Thomas Eakins that was often as tender as it was vigorous, and to have preserved for us the essence of an American life which, indeed, he did not idealize—because it seemed to him beautiful beyond the necessity of idealization. Thomas Eakins Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins (July 25, 1844 – June 25, 1916) was an American realist painter, photographer, sculptor, and fine arts educator. He is widely acknowledged to be one of the most important artists in American art history. For the length of his professional career, from the early 1870s until his health began to fail some 40 years later, Eakins worked exactingly
Eakins Press Since Katz's death in 1997, the Eakins Press Foundation continues to produce its "invaluable explorations of the American imagination" with publications including "Circus: The Photographs of Frederick W. Glasier" in 2009; Jed Perl's collection of essays on art and culture, "Magicians & Charlatans" in 2013; and "'O, Write My Name': American Portraits, Harlem Heroes" (2015), a collection of fifty portraits taken by Carl Van Vechten of extraordinary individuals from the Harlem Renaissance. Eakins Press The Eakins Press Foundation is an American publishing house based in New York established by Leslie George Katz in 1966 and named after the painter Thomas