107th Annual Report for the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
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Title
107th Annual Report for the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
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1913
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Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
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The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts' Dorothy and Kenneth Woodcock Archives
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, , The" One Hundred
and Ninth Annual Exhibition of Oil Painting and
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Sculpture ~l open on Sunday, February the 8th, and qontinue until Sunday,
March the 29th, inclusive.
Like all of the• Academy's
Annual Exhibitions,
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it will be limited to the works of American artists. It will, however, be in
no sense a " local exhibition, but esse~Ha1ly national, as the pictures and
sculptures ' Viill
come from all over", the
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American artists livi1)lg in Europe. '1\' "
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-The, works are submitted to a Jury: ,of. P.ainters, who judge them IWit,h impartiality and )'I'itho4F dictation qr intex:feren,ee from the Managementt;>~ the
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themseLves.
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~:~;et:x!:~~:; :::~::::t;:~e~::~~:'h 'Art /and place in the homes of our
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The Jury of Selection for th1·~ Exhibition is composed of these
well-known artists:
PAINTING-
PE~~S~~",. . ]R:;
JOSEPH T.
JOHN W. ALEXANDER
GEORGE BELLOWS
LOUIS BETTS
EMIL CARLSEN
WILLIAM W. CHURCHILL
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Chairman
' Ln'.IAN WESTCOTT HALE
GEORGE L. NoYES
MARGARET F. RICHARDSON
ALICE MUMFORD ROBERTS
LEOPOLD G. SEYFFERT
SCULPTURE
ADOLPH 'A. WEINMAN
'ALBIN 'POLASEK
HANGING 'COMMITTEE
CHARLES' GRAFLY ,
JOSEPH T. PEARSON, JR.
·L'. ;HALE )~ f
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LEOPOLD G. ' SEYFFERT '
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THE 'PRESIDENT EX-OFFICIO
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It is gratifying td 'b e 'able to report that the work of the Academy during
the past year has been most successfully conducted. ' The knowledge, enjoyment and cultivation of' the Fine Arts in tills country have been promoted in
accordance with' the Adidemy!s"'Charter, 'by conducting a School and holding Public Exhi~itions. '
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, Two Hundred ,and Sixty students are now upon the school roster and
their appreciation of the advantages offered in the courses presented is evidenced by the sincerity ,of the work accomplished. During the past summer,
twenty-four st~dents were sent abroad under the , William Emlen Cresson
Scholarship Fund. This is the largest number of Cresson Scholarships ever
award~dduring a School year.
The School is under the immediate care of a Curator and a Committee
, ' on Instruction appointed by the President and pirectors of the ~cademy,
together with a,Faculty composed of representati\Te artists. The Chair~an of
the Committee on Instruction, Herbert M. Howe, M,D., is Ch~lrman of the
Faculty, ex-officio, and the other members of the Faculty are: Philip L. Hale,
Emil Carlsen, Hugh H. BJ,"eckenridge, Cecilia Beaux, Joseph T. Pearson, Jr"
and Daniel Garber, who give 'instruction in, Drawing and Painting"from the
Figure, from the Head and from Still-Life, and in Composition; and in
Drawing from the Cast; Henry Erdman Radasch, M.Sc. M.D., who gives
Instruction in Anatomy; Charles 'Grafty, in Sculpture; Frank Miles Day in
Perspective; Henry McCarter, in Illustration, and Violet Oakley, in D~Nration.
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GEORGE ,MCCLELLAN,
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who had bee~ an Ipst~uctor Qf Artistic Anat?,mY. in ,th~ Schools continuou~l~
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,!Om 90, !iled at hIS home in Philadelphia, March 2Qth, 19 1,3, and the
~ademy, thereby suffered the loss of a particularly gifted, efficient and
fatthful Instructor.
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, . ~1~g t e year 19 13 173,351 people visited the Galleries, a number
WhICh mdlcates the widespread educational influence the Academy is e t'
upon the comm 't
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urn y.
e a eries were opened to the public d il ' S d
included
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' an
eSl es t e Exhibition of the Permanent Collection, which
.
mclu~es the ?a~ery of National Portraiture, the Temple Collection of modern
Amencan.pamtmgs, and the Gibson Collection, composed largely of works of
the Contmental SchOols, the following temporary Exhibitions were held
c).uring the year:
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. ~. The 108th Annual ' Ex~bition of Oil Painting and Sculpture, composed
of 480 paintings and 193 sculptures, 'representing a total of '4IO artists. The
attendance at this Exhibition alone was 57,171.
An Exhibition of Water Colors, composed of 720 examples, and/repre-senting 240 different artists.
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An Exhibition of Miniatures, composed of 135 examples representing
66 different artists."
An Efiliibition of Arc~tec~ure, composed of 389 items, representing' 103
exhibito~s, and a special exhibition',qf ir9rks in Sc~pture of 40 items, Py Anna
Coleman Ladd.
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The Management of the Academy have continued the policy,: of making
the:.building as absolutely fire-proof.as(it is possible to make an Art Gallery
in the centre of a city. The stairway leading from the Portrait Class Room
in the School has' been., removed, and the opening closed by a .'concrete
arch. The plain ground glass iq the skylights above the Galleries has been
replaced by wired glass. The exposed steel trusses along the Cherry Street
front of the Building have been fireproofed by being covered with cement.
The Cherry Street entrance door, formerly of wood and plain glass, has been
rE;placed by one all of metal a~d p~lis~ed ~red glass, and all of the wooden
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window fr.ames. and sash along the entire Cherry Street front have been taken
o!lt and frames and sash ~f metal put in thei~ places, and 'all the plain gl\lsS
replaced by wired glass.
A new system of lighting the Galleries is being installed which will give
an' increase in effectiveness at a: decrease in cost as compared with the'present
system: . '
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During the year the General' fund Jof the Academy has, been increased
by a bequest of Ten Thousand Bollirs under the will of ~enry B. Palethorp,
a'nd by a bequest 'of Ten Thousand Dollars under the will of Anna Blanchard.
These funds will be invested, and the income only used, so that there
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will be thus.founded a las'ting memO-rial of the beneficence of these friends of
the Academy.
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Among the important acquisitions during the past year are the following:
Portrait
of William
White, D.D
. , first' Bishop of Pennsylvania,
by Gilbert
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Stuart.
'
Portrait of William White, Grl ndfather of Bishop Whlte, by Sir Godfrey
Kneller. ' .
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Portrait of Elizabeth Leigh White, Grandmother ' of Bishop White, by
Sir Godfrey'Kneller, ' all 'under the will of William Wllite, deceased.
Miniature Portrait of J. Edgar' Thomson, by John Neagle, under the wili
of Edgar L. Thomson, deceas'ed. ·'
, '
Miniature Portrait of J . Altamont Phillips, by Bridport, preserited by
J . Bunford Samuel, Esq., at the request of his late wife Ellen Phillips Samuel.
Portrait of John H. Palethorp, and!of Angelina S. ' Palethorp, both by
Bass Otis, under the will of Henry B. Palethorp, deceased;'
. A gilt bronze head from the plaster cast taken by Charles Grafly from the
original in wood by William Rush of the '''Nyinphof the Schuylkill,'" Pre~ented by Edward Hornor Coates.
Portrait bust of the late Thomas P. Anshutz, for many years an Instructor in the Schools, by Charles Grafly. Presented by some of the friends of
.,
Mr. Anshutz.
Bronze 'ehtitled. ' ! Greed" by the' la te Emily Clayton Bishop. Presented
by the Three .Arts' Club.
Portrait of' Charles E. Dana, by Thomas Eakins. Presented by Charles
E. 'Dana; at the request of the Management of the Academy.
"
Portrait 0f -the' Artist, by Margaret F . Richardson.
, Ita1ia~ ' Landscape (Water Color),b:{ 0. Corliuidi. Presented by Edward
Hornor 8oates.
Marble "Love Awakening the Passions," by Donato Baraghi. Presented
by Francis T. Sully Darley.
"Summer Clouds," a painting by ' Emil Garlsen. Purchased from the
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Temple Fund.
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POl'trait of Thomas
Gilpin Fund.
Sull~,
Jr., by Thomas Sully. - Purchased from the
Portrait of the Artist's Wife, by Clifford I. Addams. Purchased from the .
..----- Gilpin Fund.
,
Portrait Bust of the late Frank D. Millet, by Albin Polasek. Purchased
from the Gilpin Fund.
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Set of casts of the Dell~ Robbia, Friez~. Presented by Edgar T. Scott~
Un,der the will of the late John Lambert; a, fund was established, the
income from which is to be used for the purchase of paintings from the Annual
Exhibition. With this income, available for. the first time in 1913, the.following
works were purchased from the 108th Annual Exhibition:
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" Decoration" by Clifford Addams.
" Ast~is 't' by Everett L. Bryant.
"Morning Mists" by Richard Blossom Farley. '
"Grandmother's Dressing Gown" by Fred G. Gray.
"Portrait of a Young Man" ):>y Benjamin D. Kopman.
"Along the Schuy1ki11 River" by.David E. Korn1iaus~r.
"The White Boat" by Morris Hall Pancoast.
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On April 7th, 1913 the office of Honorary Curator of Prints was revived,
and the Management of the ' Academy is gratified to announce that their
invitation to fill this office was accepted by Miss Sarah Minis Hays.
Under her- energetic and skillful supeFision much ·valuable work has
been accomplished in 'mounting and re-arranging the entire Print Collection.
The old binders or portfolios in which ,the prints were preserved, have been
replaced by numbered and labelled boxes in which the prints can lie flat without possibility of injury and in the manner now generally adopted in mo~t
of the great print ,collections. The old wall cases have been remodelled and
separate shelving provided for each box. Two twenty-winged stands have
been placed in the Galleries jn order t~ eg:hibit the prints to the public and
make them more accessible for examination.
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' Th~ Management repor.t the ~wai-d of the following:
The Temple Gold MedaJ to Frederick C. Frieseke for his picture entitled
"Youth."
The Jennie'Sesnan Gold Medal to George Bellows for his picture entitled
" Men:of the Docks."
The Carol H. Beck Gold Medal to J., Alden Weir for ,his portrait entitled
"The Black Hat."
The Mary Smith Prize to Alice Kent Stoddard for her picture "Paper
, Dolls."
The Walter Lippincott Prize to, ElJlil Carlsen for his landscape "Summer
Clouds."
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And the George D. Widener Memorial Gold Medal to Charles Grafly for
his Portrait Bust of the late Thomas P. Anshutz.
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On March
' 3rd. 1913, John Andrew Myers was appointed Secretary
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Pro Tern.
Respectfully submitted,
JOHN ' FREDERICK LEWIS,
President.
JOHN ANDREW MYERS,
Secretary pro tem.
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MANAGEMENT OF
THE PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF TME
FiNE ARTS
PRESIDENT
JOHN FREDERICK LEWIS '
HONORARY VICE-PRESIDENT
E. BURGESS WARREN
VICE~PRESIDENT
CLEMENT B. NEWBOLD
DIRECTORS '
THEOPHILUS P. CHANDLER
ALFRED C. HARRJSON
HERBERT M. HOWE, M.D.
CLARENCE C. ZANTZING:jl:~
CHARLEMAGNE TOWER
GEORGE H. McFADDEN
I T. DEWITT CUYLER
CLEMENT B. NEWBOLD
EDWARD T. STOTESBURY
ARTHUR H. LEA
THEODORE N. ELY
JOSEPH E. WIDENER
FRANK H. CAVEN
. TREASURER
GEORGE H. McFADDEN
SECRETARY
Pro fem
JOHN ANDREW MYERS
HONORARY CURATOR OF PRINTS
SARAH MINIS HAYS
CURATOR OF SCHOOLS
ANNA T. BENNETT
SOLICITOR
JOHN G. JOHNSON
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, , The" One Hundred
and Ninth Annual Exhibition of Oil Painting and
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• L
Sculpture ~l open on Sunday, February the 8th, and qontinue until Sunday,
March the 29th, inclusive.
Like all of the• Academy's
Annual Exhibitions,
J ,
l
it will be limited to the works of American artists. It will, however, be in
no sense a " local exhibition, but esse~Ha1ly national, as the pictures and
sculptures ' Viill
come from all over", the
'United ,States -and even from
• ,
t '
American artists livi1)lg in Europe. '1\' "
, _
-The, works are submitted to a Jury: ,of. P.ainters, who judge them IWit,h impartiality and )'I'itho4F dictation qr intex:feren,ee from the Managementt;>~ the
Academy. The action of the Jury is final, and every work accepted is h,!?).g
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by a Banging Committee of artjs,ts. The Exhibition is representative there~
fore, of the highest standard of American Art as , judged by American artists
themseLves.
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~-~e~rl;-;:llthe works -~;;f~;' ~~l~~~ st~4i~-p;i:es~ 'and the -~~:~e:e:;-'----'-;rr
of the Academy has ' no hesitation in encouraging the public to purchase, in '
~:~;et:x!:~~:; :::~::::t;:~e~::~~:'h 'Art /and place in the homes of our
'(
'lr
The Jury of Selection for th1·~ Exhibition is composed of these
well-known artists:
PAINTING-
PE~~S~~",. . ]R:;
JOSEPH T.
JOHN W. ALEXANDER
GEORGE BELLOWS
LOUIS BETTS
EMIL CARLSEN
WILLIAM W. CHURCHILL
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".
,
,.
Chairman
' Ln'.IAN WESTCOTT HALE
GEORGE L. NoYES
MARGARET F. RICHARDSON
ALICE MUMFORD ROBERTS
LEOPOLD G. SEYFFERT
SCULPTURE
ADOLPH 'A. WEINMAN
'ALBIN 'POLASEK
HANGING 'COMMITTEE
CHARLES' GRAFLY ,
JOSEPH T. PEARSON, JR.
·L'. ;HALE )~ f
~,'w.
LEOPOLD G. ' SEYFFERT '
", 'r
THE 'PRESIDENT EX-OFFICIO
t' PHILIP
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} !; , ) .•.'
It is gratifying td 'b e 'able to report that the work of the Academy during
the past year has been most successfully conducted. ' The knowledge, enjoyment and cultivation of' the Fine Arts in tills country have been promoted in
accordance with' the Adidemy!s"'Charter, 'by conducting a School and holding Public Exhi~itions. '
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, Two Hundred ,and Sixty students are now upon the school roster and
their appreciation of the advantages offered in the courses presented is evidenced by the sincerity ,of the work accomplished. During the past summer,
twenty-four st~dents were sent abroad under the , William Emlen Cresson
Scholarship Fund. This is the largest number of Cresson Scholarships ever
award~dduring a School year.
The School is under the immediate care of a Curator and a Committee
, ' on Instruction appointed by the President and pirectors of the ~cademy,
together with a,Faculty composed of representati\Te artists. The Chair~an of
the Committee on Instruction, Herbert M. Howe, M,D., is Ch~lrman of the
Faculty, ex-officio, and the other members of the Faculty are: Philip L. Hale,
Emil Carlsen, Hugh H. BJ,"eckenridge, Cecilia Beaux, Joseph T. Pearson, Jr"
and Daniel Garber, who give 'instruction in, Drawing and Painting"from the
Figure, from the Head and from Still-Life, and in Composition; and in
Drawing from the Cast; Henry Erdman Radasch, M.Sc. M.D., who gives
Instruction in Anatomy; Charles 'Grafty, in Sculpture; Frank Miles Day in
Perspective; Henry McCarter, in Illustration, and Violet Oakley, in D~Nration.
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GEORGE ,MCCLELLAN,
M.D.
who had bee~ an Ipst~uctor Qf Artistic Anat?,mY. in ,th~ Schools continuou~l~
18
,!Om 90, !iled at hIS home in Philadelphia, March 2Qth, 19 1,3, and the
~ademy, thereby suffered the loss of a particularly gifted, efficient and
fatthful Instructor.
. ,
(
,
D'
h
, . ~1~g t e year 19 13 173,351 people visited the Galleries, a number
WhICh mdlcates the widespread educational influence the Academy is e t'
upon the comm 't
Th G 11
xer mg
urn y.
e a eries were opened to the public d il ' S d
included
d b'd
h a y , un ays
' an
eSl es t e Exhibition of the Permanent Collection, which
.
mclu~es the ?a~ery of National Portraiture, the Temple Collection of modern
Amencan.pamtmgs, and the Gibson Collection, composed largely of works of
the Contmental SchOols, the following temporary Exhibitions were held
c).uring the year:
",
r
(
. ~. The 108th Annual ' Ex~bition of Oil Painting and Sculpture, composed
of 480 paintings and 193 sculptures, 'representing a total of '4IO artists. The
attendance at this Exhibition alone was 57,171.
An Exhibition of Water Colors, composed of 720 examples, and/repre-senting 240 different artists.
I'
"
An Exhibition of Miniatures, composed of 135 examples representing
66 different artists."
An Efiliibition of Arc~tec~ure, composed of 389 items, representing' 103
exhibito~s, and a special exhibition',qf ir9rks in Sc~pture of 40 items, Py Anna
Coleman Ladd.
,
'r
The Management of the Academy have continued the policy,: of making
the:.building as absolutely fire-proof.as(it is possible to make an Art Gallery
in the centre of a city. The stairway leading from the Portrait Class Room
in the School has' been., removed, and the opening closed by a .'concrete
arch. The plain ground glass iq the skylights above the Galleries has been
replaced by wired glass. The exposed steel trusses along the Cherry Street
front of the Building have been fireproofed by being covered with cement.
The Cherry Street entrance door, formerly of wood and plain glass, has been
rE;placed by one all of metal a~d p~lis~ed ~red glass, and all of the wooden
.
'1
'
window fr.ames. and sash along the entire Cherry Street front have been taken
o!lt and frames and sash ~f metal put in thei~ places, and 'all the plain gl\lsS
replaced by wired glass.
A new system of lighting the Galleries is being installed which will give
an' increase in effectiveness at a: decrease in cost as compared with the'present
system: . '
'J
.'
During the year the General' fund Jof the Academy has, been increased
by a bequest of Ten Thousand Bollirs under the will of ~enry B. Palethorp,
a'nd by a bequest 'of Ten Thousand Dollars under the will of Anna Blanchard.
These funds will be invested, and the income only used, so that there
l '
1
r
(
I
will be thus.founded a las'ting memO-rial of the beneficence of these friends of
the Academy.
"!,t
Among the important acquisitions during the past year are the following:
Portrait
of William
White, D.D
. , first' Bishop of Pennsylvania,
by Gilbert
'- I ' !
.
-.
II,t
•
Stuart.
'
Portrait of William White, Grl ndfather of Bishop Whlte, by Sir Godfrey
Kneller. ' .
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.
.
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r
.
Portrait of Elizabeth Leigh White, Grandmother ' of Bishop White, by
Sir Godfrey'Kneller, ' all 'under the will of William Wllite, deceased.
Miniature Portrait of J. Edgar' Thomson, by John Neagle, under the wili
of Edgar L. Thomson, deceas'ed. ·'
, '
Miniature Portrait of J . Altamont Phillips, by Bridport, preserited by
J . Bunford Samuel, Esq., at the request of his late wife Ellen Phillips Samuel.
Portrait of John H. Palethorp, and!of Angelina S. ' Palethorp, both by
Bass Otis, under the will of Henry B. Palethorp, deceased;'
. A gilt bronze head from the plaster cast taken by Charles Grafly from the
original in wood by William Rush of the '''Nyinphof the Schuylkill,'" Pre~ented by Edward Hornor Coates.
Portrait bust of the late Thomas P. Anshutz, for many years an Instructor in the Schools, by Charles Grafly. Presented by some of the friends of
.,
Mr. Anshutz.
Bronze 'ehtitled. ' ! Greed" by the' la te Emily Clayton Bishop. Presented
by the Three .Arts' Club.
Portrait of' Charles E. Dana, by Thomas Eakins. Presented by Charles
E. 'Dana; at the request of the Management of the Academy.
"
Portrait 0f -the' Artist, by Margaret F . Richardson.
, Ita1ia~ ' Landscape (Water Color),b:{ 0. Corliuidi. Presented by Edward
Hornor 8oates.
Marble "Love Awakening the Passions," by Donato Baraghi. Presented
by Francis T. Sully Darley.
"Summer Clouds," a painting by ' Emil Garlsen. Purchased from the
" 1
Temple Fund.
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POl'trait of Thomas
Gilpin Fund.
Sull~,
Jr., by Thomas Sully. - Purchased from the
Portrait of the Artist's Wife, by Clifford I. Addams. Purchased from the .
..----- Gilpin Fund.
,
Portrait Bust of the late Frank D. Millet, by Albin Polasek. Purchased
from the Gilpin Fund.
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,
Set of casts of the Dell~ Robbia, Friez~. Presented by Edgar T. Scott~
Un,der the will of the late John Lambert; a, fund was established, the
income from which is to be used for the purchase of paintings from the Annual
Exhibition. With this income, available for. the first time in 1913, the.following
works were purchased from the 108th Annual Exhibition:
/'
/
/
" Decoration" by Clifford Addams.
" Ast~is 't' by Everett L. Bryant.
"Morning Mists" by Richard Blossom Farley. '
"Grandmother's Dressing Gown" by Fred G. Gray.
"Portrait of a Young Man" ):>y Benjamin D. Kopman.
"Along the Schuy1ki11 River" by.David E. Korn1iaus~r.
"The White Boat" by Morris Hall Pancoast.
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On April 7th, 1913 the office of Honorary Curator of Prints was revived,
and the Management of the ' Academy is gratified to announce that their
invitation to fill this office was accepted by Miss Sarah Minis Hays.
Under her- energetic and skillful supeFision much ·valuable work has
been accomplished in 'mounting and re-arranging the entire Print Collection.
The old binders or portfolios in which ,the prints were preserved, have been
replaced by numbered and labelled boxes in which the prints can lie flat without possibility of injury and in the manner now generally adopted in mo~t
of the great print ,collections. The old wall cases have been remodelled and
separate shelving provided for each box. Two twenty-winged stands have
been placed in the Galleries jn order t~ eg:hibit the prints to the public and
make them more accessible for examination.
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' Th~ Management repor.t the ~wai-d of the following:
The Temple Gold MedaJ to Frederick C. Frieseke for his picture entitled
"Youth."
The Jennie'Sesnan Gold Medal to George Bellows for his picture entitled
" Men:of the Docks."
The Carol H. Beck Gold Medal to J., Alden Weir for ,his portrait entitled
"The Black Hat."
The Mary Smith Prize to Alice Kent Stoddard for her picture "Paper
, Dolls."
The Walter Lippincott Prize to, ElJlil Carlsen for his landscape "Summer
Clouds."
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And the George D. Widener Memorial Gold Medal to Charles Grafly for
his Portrait Bust of the late Thomas P. Anshutz.
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On March
' 3rd. 1913, John Andrew Myers was appointed Secretary
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Respectfully submitted,
JOHN ' FREDERICK LEWIS,
President.
JOHN ANDREW MYERS,
Secretary pro tem.
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MANAGEMENT OF
THE PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF TME
FiNE ARTS
PRESIDENT
JOHN FREDERICK LEWIS '
HONORARY VICE-PRESIDENT
E. BURGESS WARREN
VICE~PRESIDENT
CLEMENT B. NEWBOLD
DIRECTORS '
THEOPHILUS P. CHANDLER
ALFRED C. HARRJSON
HERBERT M. HOWE, M.D.
CLARENCE C. ZANTZING:jl:~
CHARLEMAGNE TOWER
GEORGE H. McFADDEN
I T. DEWITT CUYLER
CLEMENT B. NEWBOLD
EDWARD T. STOTESBURY
ARTHUR H. LEA
THEODORE N. ELY
JOSEPH E. WIDENER
FRANK H. CAVEN
. TREASURER
GEORGE H. McFADDEN
SECRETARY
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JOHN ANDREW MYERS
HONORARY CURATOR OF PRINTS
SARAH MINIS HAYS
CURATOR OF SCHOOLS
ANNA T. BENNETT
SOLICITOR
JOHN G. JOHNSON
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