by Jon Lackman | 30 November 2006 | Americas, Museums
From the Philadelphia Inquirer: “The campaign to raise $68 million and retain Thomas Eakins’ monumental painting The Gross Clinic in Philadelphia has reached about one-third of its goal, officials said yesterday, with the number of donations now running into the hundreds. With just under four weeks left to raise the remainder, Anne d’Harnoncourt, director and chief executive officer of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, declined to put an exact figure on the level of contributions … The painting, which depicts a renowned surgeon demonstrating a difficult procedure to students, has been owned by Thomas Jefferson University since 1878, when it was donated by alumni who bought it from the painter for $200.”
