Box 8

Contents: From the Sub-Series: Bethune's Sketchbooks and Notebooks subseries cover the period of 1930-1939. These formative years in her artistic life encompass her art school days, early apprenticeships, and first commissions of works. The books (created, dated, and often numbered by Ade) are streams of visual and textual consciousness as Bethune explored ideas and creative concepts through rough sketches, notes, lists of subjects, and other inserted ephemeral materials. The sketches are generally done in pencil or pen...