Thomas eakins self portrait
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Thomas Eakins
Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins
Self-Portrait - Thomas EakinsThomas Eakins
Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins
- July 25, 1844; Philadelphia, United States
- June 25, 1916; Philadelphia, United States
- American
- Realism
- painting,photography
- Rembrandt
- Jean-Paul Jerome,Leon Bonnat
- Henry Ossawa Tanner,Thomas Pollock Anshutz,Robert Henri,John French Sloan,George Luks,William James Glackens
- École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France,Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA, US,National Academy Museum and School (National Academy of Design), New York City, NY, US,Art Students League of New York, New York City, NY, US
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Eakins
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Thomas Eakins, America's greatest realist, dedicated his career to representing the human figure in oil and watercolor, sculpture, and photography. His style renounced idealized and romantic depi
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Title:[Self-Portrait]
Artist:Thomas Eakins (American, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1844–1916 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
Date:ca. 1880
Medium:Platinum print
Dimensions:Image: 15.7 x 10 cm (6 3/16 x 3 15/16 in.)
Classification:Photographs
Credit Line:Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005
Object Number:2005.100.589
Inscription: Inscribed in pencil on print, verso C: "Eakins"
Hargrave Family, Philadelphia; [Paul Katz, North Bennington, Vermont]; Gilman Paper Company Collection, New York, July 1, 1983
Philadelphia Museum of Art. "Thomas Eakins," September 30, 2001–January 6, 2002.
Paris. Musée d'Orsay. "Thomas Eakins," February 3–May 12, 2002.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Thomas Eakins," June 10–September 15, 2002.
Apraxine, Pierre. Photographs from the Collection of the Gilman Paper Company. Reeds Springs, Mo.: White Oak Press, 1985. pl
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Self-portrait (Thomas Eakins)
Painting by Thomas Eakins
Self-portrait is an oil on canvas painting by Thomas Eakins, presented as a diploma piece upon his election as an Associate member of the National Academy of Design in 1902. Although Eakins included himself as an observer or participant in group portraits and genre scenes, this and a smaller unsigned and undated oil, thought to have been made at about the same time, are the only unadorned self-portraits he ever painted. Lloyd Goodrich wrote that it "is not only one of his finest head and bust likenesses, but a revealing human document; in the direct look of his remarkable eyes one can see strength, penetrating intelligence, and a touch of ironic humor."[1]
Background
[edit]Largely due to controversies surrounding his work, Eakins was not invited to become a member of the National Academy of Design until 1902, well after many of his contemporaries. It was only in the late 1890s that his reputation benefited