Portal:Philadelphia/Did you know?/December 2010
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… that The Gross Clinic, painted in 1875 by Thomas Eakins and bought for $200 in 1876 by Jefferson Medical College, was to be sold in 2006 for $68 million, until area residents raised a fund to cover the sale price to keep the work in Philadelphia?