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Title	Miss Van Buren;
Title Alternative	Amelia Van Buren;
File Name	civ metadata; 99100737.jpg
Copyright Status/Owner	Public Domain; Actively Pursuing
Publisher Original	Harcourt and Brace
Rights (Patron Usage Instructions)	http://www.lib.byu.edu/genericnote_copyright.html
Course	HUM 202
Lecture Number	19
Professor	Green, Jon D., 1940-
Description	Amelia Van Buren, the sitter for this portrait, was a favorite student of Thomas Eakins at the Pennsylvania Academy. When Eakins was dismissed from the academy in 1886 over his controversial teaching methods, Amelia Van Buren remained a close friend to the artist and his wife. Eakins always enjoyed depicting the psychology of a sitter in portraiture and felt that portraiture was a dominant form of expression, although his portraits painted after his dismissal reflect a sense of pessimism and disillusionment. His portrait of Miss Van Buren, painted in 1891, contains a sense of weariness and despair. Rather than painting Van Buren as an idealized youth, Eakins paints gray streaks in her hair, indicating her age. Although windows are reflected in Van Buren’s eyes, her real gaze seems to be introspective. She sits with the quiet knowledge that comes with years of experience. The background is dark and ambiguous, and Van Buren remains suspended in her thoughts rather than tied to a specific place. Her posture reflects the nature of the human condition. While Miss Van Buren holds her head up on her stronger left hand, her right arm appears fallen and weak. These details have led scholars to consider this painting Eakins’ reflection morality, human frailty, and resigned acceptance of unpleasant reality. Digitized static image of a painting by Thomas Eakins of Miss van Buren.
Creator	Eakins, Thomas, 1844-1916
Country	America
Geographic Region	America
Type	Slide
Platform	Cross-Platform
File Size	203.403 KB
Genre	Paintings
Category	Art
Keywords	Eakins, Thomas, Miss Van buren; Amelia Van Buren; nineteenth-century American painting; realism;
Time Period	American Realism
Date Range	1890 AD: 1891 AD
Historical Date	ca. 1891 AD
Date Original	c. 1891 AD
Date Digital	2005-03-29
Metadata Entry Date	2009-08-11
Quality	High
Contributors	Brigham Young University
Edition	Electronic reproduction;
Format	JPEG
Owning Institution	Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.
Physical Description	45 x 32 in.
Publisher Digital	Brigham Young University
Source	Lawrence Cunningham & John Reich, Culture and values: a survey of the Western humanities, 4th ed. (Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 1998), 364; John Wilmerding, Thomas Eakins (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1993), 120-121.
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