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Thomas Eakins
American Realist Painter, 1844-1916.
Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins (July 25, 1844 ?C June 25, 1916) was a realist painter, photographer, sculptor, and fine arts educator. He is widely acknowledged to be one of the most important artists in American art history.
For the length of his professional career, from the early 1870s until his health began to fail some forty years later, Eakins worked exactingly from life, choosing as his subject the people of his hometown of Philadelphia. He painted several hundred portraits, usually of friends, family members, or prominent people in the arts, sciences, medicine, and clergy. Taken en masse, the portraits offer an overview of the intellectual life of Philadelphia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries; individually, they are incisive depictions of thinking persons. As well, Eakins produced a number of large paintings which brought the portrait out of the drawing room and into the offices, streets, parks, rivers, arenas, and surgical amphitheaters of his city. These active outdoor venues allowed him to paint the subject which most inspired him: the nude or lightly clad figure in motion. In the process he could model the forms of the body in full sunlight, and create images of deep space utilizing his studies in perspective.
No less important in Eakins' life was his work as a teacher. As an instructor he was a highly influential presence in American art. The difficulties which beset him as an artist seeking to paint the portrait and figure realistically were paralleled and even amplified in his career as an educator, where behavioral and sexual scandals truncated his success and damaged his reputation.
Eakins also took a keen interest in the new technologies of motion photography, a field in which he is now seen as an innovator. Eakins was a controversial figure whose work received little by way of official recognition during his lifetime. Since his death, he has been celebrated by American art historians as "the strongest, most profound realist in nineteenth-and early-twentieth-century American art". |
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Thomas Eakins
Home Ranch 1888
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Thomas Eakins
Fairman Rogers Four-in-Hand
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Thomas Eakins
Between Rounds
1899
Philadelphia Museum of Art
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Thomas Eakins
Self Portrait hbn
1902
National Academy of Design, New York
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Thomas Eakins
Portrait of Amelia van Buren
1891
The Phillips Collection, Washington DC
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Thomas Eakins
Addie
1900
Philadelphia Museum of Art
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Thomas Eakins
The Concert Singer
1890-92
Philadelphia Museum of Art
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Thomas Eakins
The Dean's Roll Call
1899
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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Thomas Eakins
Portrait of Alice Kurtz
1903
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University
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Thomas Eakins
Portrait of Susan Macdowell Eakins
1900
Smithsonian Institute, Washington DC
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Thomas Eakins
Portrait of William Merritt Chase
1899
Smithsonian Institute, Washington DC
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Thomas Eakins
Portrait of Henry Ossawa Tanner
1902
The Hyde Collection, Glen Falls, New York
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Thomas Eakins
John Biglin in a Single Scull
Yale University Art Gallery
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Thomas Eakins
Biglen Brothers, Turning the Stake
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Thomas Eakins
Biglen Brothers Racing
1873
24" x 36"
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
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Thomas Eakins
Dr Horatio Wood
1890
The Detroit Institute of Arts
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Thomas Eakins
The Pathetic Song
1881
The Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington DC
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Thomas Eakins
Elizabeth at the Piano
1875
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover
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Thomas Eakins
Kathrine
1872
Yale University Art Gallery
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Thomas Eakins
Study of a Girl Head
1868-69
Philadelphia Museum of Art
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American Realist Painter, 1844-1916.
Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins (July 25, 1844 ?C June 25, 1916) was a realist painter, photographer, sculptor, and fine arts educator. He is widely acknowledged to be one of the most important artists in American art history.
For the length of his professional career, from the early 1870s until his health began to fail some forty years later, Eakins worked exactingly from life, choosing as his subject the people of his hometown of Philadelphia. He painted several hundred portraits, usually of friends, family members, or prominent people in the arts, sciences, medicine, and clergy. Taken en masse, the portraits offer an overview of the intellectual life of Philadelphia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries; individually, they are incisive depictions of thinking persons. As well, Eakins produced a number of large paintings which brought the portrait out of the drawing room and into the offices, streets, parks, rivers, arenas, and surgical amphitheaters of his city. These active outdoor venues allowed him to paint the subject which most inspired him: the nude or lightly clad figure in motion. In the process he could model the forms of the body in full sunlight, and create images of deep space utilizing his studies in perspective.
No less important in Eakins' life was his work as a teacher. As an instructor he was a highly influential presence in American art. The difficulties which beset him as an artist seeking to paint the portrait and figure realistically were paralleled and even amplified in his career as an educator, where behavioral and sexual scandals truncated his success and damaged his reputation.
Eakins also took a keen interest in the new technologies of motion photography, a field in which he is now seen as an innovator. Eakins was a controversial figure whose work received little by way of official recognition during his lifetime. Since his death, he has been celebrated by American art historians as "the strongest, most profound realist in nineteenth-and early-twentieth-century American art".
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