Thomas Eakins’s “Swimming,” an acclaimed and scandalous picture, was displayed in the first lady’s hotel bedroom in November ...

It is difficult to imagine an artistic method more likely to drain a painting of all content beyond the purely physical and mechanical. And yet Eakins, surely America’s most prosaic painter of facts ...

Read about the debate surrounding Thomas Eakins’ paintings and his sexuality Jonathan Katz Study for The Swimming Hole. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution ...

One of Eakins’ most famous paintings, and also described the most as ‘harrowing to watch’ is ‘The Gross Clinic’. The painting shows Dr. Samuel Gross, a surgeon, performing surgery before ...

In the meantime, works by that century’s brashest master, the painter Thomas Eakins, are shuffling around the museum. Of the Art Museum’s nearly 100 paintings by Eakins, only one is currently ...

The great realist painter ignored scandal to depict his nation’s outdoor life on his own terms. By Michael Prodger Thomas Eakins (1844-1916) was America’s great realist, both on canvas and in the way ...

To settle its wager after the Chiefs won the Super Bowl, the Philadelphia Museum of Art will loan the Nelson-Atkins the 1875 painting "Sailing" by Thomas Eakins. The Philadelphia painter is widely ...