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Thomas Eakins
The portrait of Henry
mk108
1897
Watercikir
61x51.5cm
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Thomas Eakins
The Portrait of Physicists Roland
mk108
1897
Watercolor
201x137cm
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Thomas Eakins
Prizefights
mk108
1898
Watercolor
246x214cm
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Thomas Eakins
Rassle
mk108
1899
Watercolor
122.87x154.2m
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Thomas Eakins
The Portrait of Susan
mk108
1899
Watercolor
51x40.5cm
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Thomas Eakins
The Portrait of Mary
mk108
1899
Watercolor
61x50.8cm
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Thomas Eakins
The Portrait of Mary
mk108
1900
Watercolor
61x46cm
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Thomas Eakins
Ideologist
mk108
1900
Watercolor
208x106.5cm
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Thomas Eakins
The Portrait of Miller
mk108
1901
Watercolor
223.5x111.5cm
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Thomas Eakins
William-s Wife
mk108
1900
Watercolor
246x183cm
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Thomas Eakins
The Portrait of Martin Cardinals
mk108
1902
Watercolor
199x152cm
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Thomas Eakins
The Oboe player
mk108
1903x61cm
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Thomas Eakins
Portrait
mk108
1903
Watercolor
168x104.5cm
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Thomas Eakins
Portrait
mk108
1903
Watercolor
202.5x152cm
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Thomas Eakins
The Portrait of William
mk108
1903
Watercolor
132x81cm
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Thomas Eakins
The Portrait of Lin Dun
mk108
1904
Watercolor
61x51.5cm
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Thomas Eakins
Self-Portrait
mk108
1902
Watercolor
76x63.5cm
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Thomas Eakins
The William is Carving his goddiness
mk108
1908
Watercolor
92.5x123cm
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Thomas Eakins
The Portrait of William
mk108
1904
Watercolor
61x50.8cm
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Thomas Eakins
The Portrait of Asbury W-Lee
mk108
1905
Watercolor
101x81cm
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| Thomas Eakins
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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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