Object Information
Thomas Eakins
American, 1844-1916
Spinning, modeled 1882-83, cast c. 1886
Painted plaster
47 x 38.2 cm (18 1/2 x 15 in.)
Marion and Samuel Klasstorner Fund income, 1978.437
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Publication History
Milo M. Naeve, “Relief Sculpture, a Challenge Met by Saint–Gaudens, Bitter and Eakins,” Bulletin of The Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, n.d.), pp. 14–15, fig. 1.
Evan Turner, “Thomas Eakins, the Quest for Truth,” Art Institute of Chicago Centennial Lectures, Museum Studies, pp. 164–89, fig. 2.
Kenneth L. Ames, Victorian Furniture (Victorian Society in America, 1982), pp. 155–71, fig. 7.
Judith A. Barter et al., American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I (Art Institute of Chicago, 1998), pp. 229-31, no. 107.
Ownership History
Mrs. Thomas Eakins; LeRoy Ireland; Edward Hanley Collection; Unknown Ohio dealer; Larry Fleischman, Kennedy Galleries, New York City, by 1978; sold to The Art Institute of Chicago, 1978.