Thomas Eakins: References & Edit History

Lloyd Goodrich, Thomas Eakins: His Life and Work (1933), revised and expanded as Thomas Eakins, 2 vol. (1982), remains the foundational monograph on Eakins. Other early books of interest on the subject are Fairfield Porter, Thomas Eakins (1959); and Sylvan Schendler, Eakins (1967). Later works including William Innes Homer, Thomas Eakins: His Life and Art, 2nd ed. (2002); Henry Adams, Eakins Revealed: The Secret Life of an American Artist (2005); William S. McFeely, Portrait: The Life of Thomas Eakins (2007); Sidney D. Kirkpatrick, The Revenge of Thomas Eakins (2006); and Amy Beth Werbel, Thomas Eakins: Art, Medicine, and Sexuality in 19th-Century Philadelphia (2007), are reassessments.

A collection of materials and papers rescued by Charles Bregler, a student of Eakins, was examined and catalogued in the late 1970s and published as Kathleen A. Foster and Cheryl Leibold, Writing About Eakins: The Manuscripts in Charles Bregler’s Thomas Eakins Collection (1989); Susan Danly and Cheryl Leibold (eds.), Eakins and the Photograph: Works by Thomas Eakins and His Circle in the Collection of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (1994); and Kathleen A. Foster et al., Thomas Eakins Rediscovered: Charles Bregler’s Thomas Eakins Collection at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (1997). The largest collection of works by Thomas Eakins is to be found in the Philadelphia Museum of Art. There are also substantial collections at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and at the Yale University Art Gallery.