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.

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 ...

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 ...

One of the best American painters of the 19th century, Thomas Eakins, was an early adopter of photographic technology. It turned out to be professional suicide. Thomas Eakins was 35 years old in 1879 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Preface: Riddles -- Part one. The Eakins legacy. Within the walls -- The perfect crime -- The loin cloth scandal -- Family quarrels -- The death of Ella Crowell -- The insanity of Lillian Hammitt -- ...