Thomas Eakins
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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Thomas Eakins Portrait Einer Dame mit Setter oil painting


Portrait Einer Dame mit Setter
mk181 um 1885 New York
Painting ID::  45300
Thomas Eakins
Portrait Einer Dame mit Setter
mk181 um 1885 New York
   
   
     

Thomas Eakins Zwishchen den Runden oil painting


Zwishchen den Runden
mk181 1899 Ol auf Leinwand 127.3x101.3cm
Painting ID::  45382
Thomas Eakins
Zwishchen den Runden
mk181 1899 Ol auf Leinwand 127.3x101.3cm
   
   
     

Thomas Eakins William Rush schnitzt die allegorische Figur des Schuylkill River oil painting


William Rush schnitzt die allegorische Figur des Schuylkill River
mk181 1877 Ol auf Leinwand,aufgezogen auf Prebpappe 51.1x66.4cm
Painting ID::  45383
Thomas Eakins
William Rush schnitzt die allegorische Figur des Schuylkill River
mk181 1877 Ol auf Leinwand,aufgezogen auf Prebpappe 51.1x66.4cm
   
   
     

Thomas Eakins Der Denker oil painting


Der Denker
mk181 1900 Ol auf Leinwand 208x106cm
Painting ID::  45386
Thomas Eakins
Der Denker
mk181 1900 Ol auf Leinwand 208x106cm
   
   
     

Thomas Eakins Swimming oil painting


Swimming
mk212 1885 Oil on canvas 69.7x92.4cm
Painting ID::  50488
Thomas Eakins
Swimming
mk212 1885 Oil on canvas 69.7x92.4cm
   
   
     

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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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