Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00001858Knitting
Provenance
Mrs. Thomas Eakins; LeRoy Ireland; Edward Hanley Collection; Unknown Ohio dealer; Larry Fleischman, Kennedy Galleries, New York City, by 1978; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1978.
Publications
Milo M. Naeve, “Relief Sculpture, a Challenge Met by Saint–Gaudens, Bitter and Eakins,” Bulletin of The Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, n.d.), 14–15, fig. 12. Evan Turner, “Thomas Eakins, the Quest for Truth,” Art Institute of Chicago Centennial Lectures, Museum Studies, 164–89, fig. 1. Judith A. Barter, et al., American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I (Art Institute of Chicago, 1998), 229–31, no. 108.
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
- Modeled 1882–83, cast c. 1886
- Medium
- Painted plaster
- Dimensions
- 47 × 38.2 cm (18 1/2 × 15 in.)
- Type
- Sculpture
- Classification
- sculpture
- Style
- Realism
- Place
- Philadelphia
- Department
- Arts of the Americas
- Credit line
- Marian and Samuel Klasstorner Fund
- Accession no.
- 1978.438
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