Troubled Soul

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
Thomas Eakins was a controversial Philadelphia portrait artist. In 1886, he was fired from his teaching post at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts for insisting that female students work from nude male models, and he was accused of engaging in molestation and improper relations. Sidney Kirkpatrick is the author of the biography The Revenge of Thomas Eakins.

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