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Thomas Eakins’ Agnew Clinic: A Study of Medicine Through Art

Department of Gynecologic Oncology, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas

Address reprint requests to: Michael M. Frumovitz, MD, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Department of Gynecologic Oncology, Box 440, 1515 Holcombe Boulevard, Houston, TX 77005; E-mail: frumo1{at}yahoo.com.

In 1889, Thomas Eakins was commissioned to paint a portrait of Dr. David Hayes Agnew to commemorate his exemplary career as a physician and teacher at The University of Pennsylvania. What was originally proposed as a three-quarters portrait of the retiring professor quickly became an enormous painting depicting an operating theater with Dr. Agnew assuming his role as both surgeon and educator. When comparing this piece with an earlier Eakins’ painting, The Gross Clinic, one can trace the rapid evolution of surgical techniques that accompanied medicine’s advancement in the late 19th century. Eakins obviously embraced this progress, but was the public ready to do so too?

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