1880-1881 School Circular

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1880

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PENNSYLV ANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS.

CIRCULAR

OF THE

COMMITTEE OF INSTRUCTION,
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1880-81.

PHILADELPHIA:

COLLINS, PRINTER, 705 JAYNE STREET.

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OFFICERS OF THE ACADEMY.

CIRCULAR
PREtiIDENT.
OF TilE

JAMES L. CLAGHORN .

COMMITTEE OF INSTRUCTION.
DIRECTORS.

1880-81.

JOSEPH WILLIAM BATES,

GEO. S. PEPPER,
HENRY C. GIBSON,
FAIRMAN ROGERS,

WILLI AM S. BAKER,
EDWARD H, COATES,

F . ODEN HORSTMANN,
WM. B. BEMENT,
ATHERTON BLIGHT,
Cl.ARENCE H. CLA~K,
JAMBS S, MARTIN.

ADMISSION OF STUDENTS.

TREASURER.

EDWARD H . COATES.

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COMMITTEE OF INSTR UCT ION.

JOSEPH WILLIAM BATES,
FAIRMAN ROGERS,
F. ODEN HORSTMANN .

Professor of Drawing and Painting

(2) Times of Admission.-The com mittee wi ll act lIpon
application s for admission on the first and third Thursdays in every month, excepting June, July, and August.
All appli cations should be filed the day before the
mee ting.

(3) Cond itions of Admission.-Each appli cant must give
satisfactory reference, must state that he or she has read
these rules and wi ll abide by them, and must subm it a
specimen of his or her work, signed with full name
and add ress. These detai ls may be arranged at an y
conveni ent time before the examination day, at the
office of the Academy, where blank forms of application may be obtain ed.

THOMAS EAKINS.

Assistant Professor of Painting
Chief Dem onstrator of Anatomy
Professor of Artistic Anatomy .

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(I) Any person of good character, of either sex, glvmg satisfactory evidence of abi lity to profit by the course of
study laid down in these rules, will be admitted, on application made in compliance with the following directions.

W. W.

KEEN,

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(4) The work submitted must represent the whole or part of
the human figure, and must be made (rom the solid
object.

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provided for the school, unless specially vrohibi-ted.
They may also use the modeling room when not occu pied for the regular sessions of the life class.

, ' (5) The entire figure must be represented when admission to
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a life class is sought.

, (6) Exceptions may be made to these conditions when, in the
opinion of the Committee of Instruction, they are justified by peculiar circumstances.

PROGRAMME OF STUDIES.

(10) The School Year begins the second Monday in Septem - '
ber, and ends on the 30th day of June .

(7) Every person admitted to study in the Academy will be
furnished with a ticket, which must be shown to the
doorkeeper when required.
(8) Professional artists, on application to the Committee (with
reference when not known to any of the members)
may, without the above tests, receive tickets admitting
them to any of the classes.

(II) The study from casts by daylight is carri ed on during th e
whole of the school year.
The same study by gaslight begins Oct. I and end~
May 31.
The study of the living model begins the first Mon day in October and ends the last Saturday in May.
The study of art anatomy begins about the first of
November and ends about the 31st of March.

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CLASSIFICA TION OF STUDENTS.

(12) Vacations and Holidays.-The school will be cl osed
during the months of July and August, and on Sundays, Thanksgiving day, Christmas and New Year's
days, and Washington's Bi rthday, on whi ch days students will not be admitted to any portion o f the school
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(9) At the time of his admission each student shall be assigned
to one of the following classes:
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Second Antique Class.
PE4'/i-J'LLife Class.
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Members of the first class shall draw only from casts 1,/°/jlO, 'TI!l;
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of portions of the human figure; those of the second,
from casts of the whole figure; those of the third, from
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The proper period for commencing the use of colors
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should be determined in each particular case by the
advice of the teacher.
Life class students only will be admitted to the dissecting room and to the modeling room at the hours
assigned for modeling from the living figure.
Students of the antique as well as life-class students
are entitled to attend the lectures on art anatomy in
the lecture-room, and any other lectures that may be

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(14) 'The Academy furnishes teachers, models, and conve niently-arranged class-rooms, free to all students.
Those in regular attendan ce are also provided with
boxes, drawing-boards, and modeling stands.
Each student, on taking out hi s ticket for the year, _
will be required to deposit five dollars ($ 5.00), half
of which will be paid back to him at the end of the
school year, when he gives up his keys and returns
the property of the Academy which he has been using.
The remainder of the deposit will be retained to pay
for the wear and tear of school property. The amount
of the deposit will be the same at whatever time the
student may enter the school.

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(IS) R e q ui r ements a t Close of a S chool Y e ar.-On or
before the last day in each schobl year every student
must remove all his personal property from the Academy, and give up the keys which he has received from
the Academy.

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(17) Exam inat io ns.-When a student desires to advance to
a higher class, he must submit a speci men of his work
in the class to which he belongs to the Committee of
Instruction. This drawing must be signed with the
full name and class of the examinee.

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(r8) A ttendance.-Each student shall register his (or her)
attendance on a sheet provided by the Ac.ademy.
These sheets will be ~ollected daily and preserved for
reference. The ticket of any student whose attendance

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is not satisfactory is liable to be withdrawn . This does
n ot apply to professional artists, however, whose business engagements must necessarily interfere with their
use of the facilities for practice which are cordially
offered them by the Academy.

REGULATIONS FOR THE LIFE-CLASS ROOMS.

( 19) Posing the Mode1.-Each new pose shall be determined
by a committee of five of the class, taken in regular
order from the alphabetical roll.
The committee for the first pose shall consist of the
first five on the roll who are present at the selection of
that pose; for the second pose the next five; and so
on to the end of the roll.
Any member of the class not present when by the
above regulations he would be placed upon the committee, will forfeit his turn.
The decision of the committee as to the pose shall
be final.

(20) Each pose shall consist ,of six sittings, unless the teacher
should order otherwise, which he is hereby authorized
to do, in case he should consider it advantageous to
the class.

REGULATIONS FOR THE DISSECTING ROOM.

(23) The Chief Demonstrator of Anatomy shall have charge of
the Dissecting Room, and see that it is kept neat and
clean, all debris being removed daily. He shall superintend, under the direction of the Professor of Anatomy, the dissecting, casting, and drawing.
(24) The Assistant Demonstrators shall make all the dissections; and shall make daily d emonstrations for the life
class students, who shall be admitted to the Dissecting
Room after finishing their regular work in the Painting
Room, and who may then , if they desire, make drawings of the dissections.
(25) The period for dissection shall be included between the
middle of November and the middle of the following
April; and no dissection shall be made in the Academy except those authorized by the Professor of
Anatomy.

(26) NOTE.-The work in the dissecting room involves mnch
practical study of comparative anatomy, and is therefore of direct use to animal painters as well as painters
of the human figure.

FR OM THE A RC"~IV E S OF

PENNSYLVANIA ACAI)EMVl OF THE fiNE ARTS
LECTURES ON ARTISTIC ANATOMY.
00 NOT REPRODUCE WIT~ OUT PERMISSION
(27) Prof. W. W. Keen will begin his next course of lectures
REGULA TIONS FOR ANTIQUE ROOMS.
on Artistic Anatomy, free to all Academy students, in
November.
No cast shall be moved except by order of the teacher,
The course will consist of about thirty-five iectures,
who shall decide how long it may remain away from its
to be given on Wednesday and Saturday evenings, at
place.
half-past seven o'clock. The lectures will be illustrated by diagrams, casts, anatomical models and preStudents will be held responsible for. breakage of casts
parations, skeletons of man and the lower animals,
resulting from their own' carelessness.
dissections, and the living model.

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Tpe following

subj~cts will be treateq, although not
in precisely the following ' order or number
or l'ectures·! The introductory lecture will treat of the relations
and importance of anatomy to art, and of the proper
methods of its study.
Ten lectures will be given to the study of the bones
and joints of the human skeleton and the comparative
anatomy of the skeleton.
Fourteen lectures to the muscles, especially to those
which directly influence external form. Two of these
will be devoted to the muscles of the face and the
anatomy of expression, both in man and the lower
animals.
Four lectures to the eye, nose, mouth, chin, and ear.
Two lectures to the skin, with its various wrinkles
(especiall y those of the face), and the subcutaneous
layer of fat and the bloodvessels in the superficial fascia.
One lecture to the hair and beard, and postural
expression.
One lecture to proportions.
FROM THE ARCHIVES OF
PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY o~l, THE FINE ARTS
00 NOT REPRODUCE wmlO JT PERMISSION

nec~ssarily

COPYING IN THE GALLERIES.

An y student well advanced in pamtmg who desires to
make a study copy of a picture belonging to the Academy, may receive from the President permission to
do so, on presenting a written application approved by
the Committee of Instruction, and specifying the picture to be copied.

· VISITING THE GALLERIES.

(29) '.A student's ticket entitles the holder to visit the galleries j
but it is expected that this privilege will not be made
use of at times which should be devoted to work in the
school-rooms.

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GENERAL STATEMENT OF OBLIGATIONS.

(30) Every person admitted to study in the Academy is held
bound by all the foregoing regulations j and is also
expected to be orderly and proper in conduct.

SPECIAL NOTICE TO APPLICANTS.

(3 I) The Academy does not undertake to furuish detailed
instruction, but rather facilities for study, supplemented
by the occasional cri ticisll1 of the teachers j and the
classes are intended especially for those who expect to
be professional artists.

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PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY Of THE FINE ARTS
DO NOT REPRODUCE WITHOUT PERMISSION

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(13) Weekl y Sched ul e of Classes, as rev ised Fe hru ary,
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