ABSTRACT
A~..:r~· T""~. $116+,.rtt. of painting have given me a keen appreciation of what that man could do with a brush. He came every week and each time painted a new picture, which I copied before his next visit. His lessons were all visual demonstrations, hardly a word being spoken throughout his visit. No reasons were given for the composition, no mention made of technique, and no information advanced as to what colors to mix together to make a desired shade. I was expected to keep my eyes open and my mouth shut while he set up a target for me to shoot at. This method is about as foreign to our procedure in art schools as one could possibly find. Our instructors certainly do more talking than painting, and I know of no Western painter who is willing to fill a student's book with his signed paintings for the small fee of a teacher.
