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1st Art Gallery offers the option to receive your painting ready to hang or rolled in a tube.
Currently, for safety, we're able to ship framed paintings only up to a certain size. Once the maximum size is reached, the framing option is automatically disabled.
However, if you are interested in stretching or framing a painting larger than 24x36 inches (60x90 cm), please contact one of our customer success associates or let us know in your order notes. We will send you a catalog of our large framing styles and pricing options.
Unframed rolled canvas orders will arrive rolled inside a protective tube with an extra 1.5" white canvas on all sides so you can easily frame it locally.


Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins, the preeminent American Realist painter of the nineteenth century, was a cataclysmic figure in the emergence of an identifiably American approach to the painterly craft, not to mention his contributions to photography, sculpture and education. Beginning in the early 1870s, Eakins staunchly insisted on painting his subjects from life, many of which were fellow citizens of his native Philadelphia. A contemporary of the Impressionists and the French Realist school, Eakins talent is a rare manifestation in American painting; being neither a derivative or an homage to the French schools. However, his career was beset with personal controversy that overshadowed his artistic and pedagogical innovations, and Eakins' contribution was only noted until after his death.
His 1875 work The Gross Clinic is one of his most recognisable canvases, a reproduction from life of the scene of an early surgical procedure. The gloomy, almost haphazard staging of the scene reflects the pioneering and experimental nature of surgery at the time of painting. Previously the medical procedure of surgery was a byword for amputation, and only with The Gross Clinic did the act become associated with healing. Uniting many of Eakins primary pursuits; education, stark Realism, and the dynamics of the emotional body, a figurative reproduction of the artist's likeness can be seen behind the towering figure of Dr. Samuel D. Gross. Confusing and horrifying critics and viewers upon its exhibition, Eakin's portrait of Dr. Gross, the nation's leading man of medicine, is less a study of the great innovator and more a monumental and mature study of the cold reality of mortality. Like Rembrandt's The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp, Eakins' masterwork was purchased by a medical institution in 1878; a fine manifestation of the duality between medical innovation and painting in the era of science.
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Important Notes About Your Painting:
If you have any request to alter your reproduction of The Gross Clinic, 1875, you must email us after placing your order and we'll have an artist contact you. If you have another image of The Gross Clinic, 1875 that you would like the artist to work from, please include it as an attachment. Otherwise, we will reproduce the above image for you exactly as it is.
- Ordered without a frame, it will be delivered in protective tube within 21-28 business days.
- When ordering the painting framed - allow additional 5-7 days for delivery. The painting will arrive ready to hang.
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- No printing or digital imaging techniques are used.
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Free shipping is included in the price of the painting. Once the painting is ready and dry enough to ship, we will roll it and ship it in a sturdy cardboard tube.
We always ship express via courier to ensure your order reaches you as soon as possible - normally within three business days. The total delivery time from the moment you place your order until the package is delivered to your door is normally between three to four weeks.

If, in the unlikely event you were dissatisfied with the painting after reviewing it in person, it can be returned for a full refund for up to 365 days after delivery.
When you receive the painting; you are free to return it for more revisions or else for a full refund minus our actual shipping cost -- which is, on average, $35 per painting.

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Depending on the degree of damage to the warranted painting, it will either be repaired or replaced. This warranty service is provided free of charge.
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