*Physics, Phyne Art and Physicians* The +Google Art Project is featuring one my favorite artists today, Thomas Eakins[1]. He's not my favorite because of his rather colorful life, (see [1] it' entertaining), or even because of his art as such. Although, I have to admit, I'm quite fond of his sailboat pictures, see below, and [2]! Nope, as it turns out, Eakins has a connection to both fringe and mainstream science through the person of one Agnew Hunter Bahnson Jr. Agnew Hunter Bahnson was a wealthy North Carolina industrialist who funded both fringe physicists like Thomas Townsend Brown and mainstream quantum gravity researchers. He was the driving force behind the formation of the Institute for Field Physics at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. The institute was direted by Bryce and Cecile DeWitt and Peter HIggs of Higgs boson fame did some of his work there. But, what does any of this have to do with Thomas Eakins and his art? The stor...