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Thomas Eakins
Portrait of Dr. Samuel D. Gross (The Gross Clinic), oil on canvas by Thomas Eakins, 1875; part of the collections of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the Philadelphia Art Museum. 2 Ć 2.5 m.
A museum first acquired a painting by Thomas Eakins in 1916, the year of his death. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City purchased his 1874 work, Pushing for Rail, marking the first time one of his paintings entered a museum collection.1