This solitary scene of an oceanside graveyard poignantly illustrates art critic Alfred Frankenstein’s description of Craig as a "master of mist and watery."
For Craig "a landscape is not so much a place as a moment of time in a place." Craig used his art not to tell a story but rather to suggest a mood, in this case a romantic, contemplative one of quiet solitude. In The Lorenzetti Grave Craig used a controlled, very wet wash to create the soft, blurry effects of impending rain. Windswept trees are a characteristic element in Craig’s landscapes, and he often presented them against a sweeping, open sky to suggest changeable weather conditions. Despite the delicacy of his technique, Craig painted the composition on a full sheet, the large size-a feature that became characteristic of the California watercolorists in the midthirties-demonstrating the expansive vision of the California Water Color Society painters.
