Thomas Eakins

The Agnew Clinic Thomas Eakins

The Swimming hole

I read a great post in Art Blog about Thomas Eakins

Born July 25, 1844 under an unlucky star, Eakins may be the greatest artist America has ever produced, certainly the greatest Philadelphia ever birthed, and yet also the most unjustly neglected

Bob, the author of the Art Blog is a passionate Eakins lover and I suggest you read His post.

I love the way Eakins dealt with light in his paintings in an incredibly accurate way. I can smell the grass and the water in the swimming hole, and the somewhat stale air in the Agnew Clinic.

I think this level of skill in the translation of what is in front of us to eternity through the medium of painting is a long lost one, that photography, as accurate as it is can never replace.