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Visiting foreigners, awed by the grandeur of Niagara Falls, spurred the movement on. Painters swarmed through the entire Hudson River Valley, straying over into the Catskills, the White Mountains and New England to set up their easels. For the next half-century, they turned out careful, literal landscapes that were...
Thomas Eakins (rhymes with makin's) lived & died (1844-1916) without enjoying or soliciting artistic honors. In last week's show he was commemorated in 88 of his works, chiefly oils plus four of the little wax figures he made to help him with his sculptural paintings, and a few...
Deep and Simple. In a season devoted largely to the abstract, the distorted, the subjective, Eakins' devoutly objective work looked solid, sober and durable as life itself, a testimonial to the best in his country's deep and simple honesty (as well as to the limitations of that honesty). People...
Primitive's Eye. Born into a Philadelphia family of Quaker tinge (though he himself was agnostic), Thomas Eakins lived his whole life at 1729 Mt. Vernon St. By the time he left high school, Eakins was already a master of perspective.
Started in 1826 by Inventor Morse and a group of painter friends in protest against the poetry readings and discussions of landscape gardening that went on at the American Academy of Arts, the National Academy grew more sedate as it grew older. Artistic radicals rebel against its standards, meekly join...