A talented amateur artist, Yatman's works are characterised by an astonishing, almost surreal, attention to detail and a brilliant ability to render surface texture. A superb sheet of studies of feathers by the artist is in the Goldyne collection, San Francisco.
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1. Robert Flynn Johnson & Joseph R. Goldyne, Judging by Appearance, Master Drawings from the Collection of Joseph and Deborah Goldyne, exh. cat., Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 2006, no. 48