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Pictorial art is relating tones to create beauty - like chords of music - not the faithful copying of the model.

Harvey Dunn

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Harvey Dunn
Age: 68 †
Born: 1884
Born: March 8
Died: 1952
Died: November 29
Painter
Harvey T. Dunn
Harvey Thomas Dunn
Dunn
Beauty
Tones
Art
Copying
Music
Chords
Like
Tone
Faithful
Model
Models
Pictorial
Create
Relating

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