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The Eakins Gallery at Thomas Jefferson University Details
2007 UPDATE:
Thomas Eakin's
The Gross Clinic
was recently sold to the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. A replica now hangs in the Eakins Gallery.
The Gross Clinic
is now on view at the
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
.
Learn more
.
The Experience
Three life-size portraits, by the late 19th century Philadelphia artist Thomas Eakins are just part of the gallery in Thomas Jefferson University’s Alumni Hall. The gallery was inaugurated in 1982 to celebrate the portraits of three eminent university medical professors: Samuel Gross, Benjamin H. Rand and William S. Forbes.
Eakins, considered to be one the greatest American realist painters, reveals his boldness and fascination with the medical profession throughout his work. Two portraits hanging in the gallery offer sympathetic images of Jefferson professors whom Eakins knew — one, Dr. Rand, with his cat. The gallery also displays early stethoscopes, syringes and other medical instruments from the University’s collection.
History
Eakins actually studied anatomy at Jefferson, seeing it as a crucial part of an artist’s education. The compelling honesty of
The Gross Clinic
reflects Eakins’s uncompromising approach to art and life; he lost his position teaching at the
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
in a dispute over the use of nudity in an art class, and not until late in life did he begin to receive the acclaim he deserved.
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