Word: eakinses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though he was, along with Albert Ryder, the greatest American painter of his day, he was given only one one-man show in his lifetime, and it was not until he was almost 60 that he won a prize that carried any kind of prestige. Some of his most ambitious...
Fusty Classicism. Eakins (rhymes with makin's) had the kind of whole-souled character that let him absorb rebuffs and carry on with total concentration. The son of a Philadelphia teacher of penmanship, he whisked through school so fast that he had an A.B. in 1861 at the age...
When he got back home in 1870, American painting was still dominated by the academic romantics, whose vast landscapes had a certain grandeur but also a basic falseness. Like Winslow Homer, Eakins concentrated on day-to-day scenes, but unlike Homer, nature itself was not his primary concern. His Mending...
Beautiful Wrinkles. Eakins was almost too honest for his own good. His great medical paintings, the Agnew Clinic and the Gross Clinic-the most daring works of their kind since Rembrandt's Anatomy Lesson-so horrified the squeamish critics that some began calling him "a butcher." His paintings of...
It was not out of meanness, but out of a loyalty to life, that Eakins was so uncompromising. There are few tributes to youth and innocence more appealing than his Girl's Head (see color). But Eakins also admired age, which meant to him experience and suffering. "How beautiful...