In the meantime, works by that century’s brashest master, the painter Thomas Eakins, are shuffling around the museum. Of the Art Museum’s nearly 100 paintings by Eakins, only one is currently ...

The appearance of women in the classes created new difficulties for Eakins and made his job... more difficult then it had been for Gerome in Paris where the school had only men. The presence of ...

Rowing was an activity that Eakins knew well -- he was rowing on the Schuylkill River long before he went to Paris. His Central High School classmates and family members were all rowers.