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The realism of Thomas Eakins.(Critical Essay)
I would have them taught facts and things, rather than words and signs.
-- Stephen Girard, 1831.
My honors are misunderstanding, persecution & neglect, enhanced because unsought.
--Thomas Eakins, 1894
At first blush, the realism of Thomas Eakins seems an unpromising method for probing psychology. His method was an empiricism of almost clinical ruthlessness, grounded in anatomical study, dissection, and the photographic investigation of posture and movement. He did not banter charmingly with his sitters in order to coax lively expressions from them, as Sargent did, preferring to work in silence and look for those truths that cannot be ...
- Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts purchases Charles Bregler's Thomas Eakins...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire June 17, 1986 700+ words
...purchased the Charles Bregler's Thomas Eakins Collection -- the last, largely unexplored cache of Thomas Eakins's art objects and documentary...familiar with the life and works of Thomas Eakins have awaited the release of this...
- Pleasure out of desperation: Thomas Eakins, yearning for the ideal in a...
- Magazine article from: American Scholar Wineapple, Brenda January 1, 2007 700+ words
...26.95 In the spring of 1887 Thomas Eakins, 42 years old, met Walt Whitman...succinct Portrait: The Life of Thomas Eakins. McFeely, Pulitzer Prize-winning...scraps and conjectures about what Thomas Eakins was up to between the age of seventeen...
- Realist Thomas Eakins Back, Still Beloved.(Arts&Entertainment)
- Newspaper article from: The New York Observer (New York, NY) October 15, 2001 700+ words
...public, the Philadelphia painter Thomas Eakins (1844-1916) stands alone and...Philadelphia Museum of Art--Thomas Eakins: American Realist--is bound...pioneering study of the artist, Thomas Eakins, His Life and Work, was published...
- Thomas Eakins: Pretty Paintings All in a Row
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Hank Burchard July 26, 1996 700+ words
...National Gallery of Art's show of Thomas Eakins's rowing pictures, the visitor...the series and glad he quit. THOMAS EAKINS: The Rowing Pictures -- Through...4215 (TDD: 202/842-6176). THOMAS EAKINS AND THE SWIMMING PICTURE -- Through...
- Eakins in Philadelphia.(Thomas Eakins, Philadelphia Museum of Art,...
- Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques Ledes, Allison Eckardt October 1, 2001 700+ words
...devotees of the American artist Thomas Eakins will want to make haste to Philadelphia...Eakins and his circle). Entitied Thomas Eakins: American Realist, it is on...Works from Charles Bregler's Thomas Eakins Collection. The show features...
- The keeper of Eakins' flame.(Portrait: The Life of Thomas Eakins)(Book review)
- Magazine article from: The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide Stone, Martha E. March 1, 2007 700+ words
Portrait: The Life of Thomas Eakins William S. McFeely W.W. Norton...portrait artist in American history, Thomas Eakins is today a very hot property...highly readable The Revenge of Thomas Eakins (2006), states flatly that...
- Man Made: Thomas Eakins and the Construction of Gilded Age Manhood.(Review)...
- American Studies International Braddock, Alan C. June 1, 2001 700+ words
...Martin A. Berger. Man Made: Thomas Eakins and the Construction of Gilded...works by Philadelphia painter Thomas Eakins (1844-1916) as complex, compensatory...Writing, Disfiguration: On Thomas Eakins and Stephen Crane (Chicago...
- The artist who removed the Loincloth.(Thomas Eakins: The Absolute Male)(Book...
- Magazine article from: The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide Nawrocki, Jim November 1, 2002 700+ words
Thomas Eakins: The Absolute Male by John Esten Universe...illustrated, $29.95 THE AMERICAN PAINTER Thomas Eakins (1844-1916) and American bard Walt...the subtitle for John Esten's book. Thomas Eakins: The Absolute Male is a slender but...