Thomas Eakins

by Edited by Darrel Sewell

• ISBN13: 9780300091113
• ISBN10: 0300091117
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2001-09-10
• Publisher: Yale University Press

Summary

Thomas Eakins' scenes of rowing, sailing, and boxing as well as his deeply moving portraits are renowned for their vibrant realism and dramatic intensity. This beautiful and insightful book, published in conjunction with a major exhibition on the life and career of Eakins - the first in twenty years - presents a fresh perspective on the artist and his remarkable accomplishments.
Lavishly illustrated with more than 250 of Eakins's most significant paintings, watercolors, drawings, photographs, and sculpture, the book features essays by prominent scholars who place his art in the context of the history and culture of late nineteenth-century Philadelphia, where he lived.

Table of Contents

Preface
Thomas Eakins and American Art
Chronology
Eakins's Early Years	p. 1
Studies in Paris and Spain	p. 13
The 1870s	p. 27
Plates: Eakins in the 1870s	p. 41
Images of Fairmount Park in Philadelphia	p. 77
Eakins and the Academy	p. 95
The 1880s	p. 107
Plates: Eakins in the 1880s	p. 121
Eakins's Vision of the Past and the Building of a Reputation	p. 211
Photographs and the Making of Paintings	p. 225
The Camera Artist	p. 239
The 1890s	p. 257
Plates: Eakins in the 1890s	p. 271
Portraits of Teachers and Thinkers	p. 307
The 1900s	p. 317
Plates: Eakins in the 1900s	p. 329
The Pursuit of "True Tones"	p. 353
Eakins in the Twentieth Century	p. 367
Eakins as a Writer	p. 377
Notes	p. 385
Selected Bibliography	p. 435
Acknowledgments	p. 437
Works Not Illustrated	p. 441
Index of Illustrated Works by Thomas Eakins	p. 443
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