Joseph Thurman Pearson Jr.
Joseph Thurman Pearson Jr. was an American landscape and portrait painter, and an instructor at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia.
Self-Portrait (1914), National Academy of Design, New York City
On the Valley (1916), University Club, Philadelphia
The Twins: Virginia and Jane (1917), Michener Art Museum
A Group of Geese (1910), unlocated
Joseph E. Temple Fund Gold Medal (defunct) was a prestigious art prize awarded by the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts most years from 1883 to 1968. A Temple Medal recognized the best oil painting by an American artist shown in PAFA's annual exhibition. Recipients included James Whistler, John Singer Sargent, Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins, Robert Henri and Edward Hopper.
Image: Maynard Francis Davis Millet as a War Correspondent 1878
Image: Pearce Peines de Coeur
Image: 'In the Wash house' by Anna Elizabeth Klumpke, 1888
Image: Parton American Art Assn 1892 catalogue p.54