112th Annual Report for the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
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112th Annual Report for the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
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1918
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Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
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-" "1,
ANNUAL REPORT_'
(,
To the stockholders:
The President and Directora of the
~ennsylvania
'-v
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
.
.
,
~
from the Antique
-
'
, Ro 'bert Vonnoh, Instruc,tor in Gpmposttion,
Arthur B. Carles Instructor .in Saturday Sketch Class,
..
Henry: Erdmann Radasch, M.D.,
·:a.:hd
c..,)
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
c
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
,r'
\
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.
h' h,
W1C
'
UOmInl'tt ee t'n e .Pres id· en t 'ls. c h. aJ.rman.
~.t:fA
e/.M--u..... ·
The school
),t.~{
.
is under the di rec t c a re ot
1).
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
i~
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 ,:
,
t J "'"."l eco n d an ""
~ 'lib
'
in
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.
.,~
'~
-4-
'1;h e 'l13th Annual ITIxhiJi tion closed on .March 24,
'(,
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
'
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
-5-
by the Private View on the even.ing of jiovember 9th.
Exhibition closed on December 15th.
,
,
(,
"
"
was 18,363. , The number
01;'
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
\
J:!:lizabeth F.
\
washington.
The l'iforman H. Brock Loan
r", '
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
I
for the Senate Chamber at Harrisburg, were put on Exhibition
,~
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in the .NOrtrl Corridor for a period of' ten days.
,
On Decem'ber 28th the Exhib.ition of Official British.
(
Naval War Photographs
i~
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
-;"
Philadelphia .
,
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
,"
,
i ·.f.. i
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.
t
/
,
GIFTS
.
During the yee:r the Portra.i t
Dr.
~.
(
( 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
I
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
'j
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
,
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.
,
.
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.
a
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
r-\
schools, students
desiring to study art.
,
".
,
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.
,
We also make grateful acknowledgment tO , the employees
of the Aca.demy for thei.r faithful performance of duty.
Respectively submitted
'"
,
"
ANNUAL REPORT_'
(,
To the stockholders:
The President and Directora of the
~ennsylvania
'-v
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
.
.
,
~
from the Antique
-
'
, Ro 'bert Vonnoh, Instruc,tor in Gpmposttion,
Arthur B. Carles Instructor .in Saturday Sketch Class,
..
Henry: Erdmann Radasch, M.D.,
·:a.:hd
c..,)
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
c
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
,r'
\
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.
h' h,
W1C
'
UOmInl'tt ee t'n e .Pres id· en t 'ls. c h. aJ.rman.
~.t:fA
e/.M--u..... ·
The school
),t.~{
.
is under the di rec t c a re ot
1).
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
i~
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 ,:
,
t J "'"."l eco n d an ""
~ 'lib
'
in
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.
.,~
'~
-4-
'1;h e 'l13th Annual ITIxhiJi tion closed on .March 24,
'(,
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
'
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
-5-
by the Private View on the even.ing of jiovember 9th.
Exhibition closed on December 15th.
,
,
(,
"
"
was 18,363. , The number
01;'
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
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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
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fA,).IJ. .tdI,;"',,:-l,.I:_ 1w- 111 "'",
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Tl1e l14th Annual Exhibi tion of Oil and Sculpt u re will
during that interval was 35,000.
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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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