Meet the Books | “Private Pages: Sketchbooks and the Artistic Process”
Valerie Hammond, Substance of a dream, Brooklyn: Brooklyn Artists Alliance, 2013, Hirsch Library.
![John Biggers, Untitled [Sketchbook], 1942–45, bound sketchbook with graphite, watercolor, and pastel on wove paper with printed paper board cover and cloth spine, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Museum purchase funded by the Caroline Wiess Law Accessions Endowment. © John T. Biggers Estate / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY, Estate Represented by Michael Rosenfeld Gallery](https://static.mfah.com/images/hirsch-library-exhibition-john-biggers.8197428129881262195.png?width=534){kind=link}
John Biggers, Untitled [Sketchbook], 1942–45, bound sketchbook with graphite, watercolor, and pastel on wove paper with printed paper board cover and cloth spine, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Museum purchase funded by the Caroline Wiess Law Accessions Endowment. © John T. Biggers Estate / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY, Estate Represented by Michael Rosenfeld Gallery
Valerie Hammond, Substance of a dream, Brooklyn: Brooklyn Artists Alliance, 2013, Hirsch Library.
Lee Lozano, Private Book, New York: Karma, 2016, Hirsch Library.
March/April 2025
Discover more about the exhibition Private Pages: Sketchbooks and the Artistic Process, on view in the Hirsch Library. Joel Pelanne, librarian and exhibition coordinator, discusses the broad range of artistic expression provided by the sketchbook: a space not only for honing skills and producing studies for future works, but also an area for working on concepts and ideas without considering an audience at all.
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