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Calder, Alexander Stirling,
Jaboeuf & Bezout Fondeurs,
Portrait male -- Gross, Samuel David
Occupation -- Medicine
Outdoor Sculpture -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
Sculpture
Dr. Samuel Gross, (sculpture).
Artist:
Calder, Alexander Stirling, 1870-1945, sculptor.
Jaboeuf & Bezout Fondeurs, founder.
Title:
Dr. Samuel Gross, (sculpture).
Other Titles:
Dr. Samuel D. Gross, (sculpture).
Dates:
1897. Installed 1897. Relocated April 1970.
Digital Reference:
Medium:
Sculpture: bronze; Base: granite.
Dimensions:
Sculpture: approx. 111 x 48 x 36 in.; Base: approx. 120 x 120 x 108 in.
Inscription:
JABOEUF & BEZOUT FONDEURS A PARIS (Sculpture, lower proper left side:) CALDER (Base, front:) SAMUEL D. GROSS/American Physicians have erected/this statue to commemorate great deeds/of a man who made such an impression/on American surgery that it has served/to dignify American Medicine/1897 signed Founder's mark appears.
Description:
Standing portrait of Dr. Gross dressed in a long coat, bow tie, and a buttoned vest with a watch chain hanging from the right pocket. His bushy hair frames his face and he looks intently out before him as if giving a lecture. He holds a scalpel in his raised proper right hand as he gestures with his raised proper left hand.
Subject:
Portrait male -- Gross, Samuel David -- Full length
Occupation -- Medicine -- Doctor
Object Type:
Outdoor Sculpture -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
Sculpture
Owner:
Administered by Thomas Jefferson University, 1020 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19107
Located Thomas Jefferson University, Locust Street and Walnut streets between 10th & 11th streets, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Provenance:
Formerly located National Library of Medicine, Washington, District of Columbia 1897-1970.
Remarks:
The cost of the statue was 11,000 dollars and was funded by the American Medical Association, the Jefferson Alumni Association, and the United States Congress. Originally, the sculpture was installed at the National Library of Medicine in Washington, D.C., but when the library was moved, the Alumni Association of Jefferson University acquired the sculpture because Dr. Gross had spent his teaching career at the University. Dr. Gross is the celebrated subject of Thomas Eakins painting entitled "The Gross Clinic."
References:
Index of American Sculpture, University of Delaware, 1985
Fairmount Park Art Assoc., "Sculpture of a City: Philadelphia's Treasures in Bronze & Stone," NY: Walker Publ., 1974, pg. 208.
Save Outdoor Sculpture, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia survey, 1993.
Illustration:
Image on file.
Fairmount Park Art Assoc., "Sculpture of a City: Philadelphia's Treasures in Bronze & Stone," NY: Walker Publ., 1974, pg. 208.
Note:
The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide.
Repository:
Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012
Control Number:
IAS 76009079
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Inventory of American Sculpture
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