- Title
- Sketchbook 8
- Date
- 1943
- Description
- Graphite, conté crayon, watercolour, and gouache on paper, 6 pages, no covers, 205 × 235 mm
This is a small fragment of a sketchbook and only includes two drawings; the other pages are blank. Both are studies of opencast coal mines, a subject which was suggested to him by the War Artists' Advisory Committee in July-August 1943 and which followed after the series of limestone quarries. The studies were made in Wales, at Pwl-du, Abergavenny.
- Format
- Bound volume - sketchbook
- Collection
- Tate Archive
- Acquisition
- Presented by Mrs Kathleen Sutherland, the artist's widow, in 1981.
- Reference
- TGA 812/8
