Pencil drawings are not finished pictures, but sketches prepared for painting. Nikifor made pencil drawings in various places and circumstances, including during his many train journeys when he could not paint. However, these drawings show that Nikifor possessed great talent for drawing. Nikifor drew with crayons mainly towards the end of his life, when he spent increasingly longer periods of time in hospitals and sanatoriums for the treatment of tuberculosis. He was not allowed to use paint in the hospital rooms. The artist could not spend days without creating pictures, so he drew with crayons. In this room, you can also see two of Nikifor’s extraordinary works: the artist’s prayer book and sketchbook. Nikifor’s prayer book is a unique work. It is his liturgical book. The young Nikifor, having no money to buy a real prayer book, drew it himself. He wanted to attend services on the same terms as other people; he did not want to feel inferior to those who came to church with their books. The prayer book is 86 pages long. The drawings mainly depict biblical scenes with crowds of people and figures of saints. The prayer book was probably created in the 1920s. Nikifor’s sketchbook, made in the 1920s, (on display is a reproduction of the sketchbook) contains pencil sketches of Orthodox churches from the Sącz Lemko region. One can recognise specific churches in such towns as Łabowa, Tylicz, Mochnaczka, Jastrzębik, Żegiestów, Wojkowa, Powroźnik and Złockie. The drawings are accompanied by captions. Despite the fact that the names of the towns have spelling mistakes, the sketches faithfully reproduce the architecture of specific buildings in these places and they can be easily recognised. The sketchbook pages, filled on both sides, are evidently study drawings. The sketchbook is proof that Nikifor consciously honed his artistic craft in his youth by practising his drawing skills in the open air. This part of the exhibition is also equipped with interactive touch screens through which visitors can individually explore many archival materials about Nikifor, as well as learn about the entire contents of the Prayer Book and Sketchbook. The photograms in the corridor connecting the two wings of the building were made by Marian Włosiński in the 1960s. M. Włosiński, Nikifor’s legal guardian and friend, was himself a painter and photographer. He met Nikifor almost every day for a number of years; they went on many trips together and travelled to Bulgaria in 1963. He made the extremely valuable photographic documentation of the last ten years of the artist’s life, consisting of several hundred photographs. It is especially worth noting the photograph of Nikifor in conversation with Teofil Ociepka. Ociepka, while undergoing treatment in Krynica, visited Nikifor, about whom he had heard a lot. The photograph shows the historic meeting of the two most famous Polish naive painters.