can you please describe the painting?
It shows Eakins and five friends or students bathing at Dove Lake, an artificial lake in Mill Creek outside Philadelphia.
The Swimming Hole
shows Eakins and five friends or students bathing at Dove Lake, an artificial lake in Mill Creek outside Philadelphia.
what is the swimming hole? It is a painting by whom? Thomas Eakins when was it painted? 1884–85 where is the painting today? In the collection of the Amon Carter Museum of American Art
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The Swimming Hole [SEP] Title and composition
Eakins referred to the painting as "Swimming" in 1885, and as "The Swimmers" in 1886. The title "The Swimming Hole" dates from 1917 (the year after Eakins died), when the work was so described by the artist's widow, Susan Macdowell Eakins. Four years later, she titled the work "The Old Swimming Hole", in reference to the 1882 poem "The Old Swimmin'-Hole"; by James Whitcomb Riley. The Amon Carter Museum has since returned to Eakins' original title, "Swimming". The painting shows Eakins and five friends or students bathing at Dove Lake, an artificial lake in Mill Creek outside Philadelphia. Each of the men is looking at the water, in the words of Martin A.