Sponsor’s Statement

Alter, Dennis

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Sponsor’s Statement

Dennis Alter

Thomas Eakins

On behalf of my Advanta colleagues and our customers, I wish to express how honored we are to be the presenting sponsor of this groundbreaking exhibition—a retrospective of the work of Philadelphia’s own Thomas Eakins.

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Darrel Sewell (Editor)

PublisherPhiladelphia Museum of Art

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-100279

Sponsor’s Statement

Thomas Eakins was a world-class artist whose Philadelphia roots and influence were woven throughout his works and his teachings. He was particularly known for his great insight into his subjects and his remarkable honesty of approach.

At Advanta we, too, strive to truly understand our customers and develop services to meet their unique needs. Advanta’s roots are also deeply connected to Philadelphia—our founder and my father, Jack Alter, began this company out of a spare bedroom in our West Philadelphia home. Today, we are one of the nation’s largest issuers of MasterCard small business credit cards.

As Advanta celebrates its 50th Anniversary, our commitment to Philadelphia continues. Over the years we have been proud to partner with the venerable Philadelphia Museum of Art, now marking its 125th Anniversary, to bring to life such outstanding exhibitions as Cezanne, Delacroix: The Late Work, and The Splendor of Eighteenth-Century Rome.

On behalf of Advanta, I extend our thanks to the outstanding professionals at the Philadelphia Museum of Art whose hard work and dedication inspire us and enrich all our perspectives.

I’d like to leave you with a thought from the great artist himself:

“The big artist . . . keeps a sharp eye on Nature & steals her tools” (Thomas Eakins).

Enjoy the show!

Dennis Alter
Chairman and CEO, Advanta

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BOOKThomas Eakins

Darrel Sewell (Editor)

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-100251

Thomas Eakins (1844–1916) is one of the most fascinating and important personalities in the history of American art. His memorable and much-loved scenes of rowing, sailing, and boxing as well as his deeply moving portraits are renowned for their vibrant realism and dramatic intensity. This insightful book, published in conjunction with a major exhibition on the life and career of Eakins—the first in twenty years—presents a fresh perspective on the artist and his remarkable accomplishments.

Illustrated with more than 250 of Eakins’s most significant paintings, watercolors, drawings, and sculpture, the book features essays by prominent scholars who place his art in the context of the history and culture of late nineteenth-century Philadelphia, where he lived. The contributors also discuss how Eakins applied his French academic training to subjects that were distinctly American and part of his own immediate and complex experience. Eakins’s own photographs, which he used as part of his unique creative process, are also examined for the first time in the full context of his life’s work.

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Author

Darrel Sewell (Editor)

PublisherPhiladelphia Museum of Art

Print publication date September 2001 (out of print)

Print ISBN 9780300091113

EISBN 9780300282146

Illustrations 514

Print Status out of print

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