Pickman Gallery

The Pickman Gallery is a location in the North End of Boston in 2287.
==Layout==
The upper floors of this three-story building are filled with mutilated corpses and raiders. In the room to the immediate left of the entrance, there are a number of unsettling paintings, which will cause companions to react. The third floor features a weapons workbench to the west and a bed to the east.
A hole in the wall in the northeast corner of the third floor provides access to the basement via a series of drops. Alternatively, the basement can be accessed via a stairway behind a Master-locked door in the southeast corner of the first floor in the kitchen. The basement leads to a series of tunnels where the raiders are searching for Pickman.
The first room in the basement contains a chemistry station. In the tunnels after crossing a pipe bridge, a makeshift camp is fitted with a cooking station and a mattress.
At the end of the tunnels, the Sole Survivor will find Pickman being attacked by Slab and a group of raiders. If the raiders are killed, Pickman will reward the player character with his key to a Master-locked safe behind a painting on the first floor labeled "Picnic for Stanley". The painting is in the northwest corner of the room to the left of the entrance. If Pickman is killed, the key may instead be looted from his body. Also at the end of the tunnels past Pickman's room is a ladder exiting through a hatch to a ruined building just east of Mean Pastries; the hatch can only be opened by Pickman's key.
==Notable loot==
* Message to Jack holotape - On the first floor, on a raider's corpse in the art room to the left of the entrance.
* Surgical mask - On the second floor, on a table with a pair of handcuffs near a dead raider on a red gurney. If it has been knocked onto the floor, it may be difficult to spot, but should be near the gurney.
* Two Vault-Tec lunchboxes:
** One is on the third floor, on top of the bed headboard shelf in the eastern room. It is likely to have been displaced due to a raider triggering the missile tripwire on the opposite side of the landing.
** One is in the basement, held by a skeleton in the northwest corner of the first room.
* Two Nuka-Cola Quantums - In the basement, in a crate on the pipe bridge.
* Pickman's key - In Pickman's room, carried or given by Pickman. Opens a safe hidden behind a painting in the art room on the first floor, as well as the hatch exit in the basement tunnels.
* Lock picking bobblehead - In Pickman's room, on the ground beside a burning trash can in the center of the room.
* Astoundingly Awesome Tales issue #4 - In Pickman's room, on the ground in front of the steamer trunk.
* Pickman's Blade - In Pickman's safe. Always available.
* Pickman's thank you note - In Pickman's safe. Only available if Pickman was saved from the raiders.
==Notes==
* Twelve of Pickman's paintings are on display in the building. The first ten paintings are in the room to the immediate left of the entrance on the first floor, the eleventh painting is in the kitchen on the first floor, and the final painting is in the first room of the basement. The paintings were painted in the blood of Pickman's victims; a can of blood can be found in front of the "all-seeing eye" painting in the basement.
===Companion comments===
* When at this location, companions make comments, which are activated in the first room on the left with the paintings, and in the basement near the pile of corpses.
Location comments	Location comments
Character 	Comment
Cait 	""
Codsworth 	""
Curie 	"For medical research, autopsy and the study of the human body is important. But this... this is sick."
Danse 	""
Deacon 	"Look at the brush work. And the bold use of color. Oh, and how bat shit crazy the painter was. Don't forget that."
John Hancock 	""
Nick Valentine 	""
Piper Wright 	" "
Preston Garvey 	""
Robert MacCready 	""
X6-88 	""
==Appearances==
The Pickman Gallery appears only in Fallout 4.
==Behind the scenes==
* Both Pickman and the Gallery are references to the short story "Pickman's Model" by H.P. Lovecraft.
* Pickman Gallery is located on the north-east edge of Boston, adjacent to Cabot House. There are other locations further out in the northeast Commonwealth named Dunwich and Kingsport, also Lovecraft references.
* Codsworth's comment on hoping the paintings were not inspired by experience may be a nod to the original story, in which the horrific creatures in the artist's paintings were revealed to be drawn from life. 
* The plungers and bloody handprints found in the bathroom on the first floor are likely a reference to the iconic "plunger room of death" from Fallout 3.
==Bugs==
* If Hancock is a companion when attempting to complete his quest Art Appreciation, the dialogue option to complete the quest will be locked. A workaround is to temporarily remove Hancock as a companion, then talk to him again. Hancock will remark that when he offered the quest, he did not mean that he should be taken to the Gallery. The player character will then be rewarded with caps, and the quest will complete.
* Sometimes the red entrance door to the Gallery won't open, with no focus to open the door.
** Saving the game then reloading the save should allow the door to be opened.
==Gallery==
FO4 Pickman Gallery int 1.png|Entrance
FO4_Safe_Pickman.png|Pickman's safe on the first floor
FO4 Pickman Gallery int 2.png|Dead raider on the second floor
FO4 Vault-Tec Lunchbox in Pickman Gallery.png|Vault-Tec lunchbox on the third floor
VT lunchbox Pickman Gallery.jpg|Vault-Tec lunchbox
FO4 Caps Stash in Pickman Gallery.png|Caps stash on the third floor
FO4 Pickman Gallery int 3.png|Corpses in the basement
FO4 Nuka-Cola Quantum in Pickman Gallery.png|Nuka-Cola Quantums in the basement
Fo4 bobblehead Lockpick.jpg|Lock picking bobblehead
FO4 Pickman Astoundingly Awesome.png|Astoundingly Awesome Tales
Frag mine1 Pickman Gallery.jpg|Armed frag mine
Frag mine2 Pickman Gallery.jpg|Armed frag mine
Frag mine3 Pickman Gallery.jpg|Armed frag mine
Frag mine4 Pickman Gallery.jpg|Armed frag mine
Frag mine5 Pickman Gallery.jpg|Armed frag mine
Frag mine6 Pickman Gallery.jpg|Armed frag mine
Frag mine7 Pickman Gallery.jpg|Armed frag mine
Chemistry station Pickman Gallery.jpg|Chemistry station
Cooking station Pickman Gallery.jpg|Cooking station
Weapons workbench Pickman Gallery.jpg|Weapons workbench
===Paintings===
Fo4 Pickman Painting 01.jpg|Painting 01
Fo4 Pickman Painting 02.jpg|Painting 02
Fo4 Pickman Painting 03.jpg|Painting 03, "Picnic for Stanley"
Fo4 Pickman Painting 04.jpg|Painting 04
Fo4 Pickman Painting 05.jpg|Painting 05
Fo4 Pickman Painting 06.jpg|Painting 06
Fo4 Pickman Painting 07.jpg|Painting 07
Fo4 Pickman Painting 08.jpg|Painting 08
Fo4 Pickman Painting 09.jpg|Painting 09
Fo4 Pickman Painting 10.jpg|Painting 10
Fo4 Pickman Painting 11.jpg|Painting 11
Fo4 Pickman Painting 12.jpg|Painting 12
Category:North End
Category:Boston buildings
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