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From: Roanoke Times & World News
Date: 20050529
Author:Reviewed by William L. Whitwell

EAKINS REVEALED. By Henry Adams. Oxford University Press. $40.

Reviewed by William L. Whitwell

WILLIAM L. WHITWELL is president of Whitwell & Winborne Ltd., appraisers of antiques and fine arts in Roanoke.

This book may perturb some Roanokers. It paints an unflattering picture of Thomas Eakins, a distinguished artist of particular importance to the Art Museum of Western Virginia, which owns a number of his paintings. (They were bequethed to the museum by the estate of Peggy Macdowell Thomas, Eakins' great-niece, who died in 2001.) It is based on documents from Eakins' studio, discovered in ...

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