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Professor William Woolsey Johnson
ca. 1896
While some of Thomas Eakins's portraits incorporated objects that identified what his sitters did, portrait heads emphasized who they were, as thinking and feeling human beings. Eakins probably perceived William Woolsey Johnson, a professor of mathematics at the US Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, as a kindred spirit, as he once observed, “All the sciences are done in a simple way; in mathematics the complicated things are reduced to simple things. So it is in painting.”
- Artist
- Thomas Eakins
- Title
- Professor William Woolsey Johnson
- Date
- ca. 1896
- Place of Creation
- United States
- Object Type
- Painting
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 24 x 20 in. (61 x 50.8 cm)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd
- Accession Number
- 1993.35.28
