Thomas Eakins

Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2001. Softbound. VG (some foxing). Pictorial Illustrated wraps. xlii, 446 pp., 220 bw and 295 color plates. Contents as follows: Thomas Eakins and American art / Darrel Sewell -- Chronology / Kathleen Brown -- Eakins's early years / Amy B. Werbel -- Studies in Paris and Spain / H. Barbara Weinberg -- The 1870s / Marc Simpson -- Images of Fairmount Park in Philadelphia / Elizabeth Milroy -- Eakins and the academy / Kathleen A. Foster -- The 1880s / Marc Simpson -- Eakins's vision of the past and the building of a reputation / Marc Simpson -- Photographs and the making of paintings / Mark Tucker and Nica Gutman -- The camera artist / W. Douglass Paschall -- The 1890s / Marc Simpson -- Portraits of teachers and thinkers / Kathleen A. Foster -- The 1900s / Marc Simpson -- The pursuit of "true tones" / Mark Tucker and Nica Gutman -- Eakins in the twentieth century / Carol Troyen -- Eakins as a writer / William Innes Homer. This beautiful and insightful book, published in conjunction with a major exhibition on the life and career of Eakins - the first in twenty years - presents a fresh perspective on the artist and his remarkable accomplishments. Lavishly illustrated with more than 250 of Eakins's most significant paintings, watercolors, drawings, photographs, and sculpture, the book features essays by prominent scholars who place his art in the context of the history and culture of late nineteenth-century Philadelphia, where he lived. Quite large.