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The late Rutherford Birchard Hayes, 19th President of the U. S. (1877-81) at his White House desk, working in his shirtsleeves, is lost. He has been lost ever since the late Painter Thomas Eakins of Philadelphia painted him thus, in 1877. Because Eakins' work is increasing in reputation and...
In 1877, with Hayes just inaugurated, the Philadelphia Union League Club decided it should have a portrait of the new President to hang on the walls of its new clubhouse. Eakins, a Philadelphian who had won prizes at the Centennial Exposition, was commissioned. Like most new Presidents, Mr. Hayes felt...
Thomas Eakins saw nothing strange in this; he himself often worked in his undershirt and a pair of overalls. (When the busy Chief Executive had to leave his office, Artist Eakins occupied himself with painting in a careful view of 19th Century Washington from the window.) Artist and President continued...
†Modern artists praised: A. L. Barye, Brancusi, Cezanne, Courbet, Degas, Delacroix, Derain, Eakins, Frueh, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Winslow Homer, Manet, Monet, Picasso, Pissarro, Poiret, de Chavannes, Renoir,
Second bass - O. M. Eakins '97, J. H. Bennett '98, S. S. Hinds '98, C. E. Sanders 2 L. S., E. H. Dwinnell '96, R. K. Fox '96.