The point, both institutions say, it to "launch a broader conversation about the role of art in medicine and clinical practice."
Art education, some might call it.
The Jefferson University Collection: Selected Works
PAINTINGS
Thomas Eakins, Portrait of Benjamin H. Rand
Thomas Eakins, Portrait of William S. Forbes
Thomas Sully, Portrait of Thomas D. Mütter
Dirk Stoop (attributed), Cavaliers in Battle (ca. 1650-75)
William Merritt Chase, Portrait of William W. Keen Jr.
Daniel Garber, Portrait of Virgil Holland Moon
Julian Russell Story, Portrait of George McClellan; Portrait of Alba B. Johnson
Walter Emerson Baum, four landscapes
Humbert L. Howard, Crowd at the Cattleman
Hugh Henry Breckenridge, Portrait of William Potter
Ben Solowey, Portrait of Fred Harbert
Nelson Shanks, Portrait of Thomas D. Duane; Portrait of Lewis W. Bluemle Jr.; Portrait of John Y. Templeton III; Portrait of Charles Fineberg
Bo Bartlett, Portrait of Joseph F. Majdan
Dean M. Larson, Portrait of Gregory C. Kane
Paul DuSold, Jefferson School of Nursing: Three
Nursing Uniforms
LITHOGRAPHS
Grant Wood, Family Doctor (in storage)
Man Ray, unknown title, 1960s (in storage)
Salvador Dalí, Playing Cards, 1970 (in storage)
Alfred Bendiner, The Common Cold (in storage)
Wolf Kahn, Untitled Landscape, 1969 (in storage)
SCULPTURE
Athena/Minerva, unknown artist, 2d century with 18th- or 19th-century additions (marble statue)
Scipione Tadolini, The Greek Slave (marble sculpture)
Alexander Stirling Calder, The Samuel D. Gross Monument (bronze sculpture)
RARE BOOKS
Hans Burgkmair the Elder, Title Page: Physicians in Discussion (woodcut from book), Augsburg, 1519
De Arte Gymnastica: Men Climbing Ropes, woodcut, unknown artist, Venice, 1573
The Birth of Antichrist, woodcut, unknown artist,
German, 1483. One of the earliest images of cesarean birth in medical art.
View a slide show of some of the art
at Jefferson at
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