Drifting
1875
Thomas Eakins
Artist, American, 1844 - 1916
Artwork overview
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Medium
translucent watercolor on wove paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet: 28.26 × 41.91 cm (11 1/8 × 16 1/2 in.)
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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.