Frank B. Mayer Sioux Indians sketchbook #40, 1851
A pencil sketchbook kept by Frank Blackwell Mayer in 1851, recording Sioux and Dakota people and travel in Missouri, Mississippi and Minnesota, including Saint Paul and Kaposia. The pages hold loose studies of figures in motion and at rest, drawn quickly with few lines. A designer might take from them the economy of gesture: standing and seated poses sketched in a few confident strokes, with clothing folds and posture suggested rather than finished.
