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In 1914. two years before his death, the painter Thomas Eakins made a sale that overnight made headlines. It was an oil sketch; the buyer was Albert C. Barnes, just then beginning to use his great Argyrol fortune to build up his great art collection. The press spread the rumor...
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...
Until the present century, it was often a rather risky business for an American artist to do a nude. When the painter John Vanderlyn exhibited an inoffensive Ariadne in New York in 1815, his great rival John Trumbull was able to stir up enough scandalized protests almost to ruin poor...