Summary Of Pickman's Model

H.P. Lovecraft’s “Pickman’s Model” is about a Bostonian painter named Richard Upton Pickman who paints horrifying images. This painter does exquisite work, but his paintings are so graphic that his Boston Art Club membership is taken away, and he is shunned by other artists. After Pickman mysteriously disappears, Pickman’s friend narrates the story relating to another person how he toured Pickman’s personal gallery of paintings. As Pickman’s friend delves deeper into the art and psyche of Pickman, the rooms appear to come alive, seeming to grow more and more sinister and the paintings continuously become more horrific. Further, there is one final enormous painting of an unearthly, red-eyed, canine humanoid balefully chewing on a human victim.