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A writer's dark view of the 'heroic' Eakins
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Dinitia Smith
International Herald Tribune
05-26-2005
Who was Thomas Eakins? Was he a heroic figure, a paragon of artistic integrity whose paintings of oarsmen, swimmers, family members and the distinguished citizens of Philadelphia expressed America's emerging power in the 19th century?Or was he, as Henry Adams depicts him in a new biography, a tormented soul, afraid of going insane like his mother, sexually ambivalent, a bully, an exhibitionist, a voyeur who was accused of ''bestiality'' and of incest with female relatives?''Eakins Revealed'' by Adams, a professor at Case Western Reserve ...
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