BC113
Untitled
[sketchbook pages]
Two pages torn from sketchbook with 20 spirals.
Page 1: three cows under tree at various angles to viewer. Numbered UR 63, pencil.
Page 1 overleaf: central cow profile showing right flank head turned to viewer. Cow, less distinct, at right. Numbered UR 64, pencil.
Page 2: three cows in profile with left flank to viewer, under central tree with three-barred fence to right. Numbered UR 65, pencil.
Page 2 overleaf: blank
Page 2 LL pencil Saint Michael sur Orge
Page 2 LR Helen Scales, 193 – 35
Page 2 LR 1965 (crossed out by artist)
Donated to the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand by H. F. V. Scales, 1979
Two pages torn from a top spiral-bound sketchbook, 20 spirals
Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand
Wellington, New Zealand
Untitled [Loose Leaf Pages] [BC112], Untitled [Esquisse sketchbook] [BC118], Untitled [Colarossi sketchbook] [BC114] and Untitled [sketchbook pages] [BC113] make up the contents of a file reference number MS-Papers-1893-2, Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, and is all original material. A duplicate file, reference number MS-Papers-1893-1, is made up of Xerox copies of the original material file. The -1 file was produced to protect the original documents. Date of production is unknown.
Pages numbered 63-65 in pencil UR each page, presumably by Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand staff, after its donation in 1979.
The location of the inscribed page [page 2] is Saint-Michel-sur-Orge, Essone, Paris, France.
These animal studies show an assimilation of the academic study of anatomy absorbed at the W. Frank Calderon School of Animal Painting, London, England, which Scales attended 1908-1912, and her later use of simplified forms.
Possibly torn from the same sketchbook as Untitled [Pastoral Scene] [BC145].