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Eakins revised.(Books about antiques)(Book Review)

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From: The Magazine Antiques
Date: 20050601
Author:Mayor, Alfred

Henry Adams's revisionist biography of Thomas Eakins concludes with a pair of photographs of the pot-bellied painter at about the age of sixty-five. He is shown naked, first standing in the shallows of the Cohansey River in Fairton, New Jersey, and then diving in. The author comments that "In these two photographs he resembles nothing more than a big, fat, naked baby, and for once in his life, Thomas Eakins looks truly happy."

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It is about the only mention of happiness in this extensive book, which draws on the mother lode of Eakins related papers ...

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