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Rhode Island School of Design

Artists' Sketchbooks & Journals: Artists' Sketchbook Facsimiles in Special Collections

Selected resources providing facsimiles of artists' sketchbooks and journals

Artists' Books

Blue cloud : the Chinese diaries -- 1993 by Vivian Darroch-Lozowski
Call Number: RISD ARTISTS' BOOKS D26B
Postal séance : a scientific investigation into the possibility of a postlife postal existence by Henrik Drescher
Call Number: RISD ARTISTS' BOOKS D817Po
Sketchbook 83 by Bill Newkirk
Call Number: RISD ARTISTS' BOOKS N466S
Notes in hand by Claes Oldenburg
Call Number: RISD ARTISTS' BOOKS OL 17No
Satiroplastic : [sketchbook facsimile] by drawings by Gary Panter
Call Number: RISD ARTISTS' BOOKS P 194Sa
Kleinere Werke = Smaller Works by Dieter Roth
Call Number: RISD Artists' Books R74K
246 little clouds by Dieter Rot ; with an introduction by Emmett William
Call Number: RISD Artists' Books R74T
Lucas Samaras, sketches, drawings, doodles, and plans by selected and edited by Constance and Jack Glenn ; introduction by Constance Glenn
Call Number: RISD ARTISTS' BOOKS Sa4L
Halbe bilder, 1982-84 by Martin Rosz
Call Number: RISD ARTISTS' BOOKS OVER R73H
Dieter Roth : ein Tagebuch (aus d. Jahre 1982) = a diary (from the year 1982)
Call Number: RISD ARTISTS' BOOKS OVER R74Ta
Willem de Kooning drawings by Thomas B. Hess
Call Number: RISD SPECIAL OVERSIZE NC139.D45 H47 1972b

Special Collections Books

Notes and projects for the Large Glass by Marcel Duchamp ; selected, ordered and with an introduction by Arturo Schwarz
Call Number: RISD Special Flat Folio N6853.D8 S32 1969
Étant donnés : manual of instructions by Marcel Duchamp
Call Number: RISD SPECIAL OVERSIZE N6853.D8 A64 2009
Noa Noa : voyage à Tahiti by Paul Gauguin
Call Number: RISD Special Oversize N6853.G34 A23 1947
A sketch book by Toulouse-Lautrec by owned by the Art Institute of Chicago ; introduction by Carl O. Schniewind
Call Number: RISD SPECIAL NC248.T63 A45 1952
Je suis le cahier : the sketchbooks of Picasso by edited by Arnold Glimcher and Marc Glimcher
Call Number: RISD SPECIAL OVERSIZE N6853.P5 A4 1986
Les déjeuners by Pablo Picasso ; text by Douglas Cooper
Call Number: RISD SPECIAL OVERSIZE N6853.P5 C66 1963
The intimate sketchbooks of G. Braque by Texts by Will Grohmann and Antoine Tudal ; with an appreciation by Rebecca West
Call Number: RISD SPECIAL OVERSIZE NC248.B68 A46 1955
Il libro azzurro : il miei progetti 1981 by Aldo Rossi
Call Number: RISD SPECIAL NA1123.R616 A4 1983b
Stuart Davis sketchbooks
Call Number: RISD SPECIAL NC139.D3946 A4 1986
Roy Lichtenstein, landscape sketches by with an introduction by Constance Glenn
Call Number: RISD SPECIAL NC139.L48 A4 1986
Wayne Thiebaud, private drawings : the artist's sketchbook by selected and edited by Constance and Jack Glenn ; introduction by Constance Glenn
Call Number: RISD SPECIAL NC139.T45 A4 1987
Heads, figures and ideas by Henry Moore ; with a comment by Geoffrey Grigson
Call Number: RISD Special Flat Folio NC242.M7 A4 1958
A sketchbook by Egon Schiele = Ein Skizzenbuch von Egon Schiele by commentary by Otto Kallir
Call Number: RISD SPECIAL NC245.S3 A4 1967
Water-color sketchbook, 1899
Call Number: RISD SPECIAL ND237.P85 A4 1960
Large Boston Public Garden sketchbook by Maurice Prendergast ; introduction by George Szabo
Call Number: RISD SPECIAL OVERSIZE ND1839.P74 A4 1987
The journey is the destination : the journals of Dan Eldon by edited by Kathy Eldon
Call Number: RISD SPECIAL TR140.E38 A3 1997
The Jackson Pollock sketchbooks in the Metropolitan Museum of Art by Nan Rosenthal, Katharine Baetjer, Lisa Mintz Messinger
Call Number: RISD Special Large Folio NC139.P6 A45 1997
Sottsass 700 drawings by edited by Milco Carboni, with an introduction by Hans Hollein
Call Number: RISD SPECIAL NK1535.S58 A4 2005
Martha's Vineyard : my third sketchbook from the summer of 1982 by David Hockney
Call Number: RISD SPECIAL OVERSIZE NC242.H6 A4 1985
Album La Roche by Ch.-E. Jeanneret, Le Corbusier ; edited and with an essay by Stanislaus von Moos ; [translated from the Italian by Antony Shugaar]
Call Number: RISD SPECIAL OVERSIZE NA1053.J4 A4 1997