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Thomas Eakins
Coral Jewelry
mk108
1904
Watercolor
109.2x78.7cm
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Thomas Eakins
The Portrait of Helen
mk108
1908
Watercolor
152.7x102cm
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Thomas Eakins
William and his Model
mk108
1908
Watercolor
89.5x120cm
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Thomas Eakins
The Study of Nude
mk108
1869
Watercolor
54.5x46cm
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Thomas Eakins
The Veiled Nude-s sitting Position
mk108
1863-1866
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Thomas Eakins
Feed grain to Chickens
mk109
1917
Oil on canvas
28x35.5cm
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Thomas Eakins
The Swiming Hole
sn02
1884-1885
Oil on canvas
27x36inch
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Thomas Eakins
Arcadia
mk141
ca.1883
Oil on canvas
98.1x114.3cm
The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
New York
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Thomas Eakins
Letitia Wilson Jordan
mk140
1888
OIl on canvas
152.3x102cm
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Thomas Eakins
Elizabeth at the Piano
mk146
1875
Oil on canvas
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Thomas Eakins
Salutat
mk146
1898
Oil on canvas
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Thomas Eakins
The Gross Clinic
mk156
1875
Oil on canvas
244x198cm
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Thomas Eakins
The clinic of dr. Majorities
MK169
1875
oil Paint on cloth
244x198cm
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Thomas Eakins
Das Gross-Prakti kum
mk181
1875
Philadel Phia
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Thomas Eakins
Max Schmitt im Einerboot
mk181
1871
New York
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Thomas Eakins
Das Agnew praktikum
mk181
1889
Philadelphia
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Thomas Eakins
Die Konzertsangerin
mk181
1892
Philadelphia
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Thomas Eakins
Bildnis des Physikers Henry A Rowland
mk181
1891
Andover
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Thomas Eakins
Frances Eakins
mk181
1870
Kansas City
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Thomas Eakins
Am Klavier
mk181
um 1872
Austin
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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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