- Title
- Northampton Sketchbook 1
- Date
- [c.1944]
- Description
- Graphite, crayon and ink on paper, 254 × 184 mm
This sketchbook is one of the earliest to survive and probably dates from c.1944. Adams was a conscientious objector and during the Second World War worked in a reserved occupation making agricultural machinery. Many of the sketches show scenes at his workplace. Other studies are of farm animals, possibly in the countryside surrounding the village of Hardingstone, near Northampton, where he lived until 1951.
- Format
- Bound volume - sketchbook
- Collection
- Tate Archive
- Acquisition
- Presented by Mrs Pat Adams, widow of the artist, and her daughter Mrs Mary Adams Weatherhead, in 1984 and 1990.
- Reference
- TGA 8421/1/1
