Box MS F BOX 4255

Containing pen and pencil drawings and notes Notable contents include: (a) poems and stories dated 1968-70, including a story about ‘Logland’, a fantasy realm of Arkley’s own invention; (b) a page of notes on mysticism, signed ‘Howard Arkley (humble) admiration of Paul Klee’; (c) a page showing Arkley’s imaginary creatures with a ‘key’ to their meaning; (d) notes on Surrealism; and (e) drawing of a cylinder-figure, signed and dated 1970

Containing various drawings in blue ball-point and coloured fibre-tipped pens, mostly of the imaginary creatures typical of Arkley’s late 1960s/early 70s work.

Various drawings of ‘critters’ in pen and pencil, some highly ‘finished’; and two poems on inserted sheets, dating from the late 1960s/early 1970s.

Similar contents to Sketchbook No. 3; drawings of note include a sketch of stylized seated figure (dated 1970), a page including ‘Arabic’ calligraphy, a drawing of a shoe with a buckle composed of imaginary creatures, and a pencil drawing entitled ‘Monumen(t) no.1’.

Contains drawings of ‘critters’, and painting ideas; The opening page includes several pencil sketches for a ‘4 ft. canvas’, including the explanatory note ‘boxes in room perspective’, perhaps referring to "Transpass 1972" or a related painting.