Thomas Eakins

Thomas Eakins (Self Portrait, 1902)

Thomas Eakins (1844-1916) was an American painter who concentrated in the subject of American Realism, and the first great painter in the period after the American Civil War. His masterpiece, The Gross Clinic, had recently sold for a staggering $68,000,000, the highest price paid for an American portrait, despite being critically rejected by his contemporaries during the time it was created.

Paintings

• Street Scene in Seville 1870, Mrs. John R. Garrett, Sr. Collection
• Home Scene 1871, Brooklyn Museum, New York
• Max Schmitt in a Single Scull 1871, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
• Katherine 1872, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
• The Pair-Oared Shell 1872, Philadelphia Museum of Art
• The Biglin Brothers Turning the Stake 1873, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
• John Biglin in a Single Scull 1873, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
• Sailing 1874, Philadelphia Museum of Art
• Pushing for Rail 1874, Metropolitan Museum of Art
• The Gross Clinic 1875, Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (joint display)
• Will Schuster and Blackman Going Shooting 1876, Yale University Art Gallery
• Chess Players 1876, Metropolitan Museum of Art
• William Rush Carving His Allegorical Figure of the Schuylkill River 1877, Philadelphia Museum of Art
• The Fairman Rogers Four-in-Hand 1879, Philadelphia Museum of Art
• The Crucifixion 1880, Philadelphia Museum of Art
• The Pathetic Song 1881, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
• The Swimming Hole 1883, Fort Worth Art Center Museum, Fort Worth, TX
• Lady with a Setter Dog (Mrs. Eakins) (1885; Metropolitan Museum of Art);
• Walt Whitman 1887, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
• Letitia Wilson Jordan Bacon 1888, Brooklyn Museum, New York City
• Miss Van Buren 1889, Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.
• The Agnew Clinic 1889, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
• Professor Henry A. Rowland 1891, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA
• The Concert Singer 1892, Philadelphia Museum of Art
• Frank Hamilton Cushing 1894–95, Thomas Gilcrease Institute of American History and Art, Tulsa, OK
• Taking the Count 1898, Yale University Art Gallery
• Salutat 1898, Addison Gallery of American Art
• Between Rounds 1899, Philadelphia Museum of Art
• Benjamin Eakins 1899, Philadelphia Museum of Art
• Mrs. William D. Frishmuth 1900, Philadelphia Museum of Art
• The Thinker: Louis N. Kenton 1900, Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Self-Portrait 1902, National Academy of Design, NY
• Mrs. Edith Mahon 1904, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA
• Monsignor Diomede Falconio 1905, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

References

New York Times article on the sale of The Gross Clinic by Kathryn Shattuck, Nov. 19, 2006