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Thomas Eakins, artist
American, 1844 - 1916
Frances Crowel and Her Child, circa 1888
albumen print
10.5 x 8.6 cm (image)
Museum Purchase, Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts Endowment Fund 1995.4.1
Artist Credit: all
Artist Biography: Painter, photographer, teacher. Most recognized for insightful, poweful portraits. Controversial teacher; a powerful influence upon Robert Henri.~1862-1866 Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; 1864-1865 attended anatomy classes at Jefferson Medical College; 1866-1869 …cole des Beaux-Arts under GÍrome and Bonnart; 1869-1870 in Spain, influenced by Velazquez and Ribera; 1870 returned to Philadelphia, resided there rest of his life; 1872-1875 produced major sculling and sailing works; 1875 first teaching position at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; painted "Portrait of Professor Gross" ("The Gross Clinic"); 1876 "The Gross Clinic" rejected as a work of art but exhibited in U.S. Army Post Hospital at 1876 Centennial Expositon; 1877 left Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts but returned in 1878; 1878-1882 gained increasing reputation for instruction, for direct teaching of anatomy from human dissection; 1882 became director of Pennyslvania Academy of the Fine Arts; 1884 married his student, Hannah Susan MacDowell; February 15, 1886 four years' controversy over his didactic methods and use of nude models culminated in his resignation from Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; February 22, 1886 founded Philadelphia Art Students' League with nucleus of former students from Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Artsãthis small group was active for the next seven years; 1886 during ten weeks in summer and autumn lived the life of a cowboy in Badlands of the Little Missouri (southwestern North Dakota); 1888-1889 produced "The Agnew Clinic"; 1896 had his only lifetime one-man show (Philadelphia); 1899 death of his father provided an inheritance with additional financial independence; 1880-1905 worked extensively with photography, including 1884-1885 collaboration with Edweard Muybridge in Philadelphia on photography of movement; 1888-1907 lectured at New York Art Students' League; 1892-1908 produced a large body of work including boxing and wrestling subjects and a series of major portraits, which received little contemporary recognition; ca.1908 health declined and produced no further major works.~Sources:~1. Falk, P.H. Ed. Who Was Who in American Art. Madison CT: Soundview Press, 1985.~2. Hendricks, Gordon. The Life and Work of Thomas Eakins. New York: Grossman Publishers, 1974.~3. Homer, William Innes. Thomas Eakins: His Life and Art. New York: Abbeville Press Publishers, 1992.~4. Britannica Online. Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc., 1997.~~cms/07.14.97. rev 97.10.03~~~
Related Keywords
Child and Fund Endowment Arts Graphic Achenbach Purchase Museum America North States United Photograph print albumen against leaning painting fence wall wooden front lap her infant an holding seated sister Eakins* Crowel Frances Thomas Eakins American 3307201109620031 A058509 1995.4.1 AFGA
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