Comments on: Feel Art Again: The Champion Single Sculls

By: Therese

Therese — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 16:47:39 +0000

I love this painting! It so evokes a beautiful October day, of which we’ve had many this year where I live. The background info is really intriguing, too. I look forward to many more posts like this!

By: Andréa

Andréa — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 07:50:31 +0000

GTT: Evidently, during an anatomy lecture in 1886, Eakins removed the loincloth from a male model while women were present. The school received complaints and asked Eakins to resign. To read more about the incident (or any other aspect of Eakins’ life), head to the PBS site to check out their great biography of Eakins.

By: dana

dana — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 02:28:19 +0000

Why? Why? Nude art is not porn. It is divine. Nude art is around world. Even nudist are over the word. I always do the nude art works on site called nudistconnect.com, where there are many nudist who are interested in nude art.

By: Lauren

Lauren — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 00:22:22 +0000

I’m so glad you featured Eakins! He was one of the reasons I started focusing on American art in college. He was extremely contraversial at the time for his subject matter and because he had his students pose nude — including the women. I think he got kicked out for that.

Not to mention his paintings are beautiful.

By: Andréa

Andréa — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 23:48:01 +0000

fixedgear: I actually attend school in Philly, so I’ll definitely try to get down to the art museum to check out Eakins Oval!

By: GTT

GTT — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 23:43:04 +0000

Umm… What loin cloth incident? I am intrigued…

By: fixedgear

fixedgear — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 19:20:40 +0000

Great post. When in Philadelphia one can visit Eakins Oval which is located right in front of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. His painting of the boxing match is pretty spectacular, and The Gross Clinic was something of a political football when it was sold recently.

By: Jerry

Jerry — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 18:08:08 +0000

I love Thomas Eakins’ work. A personal favorite of mine is entitled “The Gross Clinic”. A very powerful image of surgery as performed in the late 19th century.

By: Sid Morrison

Sid Morrison — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 17:45:11 +0000

Wow, nice post about a fine work. I’m not very familiar with Eakins, but apparently I need to be. I didn’t think there were too many American realists, especially in that era.

By: David

David — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 16:55:44 +0000

wonderful, andrea! i used to go to the MET when i lived in nyc and sit on the floor in front of this treasure for hours on end.

also cool that you wrote about eakins without reverting to the usual loin cloth incident rat-a-tat. brava!