About the Artwork
Three Female Nudes, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
ca. 1883
Thomas Cowperthwaite Eakins
1844-1916
American
Unknown
Albumen print
Image: 5 × 3 5/8 inches (12.7 × 9.2 cm) Sheet: 5 1/8 × 3 7/8 inches (13 × 9.8 cm) Mount: 6 1/2 × 4 1/2 inches (16.5 × 11.4 cm)
Photographs
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund
F77.104
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Markings
Inscribed, on verso, lower center, in pencil: C Inscribed, on verso, upper left, in black ink (inscribed by Olympia Galleries): eakins | olympia galleries, ltd. | philadelphia cat. #0-9
Provenance
Edward H. Coates (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)
Family of Edward H. Coates (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)
Olympia Galleries, exhibition, 1976, #9 (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)
Sotheby Parke Bernet Sale, November 10, 1966, #514 (New York, New York, USA). 1977-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Adams, Henry. "Some 'New' Letters by Thomas Eakins's Brother-in-Law, Frank Stephens." Archives of American Art Journal, 44, 3-4 (2005): p. 16 (ill.).
Bulletin of the DIA 56 (1978): p. 341 (fig. 41).
"Family Art Game." DIA Advertising Supplement, Detroit News (April 14, 1985): p. 23 (ill.).
100 Masterworks from the Detroit Institute of Arts. New York, 1985, pp. 166-167 (ill.).
Onorato, Ronald J. "Photography and Teaching: Eakins at the Academy." American Art Review (July-August 1976): p. 113, no. 9 (ill.).
Photographs from Detroit Collections. Detroit,1983, p.16 (fig. 8).
Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc. Thomas Eakins Photographs. New York, 1977, no. 514 (ill.).
"Special Photography Issue." Printable News (September 1979): p. 1 (ill.).
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Thomas Cowperthwaite Eakins, Three Female Nudes, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, ca. 1883, albumen print. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund, F77.104.
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