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Elizabeth Johns

Thomas Eakins: The Heroism of Modern Life

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Elizabeth Johns

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Acknowledgments

A number of people and institutions have made this book possible, and I would like to thank them here. My research was funded by generous grants from the General Research Board of the University of Maryland, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Wyeth Endowment of American Art, and by a year’s Postdoctoral Fellowship with the Smithsonian Institution. Librarians, archivists, and historians at the following institutions gave me important assistance: the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian Institution, the Archives of American Art and the Inventory of American Painting (at the Smithsonian Institution), the National Library of Medicine, the Jefferson Medical College Archives of Thomas Jefferson University, the Alumni Association of Jefferson Medical College, the Bibliothèque Nationale, the New York Public Library, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, the Library Company of Philadelphia, the Free Library of Philadelphia, the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, the Academy of Music of Philadelphia, and the Camden County Historical Society. Curators at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the National Gallery of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts were generous with their time. In Philadelphia, Seymour Adelman was particularly helpful, as were Darrel Sewell at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and Frederick B. Wagner, Jr., M.D., Grace Revere Osler Professor of Surgery at Jefferson Medical College; at the National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Peter J. Olch, M.D. gave valuable encouragement. Conservators Sarah L. Fisher, Ross Merrill, and S. Ann Hoenigswald at the National Gallery of Art, Dianne Dwyer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and, most prominently, Marion Mecklenburg of the Washington Conservation Studio helped me immensely in studying Eakins’ technique. My students at the University of Maryland, in an Eakins seminar in 1980 and in general lecture courses, asked valuable questions that kept me attentive to many points of view. I owe an unending debt to colleagues who read and criticized my manuscript in various stages. At the Smithsonian Institution, Lois Fink, Judith Zilczer, Phyllis Rosenzweig, and William Truettner gave encouraging support and advice; Lillian Miller and Ellen Miles offered valuable suggestions. I was also fortunate to have close readings and commentary from Ann Abrams, Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr., Wanda Corn, William Innes Homer, Jules Prown, and John Wilmerding. The flaws that remain are, of course, my own. Special gratitude goes to my brother John B. Bennett, of the American Council on Education, a critic and editor of the highest order. Finally, I am more grateful than I can say to my husband, Max Johns, and my children, Alan and Nancy Butsch, for their good-natured interest during six years of Thomas Eakins.

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