Gammells’ Approach Pt.I -113

A discussion with another Gammell-trained painter, Thomas R. Dunlay, about aspects of the approach of R. H. Ives Gammell to making his own pictures.

In Response to Kofi

QUESTION:Paul could you talk a bit about Gammell's Hound of Heaven series and his process for it? I'm assuming parts of it were done from imagination, and if so, what parts and how? Would he have referenced models or would he have constructed figures from imagination like other American illustrators of his generation? If construction was involved, how did that fit into the Boston school rhetoric of working from the visual impression if there was no impression to be observed in the first place?

Kofi