This group of 66 vintage prints includes photographic figure studies, both clothed and nude, in classroom and outdoor settings; individual portraits; class portraits from the Pennsylvania Academy of ...

Read about the debate surrounding Thomas Eakins’ paintings and his sexuality Jonathan Katz Study for The Swimming Hole. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, ...

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.

At first blush, the realism of Thomas Eakins seems an unpromising method for probing psychology. His method was an empiricism of almost clinical ruthlessness, grounded in anatomical study, dissection, ...