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Thomas Eakins

[American Realist Painter, 1844-1916]

• Also known as:  Thomas Cowperthwaite Eakins
• Relationships: Husband of Susan Macdowell Eakins.
Studied under Gerome and Leon Bonnat.
Eakins' students included Thomas Anshutz, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Phoebe Davis Natt and Frederick Judd Waugh.
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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.
- Thomas Eakins

 


 
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Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries:
Art Institute of Chicago Collection Database   NEW!
3 works by Thomas Eakins online

Butler Institute of American Art, Ohio
The Coral Necklace, 1904

Dallas Museum of Art, Texas   NEW!
Miss Gertrude Murray, 1895

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

Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana   NEW!

J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
3 works online by Eakins

Louvre Museum La Fayette Database of American Art, Paris   NEW!

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

Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota  
Elizabeth L. Burton, 1905-06, and an untitled photograph

Musée d'Orsay Collection Database, Paris   NEW!
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

Arthur Ross Gallery at the University of Pennsylvania
Retrospection (b&w)

Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Maine (Zoomable)   NEW!
Portrait of A. Bryan Wall, 1904

Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York City
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Canajoharie Library and Art Gallery

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
The Biglin Brothers Turning the Stake
The Biglin Brothers Turning the Stake
, graphite sketch

Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Sister Wendy on The Biglin Brothers Turning the Stake

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
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Portrait of Professor Benjamin H. Rand, 1874

Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire   NEW!
2 works online

Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine
2 paintings online

Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma
Frank Hamilton Cushing

Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts   NEW!

Hyde Collection Art Museum, Glens Falls, New York
Portrait of Henry O. Tanner, ca.1897

Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French)  

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

Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey
Charles Haseltine, ca.1901

Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey
Charles Fussell, ca.1905

National Academy of Design, New York City
Self-Portrait, 1902

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
4 paintings

San Diego Museum of Art, California
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Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California
Portrait of Master Douty, 1906

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

Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts
Study of the Head of Samuel David Gross, 1875

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)

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Pictures from Image Archives:
Thomas Eakins in the Art Renewal Center

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Wikimedia Commons Image Database  

Artyzm

Bert Christensen's Cyberspace Home  
John Biglin in a Single Scull

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 Athenaeum  
113 works online by Eakins

USC Annenberg School for Communication

 
Other Web Sites:
Art at the University of Pennsylvania

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:
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

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
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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