Philadelphia Inquirer | 03/11/2007 | Selling art, reaping resentment

Philadelphia Inquirer | 03/11/2007 | Selling art, reaping resentment: "Selling art, reaping resentment
The Eakins affair shows risks of 'deaccessioning.'
By Stephan Salisbury
Inquirer Culture Writer

For Thomas Jefferson University, the issue boiled down to raising a ton of money in one fell swoop.

Solution? Sell Thomas Eakins' masterpiece, The Gross Clinic, in a sizzling art market.

For the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, co-purchaser of Jefferson's asset, the issue amounted to the same thing.

Solution? Sell Thomas Eakins' fine portrait, The Cello Player, and escape onerous long-term debt."