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An Eakins masterpiece restored : seeing The Gross Clinic anew /

"Thomas Eakins (1844-1916) is acknowledged as one of the preeminent American painters of the 19th century. As a young artist in 1875 he prepared a monumental painting for the Philadelphia Centennial of Dr. Samuel D. Gross of Jefferson Medical College. Rejected by the selection committee for bei...

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Other Authors: Foster, Kathleen A., Tucker, Mark S.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia, PA : Philadelphia Museum of Art in association with Yale University Press, [2012]
Subjects:
Eakins, Thomas, > 1844-1916. > Gross Clinic.
Eakins, Thomas, > 1844-1916 > Criticism and interpretation.
Exhibition catalogs.
Online Access: Table of contents
ISBN:9780876332351
0876332351
9780300179798
0300179790
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: studying The Gross Clinic / Kathleen A. Foster and Mark S. Tucker
  • Local hero: The Gross Clinic and our sense of civic identity / Steven Conn
  • Eakins as witness: the birth of modern surgery, 1844-89 / Mark S. Schreiner, MD
  • A portrait of ambition: Eakins, The Gross Clinic, and the American Centennial / Kathleen A. Foster
  • The making of The Gross Clinic / Kathleen A. Foster and Mark S. Tucker
  • The Gross Clinic in Philadelphia and New York, 1875-79 / Kathleen A. Foster
  • The challenge revisited: The Gross Clinic and The Agnew Clinic / Kathleen A. Foster
  • The changing painting: The Gross Clinic in the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries / Mark S. Tucker
  • Conclusion: "then and now" / Kathleen A. Foster and Mark S. Tucker
  • Appendix: Commentary on The Gross Clinic, 1875-1917.

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