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James Nares: Street (00:02:17) 18091 views
[Female Portrait]
["Harry," Cat, and Unidentified Woman]
[Mrs. Crowell with Jimmy, Katie, and Fanny]
[Jimmy with Dog]
[Thomas Eakins's Horse Billy and Two Crowell Children at Avondale, Pennsylvania]
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Thomas Eakins employed photography as a way to imbue his paintings with increased naturalism. He used his students at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts as models and began to compile a photographic catalogue that would aid his studies of the human form. This image is a study of pose and gesture in which the stance of the models consciously echoes that of the figures in Eakins' sculpted relief Arcadia (1883) seen resting on a worktable.
Variant in JPGM collection.