Pledges alone were not enough to cover the US$68 million purchase price. The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts was forced to deaccession Eakins's "The Cello Player" to an unidentified private buyer; and the Philadelphia Museum of Art deaccessioned Eakins's "Cowboy Singing", along with two oil sketches for "Cowboys in the Badlands", to the Anschutz collection and the Denver Art Museum. The Denver-based Anschutz collection purchased "Cowboys in the Badlands" at a May 22, 2003 auction at Christie's New York for $5,383,500, which was the previous record for an Eakins painting.