1.   Why, then, were these early drawings such examples of ugliness?

2.   A gallery of early charcoal drawings and watercolor nudes invites closer examination.

3.   Early drawings show Hades appearing in various incarnations, one as a giant, scarlet, sunglass-wearing cockroach sitting on a foreboding throne.

4.   For scholars, the discovery offers fresh insight into the young Pissarro, whose early drawings show elements that would figure largely in later Impressionism.

5.   Granted, little of it turned out much like those early drawings.

6.   His father worked in a herring factory, and an early drawing of two workers pushing a herring barrel is in the show.

7.   Some of the folks in the early drawings look lumpish or idiotic, as if victims of inbreeding.

8.   The discovery offers fresh insight into the young Pissarro, whose early drawings show elements that would figure largely in later Impressionism.

9.   These early drawings have a quaint, fairy-tale quality compared to the more vigorous style that French kings imported from Italy.

10.   Until now, experts have generally thought that early drawing and painting began with crude and clumsy lines and became more sophisticated only over centuries.