Large Boston Public Garden Sketchbook: Night scene with three women in blue, 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 loosely painted watercolor with comparatively little pencil underdrawing is one of several splendid night scenes in the Public Garden Sketchbook. The roughly sketched females, whose path is illuminated by lanterns, convey a disquieting air in an oblique, festive setting