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Thomas Pollock Anshutz (October 5, 1851 – June 16, 1912) was an American painter and teacher. Known for his portraiture and genre scenes, Anshutz was a co-founder of The Darby School. One of Thomas Eakins's most prominent students, he succeeded Eakins as director of drawing and painting classes at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.
Thomas Pollock Anshutz (Newport, 5 ottobre 1851 – Filadelfia, 16 giugno 1912) è stato un pittore statunitense. Di impostazione naturalista e figurativo, fu docente di pittura, cofondatore della Darby School e capo della " Pennsylvania Academy of Art".
Thomas Pollock Anshutz (October 5, 1851 – June 16, 1912) was an American painter and teacher. Co-founder of The Darby School and leader at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Anshutz was known for his award-winning portraiture work and working friendship with Thomas Eakins .
- American
- October 5, 1851
- Newport, Kentucky, United States
- June 16, 1912
Anshutz posed his models to capture body movements and gestures and provide outdoor compositional arrangements. Introduced in the 1840s and easy to process, cyanotype were originally used by mapmakers and scientists.
- October 5, 1851
- June 16, 1912
Biography. Born in Newport, Kentucky, Thomas Anshutz studied at the National Academy of Design in New York City. He continued his education at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where he was an assistant to the director, Thomas Eakins. In 1886 Eakins was forced to resign because of his radical teaching methods, and Anshutz succeeded him.
Thomas Pollock Anshutz (October 5, 1851 – June 16, 1912) was an American painter and teacher. Co-founder of The Darby School and leader at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Anshutz was known for his award winning portraiture work and working friendship with Thomas Eakins.
Born in Kentucky and raised in West Virginia, Thomas Anshutz moved to Brooklyn in 1871. During that turbulent decade, a number of artists painted images of African American life with varying degrees of naturalism and stereotyping. Here, Anshutz embraces the former, portraying a woman and two children in a well-tended patch of tobacco.
