Swimming (The Swimming Hole)
1885 · Oil on canvas · Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth
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This print

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 exhibition-poster edition shows the whole work beneath original typography set in-house. 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
- Exhibition poster of a Realism painting
- Era
- 19th century (1885)
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Palette
- cream & beige
- Mood
- intimate
- Rooms
- bathroom, study or library, living room, dining room, hallway or entryway
- Good gift for
- housewarming, art lovers
Size. Prints at 12×18, 16×24, 24×36 in — 12×18 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 16×24 above a desk, console or in a hallway; 24×36 as the statement piece above a sofa or bed.
Framing. Exhibition posters sit best in a slim black frame with no mat — the typeset margin is the mat.
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
A fine-art print
The same artwork as a clean fine-art print — the image shown large with a minimal caption.


































