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List of illustrations

  • Portrait of Thomas Eakins
  • Thomas Eakins as a Young Man
  • Charles Baudelaire
  • Thomas Carlyle
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Samuel Johnson
  • Carl Frederic Abel
  • Alphonse Leroy
  • Benjamin Franklin
  • Benjamin Rush
  • The Studious Artist
  • Dante
  • John Taylor Johnston
  • Juan Martinez Montanes
  • Las Meninas
  • The Little Confectioner
  • The Champion Single Sculls (Max Schmitt in a Single Scull)
  • The Champion Single Sculls (Max Schmitt in a Single Scull), detail
  • Sketch of Girard Avenue Bridge
  • Sketch of an oar (verso of Sketch of Girard Avenue Bridge)
  • Perspective Drawing for The Pair-Oared Shell
  • Match between Eton and Westminster Rowed at Putney August 1, 1843: The Eton winning by fourteen boats length
  • Henry Clasper, Champion of the North of Derwenthaugh by Newcastle on Tyne
  • James Hammill and Walter Brown, in their Great Five Mile Rowing Match for $4000 and the Championship of America
  • Barnes Bridge
  • Elliott's Boat
  • Picked Crew of London Rowing Club
  • Harry Kelley
  • Walter Brown, American champion
  • A View of Fairmount Waterworks with Schuylkill in the Distance Taken from the Mount
  • Boat Race, Boston Harbor
  • The Rowing Courses Used on the Schuylkill River
  • The Biglin Brothers Racing
  • John Biglin in a Single Scull
  • The Pair-Oared Shell
  • Bufford's Comic Sheet - No. 419
  • Portrait of Dr. Samuel D. Gross (The Gross Clinic)
  • Portrait of Dr. Samuel D. Gross (The Gross Clinic), detail
  • Sketch for The Gross Clinic
  • Study of the Head of Dr. Gross
  • Study of the Head of Robert C. V. Meyers
  • Portrait of Benjamin Howard Rand, M.D.
  • The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp
  • An operation at Massachusetts General Hospital
  • Guillaume Dupuytren (1777–1835), at the Hôtel-Dieu, presented Charles X with an eye surgery
  • Marie-François Bichat
  • Vesalius at Padua in 1546
  • The Museum of Charity Hospital (Scenes from the Salle de garde)
  • Velpeau teaching at the Charité hospital
  • Ambroise Paré Applying Ligatures after an Amputation
  • The Gross Clinic
  • Ward of Model Post Hospital, Medical Department, showing The Gross Clinic installed
  • Dr. William Thomson
  • The Agnew Clinic
  • William Rush Carving His Allegorical Figure of the Schuylkill River
  • William Rush Carving His Allegorical Figure of the Schuylkill River, detail
  • Water Nymph and Bittern or Allegorical Figure of the Schuylkill River
  • Centre Square
  • Allegory of the Waterworks (The Schuylkill Freed)
  • Fairmount Waterworks, From the Forebay
  • Fountain and Stand-Pipe
  • George Washington
  • Self-Portrait
  • Installation of Rush's Nymph with Bittern in Fairmount Park near the Callowhill Street Bridge
  • Fourth of July in Centre Square
  • Woman with Parasol (Walking Dress)
  • Wax studies for William Rush Carving His Allegorical Figure of the Schuylkill River
  • William Rush Carving the Allegorical Figure of the Schuykill River (study)
  • The Painter's Studio
  • Michelangelo in His Studio
  • Rembrandt Etching a Plate
  • The Artist in His Museum
  • The Painter's Triumph
  • A Sculptor's Studio
  • The Artist and His Model
  • Interior of David's studio at the Collège des Quatre Nations (now Institut de France), Paris
  • The Women's Life Class
  • William Rush Carving His Allegorical Figure of the Schuylkill River (Study for painting of the same title)
  • Tenth Street Studio
  • William Rush Carving His Allegorical Figure of the Schuylkill River
  • Sketch for William Rush and His Model
  • William Rush and His Model
  • Rehearsal of the Pasdeloup Orchestra at the Cirque d'Hiver
  • The Orchestra at the Opera
  • The Hollingsworth Family
  • At the Piano
  • Miss Dihau at the piano
  • Home Scene
  • Frances Eakins
  • At the Piano
  • Elizabeth at the Piano
  • Professionals at Rehearsal
  • The Cello Player
  • Luigi Boccherini
  • Cellist Pilet
  • F. A. Kummer
  • Music
  • Arrangement in Black: Portrait of Señor Pablo de Sarasate
  • The Piping Shepherd
  • John Laurie Wallace, Nude, Playing Pipes
  • Study for boy reclining in Arcadia
  • Arcadia
  • Pastoral
  • The Artist's Wife and His Setter Dog
  • The Singer in Green
  • Singing a Pathetic Song
  • The Organ Rehearsal
  • Cowboy Singing
  • Home Ranch
  • The Concert Singer
  • The Concert Singer, showing carving on frame
  • Clara Louise Kellogg as Aïda
  • Portrait of an Opera Singer
  • Parepa Rosa Reynolds
  • Walt Whitman
  • The Writing Master
  • Portrait of Henry Ossawa Tanner
  • Frank Hamilton Cushing
  • Professor Henry A. Rowland
  • Portrait of Leslie W. Miller
  • Portrait of Rear Admiral George Wallace Melville
  • Salutat
  • Antiquated Music (Portrait of Sarah Sagehorn Frishmuth)
  • An Actress (Portrait of Suzanne Santje)
  • Archbishop Diomede Falconio
  • Dr. Horatio C. Wood
  • Portrait of Mrs. J. William White
  • Portrait of Mrs. C. (Lady with a White Shawl)
  • New England Woman
  • Portrait of Walt Whitman
  • Portrait of Dr. Jacob Mendez Da Costa
  • Portrait of Dr. Jacob M. Da Costa
  • The Dean's Roll Call
  • William Smith Forbes, M.D.
  • Portrait of Dr. Jacob M. Da Costa
  • William Williams Keen, Jr., M.D.
  • Letitia Wilson Jordan
  • Mrs. Edith Mahon
  • Portrait of Mrs. Thomas Eakins
  • Portrait of Mary Adeline Williams
  • The Old-Fashioned Dress (Portrait of Helen Montanverde Parker)
  • Self-Portrait
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Contents
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List of Illustrations
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Dimensions of Eakins’ Works
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Acknowledgments
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Description: Thomas Eakins: The Heroism of Modern Life
THIS STUDY examines Thomas Eakins in the cultural context of his era, late nineteenth-century America...
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Description: Thomas Eakins: The Heroism of Modern Life
THOMAS EAKINS was a painter of portraits. Financially independent, he followed a drumbeat from 1870 to 1910 that guided virtually no other contemporary major artist, either of America or of Europe...
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GLAD TO BE home after such a long apprenticeship, Eakins began his career with scenes of activities that he had missed in Paris—the outdoor pursuits of rowing, hunting and sailing with his father and close friends, and the indoor pleasures...
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THE EARLY years of the 1870s saw radical changes in the fabric of national life. With economic and psychological recovery from the Civil War hardly resolved, Americans were faced with tides of immigrants, employment in factories...
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ABOUT THE same time that Eakins began his portrait of Dr. Gross, he made preliminary sketches for William Rush Carving His Allegorical Figure of the Schuylkill River...
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Description: Thomas Eakins: The Heroism of Modern Life
FROM HIS earliest years Eakins had been drawn to music, the most fleeting and intangible of experiences. Throughout a career that brought him perhaps more than his share of public affronts...
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IN 1887 EAKINS’ friend the Philadelphia journalist Talcott Williams took him to meet Walt Whitman at Whitman’s house in Camden...
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The major figure in Eakins scholarship is Lloyd Goodrich, who published his first study of Eakins in 1933...
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