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Title: Outdoor Sketching
Four Talks Given before the Art Institute of Chicago; The Scammon Lectures, 1914

Author: Francis Hopkinson Smith

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OUTDOOR SKETCHING

Four Talks Given before the Art Institute of Chicago

The Scammon Lectures, 1914

by

F. HOPKINSON SMITH

With Illustrations by the Author

[Illustration: Part of the Site of the Marshalsea Jail, London]

New York
Charles Scribner's Sons

Copyright, 1915, by
Charles Scribner's Sons

Contents

Page

I. Composition 3

II. Mass 39

III. Water-Colors 75

IV. Charcoal 119

Illustrations

Part of the Site of the Marshalsea Jail, London _Frontispiece_

FACING
PAGE

Under the Willows, Cookham-on-Thames 84

The George and Vulture Inn, London 136

Diagram of Charcoal Technic 142

COMPOSITION

My chief reason for confining these four talks to the outdoor sketch
is because I have been an outdoor painter since I was sixteen years of
age; have never in my whole life painted what is known as a studio
picture evolved from memory or from my inner consciousness, or from
any one of my outdoor sketches. My pictures are begun and finished
often at one sitting, never more than three sittings; and a w