Eakins, Thomas
American painter
Thomas Eakins: The Gross Clinic
Thomas Eakins, in full Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins, (born July 25, 1844, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.—died June 25, 1916, Philadelphia), painter who carried the tradition of 19th-century American Realism to perhaps its highest achievement. He painted mainly portraits of his friends and scenes of outdoor sports, such as swimming and boating (e.g., Max Schmitt in a Single Scull, 1871). The work generally acknowledged as his masterpiece—The Gross Clinic (1875), which depicts a surgical operation—was received with distaste by his contemporaries because of its frank and unsentimental nature.
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