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Although varying in execution and finish—from the cool tones and broad brushwork of <I>Charles Percival Buck</I> to the warmer, more mottled effects of <I>A Singer (Mrs. W. H. Bowden)</I>, an apparently incomplete work still in the artist’s studio when he died—Eakins’s late portraits are cohered by a stilled, introspective, often melancholy quality. As a result of the portraits’ frequently unflattering character, many of Eakins’s sitters refused to accept works executed on commission (one businessman paid the artist to take his portrait back), and Eakins relied instead on family and friends for subjects. While the reception accorded these two portraits is unknown, they are undeniably effectual characterizations of the complex inner lives Eakins perceived in each sitter.</P></SPAN>","remarks":"MEB Rotation July 2015"},{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Provenance","textentryhtml":"Mrs. Helen L. Montgomery (a sister-in-law of either the artist or sitter), ca. 1933 [1]. [Sotheby’s, New York (NY), American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, November 30, 1989,\n\nGalleries, New York, lot n. 59, bought in]. Purchased by John Wilmerding (1938-2024), by 1991; donated to the Princeton University Art Museum, 1991.\n[1] Lloyd Goodrich, Thomas Eakins: His Life and Work, New York 1933, p. 396.","remarks":null}],"media":[{"id":7589,"uri":"https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/y1991-3","isprimary":1,"rank":1,"mediatypeid":1,"mediaviewtype":"(not assigned)","restrictions":null,"caption":"Luna Digitization Project"}],"hasimage":"true","bibliography":[{"boilertext":"Lloyd Goodrich, <EM>Thomas Eakins: his life and work</EM>, (New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1933).","citation":"Lloyd Goodrich, <EM>Thomas Eakins: his life and work</EM>, (New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1933)., cat. no. 196; p. 198 (typo on accession card)","date":1933,"id":3539,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/18406486"},{"boilertext":"\"Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1991,\" <em>Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University </em>51, no. 1 (1992): p. 22-78.","citation":"\"Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1991,\" <em>Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University </em>51, no. 1 (1992): p. 22-78., p. 23","date":1992,"id":3085,"uri":"https://www.jstor.org/stable/3774711"}],"exhibitions":[],"geography":[{"displaygeography":"Place made: North America, United States, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia","code":"Place made","continent":"North America","subcontinent":null,"country":"United States","region":null,"state":"Pennsylvania","city":"Philadelphia","county":null,"subregion":null,"locale":null,"locus":null,"river":null,"excavation":null,"geoname":"https://www.geonames.org/4560349/philadelphia.html","location":{"lat":"","lon":""}}],"terms":[{"id":2053145,"term":"oil paintings","aatid":300033799,"termtype":"Classification"},{"id":2038492,"term":"American","aatid":300107956,"termtype":"Culture"},{"id":2055723,"term":"portraits","aatid":300015637,"termtype":"Subject"},{"id":2057221,"term":"brown","aatid":300127490,"termtype":"Subject"},{"id":2061154,"term":"white (color)","aatid":300129784,"termtype":"Subject"},{"id":2061162,"term":"gray (color)","aatid":300130811,"termtype":"Subject"},{"id":2061306,"term":"black","aatid":300130920,"termtype":"Subject"},{"id":2052977,"term":"paintings","aatid":300033618,"termtype":"Classification"},{"id":2088270,"term":"men","aatid":300025928,"termtype":"Subject"},{"id":2171344,"term":"canvas","aatid":null,"termtype":"Materials"},{"id":2167780,"term":"oil paint","aatid":300015050,"termtype":"Materials"}],"classifications":[{"id":2052977,"classification":"paintings"},{"id":2053145,"classification":"oil paintings"}],"cultures":[],"cultureterms":[{"id":2038492,"culture":"American"}],"periods":[],"periodterms":[],"attribute_groups":[{"id":2199325,"term":"North American Art","termtype":"Collecting Area"}],"dimensionelements":[{"element":"Overall","type":"Height","units":"centimeters","dimension":"61.00"},{"element":"Overall","type":"Width","units":"centimeters","dimension":"51.00"},{"element":"frame","type":"Height","units":"centimeters","dimension":"82.54"},{"element":"frame","type":"Width","units":"centimeters","dimension":"72.40"},{"element":"frame","type":"Depth","units":"centimeters","dimension":"8.25"}],"packages":[{"packageid":213904,"name":"Gallery_23-27(Pavilion7)-American"},{"packageid":278831,"name":"10282025-DAY1-ONVIEW"},{"packageid":190619,"name":"x-COMPLETE-Image_descriptions_HB"},{"packageid":207234,"name":"SAB_Gala2021"},{"packageid":204016,"name":"x-COMPLETE-image_descriptions_American_Art_paintings"}],"primaryimage":["https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/y1991-3"],"displaymaker":"Thomas Eakins, 1844–1916; born and died Philadelphia, PA","displayculture":null,"displayperiod":null,"caption":"Thomas Eakins (1844–1916; born and died Philadelphia, PA), Charles Percival Buck, 1904. 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