Thomas Eakins and the Swimming Picture by: Eakins, Thomas
Paperback. Fort Worth, TX, Amon Carter Mseum , 1st wraps, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 152 pages. 2l color, 83 B&W plates. Edited by Doreen Bolger and Sarah Cash. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. Examines a single painting that is now widely regarded as an American masterpiece: Swimming, completed in 1885 by the Philadelphia artist, Thomas Eakins (1844-1916).