Thomas Eakins Photographs
During his time, Thomas Eakins personal and professional life was controversial and more recently the art community has reevaluated Eakins' personal life.
For more information on this matter we suggest reading the following article "Hundreds call for reckoning with American artist Thomas Eakins’s troubling legacy" by Benjamin Sutton published on The Art Newspaper.
Eakins began to take photographs of his subjects and would produce his finished paintings based on the photographs.
Eakins plate glass negatives were nearly lost to history, when his former student; Charles Bregler, rescued hundreds of these plate glass negatives from Eakins former home following the death of Eakins' wife, Susan Macdowell Eakins.
Today, a great number of Eakins photographs can be viewed at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) in Philadelphia; as well as, other institutions.
[ Thomas Eakins' works at the PAFA site & elsewhere, do include art-content which may not be suitable for some audiences. ]
Artist: Thomas Eakins
Geese with tree and two men in background at Gloucester, New Jersey
1881
https://www.pafa.org/museum/collection/item/geese-tree-two-men-background-gloucester-new-jersey
Artist: Thomas Eakins
Shad fishing: hauling the net
1881
https://www.pafa.org/museum/collection/item/shad-fishing-hauling-net-4
Artist: Thomas Eakins
Shad fishing: setting the net
1881
https://www.pafa.org/museum/collection/item/shad-fishing-setting-net-4
Artist: Thomas Eakins
Shad fishing: setting the net from shore
1881
https://www.pafa.org/museum/collection/item/shad-fishing-setting-net-shore
Artist: Thomas Eakins
Shad fishing: setting the net
1881
https://www.pafa.org/museum/collection/item/shad-fishing-setting-net-shore
Artist: Thomas Eakins
Shad Fishermen Hauling the Net at Gloucester, New Jersey
1881-1882
Artist: Thomas Eakins
Wading Fishermen Pulling Nets near Sailboat, Gloucester, New Jersey
c. 1881-1882
Artist: Thomas Eakins
Shad Fishermen and Horse Hauling the Net with a Capstan, Viewed from Beach below Breakwater, Gloucester, New Jersey
c. 1881-1882
Artist: Thomas Eakins
Shad Fishermen and Horse Hauling the Net with a Capstan, Viewed from Dune Grasses, Gloucester, New Jersey
c. 1881-1882
Artist: Thomas Eakins
Shad Fishermen and Horse Hauling the Net with a Capstan, Viewed from Embankment at High Tide, Gloucester, New Jersey
c. 1881-1882
Artist: Thomas Eakins
Geese at the Site of "Mending the Net," Gloucester, N.J.
c. 1881-1882
[ Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution ]