Thomas Eakins (redirected from Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins)

Eakins, Thomas 

Born July 25, 1844, in Philadelphia; died there June 25,1916. American painter.

Eakins studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, and from 1866 to 1869 he studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Eakins is the greatest American realist painter. He introduced into American painting themes from the life of the big city as well as an interest in various occupations, in people involved in art and science, and in sport, as seen in Max Schmitt in a Single Scull and The Thinker (1871 and 1900, respectively; both Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) and in The Surgical Clinic of Professor Gross (1875, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia). Eakins combined strict objectivity and liveliness in depicting nature and the effects of light with profound psychological characterization (the portrait Walt Whitman, 1887, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts).

REFERENCE

Porter, F. Thomas Eakins. New York, 1959.