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Biography of Thomas EakinsName: Thomas EakinsBirth Date: July 25, 1844 Death Date: June 25, 1916 Place of Birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States Nationality: American Gender: Male Occupations: artist, painter Thomas Eakins Thomas Eakins (1844-1916) was the most powerful figure painter and portrait painter of his time in America. He was a leading naturalist and one of the era's strongest painters of the current scene.Thomas Eakins was born on July 25, 1844, in Philadelphia. After his graduation from Central High School, he studied for 5 years at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where he drew chiefly from casts. To make up for his lack of study of living models, he entered Jefferson Medical College and took the regular courses in anatomy, including dissecting cadavers and observing operations.In 1866 Eakins left for Paris, where he went through 3 years of rigorous academic training at the École des Beaux-Arts under Jean Léon Gérôme. He also traveled in Italy and Germany. In December 1869 he went to Spain, In Madrid's Prado Museum his discovery of 17th-century Spanish painting, especially the work …showed first 150 words…
…showed last 150 words…monumental achievement. He was the first major painter of his period to accept completely the realities of contemporary American life and to create out of them a strong and profound art. Further Reading The first monograph on Eakins is Lloyd Goodrich, Thomas Eakins: His Life and Work (1933). Margaret McHenry, Thomas Eakins Who Painted (1946), adds personal material about the artist and his sitters and friends. Roland McKinney, Thomas Eakins (1942), and Fairfield Porter, Thomas Eakins (1959), are shorter biographical and critical accounts, with numerous illustrations. Sylvan Schendler, Eakins (1967), is a full-length study of Eakins and his art in relation to American society and culture of his period and includes 158 illustrations.Goodrich, Lloyd, Thomas Eakins, Cambridge, Mass.: Published for the National Gallery of Art by Harvard University Press, 1982. Hendricks, Gordon, The life and work of Thomas Eakins, New York: Grossman Publishers, 1974.Homer, William Innes, Thomas Eakins: his life and art, New York: Abbeville Press, 1992. |