FitzGerald’s trips to British Columbia’s West Coast continued to be stimulating to his imagination. In the fall and winter of 1947, when he was staying at Saseenos on Vancouver Island, he took his still-life drawing in a new direction.

Four Apples on Tablecloth blurs the line between still life elements in the immediate foreground and landscape in the background. The folds of the tablecloth in the middle ground suggest a seascape with a seashell, bleached driftwood, drifting sand, and waves.