RACHEL'S SKETCHES- USED ART/DRAWING

• Title: Rachel's Sketches (Cover titled simply Sketches)

• Creator / Artist: Rachel Way Sherman (1907–2008), painter, musician, and longtime Columbus, Ohio arts figure.

• Format: Privately printed, spiral or softbound artist’s chapbook / family memoir containing reproductions of Rachel's travel sketches and historic family photographs (such as the 1935 photo of Rachel and husband Hoyt traveling in Segovia, Spain).

• Dedication:"For My Sons Dick and Bruce / So you can see some of the places we have been" "Rachel to Hoyt: 'I don't know what I'm doing, I just draw what I see.' / Hoyt to Rachel: 'That's all there is to it.'"

• Inscription / Provenance: Inscribed inside the red front wrap by local Columbus contact Mary Lou Lumpe (with an old Columbus/Worthington area phone exchange, 846-XXXX).

Interesting Facts & Local Ohio Art History

• The Hoyt Sherman Connection: The "Hoyt" mentioned in the dialogue on the dedication page is Hoyt L. Sherman (1903–1981), the legendary Ohio State University professor of fine arts. Rachel Way Sherman married Hoyt in 1934; both were faculty members at OSU (she taught music and voice, he taught painting and visual perception).

• The Roy Lichtenstein / Pop Art Heritage: Hoyt Sherman was famously the single most influential mentor to pop-art pioneer Roy Lichtenstein, who studied under him at OSU in the 1940s. Lichtenstein credited Sherman’s optical theories (the "flash lab" and perceptual drawing methods) with shaping his entire visual approach, eventually donating millions to endow OSU’s Hoyt L. Sherman Studio Art Center on campus.

• 1935 Segovia Trip: The photo captioned "Travelers / Segovia ~ 1935" captures Rachel and Hoyt on their famous honeymoon/European artistic pilgrimage right before the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War.

• Long Life in Columbus Arts: Rachel lived to 101 years old in the Beechwold / Clintonville neighborhood of Columbus, continuing to paint, play piano, and teach well into her 80s and 90s. This booklet was a small-run private printing prepared by or for Rachel to preserve her travel sketches and memories for her two sons, Richard ("Dick") and Bruce (Jed).