Susan Eakins letter

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Susan Eakins letter

1929 July 4

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A letter to Mr. C. [Charles] W. Cranmer, a friend of Thomas Eakins, which responds to Cranmer's query regarding Thomas Eakins' portrait of Professor Barker, and places in context the two photographs of Thomas Eakins enclosed. One of the photos was donated with the letter.

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Eakins, Thomas, 1844-1916

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Realist painter Thomas Eakins was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1844. He was encouraged by his parents to develop his talent in art, and in 1862 he entered the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Also during this period Eakins developed an interest in anatomy, revealed later in the realistically detailed Gross Clinic, painted in 1875. In 1866 he moved to Paris, where he studied painting with Jean-Léon Gérôme at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts for three years, and briefly with sculptor Augustin-...

Eakins, Susan Macdowell

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Painter; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Lived 1851-1938. Full name Susan Hannah Macdowell Eakins. Married to painter, photographer Thomas Eakins. From the description of Susan Eakins letter, 1929 July 4. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122545833 ...

Cranmer, C. W. Charles W.

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