Thomas Eakins, Portrait of Dr. Samuel D. Gross (The Gross Clinic), Oil ... Was Eakins merely a minor master of scientific realism, clinging in a provincial backwater to techniques that had been ...

the unalloyed realism of Eakins’ art cost him commissions, prizes and visibility. His famous masterpiece “The Gross Clinic,” a grisly if monumental portrait of Dr. Samuel David Gross ...

I had the distinct pleasure of reviewing the striking realism of Eakins work for the New York Times in 2002, when these two paintings and more than 150 of Eakins’ other pieces were on display at ...

One of America’s most impressive art collections is spread across three world-class institutions: the Philadelphia Museum of ...

Nevertheless, he was unrepentant in his particular realism ... noted that Eakins was “very loose sexually – went to France, where there are no morals, and the french morality suited him to a T”. It ...

Of the Art Museum’s nearly 100 paintings by Eakins ... this biblical scene come from the brush of Eakins, the hard-nosed spokesman of American realism? It’s a sore thumb in his oeuvre of ...