This is part 4 of a 6-part post on the works of American artist Thomas
Eakins. Parts 1 – 4 feature his paintings, parts 5 – 6 his
photography. Thomas Eakins (1844-1916) was the most powerful figure
painter and portrait painter of his time in America. For biographical notes on Eakins, and for earlier works, see parts 1 - 3.
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| c1897 Portrait of Jennie Dean Kershaw oil on canvas |
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| 1898 Salutat oil on canvas 127 x 101.6 cm |
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| 1898 Taking the Count oil on canvas |
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| 1898-99 Between Rounds study for The Timer (see below) |
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| 1898-99 Between Rounds oil on canvas |
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| 1899 Portrait of Mary Adeline Williams oil on canvas 61 x 50.8 cm |
Mary Adeline Williams was a longtime
friend of the Eakins family, a best friend to Eakins' younger sister Margaret,
and a distant relation through marriage; she would later say that Thomas Eakins
"was like a big brother to me." As early as 1867 Eakins
took a protective interest in her, writing to his sister Fanny: "She is a
pretty little girl & I guess just as good as she is pretty, or she belies
her blood. We owe a great deal to her father & mother for their unvarying
disinterested kindness to us....Try to make her welcome whenever she comes to
town."
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| 1899 The Wrestlers oil on canvas 122.9 x 152.4 cm |
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| 1900 Antiquated Music aka Portrait of Sarah Sagehorn Frishmuth oil on canvas |
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| 1900 Frank Jay St. John oil on canvas 61.3 x 50.8 cm |
This portrait of Frank Jay
St. John (above) indicates the influence of
Whistler's portrait of Carlyle (below) on a realist painter of a different sensibility:
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| Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 2 - Portrait of Thomas Carlyle by James McNeill Whistler 1872-72 |
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| 1900 Mrs. Mary Arthur oil on canvas 61 x 50.8 cm |
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| 1900 Study for the Thinker (see below) oil on paper on wood 35.6 x 25.4 cm |
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| 1900 The Thinker, Portrait of Louis N. Kenton oil on canvas 208.3 x 106.7 cm |
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| 1901 Portrait of Leslie W. Miller oil on canvas |
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| 1903 Portrait of William B. Kurtz oil on canvas |
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| 1903 The Oboe Player aka Portrait of Benjamin Sharp oil on canvas |
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| c1903 Mother (Annie Williams Gandy, mother of Eakins) oil on canvas 61 x 50.8 cm |
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| 1904 Charles Percival Buck oil on canvas 61 x 51 cm |
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| 1904 Portrait of Frank B. A. Linton oil on canvas |
Frank Benton
Ashley Linton (1871 – 1943) born in Philadelphia,
was an American portrait-painter and teacher. He was an instructor at the Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Arts. Likely, a closeted gay man, he lived with pianist
Samuel Meyers (below) (I could only find a black and white reproduction) for more than 30 years.
On Saturday afternoons, accompanied by his wife Susan, Eakins would visit former student Frank Linton, who with Samuel Myers, put on musical performances in their home. Helen Parker described Eakins as so moved by a performance there that he sat in a corner and unashamedly sobbed.
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| 1904 Portrait of Samuel Myers oil on canvas 61.2 x 51.1 cm |
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| c1904 Portrait of William H. Macdowell oil on canvas 61 x 50.8 cm |
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| c1906 A Singer (Mrs. W. H. Bowden) oil on canvas 61.9 x 51.7 cm |
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| 1907 Dr. Albert C. Getchell oil on canvas 61 x 51 cm |
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| 1908 William Rush Carving His Allegorical Figure of the Schuylkill River oil on canvas 91.3 x 121.5 cm |
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| 1908 William Rush's Model oil on canvas 92.1 x 122.3 cm |
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| c1908 The Old-Fashioned Dress aka Portrait of Helen Montanverde Parker oil on canvas |
