![]() ![]() When the veteran Chicago artist, Daniel Folger Bigelow died in 1910, at the age of eighty six, the arts community reminisced about the evolution of art in the city. Patrick, you were the best art researcher I ever knew, and I've known a many! Cheers my friend. ![]() He was part of my life for a strong and interesting period, and I miss him dearly. Patrick died penniless, without a family of his own. We would drift off into faraway discussions about the most arcane topics related to our subject, pause, and realize we were the only two people in the world who could conceivably discuss such esoteric matters. Patrick Sowle was somewhat down on his funds post-retirement and we agreed to a regular stipend wherein we could work on my research together on the history of Illinois painters. Those of us so dedicated were (and are) very few. I introduced myself and quite by serendipity did he explain he shared an interest in Illinois and Chicago art history. It seemed odd that every time I was there so too was a diminutive scholarly looking gentleman. One day around 2001, I was researching artists at the microfilm library of the Chicago Public Library. ![]()
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