In the 1992 coffee-table biography, Thomas Eakins: His Life and Art (Abbeville Press), William Innes Homer suggests that Philadelphia’s most celebrated artist was at once progressive and conservative.

Having lost the Super Bowl earlier this month, it’s time for Philly to settle its betting debts. The Philadelphia Museum of Art has decided on the painting it will be sending to its counterpart in ...

The girl’s pose is so natural that you wouldn’t call it a pose. She is seated on the floor, reaching one hand toward a black poodle, signaling her attentive companion to remain still, while a biscuit ...

To settle its wager after the Chiefs won the Super Bowl, the Philadelphia Museum of Art will loan the Nelson-Atkins the 1875 painting "Sailing" by Thomas Eakins. The Philadelphia painter is widely ...

Thomas Eakins' 1875 oil painting "Sailing," is in Kansas City as part of a Super Bowl bet between the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Thomas Eakins' oil painting ...

Thomas Jefferson University has sold its last painting by Thomas Eakins, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported this morning, bringing to an end a process that brought the medical university plenty of ...

From 1866 to 1870, Philadelphia native Thomas Eakins spent four very formative years abroad in Paris and Spain. Homer (Thomas Eakins: His Life and Art) has for the first time gathered and translated ...

Accompanying the first major retrospective in more than 20 years of a major American artist, this catalogue is simply ravishing. Eakins (1844–1916) produced some of the most hauntingly beautiful ...

The night before her husband’s assassination, Jackie Kennedy slept under this painting. “Swimming,” by Thomas Eakins, had been lent to the hotel in Fort Worth where President John F. Kennedy and the ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Photograph of drawings from a letter ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Letters from Eakins to his family were donated by Dr. Caroline Crowell, daughter of Frances Eakins Crowell, and niece of Thomas Eakins. Other ...