Artist’s Ledgers – Through the Sketchbook

Edward Hopper and Jo Hopper, his wife, kept rigorous notes of his paintings in ledger books. They included notes on color, materials, sketches, and exhibits. As printed reproductions were available they added them as well.

Pen. Pencil.

Artist: Edward Hopper.

Edward Hopper: A Journal of His Work, edited by Deborah Lyons, and Brian O’Doherty W. W. Norton & Company, 1997

What has the sketchbook been in the past and what can it be today? Together this website demonstrates how sketchbooks cross disciplines, skills, cultures, gender, and class etc., to gain a better understanding.

The sketchbooks appear here not necessarily for the 'name' of the artist, but for the different thinking and seeing through the sketchbook.