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and for a span of a few years painted portraits while traveling the country but soon became dissatisfied. Whittredge found his paintings "colorless, dark, ugly and not fit to exist." He found that portraits required too much draftsmanship, a skill he estimated himself lacking. Rather, he found his
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Whittredge, Worthington, 1820-1910, S. (Sheldon) Keck, and John I. H. (John
Ireland Howe) Baur. The Autobiography of Worthington Whittredge, 1820-1910. Brooklyn: Brooklyn Museum Press, 1942.
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