More Than Words: Illustrated Letters from the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art
Edgar Spier Cameron (1862–1944) to his parents
7 Aug. 1884
Edgar Spier Cameron, a painter, wrote to his parents with news that he had passed the École des Beaux-Arts’ rigorous exam: “I felt like getting drunk over the result to-day,” he wrote , “. . . so I went and purchased a lonesome ‘demie’ of Munich beer and wrapped myself around it.” In the letter, Cameron depicted himself with an enthusiastic spring in his step. The portfolio under his arm identifies him as a former student of Gustave Boulanger and Jules Lefebvre, teachers at the Académie Julian.
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