A Drawing Manual by Thomas Eakins

Philadelphia: The Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2005. Hardcover. As New. White illus. boards with black lettering and red spine; 125 pp. with numerous bw line drawings. "Thomas Eakins wrote and illustrated this drawing manual for students, based on his famous lectures at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. After his forced resignation in 1886, Eakins abandoned plans to publish the manual. The manuscript and illustrations remained in his studio, where they were recovered after the death of the artist's widow in 1988. Published here for the first time, the drawing manual offers readers a unique opportunity to meet Eakins in his own words."- book cover. Contents as follows: The tools of art : the drawing manual of Thomas Eakins / Kathleen A. Foster -- Thomas Eakins : last of the art crusaders / Amy B. Werbel -- A drawing manual / Thomas Eakins. Ch. I. Linear perspective : tracing on a window pane -- Ch. II. Linear perspective : picture plane established -- Ch. III. Linear perspective : theory of vanishing points -- Ch. IV. Mechanical drawing -- Ch. V. Isometric drawing -- Ch. VI. Reflections in water -- Ch. VII. Sculptured relief -- Notes on the construction of a camera -- Notes on the differential action of certain muscles passing more than one joint -- Refraction.