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a studio advantageous to both.
My earliest work exemplified my academy training. Subjects continued to be painted at one sitting. When the subject was landscape it implied a hasty accounting for nature at that given time. [[strikethrough]] They were usually panels [[/strikethrough]] When they succeeded they represented an approximation of the color values of the forms occurring in the subject without concern with forms as such, as of the design which their relation could make. The building up of the elements within a picture, into a unit of design was an unknown quantity to me. There were areas like those left unaccounted for on the earliest maps, with the important