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.

For a large part of the American art public, the Philadelphia painter Thomas Eakins (1844-1916) stands alone and unrivaled as For a large part of the American art public, the Philadelphia painter ...

PHILADELPHIA -- In 1914, two years before his death, a Philadelphia newspaper described local hero Thomas Eakins as "the foremost living American painter." A major Eakins exhibition that opened ...

PHILADELPHIA — In his illustrious monumental picture, “The Gross Clinic” (1875), Thomas Eakins invented a new kind of painting. We still have no word for it, probably because the canvas remains a ...

Five paintings by the artist Thomas Eakins could be sold away from Philadelphia. St. Charles Borromeo Seminary of the Philadelphia Archdiocese plans to sell the portraits of early 20th century ...

Thomas Eakins’s watercolor box, palette, armchair, and paintbrush are awaiting his return at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (PAFA) in Philadelphia. Eakins has been dead since 1916, but just in ...

The great Thomas Eakins exhibition, which was reviewed here when it opened last fall at the Philadelphia Museum of Art The great Thomas Eakins exhibition, which was reviewed here when it opened last ...

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 ...

Thomas Eakins’s obsession with the body is well known and much studied. But what of the painter’s obsession with his own body? Throughout his career, he inserted himself into his paintings of modern ...

The recent toppling of a string of powerful figures for sexual abuse and harassment raises the question of how these people managed to conceal their behavior so long, in some instances after abusing ...

The sale price sets a record for a pre-World War II work of art created in the United States, according to a statement released Saturday by the painting's owner, Thomas Jefferson University. The ...

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 ...