About This Artwork

Thomas Eakins
American, 1844-1916

Knitting, 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, 1978.438

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. 12.

Evan Turner, “Thomas Eakins, the Quest for Truth,” Art Institute of Chicago Centennial Lectures, Museum Studies, pp. 164–89, fig. 1.

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. 108.

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.