1885-1886 School Circular

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PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF TijE FINE ARTS.
(FOUNDED 1805.)

CIRCULAR
OF THE

COMMITTEE ON INSTRUCTION,
1885-1886.
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GLOBE PRINTING HOUSE, 112 N. TWELFTH ST.
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GEORGE S. 'fJ;~l'J;L

COMMITTEE ON INSTRUCTION .

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1885-1886.

JAMES S. MARTIN,
E. BURGESS WARREN,
CHARLES HENRY HART,
JOSEPH E. TEMPLE,
JOHN H. PACKARD, M.D.
'HENRY C. LEA.

:;~:i1~!~WILLIAM BATES,

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s. BAKER,

,EDVllAltI: H.COATES,

THE object of the School is to afford faciliti~s and instruc·
tion of the highest order to those persons-men and women

-who intend making painting or sculpture their profession.
Secondarily: To extend, as far as possible, the same

EDWARD H. COATES.

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GEORGE CORLISS.

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.d....ator iftl" Scltog/ and Librarian

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Tt\, ARCHIVES OF

H. c. WHIPPLE.pENNSYLVANIA

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COMMITTEE ON INSTllUCTION.
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EDWARD H. COATES,
WILLIAM S. BAKER,
JOSE~ WILLIAM BATES,
HENRY C. GIBSON,.
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CHARLES HENRY HART.

~ of~f#stit:~Y
.luisian' Prifusor if P_",. aM ~",.
.IJnio/fSlrattlr of AtuJtinfcy

eoac.pondence on
to Mi. H. C.

THOMAS EAKINS.
W. W. KEEN, M.D.
THOMAS ANSHUTZ.
WM. L. MACLEAN.

matters connecttd with the school should be addressed.

WHIPFU,

Cmator.

ACADE~'nMn11(O)fLITI,EE:RfMliN,I~£;st(AmR1S

pO NOT REPRODUCE

benefits, as ,a foundation, to engravers, die sinkers, illustrators, decorators, wood-carvers, stone-cutters, lithographers,
photographers, 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
masters, in the workshop or in technical schools, the mecl1anical parts of their art or trade.
Lastly: To let amateurs profit by the same facilities.
When the classes are crowded, preference in admission will
be given to applicants in the order above indicated.
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; also
a series of lessons in perspective and composition, and lectures by well-known artists and others ·on general subjects
as arranged by the Committee during the year.
Animals are also dissected from time to time, and a living
horse is used in the modeling room each season for a pose
<>f six or eight weeks.

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,FORM OF 'APPLICATION FOR ADMISSION TO
THE SCHOOL OF THE PENNSYLVANIA
ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS,

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modeling
in clay,
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nude. This,
combination
is
e'.elltial f':ature Ofth,.c,O<!ltse.
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I desire to enter the Antique Class of the Academy, I
have read the'rules embodied in the circular of the Academy,
and agree to abide by them,

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"CHARGES"
F~~Jhe 5~on of eig,htmontbs, including all

),!'ivileges,
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$48 00,
,Fof;!,ne !!'onth; same,privileges;
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800
For'c:me ftlonth, Antique Class, day and night,
400
For, 'one ml'mth, Night' Life Class,
400
For the season of eight months in the Antique
Class, day or night, or in the Night Life
dass,
2400
ar~ payabl~ in adv:ance, A full season ticket may'
in six mon!:Wyinstalments of eight dollars, or
,qj!~.~~!Dent of~., A partial season ticket may be
instal~Of four doll~I'S, or in one paye

My age is ......
Occupation .......

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I desire to take out a ticket fOL ...

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Address ....
After three mouths study (or upon recommendation of
the Director of the school) students will be trimsferred from
the Antique to the Life Class, if they have demonstrated,
, by their work their ability to profit by the Life Class w~rk.
For such transfer tO,the Life Class when the Student IS a
minor, the written permission. of parent or guardian must
be obtained,
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
b~en members of Life Classes in other recognized Art
Schools.
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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 door-keeper.

ADMISsION OF STUDENTS.
person of good character,of either sex, and over
, years of age, giving sa!isfactory evidence of ability to,
otl)fit,hv the course of study laid down in these rules, will
I,il#~itte,d, on application made in compliance with thedirections :
OF ADMISSION.-The¢omn>ittee will act upon ap",plic,.ticms' for admission' ,on the'last Wednesday in every
:n>.)nth, excepting May, June, July, and August. All ap{iCl?li.::atio",s 'should be filed the day before the meeting.
CONDITIONS OF ADMISSION.-Students are admitted to the
--', Antique Class without being'required to submit any draw,
for examination, but each applicant must fill up the fol- ,
;'j" 101m.,,, form, cOpIes of ;.vhich can be had at the office of the
Academy.

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space before the asterisk above, the length of time for which a

ticket is asked, should be stated.

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Weekly Schedule Of ClassesMONDAY,

Men's Ufe (drawing and painting)
do.
do.
do.
(mod'ling) .
do.
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1-4 P.M.

Women's Life (drawing and painting) .

9-12

do.

WEbNESDAY.

1-4 P,M.

A,M.

9-12

A,M.

4~-7~

(mod'ling)
3-6 P.M.
do.
7'"!~ P.M.
Modeling from the Horse, for M,n and
9-12 A.M.
Women.
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Antique (drawing from casts).
9-12 A.M.
do.
do.
1-5~ P.M.
do.
do.
7-<j~ P.M.
portrait.
9-12 A.M.
Sketch

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P,M,

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9-12

A.M.

1-5~ P.M.
7-<j~

P.M.

4-5 P.M.
4-5 P.M.
P.M.

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FlUDAY,

1--4 P:M.

9-12

A.M.

A,M,

1--4 P.M.
9-12

9-12

A.M.

9-12

A.M.

3-6 P.M.

7-9~ P.M.

7-<j~ P.M.

9-12 A,M.

9--12

1-5% P.M,

1-5~ P.M.

A.M.

7'"!~ P:M.
7-<j~ P.M.
9---12 A.M.
4-5 P.M.
4-5 P.M.
6Y,-7 Y, P.M.

9-12

A,M.

4~-7~ P.M.

3-6 P.M.

A.M.

A,M.

7-<j~ P.M.

4~-7), P.M.

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SATUlI.DAY •.

7-<j~ P.M.

7-<j~ P.M.

9-12

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Lectures on Perspective and Composition l

1-4 P.M.
9-12

7-<j~ P.M.

A,M.

THURSDAY,

7-<j~ P.M.
9-12

do.
do.

Dissecting Room Study. • . . . . .

I 1-4 P.M.

7-<j~ P,M.

do.

Lectures on Art Anatomy

TUESDAY.

9-12

A.M.

9-12

A,M.

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.9-12

A.M.

'-5~ P.M.

1-5Yz P.M.

7-<j~

7-<j~ P.M.

9-12

P.M.

A.M.

4-5 P.M.

4-5 P.M.
8-<j P.M.

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sculpture pose of twelve or eighteen, unless the Director
should order otherwise.
Only .tudents at work wiII be admitted in the Life Class
Rooms during the regular hours.

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StJ;I<!ents ,are provided with closets or boxes, drawing, and ,modeling
stUdent, on taking' out 1!is ticket, will, be required
<l~iQsit.c~l1e dollar;wlli~ will be paid back to him when
lte,Izi'"'~. "in")';' ~,'lil:Idreturns the property of the ..;\cad~
.iWhich"hehaSbeett~g, but the Aca,demywil1dot be
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milney,.,l.!.\tches, jewelrY or other \>alu~bles.
',':whi(;h inay' be lost th~!D·t.he closets or boxes.
A;1:.the: .
o{the time fot which his ticket was .
"..'u'"" tl5~ ...t\ld,'nt must remove all his personal property
:-/i',om,th,e il~delny, and give up'the keys which he haS re•'-eiiv~"l1rq,i
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stiu~~t well advanced in, painting who desires to
copy of a picture or piece of statuary belong.,In ... ·'.n''j,.. Academy, may receive from the President per-.
do so, on presenting a written application approved by the ComR!ittee on Instruction, and specitjring the
worl(to be<:opied.
A student's ticket entitles the holder to visit the galleries.

REGULATIONS FOR ANTIQUE ROOMS.

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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 place.
Students will be held responsible' for breakage of casts res~lting from their own carelessness.
REGULATIONS FOR THE DISSECTING ROOM .

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REG'ULATIONS FOR THE LIFE CLASS ROOMS.
}>OSUiGTHE MODEL.'-Each new pose shall be dete.rmined
'. by a{~omuiittee of fiv:e of the class, taken in regular order

from the aJphabetical~o!~.
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. committee'forthefirst pose shall consist of the first
.,:;... ·:An the roll whO-ate present at the commencement of
th:at'"",.e; for the second pose the next five; and so on to
the
of the Toll.
Any member of the class not present when, by the above
regulations, he would be placed upon the committee, will
forfeit his 'tnm.
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The dedsion of the committee as to the pose shall be
final.
Each painting pose shall consist of six sittings, and each

The Demonstrator of Anatomy has charge of the Dissecting Room, and superintends, under the Director, the
dissecting, casting, and drawing.
The Assistant Demonstrators (select~d from the students)
make the dissections; they also give daily demonstrations

to the Life Class students, admitted to the Dissecting Room,
who may then, if they desire, make drawings of the dissections.
The period for dissection is included between the first of
November and the first of the following April. No dissection shall be made in the Academy except those authorized
. by the Director, or the Professor of Anatomy.
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.
Prof W. W. Keen will begin his course of lectures on
Artistic Anatomy, free to all the Academy students, on the
I3th of October.
Season tickets for these lectures, for persons not Academy
students, Five Dollars.
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GENERAL STATEMENT OF OBLIGATIONS.

Mooday
evenings, at 6 ~ o',clock.
T1rekctUlres will be illustrated by diagrams, casts, anatomipd: model. and preparation., skeletons of man and the
lo\:Ver.ani~als, dissections, and the-living model.
The, following subjects will be treated, although not neces~ly
precisely the following order or number of lec-

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.

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.~ introductory lecture will treat of the relations and

iniportanee of anatomy to art, and of the proper methods of
its,study. '
Ten lectures will be given to the study of tbe bones and
joilltllof the human skeleton and the comparative anatomy
of the skeleton.
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Fourteen lectures to the muscles, especially to those
wllich directly influence external form. Two of these will
be devoted to the musetes of the ,mce and the anatomy of
expression, both in man and the'lower animals.
Four lectures to th~ eye, nose, mouth, 'chin, and ear.
Two lectures to the skin, with its varioljS wrinkles (especially those of the face), and the subcutaneous layer of fat
, and the bloodvessels in .the superficial fuscia.
Qne lecture to the hair and beard, and postural expression.
Qne lecture to proportions.
LECTuRES QNPERSPECTIvE AND COMPOSI::;~
TION.

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of eight 'or:,n,ore
on perspective and
composition will be given. by the, Director during the months
of March ·and April.
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Season ticket' for this course to persons, not Academy
students, Three Dollars.
. Other lectures will be given by well-known artists and
competent teacbers, as arranged by the Committee during
the year.

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SPECIAL NOTICE TO APPLICANTS.
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The Academy does not undertake to furnish detailed instruction, but rather facilities for study, supplemented by
the criticism of the teachers; and the classes are intended
especially for those who expect to be professional artists.
THE CHARLES TOPPAN PRIZES.
These prizes, established in 188 I, by the gift: of Mrs. Charles
Toppan, Miss Harriette R. Toppan, and Me. Robert N.
Toppan, were awarded, for the first time, at the autumn exhibition of the Academy in October, 1882. 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 of Instruction, for the two best pictures by stu-·
dents of the Academy who have worked regularly in its
schools for at least two years, one of them being the scliool
year preceding the exhibition at which the prize is awarded;
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.
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:,

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the drawinl of the pictures will receive the firstatteotion of
the examiners, that work whJch shows' t/l~ most accurate
drawing receiving the preference,
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In any case of uncertainty as to the right of a comI>etitor
to he considered a student, the decision of the Board of
Directors upon a report (rom the Committee 00 Instruction
shall he final,

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