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.

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Outline-gesture drawings of landscapes and water, objects in nature, especially water reflections, are studies for Claude Monet’s paintings. He sketches anywhere in the book therefore, some appear upside down and overlap onto previous sketches, and are done years apart from each other. He studies composition and perspective, e.g. at train stations, farm fields, churches and the town centers of country towns he visits. Longer independent sketches, are done too, like those of his family. 1865-1908.

 

Pencil and black crayon.

 

Artist: Claude Monet (1840-1926)

 

From the Unknown Monet Exhibition, Stirling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2007.

Claude Monet.
Cows on the bank of the Epte river near Giver. Sketchbook 6, page 5. 1886-1889. Images © Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris.
Claude Monet.
Left (upside down): Cliff at Varengeville, c. 1896-97. Rights: Grainstacks at Giverny, c. 1890-91. Sketchbook 3, page 26 & 27. Images © Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris.
Claude Monet.
Germaine Hoschéde Writing, Jean-Pierre Hoschéde and Michel Monet. c. 1885. Sketchbook 1, page 18 & 19. Images © Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris.