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Thomas Eakins
Portrait of Douglas Morgan Hall
1889
Philadelphia Museum of Art
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Thomas Eakins
Home Scene
1870-71
The Brooklyn Museum
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Thomas Eakins
The Artist's Wife and his Setter Dog
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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Thomas Eakins
Salutat
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Thomas Eakins
William Rush Carving his Allegorical Figure of the Schuylkill River
1876-77 Philadelphi
Museum of Art
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Thomas Eakins
Baby at Play
1876
32 1/4" x 48 3/8"
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
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Thomas Eakins
Clara (san40)
2' x1' 8"(61x51cm)
Gift of Mrs.Eakins
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Thomas Eakins
Clara(Clara J.Mather)
ca 1900
2' x 1' 8''(61 x 51 cm)Gift of Mrs.Eakins,1930
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Thomas Eakins
Self-Portrait
mk52
1902
Oil on canvas on board
76.2x63.5cm
National Academy of Design,New York
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Thomas Eakins
The Biglin Brothers Bacing
c 1873
Oil o canvas 61.2 x 91.6 cm
(24 1/8 x 36 1/8 in)
National Gallery of Art Washington DC (mk63)
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Thomas Eakins
The Gross Clinic
1875
Oil on canvas 243 x 198.1 cm
(95 3/4 x 78 in)
Jefferson Medical College Thomas Jefferson University Philadelphia (mk63)
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Thomas Eakins
portrait de Louis N.Kenton
mk75
1900
Huile sur toile:208.3x106.7cm
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Thomas Eakins
Max Schmitt a l'aviron
mk75
1871
Huile sur toile:82.6x117.5cm
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Thomas Eakins
The Gross Clinic
mk77
1875
Oil on canvas
96x78in
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Thomas Eakins
Scene at Home
mk108
1871
Oil painting
53x45.5cm
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Thomas Eakins
The Landscape ofSeville
mk108
1870
Oil painting
184.5x107cm
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Thomas Eakins
Elizabeth Play the Piano
mk108
875
Oil painting
183x122cm
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Thomas Eakins
Elizabeth and the Dog
mk108
1873-1874
Oil painting
35.5x43.8cm
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Thomas Eakins
The Professor
mk108
1874
Oil painting
152.5x122cm
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Thomas Eakins
Two Person Dinghy
mk108
1872
Oil painting
61x91.5cm
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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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