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I don't like a long study of casts, even of the sculptors of the best Greek period. At best, they are only imitations, and an imitation of imitations cannot have so much life as an imitation of nature itself.
The Greeks did not study the antique: the Theseus and Illyssus, and the draped figures in the Parthenon pediment were modeled from life, undoubtedly. And nature is just as varied and just as beautiful in our day as she was in the time of Phidias.
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Original works by Thomas Eakins available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries:
 Art Institute of Chicago
Butler Institute of American Art, Ohio
The Coral Necklace, 1904
Thomas Eakins at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
9 works by Thomas Eakins
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
Many works online
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
3 works online by Eakins
Thomas Eakins at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 
20 works by Thomas Eakins online
Thomas Eakins at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Many paintings and photographs from a 2002 exhibition about the artist
Musée d'Orsay Collection Database, Paris
Clara, 1885
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas 
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Paintings collection online
Thomas Eakins at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
11 works by Thomas Eakins
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
2 photographs of Walt Whitman
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
Dr. Albert C. Getchell, 1907
Philadelphia Museum of Art
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Many works by Thomas Eakins online
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C.
Miss Amelia Van Buren, ca.1891
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
John Biglin in a Single Scull
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
Maud Cook (Mrs. Robert C. Reid)
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
Rail Shooting
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts
Amon Carter Museum, Texas
Swimming, 1885
Arkell Museum at Canajoharie, New York
Portrait of Mrs. Stokes, 1904
Arthur Ross Gallery at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Retrospection (b&w)
Ball State Museum of Art, Indiana NEW!
Shad Fishing at Gloucester on the Delaware River, 1881
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Maine (Zoomable)
Portrait of A. Bryan Wall, 1904
Brooklyn Museum, New York City NEW!
Brooklyn Museum/Luce Center for American Art, New York City
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Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Cedarhurst Center For The Arts, Mt. Vernon, Illinois
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Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio
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Archbishop William Henry Elder
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio
Weda Cook, 1891
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Singing a Pathetic Song
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas
A new museum scheduled to open in 2009
The Art Student - Portrait of James Wright, 1890
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas
A new museum scheduled to open in 2009
Professor Benjamin Howard Rand, 1874
Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire
2 works online
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
Miss Gertrude Murray, 1895
Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine
2 paintings online
Frick Art and Historical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
The Concert Singer, 1890-92
Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma
Frank Hamilton Cushing
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Hyde Collection Art Museum, Glens Falls, New York
Portrait of Henry O. Tanner, ca.1897
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
Walt Whitman in Camden, New Jersey
Joslyn Art Museum, Nebraska
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Thomas Eakins in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
Maier Museum of Art at Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Virginia
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Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York
William H. Macdowell
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
Elizabeth L. Burton, oil on canvas, 1905-06, and an untitled photograph
National Academy Museum & School of Fine Arts, New York City
Edward W. Redfield, 1905
Self-Portrait, 1902
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey NEW!
Reynolda House Museum of American Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina NEW!
A. W. Lee, ca.1905
Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art NEW!
Baseball Players Practicing (see top row)
San Diego Museum of Art, California
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Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California
Portrait of Master Douty, 1906
Seattle Art Museum
Sheldon Art Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska
Portrait of Jennie Dean Kershaw
Smith College Museum of Art, Massachusetts
Thomas Eakins at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Thomas Eakins at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington D.C.
From "Getting the Picture: Illustrated Letters from the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art"
Snite Museum of Art at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana
The Reverend Phillip H. Mcdevitt, 1901
Southern Alleghenies Museum, Pennsylvania
Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago
Portrait of Thomas J. Eagan, 1907
The Eakins Gallery at Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia
The Huntington Library, California
Wichita Art Museum, Kansas NEW!
3 works online
Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts
Study of the Head of Samuel David Gross, 1875
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French) 
La Fayette Database of American Art in French National Collections
Smithsonian Institution Art Inventories
List of works nationwide from two sources: the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture (only a few percent of listings have an accompanying image)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Thomas Eakins in the Art Renewal Center
Artchive
CGFA
The Athenaeum 
116 works online by Eakins
WebMuseum
Wikimedia Commons Image Database
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
Artyzm
Bert Christensen's Cyberspace Home
John Biglin in a Single Scull
Bert Christensen's Cyberspace Home
Miss Van Buren
Bert Christensen's Cyberspace Home
Baseball
California State University WorldImages Database
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)
Humanities Web
The History Project at U.C. Davis NEW!
USC Annenberg School for Communication
Miscellaneous Sites:
Art at the University of Pennsylvania
Artarchiv Sample Artist Signatures
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PBS
Biography, from the American Masters TV series
PBS
Information from the documentary Thomas Eakins - Scenes from Modern Life
Repository of Abstract Art
University of Virginia Digital Collections
The Gross Clinic, 1875
Articles and Reference Sites:
Answers.com reference works 
The "Art Encyclopedia" entry is from the Concise Grove Dictionary of Art (2002). The "Photography Encyclopedia" entry is from the The Oxford Companion to the Photograph (2005).
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Thomas Eakins
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Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info
Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes) NEW!
Ray Carney: Essays on American Painting
6 essays on Eakins
Resource Library Magazine
Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington D.C.
The Thomas Eakins letters
The Guardian Newspaper, UK
Essay on The Gross Clinic, 1875
The New York Observer
Article by Hilton Kramer: Realist Thomas Eakins Back, Still Beloved
The New York Observer
Article by Hilton Kramer: Great Eakins Exhibit Finally Shows Up-With Nude Swimmers!
Time Magazine
"In Love with the Specific: Philadelphia celebrates its realist genius, Thomas Eakins", 1982 article by Robert Hughes
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