Thomas Eakins (1844-1916) was an American realist, who used oil painting, watercolor painting, photography. and sculpture to explore his favorite subject, the human figure. He attended the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts from 1862 to 1866. Eakins influenced American art by bringing some attention back to figurative painting rather than landscape works. He later became a teacher at the Pennsylvania Academy and although he was an influential teacher he was forced to resign after removing a male model’s loincloth in a class with female students. Victorian Philadelphia was not quite ready for Eakins’ bold acceptance of nudity and its importance to understanding the human figure within the arts. This controversial incident harmed his reputation, however, students still continued to learn from him and many of them went on to become great artists in their own right.
Paintings by Thomas Eakins in Chronological Order
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| Peasants Crossing a Stream, 1858 | Drawing The Icosahedron, 1859 | Illustrated letter written to his family, 1866 |
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| Study of a Girl’s Head, 1868-1869 | A Street Scene in Sevilla, 1870 | Carmelita Requena, 1870 |
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| A Spanish Woman, c.1871 | At the Piano, c.1871 | Home Scene, 1871 |
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| Margaret in Skating Costume, 1871 | Max Schmitt in a Single Scull, 1871 | Drawing for The Pair Oared Shell, 1872 |
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| Kathrin, 1872 | The Pair Oared Shell, 1872 | The Biglin Brothers Racing, 1873 |
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| Elizabeth Crowell with a Dog, 1873-1874 | Portrait of Professor Benjamin H. Rand, 1874 | Pushing for Rail, 1874 |
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| Sailboats Racing on the Delaware, 1874 | The Oarsmen ( The Schreiber Brothers), 1874 | Whistling for Plover, 1874 |
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| Portrait of Mrs. James W. Crowell, 1870-1875 | The Gross Clinic, 1875 | Archbishop James Frederick Wood, 1876 |
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| Baby at Play, 1876 | Dr John H Brinton, 1876 | In Grandmothers Time, 1876 |
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| The Chess Player, 1876 | The Courtship, 1876 | Seventy Years Ago, 1877 |
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| The Dancing Lesson, 1878 | A May Morning in the Park ( The Fairman Robers Four in Hand), 1880 | Retrospection, c.1880 |
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| Homespun, 1881 | Mending the Net, 1881 | Shad Fishing at Gloucester on the Delaware River, 1881 |
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| Drawing the Seine, 1882 | The Writing Master (Benjamin Eakins), 1882 | An Arcadian, c.1883 |
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| Professionals at Rehearsal, 1883 | In the Studio (unfinished), 1884 | Portrait of Dr. Horatio C Wood, 1886 |
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| Portrait of Walt Whitman, 1887 | Portrait of Letitia Wilson Jordan, 1888 | Portrait of Douglass Morgan Hall, 1889 |
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| Portrait of Samuel Murray, 1889 | The Agnew Clinic, 1889 | The Artist’s Wife and His Setter Dog, 1884-1889 |
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| Portrait of James Wright, 1890 | Portrait of Amelia Van Buren, c.1891 | Portrait of William H. MacDowell, 1891 |
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| The Concert Singer, 1890-1892 | Maud Cook, 1895 | Portrait of Frank Hamilton Cushing, 1895 |
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| Portrait of Lucy Lewis, 1896 | Portrait of Henry Augustus Rowland, 1897 | Portrait of Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1897 |
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| Maybelle, 1898 | Taking the Count, 1898 | Between Rounds, 1898-1899 |
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| Between Rounds Study for the Timer, 1899 | Portrait of Mary Adeline Williams, c.1900 | Portrait of Sarah Sagehorn Frishmuth, 1900 |
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| Portrait of Sebastiano Cardinal Martinelli, 1902 | Signora Gomez d Arza, 1902 | Archbishop William Henry Elder, 1903 |
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| Mother (Portrait of Annie Williams Gandy), c.1903 | Portrait of Benjamin Sharp, 1903 | Music, 1904 |
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| Portrait of Frank B. A. Linton, 1904 | Portrait of William H. MacDowell, 1904 | Monsignor Diomede Falconia, 1905 |
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| Portrait of Asburyh W. Lee, 1905 | Portrait of Mrs. Leigo, 1906 | Portrait of Miss Helen Parker, 1908 |
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| Photograph, 1910 | Photograph, 1910 | Photograph, 1910 |
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| Photograph, 1910 | Photograph, 1910 | Photograph, 1910 |
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| Photograph, 1910 | Photograph, 1910 | Photograph, 1910 |
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| Cowboy singing | Grouse | Head of a Warrior |
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| Landscape | Man in Turban | Mrs Richard Day |
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| Negro Boy on a Bay Horse | Painting | Portrait |
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| Portrait | Portrait | Portrait of Alfred Bryan Wall |
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| Portrait of Alfred Reynolds in the Taubman Museum of Art | Portrait of Charles Edmund Dana | Portrait of Charles Linford, the Artist |
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| Portrait of Dr. William Thompson | Portrait of Elizabeth R. Coffin | Portrait of Frances Eakins |
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| Portrait of Francesco Romano | Portrait of Harriet Husson Carville | Portrait of Mrs. Hubbard (sketch) |
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| Portraits | Portraits | Portraits |
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| Portraits | Samuel Murray | Studies of a Baby |
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| Studies of Game Birds, probably Viginia Rails | Study of a Girl’s Head | Study of Dr. Agnew for the Agnew Clinic |
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| Talcott Williams | The Map | The Thinker |
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| The Veteran (Portrait of Geo. Reynolds) | William H Macdowell | Woman Knitting |