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...Dobell's first visit to South Viet Nam, and among the many quick expressions recorded in his sketchbook is the river scene. Oriental in its simplicity and delicacy, reproduced below...
...abandoned the score for more than 20 years, returned to it in 1945 but never finished it. At the request of Gertrude Schoenberg, the composer's widow, the score was prepared for performance by Composer-Conductor Winfried Zillig after a painstaking study of Schoenberg's musical sketchbook. A onetime student of Schoenberg's, Zillig claims that the score as played in Vienna "contains not a single note that is not by Schoenberg himself...
When Playwright J. M. Synge toured Ireland's "western world" for the Man chester Guardian, Yeats went along. He filled sketchbook after sketchbook with scenes of Irishmen at race tracks, country fairs and circuses, and in boats, turf bogs and pubs. Foreign artists, especially those from England, rarely were able to paint the Irish without a touch of mockery, as if they were a nation of stock buffoons. Yeats painted them as they were, and the Irish loved...
They were known as the Special Artists of the Civil War, and their mission was not to write of battle but to portray the terrible visage of war. Their implements, besides the pencil, were the crayon, the brush and the sketchbook. Their lot was to go wherever the winds of combat blew, to live under fire, to endure the privation, hardship and danger of the campaign for months on end, and to send to the illustrated newspapers that employed them rough and hasty sketches whose chief purpose was to cue the wood engraver back home. From Fort Sumter to Appomattox...
Under battle pressure, the artist often resorted to a sort of sketchbook shorthand-a line or two to fix the horizon ridges, a picket fence of pencil strokes for the men on the line. These were later worked up into more finished sketches, much of the detail supplied from the artist's own pocket reference book. "Infantry, cavalry and artillery soldiers," wrote Harper's Theo Davis, "each had their particular uniform, and besides these, their equipments, such as belts, swords, guns, cartridge boxes, and many other things, were different. As many as ten different saddles were...