Sketchbook: Mural and Figure Studies

Artists

Description

Sketchbook with beige-cloth-covered cardboard covers; and pencil sleeve. Pages of off-white wove paper. Sewn page block. The sketchbook is incomplete, with 27 pages remaining. Ten drawings. The pages are numbered in red-brown ink in the upper right corners. Pages six through 20R and 21 through 26R are blank, but are still numbered. Contents: Studies for the Boston Public Library: Cherubim design, a study for the panel of "Church" and studies for "Synagogue." Also, figure and head studies; three unidentified portrait sketches and an architectural sketch.

Dimensions

19.2 x 25.7 x 1.2 cm (7 9/16 x 10 1/8 x 1/2 in.)

Provenance

To the artist's sisters, Violet (Mrs. Francis) Ormond and Emily Sargent, at his death, 1925; gift of Mrs. Ormond to the Fogg Art Museum, 1937.