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Thomas Eakins’s interest in science was as great as his interest in art. In the early 1880s he collaborated with photographer Eadweard Muybridge
in serial-action photographic experiments and later devised a special camera for his anatomical studies. The accompanying picture (top) was
taken with the Marey wheel. The impact of Eakins’s photographic experiments is evident in The Swimming Hole(bottom), painted in 1883. At that
time Eakins was director of the art school at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
Source: (top) Philadelpia Museum of Art. Gift of Charles Bregler.