Sketchbook, ca. 1950-1978.
- Call Number:
- MSS 60
- Holdings:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
- Title(s):
- Sketchbook
- Date:
- ca. 1950-1978.
- Classification:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Series:
- Series VIII: Sketchbook
- Provenance:
- Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Magda Cordell McHale
- Conditions Governing Access:
- The materials are open for research.
- Conditions Governing Use:
- In CopyrightThe collection is the physical property of the Yale Center for British Art. Literary rights, including copyright, also belong to the Yale Center for British Art. For further information, consult the Archives Department.
- Scope and Content:
- The majority of these drawings are probably preliminary sketches to the larger fiber-tip pen/poster paint drawings in the collection, although a few drawings from this collection of sketches seem to be unrelated. The ball point pen drawings in this series are revisions of earlier graphite sketches. There is also a drawing which is derived from a magazine tear-sheet in Palette #2; in the subsequent sketch the design is further abstracted and reintegrated back into a 'Head' composed of pre-Columbian motifs.
- Additional Notes:
- Unsigned
- Physical Description:
- One sketchpad, with disbound leaves and 24 additional laid-in drawings; includes drawings in pen and ink or graphite; also includes four photocopies of drawings in pen and ink.
- Genre:
- Abstract art, Collage books, Collages (visual works), Drawings (visual works), Ephemera, Exhibition catalogs, Periodicals, Photographs, Posters, Sketchbooks, and Tear sheets
- Subject Terms:
- Art, ModernCollageDot zeroExhibitionsInformation theoryLady Clare magazineMcHale, John. Aluminum head.McHale, John. Shoe-life storiesMcHale, John. TransistorMcHale, John. Why I took to the washers in luxury flatsPop artProbabilities
- Subject Period:
- 20th Century
- Associated People/Groups:
- Alloway, Lawrence, 1926-1990Dubuffet, Jean, 1901-1985Independent Group (Association : Great Britain)Institute of Contemporary Arts (London, England)Irwin, Gwyther, 1931-2008McHale, JohnMcHale, Magda CordellMesens, E. L. T., 1903-1971 (Edouard Léon Théodore)Meyer, E. W.Paolozzi, Eduardo, 1924-2005This Is Tomorrow (1956 : Whitechapel Art Gallery)Whitechapel Art Gallery
- Finding Aid Title:
- John McHale archive
- Collection PDF:
- https://ead-pdfs.library.yale.edu/11090.pdf
- Archival Object:
- https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/3/archival_objects/2798359
- Metadata Cloud URL:
- https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/2798359?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1