Emma Ackerley 1870 Loose Sketchbook Pages + Cover boxing gloves linen face and hands

linen face and hands

Plus a fancy plaster frame to take it over the top

close to Yves Klein

New Brunswick

Emma Ackerley 1870 Loose Sketchbook Pages + Cover boxing gloves linen face and handsEmily Ackerley's 1870 sketchbook has seen better days what remains is the cover and 11 pages of drawings, filled on both front and back but I think some of these are pretty great (and she definitely thought so too, signing most every one, often a few times on a page.) I know from a couple of additional drawings I pulled from this is that Ackerley lived in Sing Sing, New York, the village on the Hudson which changed its name to Ossining in 1901 to