The McArdle Notebooks > Dawn at the Alamo
D.A. Woodward (McArdle's Teacher) to McArdle, August 29, 1889
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it before now.
I can find no fault
in the composition.
Instead I must congratulate
you on producing such
a grand and truthful con-
ception of that dreadful
event.
The time of day affords a
magnificent opportunity for
effect of light, heightened
by the torch of Evans I may
say in contrast over a portion
of the group. The figures are
well placed generally but es-
pecially that of Crockett, which
with the connecting figures makes
a splendid composition of itself.
I may also mention that of
Travis and that of Bowie with
other parts of the design especially
the beautiful pyramidal form
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D.A. Woodward (McArdle's Teacher) to McArdle, August 29, 1889, The McArdle Notebooks, Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.