Painting and Sculpture

Conservation-restoration of The Gross Clinic

The Gross Clinic, an 1875 oil-on-canvas painting by the American painter Thomas Eakins, has received conservation-restoration treatments throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. These treatments are a testament to the changing methodologies undertaken in the field of paintings conservation. The painting was subject to several conservation-restoration treatments both prior to Eakins' death and in the decades following, which altered both the structural integrity of the painting as well as its surface composition. Emergency treatment was undertaken in 1960 and 1961 by Theodor Siegel, conservator at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, to correct damage from previous restorations. The most recent treatment was performed in 2010 by conservators at the Philadelphia Museum of Art to correct problems resulting from the 1961 restoration as well as the previous restorations.

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• ▸Dynamism of a Cyclist
• ▸Ackama
• ▸Byron Randall

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