About the Artwork
Dr. Horatio C. Wood
1886
Thomas Cowperthwaite Eakins
1844-1916
American
Unknown
Oil on canvas
Unframed: 64 × 50 inches (162.6 × 127 cm) Framed: 82 1/4 × 68 3/8 × 4 1/2 inches (208.9 × 173.7 × 11.4 cm)
Paintings
American Art before 1950
City of Detroit Purchase
30.296
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Markings
Signed, lower right: Eakins
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Provenance
the artist's widow, Susan Macdowell Eakins
1930, Clarence W. Cranmer (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)
1930--present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Loan Exhibition of the Works of Thomas Eakins. Exh. cat., Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1917, no. 25 (ill.).
Exhibition of Paintings and Water Colors by Thomas Eakins. Exh. cat., Joseph Brummer Galleries. New York, 1923, no. 19.
Bulletin of the DIA 12, 2 (Nov 1930): p. 21.
Marceau, H. G. "Thomas Eakins." Pennsylvania Museum Bulletin 25 (1930): p. 23, no. 114.
Thomas Eakins. Exh. cat., Whitney Museum. New York, 1933, no. 239.
Eighteenth Annual Exhibition of American Artists. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1937, no. 13.
Porter, Fairfield. Thomas Eakins: The Great American Artists Series. New York, 1959 (pl. 41).
The Art of Philadelphia Medicine. Exh. cat., Philadelphia Museum of Art. Philadelphia, 1965, no. 52 (ill.).
Thomas Eakins: A Retrospective Exhibition. Exh. cat., National Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C., 1961, no. 52.
Schendler, S. Eakins. Boston, 1967, pp. 9, 116, 118, no. 49 (ill.).
Thomas Eakins Retrospective Exhibition. Exh. cat., Whitney Museum of American Art. New York, 1970, no. 52.
DIA Handbook. 1971, p. 147.
Hendricks, G. The Life and Work of Thomas Eakins. New York, 1974, p. 172 (fig. 162).
"Family Art Game." DIA Advertising Supplement. Detroit Free Press. (April 26, 1981): p. 19 (ill.).
Johns, E. Thomas Eakins, the Heroism of Modern Life. Princeton, 1983 (fig. 110).
Thomas Eakins. Exh. cat., National Portrait Gallery. London, 1993, no. 25.
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Credit Line for Reproduction
Thomas Cowperthwaite Eakins, Dr. Horatio C. Wood, 1886, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 30.296.
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