Study for Artist and His Father Hunting Reed-Birds

1. By descent to the artist's wife, Susan Macdowell Eakins (1851–1938), Philadelphia, from 1916–at least 1933 [Goodrich 1933]; probably to Charles Bregler (1864–1958), Philadelphia, by 1943 [former label in curatorial file and Kathleen A. Foster, Thomas Eakins Rediscovered (Yale University Press, 1997), pp. 1–2.]; Dr. Peter McKinney, Chicago, by 1974 [on extended loan to The Art Institute, by 1974]; given to The Art Institute, 2015.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Washington DC, Smithsonian Institution, "American Art in the Making: Preparatory Studies for Masterpieces of American Painting, 1800-1900," 1976, cat. 47.

• Lloyd Goodrich, Thomas Eakins: His Life and Work, exh .cat. (AMS Press, Inc., 1933), p. 166, cat. 69, as Perspective Drawing.
• David Sellin, American Art in the Making: Preparatory Studies for Masterpieces of American Painting, 1800-1900, exh. cat. (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1976), pp. frontispiece (ill.), title page (ill.), copyright page, 45, 47–48 (ill.), 92, figs. 69, 71, 72, cat. 47.

Study for "William Rush Carving His Allegorical Figure of the Schuylkill River"

Art Institute of Chicago

Portrait of Mary Adeline Williams

Art Institute of Chicago

Riter Fitzgerald

Art Institute of Chicago

The Zither Player

Art Institute of Chicago

Knitting

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Spinning

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Thomas Eakins

Art Institute of Chicago

Study for "Swimming"

Art Institute of Chicago

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