Drifting

1875

Thomas Eakins

Associated Names
Thomas Eakins

Artist, American, 1844 - 1916

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    translucent watercolor on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    John Wilmerding Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 28.26 × 41.91 cm (11 1/8 × 16 1/2 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2025.89.46


Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1875

  • 8th Annual Exhibition, American Society of Painters in Watercolor, New York, 1875, no.208 (as No Wind-Race Boats Drifting).

1877

  • Water-Color Drawings Loaned to the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1877-1878, no. 18 (as No Wind, Race Boats Drifting).

1879

  • Louisville Industrial Exposition, Louisville, KY, 1879, no. 310 (as Waiting for a Breeze).

1970

  • Thomas Eakins, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1970, no. 19.

2004

  • American Masters from Bingham to Eakins: The John Wilmerding Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2004.

2010

  • Manly Pursuits: The Sporting Images of Thomas Eakins, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 2010, unnumbered catalogue.

Bibliography

1933

  • Goodrich, Lloyd. Thomas Eakins: His Life and Work. New York: 1933, 167.

1946

  • McHenry, Margaret. Thomas Eakins Who Painted. Oreland, PA: 1946, 162.

1971

  • Hoopes, Donelson F. Eakins Watercolors. New York: 1971, 34-37, pl. 7, det. cover.

1974

  • Hendricks, Gordon. The Life and Work of Thomas Eakins. New York: 1974, 83, 84.

1978

  • Siegl, Theodor. The Thomas Eakins Collection. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia: 1978, 57-59.

1982

  • Foster, Kathleen A. "Makers of the American Watercolor Movement, 1860-1890." Ph.D. dissertation, Yale University, New Haven, 1982: 216-217.

  • Goodrich, Lloyd. Thomas Eakins. 2 vols. Washington: 1982, I:89, 91, 108, 165, no. 43.

1992

  • Homer, William Innes. Thomas Eakins: His Life and Art. New York: 1992, 68, 69, no. 59.

1997

  • Foster, Kathleen A. Thomas Eakins Rediscovered: Charles Bregler's Thomas Eakins Collection at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. New Haven and London: 1997, 429, 430.

2001

  • Thomas Eakins. Exh. cat. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, 2001-2002: xxix, 391, no. 36.

Inscriptions

"Eakins 75" lower right composition, traslucent watercolor.


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