92nd Annual Report for the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
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\ NINETY SECOND
ANNUAL REPORT
FEBRUARY 7, 18 9 8
FEBRUARY 6, 1899
THE PENNSYLVANIA
ACADEMY OF THE FINE
ARTS PHILADELPHIA
,_
THE PENNSYLVANIA
ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS
FOUNDED 1805
THE NINETY-SECOND ANNUAL
REPORT,
FEBRUARY
7,
1898,' TO FEBRUARY 6, 1899
PHILADELPHIA
MDCCCXCIX
MANAGEMENT OF ' THEPENNSYLV ANIA
ACADEMY ' OF THE FINE ARTS.
PRESIDENT,
EDWARD H. COATES.
VICE-PRESIDENT,
CLARENCE H. CLARK.
DIRECTORS,
CLARENCE H. CLARK,
CHARLES HARE HUTCHINSON,
E. BURGESS WARREN,
ALEXANDER BIDDLE,
CHARLES HENRY HART,
FRANCIS W. LEWIS, M.D.,
JOHN H. PACKARD, M.D.,
THEOPHILUS P. CHANDLER, JR.,
HENRY, WHELEN, JR .,
' CHARLES C. HARRISON,
JOHN H. CONVERSE,
. HERBERT M. HOWE, M.D.,
CHARLES ROBERTS.
TREASURER,
HENRY WHELEN, JR.
SECRET ARY AND MANAGING DIRECTOR,
HARRISON S. MORRIS.
SOLICITOR,
JOHN G. JOHNSON.
COMMITTEE ON PROPERTY,
JOHN H. CONVERSE, CHAIRMAN,
THEOPHILUS P. CHANDLER, JR., CHARLES C. HARRISON. (
COMMITTEE ON FINANCE,
CLARENCE H. CLARK, CHAIRMAN,
ALEXANDER BIDDLE,
HENRY WHELEN, JR.
COMMITTEE ON INSTRUCTIC)N,
JOHN H. PACKARD, M.D., CHAIRMAN,
CHARLES HARE HUTCHINSON, THEOPHILUS P. CHANDLER, JR. ,
FRANCIS W. LEWIS, M.D.,
CHARLES ROBERTS.
COMMITTEE ON EXHIBITION,
FRANCIS W. LEWIS, M.D., CHAIRMAN,
E. BURGESS WARREN,
JOHN H. PACKARD, MD.,
CHARLES HENRY HART ,
HERBERT M. HOWE, M.D.
FACUL TY OF THE SCHOOLS,
WILLIAM M. CHASE,
WILL S. ROBINSON,
CECILIA BEAUX,
CHARLES GRAFLY,
THOMAS P. ANSHUTZ,
GEORGE McCLELLAN, M.D.,
HENRY J. THOURON,
HUGH H. BRECKENRIDGE.
THE PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS
1899
..
LIFE MEMBERS ·
Mrs. Andrew Alexander Blair
Henry H . Collins
John ,H. Converse '
Miss Ch~rlotte D. Coxe
Miss Eliza M. Coxe
. Miss Rebecca Coxe
Mrs. J. Campbell Harris
Clarence B. Moore
Thomas Harris Pow~rs
Mrs. William D. Winsor
George Woodward, M.D.
Mrs. George Woodward
ANNUAL MEMBERS
Edmund ·Allen
Mrs. Harrison Allen
Miss Laura Belf
Rev. Louis F. Benson
C. W. Bergner
Atherton Blight
Mrs. Henry J. Biddle
Edward W. Bok
Mrs. Henry P. Borie
Joseph H. Brazier
Mrs. George Brooke
George But"nham, Jr.
Charles E. Bushnell
Harrison K . Caner
Mrs. William T. Carter
Charles Chauncey
D. Murray Cheston, M.D.
Arth ur L. Ch urch
Clarence H. Clark
C. Howard Clark, Jr.
Mrs. C. Howard Clark, Jr.
E . W. Clark
Miss Frances Clark
William M. Coates
Mrs. Edward H. Coates
Edward Coles
Miss Mary Coles
Eckley Brinton Coxe, Jr.
Mrs. Emlen Cresson
Thomas DeWitt Cuyler
Mrs. Thomas DeWitt Cuyler
Charles E. Dana
Mrs. Charles E.- Dana
Henry L. Davis
Mrs. H. C. Denniston
Frederick S. Dickson
J. Walter Douglass
Ferdinand J. Dreer
George. W. Childs Drexel
Mrs. George W. Childs Drexel
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ANNUAL MEMBERS.
CONTINUED.
Mrs. Charles E. Morris
Charles B. Dunn
Mrs. Byron P. Moulton
Theodore N. Ely
Robert C. Ogden
Charles P. Fox
George Philler
Miss Hannah Fox
Mrs. George Philler
Clement A. Griscom
Mrs. Clement A. Griscom
G. C. Purves
George L. Harrison ·
Craig D. Ritchie
Charles Wolcott Henry
M~s. George B. Roberts
Mrs. Charles Wolcott H enry
Joseph G. Rosengarten
William P. Henszey
John Samliel
Miss Margaretta Hutchinson
Samuel L. Sl10ber
Mrs. Edward 13. Jacobs
Mrs. Walter G. Sibley
John Story Jenks
Samuel Spackman .
Mrs. John Story Jenks
S. P. Sta!TIbach
WilIiam H. Jenb
Louis Starr, M.D.
Mrs. Lawrence Johnson
Mrs. Emlyn Stewardson
R. Winder Johnson
Thomas Stewardson
Mr.s. John Jordan, Jr.
E. T. Stotesbury
Henry Justice
Mrs. WiHiam C. Stroud
William W. Justice
George C. Thomas
Mrs. William W. Justice
Mrs. George C. Thomas
W. W. Keen, M.D.
John W. Townsend
Mrs. Elias D. Kennedy
William P. Troth, Jr.
D. Allen Knight
Mrs. Herbert Welsh
John Lambert
Mrs. Charles Wheeler
Francis W. Lewis, M.D.
David E. Williams
Miss Sarah Lewis
·Mrs. Edward S. Willing
Theodore J. Lewis
Joseph Lapsley Wilson
Mrs. Morri.s Longstreth
George Wood
Thomas MacKellar
Howard Wood
Mrs. Wylie Mitchell
Frank Houston Wyeth
Mrs. Frank Houston Wyeth
LIFE MEMBERSHIP. ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS.
ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP. TEN DOLLARS.
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THE NINETY-SECOND ANNUAL REPORT,
THE PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS,
FEBRUARY 7, 1898, TO FEBRUARY 6, 1899
N
submitting
the
ninety-second Annual
Report to t he Stockholders and to all
interested in the welfare of the Academy,
the President and Directors express renewed thanks for the assistance given and
tions upon the work accomplished.
congratul~
The whole community is benefited when its instituEducation,
tions of learning are properly fostered.
entertainment, even commercial advantage follow the
growth of artistic taste. Hence the enlargement of the
work of the Academy and its. application in varied
directions implies a -like movement among the people
and that substantial advances have been made in the
past year the following record will bear witness.
To American artists at home and abroad who have
lent both influence and labor for the success of the
exhibitions; to its own students who carry its name into
every avenue of art and to the press of Philadelphia
and of the other cities of the country, the Academy
owes sincere acknowledgments for very generous CQoperation in its work and purposes.
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Ninety-second Annual Report
Abundant thanks are also due to the generous con-
tributors who, during the past year, have become Annual
and Life Members ' of the Academy.
The income thus
derived has , been of grateful service in expanding the
collections and advancing the institution.
A step lo~g contemplated but deferred until artistic
and practical results could be obtained, is the arrangement with the London Art Publishers of Philadelphia
for the reproduction by photographic process of the
most important works of art belonging to the Academy.
Of these canvases, i03 have been reproduced, and the
admirable series of prints' copyrighted by the Academy '
are now at the command of the public.
The unique group of portraits by Gilbert Stuart has
received especial attention during the summer, the
frames ,having been reg-ilded and glazed and the collrction rehung.,
The western corridor and the north transept were
lined with dark hangings fitting them for the exhibition
of pictures, as additional gallery space may be ·equired.
-Art Property.
·T he permanent collections ,h ave received the following additions:
Mother and Chzld, oil painting by George de Forest
Brush. Purchased for the Temple Collection from
the Sixty-seventh AnnuaLExhibition.
The Flight of Night, oil painting by William Morris
H unt.
Fund.
Purcha~ed
by the Academy from the Gilpin
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The Academy of the Fine Arts
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Gidwitlz vVhite Cap, oil 'painting by William Morris
Hunt. . Purchased by the Acadeh1Y from the Gilpin
Fund.
Plymoutlt Harbor in ' Winter, oil painting by Birge
Harrison. Purchased by the Academy from the
Gilpin Funt!.
Girl at Pialto, oil patnttng by Theodore Rdbinson,
Purchased by the Academy from the Gilpin Fund.
The ;1ge of Brass, figure ill plaster after the original,
by Auguste Rodin. Purchased by the Academy
for the Cast Collection.
Portrait ,q[ George Reignold, oil painting; by Gilbert
Stuart. Purchased by the Academy.
Mid-day Rest in New England, oil' painting, by J.
Alden Weir. . Presented by Robert C. Ogden, Isaac
H. Clothier, Joseph G. Rosengarteil, Francis W.
Lewis, M.D., and Edward H. Coates.
Recumbent Figure, memorial plaster after the onglnal, by Frank Duveneck. · Purchased by the Academy for the Cast Collection.
Deserted Stl'"eet, Moonlight, oil paintirig,by Edward F.
Rook. Purchas'e d by the Academy from the Gilpin
Fund.
Mars, oil painting, by Raimundo de Madrazo, copy
of the picture by Valasquez. Presented by the
children of the late William H. Stewart.
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Portrait of Josepk R. Ingersoll, fifth President of the
Academy, oil painting, by Samuel B. Waugh. Bequeathed by Mrs. Kirke B. Wells.
Doors/or Congressional Library, cast in plaster, after
the originals, by Olin L. Warner. Presented by
Mrs. Sylvia M. Warner, of New York.
Portrait 0/ Ea1'l of Egremont, oil painting, by Charles
R. Leslie. Presented by Samuel P. Avery, of ~ew
York.
Portrait 0/ Alexander Lawson, oil painting, by Bass
Otis. ' Bequeathed by Mrs. Mary L. Birckhead.
Fligh~
0/ Night, cast in plaster after the original, for
the painting by William Morris Hunt.
by the Academy.
Purchased
Portrait of Madame L'Allemalld, miniature, by Amla
C. Peale. Presented by Charles Hare Hutchinson.
Portrait of Benjamin Franklin, etching, after the
, painting by Duplessis, issued by the Grolier Club.
Ptese~ted by Charles H~re Hutchinson.
Photogra:fJlts 0/ Fresco by Ghirlandji'o, Pieta representing the Vespucci family. Presented by Charles Hare
Hutchinson.
The Academy is indebted to Miss Mary A. Hearn
for theJollowing works lent by her:
Portrait 0/ a Lady, oil painting, by George Henry
Harlowe.
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Waiting for Breakfast, oil painting, by Eugene
Carriere.
The following additions have been made to the
Library:
Memorial of tlte late EdlIzzmd A. Stewardson.
Class). Privately printed volume. Presented by Thomas Stewardson.
(Acad~my
Tlte Figaro Salon, 1898.
Hutchinson.
Presented by Charles Hare
Supplement to L'Iilustration.
Hare Hu.tchinson.
Presented by Charles
Catalogue Gmeral Official, Exposition International
de 1889. Tome Premiere Groupe 1. Quevers d ~Art.
Presented by Charles Hare Hutchinson.
Hints on Portraits and How to Catalogue Them. Vol.
numbered 31, by Charles Henry Hart.
.The Paintings on St07lC at tlze Albany Capitol, New
York, Us. A. By William Morris Hunt. · Written
by Mrs. Hunt, 1888. Two copies presented by
Charles Henry Hart.
Catalogue of tlze Collection of Works of Art belongil1g·
to F. L. Parrish. Presented by F. L. .Parrish, the
owner of the collection.
Trmzsactions of the Fairlnount Park Art Association.
Bound volume of publications to date. Presented
by the Fairmount Park Art Association.
*
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Ninety-second Annual Report
The Art Journal.
46 volumes.
Purchased by the
" Academy.
Fuller Collection of Paintings. Edition de Luxe and
Monograph on Gaillsborough's Blue Boy, by W. H.
Fuller. Presented by W. H. Fuller.
Portfolios, containing drawings by old masters and
other works. Bequeathed by Matthew Carey Lea.
Catalogues of tlte Academy and Other Pam.plzlets.
Presented by the Presbyterian Historical Society.
Art for Art's Sake and iVattire for Its Own Sake, by
John C. VanDyke.
Old Italian Masters and Old Dutch and Flemish
Masters, by Timothy Cole.
The Lije and Works
Cust.
of 4lbrecht Durer, by Lionel
Life and Letters of Frederick Walker, by John George
Marks.
I-ije and Utorks of Tlzomas Gainsborough, by Walter
Armstrong.
Considerations on Painting, by John LaFarge,
France under Louis XlV., by Emile Bourgeois.
The Makers of FlorC1tce, by Mrs. Olipha~t.
Joan of Arc, by Boutet de Monvel.
The Academy of the Fine Arts
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When the last Annual Report was submitted, the
Sixty-seventh Annual Exhibition was still in progress. Sixty-seventh
Unlike all previotls Annual Exhibitions, it was, under
the terms of the approp riation from the City Councils,
free to the public throughout its course. The attendance'
reached nearly
50,000
Annual Exhibition.
and the sale of 16 works of art
aggregated $76 I 2.
Academy Gold Medals of Honor were awarded to
~dwin
A. -Abbey, R.A., and to Cecilia Beaux, both
former students of the Academy schools.
From March IS, for one week, galleries G and H Other
were occupied by a collection of photographs of sculp- Exhibitions.
ture q:mtrib uted to the F~irmount Park Art Association,
by American sculptors, in connection with the Smith
Memorial Gate-way, to be erected in Fairmount Park.
From May 9 to 14 the same galleries were devoted
to the illustrations in color and black and white of
Henry Cabot Lodge'S Story of the Revolution.
The Philadelphia Photographic Salon occupied gallery F from October 24 to November 12, and the interest
in the Exhibition made it necessary to extend the date
to November 18. 259 photographs of an artistic nature
from this country and England were shown and 34
pictures were sold at an aggregate of $387.
tendance reached 16,637.
The at-
From October 24 to November 18 some work in
charcoal, by Albert W. Barker, a former student of the
Academy Schools, was shown in the North Transept.
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Ninety-second Annual Report
Sixty-eigh th '
The Sixty-eighth Annual Exhibition opened with a
Annual Ex- private view and reception on the evening of Saturday,
hibition.
Jan uary 14, 1899. The guests were received in gallery
H by the following ladies, who acted as hostesses, and
thanks are due for this valued service:
V AN RENSSELAER,
MRS. EDWARD S. WILLING,
MRS. ALEXANDER
MRS . .cORNEl.lUS STEVENSON,
MRS. JOHN STRUTHERS,
MRS. WILLIAM
MRS. ROBERT
D.
C.
WINDSOR,
H. BROCK,
MRS. THEOPHlLUS
P.
CHANDLER,
MRS. HERBERT WELSH,
MRS. ROBERT
P.
ROBINS.
The Academy's Annual Exhibitions have assumed a
foremost place in the American Art year,and the liberal
comment of the press on the current exhibition indicates
advance in excellence and variety over even the displays
of previol,ls years.
The catalogue this year contains 718
entries, of which 400 are oil paintings, 223 :vater colors,
and 95 sculpture. The Annual Exhibition remains open
until Satqrday, February 25, 1899.
To the efforts and high professional judgment of the
T-Square Club of Philadelphia, the Academy owes the
collection of Architectural Drawings and Designs which
compose the Architectur al Section of the Exhibition.
This display opened with the Annual Exhibition and
closed o~ February 2, 1899. The catalogue prepared
by the T-Square Club ~s a handsome, illustrated volume
of 224 pages. Its general circulation among architects
serves to emphasize the importance of the exhibition
foreign as well as native designs.
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The various sections of (he Sixty-eighth Annual
Exhibition are installed in the north galleries F, G, H,
and I, in the central corridor and transept, the east
corridor and that between galleries A and B.
The Juries of Selection and Hanging Committees are
as follows:
ARTIST'S JURY.
THOMAS
P.
ELLIOTT DAINGERFIELD,
ANSHUTZ,
HENRY OLIVER WALKER,
CECILIA BEAUX,
C.
ROBERT W. VONNOH,
EDMUND
BIRGE HARRISON ,
SARAH W. WHITMAN,
. CHARLES HOPKINSON,
W. E. SCHOFIELD,
WILLIAM
M.
TARBELL,
CHARLES GRAFL Y,
CHASE,
J. SCOTT HARTLEY,
J. ALDEN WEIR,
LORADO TAFT.
flANGING COMMITTEE.
P.
THOMAS
ANSHUTZ,
BIRGE HARRISON,
ROBERT W. VONNOH,
EDMUND
ELLIOTT DAINGERFIELD,
C.
TARBELL
COMMITTEE OF THE ARCHITECTURAL EXHIBITION OF
THE T-SQPARE CLUB, OF PHILADELPHIA.
EDGAR V. SEELER,
ALBERT KELSEY,
ADIN B. LACEY,
HERBERT
C.
DAVID K. BOYD,
Corresponding Secretary,
JAMES
P.
JAMIESON,
WILLIAM L. BAILY,
WISE,
HORACE H. BURRELL,
Chairman,
~
JOHN GALEN HOWARD,
C.
New
York,
HOWARD WALKER, Boston.
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Medals and
Prizes.
Ninety-second Annual Report
The Gold Medals of the Temple Fund were awarded
by the Philadelphia Jury of Painters to the following
exhibitors:
Joseph DeCamp, for his oil painting entitled
Woman Drying her Hair.
Childe Hassam, for his oil painting entitlen Pont
Royal, Paris .
. The Walter Lippincott Prize of
$300
was aw?rded
by the Committee on Exhibition of the Academy and
the Philadelphia Jury to John W . Alexander, for his oil
painting entitled A Ray of Szmligllt.
The M~ry Smith Prize of $100 was awarded by the
Committee on Exhibition of the Academy to Miss Carol
H. Beck, for her oil painting entitled Study . .
Attendance.
The attendance at the exhibitions, lectures, and other
features of interest during the year was as follows: .
The paid admissio?s, to the concerts amounted to 10,321.
The free . admissions, excluding lectures, aggregated
91,054. The attendance at receptions and other entertainments is estimated at 10,000, making a total of
101,054·
The
Schools.
The Schools of the Academy have maintained their
large attendance; the faculty, as last year, consisting of
WILLIAM M. CHASE,
HENRY]. THOURON,
CECILIA BEAUX,
GEORGE MCCLELLAN,
THOMAS
P.
ANSHUTZ,
. CHARLES GRAFLY, .
WILL
S.
M.D.,
ROBINSON,
HUGH H. BRECKENRIDGE.
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Exhibitions of students' work were, as usual, held in
the spring and fall. The pictures entered for the Charles
Toppan Prizes, were included in the spring exhibition,
the subjects assigned being Music and Poetry. The
prizes were awarded as follows by the Committee on
Instruction:
First Prize, $200, to Paul K. M. Thomas:
Second Prize, $100, to Carl Strehlau.
Honorable men#on to F. Hutton Shill.
The prizes established through the liberality of Dr.
Francis W. Lewis and DL John H. Packard for the best
series of studies made from the Zoological Garden, were
a warded as follows:
First Prize, $15, to Alice V. Corson.
Second Prize, $10, to Anita LeRoy.
In the Class of Anatomy, Dr. George McClellan,
Instructor, generously offered two prizes, which were
won by
First Prize, $15, to Helen F. Kinsey.
Second Prize, $10, to Paula Himmelsbach.
The Travelling Scholarship, amounting to $800,
which has been, for eight years liberally placed at the
Academy's disposal by a member of the ' Board of
Directors, was this year won by Richard B. Farley.
Honorable mention was given to John M. Burke and
Carl Buergerniss.
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Ninety-second Annual B..eport
. Competitive school designs for a drinking fountain
for the lobby of the Academy resulted in the choice of
a model by D. C. Muller, which has been cast in bronze
and is in ~ourse of erection.
It is gratifying to note the honors awarded by the
Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, to John J. Boyle and
Nahum Jassinovsky, formerly of the Academy Schools.
Acknowledgment is due the City Councils of Philadelphia and the Board of Education for the continuance
of the annual appropriation and the agreement governing it for the year 1898. Under this agreement the
Academy receives the sum of $5000, and has granted
in return each year 15 scholarships, the whole number
at one time not exceeding 45 students from the public
schools of the city. . Free tuition was also granted to IS
students in addition to those received through the Board
of Education.
Catalogues,
Reports,
Etc.
Catalogues, reports, and pamphlets, completing the
Academy'~
files to this date, have been received from
the following, persons and institutions, and thanks are
cordially returned for the same:
Am.erican Institute, New York.
Architectural League, New York.
Art Club, Philadelphia.
Art Institute, Chicago.
Art Association, Montreal.
Architectural Society of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
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American Water Color Society, New York.
American Art Association, New York.
Boston Art Club.
Boston Public Library.
Boston Public School Art League.
Bridgeport Public Library.
Civic Club of -P hiladelphia.
Cincinnati Museum Association.
Carnegie Art Gallery, Pittsburg.
Carnegie Library, Pittsburg. .
Camera Club of New York.
Detroit Museum of Art.
Drexel Institute, Philadelphia.
Free Library, Philadelphia.
Fairmount Park Art Association, Phil adelphia.
Grolier Club of New York.
Girard Colle~e, Philadelphia.
Loan Exhibition of Portraits, New York.
Library CotI1pany, Philadelphia.
Massachusetts Charitable Mechanics Association,
Boston.
William Macbeth, New YO'rk.
Harrison Mills, New, York.
Massachusetts Normal Art School, Boston.
Municipal League, Philadelphia.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Maryland Institute, Baltimore.
Mark Hopkins Institute, San Francisco.
Museum and School of Fine Arts, St. Louis.
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National Academy of Design, New York.
New York Water Color Club.
National Sculpture Society, New York.
Ontario Society of Artists, Toronto.
Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art,
Philadelphia.
Photographic Salon, London.
Philadelphia City Institute.
Philadelphia Library Company.
Photographic Society, Philadelphia.
Peabody -Institute, Baltimore. ,
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn.
Ph iladelphia School of D esign for Women.
Philips Exeter Academy.
Plastic Cl ub, Philadelphia. Royal Photographic Society, London.
Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.
Rochester -Athenceum and Mechanics Institute.
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence.
State Librarian, New Jersey.
Society of Washington Artists.
St. Louis Exposition Art Department.
Society of American Artists, New York.
Society of vVestern Artists.
Peter A. Schemm, Philadelphia.
Ten American Painters, New York.
T-Square Club, Philadelphia.
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
,
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On January 28, 1898, ' Mr. Arthur J. Eddy, of Lectures.
Chicago, spoke before a large au.dience of artists and
students on Days 'With Whistler.
The second season of Practical Lectures on Illustra-
tion, by W. Lewis Fraser, formerly Art Manager of the
Century Magazine, begun on the evening of January 20,
1899, and will continue on 'Friday afternoons, during
February, March, and April. .
On January 24, 1899, a lecture on Bar)'c, the French
sculptor, illustrated by the lantern, was given by Mr.
Ripley
Hitchcocl~,
of New York.
The public receptions given under the united auspices
of the Civic Club and the Academy, were repeated during
the year. On February 12, 1898, the vote for the best
picture in the Sixty-seventh Annual Exhibition resulted
in a majority for the painting Steel vVorks at Night, by
Lionel Walden, the painting by George de Forest Brush,
entitled Mother and Cldld, receiving the next largest.
, The reception of January, 1889, attracted an attendance of 206,3, and the painting entitled Disciples of
Emmaus, by Dagnan-Bouveret and owned by the Carnegie
Art Galleries of Pittsburg, was given first place.
The list of Life and Annual Members is appended,
and the Academy cordially acknowledges its obligations
for the co-operation of these generous patrons. It is
hppe.d that the contributions thus received may lead, as
has been, the case in Boston, New York, and Chicago,
to an increase in the list of citizens of Philadelphia who
are interested in art and willing to share in the progressive work of the Institution.
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Ninety-second Annual Report
By the death of the venerable artist, George R.
Bonfield, at 94 years, on July 27, 1898, the Academy
loses one of the few remaining Academicians and Philadelphia one of the last links binding it to the , school of
painting which flourished in its earlier history.
Finances.
The generarst,a tement of the Treasurer to
Dec~mber
3[, 1898, and the profit and loss account, are subp1itted
in the following pages. From these it will be seen that
the receipts have been $24.718-73, and the disbur.sements
$24,673.34, resulting in a net balance of $45.39.
In additiol1 to the sums already received from the
estate of George S. P_epper, late ' President of the
Academy, there was paid into the Treasury $2250.
From the Benjamin Johnson Estate, the Academy
received during the year an additional slim of $500,
The annual appropriation of $7500 granted by G:ity
Counc,ils for the uses of the Academy proper during
1898, has enabled the management to open the doors of
the Institution free to the public during the year and to
carryon many of the improvements referred to iq this
report.
To the Mayor of the City and to the City Councils
are due the appreciation and thanks of the Academy of
--the Fine Arts for their co-operation
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a civic work of
far-reaching importance.
EDWARD H. COATES,
President.
HARRISON S. MORRIS,
Secretary.
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BALANCE SHEET
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BALANCE SHEET, PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY
ASSETS.
Real Estate Broad and Cherry Sts., General
Fund. . .
Real E~tate Broad and Cherry Sts., Gilpin
Gallery Fund . . . .
Art Property . . . . .
Library and School Property
Elldowment Fund:
Temporary Loan. . . .
..... .
Peerless Brick Co. Bonds
. .... .
Philadelphia & Reading R. R. Co. General
Mortgage 4 per cent. Bonds . . . . . .
Mortgage, J. H. Sands, Roanoke. • . . .
Central Car Trust 6 per cent. Bunds . . . .
St. Louis & Iron M t. First Mortgage 7 per
cent. Bonds , . , . . . . . . . . . .
Mortgage, E. D. and Rosa M. Smith . . .
Baltimore Belt Line 5 per cent. Gold Bonds
Presbyterian Board of Publication Building
Bonds. . . . . . .
. ....
Norfolk & Western R. R. 4 per cent.
Consols . . . . . . . . . . . .
United Traction Co., of Pittsburg, 5 per
cent. Bonds. . . . . .
..... .
Virginia & Tennessee R. R. 5 per cent. Bonds
Lehigh Coal & Navigation Co. 4Yz per cent.
Boncls . . . . .
Pittsburg Consolidated Ga~ Co. 5 per cent.
Bonds
...... .
Part of $31,000 Mortgage, F. J. Kimball,
Radnor. '. . . . . . .
. ....
32,902.22 $5 10 ,9 11.40
2II, 283,85
2,9 24. 86
$3,875. 00
20,000.00
9, 062 5 0
9,000.00
7,000.00
5,000.00
12,000.00
10,000.00
5,OCO.oo
10,775. 00
2,050 .00
862. 50
Temple Trust Fund:
Pennsylvania Academy 'of the Fine Arts
Bonds . . . . . . • .
Charles Tappan Prize Fund:
Lehigh Valley R. R. 7 per cent. 2d Mortgage Bonds . . . . . . . . . .
$8,000.00
New England Loan and Trust Co . 6 per
cent. Weotern Mortgage . . . . .
2,200.00
Academy Medal Endowment Fund:
Clearfield and Jefferson R. R. 6 per cent.
Boncls . . . , '. . . .
. .. ..
Gilpin Fund.:
Pennsylvania Academy of the F ine Arts
Bonels . . . , . . .
. $23,000.00
N. E. Loall and Trust Co. Debentures
3,850.00
60,000.00
10,200.00
1,000.00
26,85 0.00
Pepper Trust Fund:
Mortgage, Foit Scott, Kansas . . • . . . $16,000.00
Mortgage, No. 10 N. 8th ,St., Philadelphia. 40,000.00
Part of $31,000 Mortgage, F. J. Kimball II,375.?0
Phillips Bequest:
Norfolk & Western R. R. Car Trust Bonds. $4,944.83
Part of $31,000 Mortgage, F. J. Kimball 7,000.00
Mary Smith Prize Fund:
Part of $31,000 Mortgage, F . J. Kimball.
Carried forward. . . . .
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2,00000
OF THE FINE ARTS, DECEMBER 3 I, 1898.
Brought forward . . . .
Gibson Fund:
Part 0[,$31,000 Mortgage, F.
J.
9,7 62 .5 0
II6·9 0
, 441.24
54. 60
606·73
10 9. 12
1,7 1 5. 6 5
500 .00
2,17 2 .5 0
1,875. 00
Kimball .
Academy Medal Investment Income Account.
Sixty-eighth Annual Exhibition.
Album Account. . . .
Permanent Catalogues. . .
Cast Collection . . . . . .
Lecture Room Decoration :
Reconstruction of Building .
Interest Receivable . . .
City of PhiladelphIa. . .
Royalty on Reproductions
Miscellaneous . . . . .
Cash:
Temple Trust Fund
Charles Toppan Prize Fund
Endowment Fund . .
General Fnnd. . . . . .
72 '5. 2 5
1,010.10
$44 2.82
4,675·54
13,3 83.75
3,9 66 ,85
22,468.96
$1,060,7 60.99
LIABILITIES.
Capital Stock .
Surplus Capital.
Old Stock '. . .
.
Mortgage, Broad and Cherry Sts.
Loans Payable . . . . . .
Temple Trust Fund. . . .
Phillips Bequest . . . . .
Charles Tappan Prize Fund
Mary Smith Prize Fund . .
Academy Medal Endowment Fund
$458,500.00
133,737.3 0
12,85°·00
83.000.00
3,875. 00
60,000.00
12,000.00
10,500.00
2,000.00
1,000.00
Gilpin FuncL-In Trust for Gilpin Gallery:
Real Estate
. $32,902.22
Fund for Investment. . . . . . . . .
28,65 6 .4J
Endowment Fund
Pepper Trust Fund
Gibson Fund. . .
Temple Trust Fund Income Account
Mary Smith Prize Fund Income Account.
Gilpin Fund Income .Account. . . . . . ' .
Charles Toppan Prize Fund Income Account
Annual Memberships . . . . . . .
'Walter Lippincott Prize . . . . . .
Travelling Scholarship, 1898-99 . .
Pepper Trust Fund Income Acconnt .
Electric Lighting. . . . . . . . .
Harrison Earle Fund . . . . . . .
Academy Fund for the Purchase of Pictures
Miscellaneous .
Profit and Loss. . . . . . . . . . . . .
61,55 8·?9
121,668·75
73, 62 5. 00
9,7 62 .5 0
1, 68 7. 82
20 9. 88
67 2.75
4,375·54
664.9 0
300 .00
. 600.00
1,800.00
1,000.00
3,639. 00
77 0 .9 2
9 17.55
45·39
----
$1,060,7 60 .99
23
PROFIT AND LOSS BALANCES,
DECEMBER 3', ,897·
CR.
Endowment Fund Income Account .
Temple Trust Fund Income Account
Gilpin Fund Incom e Account
Pepper Trust Fund Income Account.
Phillips Bequest Income Account. .
Scholarship Fund from City of Philadelphia
Academy Fund from City of Philncielphia
Academy Rents . . . . . .
Permanent Catalogues. . . .
Peace Celebration: Stands, etc
Orchestra Concerts . . .
Royalty on Reproductions . .
$4,9 60 . 10
1,800.00
62 3.5 0
1,859. 21 .
45. 00
5,000.00
7,5 00 . 00
262.5 0
500 . 00
96 5. 22
47 0 . 27
73 2.93
$24,7 18 .73
DR.
Interest
Instruction . . .
General Expense
General Exhibition
Expenses Gibson Gallery
Electric Light Account .
Lecture Account
Repairs. and R enewals .
Sixty'sixth Annual Exhibition.
Sixty-seventh Annual Exhibition.
Credit Balance
24
. . . . .
$4,694·75
6,195. 83
7.3 13. 86
989. 22
7 2 9. 12
1,000.00
24579
533. 1 3
11.80
2,959. 84
$24,673·3445·39
ANNUAL REPORT
FEBRUARY 7, 18 9 8
FEBRUARY 6, 1899
THE PENNSYLVANIA
ACADEMY OF THE FINE
ARTS PHILADELPHIA
,_
THE PENNSYLVANIA
ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS
FOUNDED 1805
THE NINETY-SECOND ANNUAL
REPORT,
FEBRUARY
7,
1898,' TO FEBRUARY 6, 1899
PHILADELPHIA
MDCCCXCIX
MANAGEMENT OF ' THEPENNSYLV ANIA
ACADEMY ' OF THE FINE ARTS.
PRESIDENT,
EDWARD H. COATES.
VICE-PRESIDENT,
CLARENCE H. CLARK.
DIRECTORS,
CLARENCE H. CLARK,
CHARLES HARE HUTCHINSON,
E. BURGESS WARREN,
ALEXANDER BIDDLE,
CHARLES HENRY HART,
FRANCIS W. LEWIS, M.D.,
JOHN H. PACKARD, M.D.,
THEOPHILUS P. CHANDLER, JR.,
HENRY, WHELEN, JR .,
' CHARLES C. HARRISON,
JOHN H. CONVERSE,
. HERBERT M. HOWE, M.D.,
CHARLES ROBERTS.
TREASURER,
HENRY WHELEN, JR.
SECRET ARY AND MANAGING DIRECTOR,
HARRISON S. MORRIS.
SOLICITOR,
JOHN G. JOHNSON.
COMMITTEE ON PROPERTY,
JOHN H. CONVERSE, CHAIRMAN,
THEOPHILUS P. CHANDLER, JR., CHARLES C. HARRISON. (
COMMITTEE ON FINANCE,
CLARENCE H. CLARK, CHAIRMAN,
ALEXANDER BIDDLE,
HENRY WHELEN, JR.
COMMITTEE ON INSTRUCTIC)N,
JOHN H. PACKARD, M.D., CHAIRMAN,
CHARLES HARE HUTCHINSON, THEOPHILUS P. CHANDLER, JR. ,
FRANCIS W. LEWIS, M.D.,
CHARLES ROBERTS.
COMMITTEE ON EXHIBITION,
FRANCIS W. LEWIS, M.D., CHAIRMAN,
E. BURGESS WARREN,
JOHN H. PACKARD, MD.,
CHARLES HENRY HART ,
HERBERT M. HOWE, M.D.
FACUL TY OF THE SCHOOLS,
WILLIAM M. CHASE,
WILL S. ROBINSON,
CECILIA BEAUX,
CHARLES GRAFLY,
THOMAS P. ANSHUTZ,
GEORGE McCLELLAN, M.D.,
HENRY J. THOURON,
HUGH H. BRECKENRIDGE.
THE PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS
1899
..
LIFE MEMBERS ·
Mrs. Andrew Alexander Blair
Henry H . Collins
John ,H. Converse '
Miss Ch~rlotte D. Coxe
Miss Eliza M. Coxe
. Miss Rebecca Coxe
Mrs. J. Campbell Harris
Clarence B. Moore
Thomas Harris Pow~rs
Mrs. William D. Winsor
George Woodward, M.D.
Mrs. George Woodward
ANNUAL MEMBERS
Edmund ·Allen
Mrs. Harrison Allen
Miss Laura Belf
Rev. Louis F. Benson
C. W. Bergner
Atherton Blight
Mrs. Henry J. Biddle
Edward W. Bok
Mrs. Henry P. Borie
Joseph H. Brazier
Mrs. George Brooke
George But"nham, Jr.
Charles E. Bushnell
Harrison K . Caner
Mrs. William T. Carter
Charles Chauncey
D. Murray Cheston, M.D.
Arth ur L. Ch urch
Clarence H. Clark
C. Howard Clark, Jr.
Mrs. C. Howard Clark, Jr.
E . W. Clark
Miss Frances Clark
William M. Coates
Mrs. Edward H. Coates
Edward Coles
Miss Mary Coles
Eckley Brinton Coxe, Jr.
Mrs. Emlen Cresson
Thomas DeWitt Cuyler
Mrs. Thomas DeWitt Cuyler
Charles E. Dana
Mrs. Charles E.- Dana
Henry L. Davis
Mrs. H. C. Denniston
Frederick S. Dickson
J. Walter Douglass
Ferdinand J. Dreer
George. W. Childs Drexel
Mrs. George W. Childs Drexel
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ANNUAL MEMBERS.
CONTINUED.
Mrs. Charles E. Morris
Charles B. Dunn
Mrs. Byron P. Moulton
Theodore N. Ely
Robert C. Ogden
Charles P. Fox
George Philler
Miss Hannah Fox
Mrs. George Philler
Clement A. Griscom
Mrs. Clement A. Griscom
G. C. Purves
George L. Harrison ·
Craig D. Ritchie
Charles Wolcott Henry
M~s. George B. Roberts
Mrs. Charles Wolcott H enry
Joseph G. Rosengarten
William P. Henszey
John Samliel
Miss Margaretta Hutchinson
Samuel L. Sl10ber
Mrs. Edward 13. Jacobs
Mrs. Walter G. Sibley
John Story Jenks
Samuel Spackman .
Mrs. John Story Jenks
S. P. Sta!TIbach
WilIiam H. Jenb
Louis Starr, M.D.
Mrs. Lawrence Johnson
Mrs. Emlyn Stewardson
R. Winder Johnson
Thomas Stewardson
Mr.s. John Jordan, Jr.
E. T. Stotesbury
Henry Justice
Mrs. WiHiam C. Stroud
William W. Justice
George C. Thomas
Mrs. William W. Justice
Mrs. George C. Thomas
W. W. Keen, M.D.
John W. Townsend
Mrs. Elias D. Kennedy
William P. Troth, Jr.
D. Allen Knight
Mrs. Herbert Welsh
John Lambert
Mrs. Charles Wheeler
Francis W. Lewis, M.D.
David E. Williams
Miss Sarah Lewis
·Mrs. Edward S. Willing
Theodore J. Lewis
Joseph Lapsley Wilson
Mrs. Morri.s Longstreth
George Wood
Thomas MacKellar
Howard Wood
Mrs. Wylie Mitchell
Frank Houston Wyeth
Mrs. Frank Houston Wyeth
LIFE MEMBERSHIP. ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS.
ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP. TEN DOLLARS.
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THE NINETY-SECOND ANNUAL REPORT,
THE PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS,
FEBRUARY 7, 1898, TO FEBRUARY 6, 1899
N
submitting
the
ninety-second Annual
Report to t he Stockholders and to all
interested in the welfare of the Academy,
the President and Directors express renewed thanks for the assistance given and
tions upon the work accomplished.
congratul~
The whole community is benefited when its instituEducation,
tions of learning are properly fostered.
entertainment, even commercial advantage follow the
growth of artistic taste. Hence the enlargement of the
work of the Academy and its. application in varied
directions implies a -like movement among the people
and that substantial advances have been made in the
past year the following record will bear witness.
To American artists at home and abroad who have
lent both influence and labor for the success of the
exhibitions; to its own students who carry its name into
every avenue of art and to the press of Philadelphia
and of the other cities of the country, the Academy
owes sincere acknowledgments for very generous CQoperation in its work and purposes.
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Ninety-second Annual Report
Abundant thanks are also due to the generous con-
tributors who, during the past year, have become Annual
and Life Members ' of the Academy.
The income thus
derived has , been of grateful service in expanding the
collections and advancing the institution.
A step lo~g contemplated but deferred until artistic
and practical results could be obtained, is the arrangement with the London Art Publishers of Philadelphia
for the reproduction by photographic process of the
most important works of art belonging to the Academy.
Of these canvases, i03 have been reproduced, and the
admirable series of prints' copyrighted by the Academy '
are now at the command of the public.
The unique group of portraits by Gilbert Stuart has
received especial attention during the summer, the
frames ,having been reg-ilded and glazed and the collrction rehung.,
The western corridor and the north transept were
lined with dark hangings fitting them for the exhibition
of pictures, as additional gallery space may be ·equired.
-Art Property.
·T he permanent collections ,h ave received the following additions:
Mother and Chzld, oil painting by George de Forest
Brush. Purchased for the Temple Collection from
the Sixty-seventh AnnuaLExhibition.
The Flight of Night, oil painting by William Morris
H unt.
Fund.
Purcha~ed
by the Academy from the Gilpin
\
The Academy of the Fine Arts
7
I
Gidwitlz vVhite Cap, oil 'painting by William Morris
Hunt. . Purchased by the Acadeh1Y from the Gilpin
Fund.
Plymoutlt Harbor in ' Winter, oil painting by Birge
Harrison. Purchased by the Academy from the
Gilpin Funt!.
Girl at Pialto, oil patnttng by Theodore Rdbinson,
Purchased by the Academy from the Gilpin Fund.
The ;1ge of Brass, figure ill plaster after the original,
by Auguste Rodin. Purchased by the Academy
for the Cast Collection.
Portrait ,q[ George Reignold, oil painting; by Gilbert
Stuart. Purchased by the Academy.
Mid-day Rest in New England, oil' painting, by J.
Alden Weir. . Presented by Robert C. Ogden, Isaac
H. Clothier, Joseph G. Rosengarteil, Francis W.
Lewis, M.D., and Edward H. Coates.
Recumbent Figure, memorial plaster after the onglnal, by Frank Duveneck. · Purchased by the Academy for the Cast Collection.
Deserted Stl'"eet, Moonlight, oil paintirig,by Edward F.
Rook. Purchas'e d by the Academy from the Gilpin
Fund.
Mars, oil painting, by Raimundo de Madrazo, copy
of the picture by Valasquez. Presented by the
children of the late William H. Stewart.
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Ninety-second Annual Report
Portrait of Josepk R. Ingersoll, fifth President of the
Academy, oil painting, by Samuel B. Waugh. Bequeathed by Mrs. Kirke B. Wells.
Doors/or Congressional Library, cast in plaster, after
the originals, by Olin L. Warner. Presented by
Mrs. Sylvia M. Warner, of New York.
Portrait 0/ Ea1'l of Egremont, oil painting, by Charles
R. Leslie. Presented by Samuel P. Avery, of ~ew
York.
Portrait 0/ Alexander Lawson, oil painting, by Bass
Otis. ' Bequeathed by Mrs. Mary L. Birckhead.
Fligh~
0/ Night, cast in plaster after the original, for
the painting by William Morris Hunt.
by the Academy.
Purchased
Portrait of Madame L'Allemalld, miniature, by Amla
C. Peale. Presented by Charles Hare Hutchinson.
Portrait of Benjamin Franklin, etching, after the
, painting by Duplessis, issued by the Grolier Club.
Ptese~ted by Charles H~re Hutchinson.
Photogra:fJlts 0/ Fresco by Ghirlandji'o, Pieta representing the Vespucci family. Presented by Charles Hare
Hutchinson.
The Academy is indebted to Miss Mary A. Hearn
for theJollowing works lent by her:
Portrait 0/ a Lady, oil painting, by George Henry
Harlowe.
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9
Waiting for Breakfast, oil painting, by Eugene
Carriere.
The following additions have been made to the
Library:
Memorial of tlte late EdlIzzmd A. Stewardson.
Class). Privately printed volume. Presented by Thomas Stewardson.
(Acad~my
Tlte Figaro Salon, 1898.
Hutchinson.
Presented by Charles Hare
Supplement to L'Iilustration.
Hare Hu.tchinson.
Presented by Charles
Catalogue Gmeral Official, Exposition International
de 1889. Tome Premiere Groupe 1. Quevers d ~Art.
Presented by Charles Hare Hutchinson.
Hints on Portraits and How to Catalogue Them. Vol.
numbered 31, by Charles Henry Hart.
.The Paintings on St07lC at tlze Albany Capitol, New
York, Us. A. By William Morris Hunt. · Written
by Mrs. Hunt, 1888. Two copies presented by
Charles Henry Hart.
Catalogue of tlze Collection of Works of Art belongil1g·
to F. L. Parrish. Presented by F. L. .Parrish, the
owner of the collection.
Trmzsactions of the Fairlnount Park Art Association.
Bound volume of publications to date. Presented
by the Fairmount Park Art Association.
*
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Ninety-second Annual Report
The Art Journal.
46 volumes.
Purchased by the
" Academy.
Fuller Collection of Paintings. Edition de Luxe and
Monograph on Gaillsborough's Blue Boy, by W. H.
Fuller. Presented by W. H. Fuller.
Portfolios, containing drawings by old masters and
other works. Bequeathed by Matthew Carey Lea.
Catalogues of tlte Academy and Other Pam.plzlets.
Presented by the Presbyterian Historical Society.
Art for Art's Sake and iVattire for Its Own Sake, by
John C. VanDyke.
Old Italian Masters and Old Dutch and Flemish
Masters, by Timothy Cole.
The Lije and Works
Cust.
of 4lbrecht Durer, by Lionel
Life and Letters of Frederick Walker, by John George
Marks.
I-ije and Utorks of Tlzomas Gainsborough, by Walter
Armstrong.
Considerations on Painting, by John LaFarge,
France under Louis XlV., by Emile Bourgeois.
The Makers of FlorC1tce, by Mrs. Olipha~t.
Joan of Arc, by Boutet de Monvel.
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When the last Annual Report was submitted, the
Sixty-seventh Annual Exhibition was still in progress. Sixty-seventh
Unlike all previotls Annual Exhibitions, it was, under
the terms of the approp riation from the City Councils,
free to the public throughout its course. The attendance'
reached nearly
50,000
Annual Exhibition.
and the sale of 16 works of art
aggregated $76 I 2.
Academy Gold Medals of Honor were awarded to
~dwin
A. -Abbey, R.A., and to Cecilia Beaux, both
former students of the Academy schools.
From March IS, for one week, galleries G and H Other
were occupied by a collection of photographs of sculp- Exhibitions.
ture q:mtrib uted to the F~irmount Park Art Association,
by American sculptors, in connection with the Smith
Memorial Gate-way, to be erected in Fairmount Park.
From May 9 to 14 the same galleries were devoted
to the illustrations in color and black and white of
Henry Cabot Lodge'S Story of the Revolution.
The Philadelphia Photographic Salon occupied gallery F from October 24 to November 12, and the interest
in the Exhibition made it necessary to extend the date
to November 18. 259 photographs of an artistic nature
from this country and England were shown and 34
pictures were sold at an aggregate of $387.
tendance reached 16,637.
The at-
From October 24 to November 18 some work in
charcoal, by Albert W. Barker, a former student of the
Academy Schools, was shown in the North Transept.
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Ninety-second Annual Report
Sixty-eigh th '
The Sixty-eighth Annual Exhibition opened with a
Annual Ex- private view and reception on the evening of Saturday,
hibition.
Jan uary 14, 1899. The guests were received in gallery
H by the following ladies, who acted as hostesses, and
thanks are due for this valued service:
V AN RENSSELAER,
MRS. EDWARD S. WILLING,
MRS. ALEXANDER
MRS . .cORNEl.lUS STEVENSON,
MRS. JOHN STRUTHERS,
MRS. WILLIAM
MRS. ROBERT
D.
C.
WINDSOR,
H. BROCK,
MRS. THEOPHlLUS
P.
CHANDLER,
MRS. HERBERT WELSH,
MRS. ROBERT
P.
ROBINS.
The Academy's Annual Exhibitions have assumed a
foremost place in the American Art year,and the liberal
comment of the press on the current exhibition indicates
advance in excellence and variety over even the displays
of previol,ls years.
The catalogue this year contains 718
entries, of which 400 are oil paintings, 223 :vater colors,
and 95 sculpture. The Annual Exhibition remains open
until Satqrday, February 25, 1899.
To the efforts and high professional judgment of the
T-Square Club of Philadelphia, the Academy owes the
collection of Architectural Drawings and Designs which
compose the Architectur al Section of the Exhibition.
This display opened with the Annual Exhibition and
closed o~ February 2, 1899. The catalogue prepared
by the T-Square Club ~s a handsome, illustrated volume
of 224 pages. Its general circulation among architects
serves to emphasize the importance of the exhibition
foreign as well as native designs.
In
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The various sections of (he Sixty-eighth Annual
Exhibition are installed in the north galleries F, G, H,
and I, in the central corridor and transept, the east
corridor and that between galleries A and B.
The Juries of Selection and Hanging Committees are
as follows:
ARTIST'S JURY.
THOMAS
P.
ELLIOTT DAINGERFIELD,
ANSHUTZ,
HENRY OLIVER WALKER,
CECILIA BEAUX,
C.
ROBERT W. VONNOH,
EDMUND
BIRGE HARRISON ,
SARAH W. WHITMAN,
. CHARLES HOPKINSON,
W. E. SCHOFIELD,
WILLIAM
M.
TARBELL,
CHARLES GRAFL Y,
CHASE,
J. SCOTT HARTLEY,
J. ALDEN WEIR,
LORADO TAFT.
flANGING COMMITTEE.
P.
THOMAS
ANSHUTZ,
BIRGE HARRISON,
ROBERT W. VONNOH,
EDMUND
ELLIOTT DAINGERFIELD,
C.
TARBELL
COMMITTEE OF THE ARCHITECTURAL EXHIBITION OF
THE T-SQPARE CLUB, OF PHILADELPHIA.
EDGAR V. SEELER,
ALBERT KELSEY,
ADIN B. LACEY,
HERBERT
C.
DAVID K. BOYD,
Corresponding Secretary,
JAMES
P.
JAMIESON,
WILLIAM L. BAILY,
WISE,
HORACE H. BURRELL,
Chairman,
~
JOHN GALEN HOWARD,
C.
New
York,
HOWARD WALKER, Boston.
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Medals and
Prizes.
Ninety-second Annual Report
The Gold Medals of the Temple Fund were awarded
by the Philadelphia Jury of Painters to the following
exhibitors:
Joseph DeCamp, for his oil painting entitled
Woman Drying her Hair.
Childe Hassam, for his oil painting entitlen Pont
Royal, Paris .
. The Walter Lippincott Prize of
$300
was aw?rded
by the Committee on Exhibition of the Academy and
the Philadelphia Jury to John W . Alexander, for his oil
painting entitled A Ray of Szmligllt.
The M~ry Smith Prize of $100 was awarded by the
Committee on Exhibition of the Academy to Miss Carol
H. Beck, for her oil painting entitled Study . .
Attendance.
The attendance at the exhibitions, lectures, and other
features of interest during the year was as follows: .
The paid admissio?s, to the concerts amounted to 10,321.
The free . admissions, excluding lectures, aggregated
91,054. The attendance at receptions and other entertainments is estimated at 10,000, making a total of
101,054·
The
Schools.
The Schools of the Academy have maintained their
large attendance; the faculty, as last year, consisting of
WILLIAM M. CHASE,
HENRY]. THOURON,
CECILIA BEAUX,
GEORGE MCCLELLAN,
THOMAS
P.
ANSHUTZ,
. CHARLES GRAFLY, .
WILL
S.
M.D.,
ROBINSON,
HUGH H. BRECKENRIDGE.
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Exhibitions of students' work were, as usual, held in
the spring and fall. The pictures entered for the Charles
Toppan Prizes, were included in the spring exhibition,
the subjects assigned being Music and Poetry. The
prizes were awarded as follows by the Committee on
Instruction:
First Prize, $200, to Paul K. M. Thomas:
Second Prize, $100, to Carl Strehlau.
Honorable men#on to F. Hutton Shill.
The prizes established through the liberality of Dr.
Francis W. Lewis and DL John H. Packard for the best
series of studies made from the Zoological Garden, were
a warded as follows:
First Prize, $15, to Alice V. Corson.
Second Prize, $10, to Anita LeRoy.
In the Class of Anatomy, Dr. George McClellan,
Instructor, generously offered two prizes, which were
won by
First Prize, $15, to Helen F. Kinsey.
Second Prize, $10, to Paula Himmelsbach.
The Travelling Scholarship, amounting to $800,
which has been, for eight years liberally placed at the
Academy's disposal by a member of the ' Board of
Directors, was this year won by Richard B. Farley.
Honorable mention was given to John M. Burke and
Carl Buergerniss.
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Ninety-second Annual B..eport
. Competitive school designs for a drinking fountain
for the lobby of the Academy resulted in the choice of
a model by D. C. Muller, which has been cast in bronze
and is in ~ourse of erection.
It is gratifying to note the honors awarded by the
Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, to John J. Boyle and
Nahum Jassinovsky, formerly of the Academy Schools.
Acknowledgment is due the City Councils of Philadelphia and the Board of Education for the continuance
of the annual appropriation and the agreement governing it for the year 1898. Under this agreement the
Academy receives the sum of $5000, and has granted
in return each year 15 scholarships, the whole number
at one time not exceeding 45 students from the public
schools of the city. . Free tuition was also granted to IS
students in addition to those received through the Board
of Education.
Catalogues,
Reports,
Etc.
Catalogues, reports, and pamphlets, completing the
Academy'~
files to this date, have been received from
the following, persons and institutions, and thanks are
cordially returned for the same:
Am.erican Institute, New York.
Architectural League, New York.
Art Club, Philadelphia.
Art Institute, Chicago.
Art Association, Montreal.
Architectural Society of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
The Academy of the Fine Arts
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American Water Color Society, New York.
American Art Association, New York.
Boston Art Club.
Boston Public Library.
Boston Public School Art League.
Bridgeport Public Library.
Civic Club of -P hiladelphia.
Cincinnati Museum Association.
Carnegie Art Gallery, Pittsburg.
Carnegie Library, Pittsburg. .
Camera Club of New York.
Detroit Museum of Art.
Drexel Institute, Philadelphia.
Free Library, Philadelphia.
Fairmount Park Art Association, Phil adelphia.
Grolier Club of New York.
Girard Colle~e, Philadelphia.
Loan Exhibition of Portraits, New York.
Library CotI1pany, Philadelphia.
Massachusetts Charitable Mechanics Association,
Boston.
William Macbeth, New YO'rk.
Harrison Mills, New, York.
Massachusetts Normal Art School, Boston.
Municipal League, Philadelphia.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
r
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Maryland Institute, Baltimore.
Mark Hopkins Institute, San Francisco.
Museum and School of Fine Arts, St. Louis.
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Ninety-second - Annual Report
National Academy of Design, New York.
New York Water Color Club.
National Sculpture Society, New York.
Ontario Society of Artists, Toronto.
Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art,
Philadelphia.
Photographic Salon, London.
Philadelphia City Institute.
Philadelphia Library Company.
Photographic Society, Philadelphia.
Peabody -Institute, Baltimore. ,
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn.
Ph iladelphia School of D esign for Women.
Philips Exeter Academy.
Plastic Cl ub, Philadelphia. Royal Photographic Society, London.
Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.
Rochester -Athenceum and Mechanics Institute.
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence.
State Librarian, New Jersey.
Society of Washington Artists.
St. Louis Exposition Art Department.
Society of American Artists, New York.
Society of vVestern Artists.
Peter A. Schemm, Philadelphia.
Ten American Painters, New York.
T-Square Club, Philadelphia.
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
,
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, The Academy of the Fine Arts
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On January 28, 1898, ' Mr. Arthur J. Eddy, of Lectures.
Chicago, spoke before a large au.dience of artists and
students on Days 'With Whistler.
The second season of Practical Lectures on Illustra-
tion, by W. Lewis Fraser, formerly Art Manager of the
Century Magazine, begun on the evening of January 20,
1899, and will continue on 'Friday afternoons, during
February, March, and April. .
On January 24, 1899, a lecture on Bar)'c, the French
sculptor, illustrated by the lantern, was given by Mr.
Ripley
Hitchcocl~,
of New York.
The public receptions given under the united auspices
of the Civic Club and the Academy, were repeated during
the year. On February 12, 1898, the vote for the best
picture in the Sixty-seventh Annual Exhibition resulted
in a majority for the painting Steel vVorks at Night, by
Lionel Walden, the painting by George de Forest Brush,
entitled Mother and Cldld, receiving the next largest.
, The reception of January, 1889, attracted an attendance of 206,3, and the painting entitled Disciples of
Emmaus, by Dagnan-Bouveret and owned by the Carnegie
Art Galleries of Pittsburg, was given first place.
The list of Life and Annual Members is appended,
and the Academy cordially acknowledges its obligations
for the co-operation of these generous patrons. It is
hppe.d that the contributions thus received may lead, as
has been, the case in Boston, New York, and Chicago,
to an increase in the list of citizens of Philadelphia who
are interested in art and willing to share in the progressive work of the Institution.
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Ninety-second Annual Report
By the death of the venerable artist, George R.
Bonfield, at 94 years, on July 27, 1898, the Academy
loses one of the few remaining Academicians and Philadelphia one of the last links binding it to the , school of
painting which flourished in its earlier history.
Finances.
The generarst,a tement of the Treasurer to
Dec~mber
3[, 1898, and the profit and loss account, are subp1itted
in the following pages. From these it will be seen that
the receipts have been $24.718-73, and the disbur.sements
$24,673.34, resulting in a net balance of $45.39.
In additiol1 to the sums already received from the
estate of George S. P_epper, late ' President of the
Academy, there was paid into the Treasury $2250.
From the Benjamin Johnson Estate, the Academy
received during the year an additional slim of $500,
The annual appropriation of $7500 granted by G:ity
Counc,ils for the uses of the Academy proper during
1898, has enabled the management to open the doors of
the Institution free to the public during the year and to
carryon many of the improvements referred to iq this
report.
To the Mayor of the City and to the City Councils
are due the appreciation and thanks of the Academy of
--the Fine Arts for their co-operation
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a civic work of
far-reaching importance.
EDWARD H. COATES,
President.
HARRISON S. MORRIS,
Secretary.
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BALANCE SHEET
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BALANCE SHEET, PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY
ASSETS.
Real Estate Broad and Cherry Sts., General
Fund. . .
Real E~tate Broad and Cherry Sts., Gilpin
Gallery Fund . . . .
Art Property . . . . .
Library and School Property
Elldowment Fund:
Temporary Loan. . . .
..... .
Peerless Brick Co. Bonds
. .... .
Philadelphia & Reading R. R. Co. General
Mortgage 4 per cent. Bonds . . . . . .
Mortgage, J. H. Sands, Roanoke. • . . .
Central Car Trust 6 per cent. Bunds . . . .
St. Louis & Iron M t. First Mortgage 7 per
cent. Bonds , . , . . . . . . . . . .
Mortgage, E. D. and Rosa M. Smith . . .
Baltimore Belt Line 5 per cent. Gold Bonds
Presbyterian Board of Publication Building
Bonds. . . . . . .
. ....
Norfolk & Western R. R. 4 per cent.
Consols . . . . . . . . . . . .
United Traction Co., of Pittsburg, 5 per
cent. Bonds. . . . . .
..... .
Virginia & Tennessee R. R. 5 per cent. Bonds
Lehigh Coal & Navigation Co. 4Yz per cent.
Boncls . . . . .
Pittsburg Consolidated Ga~ Co. 5 per cent.
Bonds
...... .
Part of $31,000 Mortgage, F. J. Kimball,
Radnor. '. . . . . . .
. ....
32,902.22 $5 10 ,9 11.40
2II, 283,85
2,9 24. 86
$3,875. 00
20,000.00
9, 062 5 0
9,000.00
7,000.00
5,000.00
12,000.00
10,000.00
5,OCO.oo
10,775. 00
2,050 .00
862. 50
Temple Trust Fund:
Pennsylvania Academy 'of the Fine Arts
Bonds . . . . . . • .
Charles Tappan Prize Fund:
Lehigh Valley R. R. 7 per cent. 2d Mortgage Bonds . . . . . . . . . .
$8,000.00
New England Loan and Trust Co . 6 per
cent. Weotern Mortgage . . . . .
2,200.00
Academy Medal Endowment Fund:
Clearfield and Jefferson R. R. 6 per cent.
Boncls . . . , '. . . .
. .. ..
Gilpin Fund.:
Pennsylvania Academy of the F ine Arts
Bonels . . . , . . .
. $23,000.00
N. E. Loall and Trust Co. Debentures
3,850.00
60,000.00
10,200.00
1,000.00
26,85 0.00
Pepper Trust Fund:
Mortgage, Foit Scott, Kansas . . • . . . $16,000.00
Mortgage, No. 10 N. 8th ,St., Philadelphia. 40,000.00
Part of $31,000 Mortgage, F. J. Kimball II,375.?0
Phillips Bequest:
Norfolk & Western R. R. Car Trust Bonds. $4,944.83
Part of $31,000 Mortgage, F. J. Kimball 7,000.00
Mary Smith Prize Fund:
Part of $31,000 Mortgage, F . J. Kimball.
Carried forward. . . . .
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2,00000
OF THE FINE ARTS, DECEMBER 3 I, 1898.
Brought forward . . . .
Gibson Fund:
Part 0[,$31,000 Mortgage, F.
J.
9,7 62 .5 0
II6·9 0
, 441.24
54. 60
606·73
10 9. 12
1,7 1 5. 6 5
500 .00
2,17 2 .5 0
1,875. 00
Kimball .
Academy Medal Investment Income Account.
Sixty-eighth Annual Exhibition.
Album Account. . . .
Permanent Catalogues. . .
Cast Collection . . . . . .
Lecture Room Decoration :
Reconstruction of Building .
Interest Receivable . . .
City of PhiladelphIa. . .
Royalty on Reproductions
Miscellaneous . . . . .
Cash:
Temple Trust Fund
Charles Toppan Prize Fund
Endowment Fund . .
General Fnnd. . . . . .
72 '5. 2 5
1,010.10
$44 2.82
4,675·54
13,3 83.75
3,9 66 ,85
22,468.96
$1,060,7 60.99
LIABILITIES.
Capital Stock .
Surplus Capital.
Old Stock '. . .
.
Mortgage, Broad and Cherry Sts.
Loans Payable . . . . . .
Temple Trust Fund. . . .
Phillips Bequest . . . . .
Charles Tappan Prize Fund
Mary Smith Prize Fund . .
Academy Medal Endowment Fund
$458,500.00
133,737.3 0
12,85°·00
83.000.00
3,875. 00
60,000.00
12,000.00
10,500.00
2,000.00
1,000.00
Gilpin FuncL-In Trust for Gilpin Gallery:
Real Estate
. $32,902.22
Fund for Investment. . . . . . . . .
28,65 6 .4J
Endowment Fund
Pepper Trust Fund
Gibson Fund. . .
Temple Trust Fund Income Account
Mary Smith Prize Fund Income Account.
Gilpin Fund Income .Account. . . . . . ' .
Charles Toppan Prize Fund Income Account
Annual Memberships . . . . . . .
'Walter Lippincott Prize . . . . . .
Travelling Scholarship, 1898-99 . .
Pepper Trust Fund Income Acconnt .
Electric Lighting. . . . . . . . .
Harrison Earle Fund . . . . . . .
Academy Fund for the Purchase of Pictures
Miscellaneous .
Profit and Loss. . . . . . . . . . . . .
61,55 8·?9
121,668·75
73, 62 5. 00
9,7 62 .5 0
1, 68 7. 82
20 9. 88
67 2.75
4,375·54
664.9 0
300 .00
. 600.00
1,800.00
1,000.00
3,639. 00
77 0 .9 2
9 17.55
45·39
----
$1,060,7 60 .99
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PROFIT AND LOSS BALANCES,
DECEMBER 3', ,897·
CR.
Endowment Fund Income Account .
Temple Trust Fund Income Account
Gilpin Fund Incom e Account
Pepper Trust Fund Income Account.
Phillips Bequest Income Account. .
Scholarship Fund from City of Philadelphia
Academy Fund from City of Philncielphia
Academy Rents . . . . . .
Permanent Catalogues. . . .
Peace Celebration: Stands, etc
Orchestra Concerts . . .
Royalty on Reproductions . .
$4,9 60 . 10
1,800.00
62 3.5 0
1,859. 21 .
45. 00
5,000.00
7,5 00 . 00
262.5 0
500 . 00
96 5. 22
47 0 . 27
73 2.93
$24,7 18 .73
DR.
Interest
Instruction . . .
General Expense
General Exhibition
Expenses Gibson Gallery
Electric Light Account .
Lecture Account
Repairs. and R enewals .
Sixty'sixth Annual Exhibition.
Sixty-seventh Annual Exhibition.
Credit Balance
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. . . . .
$4,694·75
6,195. 83
7.3 13. 86
989. 22
7 2 9. 12
1,000.00
24579
533. 1 3
11.80
2,959. 84
$24,673·3445·39