Home -> Law Blog Directory -> Copyright Law Blogs -> The Art Law Blog

Copyright Law

: The Art Law Blog

"This is it. Now we can celebrate."

By Intellectual Property Law, Esq.

I hadn't realized that the "Gross Clinic" story wasn't over, but today brings news that, through the sale of another Eakins painting, the Philadelphia Museum had raised the last of the $68 million that was needed to keep the painting from leaving town.

The buyers were the Denver Art Museum and the Anschutz Collection, so it's a real life example of Adrian Ellis's proposed approach to deaccessioning -- mutually advantageous trades between public institutions. Lewis Sharp, director of the Denver Art Museum, reminds us that there is a flip side to Philadelphia's loss: "To bring a painting of this importance into the community, it is a great thrill." Philadelphia Inquirer art critic Edward Sozanski concedes that the museum "found ideal homes for the Eakins works." So who could object?

Full post as published by The Art Law Blog on April 24, 2008 (boomark / email).