The revenge of Thomas Eakins

I: Master and apprentice

The Eakins family of Philadelphia

Master Benjamin

The art of the penman

An uncertain future

The medical arts and the fine arts

The Pennsylvania academy

A dangerous young Adonis

From temple to palace

Heads and hands

Letters home

Rough around the edges

The artist and his muse

Picture making

II: Artist and educator

The road less traveled

Champion oarsman

The Biglin brothers racing

Hikers and hunters

Uncompromising realism

A good and decent girl

The blood-covered scalpel

A degradation of art

Painting heads

The unflinching eye

Talk of the town

Nymph in the fountain

The open door

A May morning in the park

Jerusalem in New Jersey

Tripod and easel

Nudes and prudes

The lovely young men of Dove Lake

III: Exposed and expelled

Philanthropists and philistines

The hanging committee

Point of no return

Demons and demigods

The family skeleton

Black care

The bard of Camden

A league of his own

Dressed and undressed

Portrait by a modern master

Horrors of the dissecting table

Casting for commissions

The Pied Piper of Philadelphia

IV: Forgiven and forgotten

Portrait of a physicist

Down for the count

Outlaw in an undershirt

Pictured lives

Pontiffs and prelates

Return to rush

Artist in residence.