Name/Title
Diary / SketchbookEntry/Object ID
2002.8.1Description
Diary and sketchbook dated 1854 owned by Gibeon Bradbury. It contians notes of daily activity for January and February. The balance of the book is filled with small sketches, most of which are of landscapes and buildings, with one floral sketch at the end. One sketch is labeled "Salmon Falls / Hollis Me / 1854". Cardboard cover with a cloth binding.Artwork Details
Medium
charcoal, bound paper, drawings in ink, graphite and crayonMade/Created
Artist
Bradbury, Gibeon Elden (1833-1904)Date made
1854Dimensions
Height
4-1/2 inWidth
3-3/4 inDepth
1/8 inInterpretative Labels
Label Type
Cultural/Historical ContextLabel
Like many landscape painters in mid-19th-century New England, Bradbury included sketching out-of-doors as an important part of his artistic process. Summer and autumn would often find him taking painting trips along the Saco River with fellow Maine artist Harrison Bird Brown and others. Sketchbooks like these provided the raw material for oil paintings created later in the studio.
