This group of 66 vintage prints includes photographic figure studies, both clothed and nude, in classroom and outdoor settings; individual portraits; class portraits from the Pennsylvania Academy of ...

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Thomas Eakins’s watercolor box, palette, armchair, and paintbrush are awaiting his return at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (PAFA) in Philadelphia. Eakins has been dead since 1916, but just in ...

In the 1992 coffee-table biography, Thomas Eakins: His Life and Art (Abbeville Press), William Innes Homer suggests that Philadelphia’s most celebrated artist was at once progressive and conservative.

PHILADELPHIA — Few artists could lecture, as Thomas Eakins did in 1894, on "The Differential Action of Certain Muscles Passing More Than One Joint." So obsessed was Eakins with painting the human form ...

At first blush, the realism of Thomas Eakins seems an unpromising method for probing psychology. His method was an empiricism of almost clinical ruthlessness, grounded in anatomical study, dissection, ...

The great American realist painter Thomas Eakins (1844-1916) had a real jones for naked people. As a prominent teacher at the renowned Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, he jettisoned classes in ...