more like a prize fighter than an artist.

When you give an artist a canvas, you shouldn't tell him exactly how much paint to put on it, or exactly how sharp the images should be, ... You should let the artist get going.

I'm a pretty good artist, ... I can just about draw anything. I make up my own cartoons.

I never officially met Mr. Dunn but observed him from afar at the New York Society of Illustrators where he had been their president and I was still an aspiring art student.

I think his prairie paintings are his finest work. He put everything he had into them. It was a kind of recollection of his youth, painting very directly and powerfully.

The portraits people will see in the show are from a phase of Dunn's career that most of his fans don't know about, ... He regularly did portraits of his friends, and a lot of figure painting as well. I think he mainly did it for recreation and didn't charge them for the work, or if he did it was very seldom.