An Eakins New Year In Philadelphia Museum

In support of the fundraising efforts of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the board of trustees of Thomas Jefferson University is lending The Gross Clinic, Eakins' 1875 masterpiece, to the Philadelphia Museum of Art for a special installation in advance of the conclusion of the sale on January 31.

WHERE:
Philadelphia Museum of Art, 26th Street and Ben Franklin Parkway. The canvas that has sparked a nationwide campaign to keep it in Philadelphia goes on public view in the Colket Gallery (151), adjacent to the Great Stair Hall.

WHO:
Kathleen Foster, Museum's Robert L. McNeil, Jr. Curator of American Art
Lynn Marsden-Atlass, Senior Curator, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Museum visitors admiring the painting

The Gross Clinic will occupy the gallery along with a portrait of Eakins by his wife, Susan Hannah Macdowell; she gave her collection to the Museum in 1929. An oil sketch for The Gross Clinic by Eakins will also be on view. Painting will remain on view at Museum until early spring, when it moves to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the nation's oldest arts institution. The two institutions will share equally in its ownership.

Campaign to keep the painting in Philadelphia continues. -- www.philamuseum.org