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The National Gallery has reportedly bought Thomas Eakins' painting "The Gross Clinic" for $68 million.
Update: On December 21, 2006, a group of donors agreed to pay the sum in order to keep the painting in Philadelphia. It will be displayed at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.
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In working on one of my projects I've run into a little snag; I need to get my hands on three papers by E.D. Cope and Rutgers does no have access to them.
I lived in Philly for seven years, so I do have a connection and retain my affection for the city, and a respect for the addytood Philadelphians have always had.
Look what they've done: Philadelphia declares a whole Year of Evolution, a celebration starting on 19 April.
It's part of an article about an atheist billboard for the Greater Philadelphia Coa
This painting always reminds me of how little time has passed since the times when the germ theory of disease and sterilization of instruments and hands were unknown. The doctors would casually operate in their frock coats and go from patient to patient without a clue about the damage they might be doing (e.g. puerperal fever in the maternity wards and Semmelweis' work to trace the cause). I also never realized it was an American painting done in Philadelphia (an art history student I was not).