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[[strikethrough]] Our Indian [[/strikethrough]] he becomes a primitive [[strikethrough]] only [[/strikethrough]] when he [[strikethrough]] essays to pain [[/strikethrough]] approaches realism & [[strikethrough]] [[pa?]] [[/strikethrough]] [[strikethrough]] His designs [[/strikethrough]]

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Fine primitive painting is the expression of unlearned men who put down [[insert]] often [[/insert]] brilliantly what they [[strikethrough]] saw [[/strikethrough]] [[underlined]] see [[/underlined]].

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our Indians have a sophisticated Art, they record not what they see, but what they think. They arrange symbols into designs.
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The sand painter has a tradition in a type of abstract that is superb. But [[strikethrough]] if [[/strikethrough]] when his love of adventure leads him to paint a familiar domestic scene, [[insert]] as a [[circled]] * 4 [[/circled]] [[/insert]] and [[strikethrough]] and [[/strikethrough]] his picture comes in for loud praise and blame of which he heard no doubt only the form which whets his desire to paint things he sees. Well, he may develop into a Fra Angetico sort of primitive. We cannot say where he may go from here for he is treading on foreign ground.

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V. is  successfully experimenting with interiors - figures working, introducing natural pursuits - and and I believe the innovators will arrive at some style of their own by which they may develope a way for introducing buildings & landscapes successfully. It should come naturally & with time [[insert]] if at all [[/insert]], with no pushing from the outside. A critical attitude from another race is upsetting, and never should we wish them to try to please us - (I do not want them to try)
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Transcription Notes:
Fra Angetico = Fra Angelico