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The Pair-Oared Shell, detail of the horizon line showing wet-in-wet strokes

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Description: The Pair-Oared Shell, detail of the horizon line showing wet-in-wet strokes

TitleThe Pair-Oared Shell, detail of the horizon line showing wet-in-wet strokes

Creator nameEakins, Thomas

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1872

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

DimensionsUnknown

LocationPhiladelphia Museum of Art

http://philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/42516.html?mulR=112513368|3

Accession number1929-184-35

SubjectsBrushworkPainting--TechniqueArtists' materials

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4. Thomas Eakins Under the Microscope: A Technical Study of the Rowing Paintings

Christina Currie

Description: Thomas Eakins: The Rowing Pictures

Thomas Eakins: The Rowing Pictures

The gathering together of all of the rowing paintings, related drawings, watercolors, and oil studies gives us a unique opportunity for an in-depth comparative study of Eakins’ oil paintings and invites inquiry into the processes he used to create them. The Biglin Brothers Turning the Stake (fig. 26), the largest and most ambitious painting in the...

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Christina Currie

PublisherYale University Art Gallery

Copyright© 1996 Yale University Art Gallery

Related print edition pages: pp.90-101

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00169.009

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Chapter subject tags:Eakins, Thomas, 1844-1916Artists' preparatory studiesPerspective (Art)Technical studies (Art)

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