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Thomas Eakins
Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins was an American realist painter, photographer, sculptor, and fine arts educator. He is widely acknowledged to be one of the most important American artists.
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culture · American artist (1844–1916) · painter · sculptor · photographer · art educator · also Thomas Eakins, Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins, Thomas Cowperthwaite Eakins, C.D. Cook, Eakins
Born 25 July 1844 · Died 25 June 1916 · Q214905
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2026· 1 entry
2025· 1 entry
insider.si.edu: Thomas Eakins letters, 1866-1934
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2024· 1 entry
insider.si.edu: Thomas Eakins : art, medicine, and sexuality in nineteenth-century Philadelphia / Amy Werbel
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2023· 1 entry
Wall Street Journal: ‘Elizabeth Crowell With a Dog’: Thomas Eakins’s Revelatory Realism
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2016· 1 entry
Hyperallergic: Machines Triggered by the Ghost of Thomas Eakins
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2014· 2 entries
Artnet: Catholic Church and Priest’s Family Battle Over Thomas Eakins Portrait
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Religion News Service: Seminary parts with its collection of Thomas Eakins portraits
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2010· 1 entry
The American painter Philip Pearlstein published an article in ARTnews suggesting the strong influences Eadweard Muybridge's work and public lectures had on 20th-century artists, including Degas, Rodin, Seurat, Duchamp,
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2006· 2 entries
A group of donors agreed to match the price to keep the painting in Philadelphia
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The board of trustees at Thomas Jefferson University agreed to sell The Gross Clinic to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, and the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas, for a record
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2002· 1 entry
Observer: Thomas Eakins
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2001· 3 entries
The Chronicle of Higher Education: Thomas Eakins: Rigor or Arrogance?
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Observer: Realist Thomas Eakins Back, Still Beloved
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The Washington Post: Thomas Eakins, Painted Into A Corner
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1984· 1 entry
Has also driven reassessment of his life
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1982· 1 entry
In his two-volume Eakins biography, art historian Lloyd Goodrich wrote:
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1973· 1 entry
Had her first one-woman exhibition at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
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1967· 1 entry
The Biglin Brothers Racing (1872) was reproduced on a United States postage stamp
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1966· 1 entry
And Eakins Oval, across from the Philadelphia Museum of Art on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, was named for the artist
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1938· 2 entries
Much of the remaining artistic estate was destroyed or damaged by executors, and the remainders were belatedly salvaged by a former Eakins student
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Other works were sold off, and eventually another large collection of art and personal material was purchased by Joseph Hirshhorn, and now is part of the Hirshhorn Museum's collection
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1917· 1 entry
Robert Henri wrote an open letter to the Art Students League about Eakins:
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1916· 5 entries
At the age of 71 and is buried at The Woodlands cemetery near the University of Pennsylvania in West Philadelphia
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Died 1916-06-25.
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“Una vez pinté un cantante de concierto y en el marco de madera de castaño tallé las barras de apertura de Rest in the Lord de Mendelssohn. Era ornamental discreto y para los músicos creo que enfatizaba la expresión de la cara y la pose de la figura.”
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A large body of artwork passed to his widow, Susan Macdowell Eakins
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Returned to painting, adding considerably to her output right up to the 1930s, in a style that became warmer, looser, and brighter in tone
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1891· 1 entry
His friend, the sculptor William Rudolf O'Donovan, asked him to collaborate on the commission to create bronze equestrian reliefs of Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S
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1886· 1 entry
For removing the loincloth of a male model in a class where female students were present
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1884· 3 entries
Was not sentimentalized: despite its richness of color, The Artist's Wife and His Setter Dog (c
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At age 40, Eakins married Susan Hannah Macdowell, the daughter of a Philadelphia engraver
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Eakins worked briefly alongside Muybridge in the latter's photographic studio at the northeast corner of 36th and Pine streets in Philadelphia
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1883· 2 entries
Were nude photos of students and professional models which were taken to show real human anatomy from several specific angles, and were often hung and displayed for study at the school
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Muybridge gave a lecture at the academy, arranged by Eakins and University of Pennsylvania (Penn) trustee Fairman Rogers
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1880· 1 entry
Several paintings, such as Mending the Net (1881; image link) and Arcadia (1883; image link), are known to have been derived at least in part from his photographs
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1876· 2 entries
Eakins completed a portrait of Dr
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As a volunteer after the opening of the school's new Frank Furness designed building
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1874· 1 entry
Eakins and Crowell became engaged; they were still engaged five years later, when Crowell died of meningitis in 1879
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1872· 1 entry
Painted his first large scale portrait, Kathrin (image link), in which the subject, Kathrin Crowell, is seen in dim light, playing with a kitten
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1869· 1 entry
Painted Carmelita Requeña (image link), a portrait of a seven-year-old Romani dancer more freely and colorfully painted than his Paris studies
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1844· 1 entry
Born 1844-07-25.
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