Frank Hamilton Cushing / Thomas Eakins
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Title(s):
Frank Hamilton Cushing
Creator(s):
Thomas Eakins (Artist)
Culture:
American
Date:
1895
Materials/Techniques:
oil on canvas
Classification:
Object Type:
Credit Line:
Gift of the Thomas Gilcrease Foundation, 1955
Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma
Accession No:
01.2315
Previous Number(s):
0126.2315; 21960
Department:
Not On View
- Height: 96 1/2in. (245.1cm)
- Width: 66 1/2in. (168.9cm)
- Depth: 2 1/2in. (6.4cm)
- Height: 90 1/2in. (229.9cm)
- Width: 60 1/2in. (153.7cm)
Creator:
Role(s):
Artist
Names (all):
Eakins, Thomas
Birth Date:
1844
Death Date:
1916
Nationalities:
American (North American)
Roles:
American painter, photographer, and sculptor, 1844-1916
Gender:
male
Events:
- active (professional function)
Note:
American painter, photographer, and sculptor, best known for his precise, exacting paintings in the tradition of the Barbizon School and Velásquez. He studied with Gérome and others in Paris from 1866-1869, but returned to Philadelphia in 1870 where he painted local figures and scenes that emphasized emotional truth and visual fact. His interest in science led to probably his best-known painting, "The Gross Clinic" (1875), showing the famous surgeon in the operating theater. The picture shocked contemporaries with its frank depiction of blood. Eakins taught at the Philadelphia Academy of the Arts from 1876-1878, reforming the teaching methods and giving priority to painting from live nude models as oppose to drawing from plaster casts. Comment on works: genre Comment on works: portrait
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Signed, "Eakins" in lower left
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Eakins, Thomas. Frank Hamilton Cushing. 01.2315. 1895. Tulsa: Gilcrease Museum, https://collections.gilcrease.org/object/012315 (02/20/2019).
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