Viewing page 12 of 22

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

[[strikeout]] Gutzon Borglum was to my mind the best instructor we had. His criticisms were [[/strikeout]]  

To me the influence of these instructors was deadening with the exception of Borglum who [[strikethrough]] had [[/strikethrough]] was less academic & who [[strikethrough]] is [[/strikethrough]] while he opened our eyes & minds to many fine things in art, and let us work out our own salvation [[strikethrough]] mostly [[/strikethrough]].

I made studies in clay of animal groups (as I still preferred them to other subjects) and was awarded frist prize in composition. My desire was to make my animals alive and I refused to finish anything if it [[strikethrough]] began to grow.[[/strikethrough]]

During the summer I studied wild animals in the zoo parks. 

I spent one July on the Hartman Stock Farm Columbus O. where I went to study the horses, colts and cattle. [[strikethrough]] of this [[/strikethrough]]

I also tried my hand at painting landscape in the Summer School of the Art Students League at Woodstock N.Y. under Birge Harrison and John Carlson.
[[strikethrough]] But I could not take a [[/strikethrough]] class I could not do so with the spirrit in which it was begun.