Introducing the SKETCHBOOK DROP! For this drop, I wanted to round out the Public Domain Print Shop‘s offerings by expanding the Drawings & Illustrations Gallery with a few of my favorite sketches currently in the Public Domain!
However, before we get into the images (bless you if you’re actually reading the text on this post and didn’t just jump right to the images), I want to leave you with a quick thought:
Sketchbooks are not finished works of art. Most of the time they were never even meant for the public eye. So taking a peek inside one is a bit like reading someone else’s dairy. What at first glance may appear messy and unfinished, is often the artist trying to capture and hold onto something fleeting and ephemeral. When experienced from this vantage point, they have the power to be one of the most emotionally charged forms of artwork, as you bear witness to their efforts to quickly capture the essence of their subject matter and the elements within it that resonated with their own soul.
I say all that because I know it’s easy to see these images just as potential decor and forget about the person behind the pencil. And just as I believe it’s important to know an artists name, I think it’s equally important (especially when looking through their sketchbooks like we are here) to always remember that there was a real live person behind each of these drawings who was so moved by the world around them that they had no choice but to try and capture it on paper. <3
With that said, say hello to the SKETCHBOOK DROP!
Victor Emile Prouvé “Study for the Decoration for the Salle des Fêtes for La Mairie du 11e arrondissement de Paris” 
Leo Gestel “Drie zwarte paarden staand naar links kijkend” 
Leo Gestel “Schets van drie paarden (Three Horses)” 
Leo Gestel “Study of various figures” 
Carel Adolph Lion Cachet “Konijnen” 
Carel Adolph Lion Cachet “Studie van handen” 
Carel Adolph Lion Cachet “Studies van duiven” 
Leo Gestel “Diverse figuurstudies op een schetsblad” 
Cyprián Majerník “Skicár – 40 listov” 
Leo Gestel “Schetsblad met drie studies van paarden” 
James McNeill Whistler “Nude Girl Standing” 
George Hendrik Breitner “Schetsen van cafébezoekers (Sketches of café visitors)” 
Leo Gestel “Diverse figuurstudies op een schetsblad (Various figure studies on a sketch sheet)” 
Rik Wouters “Lying woman, in pillows, with a book” 
George Hendrik Breitner “De Wolvenstraat” 
George Hendrik Breitner “Schetsen van hoofden (Sketches of heads)” 
Benjamin Robert Haydon “Portrait Study” 
Thomas Robert Way “Model Seated on Floor” 
Ján Novák “Traja starci” 
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner “Lying cat” 
George Romney “Charity” 
Leo Gestel “Study sheet with embrace” 
Cyprián Majerník “Still Life” 
George Hendrik Breitner “Brug over de Keizersgracht te Amsterdam ter hoogte van de Berenstraat” 
Cyprián Majerník Sketchbook – 40 sheets 
Cyprián Majerník “Sketchbook – 40 sheets” 
Cyprián Majerník “Sketchbook – 40 sheets” 
Cyprián Majerník “Sketchbook – 40 sheets” 
Franz Barwig d. Ä. “Selbstbildnis” 
Auguste Rodin “Seated Female Nude Leaning to the Left” 
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner “Tänzerinnen” 
Célestin Nanteuil “Set design for Louise Bertin’s fourth and final opera, La Esmeralda” 
Théodule Ribot “Cats (recto); Sketch of Two Figures Embracing (verso)” 
Rik Wouters “Nine studies of a dog”
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If you are interested in learning more about The Public Domain Print Shop and how you can use artwork in the Public Domain to decorate your home CLICK HERE to read my previous blog post where I talk all about about it!
And if you decide to use one of these pieces of art in your home, I would love to see it! You can tag your image with the #CURATEHOME hashtag if you share it on social media, or email/DM me a picture of the art in your home!
Lastly, since it seems we’ll be doing this fairly regularly now what sort of art do you want to see more of in the next drop!? Let me know in the comments below!
Happy art my friends!
Thank you for the fantastic sketches and insights to artists creating.