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The exhibition consists of 110 works, from Copley's youth to Winslow Homer's age. They were chosen by a committee headed by Boston Art Historian Theodore E. Stebbins Jr., with assistance from the Louvre's chief curator of paintings Pierre Rosenberg. There are some unavoidable absences...
His magisterial Homage to Thomas Eakins exemplifies the boldness, not to say the rashness, with which Soyer has reached into the past for forms that have faded away after a century or more of desuetude. His picture is modeled after Hommage à Delacroix by Henri Fantin-Latour, who in 1864...
It was an almost obsessive project, a "masterpiece" from the word go. Eakins did so many studies for it that Gross wished him dead, but they paid off. The head of Dr. Gross, thought and tension made flesh, is one of the supreme 19th century portraits, and the drama of...
In his time Eakins was reproached for being too scientific, not artistic enough, though "a builder on the bedrock of sincerity, and an all-sacrificing seeker after the truth." Their freedom from "poetic" conventions is, of course, just what makes his best paintings so moving to a modern eye. In...
To construct was to see. He was never interested in conventional beauty. Sober, pinched, reflective, lined and melancholy, his portraits remind us of that. But how many American artists said more about the sense of being in the world? Eakins was that extreme rarity, an artist who refused to tell...