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Album of Sketches: Outdoor Scenes

File contains 1 album of sketches (4 sheets), size 31x41cm and 6 loose sketches, size 36x56 cm, in pencil, charcoal, and watercolour. Sketches depict outdoor scenes.

Album of Sketches: Outdoor Scenes

File contains 1 album of sketches (30 sheets) in pencil and watercolour, size 13x18 cm. Sketches depict animals, landscapes, waterfront scenes, etc. Noted on cover is "film #2."

Album of Sketches: Outdoors

File contains 1 album of sketches (28 sheets) in pencil and ink, size 13x20 cm. Sketches are of trees, buildings, people, etc.

Album of Sketches: People

File contains 1 album of sketches in pencil and ink. Predominantly depicting people - figures and anatomical studies.

Album of Sketches: People

File contains 1 album of sketches in pencil and watercolour. Sketches predominantly depict people, and still life scenes.

Album of Sketches: Properties

File contains an album of sketches and loose pages. Sketches predominantly depict scenes of property with names noted underneath - possibly sketches of neighbours' lands?

Album of Sketches: "Quebec Sketches by A.B. Creighton"

File contains 1 album of sketches (10 sheets, plus index) in watercolour, size 28x38 cm. Per index 1 sketch has been removed from the album. Sketches depict landscapes including "Quebec City," " The Restigouche," "Riviere du Loup," "The Notre Dame Mountains," etc. Noted on album is "films 01.15 and 01.16."

Album of Sketches: "Railway Sketches: Montreal to Halifax by A.B. Creighton"

File contains 1 album of sketches (13 sheets, plus index) in watercolour, size 28x38 cm. Per index, 2 sketches were previously removed from the album. Noted on cover is "film 01.16." Sketches depict predominantly landscapes, with some figures. Helen Hendry notes that "the bent old man with small suitcases [Sussex sketch] looks exactly like Alan in his old age."

Album of Sketches: "Rock Formations"

File contains 1 album of sketches (30 sheets) in pencil, ink, charcoal, and watercolour, size 28x36 cm. Sketches depict rock formations and are captioned by their proper names, including crystalline limestone, cliffs of granite gneiss, conglomerate, roche moutonee, greywacke, undercut seacliff, orbiclar diorite sill, etc.

Album of Sketches: "Sketches 1989 - 90"

File contains 1 album of sketches in oil and watercolour. Noted on cover is "films 98.61 and 98.60." Sketches depict coastal landscapes, flowers, foliage, and garden scenes.

Album of Sketches: "Sketches 1990-91"

File contains 1 album of sketches (40 sheets) in pencil, oil, and watercolour, size 36x43 cm. Noted on cover is "films 01.33 and 01.34." Sketches depict landscapes (some identified, such as Canoe Lake, Nictaux Falls, etc.), foliage and garden sketches, flowers, etc.

Album of Sketches: "Skies"

File contains 1 album of sketches and 5 loose sketches in pencil, charcoal, and watercolour. Sketches depict clouds and skies.

Album of Sketches: Skies, etc.

File contains 1 album of sketches (30 sheets) in pencil, ink, charcoal, and watercolour, size 31x45 cm. Sketches predominantly depict skies and clouds, and also include landscapes and other scenes.

Album of Sketches: Trees

File contains 1 album of sketches in pencil, ink, and watercolour. Sketches predominantly depict trees, as well as rocks, clouds, people, etc.

Album of Sketches: "Trees"

File contains 1 album of sketches in pencil and watercolour. Sketches depict trees - some species are identified. Album is noted "photo films #3 and 4."

Album of Sketches: "Untitled Studies"

File contains 1 album of sketches (13 sheets) in pencil, ink, and watercolour, size 26x36 cm; and 1 album of sketches (25 sheets) in pencil, crayon, and watercolour, size 31x46 cm. Sketches depict landscapes, people, flowers, rocks, etc. Notes from Helen Hendry refer to sketch numbers (written verso lower-left corner) in album titled "1978" and are as follows: SKETCH 4: "Looks like Alan's mother Harriet ("Hat")." SKETCH 5: (left figure) "Probably Alan's "Aunt Hully" (Helen) Hendry; (center figure) "Probably Aunt Laleah Hendry."; (right figure) "Possibly Marge??" SKETCH 6: "This may be young Norman." SKETCH 7: "Appears to be a reworking of pencil sketch "Sunday Morning R.A. and W.A. Hendry 1927" in cream colour album. These are Ralph and Will Hendry, first cousins of Alan + Norm + Marge + Lee." SKETCH 8: "Appears to be a later reworking of the 1925 pencil sketch in the cream coloured album labeled "People - 1925 - 1930"." SKETCH 11: (top-left) "The original pencil sketch (which is in my possession) says "R.A. Hendry, July 1921." (This was my father)." (bottom-right) "On another, similar, sketch in my possession, Alan has written "Will writing to Frances Mar. 13, 1927." (Frances later became his wife) (This Will Hendry is Alan's cousin). (center) "These two men are brothers, first cousins of Alan. Alan obviously redid the sketches together in this page at a later date."
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