125th Annual Report for the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
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125th Annual Report for the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
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ANNUAL REPORT
To the Stockholders:The President and Directors of the Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Arts have the honor to
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present their 124th Annual Report.
Your stockholders Tickets for the calendar year 1930
were mailed to you on Decembe!, 31, 1929.
These tickets will
admit the stockholders to all entertainments and lectures
g iven by the Academy or under its auspices, whether admission
be charged to the public or not.
The President and Directors
,,"
will be ·mos t gratified by the frequent use of these tickets.
EXHIBIT IONS
The 125th Annual Exhibition in Oil arid Sculpture
opened to the public on Sunday, ' January 26, 1930 and continues
through Sunday, March 16, 1930:
Th~
motive dominating the
gathering together of this exhib ition has been strictly educational.
To obtain this result, the Ma'T:l.agement of the
Academy selected a Chairman and a Jury who were known to be
s ufficiently bro ad minded to appreciate the excellence and
sincerity of work presented for their jUdgment re gardless of
the manner of handling the medium or the subject.
The result
is that this exhib ition, as none of its predecessors, gives
an excellent cross section of the work being done at this date
by our Ame rican Artists.
That the public
j.s
appreciating this
special effort of the Academy, is attested by the favorab le
criticisms received, the attendance at the Private View, and
(
during the several day s which the exhibition has been open
to the public.
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The exhibition is in the hands of the Jury of
Selection of eleven painters and three sculptors who judged
all the work submitted.,
The Hanging Corm:nittee, consisting
of the Chairman and £ hve
other Jurors together with the
President; Ex-Officio, arrang ed the groups for the exhibition.
The canvases were selected by the Painter's Jury of
Selection c onsisting of :: Hugh H. Breckenridge, Chairman
Abram Poole
Leopold Seyffert
Carroll Tyson
Malcolm Parcell
William M. Paxton
Ch arles Burchfield
Truman Fassett
Eugene Hi gg ins
Ernest Lawson
Roy C. Nuse
The sculpture was selected by the Sculptors Jury of
Selection consisting of:Leo F'r1edlander
Walker Hancock
Albert Laessle
A large portion of the paintings in the exh1bition
are for sale and are suitable for hanging in private houses!
rrhe exhibition of Sculpture contains much that is sui table
for the decorat1ng of interiors as well as for gardens.
In addition to the 125thAnnual Exhibition, the
Management of the Academy has installed in
Gall~ries .
C and D,
heretofore occupied by the Gibson Collection ·, a Memorial Exhibition of available work by the late Charles Grafly who,
for thirty seven years was an Instructor in the Schlpture
Department of the Schools of the Pennsylvania A.cademy . of the
Fine Arts.
(
This Memorial is an evidence of the high esteem in
which Mr. Grafly
w~s
held by the Pennsylvania Academy of the
i
Fine Arts, and is a tribute to his value as an Advisor and an
Instructor in the Schools of the
Ac~demy.
This Memorial "
u
- 3 ;18 open to the public concurrent with the 125th Annual
Exhibi tion.
The 124th Annual Exhibition opened according to
schedule on January 27th, 1929.
The awards of medals in this
exhibition were made by the 1929 Jury of Selection and were
as follows:The Temple Gold Medal was awarded to Robert
Henri for the best painting irrespective of
subject for his canvas entitled uThe Wee
Woman" •
The J"ennie Sesnan Gold Medal for the best
landscape in the exhibition w as awarded to
ehanaes Bux~.cr1f'ield for his canvas entitled
, If Lilac s !l •
The Carol H. Beck Gold Medal for the best
portrait in the exhibition was awarded to
Richard Lahey for his canvas entitled
ItJvIadame Du Tarte n •
.
The Sculptors Jury of Selection awarded the
George D. Widener Memorial Gold Medal to
Bruce Moore for his piece entitled "Black
Panther".
The J"ames E. McClees Prize was awarded to
Hallie Davis l' or her piece entitled tlBaby
and Snail'''.
The following prizes were awarded by the ComIni ttee
on Exhibition consisting of members of the Board of Directors:The Walter Lippincott Prize was awarded to
Leopold Seyffert for his canvas entitled
"My Family!l.
The Mary Smith Prize for the best work by a
Philadelphia woman was awarded to Edith
McMurtrie for her canvas entitled ItHarpooning
Horse Mackeral. II
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- 4 -
The exhibition consisted of 414 palntings and 192
works of sculpture; 403 artists were represented.
The total
attendance for this exhibition was 26,455.
Imraediately after the close of the124th Annual
Exhibition the Permanent Collection was put in place in the
galleries and on May 16th the galleries F, G, H, the North
'rransept, the east and west galleries and the rotunda were
occupied by an exhibition of worle by our students in competition for the Emlen Cresson Travelling Scholarships and
minor school prizes.
This exhibition opened to the public on
May 21st when the students and their friends were addressed
by Mr. mhomas S. Gates.
Mr. John Frederick Lewis, the Presi-
dent of the Academy, announced the awards.
A special feature
of the ceremony of announcing the school awards was the presenting of the Academy's Gold Medal of , Honor to Daniel Garber
by the President of the Academy_
This high honor was paid to
Mr. Garber by the President and Directors of the Academy for
Iv1r.- Garber's services to the Academy andfb:e the eme:nence he
has attained in his profession.
Twenty nine groups of work recommended by the
Faculty and ratified by the Board of Directors were awarded
Travellin g Scholarships.
Those to ' whom the Scholarships were
awarded are as follows:Louise Giles Berry
Morris A. Blackburn
Sylvia Borst
Florence V. Cannon
Robert M. Cronbach
Earl T. Donelson
Bennett Durand
Eleanor Finnesy
Alice Harris Fletcher
Elsa Frame
Cyril Gardner
Cora P. Gibson
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Mary Imogene Rob inhold
Lester R. Roesner
Evaline Sellors
Lillian Ie Smith
Benton M. Spruance
John Tuthill
Georg e A. Wilde
Lucy De G. Wooley
Robert Gwathmey
Julia Le e Higg ins
Ralph H. Humes
l e on ard Kellel~
Lawrence B. Kritcher, Jr.
Alexander B ~ Levin
William P. Os b orn
He len L. Owen
Joseph ~. Plavcan
Th is exhib ition was open to the pub lic for twelve days, after
which the galleries were again hung with the Permanent Collection
for the summer months.
At the same time an exhi b ition was held
in the Print Room of the fir'st and second prize Free Hand Drawings
sent in from various hi ,m schools of Philadelphia and vicinity,
wh ich the Academy awarded in the respective schools.
These groups
of drawing s were put on exhib ition a nd a first, second a nd third
prized awarded by t h e Faculty as follows:
First Prize: Gerson Key ser
Central High School
Second Priz e : Ernest AI Uer t
Northeast High School
Third Prize: Thomas F. Beal
La France Art Institute
Durin g one week of the month of
~;
April~
the , Comp osition
"
Class held an exhib ition of their work in the Le cture Room of
Th e Academy .
Their subject was ltPeaC €l and Music ll •
Mr. Henry R.
Poore, Instructor in the Composition Class awarded the following
. prizes:-
F'irs t prize f or Peace, $ 15. 00 to Julia Lee Higgins
First prize for Music, $ 15.00 to Leon F'. Berbyshire
Second prize for Peace, $ 10.00 to Dorothy Blodgett
(,
Mr. John Frederick LeWis, the President of the Academy, made the
followin g awards:Second prize for Music, $ 10.00, .to Stewart Rodda
Third prize for Music, $5.00, to Earl T. Donelson
Third prize f or Peace, $5.00, to Orner T. ,Lassonde
J~ J~~ ./-d..;
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On October 14th, the galleries were dismanteled for
the hanging of the 2, th Annual water Color Exhibition, the 28 th
A~~ual
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Miniature Exhibition and the 13th Exhibition of work dmne
at the Academy1s School at Chester Springs.
These exhibitions
were open to the public from ' November 3, 1929untj_l December
8, 1929.
The Jury of Selection f or the water Color &,<:hibition
consisted offPaul L. Gill
J. Frank Copeland
A. Van Nesse Green '
John J. Dull
George Pearse Ennis
Ernest D. Roth
Edward Warwick
The exhibition was hung by J. Frank Copeland, Paul L. Rill ap.d
ex-officio, the PreSident of the Academy and the President and
Secretary of the Philadelphia water Color Club.
The exhibition
contained 1040 paintings and drawings , representing 350 Water
Color Artists.
rrhe Jury awarded the following prizes:-
The Philadelphia Water Color Prize was awarded
to William Starkvveather for his group of water
colors as being the strongest group:
The Dana Gold Medal was awarded to Wayman Adams
for his group of water colors.
The J:!,yre Gold Medal was awarded to Allan A. F.
Thomas for his block print entitled "End Paper
Illustration".
.
The Joseph Pennell Memorial MedaA' was awarded
to Rockwell Kent for his group of etChings.
The Jury of Selection for the 28th Annual Miniature
Exhibition consisted of:Ellen W. Ahrens .
Bertha Coolidge
Harry L. Johns on
("
Fiske Kimball
Alice Barber Stephens
Maria Judson Strean
The exhibition was hung by:Johanna M. Boericke
lVlary W. Bonsall
Elizabeth White McCarthy
Rebecca B. Peale Patterson
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The Jury awarded the Bronze Medal of Honor to Eulabee
Dix for her miniature entitled "Joan Becker".
This exhibition
contained 112 miniatures representing 61 artists.
('
In the Chester Springs Exhibition, the Committee on
Instruction, which is a part ' of ' the Board of Directors of the
Academy, awarded the following prizes:First painting prize of $100.00 was a warded to Glenn
S. Pearce.
Second painting prize of $50.00 was awarded to William
N. Goodell for his group.
Tllird p ainting prize of $ 25.00 was awarded to Alexander
Levin for his group.
A s pe cial prize of $50.00 was avvard'e d to Dorothy L.
McEntee for her group of water colors .
A special prize of $50. 00 in sculpture, was awarded
to Evaline Sellors for her group.
On November
A"~
a group of 129 drawings from twenty
different art sChools of the country were shown in the Print Room
of the Academy.
These drawin gs were in competition for the
Charles M. Lea Prizes, and the awards wer'e made by the Water
Color JUI'Y of Selection as follows:First prize was awarded to Ruth Wilkie of the
Schools of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine
Arts.
Sec ond prize was awarded to Char1es Ward of the
Schools of the Penns y lvania Academy of the Fine
Arts.
Third prize was awarded to Michae l Sarisky of the
Joru1 Huntington Polytechnic Institute, Cle~eland.
At the close of these exhi b itions, the galle ries were
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again hung with the Permanent Collection until January 6th, when
they were dismanteled for the 125th Annual Exhib ition.
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The total number of visitors to the Academy during
the year of 1929 was
~,~. '!tf..jt/-/~~J
SCHOOLS
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The schools of the Academy had a very successful year
with a total re g istration of..;..2_t .h ·s tudents.
Instruction in the
schools is given by a Faculty of r ecognized standing in the
,
Art " '~ orld
consisting of:Henry McCarter
Roy C. Nuse
Jose ph T. Pearson, Jr.
Henry R. Poore
F'ranc is Spei ght
Hugh H. Breckenridge ,
Daniel Garb er
Walker Hancock
Geor ge Harding
Jol~ F. Ha r bes on
Albert Laess Ie
The school is under the management of the Committee on Instruction
which consists of members of the Board of Dir ectors .
The Chairman
of the Cormnittee is Arthur H. Lea, who is also Chairman, ex-officio
of the Faculty.
The school is under the
t he Curator, Eleanor A. Fraser.
direct
mana g e~ent
of
School enrollment is now g oing
on for the second term of t h e 1929-30 season.
It is very gratifyin g to note t h at many of our students
at vv- ork in
OUD
city school or at Chester Spring s are finding
favor with juries of nation wide i mportance and are being hung
in such exhibitions.
The school at Chester Springs had a successful year .
It has be en f ound profitab le t o keep the ' school open throughqut th e entire year, and with th'e addition of the very handsome
and comfortab le new studio which was reported ' at this time las
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y ear as being in the mak i ng , t he equipment seems to be adequate
for some time to come.
1929 was 185.
The total e nrollment during the year
The hi ghest number of students resident on any
one date during this y ear was July 9th, August 5th and 11th , 69.
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FREE CONCERTS
The Free Sunday Concerts under the auspices of Mrs.
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Clara Barnes Abbott, Chief of the Bureau of Music, City Hall,
were resumed from November 17th through
Jan~ary
5th, 1930.
ACQUISITIONS
A portrait of Lord Byron, (known as the Gex portrait)
artist unknown, was presented by Professor and Mrs. Charles
William Macfarlane.
A plaster bust of each of the following : ffCicero",
"Clyte" and ffApollo" were presented by Mrs.
Jea~
A. Small.
pf Philadelphia.
The easel and 1podel stand used by the late Julian
store~was
presented by Mrs. Julian Storey.
A book entitled lIrrhe Blankenburgs of Philadelphia tl
was presented by Mrs. Rudolph Blanlcenburg.
BY BEQUEST
The portrait of Miss Anna Gi bbon Johnson by John
Neagle was bequeathed to the Academy by the late Helena
Hubb ell of Philadelphia.
The miniature portrait of William Rawle Jr. by
vV illiam John Newton was bequeathed to the Academy by the late
William Brooke Rawle.
Two miniature portraits; one of Jacob Bennett and the
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other of George M. W. Mason were bequeathed by the late Marian
Bennett.
BY PURCHASE
The Lambert Com1nittee purchased for the Pennsylvania
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Academy of the Fine Arts from the l24th Annual Exhi bition, the
fo llowing: "Green Bananas" by Angelo Pinto
"The French Flag" by Aron A. Rattner
ltThree Churches lf by Jerry Farnsworth
"Bed Room ll by John E t Hutchins
ltstudio Window" by ' Bradley W. Tomlin
flMid Winterlt by Robert Atwood
BUILDINGS
The Academy's building in the city has received re pairs
to
t~e
roof where necessary.
All of the ga lleries have been
painted from the line of the s10J li ght to the line of the
covering of the side walls.
The schools have been cleaned,
calcimined, painted and put in order for the work carried on
there . . The walls of the offices and the entrance lobby have been
washed down.
The basement has been white washed
The
tlh~oughout.
steam hea U_ng plant was put in good c ondi tion for the winter
and the fire extinguishers emptied and refilled during the
summer.
All of this work has been done. by the employees of the
Academy.
At our annex, 1834 Arch Street, the roof has bean put
in condition, the sky lights cleaned, both inside and out, and
the front of the building cleaned and repainted.
Inside, the
building has been thoroughly cleaned from the roof to the cellar.
This work was done by professionals.
The living quarters of the
Janitor and the downstairs rear portion of the building were
f
l
\..
given two coats of paint, the plumbing rearranged and the floors
filled and painted.
Academy.
This work was done by the employees of the .
Electricity was installed throughout the entire
building by
OU1'"
own superintendant and his assistant.
Th i~
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electrical work was passed by the City Inspectors.
The Treasurer's report in detail is submitted.
The thanks of the Management of the Academy is extended
to the Honorable, the Mayor of Philadelphia, to the Mayor's
Cabinet and to the Council for their continued sympathy and
their support, and to the President and members of the Board
of Education in sending to our school, students who wish to
study art.
We also acknowledge our debt to the Press of Philadelphia
which has given to the Academy and to the causes of Art, intelligent criticis ms of all the exhibitions we have had.
We also make grateful ac1mowledgement to the employees
of the Academy for the fa ithful perf ormances of t he ir duties.
Respectfully submitted.
Secretary.
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To the Stockholders:The President and Directors of the Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Arts have the honor to
z '
present their 124th Annual Report.
Your stockholders Tickets for the calendar year 1930
were mailed to you on Decembe!, 31, 1929.
These tickets will
admit the stockholders to all entertainments and lectures
g iven by the Academy or under its auspices, whether admission
be charged to the public or not.
The President and Directors
,,"
will be ·mos t gratified by the frequent use of these tickets.
EXHIBIT IONS
The 125th Annual Exhibition in Oil arid Sculpture
opened to the public on Sunday, ' January 26, 1930 and continues
through Sunday, March 16, 1930:
Th~
motive dominating the
gathering together of this exhib ition has been strictly educational.
To obtain this result, the Ma'T:l.agement of the
Academy selected a Chairman and a Jury who were known to be
s ufficiently bro ad minded to appreciate the excellence and
sincerity of work presented for their jUdgment re gardless of
the manner of handling the medium or the subject.
The result
is that this exhib ition, as none of its predecessors, gives
an excellent cross section of the work being done at this date
by our Ame rican Artists.
That the public
j.s
appreciating this
special effort of the Academy, is attested by the favorab le
criticisms received, the attendance at the Private View, and
(
during the several day s which the exhibition has been open
to the public.
- 2 -
The exhibition is in the hands of the Jury of
Selection of eleven painters and three sculptors who judged
all the work submitted.,
The Hanging Corm:nittee, consisting
of the Chairman and £ hve
other Jurors together with the
President; Ex-Officio, arrang ed the groups for the exhibition.
The canvases were selected by the Painter's Jury of
Selection c onsisting of :: Hugh H. Breckenridge, Chairman
Abram Poole
Leopold Seyffert
Carroll Tyson
Malcolm Parcell
William M. Paxton
Ch arles Burchfield
Truman Fassett
Eugene Hi gg ins
Ernest Lawson
Roy C. Nuse
The sculpture was selected by the Sculptors Jury of
Selection consisting of:Leo F'r1edlander
Walker Hancock
Albert Laessle
A large portion of the paintings in the exh1bition
are for sale and are suitable for hanging in private houses!
rrhe exhibition of Sculpture contains much that is sui table
for the decorat1ng of interiors as well as for gardens.
In addition to the 125thAnnual Exhibition, the
Management of the Academy has installed in
Gall~ries .
C and D,
heretofore occupied by the Gibson Collection ·, a Memorial Exhibition of available work by the late Charles Grafly who,
for thirty seven years was an Instructor in the Schlpture
Department of the Schools of the Pennsylvania A.cademy . of the
Fine Arts.
(
This Memorial is an evidence of the high esteem in
which Mr. Grafly
w~s
held by the Pennsylvania Academy of the
i
Fine Arts, and is a tribute to his value as an Advisor and an
Instructor in the Schools of the
Ac~demy.
This Memorial "
u
- 3 ;18 open to the public concurrent with the 125th Annual
Exhibi tion.
The 124th Annual Exhibition opened according to
schedule on January 27th, 1929.
The awards of medals in this
exhibition were made by the 1929 Jury of Selection and were
as follows:The Temple Gold Medal was awarded to Robert
Henri for the best painting irrespective of
subject for his canvas entitled uThe Wee
Woman" •
The J"ennie Sesnan Gold Medal for the best
landscape in the exhibition w as awarded to
ehanaes Bux~.cr1f'ield for his canvas entitled
, If Lilac s !l •
The Carol H. Beck Gold Medal for the best
portrait in the exhibition was awarded to
Richard Lahey for his canvas entitled
ItJvIadame Du Tarte n •
.
The Sculptors Jury of Selection awarded the
George D. Widener Memorial Gold Medal to
Bruce Moore for his piece entitled "Black
Panther".
The J"ames E. McClees Prize was awarded to
Hallie Davis l' or her piece entitled tlBaby
and Snail'''.
The following prizes were awarded by the ComIni ttee
on Exhibition consisting of members of the Board of Directors:The Walter Lippincott Prize was awarded to
Leopold Seyffert for his canvas entitled
"My Family!l.
The Mary Smith Prize for the best work by a
Philadelphia woman was awarded to Edith
McMurtrie for her canvas entitled ItHarpooning
Horse Mackeral. II
(
- 4 -
The exhibition consisted of 414 palntings and 192
works of sculpture; 403 artists were represented.
The total
attendance for this exhibition was 26,455.
Imraediately after the close of the124th Annual
Exhibition the Permanent Collection was put in place in the
galleries and on May 16th the galleries F, G, H, the North
'rransept, the east and west galleries and the rotunda were
occupied by an exhibition of worle by our students in competition for the Emlen Cresson Travelling Scholarships and
minor school prizes.
This exhibition opened to the public on
May 21st when the students and their friends were addressed
by Mr. mhomas S. Gates.
Mr. John Frederick Lewis, the Presi-
dent of the Academy, announced the awards.
A special feature
of the ceremony of announcing the school awards was the presenting of the Academy's Gold Medal of , Honor to Daniel Garber
by the President of the Academy_
This high honor was paid to
Mr. Garber by the President and Directors of the Academy for
Iv1r.- Garber's services to the Academy andfb:e the eme:nence he
has attained in his profession.
Twenty nine groups of work recommended by the
Faculty and ratified by the Board of Directors were awarded
Travellin g Scholarships.
Those to ' whom the Scholarships were
awarded are as follows:Louise Giles Berry
Morris A. Blackburn
Sylvia Borst
Florence V. Cannon
Robert M. Cronbach
Earl T. Donelson
Bennett Durand
Eleanor Finnesy
Alice Harris Fletcher
Elsa Frame
Cyril Gardner
Cora P. Gibson
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Mary Imogene Rob inhold
Lester R. Roesner
Evaline Sellors
Lillian Ie Smith
Benton M. Spruance
John Tuthill
Georg e A. Wilde
Lucy De G. Wooley
Robert Gwathmey
Julia Le e Higg ins
Ralph H. Humes
l e on ard Kellel~
Lawrence B. Kritcher, Jr.
Alexander B ~ Levin
William P. Os b orn
He len L. Owen
Joseph ~. Plavcan
Th is exhib ition was open to the pub lic for twelve days, after
which the galleries were again hung with the Permanent Collection
for the summer months.
At the same time an exhi b ition was held
in the Print Room of the fir'st and second prize Free Hand Drawings
sent in from various hi ,m schools of Philadelphia and vicinity,
wh ich the Academy awarded in the respective schools.
These groups
of drawing s were put on exhib ition a nd a first, second a nd third
prized awarded by t h e Faculty as follows:
First Prize: Gerson Key ser
Central High School
Second Priz e : Ernest AI Uer t
Northeast High School
Third Prize: Thomas F. Beal
La France Art Institute
Durin g one week of the month of
~;
April~
the , Comp osition
"
Class held an exhib ition of their work in the Le cture Room of
Th e Academy .
Their subject was ltPeaC €l and Music ll •
Mr. Henry R.
Poore, Instructor in the Composition Class awarded the following
. prizes:-
F'irs t prize f or Peace, $ 15. 00 to Julia Lee Higgins
First prize for Music, $ 15.00 to Leon F'. Berbyshire
Second prize for Peace, $ 10.00 to Dorothy Blodgett
(,
Mr. John Frederick LeWis, the President of the Academy, made the
followin g awards:Second prize for Music, $ 10.00, .to Stewart Rodda
Third prize for Music, $5.00, to Earl T. Donelson
Third prize f or Peace, $5.00, to Orner T. ,Lassonde
J~ J~~ ./-d..;
~ f~ . 7-- t;/~~~ - ~
~ I-d. ~/A#-.;t'~~ .. ~~- ~ ~
111'., /'. _, .. ".
~_.
.
6 -
On October 14th, the galleries were dismanteled for
the hanging of the 2, th Annual water Color Exhibition, the 28 th
A~~ual
(
Miniature Exhibition and the 13th Exhibition of work dmne
at the Academy1s School at Chester Springs.
These exhibitions
were open to the public from ' November 3, 1929untj_l December
8, 1929.
The Jury of Selection f or the water Color &,<:hibition
consisted offPaul L. Gill
J. Frank Copeland
A. Van Nesse Green '
John J. Dull
George Pearse Ennis
Ernest D. Roth
Edward Warwick
The exhibition was hung by J. Frank Copeland, Paul L. Rill ap.d
ex-officio, the PreSident of the Academy and the President and
Secretary of the Philadelphia water Color Club.
The exhibition
contained 1040 paintings and drawings , representing 350 Water
Color Artists.
rrhe Jury awarded the following prizes:-
The Philadelphia Water Color Prize was awarded
to William Starkvveather for his group of water
colors as being the strongest group:
The Dana Gold Medal was awarded to Wayman Adams
for his group of water colors.
The J:!,yre Gold Medal was awarded to Allan A. F.
Thomas for his block print entitled "End Paper
Illustration".
.
The Joseph Pennell Memorial MedaA' was awarded
to Rockwell Kent for his group of etChings.
The Jury of Selection for the 28th Annual Miniature
Exhibition consisted of:Ellen W. Ahrens .
Bertha Coolidge
Harry L. Johns on
("
Fiske Kimball
Alice Barber Stephens
Maria Judson Strean
The exhibition was hung by:Johanna M. Boericke
lVlary W. Bonsall
Elizabeth White McCarthy
Rebecca B. Peale Patterson
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The Jury awarded the Bronze Medal of Honor to Eulabee
Dix for her miniature entitled "Joan Becker".
This exhibition
contained 112 miniatures representing 61 artists.
('
In the Chester Springs Exhibition, the Committee on
Instruction, which is a part ' of ' the Board of Directors of the
Academy, awarded the following prizes:First painting prize of $100.00 was a warded to Glenn
S. Pearce.
Second painting prize of $50.00 was awarded to William
N. Goodell for his group.
Tllird p ainting prize of $ 25.00 was awarded to Alexander
Levin for his group.
A s pe cial prize of $50.00 was avvard'e d to Dorothy L.
McEntee for her group of water colors .
A special prize of $50. 00 in sculpture, was awarded
to Evaline Sellors for her group.
On November
A"~
a group of 129 drawings from twenty
different art sChools of the country were shown in the Print Room
of the Academy.
These drawin gs were in competition for the
Charles M. Lea Prizes, and the awards wer'e made by the Water
Color JUI'Y of Selection as follows:First prize was awarded to Ruth Wilkie of the
Schools of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine
Arts.
Sec ond prize was awarded to Char1es Ward of the
Schools of the Penns y lvania Academy of the Fine
Arts.
Third prize was awarded to Michae l Sarisky of the
Joru1 Huntington Polytechnic Institute, Cle~eland.
At the close of these exhi b itions, the galle ries were
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again hung with the Permanent Collection until January 6th, when
they were dismanteled for the 125th Annual Exhib ition.
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The total number of visitors to the Academy during
the year of 1929 was
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SCHOOLS
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The schools of the Academy had a very successful year
with a total re g istration of..;..2_t .h ·s tudents.
Instruction in the
schools is given by a Faculty of r ecognized standing in the
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Art " '~ orld
consisting of:Henry McCarter
Roy C. Nuse
Jose ph T. Pearson, Jr.
Henry R. Poore
F'ranc is Spei ght
Hugh H. Breckenridge ,
Daniel Garb er
Walker Hancock
Geor ge Harding
Jol~ F. Ha r bes on
Albert Laess Ie
The school is under the management of the Committee on Instruction
which consists of members of the Board of Dir ectors .
The Chairman
of the Cormnittee is Arthur H. Lea, who is also Chairman, ex-officio
of the Faculty.
The school is under the
t he Curator, Eleanor A. Fraser.
direct
mana g e~ent
of
School enrollment is now g oing
on for the second term of t h e 1929-30 season.
It is very gratifyin g to note t h at many of our students
at vv- ork in
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city school or at Chester Spring s are finding
favor with juries of nation wide i mportance and are being hung
in such exhibitions.
The school at Chester Springs had a successful year .
It has be en f ound profitab le t o keep the ' school open throughqut th e entire year, and with th'e addition of the very handsome
and comfortab le new studio which was reported ' at this time las
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y ear as being in the mak i ng , t he equipment seems to be adequate
for some time to come.
1929 was 185.
The total e nrollment during the year
The hi ghest number of students resident on any
one date during this y ear was July 9th, August 5th and 11th , 69.
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FREE CONCERTS
The Free Sunday Concerts under the auspices of Mrs.
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Clara Barnes Abbott, Chief of the Bureau of Music, City Hall,
were resumed from November 17th through
Jan~ary
5th, 1930.
ACQUISITIONS
A portrait of Lord Byron, (known as the Gex portrait)
artist unknown, was presented by Professor and Mrs. Charles
William Macfarlane.
A plaster bust of each of the following : ffCicero",
"Clyte" and ffApollo" were presented by Mrs.
Jea~
A. Small.
pf Philadelphia.
The easel and 1podel stand used by the late Julian
store~was
presented by Mrs. Julian Storey.
A book entitled lIrrhe Blankenburgs of Philadelphia tl
was presented by Mrs. Rudolph Blanlcenburg.
BY BEQUEST
The portrait of Miss Anna Gi bbon Johnson by John
Neagle was bequeathed to the Academy by the late Helena
Hubb ell of Philadelphia.
The miniature portrait of William Rawle Jr. by
vV illiam John Newton was bequeathed to the Academy by the late
William Brooke Rawle.
Two miniature portraits; one of Jacob Bennett and the
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other of George M. W. Mason were bequeathed by the late Marian
Bennett.
BY PURCHASE
The Lambert Com1nittee purchased for the Pennsylvania
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Academy of the Fine Arts from the l24th Annual Exhi bition, the
fo llowing: "Green Bananas" by Angelo Pinto
"The French Flag" by Aron A. Rattner
ltThree Churches lf by Jerry Farnsworth
"Bed Room ll by John E t Hutchins
ltstudio Window" by ' Bradley W. Tomlin
flMid Winterlt by Robert Atwood
BUILDINGS
The Academy's building in the city has received re pairs
to
t~e
roof where necessary.
All of the ga lleries have been
painted from the line of the s10J li ght to the line of the
covering of the side walls.
The schools have been cleaned,
calcimined, painted and put in order for the work carried on
there . . The walls of the offices and the entrance lobby have been
washed down.
The basement has been white washed
The
tlh~oughout.
steam hea U_ng plant was put in good c ondi tion for the winter
and the fire extinguishers emptied and refilled during the
summer.
All of this work has been done. by the employees of the
Academy.
At our annex, 1834 Arch Street, the roof has bean put
in condition, the sky lights cleaned, both inside and out, and
the front of the building cleaned and repainted.
Inside, the
building has been thoroughly cleaned from the roof to the cellar.
This work was done by professionals.
The living quarters of the
Janitor and the downstairs rear portion of the building were
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given two coats of paint, the plumbing rearranged and the floors
filled and painted.
Academy.
This work was done by the employees of the .
Electricity was installed throughout the entire
building by
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own superintendant and his assistant.
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electrical work was passed by the City Inspectors.
The Treasurer's report in detail is submitted.
The thanks of the Management of the Academy is extended
to the Honorable, the Mayor of Philadelphia, to the Mayor's
Cabinet and to the Council for their continued sympathy and
their support, and to the President and members of the Board
of Education in sending to our school, students who wish to
study art.
We also acknowledge our debt to the Press of Philadelphia
which has given to the Academy and to the causes of Art, intelligent criticis ms of all the exhibitions we have had.
We also make grateful ac1mowledgement to the employees
of the Academy for the fa ithful perf ormances of t he ir duties.
Respectfully submitted.
Secretary.
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