Sketchbook, page 037: Notes

Maurice Prendergast

Cleveland Museum of Art

The image shows a yellowed, lined piece of paper with handwritten text. The paper is rectangular with rounded corners and has a dark gray background behind it. The handwriting is in black ink and is written in cursive. The text reads: "a set of ideas different from the first set get sufficiently near for the same handy to assimilate than the work produced by their brain, would be endowed with richer colors or in severer form of ideas is to a marks of art what salt is to meat. it prepares meat af against the corrupting influence of time corroting action of time" The page number "37" is printed in the bottom-right corner. The lines on the paper are blue and spaced evenly apart. The paper appears to be aged, with a slight yellow tint and some darker spots.