Kathleen A. Foster
Kathleen A. Foster is The Robert L. McNeil, Jr. Senior Curator of American Art and Director of the Center for American Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
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Portraits of Teachers and Thinkers
Kathleen A. Foster
Description: Thomas Eakins
Thomas Eakins
Forced to resign from the Pennsylvania Academy in 1886, Thomas Eakins withdrew into a small circle of friends, relations, and devoted students for almost two years, struggling to put scandal to rest and painting little. In the first year of his retreat, he completed...
Author
Darrel Sewell (Editor)
PublisherPhiladelphia Museum of Art
Copyright© 2001 Philadelphia Museum of Art
Related print edition pages: pp.307-315
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-100269
Chapter subject tags:Eakins, Thomas, 1844-1916Painting, American--19th centuryPortrait painting, American--19th century
Eakins and the Academy
Kathleen A. Foster
Description: Thomas Eakins
Thomas Eakins
INDIVIDUALIST, nonconformist, truth-teller, Thomas Eakins has been seen by American art historians as a hero and an outcast, representing national traits of independence, egalitarianism, and pragmatism. In his legendary role as defender of artistic freedom and opponent of...
Author
Darrel Sewell (Editor)
PublisherPhiladelphia Museum of Art
Copyright© 2001 Philadelphia Museum of Art
Related print edition pages: pp.95-106
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-100261
Chapter subject tags:Eakins, Thomas, 1844-1916Painting, American--19th centuryAcademic art, French--19th centuryPennsylvania Academy of the Fine ArtsBeaux-arts de Paris (Art school)Gérôme, Jean Léon, 1824-1904Bonnat, Léon Joseph Florentin, 1833-1922Art--Study and Teaching--United States--19th century