Sketchbooks
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Spohn, Clay Edgar, 1898-1977
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content: Clay Spohn papers
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content: Clay Spohn papers / Series 1: Clay Spohn Papers (Microfilm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1926-1927
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.spohclay, Subseries 1.1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: The three sketchbooks found here contain notes and annotated drawings made by Spohn during his stay in Paris. Sketchbook I contains a drawing of Hemingway's friend, Musgrave, at Le Dome, schematic drawings for a "portable studio," and notes about what to take to Giverny. Sketchbook II contains a self-portrait drawing and one drawing each of Musgrave and Duff Twisden, Hemingway's model for "Brett" in The Sun Also Rises, with whom Spohn became acquainted in the cafes of Paris. Sketchbook III contains designs for chairs and notes giving advice on art.