![]() And it turned out that instead of having a little chamber, Harry was living with his whole family they had all come over with him. Harry was not in the Latin Quarter but in the American part of Paris near the Arch of Triumph. ![]() However, Tom decided after Friday's hazing in the studio that he had better hunt up Harry and give him some advice about the students. Even so, when Tom Eakins got his card of admission on a Friday, Harry Moore still had none. They were so convincing in regard to Harry's eagerness and sincerity that Gérôme wrote personally to the Minister and to the Inspector of the School. Harry Moore and his uncle went to see Gérôme and explained how far Harry had come just to study with the great master. The day before being admitted Tom Eakins had met Harry Moore they had exchanged cards and discovered that they had both studied at the Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia. Later Tom sent the details of his admission and of the hazing he had undergone at the hands of the other students. It was on October 26, 1866, that Thomas Eakins, then twenty-two years old, wrote home to his father the good news that he, Tom, had been admitted at last to study with Gérôme in Paris, adding that he had yet to receive his first letter from home. I have made no effort to deal with every painting by Eakins this biography is a portrait. I was fortunate in that the life of Eakins by Lloyd Goodrich with its excellent catalogue had already been published in 1933, seven years before I started the research work for this book. All of the typing and secretarial work has been done by Miss Jane E. The subject for the biography was suggested in the first place by Professor Cornelius Weygandt of the English Department of the University of Pennsylvania, who sponsored my Ph.D. Many members of the Crowell family were generous with their knowledge of Eakins as a member of their family by marriage. Steel, President of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, also read the manuscript, particularly Chapter II, and pronounced the facts concerning the Academy accurate, though there will always be varied interpretations of those facts. Bregler read the manuscript and agreed to its accuracy. After that I went many times over a period of three and a half years to Charles Bregler, who still had then in his own studio his collection of things connected personally with Eakins. For a year and a half before his death, I went once a week for information to Samuel Murray, who read and approved most of Chapters IV and V. It was my good fortune to be able to go directly to primary sources. Since I have given credit in the text itself for sources of information, it has been unnecessary to give these in notes except where I have quoted directly from other books. I have tried to write this book with the same integrity with which Thomas Eakins painted. Samuel Murray of Sue's drawing on the dining roomīlackboard of those two setting off on bicycles.Ĭontents 1. This is a photograph made by Thomas Eakins and A Celebration of Women Writers Thomas Eakins,Īdditional public domain illustrations have been added to this online edition, of works by
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