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| USA | 37 |
| Germany | 2 |
| France | 1 |
| United Kingdom | 1 |
| Italy | 1 |
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Addison Gallery of American Art, USA |
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The Corcoran Gallery of Art, USA |
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Bowdoin College Museum of Art, USA |
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Biography: 
1844 Born in Philadelphia, PA (US)
Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins was born in 1844 in Philadelphia, the first-born and only male of the four children of Benjamin Eakins and Caroline Cowperthwait. His father was a calligrapher and writing master, who supported his family in comfortable circumstances by his profession and through prudent investments. Eakins was raised in the family home at 1729 Mount Vernon Street and would live there for the rest of his life (it still stands). He graduated from the Central High School in Philadelphia and in 1862 began to take courses at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and attended anatomy lectures there and at the Jefferson Medical College. In 1866 he went to Paris, where he attended the École des Beaux-arts and studied with the French painters Jean-Léon Gérôme, who permanently influenced him, and Léon Bonnat and the sculptor Augustin Alexandre Dumont. Before returning to the United States he spent six months in Spain. He greatly admired Spanish painting, particularly the art of Velázquez, which would also be lastingly influential.
Eakins returned to Philadelphia in 1869, where he remained to the end of his life. He resumed his studies at the Jefferson Medical College, and in 1878 he began teaching at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where he was appointed professor of Painting and drawing the next year. On January 19, 1884, he married Susan Hannah Macdowell, a student at the academy. In his teaching, Eakins was steadfast in his insistence on painting from the nude model. The controversy surrounding this practice led to his dismissal, with an aroma of scandal, from the professorship in 1886.
Eakins' fame is almost entirely posthumous. He was little known and admired in his native city--when John Singer Sargent visited Philadelphia in 1903 and was asked what artist he would like to meet, he said "There's Eakins, for instance." The reply was, "And who is Eakins."--and even less known outside it. Eakins died in Philadelphia in 1916, at the age of seventy-one. [This is an edited version of the artist's biography published, or to be published, in the NGA Systematic Catalogue]
1916 Died in Philadelphia, PA (US)
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Public exhibitions 42
Solo shows 10
2005
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| Family Matters - Art Museum of Western Virginia, Roanoke, WV |
2002
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| Thomas Eakins - The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY |
2001
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| Thomas Eakins - american realist - Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA |
1996
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| Thomas Eakins and The Swimming Picture - The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
1995
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| Eakins and the Photograph - Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA |
1991
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| Thomas Eakins Rediscovered: At Home, At School, At Work - Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA |
1970
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| Thomas Eakins: His Photographic Works - Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA |
1969
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| The Sculpture of Thomas Eakins - The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
1948
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| Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture by Thomas Eakins - Norton Simon Museum of Art, Pasadena, CA |
1917
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| Thomas Eakins: Memorial Exhibition - Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA |
Group shows 32
2008
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| Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: American Art from the Yale University Art Gallery - Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY |
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| Portrait of a Lady - peintures et photographies américaines en France, 1870-1915 - Musée d’Art Américain Giverny, Giverny |
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| American Art 1850s-1950s - Dulwich Picture Gallery, London (England) |
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| From Winslow Homer to Edward Hopper: American Watercolor Masterpieces from the Brooklyn Museum - Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, OH |
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| Being: A Selection of Photographic Portraits - Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME |
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| The American Scene: Part II - Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME |
2007
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| Coming of Age: American Art, 1850s to 1950s - Meadows Museum, Dallas, TX |
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| Brushed with Light: American Landscape Watercolors from the Collection - Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY |
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| Moving Pictures - American Art and Early Film - The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC |
2006
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| Coming of Age - American Art, 1850s to 1950s - Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA |
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| Encouraging American Genius: Master Paintings from the Corcoran Gallery of Art - MFAH - Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX |
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| Melancholie - Genie und Wahnsinn in der Kunst - Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin |
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| American ABC - Childhood in 19th-Century America - Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Stanford, CA |
2005
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| nützlich – süß – museal. Das fotografierte Tier - Museum Folkwang Essen, Essen |
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| Personal Perspectives - Aspects of American Photography - The de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA |
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| Masterworks of American Photography - Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA |
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| Encouraging American Genius - The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
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| Moving Pictures: American Art and Early Film 1880-1910 - Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA |
2004
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| Masterpieces of American Art 1770-1920 from the Detroit Institute of Arts - Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI |
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| West to Wesselmann - Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ |
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| A Century of Collecting - Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY |
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| American Masters from Bingham to Eakins: The John Wilmerding Collection - The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
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| Art, Artists, and the Addison - Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA |
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| Physical Presence - Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA |
2003
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| Charles Isaacs and Carol Nigro Collection of American Photography - The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH |
2002
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| Routes toward Modernism - American Painting 1870 - 1950 - Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX |
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| American Masters - Paintings from the Collection of the Portland Art Museum - Boise Art Museum BAM, Boise, ID |
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| A Thousand Hounds - A Walk with the Dogs through the History of Photography - Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL |
2001
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| Foundations - Building the Addison's Collection - Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA |
1999
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| The American Century - Art & Culture 1900-2000 Part I - Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY |
1995
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| 46th International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale / Biennale di Venezia - La Biennale di Venezia, Venice |
1991
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| Philadelphia Juvenilia: The Art of Future Past - Moore College of Art & Design, Philadelphia, PA |
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USA
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Public collections 33
USA
| | Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA
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| | Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
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| | Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH
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| | Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
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| | The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
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| | Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX
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| | The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT
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| | Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY
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| | Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY
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| | Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE
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| | The Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA
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| | Los Angeles County Museum of Art - LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
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| | The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN
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| | Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
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| | Cedarhurst - Center for the Arts, Mt. Vernon, IL
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| | The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY
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| | National Academy Museum, New York City, NY
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| | Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA
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| | The Snite Museum of Art, Notre Dame, IN
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| | Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE
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| | Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
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| | The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY
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| | The RISD Museum - University of Rhode Island, Providence, RI
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| | Art Museum of Western Virginia, Roanoke, WV
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| | Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO
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| | Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO
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| | The de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
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| | Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
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| | Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA
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| | The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
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| | The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
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| | Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA
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| | The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
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