ID: 700005910 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700005910	Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1

[Male Figures at the Site of "Swimming"] (albumen print; Thomas Eakins (American painter, photographer, and sculptor,...; 1884; J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center (Los Angeles, Los A...; 84.XM.811.1)

Note: Thomas Eakins stands slightly apart at the left, the master and teacher observing his frolicking students at Mill Creek near Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. Eakins used this photograph, one of a series of studies featuring nude boys playing at a variety of outdoor sports, to develop his painting The Swimming Hole , originally titled Swimming . Seeking to associate the youths with the classical Greek ideals of physical beauty, strength, and camaraderie, he posed them in a dynamic arrangement in and out of the water, representing them as types rather than individuals. All of the young men are shown either in profile or from behind, further obscuring their individual characters and identities.

Titles:

[Male Figures at the Site of "Swimming"] (preferred,C,U,RP,English-P,U,U)

Thomas Eakins's Students at the Site for "The Swimming Hole" (C,U,English,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

albumen print [300127121] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, photographs, <photographs by form>, positives (photographs), photographic prints, <photographic prints by process>)

photographic print [300127104]

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, photographs, <photographs by form>, positives (photographs))

Classifications:

photographs (preferred)

Creation Date: 1884

Creator Display:

Thomas Eakins (American painter, photographer, and sculptor, 1844-1916) [preferred,JPGM]

photographer Eakins, Thomas (American painter, photographer, and sculptor, 1844-1916) [500115198]

Locations:

Current: J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center (Los Angeles, Los Angeles county, California, United States) [500329598] J. Paul Getty Museum, J. Paul Getty Trust, Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 84.XM.811.1

Other: Creation: Bryn Mawr [7029522] Delaware county (county), Pennsylvania (state), United States (nation), North and Central America (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)

Display Materials: Albumen silver print

	albumen process [300133274]
	.......(Activities Facet, Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name), <processes and techniques by specific type>, <image-making processes and techniques>, <photography and photographic processes and techniques>, photographic processes)

Dimensions: Image: 9.3 x 12.1 cm (3 11/16 x 4 13/16 in.); Mount: 10.8 x 16.5 cm (4 1/4 x 6 1/2 in.)

Cultures:

American (preferred)

General Subject:

human figures (preferred)

Specific Subjects:

	nudes (representations) [300189568]
	.....(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by subject type>, figures (representations)) (AAT)

	games [300069657]
	.....(Activities Facet, Physical and Mental Activities (hierarchy name), physical activities, <physical activities by specific context>, <public and interactive activities>) (AAT)

	swimming [300239495]
	.....(Activities Facet, Physical and Mental Activities (hierarchy name), physical activities, <physical activities by specific context>, <physical activities by location>, water activities) (AAT)

	human males [300025928]
	.....(Agents Facet, People (hierarchy name), people (agents), <people by gender or sex>) (AAT)

	men (male humans) [300025928]
	.....(Agents Facet, People (hierarchy name), people (agents), <people by gender or sex>) (AAT)

Inscriptions: (Verso, mount) inscribed in black ink, at upper left corner: "Eakins / Olympia galleries, ltd / philadelphia [space] Cat. #0-20"

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
[Male Figures at the Site of "Swimming"]	........ [JPGM,VP]
	........ J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)
Thomas Eakins's Students at the Site for "The Swimming Hole"	........ [JPGM]
	........ J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)

Subject: ....... [JPGM,VP]

Note:
English	..... [VP]