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June 4, 2006 at 8:09 pm #448231
In this thread you will find resources online where you can view the sketchbooks, or sketches, of famous artists throughout history.
The initial concept for this thread was inspired by WC! member Katherine T, herself an avid sketcher.
Thanks for the idea and for so neatly collating the research, Katherine.To anyone who finds new resources online, please feel free to add links to sites where any “famous” artists’ sketches or sketchbooks can be viewed – make sure to include the artist’s name and a brief discription.
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[*]Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch 1606-1669)
Link: Good example of Rembrandt’s sketches and drawings can be found in-
[*]JMW Turner (English 1775-1851) produced 300 sketchbooks and around 30,000 sketches and watercolours on his travels.
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[*]John Constable (English 1776 – 1837) believed in the importance of working from life and based his paintings on drawings of the landscape.
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[*]Conrad Martens (English 1801 – 1878) – who accompanied Darwin on the Beagle as expedition artist and produced three detailed sketchbooks of places visited and objects seen on the expedition.
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[*]Cezanne (French 1839 – 1906) is often called ‘Father of Modern Art’. He worked from life and made detailed observations of form in his drawings and sketches as well as his paintings.
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[*]Vincent Van Gogh[/URL] (Dutch 1853 – 1890) made preliminary drawings (sketches) prior to developing his paintings. He often drew with a reed pen and ink. He probably has one of the most interesting range of marks – which some say were notations for the colours he saw.
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[*]John Singer Sargent (1856 – 1925) – examples of sketches from
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[*]Various American Artists: Smithsonian Museum – Sketchbooks in the Archives of American Art
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[*]Henry Moore (English 1898 – 1986)
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[*]David Hockney (English 1937 – present day)
To add your link, just post a new reply.
Thank you!
Judy - Moderator: Art History Forum and Reference Image Library
November 25, 2006 at 2:29 pm #493534great collection, thanks
vriendelijke groeten,March 15, 2007 at 12:22 am #493536I just stumbled across this thread… I remember an online copy of Da Vinci’s notebooks, reproduced/written in 1883 by Jean Paul Richter.
hmmm…
For what it’s worth:
http://www.sacred-texts.com/aor/dv/index.htmThe “Plates” are the sketches. (some are decent resolution, and some are “okay”.) The other pages are the translated text of his notes and theories (into english).
Hope this is correct for this forumCheers,
ChrisA Closed Mouth Gathers no Feet!
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www.planbanimations.comMarch 15, 2007 at 8:54 am #493535Thanks Chris, very nice link.
Dave
November 5, 2007 at 3:13 am #493538Da Vinci’s sketchbooks downloadable – Richters translation – no copyright.
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/5000
Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; Darkness, Light, Solidity and Colour, Form and Position, Distance and Propinquity, Motion and Rest. -Leonardo Da Vinci
March 23, 2008 at 2:33 pm #493539What a great idea!! I will make time to check out these sites. Thank you, Bonnie
February 23, 2009 at 4:55 pm #493540Another collection that is still little-known, but a rich source of Poussins in particular, is the UK Royal Collection, for example its search engine at http://www.royalcollection.org.uk/eGallery/searchpicturelibrary.asp
Unfortunately all the high res views are Flash, and few have been published in high quality form.
Howard.
[FONT=Garamond]There is no place for prejudice, insult, or taboo in open discussion; instead use evidence, objectivity, and reason.
October 16, 2009 at 8:21 pm #493537Dante Gabriel Rossetti, An Illustrated Memorial of His Art and Life
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H. C. MARILLIER
1899http://www.rossettiarchive.org/docs/nd497.r8.m33.rad.html#A.R16CV.1
Delve into the whole site – there are many other drawings in the picture archives.
Sue Florian www.florianstudio.com
May 28, 2012 at 5:47 pm #493544Super links! Thanks!!
May 28, 2012 at 9:58 pm #493543An artist named Scattergood-Moore maintains a page of sketch book links. Here is the site:
http://www.gis.net/~scatt/sketchbook/links2.html
Hope this helps,
-Rob
December 25, 2018 at 8:43 am #493542Here are some links that are valid as of December 2018:
Constable:
https://artsandculture.google.com/entity/%2Fm%2F0sy76?col=RGB_C2C3C3#multi-rowhttp://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/a/constable_sketchbook/
Turner:
https://www.tate.org.uk/search?q=sketchbook&type=_all&page=8Rembrandt:
http://www.rembrandtpainting.net/rembrandt_drawings_start.htmMunch:
https://munchmuseet.no/en/tegninger-1van Gogh:
http://www.vggallery.com/drawings/main_az.htmWoodbury, Charles H. (Charles Herbert):
https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search?f%5Bname_facet_ssim%5D%5B%5D=Woodbury%2C+Charles+H.+%28Charles+Herbert%29%2C+1864-1940February 11, 2022 at 4:35 am #14578272/11/2022: It’s been a few years and most of the links need to be updated/removed.
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