Joseph Thurman Pearson Jr.

He was one of the eight children of box manufacturer Joseph T. Pearson, Sr. and Annie Virginia Wells, and grew up in the Germantown section of Philadelphia.

[3] Pearson attended the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts on scholarship, 1896–1901, where he studied under William Merritt Chase and Julian Weir.

[4] The 1917 double portrait depicted the girls in identical pink dresses, flanking a sewing table and standing before a deep blue mural.

[11] Agriculture was the theme assigned to Pearson, whose lunette-shaped mural, Harvesting, was installed inside the building's north wing.

[1] The St. Botolph Club of Boston hosted an April 1912 joint exhibition of paintings by Pearson and animalier sculptures by Albert Laessle.

[20] The Woodmere Art Museum, in Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, reunited the pair 31 years later, for a 1943 joint exhibition.

[21] Milch Galleries in New York City hosted a 1921 group exhibition of paintings by Daniel Garber, William Langson Lathrop, Robert Spencer and Pearson.

[c] "After his move to Huntingdon Valley, in 1918, Pearson reduced his artistic output, probably spending more of his time restoring and renovating the stone buildings and landscaping the property to his liking.

[26] Among Pearson's PAFA students were Ross Eugene Braught,[27]: 424  William James Dow,[27]: 952  Edith Emerson,[28] Anne Goodell Lathrop,[5]: 291  Arthur Meltzer,[29] and Cesare A.

[30] At the invitation of one of Pearson's grandchildren, art dealer Roy Wood Jr. visited the studio in 1996, 45 years after the artist's death.