Sherman, Frederic Fairchild · New York : Privately printed · leaf 72
ted one or two pictures of him that are fineenough in themselves to hold their own, in every sensesave that of mere size, with some of the more pre-tentious of his later works. I myself find the figuresin his early paintings not merely more convincing inconstruction but more satisfying in their… … follow in his great marines. They have generallymore reality in their obvious relation to their sur-roundings than the figures he uses to illustrate hisstories of the sea. Probably the very fact that atfirst he aimed at nothing more than a truthful ren-dering of what he found interesting in life,…
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