Robert M. Lindsay

Thomas Cowperthwaite Eakins American, 1844-1916

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About the Artwork

Robert M. Lindsay

1900

Thomas Cowperthwaite Eakins

1844-1916

American

Unknown

Oil on academy board

Unframed: 11 3/4 × 10 5/8 inches (29.8 × 27 cm) Framed: 15 3/8 × 14 × 1 7/8 inches (39.1 × 35.6 × 4.8 cm)

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American Art before 1950

Gift of Dexter M. Ferry, Jr.

35.14

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Provenance

the artist's widow, Susan MacDowell Eakins. Ernest Lee Parker (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)

Clarence W. Cranmer (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)

1935-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Memorial Exhibition of the Works of the Late Thomas Eakins. Exh. cat., Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Philadelphia, 1917, no. 13.a.

Burroughs, Alan. “Catalogue of Works by Thomas Eakins (1869-1916).” Arts 5, 6 (June 1924): p. 332.

Paintings by Thomas Eakins. Exh. cat., Babcock Art Galleries. New York, 1929, no. 4.

Marceau, Henri G. “Catalogue of the Works of Thomas Eakins.” Pennsylvania Museum Bulletin 25 (March 1930): p. 28, no. 212.

Goodrich, Lloyd. Thomas Eakins: His Life and Work. New York, 1933, p. 191, no. 336.

Burroughs, Clyde H. “A Painting by Thomas Eakins.” Bulletin of the DIA 14, 7 (April 1935): pp. 86-88.

Eighteenth Annual Exhibition of American Artists. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1937, no. 18.

Porter, Fairfield. Thomas Eakins: The Great American Artist Series. New York, 1959 (pl. 63).

American Nineteenth-Century Painting. Exh. cat., Michigan State University, Kresge Art Center Gallery. East Lansing, 1966, no. 39.

Hendricks, G. The Life and Work of Thomas Eakins. New York, 1974, p. 329 (ill.).

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Thomas Cowperthwaite Eakins, Robert M. Lindsay, 1900, oil on academy board. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Dexter M. Ferry, Jr., 35.14.

Robert M. Lindsay
Robert M. Lindsay