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William Smith Forbes, M.D.

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Description: William Smith Forbes, M.D.
TitleWilliam Smith Forbes, M.D.
Creator nameEakins, Thomas
Creator nationality/cultureAmerican
Creator rolePainter
Creation date1905
Object typePainting
MaterialsOil on canvas
Dimensions84 x 48 in.
LocationThomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia
Accession numberUnknown
SubjectsSkull in artStudents in artPortrait painting, AmericanPainting, American--20th centuryPhysicians in artRealism in art
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Chapter 6: Walt Whitman
Elizabeth Johns
Description: Thomas Eakins: The Heroism of Modern Life
Thomas Eakins: The Heroism of Modern Life
IN 1887 EAKINS’ friend the Philadelphia journalist Talcott Williams took him to meet Walt Whitman at Whitman’s house in Camden...
Author
Elizabeth Johns
PublisherPrinceton University Press
Copyright© 1983 by Elizabeth Johns
Related print edition pages: pp.144-169
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00346.6
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Chapter subject tags:Eakins, Thomas, 1844-1916Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892Portrait paintingHeroesPainting--Technique
5. Scandalous Exposures: The Trials of Thomas Eakins, William Smith Forbes, and Oscar Wilde
Amy Werbel
Description: Thomas Eakins: Art, Medicine, and Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia
Thomas Eakins: Art, Medicine, and Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia
Thomas Eakins, Dr. William Smith Forbes, and Oscar Wilde all endured scandalous trials in the late nineteenth century as a result of their infractions of rules governing human bodies. For Eakins, the bodies were nude and female, for Forbes they were dead and black, and for Wilde, young and male. Although Wilde’s trial took place in London’s Old Bailey, Forbes’ in the courts of Philadelphia, and Eakins’ in the less litigious arenas of workplace and home, all three men were front-page news in …
Author
Amy Werbel
PublisherYale University Press
Copyright© 2007 by Amy B. Werbel
Related print edition pages: pp.126-149
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00168.008
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Chapter subject tags:Eakins, Thomas, 1844-1916Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine ArtsScandals in artWilde, Oscar, 1854-1900Forbes, W. S. (William Smith)Nudity in art

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LocationHonolulu Academy of Arts
https://honolulumuseum.org/collections/35327/
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Creator nationality/cultureAmerican
Creator rolePainter
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LocationMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York
http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/10828
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Creator nationality/cultureAmerican
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MaterialsOil on canvas
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https://philamuseum.org/collection/object/299524?
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Creator rolePainter
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MaterialsOil on canvas
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https://www.slam.org/collection/objects/36767/
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http://accessaddison.andover.edu/Obj1516
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LocationPhiladelphia Museum of Art
https://philamuseum.org/collection/object/42507?
Accession number1929-184-27
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Creator nationality/cultureAmerican
Creator rolePainter
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Object typePainting
MaterialsOil on canvas
Dimensions27 3/8 x 36 3/8 in. (69.5 x 92.4 cm)
LocationAmon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas
http://www.cartermuseum.org/artworks/491
Accession number1990.19.1
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Creator nameEakins, Thomas
Creator nationality/cultureAmerican
Creator rolePainter
Creation date1889
Object typePainting
MaterialsOil on canvas
LocationUniversity of Pennsylvania Art Collection, Philadelphia
http://artcollection.upenn.edu/collection/art/10/the-agnew-clinic/
Accession number1889.0001
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Creator nameBellows, George Wesley
Creator nationality/cultureAmerican
Creator rolePainter
Creation date1909
Object typePainting
MaterialsOil on canvas
Dimensions45 1/4 x 63 1/8 in. (114.9 x 160.3 cm)
LocationNational Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/Collection/art-object-page.30667.html
Accession number1944.13.1
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http://artcollection.upenn.edu/collection/art/10/the-agnew-clinic/
Accession number1889.0001
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http://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/52922
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http://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/42491.html?mulR=2049023690|1
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MaterialsOil on canvas
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LocationNew York Public Library, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/6ca557ed-9597-5dcd-e040-e00a18065af4
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https://emuseum.hydecollection.org/objects/18/portrait-of-henry-o-tanner
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Creator rolePainter
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MaterialsOil on canvas
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http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/61428
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Creator rolePainter
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MaterialsOil on canvas
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LocationMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York
http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/10819
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Posted by:John Carlson
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Creator rolePainter
Creation datec. 1878
Object typePainting
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Dimensions9 1/2 x 12 1/4 in. (24.1 x 31.1 cm)
LocationTerra Foundation for American Art, Chicago
https://collection.terraamericanart.org/objects/232/weary
Accession number1992.41
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