1882-1883 School Circular

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1882

The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

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PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS.

CIRCULAR

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COMMITTEE ON INSTRUCTION,

1882-188 3.

PHILADELPHIA:

COLLINS, PRINTER, 705 JAYNE STREET.

OFFICERS OF THE ACADEMY.

CIRCULAR
PRESIDENT.

OF TilE

JAMES L. CLAGHORN .

GEO. S. PEPPER,
HENRY C. GIBSON,
FAIRMAN ROGERS,
WM. 1.I. BEMEi'lT,
CLARENCE H. CLARK,
E . BURGESS WARREN,

ATHERTON BLIGHT,
JAMES S. MARTIN,
CHARLES HENRY HART.
EDWARD H. COATES.

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S,owary

GEORGE CORLISS.

Curator oj th, School alld Libmrinlt

H. C. WHIPPLE.

CO MMITTEE ON INSTRUCTIO N.

FAIRMAN ROGERS,

JOSEPH WILLIAM BATES,

WILLIAM S. BAKER,

EDWARD H. COATES.

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Assistallt Professor 0/ Pai11.till,s'° and Dra'willg

THOMAS EAKINS.
W. W. KEEN, M. D.
THOMAS ANSlIlITZ.

Demons/rator of A1t"tmllY

JOI'IN WALLACE.

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P"oftssor oj A rtistic Ann/olllY

Corre'pond ence on matters cOl1necled with the school shou ld he addressee]
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COMMITTEE ON INSTRUCTION.
1882-188 3.

THE object of the School is to afford facilities and instruction
of the highest order to those persons-men and women-who
intend making painting or sculpture their profession.
Secondari ly: To extend, as far as possible, the same benefits,
as a foundation, to engravers, die sinkers, illustrators, decorators,
wood carvers, stone cutters, li thographers, photographe rs, etc .,
who have always been largely represented in the school. No
advantages but those of pure art education are offered to them,
they learning outside, with maste rs, in the workshop or in technical schools, the mechanical parts of their art or trade.
Lastly: To let amateurs profit by the same faciliti es. When
the classes are crowded, preference in admissions will be given to
appli cants in the order above indi cated.
The course of study is believed to be more thorough than that of
any other existing school. Its basis is the nude human figure.
In the anatomical department, the advanced students dissect;
and the demonstrators use largely, in the dissecting room, the
nude living model for comparison.
A course of thirty-five anatomical lectures is given, and also a
series of lessons in perspective and composition.
Animals a re also dissected from time to time, and a li ving horse
is used in the modeling room each season for a pose of six or
eight weeks.
The hours being arranged so as not to interfere with each other,
every student has an opportunity of modeling in clay, as well as

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The Life Class cannot be entered in any other way, except in
the case of those who have previously belonged to it, or those who
can give satisfactory proof that they have been members of Life
Classes in other recognized Art Schools.
Every person admitted to study in the Academy will be furnished with a ticket~ which must be shown on entering, until
the holder is known to the doorkeeper.
Life class students only will be admitted to the dissecting
room; and the same restriction applies 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 provided for the school, unless
specially prohibited. They may also use the modeling room
when it is not occupied for the regular sessions of the life class.
The School Year begins the first Monday in October, and
ends on the last Saturday in May.
The study of Art Anatomy begins about the first of November and ends.about the 31st of March.
The lectures on Art Anatomy begin about the first of November, and continue about four months.
The lessons on Perspective and Composition will follow lectures on Art Anatomy.
Vacations and Holidays.-The school will be dosed during
the months of June, July, August, and September; and on
Sundays, Thanksgiving day, Christmas and New Year's days,
and Washington's Birthday, on which days students will not
be admitted to ~ny portion of the school department.

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REGULATIONS FOR ANTIQUE ROOMS.

PRIVILEGES AND DUTIES OF STUDENTS.

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Students are provided with closets or boxes, drawjng-boards,
and modeling stands.
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No cast shall be moved except by order of the teacher, or curator, who shall decide how long it may remain away from its
Flace.

Each student, on taking out his ticket, will be required to
deposit one dollar which will be paid back to him when he gives
up his keys and returns the property of the Academy which he
has been· using.

Students will be held responsible for breakage of casts resulting
from their own carelessness.

At the expiration of the time for which his ticket was issued
the student must remove all his personal property from the
Academy, and give up the keys which he has received from the
Academy.

REGULATIONS FOR THE DISSECTING ROO¥.

The Demonstrator of Anatomy has charge of the Dissecting
Room, and superintends under the Director, the dissecting,
casting, and drawing.

Any student well advanced in painting 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 on Instruction, and specifying the picture to be copied.
A student's ticket entitles the holder to visit the galleries.

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The period for dissection is included between the first of
November and the first of the following April. No dissections shall be made in the Academy except those authorized
by the Director, or the Professor of Anatomy.

REGULATIONS FOR THE LIFE-CLASS ROOMS.

Posing the Model.-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 commencement 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.
Each painting pose shall consist of six sittings, and each sculpture
pose of twelve or eighteen, unless the Director should order
otherwise.

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The Assistant Demonstrators (who are selected from the students)
make the dissections; and make daily demonstrations for the
life class students, who are admitted to the Dissecting Room,
and who may then, if they desire, make drawings of the
dissections.

The work in the dissecting room involves much practical study
of comparative anatomy, and is therefore of direct use to
animal painters as well as to painters of the human figure.
LECTURES ON ARTISTIC ANATOMY.

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Prof. W. W. Keen will begfn his course of lectures on Artistic
Anatomy, free to all Academy students, in November.
Season tickets for these lectures, for persons not Academy
students, Five Dollars.
The course will consist of about thirty-five lectures, to be
given on Wednesday and Friday evenings, at six o'clock.
The lectures will be illustrated by diagrams, casts, anatomical

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models and preparations, skeletons of man and the lower
animals, dissections, al),d the living model.
The following subjects will be treated, 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 methods of
its study.
Ten lectures will l?e 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 (especially those of the face), and the subcutaneous layer of fat
and the blood vessels in the superficial fascia.
One lecture to the hair and beard, and postural expression.
One lecture to proportions.
J.,ECTURES ON PERSPECTIVE AND COMPOSITION.

A course of eight or more lectures on perspective and composition will be given by the Director during the months of March
and April.
Season tickets for this course to persons, not Academy students,
three dollars.
GENERAL STATEMENT OF OBLIGATIONS.

Every person admitted to study in the Academy is held bound
by all the foregoing regulations; and is also expected to be
orderly and proper in conduct.
SPECIAL NOTICE TO APPLICANTS.

The Academy does not undertake to furnish detailed instruction, but rather facilities for study, supplemented by the occasional
criticism of the teachers; and the ciasses are intended especially
for those who expect to be professional artists.

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THE CHARLES TOPPAN PRIZE.

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This prize, established in 1881, by the gift of Mrs. Charles
Toppan, Miss Harriette R. Toppan, and Mr. Robert N. Toppan,
will be awarded, for the first time, at the autumn exhibition of
the Academy in October, 1&82. The conditions are as follows:At each Annual Exhibition of the Pennsylvania Academy of
the Fine Arts, two prizes, one of Two Hundred dollars, and one
of One Hundred dollars, shall be awarded by the Committee on
Instruction, or such other Committee as may be appointed by
the Board, for the two best pictures by students of tte Academy
who have worked regularly in its schools for at least two years;
provided, however, that there shall be no obligation to award a
prize to any work which is not, in the opinion of the Committee,
of sufficient merit.
The pictures submitted may be either in oil or water color, and
must be entered in the usual way for the Annual Exhibition, with
the additional note that they are in competition for this prize.
They may be either figure pieces, landscapes, cattle pieces, or
marines.
The competition is not extended to sculpture.
According to the positively expressed terms of the gift, the
drawing of the pictures will receive the first attention of the examiners, that work which shows the most accurate drawing
receiving the preference.
The prizes will be awarded as soon after the opening of the
exhibition as is convenient, and the pictures receiving them will
be appropriately marked.
In any case of uncertainty as to the right of a competitor to be
considered a student, the decision of the Board of Directors upon
a report from the Committee on Instruction shall be final.