In the meantime, works by that century’s brashest master, the painter Thomas Eakins, are shuffling around the museum. Of the Art Museum’s nearly 100 paintings by Eakins, only one is currently ...

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When the Chiefs and Eagles faced off in the world championship two years ago, won by Kansas City, the Nelson-Atkins got to borrow Thomas Eakins' Sailing, according to The Art Newspaper.

Rowing was an activity that Eakins knew well -- he was rowing on the Schuylkill River long before he went to Paris. His Central High School classmates and family members were all rowers.