San Antonio College Library

Lavishly illustrated with more than 250 copies of Thomas Eakins best and most popular works.

The most revealing and interesting writings of American artist Thomas Eakins are the letters he sent to family and friends while he was a student in Paris between 1866 and 1870. This book presents all these letters in their entirety for the first time; in fact, this is the first edition of Eakins's correspondence from the period. Edited and annotated by Eakins authority William Innes Homer, this book provides a treasure trove of new information, revealing...

Thomas Eakins is recognized today as the strongest purely realistic artist of late nineteenth-and early twentieth-century America. But in his lifetime he was the most neglected and misunderstood major painter of the period. Many of his chief works were rejected by the art establishment. He sold few paintings and received few commissions. He was a great innovating teacher, but was forced to resign as head of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts...

"Often censured during his lifetime for his insistence on studying and painting from the nude, Thomas Eakins (1844-1916) is now acclaimed as one of America's greatest realist painters. Man Made examines Eakins's art and life, illustrating how the artist used his canvases to cope with the complex requirements of Victorian gender. Martin Berger reads a series of Eakins's paintings, ranging from early to late works, giving a nuanced and elegant examination...