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The public and press responded to ''The Gross Clinic'' unfavorably, and Eakins was forced to display it in a medical section of the Exposition, rather than the actual art exibition; eventually it would reside nearly forgotten in the Jefferson Medical College for years. Eakins was dismayed that the frank realism displayed in ''The Gross Clinic'' represented pain and suffering, according to the critics, and could not be called entertaining, as paintings were assumed to be during that time.
The public and press responded to ''The Gross Clinic'' unfavorably, and Eakins was forced to display it in a medical section of the Exposition, rather than the actual art exibition; eventually it would reside nearly forgotten in the Jefferson Medical College for years. Eakins was dismayed that the frank realism displayed in ''The Gross Clinic'' represented pain and suffering, according to the critics, and could not be called entertaining, as paintings were assumed to be during that time.
==Later period==
In the late 1870s Eakins was teaching at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, concentrating on drawing and painting. In a departure from Victorian norms, he removed the practice of drawing and painting from antique sculptures and replaced them with live nude models. Unfortunately, Eakins could not convince many outside his classroom walls that painting from nudes was innocent in practice, and he was forced to resign from the Academy in 1886.
==Paintings==
==Paintings==