Box MS F BOX 4256

Containing sketches of critters, doodles, and compositional drawings (several comparable with Arkley’s early 1970s canvases). Arkley appears to have added details to some pages at a later date. Several pages are left blank.

Contains a series of freely-drawn full-page drawings of ‘critters’ and other quasi-Surrealist figures, several with titles (added later?) in red fibre-tipped pen. Titles include ‘me’, ‘walking stick’, ‘table with long legs’, ‘King Male Head, ‘puppets for play (ice machines)’, and a landscape (signed and dated ‘Howard Arkley 71’).

Containing further drawings of imaginary creatures; notable pages include a figure titled ‘Strange Friend’, and an elaborate drawing of an architectural form dated 1970.

Contains a series of sketches with titles - possibly added later - in red fibre-tipped pen. Notable is a page of sketches with an added note singling out a ‘dream image’ with the comment: ‘I think this is important.’.

Contains doodled figures, some with added titles and notes in red fibre-tipped pen. Some pages contain scribbles, but there are also several more resolved drawings, for instance of a surreal man-tap, and a full-page hybrid creature-woman.