Thomas Eakins

Philadelphia / New Haven: Philadelphia Museum of Art / Yale University Press, 2001. First Edition. Quarto (31.5cm x 26cm). Blue-gray cloth boards (hardcover) with titling embossed in gold on spine; pictorial dustjacket; 446pp; illus. Near Fine copy; very slight shelf wear to corner tips; faint soiling to bottom textblock corner, else clean and tight. Near Fine dustwrapper; very slight shelf wear to extremities, else clean and sound. This volume was published on the occasion of the exhibition "Thomas Eakins: American Realist" organized by Darrel Sewell at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 2001-2002, which traveled to the Musée d'Orsay in Paris and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York in 2002. Features essays by 11 prominant art historians and scholars. More than 250 reproductions of Eakins' paintings, watercolors, drawings, photographs, and sculpture. (Inventory #: 44259)