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Summary

Artist



Description	American painter, aquarellist, sculptor and photographer
Date of birth/death	25 July 1844	25 June 1916
Location of birth/death	Philadelphia	Philadelphia
Work location	Philadelphia (ca. 1860–1916), Paris (1866–1870), Netherlands
Authority control	WorldCat

Title

Swimming

Description

Also known as The Swimming Hole and The Swimmers. This painting was painted using the pictures of his art students bathing in the nude (See the gallery below).

Date

1885

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

27.625 × 36.625 in (70.2 × 93 cm)

Current location

Amon Carter Museum of American Art

	Native name	Amon Carter Museum
	Location	3501 Camp Bowie Boulevard Fort Worth, Texas United States
	Coordinates	32° 44′ 52.80″ N, 97° 22′ 8.40″ W
	Established	1961
	Website	Amon Carter Museum
	Authority control	WorldCat

Accession number

1990-19-1

Object history

1884: commissioned by Edward Hornor Coates He did not accept the painting and it stayed in possession of the artist.
1917: inherited by Susan Macdowell Eakins, from Thomas Eakins
1925: purchased by Modern Art Museum of Forth Worth, Texas, from Susan Macdowell Eakins

1990: purchased by Amon Carter Museum, Forth Worth, Texas, from Modern Art Museum of Forth Worth, Texas

Credit line

Purchased by the Friends of Art, Fort Worth Art Association, 1925; acquired by the Amon Carter Museum, 1990, from the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth through grants and donations from the Amon G. Carter Foundation, the Sid W. Richardson Foundation, the Anne Burnett and Charles Tandy Foundation, Capital Cities/ABC Foundation, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, The R. D. and Joan Dale Hubbard Foundation and the people of Fort Worth

References

Scanned from Bolger, Doreen; Cash, Sarah; et al. Thomas Eakins and the Swimming Picture. Amon Carter Museum, 1996. ISBN 0-88360-085-4

Source/Photographer

Amon Carter Museum: Website Webpage Picture

Permission
( Reusing this file)

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1923.

The author died in 1916, so this work is also in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 90 years or less.

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