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    Thomas Eakins' The Agnew Clinic  Oct 26, 2009
    Well-known for his 1875 The Gross Clinic, Thomas Eakins later painted The Agnew Clinic, another medical portrait which forthrightly depicted the trauma of breast cancer. Fourteen years after Thomas Eakins finished his controversial medically-themed 1875 painting The Gross Clinic, he was commissioned to produce a work commemorating the retirement of Philadelphia surgeon David Hayes Agnew ... Thomas Eakins, on the other hand, challenged his female students to learn as much as the men in the class,... (Suite101.com)

    An artist's facetious nod to pop culture  Sep 18, 2009
    Some of the hand-printed etchings are imitations of paintings by Rembrandt and Thomas Eakins. Eakins' 1875 "The Gross Clinic" is the inspiration for Aoki's "The Brazilian," a print that resembles Eakins' renowned surgical scene except that viewers will see a pair of legs sticking up in the air and one of the "doctors" holding a pot of hot wax. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)

    Late 19th Century Scenes of Summer  Jun 22, 2009
    Paintings by Winslow Homer, Mary Cassatt and Thomas Eakins. Three paintings by American-born artists Winslow Homer, Mary Cassatt and Thomas Eakins captured new views of the Good Old Summertime ... Numerous paintings of the era show beachscapes, river scenes or gently drifting boats, but in three particularly distinctive works, artists Winslow Homer, Mary Cassatt and Thomas Eakins offered unique perspectives of these fleeting glimpses of summer. (Suite101.com)




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