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Secret behind this original, grammatical juvenile art lay in the black-thatched head of a rangy, bespectacled, 34-year-old Midwestern painter named Augustus Peck who drifted into the Little Red School House a year and a half ago with some new ideas about how child artists should be taught. An ex-newspaperman, Peck had spent three years teaching moppets in the Cleveland Museum of Art how to paint...
...practical man rather than a theorist, Peck laid down no rules, treated his Manhattan pupils as individuals, insisted only that they work as hard as serious adults. He sent them clambering over Manhattan docks and rooftops, told them to draw and paint what they saw, criticized their results with adult solemnity. When one artist insisted on signing each of his landscapes "An Original by Myerson" in large letters, Teacher Peck didn't even crack a smile...
...Acre after acre of sheaved flax awaits gathering. Winter wheat is beginning to sprout. Ruined rye crops are brown with rot. . . . Cavalry and artillery horses graze quietly. Crows and magpies peck at the blood-soaked earth...
...missionary to China, 58-year-old Willys Peck was born in Tientsin, has spent 35 years in the foreign service, 31 of them in China. He speaks Chinese, in all its intricate, singsong dialects, like a native scholar, and has been known to spin entrancing Chinese narratives of his own invention by the hour, in fluent, flawless Mandarin...
...Peck speaks no Thai, and his China lore will be no asset to him in Thailand. The Thai people love the Chinese about the way a County Cork Irishman loves the British. Like the Irish, Thailanders are not impressed by the bold, underdog fight their neighbors are putting up against the Axis...