Thomas Eakins, Painted Into A Corner; It's Time to Face Facts About the Realism of A Once-Vaunted Artist From: The Washington Post | Date: October 7, 2001| Author: Blake Gopnik | Copyright 2001 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

In 1914, two years before his death, a Philadelphia newspaper described local hero Thomas Eakins as "the foremost living American painter." A major Eakins exhibition that opened Thursday at the Philadelphia Museum of Art shows that his ranking hasn't fallen much over the century since. But the exhibition itself, and the celebratory catalogue published alongside it, raise a single crucial question: Would we think half as highly of the master if he'd been born in France?

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