Medicine: Doctor Artists | TIME

TIME

March 7, 1927 12:00 AM GMT-5

Doctors who dared no virtuosity in their professional practice showed last week at the Academy of Medicine, Manhattan, how they toyed as artists in their leisure hours. The hand that swabbed a tonsil also daubed a canvas. Lancet or engraving tool fitted equally well the hand of a surgeon; probe or mahlstick the hand of another physician. What paintings, etchings and statuary they had finished they brought to the Academy for the exhibit. Included in the list were:

Doctor-painters: Henry S. Patterson, New York; James C. Ayer, New York; R. Burton Optiz, New York; Chevalier Jackson, Philadelphia; S. Solis Cohen, Philadelphia; F. T. Cotton, Boston.

Doctor-etchers: Percy Friedberg, Leigh H. Hunt, Hermann Fischer, all of New York.

Doctor-sculptors: R. Tait McKenzie, Philadelphia; Seth I. Hirsch, Manhattan.

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