Mortensen’s Psychology of Composition
by Matthew Innis |By the late 1920s, artist William Mortensen should have had it all. Â A former student of J.T. Harwood, George Bellows, Robert Henri, and George Bridgman, the would-be painter and etcher had moved west just in time join forces with such Hollywood greats as Cecil B. DeMille and Ferdinand Pinney Earle (a former student of Whistler…