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My school and my gospel (1908)

Herkomer, Hubert von, Sir, 1849-1914 · London : A. Constable and company, limited · leaf 38

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guide me, as a fascination for a technical imperfec-tion in another painters work (which arises from inexperienceand ignorance in the students mind) works for mischief. Itdid so in my case. Instinctively, no doubt. Walkers feelingfor nature was eminently sympathetic to me, but I wasunable to… … MY SCHOOL AND MY GOSPEL water-colours, and then, much later, took up the strongermedium, oil. Walker would have saved himself muchtechnical worry in oils, if he had worked in that mediumwhen he was drawing on wood, and the character of thewood-draughtsman would not have so completely permeatedhis…

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