Focus on Wrestlers (Eakins) and analyze the abstract.
Wrestlers is a name shared by three closely related 1899 paintings by American artist Thomas Eakins, (Goodrich catalog #317, #318, #319). The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) owns the finished painting (G-317), and the oil sketch (G-318). The Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA) owns a slightly smaller unfinished version (G-319). All three works depict a pair of nearly naked men engaged in a wrestling match. The setting for the finished painting is the Quaker City Barge Club (defunct), which once stood on Philadelphia's Boathouse Row.
Thomas Eakins wrestling Los Angeles County Museum of Art Philadelphia oil sketch Quaker City Barge Club Boathouse Row Los Angeles Goodrich catalog #317, #318, #319 Philadelphia Museum of Art