The Thinker: Portrait of Louis N. Kenton

The Thinker: Portrait of Louis N. Kenton
Artist Thomas Eakins
Year 1900
Type Oil on canvas
Dimensions 210 cm × 110 cm (82 in × 42 in)
Location Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

The Thinker: Portrait of Louis N. Kenton is an oil painting of 1900 by Thomas Eakins. A depiction of the artist's brother-in-law Louis N. Kenton (1865-1947), it has been called "one of Eakins's most memorable portraits".[1] The painting is one of a series of life size standing male portraits painted late in Eakins's career.[1]

Notes

  1. ^ a b Wilmerding 1993, p. 148

References

Max Schmitt in a Single Scull (1871) · Portrait of Professor Benjamin H. Rand (1874) · The Gross Clinic (1875) · The Chess Players (1876) · William Rush and His Model (1876) · The Fairman Rogers Four-in-Hand (1880) · The Swimming Hole (1885) · The Agnew Clinic (1889) · Miss Amelia Van Buren (1891) · The Concert Singer (1892) · Portrait of Maud Cook (1895) · The Pianist (1896) · Taking the Count (1898) · Salutat (1898) · Between Rounds (1899) · Wrestlers (1899) · Portrait of Mary Adeline Williams (1899) · Portrait of Mary Adeline Williams (1900) · The Thinker: Portrait of Louis N. Kenton (1900) · Antiquated Music: Portrait of Sarah Sagehorn Frishmuth (1900) · Portrait of Leslie W. Miller (1901) · Self-portrait (1902) · William Rush and His Model (1908)