It was during his position as chairman that Mr. Coates commissioned The Swimming Hole from Thomas Eakins, only later to reject it.
Swimming at the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games | swimming | Swimming (sport) | swimming (sport) | freestyle swimming | Human swimming | Swimming | Hole | Freestyle swimming | Woods Hole, Massachusetts | Woods Hole | Hole (band) | Mersin Olympic Swimming Pool | synchronized swimming | Medley swimming | Jackson Hole | Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics | Black Hole Sun | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution | Swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics | Swimming at the 1988 Summer Olympics | Hole, Norway | 2013 IPC Swimming World Championships | Synchronized swimming | Swimming at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 50 metre freestyle | Swimming at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 50 metre butterfly | Swimming at the 2000 Summer Olympics | Swimming at the 1992 Summer Olympics | Olympic-size swimming pool | medley swimming |
Edward Hornor Coates (1846–1921), Philadelphia businessman who commissioned The Swimming Hole