112th Annual Report for the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

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Title

112th Annual Report for the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

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1918-AR.pdf

Date

1918

Creator

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

Subject

annual report
finance report
school report
exhibition
history

Publisher

The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts' Dorothy and Kenneth Woodcock Archives

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paper

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PDF

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The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts' Dorothy and Kenneth Woodcock Archives

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eng

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ANNUAL REPORT_'

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To the stockholders:
The President and Directora of the

~ennsylvania

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Academy of the E1ne Arts have the honor to present thi1!'l
thel.rOne Hundred and '.l.'welfth Annual

report.

Your

stockholders tickets for the year 1919 were sent to you
by mail on J a nuary 15th.

These tickets will admit the

stockholders to all lect ures and entertainments giVen by
the Academy or under i t8 auspices wbether H.drnission be
charg~d

to the public or not.

'1'he President and Directors

will be most gratlfiedby the frequent UfOe of tnese t ,ickets . .
The schools of the Academy, which are of vital
importa,ncei n the work

of"

the Academy, have been well

a,t tended ; during t h e year alt h ough theservlc e flag, which
floats 6ver; tn eentr,ange e0 11t'a'ins hih'ety" 'staT,S ,one o f which
is of gold . . The total enrol1me.n t at the <.:lose of the first
term which closed Jr ebru8':fy, ' ;13.

19].,9 wa s .138.

Tbe [3 chool is

under the management of t h e Committee on Instruction appointed
bY, the

President from the :Board of Directors.

'1'he chairman

of the Co rmnittee is Charlemagne Tower, Esq., who is Ex Officio
chairman of t h e Faculty of Instructors which includes:
Charles Grafly,

Instructor in Sculpture, Hugh H. Breckenridge,

Instructor i11 .portrai ture and

~till

iife, Philip L. Hale,

Instructor .i ·iu ff. 1,i.fe drawing and painting, Daniel Garber
In struc tor in Night 1,i fe,,"
drawing
and pain fing and
drawirlg
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from the Antique

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, Ro 'bert Vonnoh, Instruc,tor in Gpmposttion,

Arthur B. Carles Instructor .in Saturday Sketch Class,

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Henry: Erdmann Radasch, M.D.,
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Henry ' lldcC?-rt'e:r

In~tructor

in Anatomy : . _',

' ,. Inatructor in Illustration.

The direct management of the schools is under the care of
the curator, 'Miss Florence B. Neely.,

The ve,lue of

Instruction giv:.en in the Schools is proved by the rapidly
increasing prominence which our students occupy in the
various inportEmt Exhibi t tons of' the country and the great
strength of the reputation which the schools enjoy throughout the country and beyond its borders.
The :BJxh ibi.tions of School worK which occup ied many
of

t~e

ualleries during the last Week of May wa s of such

excellence that Seventeen Gresson ' Travelling Scholarshi.ps
were awarded to the following named competitors:
Pa,in.! ing:
Frank Cohen
Eli'zabeth K. Coyne
Elizabeth Dercum
Margaret B. Kennedy
Isadore Levy
Esther W. Whiteside
Roy C. lluse
Jo sephine Page
J!ranklin \Vatkins
Katherine D. Pagan
Sculptors
Aurelius R~nzetti
Raphael Sabatini
Gharles 01 Jenny

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Illustrators ·
i'Vlargaret :N' . Browne
lllorman P.Laudenslager
Margaret Marshall
Jo seph Capolino
These awards Vlere made wi th the di st inct understa.nding
that these students shall not go abroad, until such time as,
in the judgment ot' the Board of Directors,
Etl:~ppe

conditions in

will 'IDe suitable for travel and study.

The Summer session of the Academy's school at Chester



-3Sp~ings

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was highly successful.

from March 29th to October l~t.

Students were received
The School is under the

ma.na.gement of the lihester Springs School Gommittee a'PPo l nted
by the .pr esiden t trom tn,e member s of the Board of Direc t Drs r,~ 1o f.

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UOmInl'tt ee t'n e .Pres id· en t 'ls. c h. aJ.rman.

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The school

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is under the di rec t c a re ot

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Roy Mi ller, Resident li anager.

The Instructors include Henry McCarter, Ins-tructor i n
Decoration and drawing, Hugh H. Bre.ckenrldg;e, W. 'L . Latn.rop,
Robert Spencer land
painti n g,

]~red

Wagner,

I nst T'l~ ctors

in la.ndscape

The total enrollment of s t u d ents for the s eason

of' 1918 wa. s 168.

The Pla.nt 11.8.9 been brought to a high stB.te

of effectiveness and is,at t h e end of its second sea son,
an acknowledged force t n the Art World and

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full of gre a t

prominen c e.
The second Exh i oi tl. Ol1 o t· V/orl<:: do n e at Chest er ,:lprings
o ~ ~upied ~allerie~

A a nd

~ outh

Gotridor of the Academy fr 0m

.November lOtb to Dec ember 15 t h ,
The following prizes were awarded by the uommittee
on Instruct1.on ,:
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t J "'"."l eco n d an ""
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Tb e Aca d emy t 9 .l~'1 1rs
.. I' r d -J:"r lzes
LBnd.scape to J. C. Cla,ghorn, 8. Gertrude Scnell.. a nd ClaI' ence
Snyder, ICespect'l.vely.

The First a.nd S econd Frederic ji~. Baldw i n .Pr i zes to
Lucitta W. ",V ord en a nd S. G. Moyer, respectively.
Hy the j ury con s iflting o f lvI essrs. IJathro,p , Spencer and
Wag;ne.r ( Mr. Vezin being absent) t h e · lh rst, Seco n d a.rid
Third Charles Vezin PrLzes for work done in Jiff.r~ Wagner's
Cla.s s, ' to Anna F. Fry, ' Florence Tri.cker. a nd Dorothy Root
Sch~ll, respectively.

It is gratifying to report that t h ere was not one
c as e of illness a t t n eachool durin g the season.

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'1;h e 'l13th Annual ITIxhiJi tion closed on .March 24,

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T.h e Total attendance was 60,219
pieces sold was 27,

1918.

The Total humber oi'

which in ?I.aluation carne close, to the

best record of 8ales from an Annual Exhibi tio.ri in the
. Aca,demy.
Owing to the la.te

arrival of a number o f paintings

due to the transportation conditions,
'Nlary Smith prize,
Prize was

th'3 walterLippincott and the

de~erre4

These pr i z8P,

the awarding of the
~-j totesbury

until after the Exhibition had opened,

awarded ·. QY , thE; 0bmrn1 t.t,~e ' on

~tl;JChi biti

on,

,w~re

awarded as follows:
To Helen .lVlcGarthY thellilary Smith Prize for her C8,nvas
e.ntitled liFarms a,id Hill Clountryil l
To DeWitt M. Lockman, the Walter Lippincott }Jrtze for
his canva~ entitled "Th,e Blue and Gold Kimo :no"

To Daniel Garber, the Edward T. Stotesbury Prize f or
hi s canvas enti t led liThe, Q,u.arryl1
" Tl;le ~~ ,Board ::: ..;~ awarded to John McLure Hamilton the
Academy Gold tJI edal ' ot Honor ' in "'t'ecognition of his achievement
1.n his prot'ession, tor hi.s eminent service iH the cause at
art and to the Acad.emY I
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Th.e Phi.ladelphia Prize awarded by popular vat 's during ,
the ~eek or March 3rd went to paul King for his canv~s
entitled " Solitude".
}?rom Apri.l '( th to :NIay'1 th a. group ot 6,4 ' canvases
by Ignacio
G and H.

Zulo~ga

were shown in Gal.Leries F,

North Trancept,

The opportunity to see these examples o f ZUloaga.

was regarded by the artists of Philad elp"nia as of inestimable
value to the

m~ei.nbeIts

of the p .r ofessibn

, During the sumIner th,e entire J:-'ermanen t Collection
occupied the walls or the Galleries until the opening of

tae Sixteenth Annual Water Color !3jxhibi.tion and the t)eventeehth
• lViinia ture Exhi b Uion which

occurred on Novemb er 10th preceeded

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by the Private View on the even.ing of jiovember 9th.
Exhibition closed on December 15th.
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was 18,363. , The number

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This

The total attendance

works sold was 43, whd:bh in

valuation exceeded that of recent years and :in many cases
a part or whole of the price obtained was donated by the
artist to the W§,r Relief Fund through ' the Emergency Aid of
Fennsyl vania.
I"n thIs Exhibition the Charles :8;. Danal\fl edal was
,awarded for the ', :first time and was given to ] ;rancis iV
lCComas
for his group of Water

Colors~

nThe Phi.ladelphia water Color Prize was given to Hayley
Lever for his group of water Colors.
The

Ch~rles

Beck, Jr •• Prize was given to u. B. Falls.

The Jury of Selection mak.ing these awards consisted of
Gifford Beal, Paul Dougherty, Joseph Pennell, John1li1cLure
Hamilton,

Jessie

W ~llco-x

Smith and William A. Mason.

, The Seventeenth lViiniature

B:xl:J,ibi tion occupied li-allery

I from November lOth to December 15th.

l\ile~al

, The Bronze

of' Honor was awarded by the Jury or 8e1ectio11 to margaret
Foo~e

Hawley f 'or' he,r canvas enti tIed "Profil'e 01' mary

Foo~e"

The Jury of Selection cons t sted of' Berta Carew, Lydia Field
Emmet, Harry L. Johnson, F. I;u1s mora a n d

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J:!:lizabeth F.

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washington.
The l'iforman H. Brock Loan

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J~xhibition

and War Proclamations and Notices
December

2l~t,

W8E'1

of Foreign POE'lters

open to tbe public

for the benefit o:t' trle Belgian Helie!' Fund.

'1'his Exhibi.tion occupied Galleries F, ' North Trancept and

U.

On December 30th two pa.n nels pa.inted by Violet Oakley
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for the Senate Chamber at Harrisburg, were put on Exhibition
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in the .NOrtrl Corridor for a period of' ten days.

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On Decem'ber 28th the Exhib.ition of Official British.

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Naval War Photographs

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color ',dwaa opened to the public.

The net proceeds were given to the Armenian War che.ritl.es.
This Exhibition was

ar~anged

ts occupy the Galleries for a

week but the success with · wh.ich it met,
of time to a, total of' f'ifteen days.

forced an extension

The total attendance

L

fA,).IJ. .tdI,;"',,:-l,.I:_ 1w- 111 "'",
I ~ , I ?, 96
Tl1e l14th Annual Exhibi tion of Oil and Sculpt u re will

during that interval was 35,000.

fy),1oA-

open to the Public on Sunday P ebruary yth and conntinue until
March 30th.

This Exhibi.tion,

consi.dered by the artists as

one of the most importcmt Exhibi t i.ons held in the IJountry,

is

collected through the Jury system irom the f ollowing eities
a.cting as convenient cen ters to whicl1. work can be sent
judged, naJn eiy, Boston, New York,

(;hicago,

to be

st. Lo:uis and

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Philadelphia .
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The gathering to g ether ot t n e exhJbits is in th.e hands
of the Jury of Selection and :for the arrangement of tne same,
in the Galleries,

the Hanging Go mmittee is responsible, · The

Jury of Selection is as f Ollows:
Paint erfl Jury
Hugh H. Breckenridge, chairma.n
TNayman Adams
Miee cecilia Beau..
111i98 Gertrude .ldske
John McLure Ha.miltKton
DeWitt M. Lockman
George Luks
Willard L. Metcalf
Laz ar Raditz
Leopold S eyff er t i
Edmund c. TarbeJrl
Sculptorfl Jury
Charles Grafly
Herbert Adams
Louis Milione

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This Exh,ibition wtll pro 'bably surpass recent ]:!;xhibitions
in general tnt erest.

It includes most of ' the 'b est examples

of Arneri08.n Art produ,ced durIng the past Y,e ar.

The Cordial support ot' the Exhib i ti.o n

OIl

the part ot

stockholaers is greatly des,ired by the lvianagement" ot the Jwadenw
and we hope that you will impress upon
advantages to be der i ved ,

'byc, ~, visi

yo~r

frle n ds tne

to the Gal.Leri,es.

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GIFTS

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During the yee:r the Portra.i t

Dr.

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( replica) of t h e

~Lat,,~

Weir Mitchell painted by Robert Vannoh was presented

to the Academy

by li~dward

Hornor Coates, Esq. ,

Self Portrait by Ilazar

R ~ ditz

presented. by Lazar Raaitz.

The t h irteen original arm chairs fro m the Boaral room
of t h e Farmers and Mechanics Bank were presented to the Chester
Springs School by John Frederic k Lewis, E sq..

Also eleven

prints by J ohn Sartain were :p'resented to the Academy by JOhn
Frederick

~ewis,

Esq~

Also a flet of the Art Journ al " Dound, wa s presented to
the

Che~te r

Springs School by Miss Elizabeth H. Washington.

- Port rai t \~~ ~a:B~y, by \Naugh was pr e9 en ted b y Dr. J.
' f,

Nicholas Mitchet~l
The Third Volume ot' theP.A.E.Vviden er Collection was
presented by Joseph E. Widener. Esq.
PURCHASES
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The Academy has acqui.red by purchase t h e J:iortrait
of Feter Mir:€:ken by Gilbert Stuart and the Portrait ot' IVlaria
Mircken, wife of Peter Mircken also by G'U -nertstuart.

-8From the 113th Annual Exhibition:
The Q,uary, by Dani; el Garber
IDhe Lacquer , Scree,n.; by Leopold Seyffert
The Blue and Gold Kimol1o,by
DeWitt
M. Lockman
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Lower Broadway in War Time, by Colin Campbell Cooper
Purch.ased from the Lambert Fund for the Pennsylvania Academy
of the Fine

Ar~a:

The Penney Tra~n Shed ! by Ivlorri s Hall Pancoast
The Convalescent,by Murray P. Bewley
The Fete

D~y,by

Irma Kohn

Winter in N"orway; by Eistein Olaf' Drogseth
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The :Exhibition,by Salvatore Anthony Guarino
Duri ng Apr .i l and liJiay the series of ]'ree Sunday concerts
were 'resumed,

In November the early winter

series of free

c oncerts was again taken up and continued through Sanuary 16th.

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All of them were highly apprec.iated by the public and very
largely attended.
BUILDI NG
During the summer the skY-.lights

a~d

over the building

were reputtied, painted and otherwise repa.ired where ever
necessary.

The rooms devoted to the Schools were given

fresh coat ot" ca.latmo and paint.

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The cellars were whi te washed

throughout and the wood work paint ed 'N11.ere necessary.
In accordance with the

Fi~ e

Department regulat.ions the

fire extinguishers were emptied and refilled with fresh
chemical f!.
The thanks of the management of the Academy Ctre
exte:nded to the Honorable, the J)lla.yor of Philadelphia,
Mayor's

to the

cabinet and to the Sel ect and Comrnon Counc i 1 s for

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their

sympathy and support, ana to the President ,

continu~d

and Members of the Board of Education in sending to our

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schools, students
desiring to study art.
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We also acknowledge our debt to the Press of
Philadelphia which is givi"ng to the Academy and to the cause
of art, intelligent cri.ticisms of all the Exhibitio:qs which we
have.
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We also make grateful acknowledgment tO , the employees
of the Aca.demy for thei.r faithful performance of duty.

Respectively submitted

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