It may not have been the first choice for a major work by Thomas Eakins to adorn the walls of the Crystal Bridges Museum in Bentonville, Arkansas. That of course was The Gross Clinic which shows Dr.Samuel D. Gross, a seventy-year-old professor dressed in a black frock coat, as he lectures a group of Jefferson … Continue reading One Measure of a Great Portrait, Eakins at Crystal Bridges
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Newly Restored, Eakins’s ‘The Gross Clinic’ to be Centerpiece of Exhibition Shedding New Light on Artist’s Original Vision
The Gross Clinic of 1875 is one of the most significant works created by the great Philadelphia painter Thomas Eakins (1844-1916) and a landmark in the history of 19th-century American art. A new exhibition—An Eakins Masterpiece Restored: Seeing ‘The Gross Clinic’ Anew (July 24, 2010 - January 9, 2011), to be presented in the Pennsylvania … Continue reading Newly Restored, Eakins’s ‘The Gross Clinic’ to be Centerpiece of Exhibition Shedding New Light on Artist’s Original Vision
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