Marsden Hartley's Roses is an elegy, one of a series of paintings executed in 
Nova Scotia and Maine between 1936 and 1938 that relate to his 1935-36 time in 
Nova Scotia and the tragic drowning of the sons of the Mason family with whom he 
stayed at Eastern Points. In addition, he created memory portraits of the Mason 
family and painted two versions of Fishermen's Last Supper. Roses relates to the 
annual Fishermen's Memorial Service held at Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. In a letter to 
Adelaide Kuntz dated October 5, 1936 Hartley described the service he had attended 
which concluded with a wreath of flowers cast upon the water.

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