Spinning by Thomas Eakins
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Spinning

Thomas Eakins · Modeled 1882–83, cast c. 1886

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Mrs. Thomas Eakins; LeRoy Ireland; Edward Hanley Collection; Unknown Ohio dealer; Larry Fleischman, Kennedy Galleries, New York City, by 1978; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1978.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Literature

Published references

  • Milo M. Naeve, “Relief Sculpture, a Challenge Met by Saint–Gaudens, Bitter and Eakins,” Bulletin of The Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, n.d.), 14–15, fig. 1.
  • Evan Turner, “Thomas Eakins, the Quest for Truth,” Art Institute of Chicago Centennial Lectures, Museum Studies, 164–89, fig. 2.
  • Kenneth L. Ames, Victorian Furniture (Victorian Society in America, 1982), 155–71, fig. 7.
  • Judith A. Barter, et al., American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I (Art Institute of Chicago, 1998), 229–31, no. 107.

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