Swimming_hole.jpg

Summary

Thomas Eakins : Swimming wikidata:Q766212 reasonator:Q766212
Artist
Thomas Eakins (1844–1916) wikidata:Q214905 s:en:Author:Thomas Eakins q:en:Thomas Eakins
Thomas Eakins
Alternative names
pseudonym : Eakins, Thomas Cowperthwaite; Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins; Thomas Cowperthwaite Eakins; C.D. Cook; Eakins
Description American painter, aquarellist, sculptor and photographer
Date of birth/death 25 July 1844 Edit this at Wikidata 25 June 1916 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Philadelphia Philadelphia
Work period 1869 Edit this at Wikidata –1916 Edit this at Wikidata
Work location
Philadelphia (ca. 1860–1916), Paris (1866–1870), Netherlands
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q214905
image of artwork listed in title parameter on this page
Title
Swimming
label QS:Lde,"Swimming (Schwimmen)"
label QS:Lnl,"Swimming (Zwemmen)"
label QS:Lfr,"Swimming (Natation)"
label QS:Len,"Swimming"
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre genre art Edit this at Wikidata
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
date QS:P571,+1885-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 27.6 in (70.1 cm); width: 36.6 in (93 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,27.625U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,36.625U218593
institution QS:P195,Q255559
Accession number
1990-19-1
Place of creation United States of America Edit this at Wikidata
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 Fort Worth, Texas, from Susan Macdowell Eakins
  • 1990: purchased by Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, from Modern Art Museum of Fort 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 Amon Carter Museum: Website Webpage Picture
Source/Photographer 1. whitmanarchive.org
2. Scanned from Bolger, Doreen; Cash, Sarah; et al. Thomas Eakins and the Swimming Picture. Amon Carter Museum, 1996. ISBN 0-88360-085-4
Other versions
  • 1. Picture (1883).
    1. Picture (1883).
  • 2. Picture (1883).
    2. Picture (1883).
  • 3. Sketch (1884).
    3. Sketch (1884).
  • 4. Painting: Swimming or The swimming hole (1885).
    4. Painting: Swimming or The swimming hole (1885).

Licensing

This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art. The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason:
Public domain

The author died in 1916, so this work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer .

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office ) before January 1, 1929.

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The official position taken by the Wikimedia Foundation is that " faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain ".
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Captions

The Swimming Hole or The Swimmers (1884–1885). Oil on canvas, 70 × 92 cm (27+3⁄8 × 36+3⁄8 in). Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas

Items portrayed in this file

depicts

Swimming

nude swimming

media type

image/jpeg