Thomas Eakins: pictured lives: throughout his career, Eakins chose to paint individuals whose mastery of some skill, art or specialized knowledge defined their way of life. Opening in New York this month, a retrospective containing over 200 paintings and photographs reveals his own high achievement - Critical Essay

Art in America, June, 2002 by Carter Ratcliff

(7.) H. Barbara Weinberg, "Studies in Paris and Spain," Thomas Eakins, p. 389, n. 54.

(8.) Jules Laforgue, "Impressionism: The Eye and the Poet," trans. William Jay Smith, Art News, May 1946, pp. 43-44.

(9.) Thomas Eakins, letter to Benjamin Eakins, Mar. 6, 1868, quoted in Darrel Sewell, "Thomas Eakins and American Art, Thomas Eakins, p. xvii.

"Thomas Eakins: American Realist" opened at the Philadelphia Museum of Art [Oct. 4, 2001-Jan. 6, 2002] before traveling to the Musee d'Orsay, Paris [Feb. 5-May 12], and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, where it opens on June 18 and remains on view until Sept. 15. Accompanying the show is a 446-page catalogue that contains essays by Darrel Sewell, Amy B. Werbel, H. Barbara Weinberg, Marc Simpson, Elizabeth Milroy, Kathleen A. Foster, Mark Tucker and Nica Gutman, W. Douglass Paschall, Carol Troyen, and William Innes Homer.

Author: Carter Ratcliff is a New York-based poet and critic whose most recent book is Out of the Box: The Reinvention of Art, 1965-1975 (Allworth Press).