Los
Angeles, CA – The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) presents Manly Pursuits: The Sporting Images of
Thomas Eakins, on view from July 25 to October 17, 2010. Organized
exclusively for LACMA by Ilene Susan Fort, the museum’s Gail and John Liebes
Curator of American Art, the
exhibition celebrates the museum’s acquisition of Eakins’s last great
sporting painting, Wrestlers
(1899)—one of the single most important American paintings acquired in the
history of LACMA. Featuring around 60 oil paintings, drawings, watercolors,
photographs, and sculpture by the great American master, the exhibition will
serve as a rare opportunity to examine for the first time the entire range of
sporting images by this iconic American artist.