Bruce Shanks (1908-1980)

[inscription reads] " layed. To make sure of them he was redrawing them from memory. To describe to me the rythm (sic) of a sketch he was making (three musicians, — a violinist, a man with an accordion, and a singing man - with three around a table playing cards) he said that it rippled down the nearest man’s leg. / Oct 3, 1914. / Awake at sunrise - my dimmed memory of it is pink streaks. / Up at 8:00. To Doan-Brook Dam to sketch. A dense white -haze morning; sun but a glow. Yellowing trees. "