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 William Rush and His Model oil painting


William Rush and His Model
Oil on canvas, 51.1 cm x 66.3 cm cyf
Painting ID::  95069 		Thomas Eakins
William Rush and His Model
Oil on canvas, 51.1 cm x 66.3 cm cyf
   
   
     
Thomas Eakins The Fairman Rogers Four in Hand oil painting


The Fairman Rogers Four in Hand
Date 1879-1880 cyf
Painting ID::  95077 		Thomas Eakins
The Fairman Rogers Four in Hand
Date 1879-1880 cyf
   
   
     
Thomas Eakins Miss Amelia Van Buren oil painting


Miss Amelia Van Buren
c. 1891 Type Oil on canvas Dimensions 110 cm x 81 cm cyf
Painting ID::  95165 		Thomas Eakins
Miss Amelia Van Buren
c. 1891 Type Oil on canvas Dimensions 110 cm x 81 cm cyf
   
   
     
Thomas Eakins Portrait of Mary Adeline Williams oil painting


Portrait of Mary Adeline Williams
Oil on canvas, 1899. 61 x 50.8 cm cyf
Painting ID::  95183 		Thomas Eakins
Portrait of Mary Adeline Williams
Oil on canvas, 1899. 61 x 50.8 cm cyf
   
   
     
Thomas Eakins Portrait of Louis N Kenton oil painting


Portrait of Louis N Kenton
1900 Type Oil on canvas Dimensions 210 cm x 110 cm cyf
Painting ID::  95184 		Thomas Eakins
Portrait of Louis N Kenton
1900 Type Oil on canvas Dimensions 210 cm x 110 cm cyf
   
   
     
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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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