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30 pages of drawings inserted into an Aircraft Bond tablet cover

70 pages of drawings

25 pages of drawings inserted into a Lafayette tablet cover

69 pages of drawings inserted into a Wellington Bond cover

33 pages of drawings inserted into a Wellington Bond cover

8 photographs of finished Passion Series pencil drawings. Titles of works are as follows (all are ca. 1934-1935; X-numbers refer to AGO photography): X-01654: Betrayal, Passion Series; X-01655: Last Supper, Passion Series; X-01656: Agony in the Garden, Passion Series; X-01657: Crucifixion, Passion Series; X-01658: Descent from the Cross, Passion Series; X-01659: Deposition, Passion Series; X-01660: Ascension, Passion Series [arms up]; X-01661: Ascension, Passion Series [arms down].

Fonds consists of nine notebooks kept by Kathleen Munn as a student at the Art Student’s League in New York City and at the Summer program in Woodstock, NY. The books contain a meticulous record of her exposure to ideas about artistic theory, philosophy and art history. Undated drawings, prints and unbound notes are also included, and a group of ‘arts-and-crafts’ inspired decorative designs. The fonds contains more than 1800 pencil drawings executed as studies for her mature work on the subject of the Christian Passion. Photographs of eight of these completed drawings are included. Fonds is comprised of the following series: 1. Notebooks 2. Life drawings and studies 3. Studies for ‘The Passion’

Notebook covered in blue cloth with a dark red backstrip The stitching is intact and the sheets are unlined. Contains 6 pages of designs on oiled tracing paper tipped into the book. Drawings accompany a summary of E.A. Batchelder’s The principles of design and A.H. Munsell’s A colour notation. Also included are summaries of Denman’s Ross’ writings, two books on Japan, and reviews of several novels, including Roderick Hudson by Henry James. Much of the book has been written back-to-front.

Notebook is bound in black speckled paper covered boards with cloth backstrip. A number of notes and printed articles are loosely inserted. The pages are unlined and stitching is loose. Two full-page pencil drawings of a domestic scene and 3 full-page charcoal drawings are included within the book. Inserted items include an article on Georges Seurat by Walter Pach, articles on health and digestion, a list of lectures and demonstrations, brochure for a free concert at the Met. This notebook contains a combination of essay-style reviews and short notes, perhaps from lectures. There are reviews of Modern French painters by Jan Gordon, A primer of modern art by Sheldon Cheney, The science of eating by Alfred W. McCann, and Cezanne by Tristas L. Klingson.

File contains drawings removed from a small sketchbook containing coloured pencil studies of elderly figures seated on park benches. One sheet contains drawings on the verso.