Thomas Eakins
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Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins was an American realist painter, photographer, sculptor, and fine arts educator. He is widely acknowledged to be one of the most important American artists.
Eakins' 1902 Self portrait, now housed at the National Academy of Design in New York City
Eakins at age six
Thomas Eakins House at 1729 Mount Vernon Street, Philadelphia, in 1967. Benjamin Eakins, his father, added the 4th floor in 1874 as a studio for his son.
Max Schmitt in a Single Scull (1871), now housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City
The Gross Clinic
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The Gross Clinic or The Clinic of Dr. Gross is an 1875 painting by the American artist Thomas Eakins. It is an oil on canvas and measures 8 feet by 6.5 feet.
Thomas Eakins
…Stunningly illuminated, Dr. Gross is the embodiment of heroic rationalism, a symbol of American intellectual achievement. In The Gross Clinic (1875), a renowned Philadelphia surgeon, Dr. Samuel D. Gross, is seen presiding over an operation to remove part of a diseased bone from a patient's…
Thomas Eakins, American Portrait of Dr. Samuel D. Gross Google Art Project
The Gross Clinic on display in the U.S. Army Post Hospital at the 1876 Centennial Exposition.
Compositional Study (1875), Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Black and white drawing of the painting (1875), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. This illustration was probably made to be photographed.