Which Lovecraft story features the artist Richard Upton Pickman?

The Lovecraft story featuring the artist Richard Upton Pickman is “Pickman’s Model.”

The story was written in 1926 and first published in Weird Tales in October 1927. Its narrator, Thurber, describes Pickman as a Boston painter whose grotesque pictures are far too convincing to be products of ordinary imagination. Pickman’s art depicts ghoulish creatures with an unsettling realism.

The central horror comes from the suggestion that Pickman knows his subjects firsthand. A photograph shown near the end reveals that one of his paintings was based on a real monster rather than artistic invention. The story turns the familiar idea of a disturbing artist into a revelation about hidden supernatural reality.

The setting is largely Boston’s North End, not Brooklyn’s Red Hook. “The Silver Key” follows Randolph Carter, “The Temple” centers on a German submarine commander, and “Cool Air” concerns a physician using unnatural means to preserve himself. Those titles are all Lovecraft stories, but only “Pickman’s Model” names Pickman.