Box MS F BOX 4261

Filled mainly with compositional sketches for minimal/geometric works; also various doodled marginal figures, notes on music, Kandinsky, Rothko, etc.

Cover includes many ink blots and sprayed dots; filled mainly with compositional sketches for minimal/geometric works; also notes on Paul Klee.

Includes doodles and ink blots on cover; filled mainly with compositional sketches for minimal/geometric works; also notes on music.

The opening section is mostly notes, especially from Ehrenzweig’s The Hidden Order of Art, quotes from Miro, Motherwell etc., and a set of notes on colour (unsourced, but possibly from Johannes Itten’s book The Art of Color); also compositional sketches and doodles.

Includes notes on order/chaos, Paul Klee, Rothko etc., an early version of Arkley’s statement ‘I draw rather than paint!’, statements on colour, and compositional sketches and doodles.

Contains titles and sketches relating to Arkley’s second solo show (Tolarno Galleries August 1976), notes on the colour white including a quote from Te-Shan, and a number of compositional sketches, some already in the taller ‘door’ format the artist first used for his canvases in 1978.