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While a teacher at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the celebrated American artist Thomas Eakins (1844 1916) prepared a drawing manual for his students. The manuscript developed out of his famous lectures at the Academy on linear perspective, mechanical drawing, reflections, and sculptural relief and included illustrations by the artist. Following his forced resignation from the Academy in 1886, Eakins abandoned plans to publish the manual, and the parts were dispersed. Today, drafts of the manuscript reside at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and at the Academy, which also holds many of the illustrations.
A Drawing Manual brings together Eakins’s text, based on a concordance of the drafts, and his original drawings for the project. This remarkable publication reveals Eakins’s personality and teaching philosophy, demonstrating why the artist was renowned as a plainspoken, effective teacher. In her fascinating introduction, Kathleen A. Foster sketches the background of the manuscript in the artist’s life and the story of the publication project. Amy B. Werbel provides an illuminating essay on Eakins’s place in the tradition of perspective drawing.
This book is essential for any student, scholar, curator, or individual interested in American art and art education.
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This historic volume publishes for the first time Thomas Eakins’s manual on drawing, originally prepared by the artist for his students at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Eakins’s original text, along with his studies on linear perspective and mechanical drawing, reveal his extraordinary expertise, personality, and teaching philosophy.
About the Author
Kathleen A. Foster is the Robert L. McNeil, Jr., Curator of American Art and Director of the Center for American Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. She has published extensively on Eakins, including Thomas Eakins Rediscovered (Yale University Press). Amy B. Werbel is Associate Professor of Fine Arts at Saint Michael’s College, Vermont.
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- PublisherPhiladelphia Museum / Yale
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 0876331762
- ISBN 13 9780876331767
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages125
- IllustratorWell-illustrated
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A Drawing Manual by Thomas Eakins
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Hardcover. Condition: As New. Well-illustrated (illustrator). White illus. boards with black lettering and red spine; 125 pp. with numerous bw line drawings. "Thomas Eakins wrote and illustrated this drawing manual for students, based on his famous lectures at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. After his forced resignation in 1886, Eakins abandoned plans to publish the manual. The manuscript and illustrations remained in his studio, where they were recovered after the death of the artist's widow in 1988. Published here for the first time, the drawing manual offers readers a unique opportunity to meet Eakins in his own words."- book cover. Contents as follows: The tools of art : the drawing manual of Thomas Eakins / Kathleen A. Foster -- Thomas Eakins : last of the art crusaders / Amy B. Werbel -- A drawing manual / Thomas Eakins. Ch. I. Linear perspective : tracing on a window pane -- Ch. II. Linear perspective : picture plane established -- Ch. III. Linear perspective : theory of vanishing points -- Ch. IV. Mechanical drawing -- Ch. V. Isometric drawing -- Ch. VI. Reflections in water -- Ch. VII. Sculptured relief -- Notes on the construction of a camera -- Notes on the differential action of certain muscles passing more than one joint -- Refraction. Seller Inventory # 109863
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