Author: Elizabeth Johns

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 1991-02-01

Total Pages: 323

ISBN-13: 1400820251

Why did Thomas Eakins, now considered the foremost American painter of the nineteenth century, make portraiture his main field in an era when other major artists disdained such a choice? With a rich discussion of the cultural and vocational context of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Elizabeth Johns answers this question.