Research Catalog

Title

Portrait : the life of Thomas Eakins / William S. McFeely.

Author

McFeely, William S.

Publication

New York : W.W. Norton, c2007.

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Additional Authors

Eakins, Thomas, 1844-1916

Description

x, 237 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.); 25 cm.

Summary

"Thomas Eakins, a native of Philadelphia, painted two worlds: one sure of its values - the surgeons, inventors, musicians, and athletes of his time - and another that reflected his own struggles with depression and sexual identity. In this account of those struggles, William S. McFeely sheds new light on Eakins's genius and on the evocative melancholy of his portraits, particularly of women, which include many of his remarkable wife, Susan Macdowell Eakins. Those deeply perceptive paintings may be the greatest expressions of his art." "One of America's leading historians, McFeely has long been an interpreter of nineteenth-century American writing. An aspect of this narrative is how he brings the painter into the company of Thoreau, Melville, and Whitman, with whom Eakins formed a deep friendship."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Eakins, Thomas, 1844-1916
• Painters > United States > Biography

Genre/Form

Biographies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-221) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

An artist's father -- Central High School -- Four uneventful years? -- Êcole des Beaux-Arts -- Luxembourg Garden -- Spain -- Philadelphia -- Workshop -- Painter and scientist -- Sue -- Sculpture and photography -- Swimming -- The academy -- Dakota -- Mickle Street -- Ella -- Mount Desert -- Samuel Murray -- A painter at work -- Mrs. Edith Mahon.

ISBN

• 0393050653 (hardcover)
• 9780393050653 (hardcover)

LCCN

• ^^2006021283
• 9780393050653

OCLC

• 70265471
• SCSB-10019624

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library