A drawing manual /
"Thomas Eakins wrote and illustrated this drawing manual for students, based on his famous lectures at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. After his forced resignation in 1886, Eakins abandoned plans to publish the manual. The manuscript and illustrations remained in his studio, where th...
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Philadelphia, PA :
Philadelphia Museum of Art,
©2005.
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| Series: | Primary sources in American art ;
no. 1. |
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Table of Contents:
- The tools of art : the drawing manual of Thomas Eakins / Kathleen A. Foster
- Thomas Eakins : last of the art crusaders / Amy B. Werbel
- A drawing manual / Thomas Eakins. Ch. I. Linear perspective : tracing on a window pane
- Ch. II. Linear perspective : picture plane established
- Ch. III. Linear perspective : theory of vanishing points
- Ch. IV. Mechanical drawing
- Ch. V. Isometric drawing
- Ch. VI. Reflections in water
- Ch. VII. Sculptured relief
- Notes on the construction of a camera
- Notes on the differential action of certain muscles passing more than one joint
- Refraction.