Thomas Eakins
Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins
American
Thomas Eakins was a notable American painter from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. - AsNotedIn
Thomas Eakins was a notable American painter from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. - AsNotedIn
| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
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| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
| 1844/07/25 | Caroline Cowperthwait Eakins, the wife of Benjamin Eakins, a writing master, gives birth to their first child, Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins, at 4 Carrollton Square in Philadelphia. | Born | Thomas Eakins's Birthday | ||||
| 1857/00/00 | The Eakins family moves into a new home built for them on Mount Vernon Street in a new middle-class neighborhood at the edge of the Philadelphia's urban center. | Home | Thomas Eakins House | Philadelphia, PA | |||
| 1866/09/00 | A well-trained draftsman, Thomas Eakins travels to Paris to study to become an artist. Although, he has never tried painting, Eakins studies with Jean-Leon Gerome at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. | Education | Palais des Etudes, Ecole des Beaux-Arts | Paris | |||
| 1869/00/00 | Eakins studies in the private atelier of portrait painter Leon Bonnat. Bonnat encourages Eakins to go to Spain to see Spanish paintings. | Education | Thomas Eakins' Spanish Sojourn | ||||
| 1869/12/00 | Let us ever divide things up so as to get as strong a start as possible. This is the way I think The Tapestry Weaver was painted, the finest piece of painting I have ever seen. - Thomas Eakins' notebook | Education | The Spinners, or the Fable of Arachne (painting) | Museo del Prado, Madrid | Madrid | Thomas Eakins' Spanish Sojourn | |
| 1869/12/00 | In Titian's picture the 'rain' on Danae and the thigh of the female show cracking in the light areas, but the shadows, which are very dark and strongly colored, do not show any at all... - Thomas Eakins' notebook | Education | Danae and the Shower of Gold (painting) | Museo del Prado, Madrid | Madrid | Thomas Eakins' Spanish Sojourn | |
| 1870/01/00 | After, Thomas Eakins spends the winter in Seville, Spain. | Vacation | Seville, ES-AN | Andalusia, ES | Thomas Eakins' Spanish Sojourn | ||
| 1870/07/04 | Thomas Eakins returns home to Mount Vernon Street. | Life | Thomas Eakins House | Philadelphia, PA | |||
| 1871/00/00 | Max Schmitt in a Single Scull - created | Painter | The Champion Single Sculls | ||||
| 1874/00/00 | Thomas Eakins' father, Benjamin has a studio space made for him in the newly constructed fourth floor of their Mount Vernon Street home. | Artist | Thomas Eakins House | Philadelphia, PA | |||
| 1875/00/00 | Eakins paints a portrait of Dr Samuel D Gross for the Centennial Expo. "I have just got a new picture blocked in and it is far better than anything I have ever done. As I spoil things less and less in finishing I have the greatest hopes for this one." | Artist | The Gross Clinic (painting) | Thomas Eakins House | Philadelphia, PA | ||
| 1876/05/00 | Thomas Eakins returns to the Pennsylvania Academy to teach as a volunteer. | Work | Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts | Philadelphia, PA | |||
| 1876/10/00 | Rejected by the Committee of Selection to be displayed in the Fine Arts Section of the Centennial Exhibitio, Thomas Eakins' "The Gross Clinic" is hung in the US Army Post Hospital Exhibit. | Artist | The Gross Clinic (painting) | Centennial Exposition | |||
| 1878/00/00 | Thomas Eakins becomes a salaried professor at the Pennsylvania Academy. | Work | Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts | Philadelphia, PA | |||
| 1879/00/00 | Thomas Eakins paints "The Fairman Rogers Four-in-Hand" using photographs of horses to precisely render their movements, 1879-1880. | Artist | The Fairman Rogers Four-in-Hand (painting) | Invention Of Photography | |||
| 1879/09/00 | Fairman Rogers host Thomas Eakins in Newport, Rhode Island. | Guest | Fairholme, Newport RI | Newport, RI | |||
| 1882/00/00 | Thomas Eakins is made the director of the Pennsylvania Academy. | Work | Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts | Philadelphia, PA | |||
| 1886/00/00 | Eakins causes a scandal by lifting the loincloth of a male model in front of female students. After he is forced to resign from the PAFA, he will establish the Art Students' League of Philadelphia but will eventually quit teaching. | Life | Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts | Philadelphia, PA | |||
| 1887/07/00 | Eakins is ostracized from Philadelphia society and spends the summer on a 'rest cure' at a ranch in the Dakota Badlands. | Life | |||||
| 1888/00/00 | Talcott Williams brings Thomas Eakins to Camden to meet Walt Whitman. Whitman finds the artist's lack of social graces refreshing and offers to sit for him. "Mr Eakins, the portrait painter, of Philadelphia, is going to have a whack at me." WW | Guest | Walt Whitman House | Camden, NJ | |||
| 1889/00/00 | The Agnew Clinic - created | Painter | The Agnew Clinic | ||||
| 1889/00/00 | Thomas Eakins paints a black-and-white version of The Agnew Clinic to create a photogravure, the photogravure is currently at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, but not on display. | Painter | The Agnew Clinic | ||||
| 1889/05/31 | Thomas Eakins attends Whitman's 70th birthday party celebrated with a several course dinner called "The Feast of Reason" followed by "The Flow of Soul", a program of testimonial speeches and readings. | Guest | Walt Whitman's 70th Birthday Dinner | ||||
| 1892/03/28 | Thomas Eakins and protege, Samuel Murray, make Walt Whitman's death mask and a plaster cast of the poet's hand. At least three death masks survive, including one at the Princeton University Library. | Artist | Walt Whitman Death Mask (sculpture) | Walt Whitman House | Camden, NJ | Death of Walt Whitman | |
| 1893/07/00 | Eakins' "The Agnew Clinic" is exhibited at the World's Columbian Exposition. | Painter | The Agnew Clinic | Museum of Science and Industry | Chicago | World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago | |
| 1895/00/00 | Sam Murray and Tom Eakins use Walt Whitman's death mask as a model when carving "Moses", one of ten biblical prophets commissioned for the Witherspoon building in Philadelphia. | Artist | Walt Whitman Death Mask (sculpture) | Witherspoon Building | Philadelphia, PA | Death of Walt Whitman | |
| 1916/06/25 | Thomas Eakins dies of heart failure shortly before one o'clock in the afternoon on a Sunday in June. At his request, there will be no funeral or flowers. Eakins will be cremated and his ashes will be kept in the family house. | Died | Thomas Eakins House | Philadelphia, PA | |||
| 1939/00/00 | After the death of Thomas Eakins's wife Susan in late December 1938, her ashes and his are buried in the family plot at The Woodlands in Philadelphia. | In Memoriam | The Woodlands | Philadelphia, PA |
4 Creative Works by Thomas Eakins »
| Title | Type | Association | Y/M/D | Moniker |
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| Title | Type | Association | Y/M/D | Moniker |
| The Champion Single Sculls | Painter | Painting | 1871/00/00 |
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| The Gross Clinic (painting) | Artist | Painting | 1875/00/00 | |
| The Fairman Rogers Four-in-Hand (painting) | Artist | Painting | 1879/00/00 | |
| The Agnew Clinic | Painter | Painting | 1889/00/00 |
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