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- Robert Adams 1917–1984
- Title
- Sketchbook
- Date
- [c.1969–70]
- 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 8421/1/47
Description
Graphite and ink on paper, 444 × 276 mm
Pink cover cover, printed with 'Daler Lay-out pad'. Several pages are missing from the front of the book. This sketchbook was used in 1969¿70, after Adams had abandoned large scale sculptures in welded steel and turned to smaller works which he carved. It contains studies for a series of chromed steel blocks, and also studies for many of the ten or so Sicilian marble or stone sculptures of 1970. Also includes several pages of studies of the 'Stations of the Cross', possibly connected with a commission in 1969¿70 for the New Roman Catholic cathedral at Clifton, Bristol (the commission was never realised).
Archive context
- Personal papers and artworks of Robert Adams TGA 8421 (44)
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- Sketchbooks, drawings and records of work by Robert Adams TGA 8421/1 (25)
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- Sketchbook TGA 8421/1/47