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Beaux began attending the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1876, then under the dynamic influence of Thomas Eakins, whose great work The Gross Clinic had " horrified Philadelphia Exhibition-goers as a gory spectacle " at the Centennial Exhibition of 1876.
In 1889 he became the subject of the largest painting ever made by the Philadelphia artist Thomas Eakins, called The Agnew Clinic, in which he is shown conducting a mastectomy operation before a gallery of students and doctors.
* Paintings of Thomas Eakins, a group of rowing scenes, first and most famous is Max Schmitt in a Single Scull ( 1871 )
In 1886 Thomas Eakins was famously dismissed from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art for removing the loincloth from a male model in a mixed classroom.
During 1884, the painter Thomas Eakins worked as one of his assistants, to learn more about the application of photography to the study of human and animal motion.
Charles Burchfield, whom Hopper admired and whom he was compared to, said of Hopper, “ he achieves such a complete verity that you can read into his interpretations of houses and conceptions of New York life any human implications you wish .” He also attributed Hopper ’ s success to his “ bold individualism … In him we have regained that sturdy American independence which Thomas Eakins gave us, but which for a time was lost .” Hopper considered this a high compliment since he considered Eakins the greatest American painter.
In January 2007 the University sold Thomas Eakins ' painting The Gross Clinic, which depicts a surgery that took place at the school, for $ 68 million, to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, in association with the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
* Billy Smith ( painting ), an 1898 Thomas Eakins painting depicting Philadelphia boxer Billy Smith fighting Tim Callahan
Inspired by the model of Thomas Eakins and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Ozols founded the New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts in 1978 to gather together artists and aspiring artists and to teach Classical techniques, stressing working from life.
Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins ( July 25, 1844 – June 25, 1916 ) was an American realist painter, photographer, sculptor, and fine arts educator.
Thomas Eakins observed his father at work and by twelve demonstrated skill in precise line drawing, perspective, and the use of a grid to lay out a careful design, skills he later applied to his art.
' Lincoln and Grant ', bronze sculptures by William Rudolf O ' Donovan ( men ) & Thomas Eakins ( horses ), 1893-1894, Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, New York City
Photograph by Thomas Eakins. Eakins has been credited with having " introduced the camera to the American art studio ".
He taught hundreds of students, among them his future wife Susan Macdowell, African-American painter Henry Ossawa Tanner, and Thomas Anshutz, who taught, in turn, Robert Henri, George Luks, John Sloan, and Everett Shinn, future members of the Ashcan School, and other realists and artistic heirs to Eakins ' philosophy.
On November 11, 2006 the Board of Trustees at Thomas Jefferson University agreed to sell The Gross Clinic to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D. C., and the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas for a record $ 68, 000, 000, the highest price for an Eakins painting as well as a record price for an individual American-made portrait.
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