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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Thomas Eakins Portrait of Leslie W Miller oil


Portrait of Leslie W Miller
Painting ID::  95187 		Portrait of Leslie W Miller
1901 Type Oil on burlap canvas Dimensions 223.8 cm x 111.8 cm cyf
   
   
     
Thomas Eakins Self portrait oil


Self portrait
Painting ID::  95190 		Self portrait
1902 (1902) Type Oil on canvas Dimensions 76 cm x 63 cm cyf
   
   
     
Thomas Eakins The Artist and His Father Hunting Reed Birds oil


The Artist and His Father Hunting Reed Birds
Painting ID::  96547 		The Artist and His Father Hunting Reed Birds
Oil-on-canvas from c. 1874 cyf
Oil-on-canvas_from_c._1874 cyf
   
   
     
Thomas Eakins Study for William Rush Carving His Allegorical Figure of the Schuylkill River oil


Study for William Rush Carving His Allegorical Figure of the Schuylkill River
Painting ID::  96814 		Study for William Rush Carving His Allegorical Figure of the Schuylkill River
1876(1876) Medium oil on canvas cyf
1876(1876)_ Medium_oil_on_canvas_ cyf
   
   
     
Thomas Eakins Portrait of Frank Hamilton Cushing oil


Portrait of Frank Hamilton Cushing
Painting ID::  98050 		Portrait of Frank Hamilton Cushing
oil on canvas, by the American artist Thomas Eakins. Courtesy of the Gilcrease Museum. Date 1895(1895) cyf
   
   
     
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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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