Exhibition on Screen - on television - in 2021

For many of us, there's going to be an innovation in how we see art exhibitions during the Pandemic 

My copy of the Sky Arts Press Pack for programmes planned for broadcast over the autumn and winter tells me that many people new to Sky Arts 'free to view' broadcasting will now be able to see films about art exhibitions in a different way - via our television.

Sky Arts are continuing their collaboration with Exhibition on Screen to bring a selection of exhibitions to the new 'free to view' Sky Arts Channel.

A cinematic immersion into the world’s best loved art, accompanied by insights from the world’s leading historians and arts critics. 

Upcoming premieres in early 2021 include the following although no dates are yet available. 

• Lucian Freud: A Self Portrait
• Frida Kahlo
• Leonardo: The Works

They will be free to view when broadcast on Sky Arts but only subscribers to Sky and Now TV will be able to watch them on demand.

Lucian Freud: A Self Portrait

Lucian Freud: A Self Portrait has a running time of 86 minutes

For the first time in history the Royal Academy of Arts in London, in collaboration with the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, is bringing together Lucian Freud’s self-portraits.

The exhibition will display more than 50 paintings, prints and drawings in which this modern master of British art turned his unflinching eye firmly on himself. One of the most celebrated painters of our time, Lucian Freud is also one of very few 20th-century artists who portrayed themselves with such consistency.

Spanning nearly seven decades his self-portraits give a fascinating insight into both his psyche and his development as a painter, from his earliest portrait painted in 1939 to the final one executed 64 years later.

This was the the Guardian review of the exhibition in 2019-2020 at the Royal Academy of Arts.

Frida Kahlo 

Frida Kahlo has a running time of 90 minutes.

Leonardo da Vinci - a Life in Drawing finishes on Sunday

I made a deliberate decision not to go to the Leonardo da Vinci - a Life in Drawing exhibition when it opened at the Queens Gallery as I knew it would be packed.

However, whenever I do this, I then have the unhappy habit of forgetting to book a ticket......

Last night I suddenly realised I'd STILL not booked to see the exhibition.

Today I realised I still had time.

Which is why I have only just booked my ticket and will finally get to see the exhibition tomorrow morning! Better late than never!

You have JUST FOUR DAYS LEFT until Sunday 13th October to see the exhibition.

Many of you will remember my blog post earlier this year Where you can see the Leonardo da Vinci drawings which was about all the different places where you could see drawings by Leonardo dan Vinci to mark the 500th anniversary of his death

The exhibition at the Queens Gallery is the big one - with all the drawings now assembled in one place.

Marking the 500th anniversary of the death of Leonardo da Vinci, this exhibition brings together more than 200 of the Renaissance master’s greatest drawings in the Royal Collection, forming the largest exhibition of Leonardo’s work in over 65 years.

With so much of his life’s work never coming to fruition, Leonardo’s greatest achievements survive only in his drawings and manuscripts. Providing an unparalleled insight into Leonardo’s investigations and the workings of his mind, the exhibition features drawings selected to reflect the full range of his interests, including painting, sculpture, architecture, anatomy, engineering, cartography, geology and botany.

More about Leonardo da Vinci on this blog

• "Experience, Experiment, Design" - drawings and notebooks by Leonardo da Vinci (2006) - at the Victoria and Albert Museum
• Digital Da Vinci Drawings and Notebooks (2007) - a new online website
• The Da Vinci Queue (2011) - at the National Gallery
• Leonardo da Vinci sets new record for the most expensive painting ever sold at auction (2017)
• The Encounter: Drawings from Leonardo to Rembrandt - review (2017) - at the National Portrait Gallery
• Where you can see the Leonardo da Vinci drawings (2019)
• Leonardo da Vinci: Drawings as Visual Knowledge (2019)

Leonardo da Vinci: Drawings as Visual Knowledge

The Royal Drawing School sent out an email this morning which focuses on the drawings of Leonardo da Vinci.

Inspired by Autumn Term course, Life Drawing and Anatomy: Mechanics of the Human Form, we have drawn from the fields of science and art to bring together articles, art works, exhibitions and lectures that will open the mind to the world of anatomical drawing...

It included a link to a Lecture - Martin Kemp - Leonardo da Vinci: Drawings as Visual Knowledge - which the art historian Martin Kemp gave at the Royal Drawing School in 2015. This is available to listen to - for free - via Soundcloud. It's an hour and 24 minutes long and it won't surprise you to know I've not listened to it all as yet!

Click the link below to enjoy the lecture. Unfortunately you'll have to imagine the drawings or try and identify them online while you listen

He never draws solutions..... Drawing for him is an act of exploration, of invention of analysis all simultaneously. 

In addition there is a Lecture in October

Exhibiting Leonardo da Vinci across the UK

Lecture by Martin Clayton, Head of Prints and Drawings for the Royal Collection Trust
Venue: Royal Drawing School Shoreditch,
Date: Wednesday 9th October,

Start time: 6.45pm

https://www.royaldrawingschool.org/lectures-events/exhibiting-leonardo-da-vinci-across-uk/

This talk will discuss the purpose of Leonardo’s drawings, and the experience of curating a nationwide exhibition of these drawings for a mass audience.

About Martin Clayton 

• Head of Prints and Drawings for the Royal Collection Trust. 
• Studied Natural Sciences and the History of Art at Cambridge
• Has worked in the Print Room at Windsor Castle since 1990. 
• He has curated many exhibitions on the drawings in the Royal Collection, including the works of Poussin, Canaletto, Raphael, Castiglione, and especially those of Leonardo da Vinci.

Studies of the Foetus in the Womb.

Exhibitions re. Anatomy

Exhibition: Leonardo da Vinci: A Life in Drawing 

Venue: Queen's Gallery
Date: Finishes 13 October 2019
https://www.rct.uk/collection/themes/exhibitions/leonardo-da-vinci-a-life-in-drawing/the-queens-gallery-buckingham

Marking the 500th anniversary of the death of Leonardo da Vinci, the exhibition brings together more than 200 of the Renaissance master's greatest drawings in the Royal Collection, forming the largest exhibition of Leonardo's work in over 65 years. 

The Science Museum: Anatomy and Pathology Departmental Collection

These objects chart how our understanding of human anatomy has shifted over time. They include an important series of anatomical models, tools used to dissect and study the dead, and preserved human specimens including a large tattoo collection.

The London Pavilion, Piccadilly Circus: BodyWorlds

BodyWorlds, curated by creative director Dr. Angelina Whalley, explores the reproductive, nervous, cardiovascular, respiratory, locomotive and metabolic systems in more detail than has ever previously been possible, offering an unparalleled insight into the human body and how it works.

Where you can see the Leonardo da Vinci drawings

144 of Leonardo da Vinci's greatest drawings in the Royal Collection are currently on display in 12 simultaneous exhibitions of Leonardo da Vinci: A Life in Drawing across the UK.

If you want to get to see the various exhibitions around the UK - or even all of them(!) - this is where you can see them.

• They are listed below in alphabetical order of the locations
• PLUS one of the images that can be seen at that location.

From 1 February - 6 May 2019, to mark the 500th anniversary of the death of Leonardo da Vinci, 144 of the Renaissance master's greatest drawings in the Royal Collection will go on display in 12 simultaneous exhibitions across the UK.

This is a nationwide event. It rebuffs the notion that all the good art is only shown in London. In fact, it will give da Vinci's drawings the widest-ever audience to celebrate the 500th anniversary of he death of da Vinci in 1519.

12 drawings selected to reflect the full range of Leonardo's interests – painting, sculpture, architecture, music, anatomy, engineering, cartography, geology and botany – will be shown at each venue in Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Derby, Glasgow, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Sheffield, Southampton and Sunderland.

Longer exhibitions will then be held at first the Queen's Gallery in London - followed by the Queen's Gallery in Edinburgh.

The exhibitions include examples of all the drawing materials employed by the artist, including

• pen and ink, 
• red and black chalks, 
• watercolour and 
• metalpoint. 

They also present new information about Leonardo's working practices and creative process, gathered through scientific research using a range of non-invasive techniques, including ultraviolet imaging, infrared reflectography and X-ray fluorescence.

I've also included

• links to BBS news items - with the relevant gallery - which show more images and videos of the drawings on display.
• links to any useful items relevant to particular exhibitions

The drawings in the Royal Collection have been together as a group since the artist's death, and provide an unparalleled insight into Leonardo's investigations and the workings of his mind.Leonardo da Vinci drawings to go on display in Birmingham in 2019 | Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery Blog

For more information

• visit www.royalcollection.org.uk/Leonardo 500
• view this video
• view the listings below for each of the twelve exhibitions

The Nationwide Exhibitions

Exhibitions will be held in the following twelve locations between 1 February – 6 May 2019

Belfast - Ulster Museum

• Venue: Ulster Museum, Belfast
• Admission: FREE (on the basis I can't see any charging info)
• BBC - Leonardo Da Vinci drawings on display at Ulster Museum

Ulster Museum, Belfast

Leonardo da Vinci, The skull sectioned, 

1489, traces of black chalk, pen and ink

Birmingham - Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery

• Venue: Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
• Admission: FREE
• BBC: Leonardo da Vinci works on display at Birmingham Museum

Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery

Leonardo da Vinci, A Map of the Valdichiana, 

c.1503-4, watercolour, pen and ink, ink wash over black chalk

You can download the large print copy of the labels before you go - and you'll get to see the explanations for each of the drawings

Leonardo was an accomplished map maker. This map illustrates the Chiana valley in central Italy, with north to the left of the sheet. The river Tiber can be seen running along the top edge, the river Arno on the left and the city of Siena in the lower centre.

The marshy lake in the valley allowed the spread of malaria. It seems probable that Leonardo was employed by the Florentine government to create this map as part of a civil engineering project to drain the marsh. (Label for exhibit)

Bristol - Bristol Museum and Art Gallery

• Venue: Bristol Museum and Art Gallery
• Admission: 
• £6 adult* | £5 concession* 
• Under 16s FREE
• Tue-Sun: 10am-5pm Closed Mondays except Bank Holiday Mondays and Mondays during Bristol school holidays: 10am-5pm

Bristol are charging people for entry - while most other cities are showing their exhibitions for free. Bristolians may want to comment on this!

Bristol Museum & Art Gallery 

Leonardo da Vinci, Cats, lions and a dragon, 

c.1517-18, black chalk, pen and ink, wash

Anybody else got visions of da Vinci the cat lover - drawing next to a cat who likes to walk all over his drawings?

Leonardo da Vinci sets new record for the most expensive painting ever sold at auction

The auction sale of Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi at Christies New York yesterday is unusual for a number of reasons - the nature of the sale, the price it went for and the history of the painting

This post is for those who enjoy their art history and includes reference links to other more in-depth articles about the painting.

Salvator Mundi (c.1500) by Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) 
25⅞ x 18 in (65.7 x 45.7 cm).
Sold on 15 November 2017 at Christie’s in New York

Here's my summary - each section is followed by referenced to some of the articles which comment in more depth on the painting and the auction

The Auction Sale

• The final hammer price shattered the world record for a sale of an artwork at auction. The painting sold for $400 million (at a cost of $450,312,500 to the buyer after you include the auction house premium). That equates to a cost to the buyer of £342,182,751.
• It exceeded the previous highest valued painting at auction by more than $200 million
• It was very unusually sold at an evening auction of Post-War and Contemporary Art - because it's at evening sales where wealthy art collectors buy their art

“By putting it in a contemporary sale, they shine a big light on the painting.”

• Almost 30,000 people viewed the painting as it was displayed to the public in The painting was show to the public in Hong Kong, London, San Francisco and New York. It's the very first time the painting has been shown to the public in Asia or the Americas.
• It was billed as "The Last Da Vinci", the "Male Mona Lisa", a "once in a lifetime sale" and the “Holy Grail” for elite collectors
• The auction house was so confident that it would sell for a high price that it had guaranteed a price of $100 million
• The bidding lasted 19 minutes with four bidders on the telephone and one in the room. The last bid jumped $30 million to close out the auction!
• The comments on the Facebook Live Stream of the sale make for interesting and somewhat predictable reading
• Nobody knows who the successful bidder was. It's likely to remain in private hands.

They made a film of people viewing the painting prior to the sale.



Reference

• Salvator Mundi: This is your only chance to buy a genuine Leonardo Da Vinci painting | The Independent
• Contemporary Art Sales: Do I Hear $100 Million? | New York Times
• Leonardo da Vinci Painting Sells for $450.3 Million, Shattering Auction Highs | New York Times
• Why Christie’s Put a Rare Leonardo da Vinci in a Contemporary Auction | New York Times
• Da Vinci Goes on the Block for $100 Million | Wall Street Journal
• Leonardo da Vinci painting sells for $450m at auction, smashing records | The Guardian

The history of the painting

The Da Vinci Queue

The queue on the Opening Day of the Leonardo da Vinci Exhibition
at the Sainsbury Wing, National Gallery in London

Just in case any of you want to see the Leonardo Da Vinci Exhibition at the National Gallery - above and on the right are a couple of photos I took of what the queue to get in looked like late this afternoon.

Da Vinci Exhibition Queue
photographed from inside the Gallery

Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan is open until 5 February 2012.  It is unique - having 9 of the remaining 15 paintings by Leonardo da Vinci on display.

It's a bone fide blockbuster of an exhibition - with queues to match.  It will be very crowded inside even with timed entry if my experience of other National Gallery exhibitions is anything to go by.

Recommendation - buy ticket in advance

Advance ticket booking (via the website) is strongly recommended by the Gallery and by me.

[UPDATE:  ALL ADVANCE TICKETS ARE NOW SOLD OUT

At present the National Gallery is saying to expect a three hour wait to buy tickets for the exhibition.

I will keep this post updated with the latest queue situation as and when I'm passing the National Gallery.  Feel free to send me your photos if you visit and take a snap]

Don't even think of coming to see it at the weekend or during the seasonal holidays without a ticket bought in advance! [no longer relevant - they're sold out.  Note that tickets bought from third parties will NOT be honoured by the National Gallery.  They're trying to stamp out ticket touts]

I very much recommend you order a ticket BEFORE you come to London to see it.

UPDATE:  just spotted this tweet by the National Gallery

just been confirmed that advance tickets available for dates in Jan&Feb only - this is now updated on our website.

You can order tickets via the National Gallery website.  Ticket Prices are as follows for Timed-ticket entry

• Gift Aid* adult £17.60
• Gift Aid* senior (60+) £15.40
• Full price £16.00
• Senior (60+)/concession £14.00
• National Art Pass (Art Fund) holders £8.00
• Students/Job seekers/12-18s £8.00

Opening times (for this exhibition ONLY) are as follows:

• Open daily 10am–6pm (last admission 5pm)
• Late nights including Fridays and Saturdays until 10pm (last admission 9pm)
• Sundays until 7pm (last admission 6pm)

Recommendation - download introduction to exhibition 

Here's:

• a slideshow of the works on display
• more about the artwork produced by Leonardo da Vinci on the Gallery website

You can also download an Introduction to the Exhibition as a pdf file from the National Gallery website


Download the exhibition guide [PDF 610kb – opens in a new window]

I took a look at the Da Vinci exhibition catalogue while in the Sainsbury Wing shop this afternoon and, as I expected, there's an awful lot of Da Vinci's drawings in the exhibition.  So good news for those of who enjoy drawing.

Now all I have to do is work out when is going to be the quietest bit of the week to get my ticket!

Major Art Exhibitions in London in 2011

Find out about the major art exhibitions the major art galleries in museums in London  in 2011.

Have you ever missed an exhibition because you didn't realise it's on? I have - and that's the reason why I produce this list each year - so that I don't miss the exhibitions in London that I want to go and see!  This post gets printed out and tacked to my pin board!  It's good to share too.

This list of major art exhibitions in London focuses on painting, drawing and sculpture and is organised according to the names of each of the major art galleries and museums and for each of these the listing is in date order.  The links in the names of the exhibitions are to their microsite pages (where available) on the relevant art gallery or museum's website where you can find out more about the exhibition, how to get tickets and what are the linked events.  The bigger galleries tend to have a number of events associated with each exhibition.

The blockbuster is probably going to be the da Vinci exhibition at the National Gallery since it's a one-off and da Vinci has increased in popularity in recent years for reasons not altogether connected to art!

However I expect the Watercolour exhibition at Tate Britain will prove to be very popular too.  There's an article about it in the current edition of Tate Etc and it looks absolutely fascinating - and I'm sure it will get great reviews.

The big attractions for me will the Watercolour exhibition at Tate Britain, plus the exhibitions about the Watteau Drawings and the Degas Dancers at the RA and the Toulouse Lautrec at the Courtauld.  I also rather suspect I'm going to be taking quite a few trips to south London to see the anniversary exhibitions at the Dulwich Picture Gallery - there's a distinct North American flavour to Dulwich this year!  I'm also going to be interested to see the Gerhard Richter retrospective at Tate Modern.

However I know there will be other exhibitions which will surprise and delight me - it'll be interesting to see which ones they are.

CLICK ON THE EXHIBITION TITLE to reach the website page for that exhibition

Dover Art Library - fine art drawings from the Masters

Dover Publications
Fine Art Library Publications about Drawings

The Big Drawing Book Review continues during November as I've still got quite a few drawings books to cover - but I am now looking for ways to group them. This post started from four books about drawing which I've bought over the years and whose covers you can see above.

Dover Publications is a major publisher which produces books covering a range of subjects. Part of its range focuses on fine art and the history of fine art drawings and portraits. Their fine art publications are however somewhat different to those usually produced by other publishers.

Dover Art Library includes books of drawings. The drawings are in fact 95% of the content and are full plate (A4 size) and in monochome (sometimes colour); the reproduction is generally good and salient details for each drawing are often provided in full. These slim volumes of drawings generally average between 50 and 100 illustrations and can be accompanied by an introductory essay. However text can sometimes be limited to a very brief publisher's note and whatever text can be fitted onto the back cover. It's not uncommon for the drawings available from Dover Publications to either not be available or only rarely in print or online in any other form.

These are soft back publications with hard wearing glossy covers which are almost always a very economical price. Most are priced at $6.95 which means they are an absolute steal in the USA. In the UK they are priced at £6.95 or more. Given the exchange rate I think this might mean they are either making huge profits for Dover or whichever UK bookshops stocks them! (There's a very good range in the National Gallery main bookshop.) Nevertheless, they are still very good value at this price.

• Artists' Drawings covered include: Michelangelo Life Drawings, Leonardo, Leonardo Anatomical Drawings; Durer; Holbein Portrait Drawings; Rembrandt Landscape Drawings; Rembrandt Etchings; Rembrandt Drawings; Rubens, Van Gogh, Sargent Portrait Drawings; Degas (and Degas' drawings of dancers), Beardsley (Morte D'Arthur); Arthur Rackham; Chagall; Schiele Drawings; Steinlen Cats; Hopper drawings; Picasso Line Drawings and Prints; Miro lithographs;
  
• Drawing Themes covered include : Great Self-Portraits; Great Drawings of nudes; Old Master Life Drawings; Old Master Portrait Drawings;
  

Essentially these books are about reproducing drawings for people who know what they are looking at and who want to get a much better look at how the drawing has been made. What these books do is deliver just that - a close-up view of a drawing which you may never ever see 'for real' in your lifetime. The differences in approach to media used and the similarities and contrasts between signature styles of many different artists are one of the things which make them compelling viewing. You can also see all the initial marks and the partially erased marks and the texture of the marks being made.

It has to be said that some of the reproductions in some of the books look like they were made from photos which were taken quite some time ago and the reproduction is not always top notch. However it should be noted that I'm commenting on the difference between, for example, large reproductions of Van Gogh Drawings in a book costing £6.95 compared to smaller reproductions in a much more expensive catalogue of Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition of his works.

If you wanted to learn how to draw like an artist in the past, these are the sort of books which would be invaluable in terms of providing subject matter for educational use.

If you just want to absorb something about different approaches to drawing across a range of Old and Modern Masters then these books offer an economical way to build a library of drawings as resources.

As a collection, I rate Dover Art Publications about drawings as 5 pencils. They are unique and offer excellent value for money for what they are. Each book probably rates around 4 pencils with some rating 5 pencils where alternative sources of publications are very limited or nonexistent.

Links:

• Dover Publications - Art
• Dover Art Library - lots of books of fine art drawings
• Dover Publications - Drawings - 173 references
  

Amazing Rare Things: The Art of Natural History

Interior, Lilac Iris
10" x 8", coloured pencils on HP
copyright Katherine Tyrrell

The strapline for the exhibition "Amazing Rare Things" is The Art of Natural History in the Age of Discovery. The exhibition is simply amazing and very beautiful. It has a dedicated microsite where you can see works in more detail and also see a tour of the exhibition introduced by Richard Attenborough. The website provides for image zoom facilities for individual drawings which allows you to see a phenomenal level of detail in each drawing.

I'd very much recommend this exhibition and microsite to anybody interested in botanical art and/or drawing animals and particularly wildlife. Works included are by:

Leonardo da Vinci

The unifying theme of Leonardo’s researches was an urge to understand the phenomena of nature. This would allow the artist to create a true image of the world, and indeed some of Leonardo’s most beautiful drawings of plants and animals were studies for his paintings and sculptures. (Royal Collection: Amazing Rare Things website)

Check out the images he drew of cats, lions and a dragon!

The Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo

Cassiano dal Pozzo (1583-1657) was secretary to Cardinal Francesco Barberini, the nephew of Pope Urban VIII, and he played an important role in the cultural life of Baroque Rome........... Cassiano did not produce the drawings himself; instead he commissioned artists to make meticulous studies of geological specimens, plants, fruit and vegetables, fungi, birds, fish and other animals, some of which were made with the newly-invented microscope. (Royal Collection: Amazing Rare Things website)

Alexander Marshal

Alexander Marshal (c.1620-1682) was one of a circle of gentleman gardeners, centred on London, for whom the cultivation of rare plants was essential to the study of the natural world...... Over a period of thirty years Marshal compiled a ‘florilegium’ (flower book) of 154 folios recording plants growing in English gardens. Of the numerous species depicted, many are exotic newcomers; others are native plants. Although Marshal was not a professional artist, his florilegium - the only English flower book to survive from the period - contains some of the most beautiful plant studies in botanical art (Royal Collection: Amazing Rare Things website)

Maria Sibylla Merian

Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717) was one of the greatest artist-naturalists of her time. at the age of fifty-two, Merian made an expedition to Surinam (Dutch Guiana) in South America. Her aim was to study the indigenous flora and fauna in their tropical habitat........
Most of Merian’s watercolours displayed here are de luxe versions (painted on vellum) of the plates of the Metamorphosis, together with some works produced independently of that publication. (Royal Collection: Amazing Rare Things website)

Mark Catesby

The English naturalist Mark Catesby (1682-1749) compiled the first comprehensive survey of the flora and fauna of south-eastern North America (then part of the British colonies)......
Believing that ‘artistic’ techniques of shading and perspective compromised objective truth, Catesby used instead what he termed ‘a Flat, tho’ exact manner’ to make a precise visual record of each creature and plant. (Royal Collection: Amazing Rare Things website)

The exhibition is currently on display at The Queen's Gallery, Palace of Holyroodhouse, in Edinburgh 2 March – 16 September 2007 and in 2008 will then move to The Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace, London (14 March - 28 September 2008).

You can order and buy the exhibition catalogue from the Royal Collection online shop.

Note: The image at the top is of the interior landscape of a pale blue iris. One for the Georgia O'Keeffe project - but I think I need to try simplifying and making images more sculptural and abstract.

Books:

• Amazing Rare Things - The Art of Natural History in the Age of Discovery David Attenborough, Susan Owens, Martin Clayton and Rea Alexandratos. 224 pages, 160 colour illustrations 20 x 25cm (8" x 10"). Hardback - ISBN 978 1 902163 46 8; Softback - ISBN 978 1 902163 99 4

Links:

• The Royal Collection
• Royal Collection - Amazing Rare Things exjhhibition microsite
  
• Making a Mark - Georgia O'Keeffe month: Macro Flowers (1st June 2007)
  

Sketchbooks Online - a Summary

Anybody who keeps a sketchbook will know that one of the joys of getting together with other artists is being able to inspect their sketchbooks while they do the same with yours. It's just so very stimulating to be able to see different people's approaches to keeping a sketchbook. With the wonders of the Internet, blogs are in part replacing the bound sketchbook. However the Internet also allows us to have an insight into those sketchbooks of artists which have been left to museums and have now been converted to digital images.

This blog post aims to :

• provide one place (see below) which lists all the posts on this blog which highlight online sketchbooks or sketchbook exhibitions. The blog posts also provides links to digital versions of sketchbooks which are now kept or have been displayed in museums.
  
• update the summary every time I post a new blog post - as will happen later this week.
• store the link to this summary in the right hand column and in Resources for Artists - Drawing and Sketching (my squidoo lens of links) - which also includes art history links to drawings and sketchbooks on the Internet.

Switzerland 1870 sketchbook
(one of 46 drawings and watercolours in this sketchbook)
John Singer Sargent (1856 - 1925)
Black impressed cardboard cover Various media on off-white wove paper
8 x 11 1/4 x 1/2 in. (20.3 x 28.6 x 1.3 cm) (closed sketchbook) 8 x 11 1/8 in. (20.3 x 28.3 cm) (sheets)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond, 1950 (50.130.148)

Summary of the "Making A Mark" posts about sketchbooks

The following posts on this blog all contain links to either exhibitions of sketchbooks and.or drawings of various artists or links relevant to a particular artist.

• "Under Cover" - an exhibition of sketchbooks at the Fogg Art Museum (Boston) - 3rd October 2006
• "Experience, Experiment, Design" - drawings and notebooks by Leonardo da Vinci (exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London) - October 7th 2006
• David Hockney and Shirley - Sharing Art and Sketchbooks - October 26th 2006
• John Singer Sargent - the works (includes link to Harvard and the JSS sketchbooks) - January 3rd 2007
• Van Gogh - more about drawing - February 14th 2007
• The Unknown Monet - pastels and drawings - March 28th 2007
• Sketchbooks Online 2 - The Smithsonian - Curator's Choice - 30th May 2007