Skip to main content

Small photo album with blue cover, circa 1993-circa 1996 Digital Link to digital version

 Item — Box: MS F BOX 4269
Identifier(s): MS14217/3/37
Small photo album with blue cover
Small photo album with blue cover

Scope and contents

Contains clippings and drawings, collected and used as source material for paintings, including houses, factories, patterns, a few doodles, photos of Arkley’s own works (doors, cacti, ‘Leigh’s Zappo Head, 1996); stencils (fruit bowl); Patrick Caulfield images, Stuart McFarlane highway picture; also the original clipping of Dürer-style feet used for Tattooed Feet (1983); includes one insert: an illustrated page from The Chateau of Fire, (Mills & Boon book No. 1 in Howard Arkley Archive, SLV) adhered to green paper (but coming away), and surrounded by hand written notes. This page is signed and dated lower right: HA 85; and titled lower centre: ‘Title’.

Dates

  • circa 1993-circa 1996

Language

English

Physical description

Blue, flip-enclosure photograph album; contains 49 enclosures (98 pages); 29.8 x 18.2 (approx.) x 1.6 cm.

General note

Labelled and dated on cover: SOURCE / Ref / 1993; Pages numbered in grey lead pencil by SLV librarian.

  • Box: MS F BOX 4269 (Graphic materials)

Repository details

Part of the Australian Manuscripts Collection, State Library Victoria Repository

Contact:
328 Swanston Street
Melbourne Victoria 3000 Australia
03 8664 7002