- Hardcover: 140 pages
- Publisher: Yale University Press (6 Aug 1996)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0300069391
- ISBN-13: 978-0300069396
- Product Dimensions: 28.4 x 20.4 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 4,698,896 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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During the 1870s, rowing became a very popular sport in the United States. An enthusiastic rower, the young Thomas Eakins, painted, sketched and drew a series of rowing pictures. Eakins's 24 rowing works are brought together and examined as a group in this book.
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Excellent,
By Old Reprobate (UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Thomas Eakins: The Rowing Pictures (Yale Art Gallery) (Paperback)
Little known outside the USA, Eakins was one of the greatest 19th century American artists. This small gem of a book is testament to his brilliance.
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5.0 out of 5 stars (2 customer reviews) 1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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Eakins on the Schuylkill River,
By Grady Harp - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Thomas Eakins: The Rowing Pictures (Yale Art Gallery) (Paperback)
Any opportunity to study the works of Thomas Eakins is a pleasure. This small book from Yale University focuses on only one aspect of Eakins' work - The Rowing Pictures. Though there are only twenty-four true paintings of the Rowing Series, these paintings are so extraordinarily fine that having fewer of them makes the all the more precious. The creators of the book, based on an exhibition that started at The National Gallery of Art, are a solid group: Helen A. Cooper, Prof. Martin A. Berger, Christina Currie, and Prof. Amy Werbel have included the many sketches and perspective drawings upon which Eakins depended and added commentary about the artist's life and times - always a tricky door to open depending on the audience!
There is considerable writing about the sport of rowing, the areas where the paintings were based (the Schuylkill River), the particular rowers such as the Biglin Brothers, and Eakins fascination with the mechanism of the sculls - whether meant for one or two rowers. But the real glory of this series of paintings lies in the art works themselves. There is a majestically beautiful use of light and reflection as well as some closely observed muscular involvement required by this sport. The only flaw in this book is its rather small scale; making the book bigger and thus allowing better reproductions of the paintings would have enhanced this otherwise superb survey of one of the many branches of the art of Thomas Eakins. Grady Harp, August 10 2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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An American Masterpiece,
By GodfatherInOhio - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Thomas Eakins: The Rowing Pictures (Yale Art Gallery) (Paperback)
Thomas Eakins is in my opinion the greatest artist that America's ever produced. His work is absolutely sublime. I saw some of his works at my local art museum. It's incredible, they paintings look almost like photographs, they're so lifelike.
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