Volume 19, Number 4 · September 21, 1972
Thomas Eakins, Painter and Moralist
By Lewis Mumford
The Photographs of Thomas Eakins
by Gordon Hendricks
Grossman, 214, 291 illustrations pp., $30.00
Some half century ago the grand exhibition of Thomas Eakins's paintings at the Metropolitan Museum in November, 1917, gave America its first opportunity to take the measure of his art. Though William C. Brownell in an earlier report in Scribner's Magazine had opened the way, this belated showing of his work, prompted by his death the year before, came after thirty years of ostracism and neglect.
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