The titles listed below are the basic general sources for the study of Thomas Eakins. For more comprehensive bibliographies, see Goodrich (1982) and the updates in Foster (1997) and Sewell (2001). Researchers should be familiar with these materials before visiting the collection.
Berger, Martin A., Man Made: Thomas Eakins and the Construction of Gilded Age Manhood (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2000)
Bolger, Doreen and Cash, Sarah, eds. Thomas Eakins and the Swimming Picture. (Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum, 1996).
Braddock, Alan C. Thomas Eakins and the Cultures of Modernity (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009).
Burns, Sarah. “Ordering the Artist’s Body: Thomas Eakins’s Acts of Self-Portrayal.” American Art (Spring 2005), 83-107.
Danly, Susan, and Leibold, Cheryl. Eakins and the Photograph: Work by Thomas Eakins and His Circle in the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1994).
Foster, Kathleen A. Thomas Eakins Rediscovered (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997).
Foster, Kathleen A. "An Important Eakins Collection." Antiques 130, no. 6 (Dec. 1986), pp. 1228-37.
Foster, Kathleen A., editor. A Drawing Manual by Thomas Eakins. (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2005).
Foster, Kathleen A., and Leibold, Cheryl, Writing About Eakins: The Manuscripts in Charles Bregler's Thomas Eakins Collection (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1989).
James-Gadzinski, Susan, and Cunningham, Mary Mullen, American Sculpture in the Museum of American Art of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (1997), pp. 90-100.
Goodrich, Lloyd. Thomas Eakins. 2 vols. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press for the National Gallery of Art, 1982).
Homer, William Innes, Thomas Eakins, His Life and Art. (New York: Abbeville Press. 1992).
Johns, Elizabeth. Thomas Eakins: The Heroism of Modern Life. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983).
Parry, Ellwood C., III. "Thomas Eakins's 'Naked Series' Reconsidered: Another Look at the Standing Nude Photographs Made for the Use of Eakins's Students." American Art Journal (Spring 1988), 53-77.
Rosenzweig, Phyllis D. The Thomas Eakins Collection of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1977).
Sewell, Darrell, et al. Thomas Eakins. (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2001).
Siegl, Theodor. The Thomas Eakins Collection. (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1978, to be updated in 2009).
Werbel, Amy. Thomas Eakins: Art Medicine, and Sexuality in Nineteenth–Century Philadelphia. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008).