Lloyd Goodrich , transcript of an interview with Mrs. Mary Hallock Greenewalt , May 19 and May 20 ( no year given ) , Lloyd Goodrich and Edith Havens Goodrich Archive , Philadelphia Museum of Art . David Lubin agrees with this ...
His 24 rowing works, which include some of the most celebrated and recognized images in the history of American art, are brought together and examined as a group for the first time in this beautiful book.
Thomas Eakins
Thomas Eakins
Thomas Eakins (1844-1916) is one of the most fascinating and important personalities in the history of American art. His memorable and much-loved scenes of rowing, sailing, and boxing as well...
"Accomplished draftsman, anatomist, and artist Thomas Eakins (1844-1916) believed that the nude human body was the most beautiful object on earth - not an object of desire, but a miracle...
Thomas Eakins: Artist of Philadelphia
The range of Thomas Eakins' (1844-1916) work is dazzling - handsome sporting scenes (sculling, swimming, baseball, boxing..), dramatic historical tableaux, psychologically incisive portraits, as well as sculptures and scientifically astute...
Why did Thomas Eakins, now considered the foremost American painter of the nineteenth century, make portraiture his main field in an era when other major artists disdained such a choice?
"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 ...
In his lifetime, Eakins's artistic reputation suffered from his uncompromising attitude toward convention in art, teaching and society. Now he is acknowledged as one of the greatest of all American...