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Actually, Thayer (1849-1921) was a better painter than modern critics are likely to allow. Critic James Flexner, for example, dismisses Thayer as a "workman" who "worked out a delicate and bloodless version of femininity which, draped or even undraped, was more pleasing to refined purchasers than the hardy realism...
This month the Baltimore Museum of Art will celebrate its 25th year with a big loan show devoted to paintings of and by the aged. Among its masterpieces will be Thomas Eakins' portrait of Walt Whitman (opposite), painted when the poet was 68.
"Eakins," Whitman once opined, "is not a painter, he is a force." To criticisms of Eakins' portrayal, Whitman retorted: "It is likely to be only the unusual person who can enjoy such a picture-only here and there one who can weigh and measure it according to its own...
Whitman's appraisal of Eakins still stands. Next to Winslow Homer, Eakins (1844-1916) is the finest painter America has produced, and is still sneered at by some "professional elects." Eakins made art the servant of honesty; he chose showing over showiness, and thereby earned the lasting admiration of...
Neither Eakins nor Homer cared a rap for the quality thought indispensable in Europe: art which conceals art. They achieved something rarer: honesty which may transcend art. The heart of summer, the gleam of flesh against green foliage, are conveyed in Eakins' Swimming Hole. And a man looking at...