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

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?

That question isn't crazy. Eakins based his art, and his teaching, on academic French ideals of crisply finished realist ...

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