Swimming (The Swimming Hole)
1885 · Oil on canvas · Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth
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About this work
- Artist
- Thomas Eakins (1844–1916)
- Year
- 1885
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 69.5 × 92.4 cm
- Collection
- Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth
- Movement
- Realism
Six young men swim and sun themselves on a stone pier at Dove Lake, a pond near Philadelphia, with Eakins himself swimming in the lower right and his red setter Harry beside him. The figures were posed from Eakins's own photographs of his students, and the pyramid of bodies recalls classical sculpture. Edward Coates, a director of the Pennsylvania Academy, commissioned it and then declined it. The Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth bought it in 1990.
This full-bleed edition prints the work edge to edge from a high-resolution scan of the original, very slightly cropped (a few percent at most) to fit the sheet. The gallery edition shows the whole work, uncropped. The original is in the public domain.
Where it works
A sunlit study of swimmers in green and gold for a bathroom, study or pool house, framed in dark wood. It suits sage or warm white walls. Not for children's rooms.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Realism painting
- Era
- 19th century (1885)
- Orientation
- Landscape
- Mood
- intimate
- Rooms
- bathroom, study or library, living room, dining room
- Good gift for
- housewarming, art lovers
Size. Prints at 16×12, 24×18, 32×24 in — 16×12 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 24×18 above a console or sideboard; 32×24 as the statement piece above a sofa or headboard.
Framing. Printed edge to edge: a slim black or dark wood frame right to the image, or let the canvas wrap do the framing. Also available gallery-wrapped on canvas, ready to hang with no frame.
Pairing. Pairs as a set of three with other famous painting prints (10% off three or more).
Details & materials
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About this design
The Madten promise
An exhibition poster
The same artwork as a gallery exhibition poster — title, artist & date typeset beneath the image on a soft ground.
A fine-art print
The same artwork as a clean fine-art print — the image shown large with a minimal caption.
