This pocket sketchbook was kept during visits to the Yale Center for British Art on Chapel Street on the campus of Yale University. I was enjoying wonderful afternoons studying British travel sketchbooks and the original prints and watercolors of William Blake in the YCBA archives. Also, included are a few after-hours sketches from the Yale Opera and the Yale Rep theatre. The pdf represents a small group of the pages. (Medium: pens, watercolors, Prismacolor pencils and various memorabilia) Collection: Yale Center for British Art, Prints and Drawings (sketchbook archives) © Constance Pierce

1. My Yale Sketchbook
© 2014
This sketchbook was primarily created during visits to the Yale Center for British Art.
Also, included are a few after-hours sketches from the Yale Opera and the Yale Rep.
A small selection of the pages is reproduced below.
My gratitude goes to Chief Curator, Scott Wilcox, for the abundant knowledge, guidance,
humor, and inspiration he offered during my research of the remarkable sketchbooks housed in
the YCBA Prints and Drawings archives. I was able to enjoy many unforgettable afternoons at
my special study table beneath the illumination of a huge window - now and then glancing out
on the comings and goings in Chapel Street - while studying original 18th and 19th century
sketchbooks by J. M. W. Turner, George Romney, William Simpson, Charles Keene, Thomas
Patch, Clarkson Stanfield, and that exemplary female sketchbook-keeper, Barbara Bodichon.
I also explored the amazing collection of original books, sketches, watercolors and prints by
William Blake, including his magnificent illustrations for Dante's Divina Commedia. Blake is a
master of allegorical figuration. The time studying his art and paraphrasing his images in my
sketchbook were some of my happiest days in New Haven. One learns so much by sketching.
Note: Personal phone numbers, addresses, email notations, and notes/dates were removed on reproductions below.
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Prints and Drawings
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