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greylocknews (Free subscription) | 09/30/2008
... George Washington (The Constable-Hamilton Portrait); Portrait of Professor Benjamin H. Rand by Thomas Eakins; Spring, by Winslow Homer; and Marsden Hartley's Hall of the Mountain King. A dynamic temporary exhibitions program will complement the holdings of the permanent collection and exemplify the diversity of American artists. Workman, a 30-year museum professional with a comprehensive...
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The mental_floss Blogs (Free subscription) | 09/17/2008
... artists alive. By her mid-30s, she was earning approximately $500 per portrait, comparable to Thomas Eakins’ rate. She was described by William Merritt Chase as, “not only the greatest living woman painter, but the best that has ever lived. Miss Beaux has done away entirely with [gender] in art.” Four years later, she was honored by Eleanor Roosevelt as “the American woman who had...
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lines and colors :: a blog about drawing, painting, illustration, comics, webcomics, cartoons, concept art and other visual arts (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
... on display in the beautiful Furness building . (Images above: Cecilia Beaux , George Inness , Thomas Eakins , Childe Hassam , John White Alexander , Charles Courtney Curran , John Sloan . Links are to my previous posts on those artists.)
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lines and colors :: a blog about drawing, painting, illustration, comics, webcomics, cartoons, concept art and other visual arts (Free subscription) | 09/01/2008
... center of the time, perhaps because of the traditional values emphasized by the dominant figure of Thomas Eakins and his followers at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Instead, New Hope, Pennsylvania, a small town in nearby Bucks County, became the focal point for the group painters who now known as the Pennsylvania Impressionists, as I mentioned in my article on New Hope,...
