Schetsboek met 43 bladen c. 1890 - 1922

This is a sketchbook with 43 pages, made by Johanna van de Kamer, who lived from 1873 to 1922. Sketchbooks are such intimate objects, aren't they? Imagine Johanna, somewhere between 1873 and 1922, with this very book in her hands. The book is a landscape, all its own, with some stains and maybe some tears. A site of constant trial and error, a place for the artist to record her impressions, explore her inner world, and make manifest her aesthetic investigations. Each page could tell a story. I wonder what we would find inside. Did Johanna use it to plan larger works, or did she create drawings and paintings in it as an end in themselves? Did she go out into nature with it, or did she sit in her studio? Perhaps the paintings and drawings relate to the works of other artists, a conversation with other painters across time, inspiring each other's creativity.