For Bogdanove, the refinements of summer life on Mount Desert had lost their attraction by 1918, and his desire for a rougher locale was satisfied by Monhegan, a tiny island seventeen miles off the mid-coast of Maine. Instead of mountainous scenery, Monhegan offered a compact and varied landscape, unique among the hundreds of islands that dot Maine's coastal waters. Less than two miles long and a mile wide, the island includes a picturesque harbor lined with fish houses, rolling meadows, pine woods, and cliffs soaring two hundred feet above the ocean. A contrast to the more accessible, tamer summer resorts like Gloucester, Massachusetts, and Ogunquit, Maine, Monhegan is remote and quiet, and its immense rocks and turbulent surf offer a widely varying, inspiring subject matter. Among the first artists represented to visit Monhegan, Henri declared that he had "never seen anything so fine" and stated: "It is a wonderful place to paint--so much in so small a place one can hardly believe it."

Over time, Bogdanove helped introduce Monhegan to a new generation of artists represented, and even today, the painters who gather on the island during the summer to portray its scenery carry on Bogdanove's legacy. Bold and peaceful, Bogdanove's Monhegan images are both an evocation of their creator and speak to the special inspiration that the island offered, and continues to offer, to artists represented.