Thomas Eakins
Thomas Eakins ranks among the defining American realists of the nineteenth century, known for portraits, rowing and sporting scenes, medical subjects, and quiet domestic interiors rendered with close observation. His paintings and photographs alike favour disciplined drawing, careful anatomy, and unidealised daylight over narrative flourish. This archive gathers sixty of his works, chiefly platinum and albumen silver prints alongside oil on canvas, watercolour, and gelatin silver print, with sheets dated 1869 to 1901 and impressions up to that year. Titles here range from Arcadia and The Gross Clinic to The Chess Players and Cowboy Singing, tracing a career equally at home in painting and photography.
60 works in the collection · All public domain (CC0)
Carmelita Requena
1869 · Oil on canvas
Nude Men in the Garden
1870s · Platinum print
The Champion Single Sculls (Max Schmitt in a Single Scull)
1871 · Oil on canvas
Pushing for Rail
1874 · Oil on canvas
The Gross Clinic
1875–76 · India ink and watercolor on cardboard
Perspective Drawing for the "Chess Players"
1875–76 · Graphite and ink on cardboard
The Chess Players
1876 · Oil on wood
Young Girl Meditating
1877 · Watercolor and gouache on off-white wove paper
The Dancing Lesson
1878 · Watercolor on off-white wove paper
William J. Crowell with Ella
1880 · Albumen silver print
Maggie Eakins with "Harry"
1880 · Albumen silver print
Dog Harry and Another Setter
1880s · Platinum print
Mr. MacDowell
1880s · Albumen silver print
Mrs. Louis Kentin in Empire Dress
1880s · Albumen silver print
Thomas Eakins in Swim Suit
1880s · Albumen silver print
Edmund Quinn Fencing
1880s · Gelatin silver print
Mary Macdowell
1880s · Platinum print
Elizabeth MacDowell Kenton
1880s · Albumen silver print
Woman in White Laced-bodice Dress in Studio of Thomas Eakins
1880s · Platinum print
Standing Male Nude with Pipes
1880s · Platinum print
Two Pupils in Greek Dress (1880s)
1880s · Platinum print
Woman Playing Cello
1880s · Platinum print
Frank MacDowell
1880s · Glass positive
Man on a Ladder with Disected Horse's Leg
1880s · Glass negative
Margaret Eakins
1880s · Glass positive
Female portrait
1880s · Glass positive
Man Walking, "Stroboscopic" Photograph
1880s, printed 1930s–40s · Gelatin silver print
Mrs. Eakins or Her Sister Doll
1880s–90s · Albumen silver print
William H. Macdowell and Margaret Eakins in Saltville (or Clinch Mountain), Virginia
1880–82 · Platinum print
Homespun
1881 · Watercolor on off-white wove paper
The Pathetic Song
1881 · Watercolor on off-white wove paper
Taking Up the Net
1881 · Watercolor on off-white wove paper
The Writing Master
1882 · Oil on canvas
Cornfield in Back of the Barn
1883 · Albumen silver print
Two Boys Playing at the Creek, July 4, 1883
1883 · Albumen silver print
Three Children and a Dog Playing in the Creek, July 4, 1883 (1883, Met-Objekt 2546)
1883 · Albumen silver print
Three Children and a Dog Playing in the Creek, July 4, 1883 (1883, Met-Objekt 2547)
1883 · Albumen silver print
Three Boys Wading in a Creek
1883 · Platinum print
Two Pupils in Greek Dress (1883)
1883 · Platinum print
Katie Crowell in Avondale, Pennsylvania
1887 · Albumen silver print
Self-Portrait (1889–94)
1889–94 · Platinum print
Frances Crowell with Unidentified Boy, Katie, James, and Frances Crowell
1890 · Platinum print
Mrs. Mary Arthur
1900 · Oil on canvas
The Thinker: Portrait of Louis N. Kenton
1900 · Oil on canvas
Signora Gomez d'Arza
1901–2 · Oil on canvas
John Biglin in a Single Scull
ca. 1873 · Watercolor on off-white wove paper
Self-Portrait (ca. 1880)
ca. 1880 · Platinum print
Arcadia
ca. 1883 · Oil on canvas
Nude, Playing Pipes
ca. 1883 · Platinum print
Thomas Eakins and John Laurie Wallace on a Beach
ca. 1883 · Platinum print
Profile of a Seated African American Man
ca. 1884 · Gelatin silver print
The Artist's Wife and His Setter Dog
ca. 1884–89 · Oil on canvas
Betty Reynolds with Doll on Lap
ca. 1885 · Gelatin silver print
Bill Duckett Nude, at the Art Students’ League of Philadelphia
ca. 1889 · Platinum print
Female Nude from the Back
ca. 1889 · Platinum print
Cowboy Singing
ca. 1892 · Watercolor and graphite on off-white wove paper
Horse Billy and Two Crowell Children at Avondale, Pennsylvania
ca. 1892 · Platinum print
James MacAlister (Sketch)
ca. 1895 · Oil on canvas
Four Cats
ca. 1895 · Platinum print
Amelia Van Buren
late 1880s · Platinum print