Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/The Gross Clinic by Eakins

The Gross Clinic by Eakins
Voting period ends on 12 Jan 2012 at 15:35:05 (UTC)
 * Reason:Good quality image of one of Eakins best and most well known work. Good companion to the FP File:The Anatomy Lesson.jpg.
 * Articles in which this image appears:Philadelphia Museum of Art, Portrait painting, Samuel D. Gross, Surgeon, The Gross Clinic, Thomas Eakins, etc.
 * FP category for this image:Featured pictures/Artwork/Paintings
 * Creator:Thomas Eakins


 * Support as nominator -- P. S. Burton  (talk)  15:35, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Support. Prominent in Gross article and he was a prominent painter.  Shows a particular style of painting (Eakins was an intriguing artist and Gross an intrigueing guy).  (When we have photos like this, I don't just rate them on the quality of the photo duplication, but of the artwork itself, since this is really what reader sees.)TCO (Reviews needed) 16:57, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Comment: I want to support, but this is a very large painting; I'm concerned about losing details on this relatively small reproduction. (As an aside, I most certainly do not rate these images on the quality of the artwork. I am not an art critic, and I have no right to declare what is and is not art worthy of note. This is art worthy of note, whether I happen to like it or not. I would hope other reviewers respect our various policies, guidelines and criteria by doing the same.) J Milburn (talk) 02:06, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
 * I have knowledge of the topic and this is an extremely noteworthy painting that you would see in Janson or the like. It is basically "the" painting for this artist and for this school.  As such, this makes it a good illustration for an article.  Conversely, if we had picked one of his obscure, not appreciated, paintings, it would not be a great illo for the article.TCO (Reviews needed) 02:11, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
 * I have no doubt that that is the case. Regardless, we should not be judging "the artwork itself"; if reputed art critics have discussed the piece in publications, then we should not be declaring it "unworthy", regardless of our own opinions. J Milburn (talk) 02:32, 4 January 2012 (UTC)


 * OK, OK. Famous art critics back me up.  Well referenced Wiki article: "He is widely acknowledged to be one of the most important artists in American art history.[3][4]", "At 96 by 78 inches, The Gross Clinic is one of the artist's largest works, and considered by some to be his greatest."


 * Plus I like it too. (just kidding. ;-))TCO (Reviews needed) 14:06, 6 January 2012 (UTC)


 * Support nice reproduction of the painting --Guerillero &#124; My Talk  01:06, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

--Makeemlighter (talk) 21:25, 12 January 2012 (UTC)