Thomas Pollock Anshutz

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Thomas Pollock Anshutz around 1900
The Ironworkers' Noontime , 1880

Thomas Pollock Anshutz (German: Anschütz, born October 5, 1851 in Newport (Kentucky) , † June 16, 1912 in Philadelphia ) was an American portrait and genre painter .

Thomas Anschütz, the son of Jacob Anschütz and Jane Abigail Pollock, grew up in Newport and Wheeling (West Virginia) . In the early 1870s he studied with the painter Lemuel Wilmarth (1835-1918) at the New York National Academy . In 1875 he took lessons from Thomas Eakins at the Philadelphia Sketch Club . From 1876 Eakins taught at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts . Thomas Anschütz enrolled there that same year and became Eakin's assistant in 1878. In 1880 - while still a student - Anschütz created his most famous painting The Steel Workers' Lunch Break . Together with the student John Laurie Wallace (1864–1953), Anschütz used the camera as an aid to study for new painting projects at the suggestion of Eakins in the early 1880s. Eadweard Muybridge came to Philadelphia. Anschütz and Eakins helped him develop his zoo practice scope .

In early 1886, Eakins had to give up his position at the academy after the loincloth scandal . Anschütz later took this. Anschütz married Effie Shriver Russell in 1892, went with her to Paris and attended the Académie Julian there . In 1893 the couple returned to Philadelphia and Anschütz remained as a teacher at the academy. His students included Elizabeth Sparhawk-Jones (1885–1968), George Luks , Charles Demuth , Charles Sheeler , Everett Shinn (1876–1953), John Marin , William Glackens , Margaret Taylor Fox (1857–1941), Louisa Eyre (1872 –1953), Robert Henri , John Sloan and Anna Huntington Stanley (1864–1907). In 1898 he founded a summer school for outdoor painting outside of Philadelphia with Hugh Breckenridge in Darby and participated in the events until 1910. Also in 1910 he was associated as a member of the aforementioned National Academy . Anschütz became president of the Philadelphia Sketch Club .

Anschütz often withdrew with his family to Holly Beach City / Cape May County and created new works there.

Towards the end of his life he appeared as a socialist . In the autumn of 1911 Thomas Anschütz gave up the painting profession for health reasons.

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SURNAME Anshutz, Thomas Pollock
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Anschütz, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American portrait and genre painter
DATE OF BIRTH October 5, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH Newport, Kentucky
DATE OF DEATH June 16, 1912
Place of death Philadelphia