Thomas Eakins

Susan Macdowell Eakins (the artist's wife), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1916
Babcock Galleries, New York, 1939
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1957 (acquired from the above)
Gift to the present owner from the above, 1966

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Art Club Gallery, Exhibition, Presented by Mrs. Thomas Eakins. Paintings by Thomas Eakins, Charles Bregler, E. Macdowell, S.M. Eakins, Charles S. Fussell, David W. Jordan, October-November 1936, no. 12
Washington, D.C., National Collection of the Fine Arts, Academy: The Academic Tradition in American Art, June-September 1975, no. 25, illustrated p. 151
Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, The Thomas Eakins Collection of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, May-September 1977, no. 114, illustrated p. 209
Mansfield, Ohio, Mansfield Art Center, The American Figure: Vanderlyn to Bellows, March-April 1984, no. 13

Gordon Hendricks, The Life and Work of Thomas Eakins, New York, 1974, no. 103, illustrated p. 324

Good condition, lined. Under UV: delicate small retouches along figures' arm and torso, scattered dots and dashes of retouches to background and to address frame abrasion along top edge.
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