In the context of this artwork, discuss the Creation of the statue of the History.
The formal proposal for a statue of Dr. Gross originated at the September 24, 1891 business meeting of the ASA.: 1535  By the end of 1892, more than $6,000 had been raised from members of the ASA and the Jefferson Medical College Alumni Association.: 1538  Members of the AMA also were solicited for contributions:Mr. Geo. Keil of Philadelphia is in Chicago this week, representing the S. D. Gross Monument Fund, and will call on the leading members of the profession in this city. Twelve thousand dollars is the minimum amount required, and the raising of the amount should not be doubtful. Gentlemen desiring to anticipate Mr. Keil's visit may leave contributions for him at the JOURNAL office, if more convenient.
Calder won the commission for the statue through an 1894 national design competition. He based his likeness of Dr. Gross on photographs that his former teacher, Thomas Eakins, had taken in preparation for the 1876 painting, The Gross Clinic. Other sculptors in the design competition included Charles Grafly and Samuel Murray, fellow former students of Eakins, with whom Eakins also shared copies of the negatives.Calder completed his larger-than-life-size plaster statue in Philadelphia, and it was shipped to Paris to be cast in bronze at the Jaboeuf & Bezout foundry. Congress appropriated funds for the statue's pink granite base—three square steps and pedestal, 108 in (270 cm) in height—and the completed bronze was shipped to Washington, D.C.  The monument was installed at the northeast corner of 9th Street and Independence Avenue, between the Army Medical School and the Smithsonian Institution Building.The monument's May 6, 1897 dedication was timed to coincide with the Washington, D.C. convention of the Congress of American Physicians and Surgeons. President William McKinley spoke at the ceremony, as did Surgeon General of the U.S. Army George M. Sternberg, and William Williams Keen, Dr. Gross's former student and successor as Professor of Surgery at Jefferson Medical College, and America's first brain surgeon. Dr. Gross's granddaughter and great-grandson unveiled the statue.
Thomas Eakins negative American Charles Grafly William Williams Keen Philadelphia George M. Sternberg Army Medical School Smithsonian Institution Building The Gross Clinic Congress foundry Samuel Murray William McKinley