"Eakins rejected gentlemen athletics as his theme. Instead,……" — Barry S. Strauss

"Eakins rejected gentlemen athletics as his theme. Instead, he took a subject that had been the stuff of illustrated weeklies and the penny press and turned it into fine art. Eakins celebrates not fire from heaven but honest sweat, not genius but hard work."

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