Thomas Eakins The Gross Clinic 1875 Surgical Theater Realist Oil Poster
Surgeons operate in a packed amphitheater as Dr Gross pauses, scalpel raised. Eakins’s 1875 realist tour de force.
Description
The Gross Clinic (1875) stages a Philadelphia surgical demonstration: Dr Samuel Gross in black frock coat, assistants at work, students leaning from the gallery. Eakins's unflinching realism shocked and awed. A powerful piece of American art history.








