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Thomas Eakins Portrait of William Merritt Chase oil painting


Portrait of William Merritt Chase
Painting ID::  3991 		Artist: Thomas Eakins
Painting: Portrait of William Merritt Chase
Introduction: 1899 Smithsonian Institute, Washington DC
   
   
     

 

 

 
 

 

 

 
Thomas Eakins Portrait of Henry Ossawa Tanner oil painting


Portrait of Henry Ossawa Tanner
Painting ID::  3992 		Artist: Thomas Eakins
Painting: Portrait of Henry Ossawa Tanner
Introduction: 1902 The Hyde Collection, Glen Falls, New York
   
   
     

 

 

 
 

 

 

 
Thomas Eakins John Biglin in a Single Scull oil painting


John Biglin in a Single Scull
Painting ID::  3993 		Artist: Thomas Eakins
Painting: John Biglin in a Single Scull
Introduction: Yale University Art Gallery
   
   
     

 

 

 
 

 

 

 
Thomas Eakins Biglen Brothers, Turning the Stake oil painting


Biglen Brothers, Turning the Stake
Painting ID::  3994 		Artist: Thomas Eakins
Painting: Biglen Brothers, Turning the Stake
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Thomas Eakins Biglen Brothers Racing oil painting


Biglen Brothers Racing
Painting ID::  3995 		Artist: Thomas Eakins
Painting: Biglen Brothers Racing
Introduction: 1873 24" x 36" National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
   
   
     

 

 

 
 

 

 

 
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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". . Related Artists to Thomas Eakins : | Master of the View of st Gudule | COUWENBERGH, Christiaen van | KONINCK, Salomon | BOELEMA DE STOMME, Maerten | Johan stephan Von Calocker Called Giovanni Calcar |

 

 

 
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