More Eakinses may be sold

Philadelphia’s Thomas Jefferson University, which caused a stir with its November announcement that it would sell Thomas Eakins’ masterpiece “The Gross Clinic,” may sell two other Eakins works, university President Robert L. Barchi said.

The announcement that “The Gross Clinic” would leave the university after 129 years of ownership spurred an intense fundraising drive to match the $68 million price and keep that painting in the city.

Barchi said the university’s remaining Eakins works, “Portrait of Benjamin H. Rand” and “Portrait of William S. Forbes,” were the only artworks the university would contemplate selling.