The recent toppling of a string of powerful figures for sexual abuse and harassment raises the question of how these people managed to conceal their behavior so long, in some instances after abusing ...

Five paintings by the artist Thomas Eakins could be sold away from Philadelphia. St. Charles Borromeo Seminary of the Philadelphia Archdiocese plans to sell the portraits of early 20th century ...

Descendants of Msgr. Patrick Garvey are challenging the Archdiocese of Philadelphia’s plans to sell a portrait of Garvey painted by Thomas Eakins. The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that former federal ...

Biographer Kirkpatrick brings the cinematic clarity of a documentary filmmaker to this portrait of Thomas Eakins, the controversial Philadelphia portrait artist whose ""failure to abide by the ...

The Art Institute of Chicago collects, preserves, and interprets works of art of the highest quality, representing the world’s diverse artistic traditions, for the inspiration and education of the ...

The night before her husband’s assassination, Jackie Kennedy slept under this painting. “Swimming,” by Thomas Eakins, had been lent to the hotel in Fort Worth where President John F. Kennedy and the ...

Thomas Eakins’s obsession with the body is well known and much studied. But what of the painter’s obsession with his own body? Throughout his career, he inserted himself into his paintings of modern ...