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Birth
1851 (Newport, Kentucky)
Death
1912 (Fort Washington, Pennsylvania)
Lived/Active
Pennsylvania
Often Known For
figure, genre, portrait and landscape painting, teaching
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A native of Newport, Kentucky, Thomas Anshutz was known primarily for his paintings of female figures, usually isolated in a contemplative or coquettish pose. However, his most famous canvas is atypical of his work and was an industrial genre piece titled "Steelworkers-Noontime," completed in 1882.
He became a long-time teacher at the Philadelphia Academy of the Fine Arts and had the dark palette and realistic approach to figure painting of his teacher, Thomas Eakins.
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