Sketchbook (Essays, London)

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  • Reference
    • GB 70 TGA 8224/10
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1939
  • Physical Description
    • 1 piece

Scope and Content

Pages 1-3 Essay on the method of teaching drawing and on aspects of drawing, page 4 Street scene at night with couple kissing in a doorway, page 5 Street scene with large covered van and two standing women, page 6 Woman in a china shop, page 7 Street scene with a figure and a dog, page 8 Country road with a lorry, page 9 List of items with prices, page 10 Man talking to a woman with two other men in the background, page 11 Soldier in uniform, page 12 Sketches of a woman wearing a large hat drawn in profile and full face, page 13 Seated workman in vest and trousers, page 14 Profile head of a woman and a slighter study of a head, pages 15-21 Essay on 'Social or Social Realism' expanding into Marxism in Art, page 22 Figures walking down a hill, page 23 Café scene with three women seated at a table, page 24 Studies of a conductor with a baton, and two women, page 25 Several studies of a standing woman, page 26 Surrealist sketch of arms and legs coming out of a frame which is in space over a landscape, page 27 top: Reclining female form, page 27 bottom: Outline of male and female forms, page 28 caricature of seated woman with her legs crossed and smoking a cigarette, page 29 Surrealist male figure with chimney on his head, page 30 Several studies of nude woman, a car, male torso, Surrealist face of a man whose features represent a naked woman, page 31 Seated figures, page 32 Street scene at night with houses with balconies and a masked couple, page 33 Five men, two of them holding a banner, inscribed "Sketch for the Hunger Marchers", page 34 Caricatures of nine sportsmen, including football, boxing and horse-racing, page 35 Caricatures of eight sports including hunting, wrestling, boxing, page 36 Cartoon with cyclists chasing an ice-cream man and football caricatures, page 37 Seated woman talking on the telephone, page 38 Woman seated on a sofa reading a book, page 39 Woman reclining on a sofa, page 40 Slight outline of a figure, possibly an acrobat, page 41 Circus acrobats, a man supporting a woman, page 42 Outline of the side of a house with a fence, page 43 Study of a street corner inscribed on back "Cambridge Circus", page 44 Buildings and a crane by the side of a river, page 45 Seated woman reading a book in an underground train, page 46 Street scene with "J Lyons & Co Ltd" shop and a parked car, page 47 Street street with roadworks in a run down area, page 48 Detail of road works and a cement mixer, page 49 Part of a building. possibly a filling station, page 50 Woman seated on a sofa, page 51 Sketch of a painting of a woman in the style of Rembrandt, page 52 Street scene with stalls, page 53 Street scene with fish and chip shop, page 54 Group of figures standing by a market stall, page 55 Portrait of a woman wearing a hat and suit sitting in an arm chair, inscribed "Ivy Boswell", page 56 Two nude reclining women, page 57 Study of a female face, page 58 Figures in period costume, page 59 back Several studies of a woman nude and clothed, page 60 back Studies of a man's face, page 61 back Studies of seated and standing women, Study of a man tuning his wireless and a small study of a seated man, page 63 back Interior scene with woman knitting and man tuning the wireless.