Woman Reading (1879-84). Susan Macdowell Eakins (American, 1851–1938). Oil on canvas
Woman Reading (1879-84). Susan Macdowell Eakins (American, 1851–1938). Oil on canvas. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.Eakins was the wife of Thomas Eakins. She was a student of Eakins while he was an instructor at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. She adopted a sober, realistic style similar to her teacher’s.She and Eakins both shared a passion for photography, both as photographers and subjects, and employed it as a tool for their art. She also posed nude for many of his photos and took images of him.After his death in 1916, she returned to painting, in a style that became warmer, looser, and brighter in tone. -- source link
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