"Some have considered such photographs as evidence that Eakins, if not homosexual or bisexual, was at least homoerotic. But the artist would undoubtedly have done the same thing with his women students if such a thing had been possible."
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The photographs were studies for Eakins' painting Swimming, Hendricks was the first to connect Eakins with homosexuality.
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Gordon Hendricks
1917 – 1980
Gordon Hendricks (1917 – 1980) was an art historian and film historian.
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