This is a list of professionally authenticated paintings, drawings, and sculptures by Thomas Eakins (1844–1916). As there is no catalogue raisonné of Eakins' works, this is an aggregation of existing published catalogs.

Background

During his lifetime, Thomas Eakins sold few paintings. On his death, ownership of his unsold works passed to his widow,

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, who kept them in their Philadelphia home. She dedicated the remaining years of her life to burnishing his legacy. In this, she was quite successful; in the period between Thomas Eakins' death and her own, she donated many of the strongest remaining pictures to museums around the world. The

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benefited particularly from these donations. After Susan Macdowell Eakins' death in 1938, her executors emptied the house of anything which could be sold at auction. When former Eakins student Charles Bregler arrived at the house after it had been stripped he was horrified at what he found, describing it as the "most tragic and pitiful sight I ever saw. Every room was cluttered with debris as all the contents of the various drawers, closets etc were thrown upon the floor as they removed the furniture. All the life casts were smashed... I never want to see anything like this again." The number of works lost or destroyed at this time will never be known. Bregler carefully collected what was left. Most of what remained were drawings and other preparatory studies. He was highly secretive about the contents of his collection and rarely allowed anyone to see it. After Bregler's death, ownership of the collection passed to his second wife, Mary Louise Picozzi Bregler, who was even more guarded as to its contents. In 1986, shortly before her death, Mary Bregler agreed to sell the works to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

Historiography

In the early 1930s, Susan Macdowell Eakins invited art historian

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into her home. Goodrich inventoried the collection in the house, interviewed Eakins' surviving associates, and studied Eakins' personal notes. In 1933, Goodrich published ''Thomas Eakins: His Life and Works''. Though it was incomplete, un-illustrated, and did not include Eakins' photographs, Goodrich's book was the first definitive study of Eakins and the first attempt to catalog his artistic output."Previous to Goodrich's monograph, only short essays on Eakins and checklists of his works had been published. NO monographic studies or commentaries on the artist appeared during his lifetime. Most notable of the early works on Eakins are Alan Burroughs' three articles which appeared in ''The Arts'' during 1923 and 1924 and Henri Marceau's essay and checklist (announcing the receipt of Susan Eakins' bequest). According to Goodrich, he was encouraged to write the Eakins monograph by close friend Reginald Marsh, an avid admirer of the older artist." – Milroy, 30, footnote 9 In the 1970s,

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published two Eakins catalogs. ''The Photographs of Thomas Eakins'' (1972; ) is a fully illustrated catalog of photographs by Thomas Eakins and his associates. Because Eakins did not keep detailed records of his photographs, nor did he sign, title, or date them, many of the dates and photographers listed in the catalog are educated guesses on Hendricks' part. It is difficult to know who took a particular photograph because Eakins often had his students use it. Hence, the attribution on many of these photographs is "Circle of Eakins" to indicate that a photograph was taken either by Eakins or one of his associates. ''The Life and Work of Thomas Eakins'' (1974; ) included a checklist of Eakins' works, a number of which had not been included in the 1933 Goodrich catalog. In the 1980s, Lloyd Goodrich returned to the subject of Thomas Eakins. He began writing a three-volume book, ''Thomas Eakins''. The first two volumes, published in 1982, were biographic in nature. Goodrich was unable to complete the third volume, a Thomas Eakins catalogue raisonné, before he died in 1987. He donated his papers to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, in the hopes that the curators there would finish the catalogue raisonné. This has not happened. Until 1986, the Charles Bregler collection was effectively unknown to art historians. A few of the works in the Bregler collection were included in the 1933 Goodrich catalog, but after that they effectively disappeared from the scholarly community. A proper inventory became possible only after their 1986 sale to the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. In 1997, art historian Kathleen Foster published a definitive catalog of the Bregler collection, ''Thomas Eakins Rediscovered''. ()

List organization

Paintings, drawings, and sculptures are listed, where possible, by their Goodrich catalog number supplemented with modifications from Goodrich's notes for his never-completed Eakins catalogue raisonné.Lloyd and Edith Havens Goodrich, Whitney Museum of American Art, Record of Works by Thomas Eakins: Series VII. catalogue raisonné
The Goodrich catalog can be subdivided into three parts: * Juvenalia – Goodrich classified several early works by Thomas Eakins (works made prior to Eakins' arrival in Paris) as juvenalia, and prefaced with a "J". Though mentioned throughout the Eakins literature, the catalog itself was not published. However, the list is accessible in the Goodrich papers in the Philadelphia archives. * 1933 catalog works – "G" followed by a number indicates it is from Goodrich's 1933 Eakins catalog. * 1980s catalog works – "G" followed by a number and then a letter indicates a work that was not included in the 1933 Goodrich catalog, but was included in his two volume ''Thomas Eakins'', or in notes for the third volume, the never-finished catalog. Works in the Charles Bregler collection at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts are listed according to their number in ''Thomas Eakins Rediscovered''.

Goodrich catalogue of Eakins' paintings and sculptures

Notes

References

* Berger, Martin A. ''Man Made: Thomas Eakins and the Construction of Gilded Age Manhood.'' Berkeley: University Of California Press, 2000. * Bolger, Doreen; Cash, Sarah; et al. ''Thomas Eakins and the Swimming Picture''. Amon Carter Museum, 1996. * Braddock, Alan C. ''Thomas Eakins and the Cultures of Modernity.'' University of California Press, 2009. * Cooper, Helen A. ''Thomas Eakins: The Rowing Pictures''. Yale University Art Gallery, 1996. * Foster, Kathleen A. ''Thomas Eakins Rediscovered: Charles Bregler's Thomas Eakins Collection at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.'' Yale University Press, 1997. . * Goodrich, Lloyd. ''Thomas Eakins: His Life and Works''. William Edwin Rudge Printing House. New York, 1933. Catalogue of Works. Pages 161–209. * Hendricks, Gordon. ''The Life and Works of Thomas Eakins''. New York: Grossman Publishers, 1974. * Hendricks, Gordon. ''The Photographs of Thomas Eakins''. New York: Grossman Publishers, 1972. * Homer, William Innes. ''The Paris Letters of Thomas Eakins.'' Princeton University Press, 2009. * Homer, William Innes. ''Thomas Eakins: His Life and His Art.'' Abbeville Press, 1992. * Homer, William Innes. ''Eakins at Avondale and Thomas Eakins: A Personal Collection.'' Science Press, 1980. Library of Congress catalogue no. 79-57527 * Hoopes, Donelson F. ''Eakins Watercolors''. Watson-Guptill Publications, 1971. Reprinted 1985. * Johns, Elizabeth. ''Thomas Eakins: The Heroism of Modern Life.'' Princeton University Press, 1991. . * Myers, Jane E. Eakins and the Medical Milieu: The Physicians' Portraits. Master's Thesis, December 1982. * Milroy, Elizabeth Lamotte Cates. ''Thomas Eakins Artistic Training, 1860–1870''. Phd Dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 1986 * Rosenzweig, Phlyllis D. ''Thomas Eakins Collection of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.'' Washington DC:

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, 1977. * Siegl, Theodor. The Thomas Eakins Collection. Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1978. * Sewell, Darrel. ''Thomas Eakins: Artist of Philadelphia''.

, 1982. * Sewell, Darrel; et al. ''Thomas Eakins''. Yale University Press, 2001. . * Wilmerding, John. ''Thomas Eakins''. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1993. * Wilmerding, John. ''Compass and Clock: Defining Moments in American Culture : 1800, 1850, 1900.'' Harry N. Abrams, 1999.

External links

Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins Virtual Gallery

CGFA – Thomas Eakins paintings

Smithsonian Catalog of Eakins' works

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