Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00000889Study for "William Rush Carving His Allegorical Figure of the Schuylkill River"
Exhibition history
Washington, DC, National Gallery of Art, Thomas Eakins, A Retrospective Exhibition, Oct. 8–Nov. 12, 1961, cat. 26; Art Institute of Chicago, Dec. 1, 1961–Jan. 7, 1962; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Feb. 1–Mar. 18, 1962. Art Institute of Chicago, Art at the Time of the Centennial, June 19–Aug. 15, 1976, no cat., as Nude. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Thomas Eakins: American Realist, Oct. 4, 2001–Jan. 6, 2002, cat.; Paris, Musee d'Orsay, Thomas Eakins (1844-1916) An American Realist, Feb. 3–May 12, 2002; New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Thomas Eakins, June 10–Sept. 15, 2002 (Philadelphia and New York only).
Publications
National Gallery of Art, Thomas Eakins, A Retrospective Exhibition, exh. cat. (National Gallery of Art, 1961), 58, cat. 26 (ill.).
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Thomas Eakins (American, 1844–1916)
- Date
- 1876–77
- Medium
- Oil on canvas mounted on board
- Dimensions
- 35.9 × 28.6 cm (14 1/8 × 11 1/4 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- painting
- Style
- Realism
- Place
- United States
- Department
- Arts of the Americas
- Credit line
- Bequest of Dr. John J. Ireland
- Accession no.
- 1968.91
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