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Author Kirkpatrick, Sidney.

Title The revenge of Thomas Eakins / Sidney D. Kirkpatrick.

Imprint New Haven : Yale University Press, c2006.

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 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  759.13 Ea52Bk 2006    ---  Available
Description ix, 565 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Series The Henry McBride series in modernism and modernity
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 499-538) and index.
Contents I: Master and apprentice -- The Eakins family of Philadelphia -- Master Benjamin -- The art of the penman -- An uncertain future -- The medical arts and the fine arts -- The Pennsylvania academy -- A dangerous young Adonis -- From temple to palace -- Heads and hands -- Letters home -- Rough around the edges -- The artist and his muse -- Picture making -- II: Artist and educator -- The road less traveled -- Champion oarsman -- The Biglin brothers racing -- Hikers and hunters -- Uncompromising realism -- A good and decent girl -- The blood-covered scalpel -- A degradation of art -- Painting heads -- The unflinching eye -- Talk of the town -- Nymph in the fountain -- The open door -- A May morning in the park -- Jerusalem in New Jersey -- Tripod and easel -- Nudes and prudes -- The lovely young men of Dove Lake -- III: Exposed and expelled -- Philanthropists and philistines -- The hanging committee -- Point of no return -- Demons and demigods -- The family skeleton -- Black care -- The bard of Camden -- A league of his own -- Dressed and undressed -- Portrait by a modern master -- Horrors of the dissecting table -- Casting for commissions -- The Pied Piper of Philadelphia -- IV: Forgiven and forgotten -- Portrait of a physicist -- Down for the count -- Outlaw in an undershirt -- Pictured lives -- Pontiffs and prelates -- Return to rush -- Artist in residence.
Subject Eakins, Thomas, 1844-1916.
Painters -- United States -- Biography.
ISBN 0300108559 (alk. paper)
9780300108552 (alk. paper)
Standard No. 9780300108552
YDXCP 2270813

 
    
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