The Mystery Of Max Schmitt: Poems On The Life And Work Of Thomas Eakins

The Mystery of Max Schmitt: Poems on the Life and Work of Thomas Eakins by Philip Dacey is a remarkable sequence about the nineteenth-century painter. Dacey constructs both a fascinating narrative of Eakins’ world and a searching meditation on the relationships between art and life, between teachers and students, and the quest to live a fully-engaged existence.