Sketchbooks
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Barrett, Bill, 1934-
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content: Bill Barrett papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Linear Feet (Boxes 8-9)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1950s-1995
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.barrbill, Series 7
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Sketchbooks are arranged in chronological order.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Thirteen sketchbooks include preliminary drawings of sculptures as well as sketches of portraits and landscapes. There are a few sketches of the home of Bill Barrett's father, Stan Barrett in Sewanee, Tennesse, where he was an artist-in-residence at the University of the South.  Interspersed among the pages are loose sketches and Barrett's notes on  preserving the finish of fabricated sculptures and instructions for the casting and coloring of brasses.  Some of the sketches are annotated with sales prices.