Lenders to the Exhibition

Cooper, Helen A.

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Lenders to the Exhibition

Helen A. Cooper

Thomas Eakins: The Rowing Pictures

Lenders to the Exhibition

Author

Helen A. Cooper

PublisherYale University Art Gallery

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00169.002

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-15304

Lenders to the Exhibition

The Cleveland Museum of Art

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

Paul Mellon Collection, Upperville, Virginia

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Portland Museum of Art, Oregon

Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven

Private collection

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BOOKThomas Eakins: The Rowing Pictures

Helen A. Cooper

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00169

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-15302

During the 1870s rowing became a tremendously popular sport in the United States. An enthusiastic rower, the young Thomas Eakins painted, sketched, and drew an extraordinary series of rowing pictures that were the most ambitious project of his early career. Eakins' 24 rowing works, which include some of the most celebrated and recognized images in the history of American art, are brought together and examined as a group for the first time in this book. Together they shed light on the artist's creative process and subsequent achievements as well as on social, cultural, and artistic concerns central to nineteenth-century audiences.

Helen A. Cooper, along with essayists Martin A. Berger, Christina Currie, and Amy B. Werbel, discusses various aspects of Eakins' rowing series, explaining his affection for the sport, his adoption of the images of popular culture into the realm of fine art, his commitment to novel, "modern" subjects, his preoccupation with perspective and measurement, and his belief that the most profound artistic truths were best expressed through the human figure—particularly the male figure. A comparison of the rowing pictures reveals that over the four years in which they were created, Eakins moved subtly from the analytic and descriptive toward the more feeling and suggestive. As a group devoted to a single subject, the series is unmatched in the oeuvre of this masterful painter.

Author

Helen A. Cooper

PublisherYale University Art Gallery

Print publication date July 1998 (out of print)

Print ISBN 9780300069396

EISBN 9780300232509

Illustrations 72 illus.

Print Status out of print

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