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Sewell, Darrel

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Note to the Reader

Darrel Sewell (Editor)

Thomas Eakins

Thematic essays addressing specific topics are arranged chronologically by decade: the 1870s, the 1880s, the 1890s, and 1900 to 1916. The plate sections illustrating works by Thomas Eakins and his circle have been divided into these four decades, arranged, for the most part, chronologically.

Author

Darrel Sewell (Editor)

PublisherPhiladelphia Museum of Art

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Note to the Reader

The dimensions of the works are given in inches, with the height preceding the width.

Duplicate photographic prints borrowed from different lenders—a necessary measure to bring these fragile works before audiences in the three venues of the exhibition—are not illustrated but are listed under Works Not Illustrated.

Eakins’s photographic activities raise special issues in attribution and titling. None of his own photographs, and only a few of those made by his students and friends, are signed. When a work may be firmly assigned or attributed to Eakins, or with confidence to one of his associates, this is indicated. The remainder are assigned to the circle of Thomas Eakins.

Eakins was reluctant to title his photographs. The titles given to his photographs in recent decades vary widely. For consistency in this catalogue, we have used generic descriptive titles, bracketed to indicate that choice. We thank the lenders, who have graciously permitted us to use these titles.

The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, made available, from its collection of Eakins material preserved by his student Charles Bregler, twenty-five of the original 4-by-5-inch glass negatives produced by Eakins and his colleagues, so that modern digital prints could be made of images for which vintage prints do not survive. As most of these images were studies for paintings or teaching aids, we have sought to approach the color and tonal range of albumen prints, Eakins’s preferred process for such works.

For the essay notes, initial references for books are given in full; later citations of the same source are shortened to the author’s last name and year of publication. A listing of sources is also given in Selected Bibliography.

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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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