I hope you have read my article, "Pennsylvania Museum Wins Bid: Thomas Eakins’ The Gross Clinic." I wanted to bring attention to this significant Philadelphia painting and the museum that purchased it.
The Philadelphia Museum of Art, with its Neoclassical architecture, will be undergoing a ten-year expansion plan. Notable architect Frank O. Gehry was chosen to design the main building’s renovation and addition.
Plans are in place for an outdoor sculpture garden above a 440-car parking garage. Exhibition space with higher ceilings will accommodate large pieces of modern art. Galleries for American art and Asian art will be expanded. Also, a new education center, a larger auditorium and museum store, a restaurant and cafeteria at street level, and a visitor orientation center are also included in said plans.
If any of my readers felt badly for Wal-Mart heiress Alice Walton in losing the bid for the Eakins painting, feel relieved knowing that she purchased Edward Hopper’s "Hotel Window" (for $26.9 million) and Norman Rockwell’s "Breaking Home Ties" (for $15.4 million) for her upcoming Crystal Bridges museum in Arkansas.
At the time of the Philadelphia Museum of Art's "Developments" publication, individuals from thirty-nine states had made donations to fund "The Gross Clinic." If you haven't sent a check yet, reconsider being a part of the acquisition of this fine Philadelphia painting (and treasure).
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February is the month to think "red." Red is the color of the heart, thus love and passion. Henri Mattise was a famous 20th century French artist who painted with red as if it were the subject matter. I'll discuss his painting, "The Red Studio."
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