Friday, February 12, 2016 - 3:30pm
Jaffe 113
With Kathleen A. Foster, The Robert L. McNeil, Jr., Senior Curator of American Art, and Director, Center for American Art; and Mark Tucker The Aronson Senior Conservator of Paintings and Vice Chair of Conservation
Supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the History of Art Department at the University of Pennsylvania
Portrait of Dr. Samuel D. Gross (The Gross Clinic), Thomas Eakins, American, 1844 - 1916, 1875, Oil on canvas, 8 feet x 6 feet 6 inches (243.8 x 198.1 cm), American Art, 2007-1-1, Gift of the Alumni Association to Jefferson Medical College in 1878 and purchased by the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 2007 with the generous support of more than 3,600 donors, 2007