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The full range of Thomas Eakins's art - lively sporting scenes, psychologically incisive portraits, dramatic historical tableaux, sculptures and innovative photographs - is explored in revealing detail in this critical biography. This edition also includes an appendix and bibliography.
"The "definitive biography of Eakins" - New Yorker "Homer's book... has an immediacy and a vividness that are rare in scholarly publications, and it makes the reader feel that he or she has actually met the painter and watched him at work." - Choice "Thomas Eakins: His Art and Life is... clearly and economically written, handsomely produced, and very well illustrated.... This is an excellent, thorough, balanced, and... timely introduction to Eakins." - New York Times Book Review
William Innes Homer is the H. Rodney Sharp Professor Emeritus and former Chairman of the Department of Art History at the University of Delaware. He was a consultant and catalogue author for the Philadelphia Museum of Art's 2001-2 exhibition "Thomas Eakins" and is currently preparing an edition of Eakins's complete letters.
"The "definitive biography of Eakins" - New Yorker "Homer's book... has an immediacy and a vividness that are rare in scholarly publications, and it makes the reader feel that he or she has actually met the painter and watched him at work." - Choice "Thomas Eakins: His Art and Life is... clearly and economically written, handsomely produced, and very well illustrated.... This is an excellent, thorough, balanced, and... timely introduction to Eakins." - New York Times Book Review
William Innes Homer is the H. Rodney Sharp Professor Emeritus and former Chairman of the Department of Art History at the University of Delaware. He was a consultant and catalogue author for the Philadelphia Museum of Art's 2001-2 exhibition "Thomas Eakins" and is currently preparing an edition of Eakins's complete letters.