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Thomas Eakins
American Naturalist painter, sculptor, photographer - teacher
born 1844 - died 25 June 1916
Also known as: Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins.
Student of: Léon Bonnat (1833-1922)
from 1869, Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824-1904) from 1866 to 1869.
Teacher of: Ellen Wetherald Ahrens (1859-1938), Ivan Albright (1897-1983), Thomas Pollock Anschutz (1851-1912), Myrtle Townsend Barnitz (1865-1946), Charles Francis Browne (1859-1920), Charles Brinton Cox (1864-1905), Susan Macdowell Eakins (1851-1938), Charles Grafly (1862-1929), Paul Peel (1860-1892), Frederick Thompson Richards (1864-1921), Alice Barber Stephens (1858-1932), Frank Wilbert Stokes (1858-1955), Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859-1937), W. B. Van Ingen (1858-1955), Frederick Judd Waugh (1861-1940).
Husband of: Susan Macdowell Eakins (1851-1938).
Student at: École des Beaux-Arts (from 1866).
Teacher at: Philadelphia Academy of the Arts (from 1876 to 1878).
The final story of Thomas Eakins has not been written. Modernists have
celebrated him for his departure from French academic traditions, and
his artwork has had considerable influence over succeeding modernist
schools of art such as “The Eight.” But it is very much a stretch to see
him as a modernist, as everything about his subject and technique cries
out traditional, classical, and universal human themes. Thus Eakins also
finds an even more avid audience among modern-day classical painters, who
greatly admire his knowledge of anatomy and perspective and the power of
his compositions and themes.
It was not until the early teens of the twentieth century, fueled by
spokesmen such as Robert Henri, that Eakins’ reputation began to grow.
By the time of his death on June 25, 1916, his reputation as an painter
enjoyed extensive re-evaluation, and he was honored by a memorial show
in 1917 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
View artworks’ titles of oil painting old master Eakins Thomas United
States 1844-1916
0 Salutat
0 Taking the Count
0 The Agnew Clinic
0 The Gross Clinic
3 Study for -The Meadows Gloucester New Jersey-
3 The Meadows Gloucester
4 A Singer Portrait of Mrs. Leigo
4 An Actress aka Portrait of Suzanne Santje American oil painting
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