1881-1882 School Circular

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1881

The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

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PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS.

CIRCULAR

O F THE

COMMITTEE ON INSTRUCTION,

PHILADELPHIA:

COLLINS, PRINTER , 70S J AYNE STREET.
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OFFICERS OF THE ACADEMY.

CIRCULAR

PRESIDENT.

JAMES L. CLAGHORN.

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COMMITTEE ON INSTRUCTION.

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DIRECTORS.

HENRY C. GIBSON,
EDWARD H. COATE.S,
'FAIRMAN ROGERS,
,WM. B. BEMENT,
ATHERTON BLIGHT,
CLARENCE H . CLARK,
JAMES S. MARTIN,
E. BURGESS WARREN.

1881-1882.

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JOSEPH WILLIAM BATES,
WILLIAM S. BAKER,

GEO. S. PEPPER,

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ADMISSION OF STUDENTS.

(1) Any person of good character, of either sex, glvmg satisfactory evidence of ability to profit by the course of
study laid d own in these rules, will be admitted, on application made in co mpliance with the following directions.

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TREASURER.

EDWARD H. COATES.
SECRETARY .

(2) Times of Admission.-The committee will act upon
applications for admission on the first and third Fridays in every month, excepting June, July, and August.
All applications should be filed the day before the
meeting.

GEORGE CORLISS.
LIBRARIAN.

H. C. WHIPPLE.

(3) Conditions of Admissi o n.-Each applicant must give
satisfactory referen ce, must state that he or she has read
these rules and will abide by them, andl11l1st submit a
specimen of hi s or her work , signed with full name
and address. These details may be arranged at any
convenient time before the examination day, at the
office of the Academy, where blank fo.rms of application may be obtained.

COMM ITTEE ON INSTRUCTION .

FAIRMAN ROGERS,
WILLIAM S. BAKER,

P rofessor of Drawing and Painting

JOSEPH WILLIAM BA TES,
EDWARD H. COATES.

THOMAS EAKINS.

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

Assistant Professor of Painting
Chief Demonstrator of Anatomy

THOMAS ANSHUT Z.

Professor of Artistic Anatomy

W. W.

KEEN,

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Life class students only will be ad mitted to th e dissecting room j and the same restriction applies to the
modeling room at the hours assigned for modeling from
the li vi ng 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 oth er lectures that may be
provided for the school, unl ess specially Vro hibited .
They may also use the modelin g room when not occupied for the regular sessions of the life class.

(5) The e)ltire ·figure mtist be represented when admission to
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a life class is sought.

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

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Ever;j: person admitted to study in the Academy will be
furnished with a ticket, which must be shown to the
doorkeeper when required.

PROGRAMME OF STUDIES.

(8) Professional artists, on app lication to the Commi ttee (with
reference 'Yhen not known to any of the members)
roay, without the above tests, recei ve tickets admitting
tbe~ to any of the classes.

CLASSIFICA T ION OF STUDENTS.

(1 0) The School Year begins the second Monday in September, and ends on the 30th day o f Jun e.
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study from casts by daylight is carri ed on during the
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of the school year.
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The same study by gaslight begins Oct. I and ends

t tbe time of his ad mission each student shall be assigned

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'to one of tbe following classes:
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First Antique Class.
Second Antique Class.
Life Class.
Members of the first class shall draw only from casts
of portions of the human fi gure j those of the second,
from casts of the whole figure; those of the tlzird, from
the livi ng model.
Admissions to the life classes shall be for a term not
exceeding four years. By invitation of the Committee on
Instruction, this term may be extended. *
The proper period for commencing the use of colors
should be determined in each particular case by the

May 31.
The study of the living model begins the first Monday in October and ends the last Saturday in lVIay.
The study of art anatomy beg in s abou t the first of
Nove mber and ends about the 31st of March.
(12) Vacations and Holidays.-The school will be closed
during the months of Jul y and August, and on Sundays, Thanksgiving day, C hristmas and New Year's
days, and Washington 's Birthday, on wh ich days students wi ll not be admitted to any portion of the school
depart men t.

• Thil rule applies to all students admitted to the life classes since September 30, 1879.

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nientl y - arranged class-rooms, free to all students.
Those in regular attendance are also provided with
closets or 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 wi ll be retain ed to pay
for the wear and tear of school property. T he amount
of the deposit will be the same at whatever time the
student may enter the school.

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(IS) Requirements at Close of a School Year.-On or
before the last day in each school year every student
must remove all his personal property from the Acadel11y, and give up the keys whi ch he has rece ived from
the Academy ,

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(16) At the Opening of a New School Year, all persons
h old in g old students ' tickets desiring to continue their
studies at the Academy, must exchange them for new
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(17) Examinations.-When a student desires to advance to
a hi gher class, he ml1st submit a specimen of his work
in the class to which he helongs to the Comm ittee of
Instr\lction , This drawing must be signed with the
full name and class of the examinee.

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(18) Attendance.-Each student shall register his (or her)
attendance on a sheet provid ed by the Ac.ademy ,
These sheets will be collected daily and pre,se rved [or
reference . The ticket of any student whose attendance

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

REGULATIONS FOR THE DISSECTING ROOM.
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REGULATIONS FOR THE LIFE-CLASS ROOMS.

( 19) Posing the Mode1.-Each n ew 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 fi ve j and so
on to the end of the roll.
Any member of th e class not present when by the
above regulations he would be placed upon the committee, will forfeit his turn.
Th e 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 d o, in case he should consider it advantageous to
the class.
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PENN SYLVANIA AClI[)(MY OF TH q FINE ARTS

DO NOT REPRODUCE WITHOUT P~RM ISS ION
REGULATIONS FOR ANTIQUE ROOMS.

(2i) No cast shall be moved except by order of the teacher,
who shall decide how long it may remain away from its
place.

(22) Students wi ll be held responsible for breakage of casts
resul ting from their own carelesmess.

(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 th e direction of the Professor of Anatomy, the dissecting, casting, and drawing.
(24) The Assistant Demonstrators shall make all the dissections; and shall make daily demonstrations 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 th e following
April; and n o dissection s shall be made in the Academy except those authorized by the Professo r of
Anatomy.
(26) NOTE.- The work in the dissecting room in volves much
practical study of co mparative anatomy, and is therefore of direct use to animal painters as well as painters
of the human figure.

LECTURES ON ARTISTIC AN ATOMY.

(27) Prof. W. W. Keen will begin his ne xt course of lectures
on Artistic Anatomy, fi'ee to all Academy students, in
November.
The course will co nsist of abo ut thirty-five lectures,
to be given on Wednesday and Saturday evenings, at
half-past seven o'clock. The lectures will be illustrated by diagrams, casts, anatomi cal mode ls and preparations, skeletons of man an d th e lower animals,
dissections, and the living mod el.

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The following subjects will be tJ;eated, although not
necessarily in precisely the following order or number
of lectures : The introductory lecture will treat of the relations
and importance of anatomy to art, and of the proper
meth ods 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 .
F ourteen 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.
F our lectures to the eye, nose, mouth, chin, and ear.
Two lectures to the skin, with its various wrinkles
(especially 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.
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GENERAL STATEMENT OF OBLIGATIONS.

(30) Every person admitted to study in the Academy is held
bound by all the foregoing regu lations; an d is also
expected to be orderly and proper in cond1lct.

SPECIAL NOTI CE TO APPLIC ANTS.

(3 1 ) Th e Acade my does not undertake to furnish detail ed
instruction, but rather faciliti es for study, supplemented
by the occasional criticism of the teachers; and the
classes are intended especiall y for those who expect to
be professional artists .

OF 1 ~~ FINE ARTS
PENNSYlVAN\f\ ACADEMY
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COPYING IN THE GALLERIES.

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(28) Any student well advanced in painting who desires to
make a study copy of a picture belonging to the Academy, may rece ive from the President permission to
do so, on presenting a written appli cation approved by
the Committee on Instruction, and specifying the picture to be copied.

VISITING THE GALLERIES .

(29) A student's ticket entitles the holder to visit the galleries ;
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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