on the top right. There are blue lines running horizontally across the page. The handwriting is cursive and appears to be in a diary or journal format. The text on the page includes a date "May 18th" and a location "Granville". There is a poem or quote written below the date: "Honors, the noblest chase, / pursue that game. / and, recompense the loss / of love with fame." Below the poem, there is more handwriting that reads: "accustom yourself / to master Chicago / which you seem . to / despair of." On the next line, there is another date "May 19th 1906." followed by: "Very warm day / Temperature 80 / did no work and / it causes me a lot of / bother. A time this and". The number "19" is written in the bottom right corner of the page.