Thomas Eakins Memorial Exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New...

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TitleThomas Eakins Memorial Exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, November 5–December 3, 1917

Creator nameUnknown

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePhotographer

Creation date1917

Object typePhotograph

MaterialsUnknown

LocationMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Accession numberUnknown

SubjectsPhotography--United States--20th centuryMuseum exhibits

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Eakins in the Twentieth Century

Carol Troyen

Thomas Eakins

HARRISON MORRIS’S EULOGY for Thomas Eakins is astonishing to contemporary ears. As managing director of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts from the 1890s, Morris had labored to attract Eakins back to that institution after scandals over the use of nude models in the classroom had scuttled the artist’s...

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Darrel Sewell (Editor)

PublisherPhiladelphia Museum of Art

Related print edition pages: pp.367-376

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Chapter subject tags:Eakins, Thomas, 1844-1916Painting, American--19th centuryPortrait painting, American--19th centuryArt--Study and Teaching--United States--19th century

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Chronology

Kathleen Brown

Thomas Eakins

Thomas Eakins’s father, Benjamin, is born to Frances Fife (c. 1778–1836) and Alexander Eakins (originally Akens or Akins, c. 1771–1839), a tenant farmer and itinerant weaver living in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. Benjamin is the third of four children.

Author

Darrel Sewell (Editor)

PublisherPhiladelphia Museum of Art

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