My Yale Sketchbook © 2014

This sketchbook was primarily created during visits to the Yale Center for British Art. Also, included are a few after-hours sketches from the Yale Opera and the Yale Rep.

A small selection of the pages is reproduced below.

My gratitude goes to Chief Curator, Scott Wilcox, for the abundant knowledge, guidance, humor, and inspiration he offered during my research of the remarkable sketchbooks housed in the YCBA Prints and Drawings archives. I was able to enjoy many unforgettable afternoons at my special study table beneath the illumination of a huge window - now and then glancing out on the comings and goings in Chapel Street - while studying original 18th and 19th century sketchbooks by J. M. W. Turner, George Romney, William Simpson, Charles Keene, Thomas Patch, Clarkson Stanfield, and that exemplary female sketchbook-keeper, Barbara Bodichon.

I also explored the amazing collection of original books, sketches, watercolors and prints by William Blake, including his magnificent illustrations for Dante's Divina Commedia. Blake is a master of allegorical figuration. The time studying his art and paraphrasing his images in my sketchbook were some of my happiest days in New Haven. One learns so much by sketching.

Note: Personal phone numbers, addresses, email notations, and notes/dates were removed on reproductions below.

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My study tableYale Center for British Art

Prints and Drawings

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