Philadelphia, Pa. : Philadelphia Museum of Art, Date: 2002. First Edition. Softcover. Fine copy in the original stiff-card wrappers. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Provenance; the critic and poetry activist Charles Tomlinson’s copy; signed and inscribed by the author to him. Physical description: xli, 446 pages: illustrations (some color); 32 cm. Contents: Thomas Eakins and American art / Darrel Sewell -- Chronology / Kathleen Brown -- Eakins's early years / Amy B. Werbel -- Studies in Paris and Spain / H. Barbara Weinberg -- The 1870s / Marc Simpson -- Images of Fairmount Park in Philadelphia / Elizabeth Milroy -- Eakins and the academy / Kathleen A. Foster -- The 1880s / Marc Simpson -- Eakins's vision of the past and the building of a reputation / Marc Simpson -- Photographs and the making of paintings / Mark Tucker and Nica Gutman -- The camera artist / W. Douglass Paschall -- The 1890s / Marc Simpson -- Portraits of teachers and thinkers / Kathleen A. Foster -- The 1900s / Marc Simpson -- The pursuit of ""true tones"" / Mark Tucker and Nica Gutman -- Eakins in the twentieth century / Carol Troyen -- Eakins as a writer / William Innes Homer. Subjects: Eakins, Thomas 1844-1916; Exhibitions.Eakins, Thomas 1844-1916; Expositions. Painting, American 19th century; Exhibitions.Painting, American 20th century; Exhibitions. 2002. Philadelphia, Pa. : Philadelphia Museum of Art ISBN 0876331428 9780876331422 [IE]