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Framed Art
Artist: J.H. Means
Date Created: 1952
Date Acquired: 12/2012
MGH Department Affiliation: Archives
Landscape by J. Howard Means, MD
Catalog Number: 1198
J.H. Means' Watercolor Mountain Landscape 1952
29 1/2"X 21 1/2" in frame; picture size 21" x 14" watercolor landscape signed "J.H.Means, 1952"
Dr. James Howard Means (1885-1967) was a life-long resident of Boston. He studied at M.I.T and graduated from Harvard in 1907. Four years later he finished medical school at Harvard and became a house pupil at MGH (1911-1913), a sixteen-month straight medical internship. He was chosen to do research in Europe after his medical training was finished, and returned to become the Henry P. Wolcott Fellow in Clinical Medicine.
He was interested in metobolic disorders and was involved in setting up the Thyroid Clinic at MGH. Dr. Means was named Jackson Professor of Clinical Medicine in (1923-1951) and became chief of the Medical Services at MGH.
As an educator Professor Means taught generations of medical students on the wards of Massachusetts General Hospital.
"To his friends, Howard Means was a warm, dynamic intellectual with great humor, responsive to his environment and especially sensitive to color and form as shown in his water colors done during vacations in many lands, but with greatest feeling in the state of Maine".*
*New England Journal of Medicine 277: 1318-1320 (December 14), 1967
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