The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts has purchased a major collection of paintings, drawings and other material related to the career of Philadelphia artist Thomas Eakins from the widow of ...

A vigorous campaign in Philadelphia, the painting's home since it was painted in 1875, has raised enough money to match the $68 million that the National Gallery of Art and the Crystal Bridges ...

Art Speaks is an opportunity for every single fourth grader in the Philadelphia public schools to travel to major art museums as part of their curriculum. Latest U.S.

In 2006, Eakins’ masterpiece “The Gross Clinic” generated much interest when Thomas Jefferson University announced it would sell it to a museum in Arkansas. The Philadelphia Museum of Art and the ...

The Arkansas museum said it would lend the portrait to the Philadelphia Museum of Art for public viewing later in the spring. Crystal Bridges won't open until 2009.