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Thomas Pollock Anschutz
American Naturalist painter
born 1851 - died 1912
Also known as: Thomas P. Anshutz.
Student of: Thomas Eakins (1844-1916).
Teacher of: Myrtle Townsend Barnitz
(1865-1946), William Glackens (1870-1938),
Charles Grafly (1862-1929), Robert Henri
(1865-1929), Nelson Poole (1883-1949),
Everett Shinn (1876-1953), John Sloan
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Thomas Pollack Anschutz, born in 1851, was a
portrait, figurative and landscape painter.
Thomas Pollock Anschutz studied at the National Academy of Design
and went on to become the chief painting
teacher at the Pennsylvania Institute of
Fine Arts by 1886. Anschutz important
influence was projected more through his
students than in his own work. Thomas
Pollock Anschutz was
generally not acknowledged until the 20th
century. Anschutz's oil paintings often
depicted a female in a contemplative
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His most famous
work, "Iron Workers at Noontime" (1882)
clearly anticipates Realism, where working
class men are shown in their everyday life.
In addition to oils, Anschutz also produced
watercolor pieces that show an interest in
light and color, often done on travel.
Thomas Pollock Anschutz died in 1912 after a long and prosperous
career as a professor and working artist.
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