Composition: A Series of Exercises in Art Structure for the Use of Students and Teachers

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Arthur Wesley Dow was an American painter, printmaker, photographer, and influential arts educator. He taught many of America's leading artists and craftspeople, including Georgia O'Keeffe, two of the Overbeck Sisters and the Byrdcliffe Colony. Dow was largely inspired by Japanese art to this work on Compositionn.

"Composition is a great classic that had immense influence on thinking about art during the first decades of the twentieth century; it is still a challenging statement about the nature of effective visual representation, and it remains of special interest to students of the history of art."―Richard Shiff, University of Texas, Austin