In the 1992 coffee-table biography, Thomas Eakins: His Life and Art (Abbeville Press), William Innes Homer suggests that Philadelphia’s most celebrated artist was at once progressive and ...

Realist painter Thomas Eakins was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1844. He was encouraged by his parents to develop his talent in art, and in 1862 he entered the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine ...

Read about the debate surrounding Thomas Eakins’ paintings and his sexuality Jonathan Katz Study for The Swimming Hole. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington ...

Object Details Author Sewell, Darrel 1939- Eakins, Thomas 1844-1916 Foster, Kathleen A Philadelphia Museum of Art Musée d'Orsay Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) Subject Eakins, Thomas 1844 ...

Having lost the Super Bowl earlier this month, it’s time for Philly to settle its betting debts. The Philadelphia Museum of Art has decided on the painting it will be sending to its counterpart in ...

It’s a moment of charm and intimacy, rendered with formal brilliance in Thomas Eakins ’s painting “ Elizabeth Crowell With a Dog.” It was completed in the early 1870s, during a highly ...

To settle its wager after the Chiefs won the Super Bowl, the Philadelphia Museum of Art will loan the Nelson-Atkins the 1875 painting "Sailing" by Thomas Eakins. The Philadelphia painter is widely ...

The night before her husband’s assassination, Jackie Kennedy slept under this painting. “Swimming,” by Thomas Eakins, had been lent to the hotel in Fort Worth where President John F. Kennedy ...

Blake Gopnik has attempted through very well-written analyses (Sunday Arts, Oct. 7) to destroy my illusions of the art of Thomas Eakins and the craft of Sam Maloof. . . . In the case of Eakins ...

Eakins (1844–1916) produced some of the most hauntingly beautiful pastoral paintings and portraits of any era, in a manner related to but distinct from contemporaries J.M. Whistler and Winslow ...

Thomas Eakins' oil painting “Sailing” starts a two-month run Thursday at Kansas City's premier art institution. The display comes as the city prepares to host the NFL Draft for the first time.