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Thomas Eakins
Repair fishnet
mk108
1881
81.5x114.5cm
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Thomas Eakins
Fishing
mk108
1882
28.5x42cm
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Thomas Eakins
The Lawn
mk108
1882-1883
81x114.5cm
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Thomas Eakins
Homespun
mk108
1881
watercolor
35x27cm
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Thomas Eakins
Write Master
mk108
1882
76x87cm
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Thomas Eakins
Characteristic of Performance
mk108
1883
40.5x30.5cm
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Thomas Eakins
Bathing
mk108
1884-1885
69x92cm
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Thomas Eakins
The Artist-s wife and his dog
mk108
1884-1889
76x58.5cm
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Thomas Eakins
Rancher at the desolate field
mk108
1888
82x114cm
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Thomas Eakins
The Portrait of Walt Whitman
mk108
1887-1888
Watercolor
76.5x61.5cm
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Thomas Eakins
Portrait
mk108
189
watercolor
61x51cm
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Thomas Eakins
Hayes Agnew Operation Clinical
mk108
1889
Watercolor
214x299.5cm
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Thomas Eakins
Portrait
mk108
1889
Watercolor
61x50.8cm
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Thomas Eakins
The Portrait of Letita Wison Jordan
mk108
1888
Watercolor
152.5x101.5cm
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Thomas Eakins
Portrait
mk108
1891
Watercolor
114x81cm
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Thomas Eakins
Cattle farmer
mk08
1892
Watercolor
61x50.8cm
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Thomas Eakins
Portrait
mk108
1895
Watercolor
228.5x152.5cm
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Thomas Eakins
Portrait
mk108
1891
Watercolor
61x50.8cm
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Thomas Eakins
The Portrait of Morris
mk108
1896
Watercolor
134.5x91.5cm
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Thomas Eakins
Play the Cello
mk108
1896
Watercolor
163x122cm
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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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