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The Swimming Hole (also known as Swimming and The Old Swimming Hole) is an 1884–85 painting by the American artist Thomas Eakins (1844–1916), Goodrich catalog #190, in the collection of the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth, Texas.
He posed for several of Eakins's paintings, including The Crucifixion (1880), Arcadia (1883) and The Swimming Hole (1884–85), and for dozens of photographs. In 1881, he became Eakins's assistant. [citation needed] In 1891, he moved to Omaha, Nebraska to take the position of Director of the Western Art Association. That organization soon ...
Some of the photographs were used as studies for subsequent works, including those of nude young men swimming and relaxing on the shore of Dove Lake for the painting The Swimming Hole (1884–85). Eakins's models for Arcadia were his former student and soon-to-be wife, Susan Macdowell , his teaching assistant at PAFA, J. Laurie Wallace , and ...
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Detail of Schmitt. Note the riggers.. Max Schmitt (1843–1900) had attended Philadelphia Central High School with Eakins, and the two were close friends. Schmitt was a member of the Pennsylvania Barge Club – as, it is presumed, was Eakins – one of nine men's clubs in the Schuylkill Navy, and twelve that rowed on the river.
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