Proceedings of the American Society for Psychical Research, 1909, Vol. 3

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Excerpt from Proceedings of the American Society for Psychical Research, 1909, Vol. 3: Section "B" Of the American Institute for Scientific Research, Parts I-II The peculiar form of Mr. Thompson's hallucinations was that of trees and scenes which he had an impulse to paint. He had not been trained as an artist and had never practiced painting as a profession or to any considerable extent. The only connection with art of any kind which he had was that of goldsmith and some sporadic attempts to paint as later notes indicate, and the testimony, so far as it goes, shows that he was not remarkable in that. The impulse to paint seems to have come to him largely, if not altogether, after the death of Mr. Gifford and the hallucinations that persist ently presented themselves to him were of scenes and objects familiar to this deceased artist. They persecuted his vision like fixed ideas until he put them upon canvas. The cuts represented in Figures IV and XVI inclusively are illustra tions of pictures painted under such impulses. The scenes were apparently those which he himself had never seen and were painted without the presence of the real view before his vision. He had only the hallucination by which to guide his brush. There were several of these completed before any resolution was formed to try painting from nature. A number of paintings were then made of scenes in the Bronx and one or two in Connecticut. This practice gave him familiarity with painting from nature, and he then resolved to go to the scenes and haunts of Mr. Gifford to paint the originals of that locality. Along with his hallucinations he had the fixed idea that, if he went to Mr. Gifford's old haunts, he would find the scenes which had affected his own vision. He could not rest until this task was fulfilled. He was simply obsessed with a perfectly passionate desire to get to the place for this work. Before he went, however, he made a number of Sketches from the scenes which haunted his hallucinatory vision and left them with me. This was on July zud, 1907. I made the following note to this effect' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.