The large central figure of a woman in this watercolor closely resembles a sketch on a sheet that also depicts the footbridge at Bass Rocks at Good Harbor Beach, Gloucester, Massachusetts, where Rothko and his wife Edith Sachar (1912–1981) vacationed with the Averys—Milton (1885–1965), Sally, and March—and Esther and Adolph Gottlieb (1903–1974) during the summer of 1934 (see Related Works on Paper). The juxtaposition of the sketches suggests a rough date for the present work.