Lieutenant Eakins says it could be useful in preventing crimes such as burglaries in Palm Bay's dispersed residential communities.
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In fact, Florence during its decades as a haven for American artists became the site of intense cross-pollination of academic styles: for instance, the American Frank Duveneck's brooding brushwork courtesy of Munich, Eakins's Pennsylvania Academy rigor, and the "purist line" of Florence's own Accademi di Belle Arti.
The Sheldon's holdings sound a roll call of America's significant painters, from luminaries such as Albert Bierstadt, Willem de Kooning and Thomas Eakins to others such as Fairfield Porter, Maurice Prendergast and Ben Shahn.