A work from tThe exhibit, "Thomas Eakins and The Boys," from the Boulton Collection, which will be on display from April 7- April 28 at Pedersen Gallery, 17 North Union St., Lambertville.

One of the best American painters of the 19th century, Thomas Eakins, was an early adopter of photographic technology. It turned out to be professional suicide. Thomas Eakins was 35 years old in 1879 ...

By 1870, when Thomas Eakins returned home from a period spent studying painting in Paris, “sport had come to epitomize modern life” in his native country. The wealthy used newfound leisure ...

Consequently, it is difficult for the 21st century observer to imagine the shock and revulsion Thomas Eakins provoked with both “The Gross Clinic” in 1876 and with a follow-up portrait ...

Thomas Eakins' "The Gross Clinic" has been called the finest American painting of the 19th century. But curators at the Philadelphia Museum of Art say the version in art-history textbooks isn't ...

American painter Thomas Eakins (1844-1916) spent most of his life in Philadelphia, living in the family home and financially supported by his father. At the time of his death he had received only ...

Thomas Eakins died of heart failure shortly before one o'clock in the afternoon of Sunday, June 25, 1916. Eakins had requested that there be no funeral or flowers and that his body be cremated.