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    An Evening in the Classroom: Notes Taken by Miss Taylor in One of the Classes of Painting
    An Evening in the Classroom: Notes Taken by Miss Taylor in One of the Classes of Painting
    An Evening in the Classroom: Notes Taken by Miss Taylor in One of the Classes of Painting
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    An Evening in the Classroom: Notes Taken by Miss Taylor in One of the Classes of Painting

    By Harvey Dunn and Jeff A. Menges

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    "Dunn, in his teaching, was more concerned with the essential spirit of work than with technical procedures. He never taught what kind of brushes or what kind of paint to use. It was merely whether the result had anything in common with the excitement of human existence." — Dean Cornwell, "the Dean of Illustrators"

    Illustrator and painter Harvey Dunn was deeply influenced by Howard Pyle and the teaching he received while at his school. Pyle's Brandywine students became some of the most important and well-regarded artists of the twentieth century, including N. C. Wyeth, Frank Schoonover, Violet Oakley, and Jessie Willcox Smith. All studied alongside Dunn, and many of them would go on to teach. Dunn embraced Pyle's approach as an instructor and went on to influence the next generation of artists.
    During the course of an evening in 1934, while Dunn was teaching at Grand Central School of the Arts, one Miss Taylor, a witness to the class, recorded his comments and criticisms. These notes later surfaced in a slim, limited-edition volume. Enhanced by Dunn's striking woodcut images, the book provides a flavorful re-creation of the atmosphere in his classroom. An Evening in the Classroom is the best-preserved record of Dunn's critiques, and this handsome hardcover book will instruct and inspire artists, teachers and students, and art historians.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDover Publications
    Release dateJul 17, 2019
    ISBN9780486841496
    An Evening in the Classroom: Notes Taken by Miss Taylor in One of the Classes of Painting

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      An Evening in the Classroom - Harvey Dunn

      Illustrator and painter Harvey Dunn was deeply influenced by Howard Pyle and the teaching he received while at his school. Pyle’s Brandywine students became some of the most important and well-regarded artists of the twentieth century, including N. C. Wyeth, Frank Schoonover, Violet Oakley, and Jessie Willcox Smith. All studied alongside Dunn, and many of them would go on to teach. Dunn embraced Pyle’s approach as an instructor and went on to influence the next generation of artists.

      During the course of an evening in 1934, while Dunn was teaching at the Grand Central School of Art, one Miss Taylor, a witness to the class, recorded his comments and criticisms. These notes later surfaced in a slim, limited-edition volume. Enhanced by Dunn’s striking woodcut images, this book provides a flavorful re-creation of the atmosphere in his classroom. An Evening in the Classroom is the best-preserved record of Dunn’s critiques, and this handsome hardcover book will instruct and inspire artists, teachers, students, and art historians.

      HARVEY DUNN

      AN EVENING

      in the

      CLASSROOM

      Copyright

      Foreword by Jeff A. Menges copyright © 2019 by Dover Publications, Inc. All rights reserved.

      Bibliographical Note

      An Evening in the Classroom: Being Notes Taken by Miss Taylor in One of the Classes of Painting is an expanded republication of the work originally published by Harvey Dunn in 1934. The foreword by Jeff A. Menges has been specially written for this Dover Publications edition.

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Names: Dunn, Harvey, 1884–1952, author. | Menges, Jeff A., writer of foreword.

      Title: An evening in the classroom : being notes taken by Miss Taylor in one of the classes of painting / Harvey Dunn ; foreword by Jeff A. Menges.

      Description: Mineola, New York : Dover Publications, 2019. | An Evening in the Classroom: Being Notes Taken by Miss Taylor in One of the Classes of Painting is an expanded republication of the work originally published by Harvey Dunn in 1934.

      Identifiers: LCCN 2018056854 | ISBN 9780486834900 (hardback) | ISBN 0486834905

      Subjects: LCSH: Painting—Technique. | BISAC: ART / Study & Teaching. | ART / Criticism & Theory. | ART / Techniques / General.

      Classification: LCC ND1471 .D79 2019 | DDC 750.28—dc23

      LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018056854

      Manufactured in the United States by LSC Communications

      83490501    2019

      www.doverpublications.com

      Foreword

      There are teachers whom we suffer through, and there are teachers who shape our lives. Harvey Dunn was an illustrator and a painter; he did both with a high level of success. What he was most proud of in his career, however, was his teaching. I believe he shaped a lot of lives.

      During the course of one evening in a 1934 classroom, one Miss Taylor took extensive notes, preserving Dunn’s remarks. Present and attentive, she recorded comment after comment. He may have been reviewing preliminary work or a student’s painting or simply discussing how to see. Dunn was not known for teaching techniques but for the philosophy of painting, sprinkled with a business sense that needed to be learned and applied by aspiring creatives in the commercial arts market. Miss Taylor’s attention to detail preserved the experience of being in the studio with the instructor, who counted among his students Dean Cornwell, Saul Tepper, Walter Louderback, Gloria Stoll, and Henry Pitz, to name a few.

      Dunn himself was a product of the Brandywine School. With illustration legend Howard Pyle at the helm, a few years of teaching at the dawn of the twentieth century produced many of the generation’s most influential American illustrators. Many of these students went on to become teachers themselves, so impressed were they by their experience with Pyle and his reverence for teaching. The most successful one produced from among Pyle’s students was Dunn.

      Recognized in his early years for having outstanding creative promise, Dunn traveled from his native state of South Dakota to the halls of the Chicago Art Institute, before studying alongside the likes of N. C. Wyeth, Frank Schoonover, and Thornton Oakley in Pyle’s classes. By 1915, Dunn and artist Charles S. Chapman had their own school, though it was not long before that partnership faltered, just as the Great War broke out.

      "The most fruitful and

      worthwhile thing

      I have ever done

      has been to teach."

      Harvey Dunn

      Dunn had a robust way of producing work,

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