Poe and the Visual Arts

Notes

Introduction 1. Poe, Complete Poems, 146. Further references to Poe’s poems will be noted parenthetically in the text as Poems. 2. Poe, Collected Letters, 1:47. Further references to Poe’s letters will be noted parenthetically in the text as Letters. 3. Poe, Tales and Sketches, 1:707 and 2:1272. Further references to Poe’s short stories and sketches will be noted parenthetically in the text as Tales. 4. This story originally appeared in Snowden’s Ladies’ Companion for October 1842, and the end of the quoted sentence read “of Claude, or Poussin or Stanfield.” When Poe revised this tale for publication in the Broadway Journal, he removed the references to Poussin and Stanfield. 5. Poe, Writings in the “Southern Literary Messenger,” 117. 6. Poe, “Letter to B–––,” 7. 7. Poe, Writings in the “Southern Literary Messenger,” 117. 8. Poe, Complete Works, 10:152–53. Further references to Poe’s reviews will be from this edition and noted parenthetically in the text as Works. 9. Poe, Brevities, 385. 10. Ljungquist, The Grand and the Fair, 92, 82. 11. See, for example, Osipova, “Aesthetic Effects,” and Hayes, “One-Man Modernist.” 12. Hayes, “One-Man Modernist,” 237. 13. Pollin, Images of Poe’s Works, 1. 14. Cantalupo, “Interview with Burton Pollin,” 109. Pollin notes in Images of Poe’s Works, “Such passages [Poe] said, ‘are unrivalled for graphicality (why is there not such a word?)’” (2). 15. Quoted in Thomas, “Poe in Philadelphia,” 70. 16. About two years before his death on June 30, 2009, Burton Pollin sent me all of his handwritten notes regarding Poe and the visual arts, with this note: “As for Poe and art—please forgive the dreadful condition of these very old and nasty notes. May they be of use, in strange ways!” (February 18, 2007). I am indebted to Dr. Pollin for this and for the valuable advice he gave me over the years, and I am especially thankful that he shared his detailed research on this topic with me. 17. Thomas and Jackson, Poe Log, xliv. Further references to this book will be noted parenthetically in the text as Poe Log. 18. Thomas, “Poe in Philadelphia,” 741. 19. Lewis, “Felix O. C. Darley,” 1. 20. Keyes, “Daguerreotype’s Popularity,” 118. 21. My appreciation goes to Mary DeJong for referring me to Samuel Stillman Osgood in an email on August 3, 2005. 22. Here I would have to disagree with Silverman’s assessment that “except the triumph of ‘The Raven,’ [Poe] spent most of 1845 in an uproar. . . . His writing and editorial labor for the Notes notes to pages – {  } Broadway Journal were both ground and outlet for many of his woes.” Silverman, Mournful and Never-Ending Remembrance, 293. 23. According to an 1840 map of Philadelphia, Sixteenth Street was then named North Eighth Street. See Martinez and Talbott, Philadelphia’s Cultural Landscape. 24. Thomas, “Poe in Philadelphia,” 25. 25. Martinez and Talbott, Philadelphia’s Cultural Landscape, 4. 26. Quinn, Edgar Allan Poe, 274. 27. Lewis, “Felix O. C. Darley,” 1. 28. Webb, History of Pennsylvania Hall, 6. See also Caust-Ellenbogen, “Pennsylvania Hall Association.” 29. Wilson and Coval, “City of Unbrotherly Love.” 30. “History and Timeline.” 31. See Cantalupo, “Interview with Jefferson Moak.” 32. Homberger, Scenes from the Life of a City, 218. 33. Spannuth, Poe’s Contributions, 25. 34. Stokes, Iconography of Manhattan. 35. For a concise narrative overview of the history of art galleries in New York from 1800 to 1850, see Bender, New York Intellect. 36. Transactions of the American Art Union. 37. Spannuth, Poe’s Contributions, 33. 38. Strong, Diary, 264–65. 39. New-York Mirror, 1. 40. Myers, “Public Display of Art,” 37. 41. Important paintings that influenced Poe’s work will be described in a later chapter. 42. Dearinger and Barry, “Annual Exhibitions,” 57. See Dearinger, Paintings and Sculpture, xi, n. 2, for discussion of the actual date that the Academy was established. 43. Stone, History of New York City, 64 (appendix X). 44. Dearinger and Barry, “Annual Exhibitions,” 57. 45. Myers, “Public Display of Art,” 37. 46. For a detailed overview of Luman Reed’s collection, see Foshay, Mr. Luman Reed’s Picture Gallery. 47. Gerdts, “Newly Discovered Records,” 3. 48. Stokes, Iconography of Manhattan, 5:1783. 49. Gerdts, “Newly Discovered,” 9. 50. Pollin, Writings in the “Broadway Journal,” 177. 51. Broadway Journal, 2:154. Further references to the periodical will be noted parenthetically in the text as BJ. 52. Sperling, “‘‘Art...