Through the Sketchbook

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.

This web site and all images are for education purposes only.

Visual images on this web site are copyright protected - permissions were sought and received to the best of my knowledge and ability.

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This artist of collages and assemblages also  kept a life-long elaborate Journal/Diary/Sketchbook. The Journals handwritten notes and are illustrated with clippings, sketches, rubber stamps, photographs, as well as other graphic materials.

 

A selection of pages from her 119 art journals, ranging from 1960-2007, are available to view in Lowry’s papers at the Smithsonian Institution.

 

(sourced from Smithsonian archive web page, April, 2020)

Artist: Janice Lowry (d. 2009)

 

Janice Lowry papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.