Thomas Eakins Prints
1844–1916 · American · Realism
Wall art by Thomas Eakins, restored in-house and printed to order on heavyweight matte fine-art paper.
18 prints · printed to order on heavyweight matte paper · framed or unframed
About Thomas Eakins
Thomas Eakins was born in Philadelphia in July 1844 and, apart from three years of study in Paris under Jean-Léon Gérôme and a winter in Spain, spent his whole life there. He came home in 1870 determined to paint modern American life with the rigour of a scientist: he studied anatomy at Jefferson Medical College, took up photography, worked out his rowing pictures in perspective drawings, and in 1875 painted The Gross Clinic, the surgeon Samuel Gross lecturing over an open operation, which the Centennial Exhibition jury found too bloody for the art gallery. As a teacher at the Pennsylvania Academy he insisted on the nude model for men and women alike and was forced to resign in 1886. His later portraits of friends, musicians and scientists, unflattering and still, found few buyers, and he died in Philadelphia in June 1916 with his reputation only beginning. Eakins's sculls on the Schuylkill and his quiet, exact portraits print as calm, serious pictures for a study or hallway.