Thomas Eakins 1844 - 1916

Susan Macdowell Eakins (the artist's wife), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1916
Charles Bregler, by 1944
Joseph Katz, Baltimore, Maryland
M. Knoedler & Co., New York
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1961 (acquired from the above)
Gift to the present owner from the above, 1966

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Thomas Eakins Centennial Exhibition, 1844-1944, April-May 1944, no. 39 (a)
New York, M. Knoedler & Co.; Wilmington, Delaware, Wilmington Society of the Fine Arts; Boston, Massachusetts, Doll & Richards Gallery; Raleigh, North Carolina, State Art Gallery, A Loan Exhibition of the Works of Thomas Eakins, 1844-1944, June-December 1944, no. 19 (c), no. 20 (d)
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Carnegie Institute, Thomas Eakins Centennial Exhibition, 1844-1944, April-June 1945, no. 50 (a),  no. 100 or 113 (c) 
New York, Museum of Modern Art and traveling, Sculpture by Painters, August-October 1949 (a, b, c and d)
Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art, The American Muse: Parallel Trends in Literature and Art, April-May 1959, no. 9 (a), illustrated
Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, The Thomas Eakins Collection of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, May-September 1977, no. 36 (a), illustrated p. 83,  no. 35 (b), illustrated p. 82, no. 34 (c), illustrated p. 81, and no. 33 (d), illustrated p. 80
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Thomas Eakins: Artist of Philadelphia, May-August 1982, no. 64 (a), illustrated, no. 66 (b), and no. 68 (d)

Lloyd Goodrich, Thomas Eakins: His Life and Work, New York, 1933, no. 137 (c and d), p. 173
Thomas B. Hess, "Painters as Sculptors," ArtNews, vol. 48, September 1949, p. 20 (c), illustrated
Henri Dorra, "Parallel Trends in Literature and Art," Art in America, vol. 47, no. 2 (a), 1959, p. 22, illustrated
Gordon Hendricks, "A May Morning in the Park," Philadelphia Museum of Art Bulletin, vol. 60, Spring 1985, no. 3 (a, b, c and d), p. 63
Gordon Hendricks, The Life and Work of Thomas Eakins, New York, 1974, no. 52 (a), p. 320, illustrated p. 119, no. 53 (b), p. 320, illustrated, no. 54 (c), p. 320, illustrated, no. 51 (d), p. 320, illustrated

Good condition, all mounted on board. Under UV: most repairs are to address panel fracture caused by panel separation: a) fine; b) 3 inch curved line of retouch at center left; c) 6 inch curved horizontal line of repair, some other small dots of retouch; d) 3 inch and 1 inch vertical repair at center, 1 inch scratch at lower center
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Thomas Eakins made numerous careful studies of Fairman Rogers' horses in both two-dimensional oil studies and three-dimensional plaster and bronze studies before painting The Fairman Rogers Four-in-Hand (May Morning in a Park)  (1879-1880, Philadelphia Museum of Art). The off-lead horse in panel (a) was likely Rogers' favorite mare, Josephine. These panels were originally double sided (a with b and c with d) and separated sometime before 1961.