Spinning

Arts of the Americas

Modeled 1882–83, cast c. 1886

Thomas Eakins (American, 1844–1916)

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Thomas Eakins
Title: Spinning
Place: Philadelphia (Place depicted)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1882–1886
Medium: Painted plaster
Dimensions: 47 × 38.2 cm (18 1/2 × 15 in.)
Credit Line: Marian and Samuel Klasstorner Fund
Reference Number: 1978.437
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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.), 14–15, fig. 1.
Evan Turner, “Thomas Eakins, the Quest for Truth,” Art Institute of Chicago Centennial Lectures, Museum Studies, 164–89, fig. 2.
Kenneth L. Ames, Victorian Furniture (Victorian Society in America, 1982), 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), 229–31, no. 107.

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.

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