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Drawings for the Passion

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].

Notebook No. 4

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 No. 5

Notebook is bound in worn limp red leather and contains lined pages. Many of the entries are dated. Contains summaries of books on aesthetics, with occasional quick pencil sketches. Books read include Burnett on painting; Design, the making of patterns; Paul Cezanne his life and art by Vollard; The painter’s palette by Denman Ross; Clive Bell’s Art; Sir Joshua Reynold’s Discourses with Roger Fry’s introduction, and entries on ‘negro art’, theosophy and a number of artists including Brancusi, Seurat and others. Two leaves have been fully removed and one sheet has been partially removed.

Notebook No. 7

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.

Heads

File contains drawings on paper in charcoal and pencil that contain studies of heads.

Anatomical studies (1)

File contains pencil drawings on paper with written notations showing proportions of the human body at different ages and with different sexes.

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