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Fire escape people or Manhattan neighbours, 1942. 
Image source: http://cybermuse.gallery.ca/.
Figure Studies, c.1937-1949. Image source: http://cybermuse.gallery.ca/.
In Nicol MacLeod’s sketchbooks people are drawn from the artist’s perspective literally; from her window in Manhattan: above, beside, across and below. The studies result in larger involved paintings.

“I try to turn my weird street into something rich and strange.” – Pegi Nicol MacLeod, 1945.

Black ink, graphite, and watercolor on wove paper.

Artist: Pegi Nicol MacLeod.
c. 1937-1949. 
Image source: http://cybermuse.gallery.ca/.