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When you first commence painting everything is a muddle. Even the commonest colors seem to have the devil in them.
Thomas Eakins
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Thomas Eakins
Age: 71 †
Born: 1844
Born: July 25
Died: 1916
Died: June 25
Art Educator
Painter
Photographer
Sculptor
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins
Thomas Cowperthwaite Eakins
C.D. Cook
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I taught in the Academy from the opening of the schools until I was turned out, a period much longer than I should have permitted myself to remain there. My honors are misunderstanding, persecution and neglect, enhanced because unsought.
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