f America is to produce great painters, " wrote great American painter Thomas Eakins (1844–1916), young artists should " remain in America to peer deeper into the heart of American life " (1). Eakins traveled abroad, where he became familiar with the work of 19th-century greats Gustave Courbet, Édouard Manet, and Edgar Degas, but returned home to become a master of realism whose exactness and p...
