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Where was The Gross Clinic displayed after it was rejected from the Centennial Exposition art exhibition?
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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 × 2.5 m.
After The Gross Clinic was rejected from the art exhibition at the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, Thomas Eakins was forced to display the painting in the exposition's medical section instead.1