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TitleWilliam Rush and His Model

Creator nameEakins, Thomas

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1907–1908

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions35 1/2 x 47 1/2 in.

LocationHonolulu Academy of Arts

https://honolulumuseum.org/collections/35327/

Accession number548.1

SubjectsArtists and models in artPainting, American--20th centuryFemale nude in artRealism in art

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Chapter 4: William Rush Carving His Allegorical Figure of the Schuylkill River

Elizabeth Johns

Thomas Eakins: The Heroism of Modern Life

ABOUT THE same time that Eakins began his portrait of Dr. Gross, he made preliminary sketches for William Rush Carving His Allegorical Figure of the Schuylkill River...

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Elizabeth Johns

PublisherPrinceton University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.82-114

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00346.4

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-23372&redirecttoanchor=14700

Chapter subject tags:Eakins, Thomas, 1844-1916Rush, William, 1756-1833Artists' modelsPainting--Technique

5. The Capitoline and Vatican Sculpture Galleries: Temples of Art and the Religion of Beauty

William L. Vance

America’s Rome: Volume I—Classical Rome

John Singer Sargent’s Roman sketchbook of 1869 contains—besides a pale gray wash of the Colosseum and a drawing of the white oxen of the Campagna—studies by the sixteen-year-old artist of the Laocoon and the Apollo Belvedere in the Vatican ...

Author

William L. Vance

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.182-392

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00010.010

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Chapter subject tags:Sargent, John Singer, 1856-1925Painting, American--19th centuryArtists--Travel--Italy--RomeJames, Henry, 1843-1916Winckelmann, Johann Joachim, 1717-1768West, Benjamin, 1738-1820Laocoön (Legendary character)Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892American literature--19th centuryGreenough, Horatio, 1805-1852Sculpture, American--19th centuryRome (Italy)--In literatureSculpture, Roman

4. Art, Pornography, Freak Shows, Medical Pictures, and the Guilty Pleasures of Photography in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia

Amy Werbel

Thomas Eakins: Art, Medicine, and Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia

Thomas Eakins’ artistic methods never have been the subject of much debate. The artist created preparatory drawings, photographic studies, oil sketches, and modellos that survive in preparation for finished works, and he wrote a lengthy manuscript on perspective that carefully explains his approach to the formulation of pictorial space. The surfaces of his finished works rarely hide the marks of brushes, palette knives, carving tools, pencil, or wash. In addition to the self-evident process in …

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Amy Werbel

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.86-125

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00168.007

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Chapter subject tags:Eakins, Thomas, 1844-1916Nudity in artPhotography--History--19th CenturyPainting, American--19th century

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