Thomas Eakins rediscovered

More than fifty years ago, a treasury of studio materialincluding oil sketches, sculptures, drawings, photographs, and manuscripts - was rescued from the empty house of Thomas Eakins by a devoted student, Charles Bregler. Deemed worthless then, the "rubbish" that Bregler reverently saved has only recently become recognized as an important source of information about the life and working habits of one of America's greatest artists. This book is both a catalogue of the Bregler collection and a reassessment of Eakins' career as read through the newly discovered materials. Foster analyzes Eakins'…