1891-1892 School Circular

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1891

The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

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CIRCULAR
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COMMITTEE ON INSTRUCTION.
I89I-I892.

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PENNSYLVANXA ACADEMY OF THE

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PHXLADELPHXA.
1891.

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Committee on Instruction,
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IN CHARGE OF THE SCHOOLS OF THE ACADEMY.

JOHN H. PACKARD, M.D., Cltairmatl,
CHAR,LES HENRY HART,
CHARLES HARE HUTCHINSON,
HENRY WHELEN, JR.,
FRANCIS W, LEWIS, M .D .

F~OM li1t AF-CHI'vE::; OF.
PENNSYLVANIA ACADdvI Y Of HiE FiNE. ARTS
DO NOT REPRODUCE WITHOUT PERMISSION

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The hours being arranged so as not to interfere with each.
other, every student in the Life Classes has an opportunity
of modeling in clay, as wel1 as of painting -from the nude.
This combination is an essential feature of the course.

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CIRCULAR
Admission of Students.
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.cOMMITTEE ON INSTRUCTION.
1891-1892.
special and primary object of the Schools of the Acadia to afford facilities and instruction of the highest order
or women-who intend to make painting
~pture their profession.
~ondarily: To extend, as far as possible, the same
88 a f~undationJ -to engravers, die-sinkers, illustrad~oratorsJwood-carvers, atone-cutters, lithographers,
fOna~, etc., who have 'always, llt!en largely reprethe schools. No advantages but thOSe of pure art
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offered to them, they learning outside, with
in ,the workshop or in technical schools, the mechanof their art or trade.
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: To let amateurs profit by the Same facilities.
the classes are crowded, preference in admission will
to appliCants in the order above indicated.
L course of anatomical lectures is given, and also a series
in Perspective and Composition. Lectures by wellartists and others on general subjects will be arranged
Committee during the year.

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The Committee will act upon applications for admission on
the last Wednesday in every month, excepting May, June,
July and August. All applications should be on file the day
. before the meeting.
Each applicant for admission to the Antique Classes must
submit a specImen of his or her work, signed with full name
and address. Drawings must represent the whole or part of'
the hUman figure, and must be made from the solid object.
They must be executed expressly for the purpose.
Students may be transferred from the Antique to the Life,
Classes upon recommendation of the Instructors, and upon
the approval by the Committee of a drawing or drawingsexecnted by them in the Academy, and representing the
entire human figure. Such drawings must be upon paper
measuring at least 18 x 24 inches, and signed with full name.
The Life Classes cannot be entered in any other way, except
i~e case of those who have previonsly belonged to them; or~those who can give satisfactory proof that they have been
members of Life Classes in other recognized Art Schools, and,
who at the same time submit a specimen of previous work.,
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.

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Calendar.
Year Will begin on Monday, September 28, 1891,
.on Saturday, May 29, 1892.
on Art Anatomy Will begin on the 9th of
~ continue about four months.
Perspective will begin on February 13. 1891.
~mVOSition Class will meet on Friday, the 27th of
.on the last Friday of each succeeding month.
tavs.-Tlie schools will be closed on .Sundays, Thanks~
Christmas and New Year's Days, and Washing-

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Charges.

ible for money, watches, jewelry or o!her valuables which may
be lost from the closets or boxes.
At the expiration of the time for which his ticket was
issued, the student must, unless it be renewed, remove all his
personal property from the Academy, and give up the keys
which he has received from the Academy.
A student's ticket entitles the holder to visit the galleries.
Sketching, drawing or painting in the galleries is allowed'
-only when special permission has first been obtained.
Any student well advanced in painting who desires to make
a study copy of a picture or piece of statuary belonging to
the Academy, may receive from the.President permission to
do so, on presenting a written application approved by the
~ommittee on Instruction, and specifying the work to be
(:opied.

season of eight months, including all priviexcept Portrait Class . • . . . . . .
$48 .00
same privileges . . . . . . .
8.00
Antique Class, day and night .
4·00
Night Life ClaSs . . . . • . .
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of eight months in the Antique Class,
, or in the Night Life Class .
24·00
'Portrait C1aaa, each month:
Toatudenta in the Academy .. ','
To~~rmer students of the Academy
~entIt to be made in advance.
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are provided with closets or box.es,draWing-boards
$tandS.
iitudst. on taking out 'his ticket, will be required to
dollar, which will be paid back to him when he
keys and returns the property of the Academy
has been lfsing. The Academy will not be res,Pons-

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Regulations for Class Rooms.

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Antique Rooms.·-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 resulting from their owp carelessness.
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Lift Classes.-Each new pose shall be determined by a committee of three of the class, taken in regular order from the
alphabetical roll.
The committee for the first pose shall consist of the first
three on the roll who are present at the commencement of that
pose; for the second pose the next three; 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 Instructors
should order otherwise.
Only students at work will be admitted into the Life Class
Rooms during the regular hours.
Dissecting Room ..,--The Demonstrator of Anatomy has
charge of the· Dissecting Room, and superintends, under the
Instructors, the dissecting, casting and drawing .
The Assistant Demonstrators (selected from among the
students) make the dissections; they also' give ~em(:)nstrations
to the Life Clas» students admitted to the Dissecting Room,
who may, if they desire, make drawings of the dissections.
The period for dissection is' included between the first of
November and the first ofthefollowing April. No dissections
shall be made in the Academy except such as are authorized
by the instructors.

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braced by Regional Anatomy being believed by the lecturer
to be the best for conveying practical information and awakening the interest of the student in the relation of facts to
theories.
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In addition to the lectures, demonstrations to advanced
students will be given on the living model in the Life Classes
by Dr. McClellan.
For students and others, not members of the classes of the
Academy, the fee will be Ten Dollars.
Other lectures will be given by well-known artists and
competent teachers, as may be arranged by the Committee
. during the yeat:.
The lectures on Art Anatomy, Perspective, and Composition, and such others as may be arranged by the Committee,
are open to all students in the several classes, and a generalattendance is expected.

Lectures.
IIIl101ritiOn Class will meet on the last Friday of each
~gs illustrative ()f the subject previously
will~ sUbmitted, and a lecture or informal criti-

given.
of eight or more lessons in Perspective will be
in February.
McCleI.,lan will begin his course of lectures on
on Monday, November 9th, at 4J4 o'clock.
'. will be given .regulat:ly every Monday after~'e1ockthroughout the Winter.' They will
'l'r.f diagrams, preparatio~8,models) photoext_pore. drawings on the ~l_clr:board. Disthe muScles will be shown .to.> the class, and
~stra#ons on the cadaver will be made as are
~rtant to art students. S~a1 attention
Veil :,~ the mechanism of the joints, to their
totti~ natural postnres of the body in repose;
[,'promfnences of the skeleton as affecting the outinter~action of the mtisc::les,on which in life de~ntoui.of the body; and the fine surface-marking
IHsposition of fatty tissue and the relative elastica" study so essential to the artist in order to
eDR8St the human form in drawing, painting or
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~ practicable, the system of teaching em-

The Charles Toppan Prizes.

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TheSe prizes, established in 1881, by the gift of Mrs. Charles
Toppan, Miss Harriette R. Toppan and Mr. 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 on Instruction, for the best two pictureS or drawings by students of the Academy who have worked regularly
in its schools for at least two years, one of them being the
school year preceding the exhibition at which the prize is
a,rarded; provided, however, that there shall be no obligati\>n to award a prize to any work which is not, in the opinion
o~ the Committee, of sufficient merit.
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(~.·",.~o;:.~,p8Ubull:tted .&hall d~ with a subject or ,ubjects
itedbithe Committee. . No W'qrk' will be
approved by. one or more of the in~tor8.·
to the pos1tivelyexpressed terms of~~:gift, t4e
the picture. will receive the first attention of the
~-ets; the ~rk shoWing the most accurate'&awmg
r~~~gthe preference.
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. Iustt1l.cti<>Us!or students inten':ling to exhibit will be fur,u.hed in a circular to be hereafter issued.

Traveling Scholarship for 1892-<J3.

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By:the' liberality of a member of the Board of Directors
a Scholarship of $800 for a year's study abroad was .offered.
~ COt}1peted for by the pupils of the tiuue classes of the
.won of 1890-91. It has been awarded to Mr. J. B. Connor.
'.' ;The Committee are much gratified to be able to announce
~~e same gentleman m8.kes a like offer for t~2,..93, open
to all the ~tudeD.ts.;of the Academy. The ~~ard ~f . the
.Si:holarship Will ~..U1ade in the same manner.as before. On
the lastWedi1esday in March,. 1892, the instructors will send
... in to the Co~the names.of such pupils.as they may
". Consider eligible, jiidged by their whole work for the term,
specimens of which shall be also submitted. From' among
those so nominated, one will be chosen by the Cotmnittee.

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