The Archives of American Art has in its possession more than 1,000 sketchbooks, a selection of which will be on display at the Lawrence A. Fleischman Gallery.
Sketchbooks From the Archives of American Art
Through January 6
Lawrence A. Fleischman Gallery
Archives of American Art
Washington, DC
(202) 633-7940
Archives of American Art has in its possession more than 1,000 sketchbooks, a selection of which will be on display at the Lawrence A. Fleischman Gallery. Sketchbooks from such artists as Walter Shirlaw, Isabel Bishop, Leon Kroll, Frank Stella, and Lowell Nesbitt form a vast repository of ideas, perceptions, inspirational imagery, and graphic experiments from the mundane to the spectacular. As personal documents, they afford an intimate view of an artist’s visual thinking.
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Walter Shirlaw Sketchbook
ca. 1859, Dorothea A. Dreier papers, 1887–1916. Collection Archives of American Art, Washington, DC. |
Worthington Whittredge Sketchbook of a Trip Down the Rhine River
1849, Worthington Whittredge papers, 1836–1932. Collection Archives of American Art, Washington, DC. |