Portrait: The Life of Thomas Eakins

Thomas Eakins painted two worlds in nineteenth-century America: one sure of its values--statesmen, scientists, and philosophers--and one that offered an uncertain vision of the changing times. From the shadow of his mother's depression to his fraught identity as a married man with homosexual inclinations, to his failure to sell his work in his day, Eakins was a man marked equally by passion and melancholy.In this enlightening examination of Eakins's defining artistic moments and key relationships--with wife Susan MacDowell, with subject and friend Walt Whitman, and with several leading scientists of his time--William S. McFeely sheds light on the motivations and desires of a founder of American realism.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 11/17/2007
ISBN: 9780393330687
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.88lbs
Size: 9.22h x 6.12w x 0.70d