Carl left a set of books in which he had collected those of his hundreds, probably thousands of sketches made during lunch breaks and other idle moments that he considered worth preserving. These are largely grouped by closeness in time, but at one point he asked his son to bind him a book of drawing paper and in that book he began to work out what he called designs. This is the book with the West Coast Aboriginal designs on the cover. It may be that he was consciously following the design books of artists like William Morris and French decorative artists of the fin-de-siecle, like M.P. Verneuil and E.A. Seguy, and he did say that these would be seen in time as his most important legacy. A selection of them is reproduced, here, in the order in which he made them.
The Art of Carl van den Bosch 