The Magazine Antiques, February 1st, 1996
The Amon Carter Museum of Texas will hold an exhibition of paintings by Thomas Eakins and his colleagues from Feb. to May 1996. The event will feature Eakins' oil studies, finished paintings, sketches and photographs that provide clues as to how his masterpiece 'Swimming' was created. Two revealing sentences written by Thomas Eakins relate directly to one of his masterpieces, Swimming completed in 1885. Early in his career he wrote, "there is so much beauty in reflections, that it is generally worthwhile to try to get them right," and in 1886 he confessed that he saw "no impropriety in lookin...
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