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The problem is simply that except for Cassatt, none of the Americans whose work reached toward what was being done in Paris by Monet, Renoir, Degas or Pissarro could consistently perform on a high level. They saw what the French saw; they studied in Paris; some of them even painted...
THE LIFE AND WORK OF THOMAS EAKINS by Gordon Hendricks. 367 pages. Grossman. $45. A graceful and sympathetic, if somewhat languid biography of the famous Philadelphia artist, individualist, teacher (1844-1916). There is some interesting new material including excerpts from Eakins' own remarkably direct and often charming letters and...
More than 300 illustrations, including masterly sketches and photographs, represent the body of his work. Eakins was a relentless realist in a romantic era: his boxers look apprehensive and his surgeons, in proper dark suits, have blood on their hands. Though the color reproduction of some of the pictures is...
"The music consisted of 100 firemen in 100 red shirts with 100 sledgehammers hammering all their might on a hundred anvils and artillery," wrote Painter Thomas Eakins to his sister Fanny about the Boston Jubilee in the summer of 1869. The letter, one of 20 recently given to the Archives...
The obscurity of Thomas Pollock Anshutz (1851-1912) does not, even now, seem a great injustice of art history. He lived in Philadelphia and was Thomas Eakins' teaching assistant. Though a number of his students developed into remarkable painters (Marin and Sloan among them). Anshutz did not, and Steelworkers...