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April 12, 2007
Another Painting by Eakins Is Sold Off by Thomas Jefferson U.
Thomas Jefferson University, a medical institution in Philadelphia, has sold another of its paintings by Thomas Eakins, five months after its announced plan to sell an Eakins masterpiece raised alarms that it was disposing of part of the city’s cultural patrimony. That controversy was eventually settled when a group of residents and organizations matched a $68-million offer for the painting, “The Gross Clinic,” a move that will keep it in Philadelphia.
The university’s latest Eakins sale, for what experts say was about $20-million, was an 1874 portrait of Benjamin H. Rand (above), a medical professor, according to today’s Philadelphia Inquirer. The buyer was the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, a start-up museum in Arkansas backed with money from a Wal-Mart heiress. —Andrew Mytelka
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