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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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Taking the Count
English: "Taking the Count," oil on canvas, by the American artist Thomas Eakins. 96 7/8 in. x 84 5/8 in. Courtesy of the Yale University Art Gallery, Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
Date 1898
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Painting ID:: 74691
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Taking_the_Count
English: "Taking the Count," oil on canvas, by the American artist Thomas Eakins. 96 7/8 in. x 84 5/8 in. Courtesy of the Yale University Art Gallery, Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
Date 1898
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Studies of Game Birds, probably Viginia Rails
Studies of Game Birds, probably Viginia Rails by Thomas Eakins. Oil-on-canvas from c. 1874
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Painting ID:: 82609
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Studies_of_Game_Birds,_probably_Viginia_Rails
Studies of Game Birds, probably Viginia Rails by Thomas Eakins. Oil-on-canvas from c. 1874
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The Artist and His Father Hunting Reed Birds
The Artist and His Father Hunting Reed Birds by Thomas Eakins. Oil-on-canvas from c. 1874
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Painting ID:: 82610
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The Artist and His Father Hunting Reed Birds by Thomas Eakins. Oil-on-canvas from c. 1874
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Study for William Rush Carving His Allegorical Figure of the Schuylkill
1876(1876)
Medium Oil on canvas
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Painting ID:: 86211
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Study_for_William_Rush_Carving_His_Allegorical_Figure_of_the_Schuylkill
1876(1876)
Medium Oil on canvas
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Sketch of figure, from two-sided sketch for swimming
oil on paperboard, 5 3/4 x 4 inches
Date 1884(1884)
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Painting ID:: 88554
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Sketch_of_figure,_from_two-sided_sketch_for_swimming
oil on paperboard, 5 3/4 x 4 inches
Date 1884(1884)
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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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