#thomas cowperthwait eakins

[rumforall]

Cat in Eakins's Yard

Thomas Eakins, American, b. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1844–1916

[arte-e-homoerotismo]

Thomas Eakins, centro, com John Laurie Wallace à direita e um aluno desconhecido à esquerda. Década de 1880

Thomas Eakins

Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins (25 de julho de 1844 – 25 de junho de 1916) foi um pintor realista americano , fotógrafo, escultor e educador de belas artes. Ele é amplamente reconhecido como um dos mais importantes artistas americanos.

Durante toda a sua carreira profissional, do início da década de 1870 até que sua saúde começou a piorar cerca de 40 anos depois, Eakins trabalhou rigorosamente da vida, escolhendo como tema as pessoas de sua cidade natal, Filadélfia . Ele pintou várias centenas de retratos , geralmente de amigos, familiares ou pessoas proeminentes nas artes, ciências, medicina e clero. Tirados em massa , os retratos oferecem uma visão geral da vida intelectual da Filadélfia contemporânea do final do século XIX e início do século XX.

Além disso, Eakins produziu uma série de grandes pinturas que trouxeram o retrato para fora da sala de estar e para os escritórios, ruas, parques, rios, arenas e anfiteatros cirúrgicos de sua cidade. Esses locais ativos ao ar livre permitiram que ele pintasse o assunto que mais o inspirava: a figura nua ou levemente vestida em movimento. No processo, ele podia modelar as formas do corpo em plena luz do sol e criar imagens do espaço profundo utilizando seus estudos em perspectiva. Eakins se interessou profundamente pela nova fotografia em movimento , um campo no qual ele agora é visto como um inovador.

Eakins também foi um educador, e sua instrução foi uma presença altamente influente na arte americana . As dificuldades que ele encontrou como artista foram tentar pintar retratos e figuras realisticamente, pois escândalos comportamentais e sexuais truncaram seu sucesso e desafiaram sua reputação.

Eakins foi uma figura controversa cujo trabalho recebeu pouco reconhecimento durante sua vida. Desde sua morte, ele tem sido celebrado por historiadores de arte americanos como “o mais forte e profundo realista da arte americana do século XIX e início do século XX”. 

Vida pessoal e casamento

A natureza da sexualidade de Eakins e seu impacto em sua arte é uma questão de intenso debate acadêmico. Fortes evidências circunstanciais apontam para a discussão durante a vida de Eakins de que ele tinha tendências homossexuais, e há pouca dúvida de que ele era atraído por homens, como evidenciado em sua fotografia e três pinturas principais onde as nádegas masculinas são um ponto focal: The Gross Clinic , Salutat e The Swimming Hole . A última, na qual Eakins aparece, é cada vez mais vista como sensual e autobiográfica. 

Até recentemente, os principais estudiosos de Eakins negavam persistentemente que ele fosse homossexual, e tal discussão era marginalizada. Embora ainda não haja consenso, hoje a discussão sobre o desejo homoerótico desempenha um grande papel nos estudos de Eakins. A descoberta de um grande tesouro de documentos pessoais de Eakins em 1984 também impulsionou a reavaliação de sua vida. 

Eakins conheceu Emily Sartain , filha de John Sartain , enquanto estudava na academia. O romance deles fracassou depois que Eakins se mudou para Paris para estudar, e ela o acusou de imoralidade. É provável que Eakins tenha lhe contado sobre frequentar lugares onde prostitutas se reuniam. O filho do médico de Eakins também relatou que Eakins era “muito solto sexualmente — foi para a França, onde não há moral, e a moral francesa lhe convinha perfeitamente”. 

Em 1884, aos 40 anos, Eakins se casou com Susan Hannah Macdowell , filha de um gravador da Filadélfia. Dois anos antes, a irmã de Eakins, Margaret, que atuou como sua secretária e criada pessoal, morreu de tifo. Foi sugerido que Eakins se casou para substituí-la. Macdowell tinha 25 anos quando Eakins a conheceu na Hazeltine Gallery, onde The Gross Clinic estava sendo exibido em 1875. Ao contrário de muitos, ela ficou impressionada com a pintura controversa e decidiu estudar com ele na academia, que frequentou por seis anos, adotando um estilo sóbrio e realista semelhante ao de seu professor. Macdowell foi uma aluna excepcional e vencedora do Prêmio Mary Smith pela melhor pintura de uma artista mulher matriculada. 

Durante o casamento sem filhos, ela pintou apenas esporadicamente e passou a maior parte do tempo apoiando a carreira do marido, entretendo convidados e alunos, e apoiando-o fielmente em seus momentos difíceis com a academia, mesmo quando alguns membros de sua família se alinharam contra Eakins. Ela e Eakins compartilhavam uma paixão pela fotografia, tanto como fotógrafos quanto como modelos, e a empregavam como uma ferramenta para sua arte. Ela também posou nua para muitas de suas fotos e tirou imagens dele. Ambos tinham estúdios separados em sua casa. Após a morte de Eakins em 1916, ela voltou a pintar, aumentando consideravelmente sua produção até a década de 1930, em um estilo que se tornou mais quente, solto e brilhante em tom. Ela morreu em 1938. Trinta e cinco anos após sua morte, em 1973, ela teve sua primeira exposição individual na Academia de Belas Artes da Pensilvânia. 

Nos últimos anos de sua vida, o companheiro constante de Eakins era o belo escultor Samuel Murray , que compartilhava seu interesse por boxe e ciclismo. As evidências sugerem que o relacionamento era mais importante emocionalmente para Eakins do que com sua esposa. 

Ao longo de sua vida, Eakins parece ter sido atraído por aqueles que eram mentalmente vulneráveis ​​e então se aproveitava dessas fraquezas. Vários de seus alunos terminaram suas vidas na insanidade.

Desde a década de 1990, Eakins emergiu como uma figura importante nos estudos de sexualidade na história da arte, tanto pelo homoerotismo de seus nus masculinos.

Spirits in the Material World. Thomas Eakins, center, with John Laurie Wallace at right, and an unknown student at left.

1880s

[libroazzurro]

È PIÙ SACRO VEDERE CHE CREDERE - PANICO ESTATICO E MERAVIGLIA

Solo il grande Dio Pan può guidare i perplessi e gli incerti, coloro che si affidano alle fedi astrali, ai pensieri convenzionati con il cielo, ai sentimenti regolati con le punizioni e i premi, ai destini predeterminati  e vidimati dopo essere stati barattati con il nulla, o con altre chincaglierie di plastica: il senso animale che  il dio soffia nelle orecchie nell’ora meridiana, il panico estatico che suscita nel sangue, spingono, infatti, l’uomo a quel senso morale del destino che chiama a giudicare su ciò che è bello, su quanto sia più appropriato per la meraviglia.

Nell’immagine “Arcadia”, olio su tela di Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins, realizzato nel 1883 circa, conservato presso The Metropolitan Museum of Art di New York  (foto di pubblico dominio, tramite Wikimedia Commons).

Testo di Pier Paolo Di Mino.

Ricerca iconografica di Veronica Leffe.

https://www.libroazzurro.it/index.php/note/e-piu-sacro-vedere-che-credere/348

[arinewman7]

Betty Reynolds with Doll on Lap by Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins ca. 1885 Gelatin Silver Print

[vizuart]

“Salutat,” 1898 - Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins (Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts)

[si-national-portrait-gallery]

Walt Whitman, Thomas Cowperthwaite Eakins, 1891 (printed 1979), Smithsonian: National Portrait Gallery

Size: Image: 12.6 × 9.9 cm (4 15/16 × 3 7/8") Medium: Platinum print

https://npg.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.79.67

[beyourselfchulanmaria]

The Chess Players by Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins (1844 -1916)

He was an American realist painter, photographer, sculptor, and fine arts educator. 美國現實主義畫家、攝影師、雕塑家和美術教育家 

and 

This book 

chess fundamentals now in algebraic 國際象棋基礎現在是代數 author : Jose Capablanca (José Raúl Capablanca)

《國際象棋基礎知識》專為國際象棋新手編寫 Capablanca’s Masterpiece now in Algebraic Notation  Written with the novice chess player in mind, Chess Fundamentals equips you with the essential opening, middlegame, and endgame techniques needed to advance your game. Capablanca writes with an ease of understanding that any chess player will grasp, and includes 14 full games annotated by the World Champion himself. A true mountain of knowledge, Chess Fundamentals will take you from just knowing the rules of chess to applying the principles used by the masters. 

and  Thanks for who gives a nice feedback by 2015 "Jagdev" on goodread. Based on the algebraic, but otherwise unmodified, edition of the book. Many consider this to be the master text on beginner's chess. The book is simple, clear and easy to follow, though you'll need a chessboard to play out all the sequences yourself to fully appreciate what's being discussed.  If you're new to the game and want to get a course on the fundamentals of playing good chess, then here it is. A one on one lesson from maybe the greatest of all time. Capablanca even makes a gesture of modesty by graciously including examples from games he lost (which were very few). He teaches the logic and principles of good chess play, and provides good examples to illustrate concepts. Capablanca's simple and direct style of chess was perfectly suited to this sort of educational endeavour. You couldn't ask for a better teacher.  The book was published in 1921, the year he became world champion. At that point in time he had been undefeated for almost 6 years, and it would be another 3 years before he lost a single game. Capablanca was at the peak of his powers, and yet with this book you can follow any of his games and feel as though you would have made the very same moves he did. Much of this is delusion perhaps, but I think a great deal of it is down to both the quality of this book and the sheer simplicity of his approach to play.  If you can already play to a reasonable standard, then this book may not feel so useful. However, I think almost any chess lover would find value reading Capablanca's thoughts on the subject. Almost a century later, this is still the gold standard in chess literature.

[books0977]

Miss Alice Kurtz (1903). Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins (American, 1844-1916). Oil on canvas. Fogg Museum.

Thomas Eakins painted during a period in American history when the roles of men and women were at once rigidly prescribed and actively questioned; he explored questions of gender throughout his career. In this portrait, Eakins disavowed period notions of the ideal female body to emphasize the sitter’s inner life. With her muscular neck and shoulders, dreamy, unfocused gaze, and melancholic air, Alice Kurtz is not merely an object for the male gaze, but a psychologically complex, self-possessed personality.

[harvard-art-museums-drawings]

Head and Shoulders of a Man, Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins, 19th-20th century, Harvard Art Museums: Drawings

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Director's Acquisition Fund and purchase through the generosity of an anonymous donor Size: 15.5 x 13.4 cm (6 1/8 x 5 1/4 in.) Medium: Black chalk on off-white laid paper

https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/305757

[sellhousefast323]

9 Top-Rated Attractions & Things to Do in Roanoke, VA

Roanoke is a popular tourist destination, whether you're a culture vulture seeking out unique museums and attractions or an active vacationer seeking out outdoor adventures. The city is a four-season destination for avid hikers, rock climbers, recreational boaters, and sportfishing enthusiasts, and is located in the picturesque Roanoke Valley in southwestern Virginia. In-town greenways, cultural diversions, diverse dining, and unique shopping discoveries await urban explorers. Whatever your vacation style, keep our list of Roanoke's top attractions and things to do handy.

1. Mill Mountain Park & the Roanoke Star

Mill Mountain Park, which is home to the famous Roanoke Star (also known as the Mill Mountain Star), has more than 10 miles of multi-use trails (hiking, walking, and biking) where visitors can experience the region's all-season natural beauty.

Take the Mill Mountain Star Trail, a 3.5-mile round-trip from the base trail, to the summit of Mill Mountain, the city's highest point at 1,703 feet, for a moderately challenging hike. Hikers are rewarded with two scenic overlooks atop the mountain after climbing 838 feet in elevation. The Star Trail parking lot, located just off Riverland Road SE at the Star/Wood Thrush Connector, has plenty of free parking and clear signage.

Connect with the short Watchtower Trail for the best panoramic views and photos right at the base of the Roanoke Star, one of Virginia's most famous landmarks. The National Register of Historic Landmarks has listed this unusual landmark, which was built in 1949 as a temporary Christmas decoration by the local merchants association. The giant star, at 89 feet in height, is America's largest star. It is visible from up to 60 miles away and is lit every evening until midnight.

Hikers are welcome to bring their leashed dogs, and there are picnic tables, restrooms, and water along the Mill Mountain Spur Trail en route to the Discovery Center, a naturalist centre with exhibits on the park, local wildlife, and trail maps. Mill Mountain Zoo, a small but lively enclave with local critters such as the Indian crested porcupine, red wolf, and yellow-spotted side-necked turtle, will appeal to children of all ages.

2. Carvins Cove Natural Reserve

Carvins Cove Natural Reserve, with more than 60 miles of trails surrounding an 800-acre reservoir, is known among locals as a haven for off-road mountain biking. The reserve, which is the second largest municipal park in the United States, spans nearly 13,000 acres, the majority of which is protected by the state of Virginia's largest conservation easement.

Trail maps are available for purchase, and bikers can get local advice on which trails are best suited for their experience level at Just The Right Gear, a cycling shop near the Bennett Springs parking lot (one of three reserve entrances — the others are Marina and Timber View). There are also rentals of high-end bikes and gear.

On the Easy Street, Kit & Kaboodle, The Skillet, and Enchanted Forest trails, beginners will find a gentler rise and more flats. On the Comet, Gauntlet, Hoe Trail, and Clownshead, riders seeking more difficult challenges will get exactly what they want. On the most difficult trails, expect to gain up to 2,400 feet in elevation.

Along these well-kept trails, riders will encounter packed dirt, loose gravel, and tamped soil. Canoeing (equipment rentals and instruction are available) and fishing are also popular activities at Carvins Cove.

3. Smith Mountain Lake

Smith Mountain Lake, one of Virginia's most popular — and the state's largest — has nearly 500 miles of shoreline, earning it the title of "Jewel of the Blue Ridge Mountains." Because state fisheries keep the lake well stocked, SML, as it's known by locals, has an especially impressive striped bass population. Anglers can book half- or full-day charters with a number of licenced guides who have plenty of experience traversing the 21,000-acre lake. They'll provide bait, equipment, and all of the necessary expertise to ensure that those fishing have a safe and enjoyable time on the water.

Crappies, bluegills, largemouth and smallmouth bass, as well as stripers, are among the tasty fish that make freshwater fishing at SML a popular tourist destination.

Waterskiing and wakeboarding, boating and sailing, and jet skiing are all fun activities to do on the lake. Swimming is also available at a family-friendly beach, and there are several golf courses nearby.

4. Roanoke Valley Greenways

The interconnected Roanoke Valley Greenway allows visitors to walk or bike along miles of trails in the area, which are safe, well-populated, and well-maintained. A popular trail in and around Roanoke is right along the Roanoke River, where deer, herons, geese, and other wildlife can be seen even in the city. Vic Thomas Park, just off Memorial Drive south of the river, is a great place to start your exploration. From there, you can easily join the Roanoke River Greenway.

A short distance away is the well-known Black Dog Salvage. Every visit to this nationally recognised purveyor of reclaimed architectural, commercial, and industrial fixtures and elements yields a fascinating, one-of-a-kind inventory. Visitors come from all 50 states to see Black Dog, which specialises in doors, windows, wrought iron, period lighting, garden statuary, and other specialty home components.

Head southeast on the Roanoke River Greenway towards Wasena Park after visiting Black Dog. At the Wasena Skate Park, kids can be seen hanging ten on their longboards. The park is always bustling with activity, and the locals' fancy footwork on their skateboards and blades is entertaining to watch.

On your way to the Tinker Creek Greenway, continue on the greenway and cross the Mill Mountain Greenway. Follow that road north for less than a mile and reward yourself with a picnic at Fallon Park's picnic area.

5. Taubman Museum of Art

The Taubman Museum of Art, one of the city's newest attractions (it opened in 2008), is a must-see for art lovers and casual culture consumers alike. The museum's permanent collection of 2,000 unique pieces is spread across 11 different galleries, including works by Thomas Cowperthwaite Eakins, Purvis Young, and John Cage, and is housed in a stunning modern design by renowned architect Randall Stout.

Visiting exhibits featuring work by some of America's best artists, including John James Audubon and Norman Rockwell, to name a few, are common. Photographic, folk art, and design-related exhibits are among the other highlights.

If you're travelling with children, look into children's programmes, such as hands-on workshops and interactive displays. On-site amenities include a café.

6. McAfee Knob

McAfee Knob is one of the most photographed places on the Appalachian Trail, thanks to its incredible vistas and spectacular rock overhang perch. The 3.5 miles of intermediate-to-difficult trails that lead up to the knob from the Virginia 311 parking lot are popular with hikers.

Climbers know it for the more than 70 gnarly sandstone and slick quartzite boulders that make for days of mini-summits. The majority of boulders are between 10 and 20 feet tall, with many crimps, jugs, pockets, and edges. Bring pads, lunch, and a buddy; it's never a good idea to go rock climbing alone, and McAfee is often deserted.

Another popular recreational area in Roanoke is the recently re-opened Explore Park, which is located just off the Blue Ridge Parkway. The park features 1,100 acres of breathtaking scenery, numerous walking and hiking trails, as well as thrilling ziplines and a treetop adventure course that is appropriate for families with younger children. It also has a visitor centre and a gift shop, as well as camping and rustic cabins.

7. Bottom Creek Gorge Preserve

Bottom Creek Gorge Preserve is a popular destination for birders, nature lovers, and photographers. Bottom Creek, located less than 20 miles south of Roanoke, is one of the most important headwaters for the Roanoke River, and it offers visitors several well-marked trails to enjoy the vast hardwood forest, unspoiled landscape, and Virginia's second highest waterfall.

For the best vantage point to photograph the 200-foot cascading waterfall, the second tallest in Virginia, photographers should take the Red Trail (the longest trail here, at five miles round-trip). Bring a long/telephoto lens because the overlook at the end of the trail offers a clear, open shot, but the falls are a long way away. A side path off the Yellow Trail leads to other viewpoints of the falls.

8. Roanoke City Market

The historic City Market, also known as the Farmers' Market by locals, is open all year and offers boutique shopping, local produce, flowers, meat and cheese, local dining favourites, and some of Virginia's best people-watching. Pay close attention to the market's four mosaic tiled entrances, each of which contains over 2,000 pounds of porcelain tiles that reveal a little bit of the history of this storied public space.

9. Roanoke Pinball Museum

We’ve recently started a new family hobby – vintage record collecting! In keeping with this new found connection over the beloved old, we were delighted to take our girls to the Roanoke Pinball Museum and show them how we entertained ourselves long before the internet.

From the 1932 styles to the slightly more modern Munster’s machine which had a baby pinball inside the bigger one to play, you could get lost in here playing over 65 machines for hours.

Prime Home Buyers is a real estate brokerage firm based in Roanoke, United States. We are known for offering an easy and quick house-selling experience to our clients.

We offer upfront selling solutions to our clients, satisfying their requirements. We have been serving as real estate investors for over a decade and know all the tricks of this trade. Prime Home Buyers can provide you with the best real estate offerings and prices. We are the experts you are looking for if you want to sell your house fast and at the best price. Besides our expertise in buying houses, we also provide commercial property investment.

Business Location

[arte-e-homoerotismo]

Eakins com seu modelo masculino favorito, John Laurie Wallace, filho de imigrantes irlandeses na Filadélfia.

Thomas Eakins

Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins (25 de julho de 1844 – 25 de junho de 1916) foi um pintor realista americano , fotógrafo, escultor e educador de belas artes. Ele é amplamente reconhecido como um dos mais importantes artistas americanos.

Durante toda a sua carreira profissional, do início da década de 1870 até que sua saúde começou a piorar cerca de 40 anos depois, Eakins trabalhou rigorosamente da vida, escolhendo como tema as pessoas de sua cidade natal, Filadélfia . Ele pintou várias centenas de retratos , geralmente de amigos, familiares ou pessoas proeminentes nas artes, ciências, medicina e clero. Tirados em massa , os retratos oferecem uma visão geral da vida intelectual da Filadélfia contemporânea do final do século XIX e início do século XX.

Além disso, Eakins produziu uma série de grandes pinturas que trouxeram o retrato para fora da sala de estar e para os escritórios, ruas, parques, rios, arenas e anfiteatros cirúrgicos de sua cidade. Esses locais ativos ao ar livre permitiram que ele pintasse o assunto que mais o inspirava: a figura nua ou levemente vestida em movimento. No processo, ele podia modelar as formas do corpo em plena luz do sol e criar imagens do espaço profundo utilizando seus estudos em perspectiva. Eakins se interessou profundamente pela nova fotografia em movimento , um campo no qual ele agora é visto como um inovador.

Eakins também foi um educador, e sua instrução foi uma presença altamente influente na arte americana . As dificuldades que ele encontrou como artista foram tentar pintar retratos e figuras realisticamente, pois escândalos comportamentais e sexuais truncaram seu sucesso e desafiaram sua reputação.

Eakins foi uma figura controversa cujo trabalho recebeu pouco reconhecimento durante sua vida. Desde sua morte, ele tem sido celebrado por historiadores de arte americanos como “o mais forte e profundo realista da arte americana do século XIX e início do século XX”. 

Vida pessoal e casamento

A natureza da sexualidade de Eakins e seu impacto em sua arte é uma questão de intenso debate acadêmico. Fortes evidências circunstanciais apontam para a discussão durante a vida de Eakins de que ele tinha tendências homossexuais, e há pouca dúvida de que ele era atraído por homens, como evidenciado em sua fotografia e três pinturas principais onde as nádegas masculinas são um ponto focal: The Gross Clinic , Salutat e The Swimming Hole . A última, na qual Eakins aparece, é cada vez mais vista como sensual e autobiográfica. 

Até recentemente, os principais estudiosos de Eakins negavam persistentemente que ele fosse homossexual, e tal discussão era marginalizada. Embora ainda não haja consenso, hoje a discussão sobre o desejo homoerótico desempenha um grande papel nos estudos de Eakins. A descoberta de um grande tesouro de documentos pessoais de Eakins em 1984 também impulsionou a reavaliação de sua vida. 

Eakins conheceu Emily Sartain , filha de John Sartain , enquanto estudava na academia. O romance deles fracassou depois que Eakins se mudou para Paris para estudar, e ela o acusou de imoralidade. É provável que Eakins tenha lhe contado sobre frequentar lugares onde prostitutas se reuniam. O filho do médico de Eakins também relatou que Eakins era “muito solto sexualmente — foi para a França, onde não há moral, e a moral francesa lhe convinha perfeitamente”. 

Em 1884, aos 40 anos, Eakins se casou com Susan Hannah Macdowell , filha de um gravador da Filadélfia. Dois anos antes, a irmã de Eakins, Margaret, que atuou como sua secretária e criada pessoal, morreu de tifo. Foi sugerido que Eakins se casou para substituí-la. Macdowell tinha 25 anos quando Eakins a conheceu na Hazeltine Gallery, onde The Gross Clinic estava sendo exibido em 1875. Ao contrário de muitos, ela ficou impressionada com a pintura controversa e decidiu estudar com ele na academia, que frequentou por seis anos, adotando um estilo sóbrio e realista semelhante ao de seu professor. Macdowell foi uma aluna excepcional e vencedora do Prêmio Mary Smith pela melhor pintura de uma artista mulher matriculada. 

Durante o casamento sem filhos, ela pintou apenas esporadicamente e passou a maior parte do tempo apoiando a carreira do marido, entretendo convidados e alunos, e apoiando-o fielmente em seus momentos difíceis com a academia, mesmo quando alguns membros de sua família se alinharam contra Eakins. Ela e Eakins compartilhavam uma paixão pela fotografia, tanto como fotógrafos quanto como modelos, e a empregavam como uma ferramenta para sua arte. Ela também posou nua para muitas de suas fotos e tirou imagens dele. Ambos tinham estúdios separados em sua casa. Após a morte de Eakins em 1916, ela voltou a pintar, aumentando consideravelmente sua produção até a década de 1930, em um estilo que se tornou mais quente, solto e brilhante em tom. Ela morreu em 1938. Trinta e cinco anos após sua morte, em 1973, ela teve sua primeira exposição individual na Academia de Belas Artes da Pensilvânia. 

Nos últimos anos de sua vida, o companheiro constante de Eakins era o belo escultor Samuel Murray , que compartilhava seu interesse por boxe e ciclismo. As evidências sugerem que o relacionamento era mais importante emocionalmente para Eakins do que com sua esposa. 

Ao longo de sua vida, Eakins parece ter sido atraído por aqueles que eram mentalmente vulneráveis ​​e então se aproveitava dessas fraquezas. Vários de seus alunos terminaram suas vidas na insanidade.

Desde a década de 1990, Eakins emergiu como uma figura importante nos estudos de sexualidade na história da arte, tanto pelo homoerotismo de seus nus masculinos.

Eakins with his favorite male model, John Laurie Wallace, the son of Irish immigrants to Philadelphia.

[goodoldtimesesthetique]

Some paintings by Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins (1844 - 1916), one of the most famous American realist painters of the Gilded Age.

[shewhoworshipscarlin]

Miss Alice Kurtz by Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins, 1903, USA.

[figuresinthevoid]

Photorealism Seeker

Thomas Cowperthwaite Eakins (1844-1916), American painter, sculptor and photographer associated with the modernist current of American realism.

Eakins was a very meticulous artist, for whom optical truth was indispensable in his work of painting and therefore of representation of bodies, hence his passion for photography, which he perceives as an extraordinary tool.

He will be particularly controversial in his time for his behavior and his avant-garde manners, and will even be excluded, for example, from the Academy of Fine Arts of Pennsylvania where he taught, in 1886, for having admitted a female audience to an anatomy class based on male model. However, no offense to his most recalcitrant peers of the time, his talent will be hailed for its excellence and universally recognized.

(Oil paintings details. The pictures show in order: Portrait of Dr. Samuel D. Gross, or "The Gross Clinic", 1875; An arcadian, 1883; The Concert Singer, between 1890 and 1892; Portrait of Susan MacDowell Eakins, the wife of Thomas Eakins, she was also a painter, 1899; Maud Cook, Mrs. Robert C. Reid, 1895; Swimming, 1885; The chess players, 1876; The Thinker: Portrait of Louis N. Kenton, 1900; Portrait of Douglass Morgan Hall, circa 1889; and, finally, Portrait of Amelia van Buren, circa 1891)

[kvetchlandia]

Thomas Cowperthwaite Eakins      Walt Whitman      1891

Whoever you are, I fear you are walking the walks of dreams, I fear these supposed realities are to melt from under your feet and hands, Even now your features, joys, speech, house, trade, manners, troubles, follies, costume, crimes, dissipate away from you, Your true soul and body appear before me, They stand forth out of affairs, out of commerce, shops, work, farms, clothes, the house, buying, selling, eating, drinking, suffering, dying.

Whoever you are, now I place my hand upon you, that you be my poem, I whisper with my lips close to your ear, I have loved many women and men, but I love none better than you.

O I have been dilatory and dumb, I should have made my way straight to you long ago, I should have blabb’d nothing but you, I should have chanted nothing but you.

I will leave all and come and make the hymns of you, None has understood you, but I understand you, None has done justice to you, you have not done justice to yourself, None but has found you imperfect, I only find no imperfection in you, None but would subordinate you, I only am he who will never consent to subordinate you, I only am he who places over you no master, owner, better, God, beyond what waits intrinsically in yourself.

Painters have painted their swarming groups and the centre-figure of all, From the head of the centre-figure spreading a nimbus of gold-color’d light, But I paint myriads of heads, but paint no head without its nimbus of gold-color’d light, From my hand from the brain of every man and woman it streams, effulgently flowing forever.

O I could sing such grandeurs and glories about you! You have not known what you are, you have slumber’d upon yourself all your life, Your eyelids have been the same as closed most of the time, What you have done returns already in mockeries, (Your thrift, knowledge, prayers, if they do not return in mockeries, what is their return?)

The mockeries are not you, Underneath them and within them I see you lurk, I pursue you where none else has pursued you, Silence, the desk, the flippant expression, the night, the accustom’d routine, if these conceal you from others or from yourself, they do not conceal you from me, The shaved face, the unsteady eye, the impure complexion, if these balk others they do not balk me, The pert apparel, the deform’d attitude, drunkenness, greed, premature death, all these I part aside.

There is no endowment in man or woman that is not tallied in you, There is no virtue, no beauty in man or woman, but as good is in you, No pluck, no endurance in others, but as good is in you, No pleasure waiting for others, but an equal pleasure waits for you.

As for me, I give nothing to any one except I give the like carefully to you, I sing the songs of the glory of none, not God, sooner than I sing the songs of the glory of you.

Whoever you are! claim your own at any hazard! These shows of the East and West are tame compared to you, These immense meadows, these interminable rivers, you are immense and interminable as they, These furies, elements, storms, motions of Nature, throes of apparent dissolution, you are he or she who is master or mistress over them, Master or mistress in your own right over Nature, elements, pain, passion, dissolution.

The hopples fall from your ankles, you find an unfailing sufficiency, Old or young, male or female, rude, low, rejected by the rest, whatever you are promulges itself, Through birth, life, death, burial, the means are provided, nothing is scanted, Through angers, losses, ambition, ignorance, ennui, what you are picks its way.

--Walt Whitman, “To You” 1891

[sakurabreeze]

Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins