
Thomas Eakins Rediscovered
Charles Bregler`s Thomas Eakins Collection at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Kathleen A. Foster(Author)
Yale University Press
Published on 21. January 1998
Book
Hardback
496 pages
978-0-300-06174-1 (ISBN)
Description
More than fifty years ago, a treasury of studio material-including oil sketches, sculptures, drawings, photographs, and manuscripts-was rescued from the empty house of Thomas Eakins by a devoted student, Charles Bregler. Deemed worthless then, the "rubbish" Bregler reverently saved has only recently become recognized as an important source of information about the life and working habits of one of Americas greatest artists. This book is both a catalogue of the Bregler collection and a reassessment of Eakins's career as read through the newly discovered materials.
Kathleen A. Foster builds on the strengths of the collection to characterize the training, teaching, and studio practices of a nineteenth-century academic realist. Tracing Eakins's artistic education, she looks to sources in both Philadelphia and Paris that shaped his seemingly uncontrived American style. Foster analyzes Eakins's habits as a draftsman, unlocking his famous perspective drawings to reveal his idiosyncratic practices. She examines his innovation as a watercolorist and photographer and describes his distinctive academic procedures in oil paint and clay. Foster then investigates a series of Eakins's best known projects, from the early sporting paintings to the late portraits, to explain the sequence of his method, the development of his imagery, and the meaning that emerges from the interaction of subject and technique.
Published in association with the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
Published in association with the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
Kathleen A. Foster builds on the strengths of the collection to characterize the training, teaching, and studio practices of a nineteenth-century academic realist. Tracing Eakins's artistic education, she looks to sources in both Philadelphia and Paris that shaped his seemingly uncontrived American style. Foster analyzes Eakins's habits as a draftsman, unlocking his famous perspective drawings to reveal his idiosyncratic practices. She examines his innovation as a watercolorist and photographer and describes his distinctive academic procedures in oil paint and clay. Foster then investigates a series of Eakins's best known projects, from the early sporting paintings to the late portraits, to explain the sequence of his method, the development of his imagery, and the meaning that emerges from the interaction of subject and technique.
Published in association with the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
Published in association with the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
500 b-w + 16 color illus.
Dimensions
Height: 279 mm
Width: 216 mm
Weight
1996 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-300-06174-1 (9780300061741)
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Kathleen A. Foster is curator of nineteenth- and twentieth-century art at the Indiana University Art Museum and a member of the graduate faculty at Indiana University.