81st Annual Report for the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
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ANNUAL REPORT '
1886
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SEVENTY-NINTH
ANNUAL REPORT .
OF THE
PENNSYLVANIAACADEMY
OF THE
FINE ARTS
(FOUNDED I8oS)
PHILADELPHIA
GLOBE PRINTING HOUSE 112 AND 114 NORTH TWELFTH STREET
1886
OFFICERS OF THE ACADEMY,
1886,
President.
GEORGE S. ·PEPPER.
Vz'ce- President.
WILLIAM S. BAKER.
HENRY C. GIBSON,
CLARENCE H. CLARK,
WILLIAM B. BEMENT,
JOSEPH W. BAJ;ES,
WILLIAM S. BAKER,
EDWARD H . COATES,
Directors.
E. BURGESS WARREN,
CHARLES HENRY HART,
JOSEPH E. TEMPLE,
JOHN H. PACKARD, M.D.,
HENRY WHELEN, JR.,
JOHN H. CONVERSE.
Committee on Academy Property.
WILLIAM B. BEMENT,
JOSEPH E. TEMPLE.
Committee on Finance.
CLARENCE H. CLARK,
JOSEPH E. TEMPLE,
EDWARD H. COATES.
Committee on .Instruction:
EDWARD H . COATES,
JOSEPH W. BATES,
WILLIAM S. BAKER,
HENRY C. GIBSON,
CHARLES HENRY HARJ'.
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Committee on E xhibitions.
CHARLES HENRY HART,
JOSEPH W. BATES,
WILLIAM B. BEMENT,
E. BURGESS WA~REN,
JOH~ H. PACKAR~, M.D.
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Tnasurer, . . . . . . . . . . . . . • HENRY WHELEN, JR .
Secretary, • . . . . . . . . . . . . . GEORGE CORLISS.
Curator of the School and Librarian,. . H. C. WHIPPLE.
SCHOOL DEPARTMENT.
Director of School, . . . . . . . . . . . . .
P1'ofessor o.f Artistic Anatomy,. . . . . . . .
Assistant Professor of Painting and Drawing, .
D emonstrator of Anatomy, . • . . • • . • . .
• W. W. KE~N, M.D.
~ THOMAS ANSHUTZ.
. JESSE GODLEY.
. Correspondence on matters connected with the school should be addressed to
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Mr. H. C. WHIPPLE, Curator.
SEVENTY~ NINTH
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS
FEBRUARY,
1885,
TO FEBRUARY,
1886.
THE Board of Directors of the Pennsylvania Academy of the
Fine Arts respectfully ·submi'ts to the stockholders the foll.owing
report for the year.
The most interesting event that we have to bring formally to
your knowledge at this time, is the establishment of amicable
relations between the artists of Philadelphia and the Academy,
. brought about early in the present year, through the instrumentality of a Committee of the artists, and a Committee of
your Board. This resulted in the Academy placing the FiftySixth Annual Exhibition in the hands of the artists, as a Jury of
Selection and Hanging Committee; and the jury composed of
Messrs. Geo. C. Lambdin, H. C. Cariss, Isaac L. Williams, Newbold H. Trotter, Frank L. Kirkpatrick and Henry Thouron, performed the delicate duty committed to them in the most satisfactory manner and with the utmost harmony. It is hoped that
this new era of good feeling will be of long duration, and that
the artists and the Academy will henceforth go hand in hand
for the common benefit and advantage of each other.
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ART PROPERTY.
During the year the following works have been added to the
permanent collection of the Academy :
PAINTINGS.
Old Ironsides,
James Hamilton.
Presented by MRS. C. G. T AlT.
2. View of Dresden, '
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E. ](oster.
Bequeathed by MRS. TOBIAS WAGNER.
3. Rough weather,
C. C. Kamzemal'ls.
Bequeathed by MRS. TOBIAS WAGNER.
4. Portrait of Joseph E. Temple,
B emhard Uhle.
5. Evening,
Thos. B. Craig.
6. A forest road with cattle,
Charles F. Pierce.
7. In the month of October, .
Edwin Howland Blashfield.
8. L' Amour desarmee,
Nina G. Batchelor.
The last four paintings were purchased by the Temple Trust,
from the 56th Annual Exhibition, and are numbered }8, 19,20
and 21 of the Temple Collection.
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SCULPTURE.
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Group in marble with marble pedestal, G. M Benzoni.
Bequeathed by MRS. TOBIAS WAGNER.
Sitting Mercury; or Hermes Resting. Bronze reduction of
bronze antique in Museum at Naples . .
Presented by MR. ALEX. FULLERTON.
Fidelity.
MISCELLANEOUS.
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Framed Etching of Gloucester Ferry,
Stephen Parrish.
Presented by Art Union of Philadelphia.
Your Board deeming it appropriate that your appreciation of
the munificence of Joseph E. . Temple, Esq. , to the Academy
should be permanently preserved, selected Mr. Bernhard Uhle,
of this city, to paint a three-quarter length life size portrait of
Mr. Temple, for the Academy. This portrait, although ordered
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more than two years ago, owing to the constant employment of
the artist, was completed only in time for the Fifty-Sixth Annual
Exhibition: The ·subject is seated, and the picture is thoroughly
satisfactory, both as a likeness, and as a work of art, and will
serve to keep ever fresh before. us the features of the institution's
most liberal friend.
In this portion of the report we desire , to call attention to the
gratifying fact that the Artists Fund Society of Philadelphia, .has
deposited with us for permanent exhibition, a very interesting
unfinished study by Gilbert Stuart, which was presented to the
Society many years ago, through John Neagle. The study represents Mrs. Blodgett, the beautiful ,daughter of Provost Smith, .
of the University of Pennsylvania, in a different pose from the
portrait of her by Stuart which came int9 the possession of the
Academy with the Carey Collection.
During the year, several of the older pi~tures belonging to the
Academy that could not safely be permitted to go without attention, have been renovated, but owing to the meagreness of o~r
resources, only a limited number could be so treated. There are
many other paintings belong:ing t~ us that need similar treatment
and are almost in jeopardy by being neglected, but want of funds
makes it impossible for us to do anything more at present. New
frames are also required in several instances. The Academy
possessed a number of poor copies of old masters, which had
long been withdrawn from exhibition, and it was deemed wise to
dispose of them, as they were useless for art purposes.
DONATIONS TO THE LIBRARY.
PRESENTED BY MR. GEORGE W. CHILDS.
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Drawings from the collection of Benjamin West, P.R.A.
(bound in large folio.)
PRESENTED BY MR. CHARLES HENRY HART.
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Gallery of pictures painted by Benjamin West, Esq . . Engraved in outline by Henry Moses. London, 18111817. Folio.
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3 Select groups (in five plates) from the grand picture of Ckrzst
Rejected, painted by Benjamin West. Drawn fr~m the
original by Henry Corbould.
Engraved by Edward
Scriven. (Text in French and English.) London, 1814.
Oblong folio.
4 Lectures on Perspective, by John George Wood. London,
1844. 4°·
5 A catalogue of oil paintings loaned for exhibition in aid of
the Bartholdi Pedestal Fund, in the galleries of the Brooklyn Art Association, January, 1884.
PRESENTED BY MR. JOHN SARTAIN.
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6 On the antique painting in the Encaustic of Cleopatra, discovered in 1818: Philadelphia, 1885. 8°.
PRESENTED BY MR. FRANK L. KIRKPATRICK.
7 Catalogue of the Art Department of the New England Manufacturers' and Mechanics' Institute. Illustrated by Etch""
ings, Albertypes, and P,hoto-Engravings. · Boston, 1883.
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PRESENTED BY MRS. M. A. STONE.
8 Development of Painting in the 16th Century. Chicago, 1885.
PRESENTED BY ' EXECUTORS OF THE LATE JAMES L. CLAGHORN.
9-1 I Life and writings of Fuseli . . By John Knowles. London,
1831. 3 vols., 8°.
12 Picturce Raphae1is * * ex aula * * Vaticani* * editce. Aquila
Sc. Rome, . 1792. Large oblong folio.
13 Gallery of old German Masters. Boissen~e and Bertram.
14 Great Naval Victories of Great Britain: Smirke (del.) London; 18°3. Large folio.
15-17 Monuments of Art. Text by Dr. W. Liibke and Dr. C.
f. A. y'on Liitrow, one vol., 8°. Plates, 2 vols;, oblong
folio. New York, s. a.
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18 Catalogue of [engraveEl] Eng~ish heads. Joseph Ames.
London, 1763. Small 8°.
19 Analysis of Beauty. W. Hogarth. London, 1772. Small 4°.
20-25 Bibliographer's Manual. W. T. Lowndes. New edition
by H. G. Bohn. London, 1869. 6 vols., 8°.
26 Lectures on Sculpture. John Flaxman. London, 1838.
8°.
27-28 Modern Painters. Bya Graduate of Oxford [John RuskinJ. First American from 3d London edition. New
York, 1848. 2 vols., 12°.
29 Philosophia sacro profano. Seb. Franciscus et Ph. Con.
Guilielmus. Dilingen, 1664. Small 4°.
30 Life of Thomas Stothard. Mrs. Bray. London, 185 I .
Small 4°.
3 I Catalogo del marmo scolpito della M useo * * Venezia. G.
Valentinelli. Ven., 1863. 8°.
32 Art of coloring in landscape painting. Wm. Oram. London, 1810. Small 4°.
33 Characteristic portraits of Animals. Thos. Landseer. London (eire. 1830).
34 Principles and practice of Art. J . D. Harding. London
1845.
35 Principles of Landscape Design. John Varley. London
( 18 33).
36 AIle de Werken van der Heere Jacob Cats. Amsterdam,
1712. Folio. 37 Lectures on painting. Fuseli.
38 History of sculpture, painting, and architecture. J. S. Memes.
Boston,1831. Small 8°.
39 History of painting, ancient and modern: London, 1835. 12°.
40 Catalogue-Musee imperiale du Louvre. Paris, 1869. 12°.
41 Color -as a means of art. Frank Howard. London, 1849.
- Small 8°.
42 Art of painting in oil colors. John Cawse. London, 1840.
8°.
43-45 Original -drawings by Meyer, bound in 3 volumes,
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46 Analysis of life forms in art. Harrison Allen, M.D. Philadelphia, 1875. 4°.
47 Catalogue of the Musical Library of.]. W. Drexel. Part I.
Philadelphia, 1869. 8°.
Catalogues, reports, and other pamphlets have also been received from the following persons and institutions:
Bureau of Education, Washington, D. C.
Executors of the late James L. Claghorn.
Mr. Charles
M.
Kurtz, New York.
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Archceological Institute of America.
American Art Association, New York.
American Numismatic and Archceological Asso., New York.
Art Association of Montreal.
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Art Committee, Inter-State Industrial Exposition, Chicago.
Art Institute, Chicago.
Boston Art Club.
Cincinnati Museum Association.
Detroit Museum of Art.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Milwaukee Industrial Exposition Association .
.Museum· of Fine :Arts, Boston.
Ontario Society of Artists, with Royal Canadian Academy
of Arts, Toronto.
Peabody Institute, Baltimore.
Penna. Museum and School of Industrial Art.
Providence Art Club.
San Francisco Art Association.
St. Louis School of the Fine Arts (Palette Scrapings).
Society of Decorative Art, New York.
The additions to the Library this year require more than the
usual bare mention.
The collection of drawings presented by Mr. Childs, fortyseven in number, are of considerable interest, and were obtained
by the donor for the Academy through the American Minister
in London, Mr. Lowell. All of the drawings in the collection,
however, could not have belonged tq the second President of
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the Royal Academy, who died March 11th, 1820, for one, and
a very admirable drawing, · is signed and dated: "W. Brocas, "
Liverpool, August, 1831." About a third of the drawings are
much in the style of West's own work, and may safely be ascribed
to his pencil,"while the greater portion seem to be the work of
Frenchmen. The drawings are neatly mounted and were substantially bound before being presented to the Academy:"
To all Americans, and especially to Philadelphians, Benjamin
West is an interesting historical figure, and the Academy possesses two of his largest and most important works: Death on
the Pale Horse, and Christ Rejected. It is therefore gratifying to
have placed in the Library the two books of plates, numbered
2 and 3 in the preceding list.
The following letter explains the origin of the valuable gift by
the executors of Mr. Claghorn:
October I2tlt, I885.
To the President and Board of Directors of the Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Arts.
PHILADELPHIA,
GENTLEMEN:
Your late President, Mr. Claghorn, during his lifetime loaned
to your Library a number of works on Art, which, we are informed, have proved very useful to the institution. As a slight
memento of his unswerving interest in the Academy, we wish
now to present these volumes-a list of them is enclosed-so
that they may permanently remain where he placed them, and
continue the good work he began.
We are, gentlemen, very truly yours,
J. RAYMOND CLAGHORN,
JULIA S. CLAGHORN, Executors.
To enhance the value of the Library, a card catalogue of the
books and pamphlets has been prepared, which will facilitate
considerably the use of the collection.
EXHIBITIONS.
The only exhibition held by the Academy this year was the
Fifty-sixth Annual Exhibition, which opened October 29th, and
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closed December IOth, 1885. As already stated, the manage, ment of the most important part of this exhibition, the selection
of the pictures and the hanging of them upon the walls, was
this year delegated to a jury of professional artists. Early in
the year a letter was received from the Philadelphia Society of
Artists, asking that a committee be appointed to confer with a
committee of that Society on the subject of future exhibit'ions,
and matters generally pertaining to Art, in Philadelphia. Your
Board appointed -such a committee, and the two committees held
several conferences, which resulted as already stated. There
were submitted for this exhibition 799 works. Of these were
. accepted and placed in the galleries, 367 oil paintings, 215 water
colors and works in black and white, including etchings, ~nd
44 pieces of sculpture. The latter included a very interesting
and important collection of 34 original sculptures, by Capt. Edward Kemey~, from studies made in the Far West of aboriginal
life. Fro'm the Fifty-sixth Annual Exhibition 26 works were
sold; of the value of $6803. This exhibition was better attended
than some of the previous ones; and all acknowledgment is due
to the press of the city for the admirable manner' in which it
commended the efforts of the A~ademy to the public.
In order to keep up the interest of the artists in the Academy
and its work, it was determined by the Board that the exhibitors
of the Fifty-sixth Annual Exhibition should be invited to meet
on the closing day of the exhibition, and nominate ten of their
number to the Board, from whom five should be chosen as a
Jury of Selection and Hanging Committee for the Fifty-seventh
Annual Exhibition. This accordingly was done, and from the
artists nominated, the following have been selected as the jury:
Thomas- Hovenden, Miss Cecelia Beaux, Miss Emily Sartain,
Henry Poore, and George Frank Stephens. Whether the Fiftyseventh Exhibition will be held in the fall of the present year, as
has been the cusJ;om of the Academy in recent years, or whethe;
we will return to -the good old fashion Spring Exhibition, holding it early in 1887, is yet undetermined.
Some effort WaS made to obtain the jmportant collection ·of
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portraits painted by George F. Watts, R.A., the distinguished
Engl'ish painter, which was brought to this countryand exhibited
for some time in N ew York. Owing, however, to the great
difficulty, expense, and risk, the effort had . to be abandoned.
Arrangements, however, have been made for the exhibition here,
opening February 2d, 1886, of the English Collection of Water
Colors, brought to the United States ' by Mr. Henry Blackburn,
of London. This collection has only been seen in Boston, but
more particular reference to it will have to be deferred until the
next annual report.
An exhibition of considerable interest was held at the Academy
by the Photographic Society of Philadelphia during the week
January 11th to 18th, 1886, ,and was well attended.
SGHOOL DEPARTMENT.
The high position attained by the schools of the Academy is
still maintained. During the school year ending May . 31st,
1885, the number of students was 224; of which 120 were men,
and 104 women. During the five months from October to
F~bruary, inclusive, of the season of 1885-86, the number of
students has been ' 172; of these 82 were men, and 90 women . .
For use in the schools, in illustrating lectures on perspective
and composition by the Director, a very fine stereopticon, with
appliances, was presented by Mr. Henry C. Gibson, the lenses
having been specially imported for us.
During the year, several lectures have been delivered before
the students, to which artists, and others interested, were invited . .
On the evening of February 17th; 1885, Mr. Felix Moschelles,
of London, gave a Talk O1Z Art, in the course of which he pai,n ted
a portrait of the Curator of the Sch/ools, from life. ' On May2d,
and May 9th, Mr. J. Liberty Tadd lectured on Mz"chael Angdo, ,
and Raphael,' illustrating his lectures by reproductions of the
,most important works of these artists, the size of the originals,
with single figures and de~ails enlarged for purposes of study.
Qn May 15th, Mr., Geo. C. Lambdin lectured o.n The Invcntz"on
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an~ on May 2zd, Mr.
Thomas Eakins lectured on The Zoetrope, and illustrated · the
movement of thehorse~ All of these lectures were largely attended, and proved of great interest to the students.
PRIZES .
. The several prizes awarded by the Academy this year-to pictures exhibited in the 56th Annual Exhibition, were as follows:
The Temple Gold medaJ to Charles Sprague Pearce, for the '
best figure picture, Peines de ca;ur.
The Tem,ple Silver medal to William T. Richards, for the best
landscape or marine, Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste.
The Mary Smith Prize of $ 100 to Cecelia Beaux, for her picture, entitled, Last days 0./ In./ancy.
The first Toppan Prize of $200 to Elizabeth F. Bonsall, for her
picture, entitled, Rejected.
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The second Toppan~ Prize of $100 to William B. Bridge, for
his picture, entitled, The sheep pasture.
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It must be borne in mind that the two Toppan Prizes are students' prizes, for the best pictures 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 awarded, and in awarding th~se · prizes, special '
attention is to be given to the drawing.
Some doubts having been expressed as to the true interpretation of the clause in the Deed of Trust, from Mr. Temple, of
February 24th, 1880, providing for the purchase of pictures, and
awarding of medals, as to whether it was incumbent upon the
Academy to award these medals and expend half the net income
in the purchase of pictures annually; Mr. Temple has formally
. executed and delivered to the Academy his intepretation of the
clause and intention in regard to the same, leaving it discretionary
with the Board when it will award medals and purchase pictures,
the income not used to accumulate for future pu~chases. Mr.
Temple says: "My object and desire being that in the purchase of works of art, only those works shall be purchased for
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the Academy, that possess such undoubted merit, that they will
become of permanent value to the institution."
It may be of ·inferest for you to know that the suit brought
against the' Academy, by William Thomas Trego, claiming the
$3000 prize in the Historical Competition, (Oct.-Dec., 1883) has
been decided in favor of the Academy.
FINANCES.
The ENDOWMENT FUND, the necessity for which was set forth
fully in the last Annual Report, is in proces,s of formation. In
April last, your Board printed and distributed an ApPEAL, asking
for twenty pl~dges, of $ 5000 each, as a foundation for this purpose, no subscription to be called for until '$100,000 was subscribed, and the whole of said amount to be .r aised within three
years . . Six gentlemen have generously come forward and pledged
$35,000, and one of them liberally offers, as soon as $40,000 more
is pledged, to make up the balance of the fund. Will we have to
ask for this $40,000 in vain? Here, in the second city in the
country, with a million inhabitants, and vast wealth possessed Dy
large numbers . of our citizens, we feel that tomake our needs
known should bring forth a hearty and quick response.
In this connection it may,be stated that the contest over the will
of the late John L. Neill has finally been decided in favor of the
contestants, whereby we will receive a legacy of $10,000 with
some accretions, upon the death of an annuitant. As the estate
is far more than sufficient to pay this annuity, it is hoped that a
decree of court may speedily be obtained, authorizing immediate
payment of the charitable legacies.
The general statement of the Treasurer, together with the items
of profit and lo!'is, will be found appended hereto. From the
latter it will be seen that the net excess of expenditures over
receipts for the year ending December 31st, 1885, was $6150.57,
notwithstanding that the running expenses have been materially
curtailed; but the receipts unfortunately fell off in a larger
proportion. An examination of these figures will show the imperative necessity of an ENDOWMENT FUND for the maintenance of the institution.
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STATEMENT OF THE PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS.
JANUARY I, 1886.
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DR.
Real Estate, Broad ' and Cherry Streets, .
. $478009
21106 3
Art Property,. . . . . . . . . . . .
Library and School Property, . . . . .
2610
26000
Investment in Academy of Fine Arts Bonds,
Penna. Academy of Fine Arts Bonds, (Held by Temple
Trust), . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60000
Penna. Academy of Fine Arts Bonds, (Held by Gilpin
Trust),
. . . • . . . . . . . . . . . . 16000
Lehigh Valley 7 per cent. Bonds, (Held for Tappan
8000
Fund), . . . . . . .
. ....... .
2000
Penna. 5 per cent. Loan, (Held for Smith Fund),
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85
19
00
00
00
00
00
Miscellaneous.
Paper on hand, .
Duties advanced,
Cash, . . . . .
.$
53
08
164 22 ,
59
22
34
Capital Stock,
Surplus, . '. .
Old Stock, . .
Mortgage S. W. Corner Broad and Cherry Streets,
Phillips Bequest, . . . . . .
-r:emple Trust F~md,. . . . .
Temple Trust, Income account,
Gilpin Trust Fund, . . . . .
Tappan Prize F und,. . . . .
Tappan Fund, Income account,
Mary Smith Prize Fund,
Loans Payable, . . . . . . .
Students' Deposit Fund, . . .
56th Annual Exhibition, (not complete),
Bills Payable, . . . . • . . . . • •
• $444500 00
144 6 5 8 51
12850 00
102000 00
12000 00
60000 00
21 4 6 50
162 7 6 25
8000 00
1240 00
2000 00
850 00
72 50
229 10
3000 00
$ 61 39 64
$809822 86
$809822 86
PROFIT AND LOSS BALANCES.
DECEMBER
31, 1885.
DR.
Instruction, . .. . .
Interest,. . . . .
. Expense-General,
House Expenses, •
Art Property expenses, .
Phillips Collection and Library,
55th Annual Exhibition (1884),
CR .
. $ 67 51
5025
5937
677
353
62 5
204
06
37
67
28
50
96
General Exhibition, . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Academy Rents, .. . • . .- . . . • . . . . .
Temple Trust Fund, Income for General Expenses
Gilpin Fund, Income account, . .
Phillips Bequest, Income account,
Balance, . . . . . . . . . . •
$ 1289 1 35
. $2593
1029
1800
718
600
61 50
52
00
00
26
00
57
$ 1289 1 35
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ANNUAL REPORT '
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SEVENTY-NINTH
ANNUAL REPORT .
OF THE
PENNSYLVANIAACADEMY
OF THE
FINE ARTS
(FOUNDED I8oS)
PHILADELPHIA
GLOBE PRINTING HOUSE 112 AND 114 NORTH TWELFTH STREET
1886
OFFICERS OF THE ACADEMY,
1886,
President.
GEORGE S. ·PEPPER.
Vz'ce- President.
WILLIAM S. BAKER.
HENRY C. GIBSON,
CLARENCE H. CLARK,
WILLIAM B. BEMENT,
JOSEPH W. BAJ;ES,
WILLIAM S. BAKER,
EDWARD H . COATES,
Directors.
E. BURGESS WARREN,
CHARLES HENRY HART,
JOSEPH E. TEMPLE,
JOHN H. PACKARD, M.D.,
HENRY WHELEN, JR.,
JOHN H. CONVERSE.
Committee on Academy Property.
WILLIAM B. BEMENT,
JOSEPH E. TEMPLE.
Committee on Finance.
CLARENCE H. CLARK,
JOSEPH E. TEMPLE,
EDWARD H. COATES.
Committee on .Instruction:
EDWARD H . COATES,
JOSEPH W. BATES,
WILLIAM S. BAKER,
HENRY C. GIBSON,
CHARLES HENRY HARJ'.
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Committee on E xhibitions.
CHARLES HENRY HART,
JOSEPH W. BATES,
WILLIAM B. BEMENT,
E. BURGESS WA~REN,
JOH~ H. PACKAR~, M.D.
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Tnasurer, . . . . . . . . . . . . . • HENRY WHELEN, JR .
Secretary, • . . . . . . . . . . . . . GEORGE CORLISS.
Curator of the School and Librarian,. . H. C. WHIPPLE.
SCHOOL DEPARTMENT.
Director of School, . . . . . . . . . . . . .
P1'ofessor o.f Artistic Anatomy,. . . . . . . .
Assistant Professor of Painting and Drawing, .
D emonstrator of Anatomy, . • . . • • . • . .
• W. W. KE~N, M.D.
~ THOMAS ANSHUTZ.
. JESSE GODLEY.
. Correspondence on matters connected with the school should be addressed to
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Mr. H. C. WHIPPLE, Curator.
SEVENTY~ NINTH
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS
FEBRUARY,
1885,
TO FEBRUARY,
1886.
THE Board of Directors of the Pennsylvania Academy of the
Fine Arts respectfully ·submi'ts to the stockholders the foll.owing
report for the year.
The most interesting event that we have to bring formally to
your knowledge at this time, is the establishment of amicable
relations between the artists of Philadelphia and the Academy,
. brought about early in the present year, through the instrumentality of a Committee of the artists, and a Committee of
your Board. This resulted in the Academy placing the FiftySixth Annual Exhibition in the hands of the artists, as a Jury of
Selection and Hanging Committee; and the jury composed of
Messrs. Geo. C. Lambdin, H. C. Cariss, Isaac L. Williams, Newbold H. Trotter, Frank L. Kirkpatrick and Henry Thouron, performed the delicate duty committed to them in the most satisfactory manner and with the utmost harmony. It is hoped that
this new era of good feeling will be of long duration, and that
the artists and the Academy will henceforth go hand in hand
for the common benefit and advantage of each other.
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ART PROPERTY.
During the year the following works have been added to the
permanent collection of the Academy :
PAINTINGS.
Old Ironsides,
James Hamilton.
Presented by MRS. C. G. T AlT.
2. View of Dresden, '
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E. ](oster.
Bequeathed by MRS. TOBIAS WAGNER.
3. Rough weather,
C. C. Kamzemal'ls.
Bequeathed by MRS. TOBIAS WAGNER.
4. Portrait of Joseph E. Temple,
B emhard Uhle.
5. Evening,
Thos. B. Craig.
6. A forest road with cattle,
Charles F. Pierce.
7. In the month of October, .
Edwin Howland Blashfield.
8. L' Amour desarmee,
Nina G. Batchelor.
The last four paintings were purchased by the Temple Trust,
from the 56th Annual Exhibition, and are numbered }8, 19,20
and 21 of the Temple Collection.
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SCULPTURE.
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Group in marble with marble pedestal, G. M Benzoni.
Bequeathed by MRS. TOBIAS WAGNER.
Sitting Mercury; or Hermes Resting. Bronze reduction of
bronze antique in Museum at Naples . .
Presented by MR. ALEX. FULLERTON.
Fidelity.
MISCELLANEOUS.
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Framed Etching of Gloucester Ferry,
Stephen Parrish.
Presented by Art Union of Philadelphia.
Your Board deeming it appropriate that your appreciation of
the munificence of Joseph E. . Temple, Esq. , to the Academy
should be permanently preserved, selected Mr. Bernhard Uhle,
of this city, to paint a three-quarter length life size portrait of
Mr. Temple, for the Academy. This portrait, although ordered
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more than two years ago, owing to the constant employment of
the artist, was completed only in time for the Fifty-Sixth Annual
Exhibition: The ·subject is seated, and the picture is thoroughly
satisfactory, both as a likeness, and as a work of art, and will
serve to keep ever fresh before. us the features of the institution's
most liberal friend.
In this portion of the report we desire , to call attention to the
gratifying fact that the Artists Fund Society of Philadelphia, .has
deposited with us for permanent exhibition, a very interesting
unfinished study by Gilbert Stuart, which was presented to the
Society many years ago, through John Neagle. The study represents Mrs. Blodgett, the beautiful ,daughter of Provost Smith, .
of the University of Pennsylvania, in a different pose from the
portrait of her by Stuart which came int9 the possession of the
Academy with the Carey Collection.
During the year, several of the older pi~tures belonging to the
Academy that could not safely be permitted to go without attention, have been renovated, but owing to the meagreness of o~r
resources, only a limited number could be so treated. There are
many other paintings belong:ing t~ us that need similar treatment
and are almost in jeopardy by being neglected, but want of funds
makes it impossible for us to do anything more at present. New
frames are also required in several instances. The Academy
possessed a number of poor copies of old masters, which had
long been withdrawn from exhibition, and it was deemed wise to
dispose of them, as they were useless for art purposes.
DONATIONS TO THE LIBRARY.
PRESENTED BY MR. GEORGE W. CHILDS.
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Drawings from the collection of Benjamin West, P.R.A.
(bound in large folio.)
PRESENTED BY MR. CHARLES HENRY HART.
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Gallery of pictures painted by Benjamin West, Esq . . Engraved in outline by Henry Moses. London, 18111817. Folio.
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3 Select groups (in five plates) from the grand picture of Ckrzst
Rejected, painted by Benjamin West. Drawn fr~m the
original by Henry Corbould.
Engraved by Edward
Scriven. (Text in French and English.) London, 1814.
Oblong folio.
4 Lectures on Perspective, by John George Wood. London,
1844. 4°·
5 A catalogue of oil paintings loaned for exhibition in aid of
the Bartholdi Pedestal Fund, in the galleries of the Brooklyn Art Association, January, 1884.
PRESENTED BY MR. JOHN SARTAIN.
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6 On the antique painting in the Encaustic of Cleopatra, discovered in 1818: Philadelphia, 1885. 8°.
PRESENTED BY MR. FRANK L. KIRKPATRICK.
7 Catalogue of the Art Department of the New England Manufacturers' and Mechanics' Institute. Illustrated by Etch""
ings, Albertypes, and P,hoto-Engravings. · Boston, 1883.
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PRESENTED BY MRS. M. A. STONE.
8 Development of Painting in the 16th Century. Chicago, 1885.
PRESENTED BY ' EXECUTORS OF THE LATE JAMES L. CLAGHORN.
9-1 I Life and writings of Fuseli . . By John Knowles. London,
1831. 3 vols., 8°.
12 Picturce Raphae1is * * ex aula * * Vaticani* * editce. Aquila
Sc. Rome, . 1792. Large oblong folio.
13 Gallery of old German Masters. Boissen~e and Bertram.
14 Great Naval Victories of Great Britain: Smirke (del.) London; 18°3. Large folio.
15-17 Monuments of Art. Text by Dr. W. Liibke and Dr. C.
f. A. y'on Liitrow, one vol., 8°. Plates, 2 vols;, oblong
folio. New York, s. a.
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18 Catalogue of [engraveEl] Eng~ish heads. Joseph Ames.
London, 1763. Small 8°.
19 Analysis of Beauty. W. Hogarth. London, 1772. Small 4°.
20-25 Bibliographer's Manual. W. T. Lowndes. New edition
by H. G. Bohn. London, 1869. 6 vols., 8°.
26 Lectures on Sculpture. John Flaxman. London, 1838.
8°.
27-28 Modern Painters. Bya Graduate of Oxford [John RuskinJ. First American from 3d London edition. New
York, 1848. 2 vols., 12°.
29 Philosophia sacro profano. Seb. Franciscus et Ph. Con.
Guilielmus. Dilingen, 1664. Small 4°.
30 Life of Thomas Stothard. Mrs. Bray. London, 185 I .
Small 4°.
3 I Catalogo del marmo scolpito della M useo * * Venezia. G.
Valentinelli. Ven., 1863. 8°.
32 Art of coloring in landscape painting. Wm. Oram. London, 1810. Small 4°.
33 Characteristic portraits of Animals. Thos. Landseer. London (eire. 1830).
34 Principles and practice of Art. J . D. Harding. London
1845.
35 Principles of Landscape Design. John Varley. London
( 18 33).
36 AIle de Werken van der Heere Jacob Cats. Amsterdam,
1712. Folio. 37 Lectures on painting. Fuseli.
38 History of sculpture, painting, and architecture. J. S. Memes.
Boston,1831. Small 8°.
39 History of painting, ancient and modern: London, 1835. 12°.
40 Catalogue-Musee imperiale du Louvre. Paris, 1869. 12°.
41 Color -as a means of art. Frank Howard. London, 1849.
- Small 8°.
42 Art of painting in oil colors. John Cawse. London, 1840.
8°.
43-45 Original -drawings by Meyer, bound in 3 volumes,
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46 Analysis of life forms in art. Harrison Allen, M.D. Philadelphia, 1875. 4°.
47 Catalogue of the Musical Library of.]. W. Drexel. Part I.
Philadelphia, 1869. 8°.
Catalogues, reports, and other pamphlets have also been received from the following persons and institutions:
Bureau of Education, Washington, D. C.
Executors of the late James L. Claghorn.
Mr. Charles
M.
Kurtz, New York.
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Archceological Institute of America.
American Art Association, New York.
American Numismatic and Archceological Asso., New York.
Art Association of Montreal.
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Art Committee, Inter-State Industrial Exposition, Chicago.
Art Institute, Chicago.
Boston Art Club.
Cincinnati Museum Association.
Detroit Museum of Art.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Milwaukee Industrial Exposition Association .
.Museum· of Fine :Arts, Boston.
Ontario Society of Artists, with Royal Canadian Academy
of Arts, Toronto.
Peabody Institute, Baltimore.
Penna. Museum and School of Industrial Art.
Providence Art Club.
San Francisco Art Association.
St. Louis School of the Fine Arts (Palette Scrapings).
Society of Decorative Art, New York.
The additions to the Library this year require more than the
usual bare mention.
The collection of drawings presented by Mr. Childs, fortyseven in number, are of considerable interest, and were obtained
by the donor for the Academy through the American Minister
in London, Mr. Lowell. All of the drawings in the collection,
however, could not have belonged tq the second President of
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the Royal Academy, who died March 11th, 1820, for one, and
a very admirable drawing, · is signed and dated: "W. Brocas, "
Liverpool, August, 1831." About a third of the drawings are
much in the style of West's own work, and may safely be ascribed
to his pencil,"while the greater portion seem to be the work of
Frenchmen. The drawings are neatly mounted and were substantially bound before being presented to the Academy:"
To all Americans, and especially to Philadelphians, Benjamin
West is an interesting historical figure, and the Academy possesses two of his largest and most important works: Death on
the Pale Horse, and Christ Rejected. It is therefore gratifying to
have placed in the Library the two books of plates, numbered
2 and 3 in the preceding list.
The following letter explains the origin of the valuable gift by
the executors of Mr. Claghorn:
October I2tlt, I885.
To the President and Board of Directors of the Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Arts.
PHILADELPHIA,
GENTLEMEN:
Your late President, Mr. Claghorn, during his lifetime loaned
to your Library a number of works on Art, which, we are informed, have proved very useful to the institution. As a slight
memento of his unswerving interest in the Academy, we wish
now to present these volumes-a list of them is enclosed-so
that they may permanently remain where he placed them, and
continue the good work he began.
We are, gentlemen, very truly yours,
J. RAYMOND CLAGHORN,
JULIA S. CLAGHORN, Executors.
To enhance the value of the Library, a card catalogue of the
books and pamphlets has been prepared, which will facilitate
considerably the use of the collection.
EXHIBITIONS.
The only exhibition held by the Academy this year was the
Fifty-sixth Annual Exhibition, which opened October 29th, and
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closed December IOth, 1885. As already stated, the manage, ment of the most important part of this exhibition, the selection
of the pictures and the hanging of them upon the walls, was
this year delegated to a jury of professional artists. Early in
the year a letter was received from the Philadelphia Society of
Artists, asking that a committee be appointed to confer with a
committee of that Society on the subject of future exhibit'ions,
and matters generally pertaining to Art, in Philadelphia. Your
Board appointed -such a committee, and the two committees held
several conferences, which resulted as already stated. There
were submitted for this exhibition 799 works. Of these were
. accepted and placed in the galleries, 367 oil paintings, 215 water
colors and works in black and white, including etchings, ~nd
44 pieces of sculpture. The latter included a very interesting
and important collection of 34 original sculptures, by Capt. Edward Kemey~, from studies made in the Far West of aboriginal
life. Fro'm the Fifty-sixth Annual Exhibition 26 works were
sold; of the value of $6803. This exhibition was better attended
than some of the previous ones; and all acknowledgment is due
to the press of the city for the admirable manner' in which it
commended the efforts of the A~ademy to the public.
In order to keep up the interest of the artists in the Academy
and its work, it was determined by the Board that the exhibitors
of the Fifty-sixth Annual Exhibition should be invited to meet
on the closing day of the exhibition, and nominate ten of their
number to the Board, from whom five should be chosen as a
Jury of Selection and Hanging Committee for the Fifty-seventh
Annual Exhibition. This accordingly was done, and from the
artists nominated, the following have been selected as the jury:
Thomas- Hovenden, Miss Cecelia Beaux, Miss Emily Sartain,
Henry Poore, and George Frank Stephens. Whether the Fiftyseventh Exhibition will be held in the fall of the present year, as
has been the cusJ;om of the Academy in recent years, or whethe;
we will return to -the good old fashion Spring Exhibition, holding it early in 1887, is yet undetermined.
Some effort WaS made to obtain the jmportant collection ·of
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portraits painted by George F. Watts, R.A., the distinguished
Engl'ish painter, which was brought to this countryand exhibited
for some time in N ew York. Owing, however, to the great
difficulty, expense, and risk, the effort had . to be abandoned.
Arrangements, however, have been made for the exhibition here,
opening February 2d, 1886, of the English Collection of Water
Colors, brought to the United States ' by Mr. Henry Blackburn,
of London. This collection has only been seen in Boston, but
more particular reference to it will have to be deferred until the
next annual report.
An exhibition of considerable interest was held at the Academy
by the Photographic Society of Philadelphia during the week
January 11th to 18th, 1886, ,and was well attended.
SGHOOL DEPARTMENT.
The high position attained by the schools of the Academy is
still maintained. During the school year ending May . 31st,
1885, the number of students was 224; of which 120 were men,
and 104 women. During the five months from October to
F~bruary, inclusive, of the season of 1885-86, the number of
students has been ' 172; of these 82 were men, and 90 women . .
For use in the schools, in illustrating lectures on perspective
and composition by the Director, a very fine stereopticon, with
appliances, was presented by Mr. Henry C. Gibson, the lenses
having been specially imported for us.
During the year, several lectures have been delivered before
the students, to which artists, and others interested, were invited . .
On the evening of February 17th; 1885, Mr. Felix Moschelles,
of London, gave a Talk O1Z Art, in the course of which he pai,n ted
a portrait of the Curator of the Sch/ools, from life. ' On May2d,
and May 9th, Mr. J. Liberty Tadd lectured on Mz"chael Angdo, ,
and Raphael,' illustrating his lectures by reproductions of the
,most important works of these artists, the size of the originals,
with single figures and de~ails enlarged for purposes of study.
Qn May 15th, Mr., Geo. C. Lambdin lectured o.n The Invcntz"on
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an~ on May 2zd, Mr.
Thomas Eakins lectured on The Zoetrope, and illustrated · the
movement of thehorse~ All of these lectures were largely attended, and proved of great interest to the students.
PRIZES .
. The several prizes awarded by the Academy this year-to pictures exhibited in the 56th Annual Exhibition, were as follows:
The Temple Gold medaJ to Charles Sprague Pearce, for the '
best figure picture, Peines de ca;ur.
The Tem,ple Silver medal to William T. Richards, for the best
landscape or marine, Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste.
The Mary Smith Prize of $ 100 to Cecelia Beaux, for her picture, entitled, Last days 0./ In./ancy.
The first Toppan Prize of $200 to Elizabeth F. Bonsall, for her
picture, entitled, Rejected.
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The second Toppan~ Prize of $100 to William B. Bridge, for
his picture, entitled, The sheep pasture.
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It must be borne in mind that the two Toppan Prizes are students' prizes, for the best pictures 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 awarded, and in awarding th~se · prizes, special '
attention is to be given to the drawing.
Some doubts having been expressed as to the true interpretation of the clause in the Deed of Trust, from Mr. Temple, of
February 24th, 1880, providing for the purchase of pictures, and
awarding of medals, as to whether it was incumbent upon the
Academy to award these medals and expend half the net income
in the purchase of pictures annually; Mr. Temple has formally
. executed and delivered to the Academy his intepretation of the
clause and intention in regard to the same, leaving it discretionary
with the Board when it will award medals and purchase pictures,
the income not used to accumulate for future pu~chases. Mr.
Temple says: "My object and desire being that in the purchase of works of art, only those works shall be purchased for
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the Academy, that possess such undoubted merit, that they will
become of permanent value to the institution."
It may be of ·inferest for you to know that the suit brought
against the' Academy, by William Thomas Trego, claiming the
$3000 prize in the Historical Competition, (Oct.-Dec., 1883) has
been decided in favor of the Academy.
FINANCES.
The ENDOWMENT FUND, the necessity for which was set forth
fully in the last Annual Report, is in proces,s of formation. In
April last, your Board printed and distributed an ApPEAL, asking
for twenty pl~dges, of $ 5000 each, as a foundation for this purpose, no subscription to be called for until '$100,000 was subscribed, and the whole of said amount to be .r aised within three
years . . Six gentlemen have generously come forward and pledged
$35,000, and one of them liberally offers, as soon as $40,000 more
is pledged, to make up the balance of the fund. Will we have to
ask for this $40,000 in vain? Here, in the second city in the
country, with a million inhabitants, and vast wealth possessed Dy
large numbers . of our citizens, we feel that tomake our needs
known should bring forth a hearty and quick response.
In this connection it may,be stated that the contest over the will
of the late John L. Neill has finally been decided in favor of the
contestants, whereby we will receive a legacy of $10,000 with
some accretions, upon the death of an annuitant. As the estate
is far more than sufficient to pay this annuity, it is hoped that a
decree of court may speedily be obtained, authorizing immediate
payment of the charitable legacies.
The general statement of the Treasurer, together with the items
of profit and lo!'is, will be found appended hereto. From the
latter it will be seen that the net excess of expenditures over
receipts for the year ending December 31st, 1885, was $6150.57,
notwithstanding that the running expenses have been materially
curtailed; but the receipts unfortunately fell off in a larger
proportion. An examination of these figures will show the imperative necessity of an ENDOWMENT FUND for the maintenance of the institution.
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STATEMENT OF THE PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS.
JANUARY I, 1886.
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Real Estate, Broad ' and Cherry Streets, .
. $478009
21106 3
Art Property,. . . . . . . . . . . .
Library and School Property, . . . . .
2610
26000
Investment in Academy of Fine Arts Bonds,
Penna. Academy of Fine Arts Bonds, (Held by Temple
Trust), . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60000
Penna. Academy of Fine Arts Bonds, (Held by Gilpin
Trust),
. . . • . . . . . . . . . . . . 16000
Lehigh Valley 7 per cent. Bonds, (Held for Tappan
8000
Fund), . . . . . . .
. ....... .
2000
Penna. 5 per cent. Loan, (Held for Smith Fund),
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85
19
00
00
00
00
00
Miscellaneous.
Paper on hand, .
Duties advanced,
Cash, . . . . .
.$
53
08
164 22 ,
59
22
34
Capital Stock,
Surplus, . '. .
Old Stock, . .
Mortgage S. W. Corner Broad and Cherry Streets,
Phillips Bequest, . . . . . .
-r:emple Trust F~md,. . . . .
Temple Trust, Income account,
Gilpin Trust Fund, . . . . .
Tappan Prize F und,. . . . .
Tappan Fund, Income account,
Mary Smith Prize Fund,
Loans Payable, . . . . . . .
Students' Deposit Fund, . . .
56th Annual Exhibition, (not complete),
Bills Payable, . . . . • . . . . • •
• $444500 00
144 6 5 8 51
12850 00
102000 00
12000 00
60000 00
21 4 6 50
162 7 6 25
8000 00
1240 00
2000 00
850 00
72 50
229 10
3000 00
$ 61 39 64
$809822 86
$809822 86
PROFIT AND LOSS BALANCES.
DECEMBER
31, 1885.
DR.
Instruction, . .. . .
Interest,. . . . .
. Expense-General,
House Expenses, •
Art Property expenses, .
Phillips Collection and Library,
55th Annual Exhibition (1884),
CR .
. $ 67 51
5025
5937
677
353
62 5
204
06
37
67
28
50
96
General Exhibition, . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Academy Rents, .. . • . .- . . . • . . . . .
Temple Trust Fund, Income for General Expenses
Gilpin Fund, Income account, . .
Phillips Bequest, Income account,
Balance, . . . . . . . . . . •
$ 1289 1 35
. $2593
1029
1800
718
600
61 50
52
00
00
26
00
57
$ 1289 1 35
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