Emma Ackerley 1870 Loose Sketchbook Pages + Cover boxing gloves from 1909-1999

from 1909-1999

which I assume it always did

Plus a fancy plaster frame to take it over the top

close to Yves Klein

This small watercolor is signed on the rocks at lower left

Emma Ackerley 1870 Loose Sketchbook Pages + Cover boxing gloves from 1909-1999Emily 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