Very cool– on the Tate Museum’s website, you can flip through one of Edward Hopper’s sketchbooks:
I love the way you really get a feel for the sketchbook as an object rather than just disembodied drawings.
See more at Edward Hopper: Sketchbook Viewer | Tate.
Fascinating stuff Nifty. Thanks for posting it. Any thoughts on why he would have sketched on the lined pages rather than the blank ones?
From the look of these pages, this sketchbook was more to keep records about paintings he’d already created. Perhaps he did other preparatory drawings, but if you look at the notes here, it seems to describe the painting and indicate what colors he used and I think some had notes about who bought the painting.