PAFA owns several major works of art by Eakins other than objects received in the Bregler collection, for which documentation is available in PAFA object files:
- Walt Whitman, 1888
- Charles Edmund Dana, 1902
- Harrison Morris, 1896
- Dr. Samuel D. Gross (The Gross Clinic), 1874, (co-owned with the Philadelphia Museum of Art).
Research files amassed during cataloguing and publication of PAFA publications (see Reading List, below) are available for study by appointment.
Eakins Reading List
General sources for the study of Thomas Eakins. More…
Eakins Resources at the PAFA Library
The PAFA library (housed in the Hamilton Building at 128 N. Broad St.) contains an extensive file of newspaper clippings on Thomas Eakins, as well as the major books on the artist. The library is open to the public by appointment (e-mail: library@pafa.org).
The Philadelphia Museum of Art also houses an extensive research center on Thomas Eakins.