Thomas Eakins

American, 1844 - 1916

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American painter (1844–1916)

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Thomas Eakins, Ecorché: Relief of a Horse (Josephine), c. 1882, painted plaster, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Stuart P. Feld, in honor of John Wilmerding, 2004.145.1

Ecorché: Relief of a Horse (Josephine)

Thomas Eakins · c. 1882 · painted plaster ·  Accession ID  2004.145.1

Thomas Eakins, Archbishop Diomede Falconio, 1905, oil on canvas, Gift of Stephen C. Clark, 1946.16.1

Archbishop Diomede Falconio

Thomas Eakins · 1905 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1946.16.1

Two men with pale skin, wearing white sleeveless shirts and royal-blue caps, row in unison in a long, narrow boat on a placid blue river in this horizontal landscape painting. The low, honey-colored wooden boat extends off both sides of the canvas. Both men face our left as they row to our right. The man in front looks ahead of him, beyond the stern of the boat, and the man to our right, closer to the bow, tucks his chin down to look past his shoulder. Their bare, muscled arms are extended straight as the two oars sweep back. The tip of another boat runs close and parallel to the bottom edge of the composition, spanning the left three-quarters of the painting. The opposite riverbank is lined with a dense forest of pine-green trees. People crowd along the decks of a steamboat and a paddleboat near the riverbank to our left. Another narrow skuller, rowed by four people wearing ruby-red shirts, cuts through the water at the back center of the river. The riverbank beyond is lined with people, painted with strokes of black and white, and minuscule touches of red. The horizon comes halfway up the composition. Cream-white clouds float across a muted, topaz-blue sky above the trees.
Thomas Eakins, The Biglin Brothers Racing, 1872, oil on canvas, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, 1953.7.1

The Biglin Brothers Racing

Thomas Eakins · 1872 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1953.7.1

Bibliography

1974

  • Hendicks, Gordon. The Life and Works of Thomas Eakins. New York, 1974.

1982

  • Goodrich, Lloyd. Thomas Eakins. Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1982.

1983

  • Johns, Elizabeth. Thomas Eakins: the Heroism of Modern Life. Princeton, 1983.

1992

  • Homer, William Innes. Thomas Eakins: His Life and Art. New York, 1992.

1996

  • Kelly, Franklin, with Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr., Deborah Chotner, and John Davis. American Paintings of the Nineteenth Century, Part I. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1996: 156-157.