Susan Macdowell Eakins Thomas in Roanoke, Virginia at the North Cross School. Her works included: Susan Macdowell Eakins Susan Hannah Macdowell Eakins (September 21, 1851 – December 27, 1938) was an American painter and photographer. Her works were first shown at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, where she was a student. She won the Mary Smith Prize there in 1879 and Charles Toppan prize in 1882. One of her teachers was artist Thomas Eakins, who later became her husband. She made portrait and still life paintings. She was also known of her photography. After her husband died in 1916, Eakins became a
Conservation-restoration of Thomas Eakins' The Gross Clinic Conservation-restoration of Thomas Eakins' The Gross Clinic The conservation-restoration of Thomas Eakins' "The Gross Clinic" refers to the on-going conservation-restoration treatments of American painter Thomas Eakins' 1875 painting "The Gross Clinic" throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. These treatments are a testament to the changing methodologies undertaken in the field of paintings conservation. The painting portrays surgeon Dr. Samuel D. Gross performing a surgical debridement on a boy with osteomyelitis of the femur for an audience of students in his clinic at Jefferson Medical College. The painting was subject to several conservation-restoration treatments both prior to Eakins' death and in