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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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Thomas Eakins Works Online
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Original works by Thomas Eakins available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas NEW!
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Thomas Eakins at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
2 works online
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
3 works online by Eakins
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW! 
Musée d'Orsay, Paris
Artworks in the museum's collections database
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas 
Portrait of John B. Gest, 1905
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
Paintings collection online
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
Includes a biography of the artist
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Thomas Eakins at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
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 NEW!
Portrait of Mrs. Stokes, 1904
Arthur Ross Gallery at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Retrospection (b&w)
Ball State Museum of Art, Indiana
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
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 NEW!
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 which, when we last checked, had not yet opened to the public
The Art Student - Portrait of James Wright, 1890
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas
A new museum which, when we last checked, had not yet opened to the public
Professor Benjamin Howard Rand, 1874
Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire
2 works online
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
Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. NEW!
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, Omaha, Nebraska
Professor John Laurie Wallace, 1885
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
Maier Museum of Art at Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Virginia
(Note: Click the title to view the artwork details, not the thumbnail image.)
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York
William H. Macdowell
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
Elizabeth L. Burton, oil on canvas, 1905-06, and an untitled photograph
Museum of the National Academy of Design, New York City
Edward W. Redfield, 1905
Self-Portrait, 1902
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
Dr. Albert C. Getchell, 1907
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
Reynolda House Museum of American Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
A. W. Lee, ca.1905
Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art
Baseball Players Practicing (see top row)
San Diego Museum of Art, California NEW!
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California
Portrait of Master Douty, 1906
Seattle Art Museum
Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, Nebraska
Portrait of Jennie Dean Kershaw
Smith College Museum of Art, Massachusetts
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 NEW!
Portrait of Thomas J. Eagan, 1907
The Eakins Gallery at Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia
The Huntington Library, California
Wichita Art Museum, Kansas
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 American Art Museum National 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)
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Christie's Past Sale Archive
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Thomas Eakins at The Art Renewal Center
Thomas Eakins at The Artchive
Thomas Eakins at The Athenaeum 
116 works online by Eakins
Thomas Eakins in the WebMuseum
Wikimedia Commons Image Database
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
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
Thomas Eakins at CGFA
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)
Humanities Web
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
RKD Netherlands Imagebase NEW!
Eclectic database of images that range from old black-and-white photos to superb, zoomable reproductions
The History Project at U.C. Davis
USC Annenberg School for Communication
Additional Image Search Tools:
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Miscellaneous Sites:
Art at the University of Pennsylvania
PBS
Information from the documentary Thomas Eakins - Scenes from Modern Life
PBS
Biography, from the American Masters TV series
Repository of Abstract Art
University of Virginia Digital Collections
The Gross Clinic, 1875
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Thomas Eakins 
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History
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
Essay on The Gross Clinic, 1875
The New York Observer
"Realist Thomas Eakins Back, Still Beloved", article by Hilton Kramer
The New York Observer
"Great Eakins Exhibit Finally Shows Up-With Nude Swimmers!", article by Hilton Kramer
The New Yorker
"The Surgeon", 2001 article by Peter Schjeldahl
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