The Writing Master
Painting by Thomas Eakins
| The Writing Master | |
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 The painting | |
| Artist | Thomas Eakins |
| Year | 1882 (1882) |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 76.2 cm × 87 cm (30.0 in × 34 in) |
| Location | Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
| Accession | 17.173 |
The Writing Master is an oil painting on canvas executed in 1882 by the American painter Thomas Eakins. It is part of the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York.[1]
The subject of the painting is Eakin's father, the calligraphist Benjamin Eakins. He is seen seated at a desk, in a dark room, fully absorbed in his writing.
The work is on view in the Metropolitan Museum's Gallery 764
See also
- List of works by Thomas Eakins
- 1882 in art
References
- ^ "The Writing Master - Thomas Eakins - 17.173 - Work of Art - Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History - The Metropolitan Museum of Art". Archived from the original on 2016-09-02. Retrieved 2016-09-20.
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Thomas Eakins
- List of works
- Max Schmitt in a Single Scull (1871)
- Portrait of Professor Benjamin H. Rand (1874)
- The Gross Clinic (1875)
- The Chess Players
- William Rush Carving His Allegorical Figure of the Schuylkill River (1876)
- The Fairman Rogers Four-in-Hand (1879–1880)
- The Writing Master (1882)
- Arcadia (1883)
- The Swimming Hole (1885)
- The Artist's Wife and His Setter Dog (c. 1884–1889)
- The Agnew Clinic (1889)
- Miss Amelia Van Buren (1891)
- The Concert Singer (1892)
- Portrait of Maud Cook (1895)
- The Pianist (1896)
- Taking the Count (1898)
- Salutat (1898)
- Between Rounds (1899)
- Wrestlers (1899)
- Portrait of Mary Adeline Williams (1899, 1900)
- The Thinker: Portrait of Louis N. Kenton (1900)
- Portrait of Leslie W. Miller (1901)
- Self-portrait (1902)
- Archbishop William Henry Elder (1903)
- William Rush and His Model (1908)
- Susan Macdowell Eakins (wife)
- Thomas Eakins House
- Conservation-restoration of The Gross Clinic
- Eakins Oval
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