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Thomas Eakins: A Motion Portrait - Currently Unavailable
Combines dramatic re-creation with documentary
still photography, interviews, and archival footage to tell the story
of American painter Thomas Eakins (1844-1916). His irascible personality,
use of nude models in coeducational classes, and insistence on the study
of anatomy and dissection by art students made Eakins a controversial
figure in Victorian America. His great themes--the nobility of everyday
life and the profound awareness of human mortality--brought him abuse
and neglect in his own time, but today they are the qualities for which
he is most highly prized. Includes commentary from his journals and writings
by his contemporaries. Interviews art historians Lloyd Goodrich, Elizabeth
Jones, and William Homer; collector Seymour Adelman; Eakins biographer
Sylvan Schendler; and two of Eakins's models, Alice Kurtz Whiteman and
Helen Parker Evans. Examines several major paintings by Eakins, including
Max Schmidt in a Single Scull, The Gross Clinic, The
Swimming Hole, and The Agnew Clinic as well as studies of the
sculptor William Rush at work. Narrated by Sam Waterston. American Masters
series.Curator's Comments: The mix of drama and documentary is not always successful here but it does offer a variety of insights into the creative development of this important American artist, and allows us to examine many of his paintings at length. DATE: 1986 COUNTRY: United States CREDITS: PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: TOPICS:
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