tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8612491.post116322305314881697..comments2024-03-28T00:17:17.560-07:00Comments on Speed of Life: Keep Eakins' "Gross Clinic" in PhiladelphiaGregg Chadwickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16671434615174617956noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8612491.post-1168457700574406552007-01-10T11:35:00.000-08:002007-01-10T11:35:00.000-08:00I am personally pleased, delighted, and relieved t...I am personally pleased, delighted, and relieved to have the painting remain in Philadelphia. As the author of the widely regarded recent biography of the artist, "The Revenge of Thomas Eakins," I am keenly aware of the context in which this Eakins masterpiece was created. Eakins has, suffice it to say, exacted his "revenge." He has become indispensable to the city's idea of itself as a cultural landmark. In my mind's eye I can imagine Eakins standing in the Philadelphia traffic circle honoring him, shaking his paint brush at passing cars, and shouting, “There, you see, I told you I was good!”Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8612491.post-1164665367267428302006-11-27T14:09:00.000-08:002006-11-27T14:09:00.000-08:00Thanks for your support in out effort to keep this...Thanks for your support in out effort to keep this painting in Philadelphia. Please note that everyone who supports us can help by making a donation to a fund specifically to purchase the painting: http://www.philamuseum.org/giving/509-398.html<BR/>Though a mass-based drive is unlikely to raise a large share of the $68 million needed, it will help, and will send a powerful message about public concern to stop this kind of plundering of American art.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8612491.post-1163433941413767052006-11-13T08:05:00.000-08:002006-11-13T08:05:00.000-08:00I am both saddened and angered by this potential l...I am both saddened and angered by this potential loss. It has always been very special to me to work at a place where I could view a world-class piece of art that was about a former faculty member -- without even leaving the campus. Even better that the famous painter was a "local". I don't know if it is like selling one's soul to the devil, but it is selling one's soul. And, by the way, the painting would only be at the National Gallery until sometime in 2009. Once the museum Crystal Bridges is completed, the painting will "live" in the museum in Bentonville, Arkansas. Sorry, folks, it's hard to argue that more people will see this special painting at a museusm in Arkansas than in a building in Center City. And, yes, I have been to Bentonville, and it does not pass as a major metropolitan area. Just for the record, even though no one has asked-- Jefferson employees and faculty received an email about the sale on Saturday morning-- after I had already read the article in the Inquirer. We knew nothing about it and were not consulted. :(<BR/>--Sad and soon to be soul-less in PhillyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com