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.

PHILADELPHIA -- In 1914, two years before his death, a Philadelphia newspaper described local hero Thomas Eakins as "the foremost living American painter." A major Eakins exhibition that opened ...

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 -- ...

The girl’s pose is so natural that you wouldn’t call it a pose. She is seated on the floor, reaching one hand toward a black poodle, signaling her attentive companion to remain still, while a biscuit ...

Thomas Jefferson University has sold its last painting by Thomas Eakins, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported this morning, bringing to an end a process that brought the medical university plenty of ...

Thomas Eakins' 1875 oil painting "Sailing," is in Kansas City as part of a Super Bowl bet between the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Thomas Eakins' oil painting ...

Having lost the Super Bowl earlier this month, it’s time for Philly to settle its betting debts. The Philadelphia Museum of Art has decided on the painting it will be sending to its counterpart in ...

The night before her husband’s assassination, Jackie Kennedy slept under this painting. “Swimming,” by Thomas Eakins, had been lent to the hotel in Fort Worth where President John F. Kennedy and the ...

The sale price sets a record for a pre-World War II work of art created in the United States, according to a statement released Saturday by the painting's owner, Thomas Jefferson University. The ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Letters from Eakins to his family were donated by Dr. Caroline Crowell, daughter of Frances Eakins Crowell, and niece of Thomas Eakins. Other ...