In addition to the Gross Clinic, some of Eakins most well-known paintings include Mending the Net (Philadelphia Museum of Art) and Max Schmitt in a Single Scull (The Metropolitan Museum of Art).

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Augusta, who has represented collections for the Fashion Institute of Technology, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Brooklyn Museum of Art, bought it from a man who found it at an estate sale in Newark, N.

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"It's like my captain's chair, " says Ms. Friedland, a manager at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

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One of her last pieces was a review for the Journal of the new museum housing the Barnes Collection of art in Philadelphia.

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Two years ago a handful of coaches, plus ten or so carriages, paraded through downtown Philadelphia and parked at the art museum.

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