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An Alexander Stirling Calder statue of Samuel Gross on the construction site of the Hamilton Building, between Locust and Walnut and 10th and 11th Streets, at Thomas Jefferson University.
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Thomas Jefferson University says it will sell two more Thomas Eakins paintings. Should it sell the artwork?
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What's prognosis for Jefferson's art trove?
The university could sell two more by Eakins, but nothing else.
Alexander Stirling Calder, The Samuel D. Gross Monument (bronze sculpture)
Contact culture writer Peter Dobrin at 215-854-5611 or pdobrin@phillynews.com.
RARE BOOKS
Hans Burgkmair the Elder, Title Page: Physicians in Discussion (woodcut from book), Augsburg, 1519
De Arte Gymnastica: Men Climbing Ropes, woodcut, unknown artist, Venice, 1573
The Birth of Antichrist, woodcut, unknown artist,
German, 1483. One of the earliest images of cesarean birth in medical art.
View a slide show of some of the art
at Jefferson at http://go.philly.com/jeffart
Contact culture writer Peter Dobrin at 215-854-5611 or pdobrin@phillynews.com.
Read his recent work at http://go.philly.com/peterdobrin.
