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image of The Biglin Brothers Racing
Thomas Eakins (artist)
American, 1844 - 1916
The Biglin Brothers Racing, 1872
oil on canvas
Overall: 61.2 x 91.6 cm (24 1/8 x 36 1/16 in.) framed: 74.9 x 105.7 x 5.4 cm (29 1/2 x 41 5/8 x 2 1/8 in.)
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney
1953.7.1
From the Tour: Homer and Eakins: American Painters in the Late 1800s
Object 2 of 8

1930Art News 29 (20 December 1930): repro. 68.
1930Goodrich, Lloyd. "Thomas Eakins, Realist." Pennsylvania Museum Bulletin 25 (March 1930): 18, no. 19.
1933Goodrich, Lloyd. Thomas Eakins. New York, 1933: no. 61, 165.
1956Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York, 1956: 56, repro.
1959Bouton, Margaret. American Painting in the National Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C., 1959 (Booklet Number One in Ten Schools of Painting in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.): 7, 28, color repro.
1962Cairns, Huntington and John Walker, eds., Treasures from the National Gallery of Art, New York, 1962: 146, color repro.
1963Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. New York, 1963 (reprinted 1964 in French, German, and Spanish): 289, repro.
1966Cairns, Huntington and John Walker, eds., A Pageant of Painting from the National Gallery of Art. 2 vols. New York, 1966: 2:484, color repro.
1967Schendler, Sylvan. Eakins. Boston, 1967: 37, repro. 38.
1970American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 52, repro.
1973Williams, Hermann Warner. Mirror to the American Past: A Survey of American Genre Painting, 1750-1900. Greenwich, Connecticut, 1973: 224.
1974Hendricks, Gordon. The Life and Work of Thomas Eakins. New York, 1974: 71, 325, fig. 58.
1977Rosenzweig, Phyllis D. The Thomas Eakins Collection of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Washington, D.C., 1977: repro. 52.
1980Wilmerding, John. American Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 16, 144, no. 38, color repro.
1980American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 148, repro.
1981Williams 1981, 152, repro.
1982Goodrich, Lloyd. Thomas Eakins. 2 vols. Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1982: 1:97, 117, color fig. 42.
1982Wilmerding, John. Bellows: The Boxing Pictures. Washington, D.C., 1982: 18-19, repro. 18.
1983Johns, Elizabeth. Thomas Eakins: The Heroism of Modern Life. Princeton, 1983: 42, note 51, fig. 29.
1984Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. (rev. ed.) New York, 1984: 550, no. 836, color repro.
1988Wilmerding, John. American Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art. National Gallery of Art, Washington (rev. ed.), 1988: 132, no. 43, color repro.
1992Homer, William Innes. Thomas Eakins: His Life and Art. New York, 1992: 129, color repro. 132.
1992American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 165, repro.
1996Thomas Eakins: The Rowing Pictures. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven; The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996-1997: no. 22.
1996Cooper, Helen A. Thomas Eakins: The Rowing Pictures. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven; Cleveland Museum of Art. New Haven and London, 1996: 44-52, 137, fig. 22, fig. 23 (detail).
1996Kelly, Franklin, with Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr., Deborah Chotner, and John Davis. American Paintings of the Nineteenth Century, Part I. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1996: 157-162, color repro.
1997Gebhardt, Volker. Kunstgeschichte Malerei, 1997, no.177, repro.
1998Gilbert, Rita. Living with Art, 1998, no. 92, repro.

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