82nd Annual Report for the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
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82nd Annual Report for the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
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OFFICERS OF THE ACADEMY,
1889-1890.
President: GEORGE S. PEPPER.
Vice-President: WILLIAM S. BAKER . .
HENRY C GIBSON,
CLARENCE H. CLARK,
WILLIAM B. BEMENT,
WILLIAM S. BAKER,
EDWARD H. COATES,
E. BURGESS WARREN,
Directors.
CHARLES HENRY HART,
JOHN H. PACKARD, M.D.,
HENRY WHELEN, JR.,
JOHN H. CONVERSE,
CHARLES HARE HUTCHINSON,
ALEXANDER BIDDLE.
Committee on Acadomy P roperty.
WILLIAM B. BEMENT,
JOHN H. CONVERSE,
HENRY C, GrBSOR
Committee on Finanu.
CLARENCE H. CLARK,
HENRY WHELEN, JR.,
ALEXANDER BIDDLE.
Committee on Instruction.
EDWARD H. COATES,
CHARLES HENRY HART, .
WILLIAM S. BAKER,
JOHN H. PACKARD, M.D.,
CHARLES HARE HUTCHINSON.
Comm#tee on Exhibitions.
CHARLES HENRY HART,
E. BURGESS WARREN,
WILLIAM B. BEMENT,
JOHN H. PACKARD, M.D.,
CHARLES HARE HUTCHINSON.
Treasurer, • . . . . • . . . • . .
Secretary, . . . • . . . _ • . . .
Curator of the School and Librarian, .
· HENRY WHELEN,JR.
· GEORGE CORLISS.
· H. C. WHIPl,'LE.
SCHOOL DEPARTMENT-I888-188g.
Instructors in Drawing, Painting }'.
and Modeling,
Instructors in Drawing} • . • .
and Painting,
• '.•.
Instructor in Artistic Anatomy . . .•
· THOMAS P. ANSHUTZ,
· JAMES P. KELLY.
· HERBERT H. GILCHRIST,'
· CHARLES H. STEPHENS. I
· W. W. KEEN, M.D.
Correspondence on matters connected with the school should be addressed to
Mr. H. C. WHIPPLE, Curator.
EIGHTY-SECOND ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS
,
FEBRUARY
7, 1888,
TO FEBRUARY
4. 1889.
THIS report of the' Board of Directors of the Academy for the
past year is submitted to the stockholders with unusual satisfaction. For the first time since the occupation of the present
building, nearly thirteen ' years ago, the Academy can claim to
be self-supporting. .
Such a gratifying result of long-continued, and often apparently
hopeless efforts, would not have been possible without the publicspirited contributions to the Endowment Fund, before reported;
and even with this important aid, it has been necessary, as heretofore, to confine the work of the Academy within comparatively
narrow limits. But your Board is encouraged to hope that a
growing appreciation of the influence of such an institution
may lead to further endowments, enabling it to fill completely its
proper ·field for public culture.
In this connection we regret to state, however, that a new and
unexpected burden has been laid upon the Academy by the
municipal authorities, who have decided that it is subject to'
local taxation, on which account they have , demanded and
received , for the year 1888 the sum of $962.00.. This has
changed the small surplus with which the year's work was closing
to a deficit-trifling, it is true, in comparison with those of former
years, but serious in view of the, more rigid ' eco~omy it entails
where economy has already been pushed to an extreme.
4
Since our last meeting one of the oldest and most valued
friends of the Academy has gone to his final rest, after many
years of earnest and useful work. · At .a meeting held May 14th,
the Board ordered the following record to be made upon
its minutes:
~aft6 Copt, President of the Pennsylvania Academy of the '
Fine Arts from June 6th, 1859, to January 11th, 1872, qied in
this city on the 12th inst., at the advanced age of ninety-one years.
Since. his retirerrient~as presiding officer many changes and deaths
have taken place in the Board of Directors, and only three members remain who remember him 'in that position. All of us remember him, however, as Chairman at our successive annual meetings
save the last; and all remember .the invariable kindness, courte~y of manner, and intelligence displayed by him 'on these
occasions.
The Board, in making this minute of his death, while desiring
to record their appreciation of his services as one of our Presidents, and the interest always evinced by him in the welfare of
the institution, testify also to their recognition of his well-spent
life, of his virtues as a man, and of his usefulness as a citizen.
Within a few days death has also taken one who was for many '
years a co-laborer with Mr. Cope. 3amt.6 (8. &am6~in died
suddenly on the afternoon of the 31st ult., while returning from
a visit to the current exhibition at the Academy.
He was born in Pittsburgh, May loth, 1807; and came to
Philadelphia in 1823 to study painting, working under E. Miles
for six months, and afterwards upder Sully for nearly a year.
Returning to Pittsburgh, he established there, about 1828, a
Museum and Gallery of the Fine Arts, the first public Art Exhibition in the West. About four years later he remove~ with
his collection to Louisville. He chose Philadelphia for his permanent residence in 1838, when he was made Corresponding
Secretary of the Artists' Fund Society. He was Vice-President
of the same Society 1840-1843, Corresponding Secretary again
1844, President 1845-1867; and perhaps longer.
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From 1846 to 1865 he was a Director of this Academy; and
a very active and efficient Chairman of the Exhibition Committee in 1849, 1852-1860, and 1863.
THE ART PROPERTY
of the Academy has received but one addition since the last
report, a large painting, "The Fool's Fool," by Thomas Shields
Clarke, presented by CHARLES J. CLARKE, of Pittsburgh.
THE PRINT COLLECTION.
MR. CHARLES HARE HUTCHINSON continues to furnish the new
publications of the Arundel SoCiety as they appear-a valuable
aid to the broad study of Art and Art history.
MR. WILLIAM S. BAKER has presented a large portfolio of
engravings, wood cuts, photographs of known paintings, etc.,
not yet assorted.
- MR. FAIRMAN ROGERS has presented two original drawings: ·
one by Bertrand, and one by Delacroix.
DONATIONS T O THE LIBRARY.
I
\
I. Animal Locomotion. The Muybridge work in the University
of Pennsylvania.
I
'
Presented by THE UNIVERSITY.
2. The works of Sir Joshua Reynolds. 3 vols., 8vo, London, 1801.
Presented by CHARLES -HENRY HART.
3. Annual Report, Smithsonian Institution to July, 1885.
Part II [Report of U. S. National Museum, mainly devoted to the Catlin Collection].
Presented by the SMITHSONIAN INSTfTUTION.
4. Memoir of Seth W. Cheney, Artist, Boston, 1881.
5. Memoir of John Cheney, Engraver, Boston, 1889.
: 'Nos., 4 and 5 presented by MRS. EDNA D. CHENEY.
6. Ash ~r B. Durand: a memorial address, 1887.
Presented by JOHN DURAND .
7. Seventy catalogues, reports, and other publications of the'
Museum of Fine Arts', Boston, to complete set.
Presented by the MUSEUM.
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8. Description of Christ on Calvary by M. de Munkaczy. Folio, •
Illustrated, New York arid Paris, 1887.
Presented by CRAS. SEDELMEYER.
9. Illustrated descriptive catalogue of the exhibition of the
works of Verestchagin. AMERICAN ART AsSOCIATION, N.Y.
10. Vassili Verestchagin, painter, soldier, traveler.
Autobiographical sketches. With illustrations from drawings by
the author.
Nos. 9 and 10 presented by TRos. E. KIRBY, of the AMERICAN
ART ASSOCIATION.
11. The beauties of Moore. A series of portraits of his principal
female characters from paintings by eminent artists. Engraved by Finden and others. Folio.
12. A memoir of Hector Tyndale; Philadelphia, 1882.
13. Four volumes London Art Journal.
Nos. II-I3 presented by FAIRMAN ROGERS.
14. Thorwaldsen and his works, by J. M. Thiele. Four volumes.
Presented by CALEB COPE.
Catalogues, reports and other pamphlets have also been received from the foHowing' persons and institutions: .
Miss J. B. Burt.
Mr. L. Erich.
" Charles Henry Hart.
" Charles M. Kurtz, New York.
tt
S. R. Koehler, Boston.
" Wm. J. Potts, Camden, N. J.
Fairman Rogers, Newport.
" Chas. Sedelmeyer, New York.
American Art Association, New York.
Architectural League of New York.
Art Club of Philadelphia.
Art Association of Montreal.
Art Committee, Inter-State Exposition, Chicago.
Art Institut~, Chicago.
Boston Art Club.
Brooklyn Art Club.
Cincinnati Museum Association.'
Columbia College, New York.
tc
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Committee on Banquet of Learned Societies, Phila., 1887.
Detroit Museum of Art.
Fairmount Park Art Associatio~.
Lackawanna Art A$sociation, Scranton.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
New York Etching Club.
Ohio Centennial Exposition, Columbus.
Peabody Institute, Baltimore.
Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art.
Photographic Society of Philadelphia.
Royal Canadian Society of Arts.
Royal Institution, Edinburgh, Board of Manufactures.
Society of American Artists, New York.
Society of Cleveland Artists.
University of Pennsylvania.
Walker Art Gallery, Corporation of Liverpool.
EXHIBITIONS.
TIIE LOAN EXHIBITION OF HISTORICAL PORTRAITS (December
1st, 1887-January 15th, 1888) is a landmark in the Academy's
long series of Exhibitions. Although the contributions were
practically limited to Philadelphia, they formed in a short time
a ' very large collection of surprising interest and value. The
catalogue has been much sought fo~ in Europe as well as in this
country, having a permanent value as an important work of
reference. '
Notwithstanding' the attractions of this Exhibition, it was not
successful financially,
The expenses amounting to
$2, 169.55
Receipts,
2,061. 8 3
Loss,
~ $107.72
Some considerations regarding this and similar failures were
,
given in the last report.
THE FIFTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL EXHIBITION (February ' 16thMarch 29th, 1888) was unusually important. The number of
works collected for it was 920, of which' 616 were accepted and
exhibited. A brief analysis of the collection was printed in the
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catalogue. The extent and the high character of this Exhibition
were largely due to the earnest work of the JURY OF SELECTION
AND HANGING COMMITTEE, composed of the following Artists:
CHARLES LINFORD, Chairman.
THOMAS B. CRAIG,
BERNHARD UHLE,
J. L. GEROME FERRIS,
COLIN CAMPBELL COOPER, JR.,
Secretary.
The separate Architectural Collection, referred to in the last
report as a new feature in the Fifty-seventh Annual Exhibition,
was continued in this under the management of the following
Committee of Architects, representing the Philadelphia Chapter
of the American Institute of Architects and the T Square
Club:
WILSON EYRE, JR.
JOHN STEWARDSON.
LOUIS C. BAKER.
THE PRIZES awarded at this Exhibition were as follows:
Gold Temple Medal to Charles Stanley Reinhart
for No. 273, "Washed Ashore."
Silver Temple Medal to Howard Russell Butler
for No. 56, " La recolte de varech."
Mary Smitlt Prize to Elizabeth F. Bonsall
for No. 33, " Paying the Model."
Charles Toppan Prizes. See School Department.
The expenses of this Exhibition amounted to $4,035.70
Receipts,
3,702.77
Loss,
THE FIFTY-NINTH ANNUAL EXHIBITION (January 24th-March
7th, 1889), recently opened, cannot be fully reported on at this
time. The collection, though considerably smaller than that of
last year, shows a great variety of good work, and includes
several new contributors of importance.
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PRIZES have been awarded as follows:
Gold Temple Medal to Anna Elizabeth Klumpke
for No. ' 127, "A la buanderie."
Silver Temple Medal to Arthur Parton
for No. 177, " Winter on the Hudson."
Honorable Mention to Robert Blum
for No. 22, "Venetian bead stringers,"
and to Mrs. Anna Lea Merritt
for No. 158, "Marion Lea."
Mary Smith przze to Elsie Wentworth Roberts
for No. 195, "Die Flucht."
THE GENERAL EXHIBITION-that is to say, the permanent
collection and such works as may be on deposit in the Academy
at all times when a special exhibition is not in progress-shows
for the year ending December 3 1st, 1888:
Receipts, including Concert days, $5,823.40
Expenses,
2,877. I 5
Gain,
THE THURSDAY AFTERNOON CONCERTS BY THE GERMANIA ORCHESTRA are considered part of the Exhibitions with which they
concur. The loth Series, closing May 31st, 1888, was better
attended than any of the preceding ones. A contract for an 11th
Series (October 25th, 1888-May 30th, 1889) is now in course of
fulfillment. The number of regular performers has been mcreased to thirty-eight.
SCHOOL DEPARTMENT.
During the season of 1887-1888, which closed May 26th,
the das'ses made satisfactory progress under the following Instructors:
. THOMAS HOVENDEN, Instructor in Painting and Drawing.
THOMAS ANSHUTZ, Instrucfor in Painting, Drawing and
Modeling.
JAMES P. KELLY, Instructor in . Painting, Drawing and
Modeling.
BERNHARD UHLE, Instructor in Portrait Painting.
IO
WILLIAM W. KEEN, M.D., Instructor in Art-istic Anatomy.
FRANK R. WHITESIDE, Demonstrator of Anatomy.
Mr. Hovenden resigned his position at the end of the term.
The current season (October 1st, 1888, to May 25th, 1889) was
opened with
'
THOMAS P. ANSHUTZ, Instructor in Paintinf[, Drawing and
Modeli1tg.
JAMES P. KELLY, "Instructor in Pain#ng, Drawing and
Modeling.
HERBERT H. GILCHRIST, Instructor in Drawing and Painti1Jg,
CHARLES H. STEPHENS, Instructor in Drawing and Painting.
WILLIAM W. KEEN, M.D., Instructor in Artistic Anatomy.
FRANK R. WHITESIDE, Demonstrator of Anatomy.
MR. UHLE'S Portrait Class was not resumed until January 2d,
it having been found advisable to wait until a sufficient number
of advanced students could be entered. The desired conditions
being fulfilled, the class is now in, successful operation.
THE CHARLES TOPPAN PRIZES . for best work by Academy
students in the, Annual Exhibition have,been awarded as follows:
1888, First Prize-$200.oo-to·, Benjamin Fox '
for No. 31, "Sympathy."
Second Prize--=-$ IOo.oo-to Milton H. Bancroft
for No. 14, "Bad News."
Special Commendation to Frank R. Whiteside
for No. 362, " Afternoon in the sheep pasture."
1889, First Prize-$200.00-to Jennie D. Wheeler
for No. 241, Portrait sketch.
Second Prize-$IOo.oo-to Louise Wood '
for No. 250, Study of a head.
Special Commendation to Parke C. Doug.herty
for No. 55, " Salt meadows."
An interesting feature of the current season is the marked
advancement made by a voluntary class in Composition-a
branch of study hitherto much neglected. Many of the students
have shown great earnestness in this work, with results that are
highly encouraging.
'
BALANCE
,
.....
SHEE~,
PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS.
JANUARY I,
DR.
Real Estate, Broad and Cherry Streets, .
. $478,009 18
2II,063 85
Art Property, . . '. . . . . . . . .
Library and School Prop.erty, . . ". .
2, 61 7 19
Investment in Penna. Academy of the Fine Arts Bonds, 24,000 00
60,000 00
Penna. Academy Bonds (held by Temple Trust),
Penna. Academy Bonds (held by Gilpin Trust), . . . 18,000 00
Lehigh Valley 7 per cent. Bonds' (held for Tappan
8,00000
Fund), . . . . . . ,. • • • . . . . • . • . - .
2,000 00
Penna. 5 per cent. Loan (held for Smith Fund), . . •
Peerless Brick Co. Bonds, . . , . . .' . . $20,000
Phila. & Reading, General Mortgage, 4 per cent., 5,000
Richmond & Danville Equipment Trust,
. 5,000
Mortgage Fort Scott, . . : . . • . . .
. 20,000
. 10,000
Sioux City Municipal Bonds, . . • - . . .
. 25,000
Penna. R.R. 4= per cent. Equipment Trust,
Cairo & Fulton, 1st Mortgage, 7 per cent.,
• 10,000
St. Louis, 1. M. & S. A. Br. do.
. 5,000
Held for Endowment Fund, . . . . - - - - 100,000 00
Penna.-R . R. 4 per cent. Equipment Trust, .
7,000 00
Miscellaneous, . . . . r . . • . ' .
182 16
Cash, il;l various Funds,
II,004 51
1889.
CR.
Capital Stock,
Surplus,
Old Stock,
Mortgage ,S. W. Cor. Broad and Cherry Streets,
Endowment Fund, .
Phillips Bequest, . . . . . . . . .
Temple Trust Fund, . • . . . . .
Temple Trust Fund Income account,
Gilpin Trust Fund, . . : . : . • •
Charles Toppan Prize Fund, . . . .
Charles Toppan Prize Fund Income account,
Mary Smith Prize Fund,. . . ' . . . .
Mary Smith Prize Fund Income account,
Neill Bequest,
Bills Payable,
Miscellaneous,
$9 21 ,87 6 89
[OVER.]
. $445,500 00
133,7 82 85
12,850 00
102,000 00
100,000 00
12,00000
60,00000 .
6,123 12
24,095 59
8,000 00
2.346 01
2,000 00
100 00
5,000 .0 0
, 8,000 00
79 3 2
$9 21 ,87 6 89
.....
PROFIT AND LOSS BALANCES.
DECEMBER
DR.
Portrait Exhibition
58th Annual Exhibition (r888),
Instruction, • . .' . . • . •
Interest, . . . . . • . • .
Expenses of Phillips' Collection
General Expenses,*. . • . .
House Expenses, . . .
Art Property Expenses,
.
.
•
and Library,
. ~ ,
$107
33 2
r,88s
4,630
600
7,284
45 6
54
72
93
97
44
00
~o
48
88
31, r888.
CR.
. . • . _ . .
General Exhibition,. • . . •
Academy Rents (against which are $337.67 charges in
General Expenses account), • • . . .
Transfer Fees, . . . . , . • . . . . . . . . . .
Income from Funds for General Expenses:
Temple, . .
. $ r,800 00
Gilpin,. • .
1,204 78
Endowment,
. 6,443 67
•
'Ie'
t:-l
$r5,352 62
$1 5,352 62
.- f
....
$14,753 70
59 8 9 2
Balance-Net loss, •
'--'. ~f>.",
1,7 20 50
15 25
9,448 45
600 00 '
23 25
Income for Phillips' Collection and Library,
Old Plate Glass, . . . . . . . • . . . .
* Including $962.00, taxes.
$2,946 25
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1889-1890.
President: GEORGE S. PEPPER.
Vice-President: WILLIAM S. BAKER . .
HENRY C GIBSON,
CLARENCE H. CLARK,
WILLIAM B. BEMENT,
WILLIAM S. BAKER,
EDWARD H. COATES,
E. BURGESS WARREN,
Directors.
CHARLES HENRY HART,
JOHN H. PACKARD, M.D.,
HENRY WHELEN, JR.,
JOHN H. CONVERSE,
CHARLES HARE HUTCHINSON,
ALEXANDER BIDDLE.
Committee on Acadomy P roperty.
WILLIAM B. BEMENT,
JOHN H. CONVERSE,
HENRY C, GrBSOR
Committee on Finanu.
CLARENCE H. CLARK,
HENRY WHELEN, JR.,
ALEXANDER BIDDLE.
Committee on Instruction.
EDWARD H. COATES,
CHARLES HENRY HART, .
WILLIAM S. BAKER,
JOHN H. PACKARD, M.D.,
CHARLES HARE HUTCHINSON.
Comm#tee on Exhibitions.
CHARLES HENRY HART,
E. BURGESS WARREN,
WILLIAM B. BEMENT,
JOHN H. PACKARD, M.D.,
CHARLES HARE HUTCHINSON.
Treasurer, • . . . . • . . . • . .
Secretary, . . . • . . . _ • . . .
Curator of the School and Librarian, .
· HENRY WHELEN,JR.
· GEORGE CORLISS.
· H. C. WHIPl,'LE.
SCHOOL DEPARTMENT-I888-188g.
Instructors in Drawing, Painting }'.
and Modeling,
Instructors in Drawing} • . • .
and Painting,
• '.•.
Instructor in Artistic Anatomy . . .•
· THOMAS P. ANSHUTZ,
· JAMES P. KELLY.
· HERBERT H. GILCHRIST,'
· CHARLES H. STEPHENS. I
· W. W. KEEN, M.D.
Correspondence on matters connected with the school should be addressed to
Mr. H. C. WHIPPLE, Curator.
EIGHTY-SECOND ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS
,
FEBRUARY
7, 1888,
TO FEBRUARY
4. 1889.
THIS report of the' Board of Directors of the Academy for the
past year is submitted to the stockholders with unusual satisfaction. For the first time since the occupation of the present
building, nearly thirteen ' years ago, the Academy can claim to
be self-supporting. .
Such a gratifying result of long-continued, and often apparently
hopeless efforts, would not have been possible without the publicspirited contributions to the Endowment Fund, before reported;
and even with this important aid, it has been necessary, as heretofore, to confine the work of the Academy within comparatively
narrow limits. But your Board is encouraged to hope that a
growing appreciation of the influence of such an institution
may lead to further endowments, enabling it to fill completely its
proper ·field for public culture.
In this connection we regret to state, however, that a new and
unexpected burden has been laid upon the Academy by the
municipal authorities, who have decided that it is subject to'
local taxation, on which account they have , demanded and
received , for the year 1888 the sum of $962.00.. This has
changed the small surplus with which the year's work was closing
to a deficit-trifling, it is true, in comparison with those of former
years, but serious in view of the, more rigid ' eco~omy it entails
where economy has already been pushed to an extreme.
4
Since our last meeting one of the oldest and most valued
friends of the Academy has gone to his final rest, after many
years of earnest and useful work. · At .a meeting held May 14th,
the Board ordered the following record to be made upon
its minutes:
~aft6 Copt, President of the Pennsylvania Academy of the '
Fine Arts from June 6th, 1859, to January 11th, 1872, qied in
this city on the 12th inst., at the advanced age of ninety-one years.
Since. his retirerrient~as presiding officer many changes and deaths
have taken place in the Board of Directors, and only three members remain who remember him 'in that position. All of us remember him, however, as Chairman at our successive annual meetings
save the last; and all remember .the invariable kindness, courte~y of manner, and intelligence displayed by him 'on these
occasions.
The Board, in making this minute of his death, while desiring
to record their appreciation of his services as one of our Presidents, and the interest always evinced by him in the welfare of
the institution, testify also to their recognition of his well-spent
life, of his virtues as a man, and of his usefulness as a citizen.
Within a few days death has also taken one who was for many '
years a co-laborer with Mr. Cope. 3amt.6 (8. &am6~in died
suddenly on the afternoon of the 31st ult., while returning from
a visit to the current exhibition at the Academy.
He was born in Pittsburgh, May loth, 1807; and came to
Philadelphia in 1823 to study painting, working under E. Miles
for six months, and afterwards upder Sully for nearly a year.
Returning to Pittsburgh, he established there, about 1828, a
Museum and Gallery of the Fine Arts, the first public Art Exhibition in the West. About four years later he remove~ with
his collection to Louisville. He chose Philadelphia for his permanent residence in 1838, when he was made Corresponding
Secretary of the Artists' Fund Society. He was Vice-President
of the same Society 1840-1843, Corresponding Secretary again
1844, President 1845-1867; and perhaps longer.
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From 1846 to 1865 he was a Director of this Academy; and
a very active and efficient Chairman of the Exhibition Committee in 1849, 1852-1860, and 1863.
THE ART PROPERTY
of the Academy has received but one addition since the last
report, a large painting, "The Fool's Fool," by Thomas Shields
Clarke, presented by CHARLES J. CLARKE, of Pittsburgh.
THE PRINT COLLECTION.
MR. CHARLES HARE HUTCHINSON continues to furnish the new
publications of the Arundel SoCiety as they appear-a valuable
aid to the broad study of Art and Art history.
MR. WILLIAM S. BAKER has presented a large portfolio of
engravings, wood cuts, photographs of known paintings, etc.,
not yet assorted.
- MR. FAIRMAN ROGERS has presented two original drawings: ·
one by Bertrand, and one by Delacroix.
DONATIONS T O THE LIBRARY.
I
\
I. Animal Locomotion. The Muybridge work in the University
of Pennsylvania.
I
'
Presented by THE UNIVERSITY.
2. The works of Sir Joshua Reynolds. 3 vols., 8vo, London, 1801.
Presented by CHARLES -HENRY HART.
3. Annual Report, Smithsonian Institution to July, 1885.
Part II [Report of U. S. National Museum, mainly devoted to the Catlin Collection].
Presented by the SMITHSONIAN INSTfTUTION.
4. Memoir of Seth W. Cheney, Artist, Boston, 1881.
5. Memoir of John Cheney, Engraver, Boston, 1889.
: 'Nos., 4 and 5 presented by MRS. EDNA D. CHENEY.
6. Ash ~r B. Durand: a memorial address, 1887.
Presented by JOHN DURAND .
7. Seventy catalogues, reports, and other publications of the'
Museum of Fine Arts', Boston, to complete set.
Presented by the MUSEUM.
6
8. Description of Christ on Calvary by M. de Munkaczy. Folio, •
Illustrated, New York arid Paris, 1887.
Presented by CRAS. SEDELMEYER.
9. Illustrated descriptive catalogue of the exhibition of the
works of Verestchagin. AMERICAN ART AsSOCIATION, N.Y.
10. Vassili Verestchagin, painter, soldier, traveler.
Autobiographical sketches. With illustrations from drawings by
the author.
Nos. 9 and 10 presented by TRos. E. KIRBY, of the AMERICAN
ART ASSOCIATION.
11. The beauties of Moore. A series of portraits of his principal
female characters from paintings by eminent artists. Engraved by Finden and others. Folio.
12. A memoir of Hector Tyndale; Philadelphia, 1882.
13. Four volumes London Art Journal.
Nos. II-I3 presented by FAIRMAN ROGERS.
14. Thorwaldsen and his works, by J. M. Thiele. Four volumes.
Presented by CALEB COPE.
Catalogues, reports and other pamphlets have also been received from the foHowing' persons and institutions: .
Miss J. B. Burt.
Mr. L. Erich.
" Charles Henry Hart.
" Charles M. Kurtz, New York.
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S. R. Koehler, Boston.
" Wm. J. Potts, Camden, N. J.
Fairman Rogers, Newport.
" Chas. Sedelmeyer, New York.
American Art Association, New York.
Architectural League of New York.
Art Club of Philadelphia.
Art Association of Montreal.
Art Committee, Inter-State Exposition, Chicago.
Art Institut~, Chicago.
Boston Art Club.
Brooklyn Art Club.
Cincinnati Museum Association.'
Columbia College, New York.
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Committee on Banquet of Learned Societies, Phila., 1887.
Detroit Museum of Art.
Fairmount Park Art Associatio~.
Lackawanna Art A$sociation, Scranton.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
New York Etching Club.
Ohio Centennial Exposition, Columbus.
Peabody Institute, Baltimore.
Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art.
Photographic Society of Philadelphia.
Royal Canadian Society of Arts.
Royal Institution, Edinburgh, Board of Manufactures.
Society of American Artists, New York.
Society of Cleveland Artists.
University of Pennsylvania.
Walker Art Gallery, Corporation of Liverpool.
EXHIBITIONS.
TIIE LOAN EXHIBITION OF HISTORICAL PORTRAITS (December
1st, 1887-January 15th, 1888) is a landmark in the Academy's
long series of Exhibitions. Although the contributions were
practically limited to Philadelphia, they formed in a short time
a ' very large collection of surprising interest and value. The
catalogue has been much sought fo~ in Europe as well as in this
country, having a permanent value as an important work of
reference. '
Notwithstanding' the attractions of this Exhibition, it was not
successful financially,
The expenses amounting to
$2, 169.55
Receipts,
2,061. 8 3
Loss,
~ $107.72
Some considerations regarding this and similar failures were
,
given in the last report.
THE FIFTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL EXHIBITION (February ' 16thMarch 29th, 1888) was unusually important. The number of
works collected for it was 920, of which' 616 were accepted and
exhibited. A brief analysis of the collection was printed in the
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catalogue. The extent and the high character of this Exhibition
were largely due to the earnest work of the JURY OF SELECTION
AND HANGING COMMITTEE, composed of the following Artists:
CHARLES LINFORD, Chairman.
THOMAS B. CRAIG,
BERNHARD UHLE,
J. L. GEROME FERRIS,
COLIN CAMPBELL COOPER, JR.,
Secretary.
The separate Architectural Collection, referred to in the last
report as a new feature in the Fifty-seventh Annual Exhibition,
was continued in this under the management of the following
Committee of Architects, representing the Philadelphia Chapter
of the American Institute of Architects and the T Square
Club:
WILSON EYRE, JR.
JOHN STEWARDSON.
LOUIS C. BAKER.
THE PRIZES awarded at this Exhibition were as follows:
Gold Temple Medal to Charles Stanley Reinhart
for No. 273, "Washed Ashore."
Silver Temple Medal to Howard Russell Butler
for No. 56, " La recolte de varech."
Mary Smitlt Prize to Elizabeth F. Bonsall
for No. 33, " Paying the Model."
Charles Toppan Prizes. See School Department.
The expenses of this Exhibition amounted to $4,035.70
Receipts,
3,702.77
Loss,
THE FIFTY-NINTH ANNUAL EXHIBITION (January 24th-March
7th, 1889), recently opened, cannot be fully reported on at this
time. The collection, though considerably smaller than that of
last year, shows a great variety of good work, and includes
several new contributors of importance.
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PRIZES have been awarded as follows:
Gold Temple Medal to Anna Elizabeth Klumpke
for No. ' 127, "A la buanderie."
Silver Temple Medal to Arthur Parton
for No. 177, " Winter on the Hudson."
Honorable Mention to Robert Blum
for No. 22, "Venetian bead stringers,"
and to Mrs. Anna Lea Merritt
for No. 158, "Marion Lea."
Mary Smith przze to Elsie Wentworth Roberts
for No. 195, "Die Flucht."
THE GENERAL EXHIBITION-that is to say, the permanent
collection and such works as may be on deposit in the Academy
at all times when a special exhibition is not in progress-shows
for the year ending December 3 1st, 1888:
Receipts, including Concert days, $5,823.40
Expenses,
2,877. I 5
Gain,
THE THURSDAY AFTERNOON CONCERTS BY THE GERMANIA ORCHESTRA are considered part of the Exhibitions with which they
concur. The loth Series, closing May 31st, 1888, was better
attended than any of the preceding ones. A contract for an 11th
Series (October 25th, 1888-May 30th, 1889) is now in course of
fulfillment. The number of regular performers has been mcreased to thirty-eight.
SCHOOL DEPARTMENT.
During the season of 1887-1888, which closed May 26th,
the das'ses made satisfactory progress under the following Instructors:
. THOMAS HOVENDEN, Instructor in Painting and Drawing.
THOMAS ANSHUTZ, Instrucfor in Painting, Drawing and
Modeling.
JAMES P. KELLY, Instructor in . Painting, Drawing and
Modeling.
BERNHARD UHLE, Instructor in Portrait Painting.
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WILLIAM W. KEEN, M.D., Instructor in Art-istic Anatomy.
FRANK R. WHITESIDE, Demonstrator of Anatomy.
Mr. Hovenden resigned his position at the end of the term.
The current season (October 1st, 1888, to May 25th, 1889) was
opened with
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THOMAS P. ANSHUTZ, Instructor in Paintinf[, Drawing and
Modeli1tg.
JAMES P. KELLY, "Instructor in Pain#ng, Drawing and
Modeling.
HERBERT H. GILCHRIST, Instructor in Drawing and Painti1Jg,
CHARLES H. STEPHENS, Instructor in Drawing and Painting.
WILLIAM W. KEEN, M.D., Instructor in Artistic Anatomy.
FRANK R. WHITESIDE, Demonstrator of Anatomy.
MR. UHLE'S Portrait Class was not resumed until January 2d,
it having been found advisable to wait until a sufficient number
of advanced students could be entered. The desired conditions
being fulfilled, the class is now in, successful operation.
THE CHARLES TOPPAN PRIZES . for best work by Academy
students in the, Annual Exhibition have,been awarded as follows:
1888, First Prize-$200.oo-to·, Benjamin Fox '
for No. 31, "Sympathy."
Second Prize--=-$ IOo.oo-to Milton H. Bancroft
for No. 14, "Bad News."
Special Commendation to Frank R. Whiteside
for No. 362, " Afternoon in the sheep pasture."
1889, First Prize-$200.00-to Jennie D. Wheeler
for No. 241, Portrait sketch.
Second Prize-$IOo.oo-to Louise Wood '
for No. 250, Study of a head.
Special Commendation to Parke C. Doug.herty
for No. 55, " Salt meadows."
An interesting feature of the current season is the marked
advancement made by a voluntary class in Composition-a
branch of study hitherto much neglected. Many of the students
have shown great earnestness in this work, with results that are
highly encouraging.
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BALANCE
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PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS.
JANUARY I,
DR.
Real Estate, Broad and Cherry Streets, .
. $478,009 18
2II,063 85
Art Property, . . '. . . . . . . . .
Library and School Prop.erty, . . ". .
2, 61 7 19
Investment in Penna. Academy of the Fine Arts Bonds, 24,000 00
60,000 00
Penna. Academy Bonds (held by Temple Trust),
Penna. Academy Bonds (held by Gilpin Trust), . . . 18,000 00
Lehigh Valley 7 per cent. Bonds' (held for Tappan
8,00000
Fund), . . . . . . ,. • • • . . . . • . • . - .
2,000 00
Penna. 5 per cent. Loan (held for Smith Fund), . . •
Peerless Brick Co. Bonds, . . , . . .' . . $20,000
Phila. & Reading, General Mortgage, 4 per cent., 5,000
Richmond & Danville Equipment Trust,
. 5,000
Mortgage Fort Scott, . . : . . • . . .
. 20,000
. 10,000
Sioux City Municipal Bonds, . . • - . . .
. 25,000
Penna. R.R. 4= per cent. Equipment Trust,
Cairo & Fulton, 1st Mortgage, 7 per cent.,
• 10,000
St. Louis, 1. M. & S. A. Br. do.
. 5,000
Held for Endowment Fund, . . . . - - - - 100,000 00
Penna.-R . R. 4 per cent. Equipment Trust, .
7,000 00
Miscellaneous, . . . . r . . • . ' .
182 16
Cash, il;l various Funds,
II,004 51
1889.
CR.
Capital Stock,
Surplus,
Old Stock,
Mortgage ,S. W. Cor. Broad and Cherry Streets,
Endowment Fund, .
Phillips Bequest, . . . . . . . . .
Temple Trust Fund, . • . . . . .
Temple Trust Fund Income account,
Gilpin Trust Fund, . . : . : . • •
Charles Toppan Prize Fund, . . . .
Charles Toppan Prize Fund Income account,
Mary Smith Prize Fund,. . . ' . . . .
Mary Smith Prize Fund Income account,
Neill Bequest,
Bills Payable,
Miscellaneous,
$9 21 ,87 6 89
[OVER.]
. $445,500 00
133,7 82 85
12,850 00
102,000 00
100,000 00
12,00000
60,00000 .
6,123 12
24,095 59
8,000 00
2.346 01
2,000 00
100 00
5,000 .0 0
, 8,000 00
79 3 2
$9 21 ,87 6 89
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PROFIT AND LOSS BALANCES.
DECEMBER
DR.
Portrait Exhibition
58th Annual Exhibition (r888),
Instruction, • . .' . . • . •
Interest, . . . . . • . • .
Expenses of Phillips' Collection
General Expenses,*. . • . .
House Expenses, . . .
Art Property Expenses,
.
.
•
and Library,
. ~ ,
$107
33 2
r,88s
4,630
600
7,284
45 6
54
72
93
97
44
00
~o
48
88
31, r888.
CR.
. . • . _ . .
General Exhibition,. • . . •
Academy Rents (against which are $337.67 charges in
General Expenses account), • • . . .
Transfer Fees, . . . . , . • . . . . . . . . . .
Income from Funds for General Expenses:
Temple, . .
. $ r,800 00
Gilpin,. • .
1,204 78
Endowment,
. 6,443 67
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t:-l
$r5,352 62
$1 5,352 62
.- f
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$14,753 70
59 8 9 2
Balance-Net loss, •
'--'. ~f>.",
1,7 20 50
15 25
9,448 45
600 00 '
23 25
Income for Phillips' Collection and Library,
Old Plate Glass, . . . . . . . • . . . .
* Including $962.00, taxes.
$2,946 25
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