Home Ranch

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Home Ranch

1892

Thomas Eakins (American, 1844–1916)

Eakins returned from a stay in the Bad Lands of the Dakota Territory with the cowboy's fringed buckskin suit worn here by Eakins's colleague and student, Franklin Schenck. Posed in Eakins's studio, Schenck sings and plays the guitar while Samuel Murray watches and listens in an evocation of life on a ranch that one critic called "romantic," an unusual description for an Eakins work.

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Object Details

Title:

Home Ranch

Date:

1892

Artist:

Thomas Eakins (American, 1844–1916)

Medium:

Oil on canvas

Dimensions:

24 x 20 inches (61 x 50.8 cm) Framed: 30 5/8 x 26 1/4 x 2 13/16 inches (77.8 x 66.7 x 7.1 cm)

Classification:

Paintings

Credit Line:

Gift of Mrs. Thomas Eakins and Miss Mary Adeline Williams, 1929

Accession Number:

1929-184-12

Geography:

Made in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, North and Central America

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