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Thomas Eakins: Brilliant painter, gifted photographer ... sexual predator?

  • Written by Henry Adams, Ruth Coulter Heede Professor of Art History, Case Western Reserve University
Thomas Eakins: Brilliant painter, gifted photographer ... sexual predator?A self-portrait of the artist Thomas Eakins, one of the most celebrated painters in American history. National Academy Museum, New York

The recent toppling of a string of powerful figures for sexual abuse and harassment raises the question of how these people managed to conceal their behavior so long, in some instances after abusing hundreds of...

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