Tag Archives: The Gross Clinic

How black turned white

September 3, 2021

Kateryna Tsoi Kharkiv, Ukraine   The Gross Clinic, 1875. By Thomas Eakins. Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art. Via Wikimedia. In 1876, the World’s Fair was held outside Europe for the first time, taking place in Philadelphia and coinciding with the centenary of the US Declaration of Independence. Thomas Eakins, not yet a […]

Becoming Judith: the connection between Italian Baroque and anatomy lab

March 22, 2019

Emily Nghiem Detroit, Michigan, USA   The Gross Clinic by Thomas Eakins. 1875. Philadelphia Museum of Art. Wikimedia Commons Public Domain. Art and medicine are not two things that seem to fall together naturally. When considering an example of medicine depicted in art, a reasonable and literal choice would be Thomas Eakins’ The Gross Clinic, […]

The Gross Clinic as religious painting: Eakins, affect, and anatomy

January 22, 2017

Adam R. Shapiro Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States   The Gross Clinic by Thomas Eakins, Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons Thomas Eakins’s 1875 painting The Gross Clinic has long been considered one of the great works of nineteenth-century American art. Yet its depiction of a surgical demonstration by Dr. Samuel D. Gross and his colleagues at […]