This watercolor was almost certainly painted in Gloucester, Massachusetts, during the summer of 1934 when Rothko and his wife Edith Sachar (1912–1981) vacationed there with the Averys—Milton (1885–1965), Sally, and March—and Esther and Adolph Gottlieb (1903–1974). This watercolor depicts a dory and two sloops at anchor. Rothko rented a house on Calder Street, East Gloucester, about half a mile from Smith Cove, the center of the city’s fishing industry.