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100	1		_aJohns, Elizabeth, _d1937-
245	1	0	_aThomas Eakins : _bthe heroism of modern life / _cby Elizabeth Johns.
264		1	_aPrinceton, N.J. : _bPrinceton University Press, _c1983.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	2		_a1. Eakins, modern life, and the portrait -- 2. Max Schmitt in a single scull, or The champion single sculls -- 3. The Gross Clinic, or Portrait of professor Gross -- 4. William Rush carving his allegorical figure of the Schuylkill River -- 5. The concert singer -- 6. Walt Whitman.
520			_aWhy did Thomas Eakins, now considered the foremost American painter of the nineteenth century, make portraiture his main field in an era when other major artists disdained such a choice? With a rich discussion of the cultural and vocational context of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Elizabeth Johns answers this question.
600	1	0	_aEakins, Thomas, _d1844-1916.
650		0	_aPainting _xPsychological aspects.
650		0	_aPainting, American _y19th century _xThemes, motives.
650		0	_aPortrait painting _zUnited States _y19th century.
856	4	0	_3A&AePortal (Yale University Press) _uhttps://aaeportal.com/?id=-23363
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