Large Boston Public Garden Sketchbook: A woman and two girls sitting in the park, 1895?97, Recto: watercolor over pencil; bordered in pencil and watercolor, 14 1/8 x 11 3/16 in. (35. 8 x 28. 4 cm), Drawings, Maurice Brazil Prendergast (American, St. John's, Newfoundland 1858?1924 New York), This is one of the few posed studies in the Large Boston Public Garden Sketchbook. Prendergast's subjects generally show no awareness of his presence as a casual observer of their idle summer afternoons