Eakins DVD contains 110+ realist reproductions of indoor/outdoor life paintings, watercraft, portraits, and more.

Thomas Eakins hailed as "the strongest, most profound realist in nineteenth-and early-twentieth-century American art", was born and lived most his life in Philadelphia. The son of a writing master and calligraphy teacher, Thomas learned precise line drawing, perspective, and the use of a grid by the age of twelve. He attended Central High School where he excelled in mechanical drawing. Later, he studied drawing and anatomy at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. From 1866 to 1870, he studied art in Europe with realist painters Jean-Leon Gerome and Leon Bonnat. Eakins returned to the Pennsylvania Academy to volunteer teach in 1876, but later became a salaried professor and then director in 1882. Unfortunately, controversial teaching methods and inappropriate behavior in the classroom, forced the Academy's board of directors to ask for Eakins resignation in 1886. In addition to being an accomplished painter and sculptor, Eakins has been credited with having "introduced the camera to the American art studio." He was particularly interested in photographic motion studies, and indoor/outdoor nudes of the human figure. Approximately eight hundred photographs, mostly figure studies, are attributed to Eakins.

Image screen sizes average 1600 x 1200, 1280 x 1024 at 300 dpi.

20+ Heysen's wonderful reproductions of australian landscapes, trees and ranch life.

Heysen trained as an artist in Adelaide. He showed such promise that between 1899 and 1903 four Adelaide patrons assisted him financially to study in Paris and visit various countries in Europe. Heysen's early paintings met with great success and in 1912 he acquired 'The Cedars', a property near Hahndorf, outside Adelaide. Here he built a studio in which he painted for the rest of his life. He visited the Flinders Ranges in 1926 and returned annually until 1933, his last visit to the area was in 1949. Heysen adapted his European experience and instruction to his Australian location.

Image screen sizes average 1600 x 1200 at 300 dpi.