Rakow Research Library Sketch Books

CMoG posts from their collection various artists sketchbooks. see this blog post by clicking here Sketch from Frederick Carder

In 1889, a young Frederick Carder attended a lecture on ornamentation. He dutifully took notes during the talk, and enhanced those notes with examples of the topics being discussed. You can see his mind processing the subject of proportion through his sketches of vases. He might not have paid such close attention throughout the whole lecture, though: the drawing of a dragon on the left could be a flight of fancy doodled in a moment of daydreaming.

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