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----------------------------Original message---------------------------- the founder, Sir Francis Seymour Haden, of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers (RSPE) in England around the 1880s was a surgeon. I just read about him in the book, Etched Beyond Memory. There was another doctor-engraver mentioned in this book. Maryly Snow > > ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- > Regarding the question of a few weeks ago for names of doctors who > paint: we recently received a gift book about one -- Joe Wilder, MD. > The book is "Surgical reflections: images in paint and prose," St. > Louis, Missouri: Quality Medical Publishing, Inc., 1993. The > publisher's address is: 2086 Craigshire Drive, St. Louis, Missouri > 63146. > > Among the landscapes and still-lifes, he also paints lots of surgical > operations and seems to favor sports subjects. There is some non-art- > related prose glorifying medicine interspersed with the very good > reproductions. > > Matthew Tallow > Mid-Manhattan Library Art Collection > New York, NY >