John Pickard - Thomas Eakins correspondence

June 20, 1907

Dear Sir: In the preparation of a course of lecture on the History of American painting to be delivered next year to the Students of the University of Missouri, I am EXCEEDINGLY desirous of obtaining ACCURATE information concerning the life, artistic development, and work of the painters I am to discuss.

Will you be so very kind as to assist me by giving me the information concerning yourself or by referring me to any publications where the facts are accurately published.

You will confer an additional favor if you will give me a list of your most representative paintings and tell me where I can procure reproductions, either photographs or lantern slides, of your paintings.

Trusting that you may be able to favor me at your early convenience,

Very sincerely yours,

John Pickard

My Dear Sir,

I think probably the St. Louis catalogue would have a list of my principal pictures as I exhibited there at the International Fair the best of my pictures available. I was a pupil of Gérôme. On return to my native city Philadelphia I made many pictures and taught Art and Art History in Philadelphia, New York, Brooklyn & Washington[.] I received honors at Chicago, Buffalo, Paris, St. Louis. Proctor Prize N.A.D. Temple Gold Medal Penns[ylvania] Acad[emy of] Fine Arts, Carnegie Institute. My pictures have hardly ever been photographed except by newspaper men when they have received medals, and I do not know where there are any.

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Concert Singer The Collector Bathers Cardinal Martinelli Cardinal Falconio Archbishop Elder Father Fedigan (Provincial of Augustinians) Monsignor Loughlin Monsignor Turner Mending the net

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Thomas Eakins