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My only objection is that Dover Books chose to put a Sargent portrait on the cover of the painting book and not one of Harold's.
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YES, I thought that was odd, too. I can't recall ever seeing an original Harold Speed, but will research it further. Allan Banks mentioned that he stumbled across one in a gallery in New York once, and was mesmerized.
In the spirit of "youth is wasted on the young," I'd love to be able to now revisit all of the paintings I've looked at in my life. In the same vein, everytime I read a passage from Speed, I get something different out of it, things I was unable to see previously.
This book belongs on the nightstand of every painter.
Anyway, the Sargent on the cover looks to be painted in the manner of a simple three-color study, similar to the head study Speed walks the reader through in a step-by-step included in the text (cool black, red and ochre, plus white). So, it's not a COMPLETELY out-of-context cover.