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Painting
William H. Macdowell
Thomas Eakins, 1844-1916
Eakins, Thomas
United States
1844 - 1916
Male
24 x 20 in. (61 x 50.8 cm)
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without frame
Oil
Oil
ca. 1904
1899
1909
1900-2000, 20th century, figure, men, paintings, portraits, Realism
Painting
Thomas Eakins painted multiple portraits of his father-in-law, William H. Macdowell. Eakins’s sensitive portraits and genre scenes defined American realist art at the end of the 19th century. His art and commitment to realism were enormously influential to the artists of the Urban Realist movement.
[Gallery label text, 2007]
Thomas Eakins was one of America's greatest painters, whose realistic portrayals of people at work and at play have become icons of American culture. He immortalized many friends and family members by using them as subjects, among them his father-in-law, William Macdowell, an engraver and self-styled philosopher, whom Eakins painted and photographed numerous times. In the Gallery's portrait, Macdowell's aged face, rendered with scrupulous care and detail, emerges from a somber background. In this direct and straightforward manner, Eakins suggests Macdowell's strength of character and distinctive personality.
[Gallery label text]
initialed, verso
1941.26
item
Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
41.26TR1
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41.26SL
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photo of Wm. Macdowell
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41.26DI1
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Memorial Art Gallery
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photo of Mr. & Mrs. Wm Macdowell
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