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Artist	Thomas Eakins (1844–1916)   Description American painter, aquarellist, sculptor and photographer Date of birth/death 25 July 1844 25 June 1916 Location of birth/death Philadelphia Philadelphia Work location Philadelphia (ca. 1860–1916), Paris (1866–1870), Netherlands Authority control WorldCat
Title	Swimming
Description	Also known as The Swimming Hole and The Swimmers. This painting was painted using the pictures of his art students bathing in the nude (See the gallery below).
Date	1885
Medium	oil on canvas
Dimensions	27.625 × 36.625 in (70.2 × 93 cm)
Current location	Amon Carter Museum of American Art Native name Amon Carter Museum Location 3501 Camp Bowie Boulevard Fort Worth, Texas United States Coordinates 32° 44′ 52.80″ N, 97° 22′ 8.40″ W    Established 1961 Website Amon Carter Museum Authority control WorldCat
Accession number	1990-19-1
Object history	1884: commissioned by Edward Hornor Coates He did not accept the painting and it stayed in possession of the artist. 1917: inherited by Susan Macdowell Eakins, from Thomas Eakins 1925: purchased by Modern Art Museum of Forth Worth, Texas, from Susan Macdowell Eakins 1990: purchased by Amon Carter Museum, Forth Worth, Texas, from Modern Art Museum of Forth Worth, Texas
Credit line	Purchased by the Friends of Art, Fort Worth Art Association, 1925; acquired by the Amon Carter Museum, 1990, from the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth through grants and donations from the Amon G. Carter Foundation, the Sid W. Richardson Foundation, the Anne Burnett and Charles Tandy Foundation, Capital Cities/ABC Foundation, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, The R. D. and Joan Dale Hubbard Foundation and the people of Fort Worth
References	Scanned from Bolger, Doreen; Cash, Sarah; et al. Thomas Eakins and the Swimming Picture. Amon Carter Museum, 1996. ISBN 0-88360-085-4
Source/Photographer	Amon Carter Museum: Website Webpage Picture
Permission ( Reusing this file)	Public domainPublic domainfalsefalse This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1923. The author died in 1916, so this work is also in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 90 years or less.

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