127th Annual Report for the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
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127th Annual Report for the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
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1932
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Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
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February 1 , 1932
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NNUAL REPOHT -TO THE
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The Pres i den t an d Direc tor s of the Penn sylva nia .A.cademy of
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ine Arts have' the honor to present the i r 1 26 th Annual Repor t.
St ockholders ' tickets f or the cal endar. yeab 1932 were mai l ed
to you on December 31 st , 1931.
These tickets will adm i t the stock-
holder to all l ectures and entertainments g iven by the Academy or
under the auspices of the
to the public or not.
grat i fied by the
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cademy whe ther an admission JD e charged
The President and Directors will be mos t
freques~
use of these ticke tso
EXHI BITIONS
The 1 27th Annual Exh i b ition in Oil and Scul p ture opened to
the pub lic on January 24th , 1932 , preceded by a I)rivate View on
Saturday even i ng , January
1 3th , 1932 .
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and continues throu gh Sunday , March
motive domina ting the ga ther ing to ge ther of this
Exh ibiti on has been strictly educational .
'1'0 ob tain this result,
the Management of the Academy selected a cha i rman and a Jury who
were
l~nown
to be sufficiently broad-minded to alJpreciate the excell ence
and sineeri ty of the 'work presen t e d for their judg1nent , r egar dless
of the type under which theworlc m1gh t be class i fied .
The r es ult is
that this Exhibit i on gives an unusual l y comp r ehens ive idea of work
being done at this time by our .Ame rican artists .
The art cri tics
have so favorably written up this Exhibition t ha t the attendance ,
so far , has been decidedly increased over that of r ecent yea rs .
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Exhibition was in the hands of a Jury of Se lection consist i ng of .
e leven pa inters and three sculptors , who judged all of t he work
s u bmi t ted .
The Hanging Commi ttee cons i s ted of the Cha irmalJ. and
two other jurors together with the PreSident , ex-off i cio , wh o
arrange d the hanging of the exh ibits o
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The canvases were selected by the Pai nters' Jury of
Selection , consisting of -
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Jonas Lie , Chairman
I'J.laurice L. Bower
Alexander Brook
Howard Giles
l;'J illiarr,l Gl ackens
Edward Hopper
Ar t hur Meltzer
Ross Moffett
H. Willard Ortlip
Howard E o Smith
Franklin Co Watkins
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The sculpture was selected by the Sculptors? Jury of
Selection , consisting of :iValker Hancock , Chairman
Edmond R ..Ama teis
Chester Beach
Most of the paintings in the Exh ibition are f or sale and there
·are many that are suitable for hanging in private houses or
apartments .
The Sculpture Exhibition conta ins much that can
be used for the decorating of interiors as well as placing in
the open.
The 12 6th Annual Exhibition opened according to schedule
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1931.
The awards of medals in this Exhibi tion
were made by t he 193.\1; Jury of ,S election , and were as follows :
Temple Medal awarded to Alexander Brook for the bes t painting
irrespective of subject , for his canva s entitled " The Intruder " .
Jennie Sesnan Go l d Medal for the best landscape awarded to
John Fo linsbee for h is canvas entitled "Canal and River".
Carol H. Beck Gold Medal for the best portrai t in the Exhibition
awarded to John Sloan for his canvas entitled ilThe Sculptor
Vagis" .
The Sculptors! Jury of Se lection awarded the George D.Wid ener
Uedal to Gladys Edgerly Bates for her exhi b i t enti tIed "Eve n •
The James E. McClees Prize was awarded to Edward McCartan for
his exhibit entitled flD i onysius".
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The follow ing pr izes \,Ivere awarded by the Corrrrni t tee on
Exh i b i t ion cons i s ting of members of the Board of Dir ectors :
Walt er Lipp i ncott Pr i ze awarded to Sydney E"Dickinson
f or his canvas ent itl ed "Mary !! (bes t f i gure p i e ce )
The Mary Smith Prize for the best work by a Ph ilade l ph ia
woman awarded to Mil dred B. Miller for her canvas ent itl ed
ITYuanshi Ku o ff •
The Exhi bit ion cons i sted of 361 pa int i ngs an d 148 exhi bits
of sculpture.
38 6 artists were repre s ented .
The tota l atte ndance
a t this Exhib ition was 20 , 671. I mmed iat ely af ter the close of the
1 26th Annual Exh i b ition , the permanent collection wa s put in
place i n the galler i es wtt h the except i on of Gal l ery rTH" wh ich
was hung with a collection of f i f t een Silver Po ints by Ercole
Car totto, toge t her wit h a selected group of Water Co lors §elected
from the Acad emy's P ermanent Collection.
rrh is combined Exh ib1tion
was open to the pub lic dur ing th e ent ire month of
Ap ril~
On May 1 6th , Galle ri es F , G, H, the North Transept, the
Eas t and Wes t Central Galleri e s and the Ro tunda we r e occupied by
an Exhi b i t ion of work by our students in compet ition for the
William Eml en Cre sson Memorial rrravelling Schola r sh ips ~ andmi.tilor : s chool
prizes.
Th is Exh ibition opened to th e public on May 28th , when
the stud ents and their fri end s were addressed by Mr . Walker Hancock.
Mr. John Fr ederic k Lewis , t he President of the Academy announced
the a wards.
Twen ty-nine groups of
vVO rk
r ecommended by the
Fa culty and rat ified by the Board of Directors we re awarded Travelling
Scho l arships.
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Those to whom these Scholarships were awarded a re ,. as
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Ramo n B. Be r mudez
Lelia M. Binyon
Dorothy G. Blo dge tt
Mary Isabel Bosserman
Dacr e F. Bou lton
Ivloni ca C. Calma
Marian L. Clendenin
John Condax
_ ntonio Cortizas
Dorothy L. Ei senbach
Benjamin. M. }l'isher
Frank Gasparro
Sarah Ge t t l eman
Grace M. Gr ee n
Graham Holmes
Rosa li e Hook
Herbert vVm. Johnson
Vir gini a A. McCall
Helen Markovitz
Harv ey H. Peeler
Flora Petr i e
Georg i a Bard Shearer
Ellen C. Sinclair
Margare t Smoot
Janet D. Spaeth
Nathan Stumacher
Eli zabe th W. Taylor
George E . C. Wi ggi ns
Mar i on A. lToods
The Exhi bition was open to the publ ic for two weeks , after
wh ich the galleries were hung wi t h t he permanen t collection
for the SUIlLmer months.
During the p eriod that the School
Exh i bi tion wason in the galleries, an Exh i bi tion wa s held
in the Pr in t Room , of the first and second pr ize f r eehand
drawings sent in fr om various h i gh scho ols and. priva t e ;schools
in Ph iladelph i a and vicinity.
These prizes
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awarded by
the Academy to the work as nominated bY , the ar t instructor in
ea ch school represented.
These draWings af ter being put on
exh i bition were awarded firs t, sec ond and third prizes by
the Academy f s Facul ty, as fo l lows: 1 st prize -
-Sherman Hoeflick
Gra tz Hi gh School
2nd pr i ze - - - - - - Bernard Brusse l Smit h
West Phil a . Hi gh
3rd prize - Reba Cohen
Kens ing ton Hi gh
During one. week in the mon t h of April, the Comp osi t ion
Class held an exhib i tio n of thei r work in the Lecture Ro om
of the Academy .
The ir sub j ect was
"Sa crifice for a n
Mr. Henry R. Poor , in stru ctor in the Comp osition
Class , gave .- <the t following pri ze s as awarde d by a sp ecial
committee of hi s select ion: -
1st Prize
2nd Prize
3rd Priz e
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Lelia Binyon
Rober t Volz
Graham Holmes
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The Pr esident . awarded prizes to Minnie D. Steele
and Georgia B. Shearer.
On October 13th, all of the galleri es excepting B,
the South Transept , C and D, were dismantled for the 29th
Annual Water Col or Exhibition, the 30th Miniature Exhib ition
and the 15th Exhibition ' of work done at the E.bademy fs School
a t Chester Springs.
These Exhibttions were open to the public
f rom November 1st tbDecem;ber 6th , 1931 .
The Jury of Selection
for the Water Color Exhibition consisted of Wayman Adams
John Taylor Arms
Mary Butler
John J •. Dull
Paul Gill
Earl Horter
rrhe Hanging Committee consi sted of · Paul Gill
Mary Butler
Ex-officio - the President of the Academy and the
Pres i dent of the Philadelphia Water Color Clu.b
Secretary of the Philadelphia Water Color Club
The Exhibit ion cons i sted of 881
representing
366
paintings and drawings
water color artists.
The Jury awarded
the following prizes: Philadelphia Water Co lor Club Prize - Lqran F.Wilford
for his group of water colors as being the
strongest in the Exhibition
'1'he Dana Water Color Medal - George Pearse Ennis for
his group of four water colors
The Eyre Gold Medal was a warded to Gerald Geerlings
for his aqua-t int anti tIed "Jewelled Ci tyfl
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The Joseph Pennell Memorial Medal - Childe Hassam
for his e tc h ing enti tIed nSpring , 1 931; New Yorl(t! ..
'The Jury
of
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for th e 30th Annual
Mini a tur e Exh1 bi tion cons~s ted of \rIary Butl er , George V:ralter
Daws on, Margare t Foote Hawley , Gr a c e Ra:pper ]l!iurray and Viol e t
Thomps on Smith ..
The Exhibition was hung by Joha nna Boer icke
Mary W. Bonsall
Mary Hitchner Dernoll
Violet Thompson Smith
Eli zabeth F . Washington
The Jury awar ded the Bronze Me dal of Honor t o Alma
Hir s ig Bl iss for her miniature en titled UMy Mother tl •
This
Exhibiti on consisted of 125 Miniatures r epr esent ing 57
art i sts.
In the Chester Spr ing s Exhibition , the Committe e on
Exhibition which is a part of the Board of Dir e ctors of the
Ac a demy awarded the f ollowing prizes:
First Prize of ~ 100. was awarded to Sarah J a ne Blakeslee
Second Prize of $ 50 . wa s awarded to Dacre F .. Boulton
Third Prize of ;~ 25. ViTaS awarded to Grace M. Green
,Sle vin Pri zes
$30.
1s t - Vesta Do Moorhous e
2nd
Dorothy L. McEntee
20.
3rd
Margaret Dobson
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4tbh - Sally Baker
5th - EJ:sheth Wal ther( Scul 'p ture) $25 ..,00
On November 18th, an, Exhibition wa s open in the Pr int
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Room on th e f ir st floor of the Academy , showing 21,3 drawings
repres enting 21 a rt scho ols in competition for the Charles IvI .·
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Lea Priz es .
'T he prizes", .w®'reav1]~rde,a:, @tS tfbllews :
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1st - Vj.ctor H. ,. Carlsen of the School of the
Academy of the Fine Arts
Pennsyl~ania
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2nd -Paul C. Burns of the Pennsylvania Museum's
School of Industrial Ar t
3rd - Elliot Howard Qf the Portland School of Fine
Arts , Portland , Ma ine .
These awards were made by the J ury of Selection
fOl~
the 29th
Annual Water Color Exh i bition.
The Total number of visitors to the Galleries for the
yearl93l wa s 59 , 105.
SCHOOLS
The Schools of the Academy had a successful year with
a total r egistration of
269
s;;tudents.
Instruction in the
s chool fs g iven by a faculty of reco gnized art i s ts in the
Art World consisting of Hugh H. Br e ckenrid ge
Daniel Garber
Walke,r Han cock
.Geor ge Hard ing
John F. Harbison
Albert Laessle
Henry McCarte r
Roy C. Nuse
Joseph To Pearson
Henry R. Poor
Francis Speight
'l'he school is under ,the management of the CorrrrilTI:ttee on' . '
Instructi on which consists of members of the Board of Directors.
The Chairman of the Commit tee is Arthur I-I. IJe8. who i s a l so
Chairman, ex-offi cia, of the Faculty.. The Scho01 ' is under the
direct management of the 8urator, Eleanor A. Fraser.
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enrollment for the 3eason193l-32 is now g oing on.
School
Our students
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are bringing great credit to the i r instructors and indirectly
to the Academy throu gh their iflOrk ;being accepte d by Juries
judg ing work submitted for the most important general exhi bi t icms
lIs
of the country.
In our current 127th Annual Exhibition , one
of our students was awarded the Mary Smith Prize and a former
student was awarded the Albert C. Lehm.an Prize and the First
Prize in the Carnegie Exhi.bition at Pittsburgh.
Our country school at Chester Springs has had a successful
year .
L:t'.has, proved' :snfficiently well attended to warrant
its continuance as an all year round school.
It i s under
the direct Management of D. Roy Miller as Resident Manage:r.
Instruction i s g iven by a regular faculty consisting of Albert Laessle
Ge orge Harding
Roy C. Nu se
Joseph T. Pearson
Fra ncis Speight
Milfu~ed B. Miller
As a means of spec i a l stimulus, outstanding artists from
elsewhere have heen invited to g ive a limited number of
criticisms.
enrolled ..
At this date there is a total of 55 stUdents
The total :e.nrollment f or the c alendar year 1931
vms ?42;
Duringtthe year necessary ca rp entry work,repairs ,etc. were attended to
]'REE CONCERTS
, On April 12th and April 19th, 1931, t wo free Sunday
concerts we re g iven in the galleries of the Academy, under
the auspices of Clara Barnes Abbott, Chief of the Bureau of
Mus ic, City Hall , bu t later, owing to the financial situation
of the City, the Bureau of Music has been discontinued and
con~eCluently
the usual free Sunday conc erts in the galleries
of the Academy have not been given ..
At
~resent
one of the membe rs of the Board of Directors is
arr@ffiging with a pr ivate committee in an endeavor to hold free
Sunday afternoon concerts for a shor t Season after the close of
the 127th Annual Exhibition.
ACQ,UISI1' IONS
By Purchase
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tfThe 'Captain! s Widow U by Howard E. Smith for the
Tem~le Collection from the 126th Annual Exhibition
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Fr0m ....the same Exhibition, .re commended for purchase
by the Lambert Connni ttee and approved by the Board
of Dlr'ectors , the following list: IfDrie'd Flowers"by Alice Ri ddle,Kindler
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"Girl with Flower n by Edward B~berman
"For16rn" by Lily Furedi
"The Village" by Ellen Donovan
TlGirl from Bali " by Norman Jacob,sen
"The VlTissahickon" by Anna Warren Ingersoll
ttNegrolf by Franklin C. Watkins
Portrai t of Andrew Caldwell r,, H tchell by Rembrandt P ea l'~
. purchased from Mrs. H. H •. Stout ~ Administratrix of the Estate
of the late Ida C. Wilcox, for ~ 500.
~y Gift
Books entitled wWilliam 'r. Elkins Collection" Part I and Part
II; presented by Mrs. George Henderson , a lso William P. Bement 's
CatalG gue of Works of Art of 1884 and Album of DusseldOh~ f
.Artistsdated 1863 together with letters concerning the paintings
enti tIed ItRegina tt • by Henner and "St ill Life tt by De lanoy, both
in ~he Gibson Coll ection
Book entitledtl'The Sharples , r1'heir Portrai ts of George
Washing ton and His Contemporariesr! by Katherine McCook KnOll[
presented by Lydia F isher Warner.
A Volume entitied tTIllustrated Gems of Sacred Poetrytt
presented byM~s. Hampton L . Carson.
Three Volumes9 f the Gust.ave Dreyfus Collection, namely,
tl Reliefs and Plaquettes", and "Renaissance Bronzes r, by
Seymour de Ricci and " Renaissance Medals '!! by George Francis
Hal l, presented by Sir Joseph Duveen.
$ 125.00 for the further purchase of books for ~he students
Lihrary, received from Mrs. Frederick Jordon.
Canvas entitled tiThe Paschall Homestead at Gibson 's Point Y!
painted by the late VVill i am T. Richards , presented by Miss Ann
Paschall .
Canvas entitled !tAil Old ]"isherman and His Grandsonl"r painted by
the late Mary Au dubon Post, presented by the Fellowship of the
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
it Self PortraitlTby
"Se lf Portrait!! by
I1Portrai t of Henry
all
James Sharples
William E. Winner
Kirk Ero vm" by James Lambd in
presented by Mr. John Fre derick IJewis.
Canvas entitled lS 01i tude!! and canvas entitled 'IThe Young
Muslc i an ff' by Wi lliam Sartain , presented 1JY Mrs. James Ma pes Dodge.
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By Beguest
An Etching by Ferr i s under the Will of the late
Henrietta Franciscus.
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An engr<;:l.ving of St . Memin and photo gra phs of subjects
by Randolph Bogers received ,through Mi ss Mary B. Wha r t on
from the Estate of Miss Anna H. ViTha rt on
A Drawi ng by George Luks bequeathed by the la t e
'M rs . Edwin '1'. Co l e of ,St. Clair , Pa ..
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The swn of $61. 21 in lieu of five paintings bequesthed
by the late Bernard Uhle .
A balance of $47 , 444 . 79 of the bequest of ~ 50 , 000 .
under the will of the late Margaret J£igmie
A Legacy for $25 , 000 under the will of the late
Elizabeth W. M. Bowman , a rranged by agreement to be
received in kind .
The usual City appropriation of
~~20 , 000
wa s reduced to
$1 5 , 000 . for the year 1931 and for 1932 wa s discontinued by
the City Council .
BU ILDING
No repairs were necessary on the roof ..
The y>!all s . 0f:i.'Gallery
,F were dismantled of their 'covering and the wooden backing. to
a heighth of seven feet/was renewed.
The walls were then covered
wi th vassar cloth in conformity of a number of the other galle ries.
The coves , columns and wainscoting were g iven several coats of
paint as well · as . the TIluttons of the skylights ..
Hepa irs
in the concrete floor of the Wes t Central Galle ry were made.
bn the ! t reet floor , glass in the Rear tife P~irtt i ng Class room
was replaced wi th lensr i b glass v!Th ich throws into the classroom
about 30% additional light .
were painted .
All of the locker s in the school
The floors in the Painting Class were painted
and in the Sculpture Class ,
the floors were oiled .
The walls
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and c e ilings wer e a ll giv en a coat of
calcimine
f~e s h
and woodwork g iven a fresh coat of pain t \iv-here necessary.
The wal ls of the stairway 10 bby , fihe entrance lobby , the
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Print Room , the l arge front office and the Secre t ary ' s office
wer e washed down and the woodwork of the las t named office
wa s g iven a coat of paint and the flo ors of both offices we r e
pa inted .
In the basement , all the f ir e doors were pa inted
and a ll the walls wh it ewashed .
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A new r e tur n steam line was put
through the c en t er corr i dor and the heat ing plant t hor.oughly
overhauled and put in order for th e Wi nter .
All fire
extingui sher s in the bu ilding wer e emptied and refilled •
.L\ t the annex at 1834 Arch Street , the exter i or rear of the bu i Hling
was painted in cluding the wo odwork and the fire-es cape .
New
window sash were placed in the fron t basement with r e framingo
The floors throughout the building were repaired and repainted .
All o f the work of repairing , et c. both at the Academy and at the
Annex , · wi th the except i on of the re-covering of Gallery F
wal l~
was done by our. own emp loyees o
The r ecent break in the high pressur e wa t er ma in on
Broad Street seems to have caused no damage to the Academy
build ing or its contents .
The 'I'reasurer ' s report in detail i s
submitted .
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thanks of the Management of the Academy i s extended to the
Honor able The Mayor of
Phi~ad e l ph i a ,
the Mayor's Cabine t
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Council for their support i n the past , to the Pres id ent and
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members of the Board of EdUcation in sending to our Schools
students who wish to study art .
We also a cknowl edge our debt ,
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to the Press of Philadelphia wh ich has g ive'n to the Academy
and to the cause of Art , intelli gent criticisms of a ll
the Exhibitions we have had o
We also make grateful
acknowledgment to the employees of the Academy for their
faithfu l performance of their duties o
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Treasurer 's Annual Report
Januarx 1, 1931 to December 31 , 1931
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Instruction
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Supplies
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COlID11is sion , Exp ense, ,Life & Annual Mem.
'97 91 .,
Cresson Bequest Scholarsh ips
36 1689 00 '
Cresson Expense
1 !846' 98 '
Exhibitio n a nd Catalo gue s
20 ' 549 '34
Sal e s
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2 :585 :71 '
Prizes, Me dals , etc.
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I nvestments Purchased
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AccTued Intere st
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General Fund
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Sundry .T rust Fund
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Toppan Prize Fund
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6 :909 12
Life Member.ship Fund
Na tional Bank of Phoenixville
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Instr uct ion
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Annual Membership
Life rVIembership
William L .. Ellcins Scholarship
Ge orge D. !Nidener Scholarsh ip
Exh i b it ions and Catalogues
Sal es
Investments Paid Off ·
Legacies and Spe cial Contributions
v Sal es · of Hep roduc tions
Cresson Scholarships
Income from Investments
Cit y of Phila. Mayor's Appr o
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NNUAL REPOHT -TO THE
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The Pres i den t an d Direc tor s of the Penn sylva nia .A.cademy of
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ine Arts have' the honor to present the i r 1 26 th Annual Repor t.
St ockholders ' tickets f or the cal endar. yeab 1932 were mai l ed
to you on December 31 st , 1931.
These tickets will adm i t the stock-
holder to all l ectures and entertainments g iven by the Academy or
under the auspices of the
to the public or not.
grat i fied by the
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cademy whe ther an admission JD e charged
The President and Directors will be mos t
freques~
use of these ticke tso
EXHI BITIONS
The 1 27th Annual Exh i b ition in Oil and Scul p ture opened to
the pub lic on January 24th , 1932 , preceded by a I)rivate View on
Saturday even i ng , January
1 3th , 1932 .
~ The
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and continues throu gh Sunday , March
motive domina ting the ga ther ing to ge ther of this
Exh ibiti on has been strictly educational .
'1'0 ob tain this result,
the Management of the Academy selected a cha i rman and a Jury who
were
l~nown
to be sufficiently broad-minded to alJpreciate the excell ence
and sineeri ty of the 'work presen t e d for their judg1nent , r egar dless
of the type under which theworlc m1gh t be class i fied .
The r es ult is
that this Exhibit i on gives an unusual l y comp r ehens ive idea of work
being done at this time by our .Ame rican artists .
The art cri tics
have so favorably written up this Exhibition t ha t the attendance ,
so far , has been decidedly increased over that of r ecent yea rs .
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Exhibition was in the hands of a Jury of Se lection consist i ng of .
e leven pa inters and three sculptors , who judged all of t he work
s u bmi t ted .
The Hanging Commi ttee cons i s ted of the Cha irmalJ. and
two other jurors together with the PreSident , ex-off i cio , wh o
arrange d the hanging of the exh ibits o
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The canvases were selected by the Pai nters' Jury of
Selection , consisting of -
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I'J.laurice L. Bower
Alexander Brook
Howard Giles
l;'J illiarr,l Gl ackens
Edward Hopper
Ar t hur Meltzer
Ross Moffett
H. Willard Ortlip
Howard E o Smith
Franklin Co Watkins
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The sculpture was selected by the Sculptors? Jury of
Selection , consisting of :iValker Hancock , Chairman
Edmond R ..Ama teis
Chester Beach
Most of the paintings in the Exh ibition are f or sale and there
·are many that are suitable for hanging in private houses or
apartments .
The Sculpture Exhibition conta ins much that can
be used for the decorating of interiors as well as placing in
the open.
The 12 6th Annual Exhibition opened according to schedule
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The awards of medals in this Exhibi tion
were made by t he 193.\1; Jury of ,S election , and were as follows :
Temple Medal awarded to Alexander Brook for the bes t painting
irrespective of subject , for his canva s entitled " The Intruder " .
Jennie Sesnan Go l d Medal for the best landscape awarded to
John Fo linsbee for h is canvas entitled "Canal and River".
Carol H. Beck Gold Medal for the best portrai t in the Exhibition
awarded to John Sloan for his canvas entitled ilThe Sculptor
Vagis" .
The Sculptors! Jury of Se lection awarded the George D.Wid ener
Uedal to Gladys Edgerly Bates for her exhi b i t enti tIed "Eve n •
The James E. McClees Prize was awarded to Edward McCartan for
his exhibit entitled flD i onysius".
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The follow ing pr izes \,Ivere awarded by the Corrrrni t tee on
Exh i b i t ion cons i s ting of members of the Board of Dir ectors :
Walt er Lipp i ncott Pr i ze awarded to Sydney E"Dickinson
f or his canvas ent itl ed "Mary !! (bes t f i gure p i e ce )
The Mary Smith Prize for the best work by a Ph ilade l ph ia
woman awarded to Mil dred B. Miller for her canvas ent itl ed
ITYuanshi Ku o ff •
The Exhi bit ion cons i sted of 361 pa int i ngs an d 148 exhi bits
of sculpture.
38 6 artists were repre s ented .
The tota l atte ndance
a t this Exhib ition was 20 , 671. I mmed iat ely af ter the close of the
1 26th Annual Exh i b ition , the permanent collection wa s put in
place i n the galler i es wtt h the except i on of Gal l ery rTH" wh ich
was hung with a collection of f i f t een Silver Po ints by Ercole
Car totto, toge t her wit h a selected group of Water Co lors §elected
from the Acad emy's P ermanent Collection.
rrh is combined Exh ib1tion
was open to the pub lic dur ing th e ent ire month of
Ap ril~
On May 1 6th , Galle ri es F , G, H, the North Transept, the
Eas t and Wes t Central Galleri e s and the Ro tunda we r e occupied by
an Exhi b i t ion of work by our students in compet ition for the
William Eml en Cre sson Memorial rrravelling Schola r sh ips ~ andmi.tilor : s chool
prizes.
Th is Exh ibition opened to th e public on May 28th , when
the stud ents and their fri end s were addressed by Mr . Walker Hancock.
Mr. John Fr ederic k Lewis , t he President of the Academy announced
the a wards.
Twen ty-nine groups of
vVO rk
r ecommended by the
Fa culty and rat ified by the Board of Directors we re awarded Travelling
Scho l arships.
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Ramo n B. Be r mudez
Lelia M. Binyon
Dorothy G. Blo dge tt
Mary Isabel Bosserman
Dacr e F. Bou lton
Ivloni ca C. Calma
Marian L. Clendenin
John Condax
_ ntonio Cortizas
Dorothy L. Ei senbach
Benjamin. M. }l'isher
Frank Gasparro
Sarah Ge t t l eman
Grace M. Gr ee n
Graham Holmes
Rosa li e Hook
Herbert vVm. Johnson
Vir gini a A. McCall
Helen Markovitz
Harv ey H. Peeler
Flora Petr i e
Georg i a Bard Shearer
Ellen C. Sinclair
Margare t Smoot
Janet D. Spaeth
Nathan Stumacher
Eli zabe th W. Taylor
George E . C. Wi ggi ns
Mar i on A. lToods
The Exhi bition was open to the publ ic for two weeks , after
wh ich the galleries were hung wi t h t he permanen t collection
for the SUIlLmer months.
During the p eriod that the School
Exh i bi tion wason in the galleries, an Exh i bi tion wa s held
in the Pr in t Room , of the first and second pr ize f r eehand
drawings sent in fr om various h i gh scho ols and. priva t e ;schools
in Ph iladelph i a and vicinity.
These prizes
wer~
awarded by
the Academy to the work as nominated bY , the ar t instructor in
ea ch school represented.
These draWings af ter being put on
exh i bition were awarded firs t, sec ond and third prizes by
the Academy f s Facul ty, as fo l lows: 1 st prize -
-Sherman Hoeflick
Gra tz Hi gh School
2nd pr i ze - - - - - - Bernard Brusse l Smit h
West Phil a . Hi gh
3rd prize - Reba Cohen
Kens ing ton Hi gh
During one. week in the mon t h of April, the Comp osi t ion
Class held an exhib i tio n of thei r work in the Lecture Ro om
of the Academy .
The ir sub j ect was
"Sa crifice for a n
Mr. Henry R. Poor , in stru ctor in the Comp osition
Class , gave .- <the t following pri ze s as awarde d by a sp ecial
committee of hi s select ion: -
1st Prize
2nd Prize
3rd Priz e
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Lelia Binyon
Rober t Volz
Graham Holmes
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The Pr esident . awarded prizes to Minnie D. Steele
and Georgia B. Shearer.
On October 13th, all of the galleri es excepting B,
the South Transept , C and D, were dismantled for the 29th
Annual Water Col or Exhibition, the 30th Miniature Exhib ition
and the 15th Exhibition ' of work done at the E.bademy fs School
a t Chester Springs.
These Exhibttions were open to the public
f rom November 1st tbDecem;ber 6th , 1931 .
The Jury of Selection
for the Water Color Exhibition consisted of Wayman Adams
John Taylor Arms
Mary Butler
John J •. Dull
Paul Gill
Earl Horter
rrhe Hanging Committee consi sted of · Paul Gill
Mary Butler
Ex-officio - the President of the Academy and the
Pres i dent of the Philadelphia Water Color Clu.b
Secretary of the Philadelphia Water Color Club
The Exhibit ion cons i sted of 881
representing
366
paintings and drawings
water color artists.
The Jury awarded
the following prizes: Philadelphia Water Co lor Club Prize - Lqran F.Wilford
for his group of water colors as being the
strongest in the Exhibition
'1'he Dana Water Color Medal - George Pearse Ennis for
his group of four water colors
The Eyre Gold Medal was a warded to Gerald Geerlings
for his aqua-t int anti tIed "Jewelled Ci tyfl
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The Joseph Pennell Memorial Medal - Childe Hassam
for his e tc h ing enti tIed nSpring , 1 931; New Yorl(t! ..
'The Jury
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for th e 30th Annual
Mini a tur e Exh1 bi tion cons~s ted of \rIary Butl er , George V:ralter
Daws on, Margare t Foote Hawley , Gr a c e Ra:pper ]l!iurray and Viol e t
Thomps on Smith ..
The Exhibition was hung by Joha nna Boer icke
Mary W. Bonsall
Mary Hitchner Dernoll
Violet Thompson Smith
Eli zabeth F . Washington
The Jury awar ded the Bronze Me dal of Honor t o Alma
Hir s ig Bl iss for her miniature en titled UMy Mother tl •
This
Exhibiti on consisted of 125 Miniatures r epr esent ing 57
art i sts.
In the Chester Spr ing s Exhibition , the Committe e on
Exhibition which is a part of the Board of Dir e ctors of the
Ac a demy awarded the f ollowing prizes:
First Prize of ~ 100. was awarded to Sarah J a ne Blakeslee
Second Prize of $ 50 . wa s awarded to Dacre F .. Boulton
Third Prize of ;~ 25. ViTaS awarded to Grace M. Green
,Sle vin Pri zes
$30.
1s t - Vesta Do Moorhous e
2nd
Dorothy L. McEntee
20.
3rd
Margaret Dobson
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10.
4tbh - Sally Baker
5th - EJ:sheth Wal ther( Scul 'p ture) $25 ..,00
On November 18th, an, Exhibition wa s open in the Pr int
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Room on th e f ir st floor of the Academy , showing 21,3 drawings
repres enting 21 a rt scho ols in competition for the Charles IvI .·
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Lea Priz es .
'T he prizes", .w®'reav1]~rde,a:, @tS tfbllews :
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1st - Vj.ctor H. ,. Carlsen of the School of the
Academy of the Fine Arts
Pennsyl~ania
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School of Industrial Ar t
3rd - Elliot Howard Qf the Portland School of Fine
Arts , Portland , Ma ine .
These awards were made by the J ury of Selection
fOl~
the 29th
Annual Water Color Exh i bition.
The Total number of visitors to the Galleries for the
yearl93l wa s 59 , 105.
SCHOOLS
The Schools of the Academy had a successful year with
a total r egistration of
269
s;;tudents.
Instruction in the
s chool fs g iven by a faculty of reco gnized art i s ts in the
Art World consisting of Hugh H. Br e ckenrid ge
Daniel Garber
Walke,r Han cock
.Geor ge Hard ing
John F. Harbison
Albert Laessle
Henry McCarte r
Roy C. Nuse
Joseph To Pearson
Henry R. Poor
Francis Speight
'l'he school is under ,the management of the CorrrrilTI:ttee on' . '
Instructi on which consists of members of the Board of Directors.
The Chairman of the Commit tee is Arthur I-I. IJe8. who i s a l so
Chairman, ex-offi cia, of the Faculty.. The Scho01 ' is under the
direct management of the 8urator, Eleanor A. Fraser.
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School
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are bringing great credit to the i r instructors and indirectly
to the Academy throu gh their iflOrk ;being accepte d by Juries
judg ing work submitted for the most important general exhi bi t icms
lIs
of the country.
In our current 127th Annual Exhibition , one
of our students was awarded the Mary Smith Prize and a former
student was awarded the Albert C. Lehm.an Prize and the First
Prize in the Carnegie Exhi.bition at Pittsburgh.
Our country school at Chester Springs has had a successful
year .
L:t'.has, proved' :snfficiently well attended to warrant
its continuance as an all year round school.
It i s under
the direct Management of D. Roy Miller as Resident Manage:r.
Instruction i s g iven by a regular faculty consisting of Albert Laessle
Ge orge Harding
Roy C. Nu se
Joseph T. Pearson
Fra ncis Speight
Milfu~ed B. Miller
As a means of spec i a l stimulus, outstanding artists from
elsewhere have heen invited to g ive a limited number of
criticisms.
enrolled ..
At this date there is a total of 55 stUdents
The total :e.nrollment f or the c alendar year 1931
vms ?42;
Duringtthe year necessary ca rp entry work,repairs ,etc. were attended to
]'REE CONCERTS
, On April 12th and April 19th, 1931, t wo free Sunday
concerts we re g iven in the galleries of the Academy, under
the auspices of Clara Barnes Abbott, Chief of the Bureau of
Mus ic, City Hall , bu t later, owing to the financial situation
of the City, the Bureau of Music has been discontinued and
con~eCluently
the usual free Sunday conc erts in the galleries
of the Academy have not been given ..
At
~resent
one of the membe rs of the Board of Directors is
arr@ffiging with a pr ivate committee in an endeavor to hold free
Sunday afternoon concerts for a shor t Season after the close of
the 127th Annual Exhibition.
ACQ,UISI1' IONS
By Purchase
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tfThe 'Captain! s Widow U by Howard E. Smith for the
Tem~le Collection from the 126th Annual Exhibition
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Fr0m ....the same Exhibition, .re commended for purchase
by the Lambert Connni ttee and approved by the Board
of Dlr'ectors , the following list: IfDrie'd Flowers"by Alice Ri ddle,Kindler
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"Girl with Flower n by Edward B~berman
"For16rn" by Lily Furedi
"The Village" by Ellen Donovan
TlGirl from Bali " by Norman Jacob,sen
"The VlTissahickon" by Anna Warren Ingersoll
ttNegrolf by Franklin C. Watkins
Portrai t of Andrew Caldwell r,, H tchell by Rembrandt P ea l'~
. purchased from Mrs. H. H •. Stout ~ Administratrix of the Estate
of the late Ida C. Wilcox, for ~ 500.
~y Gift
Books entitled wWilliam 'r. Elkins Collection" Part I and Part
II; presented by Mrs. George Henderson , a lso William P. Bement 's
CatalG gue of Works of Art of 1884 and Album of DusseldOh~ f
.Artistsdated 1863 together with letters concerning the paintings
enti tIed ItRegina tt • by Henner and "St ill Life tt by De lanoy, both
in ~he Gibson Coll ection
Book entitledtl'The Sharples , r1'heir Portrai ts of George
Washing ton and His Contemporariesr! by Katherine McCook KnOll[
presented by Lydia F isher Warner.
A Volume entitied tTIllustrated Gems of Sacred Poetrytt
presented byM~s. Hampton L . Carson.
Three Volumes9 f the Gust.ave Dreyfus Collection, namely,
tl Reliefs and Plaquettes", and "Renaissance Bronzes r, by
Seymour de Ricci and " Renaissance Medals '!! by George Francis
Hal l, presented by Sir Joseph Duveen.
$ 125.00 for the further purchase of books for ~he students
Lihrary, received from Mrs. Frederick Jordon.
Canvas entitled tiThe Paschall Homestead at Gibson 's Point Y!
painted by the late VVill i am T. Richards , presented by Miss Ann
Paschall .
Canvas entitled !tAil Old ]"isherman and His Grandsonl"r painted by
the late Mary Au dubon Post, presented by the Fellowship of the
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
it Self PortraitlTby
"Se lf Portrait!! by
I1Portrai t of Henry
all
James Sharples
William E. Winner
Kirk Ero vm" by James Lambd in
presented by Mr. John Fre derick IJewis.
Canvas entitled lS 01i tude!! and canvas entitled 'IThe Young
Muslc i an ff' by Wi lliam Sartain , presented 1JY Mrs. James Ma pes Dodge.
10.
By Beguest
An Etching by Ferr i s under the Will of the late
Henrietta Franciscus.
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An engr<;:l.ving of St . Memin and photo gra phs of subjects
by Randolph Bogers received ,through Mi ss Mary B. Wha r t on
from the Estate of Miss Anna H. ViTha rt on
A Drawi ng by George Luks bequeathed by the la t e
'M rs . Edwin '1'. Co l e of ,St. Clair , Pa ..
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The swn of $61. 21 in lieu of five paintings bequesthed
by the late Bernard Uhle .
A balance of $47 , 444 . 79 of the bequest of ~ 50 , 000 .
under the will of the late Margaret J£igmie
A Legacy for $25 , 000 under the will of the late
Elizabeth W. M. Bowman , a rranged by agreement to be
received in kind .
The usual City appropriation of
~~20 , 000
wa s reduced to
$1 5 , 000 . for the year 1931 and for 1932 wa s discontinued by
the City Council .
BU ILDING
No repairs were necessary on the roof ..
The y>!all s . 0f:i.'Gallery
,F were dismantled of their 'covering and the wooden backing. to
a heighth of seven feet/was renewed.
The walls were then covered
wi th vassar cloth in conformity of a number of the other galle ries.
The coves , columns and wainscoting were g iven several coats of
paint as well · as . the TIluttons of the skylights ..
Hepa irs
in the concrete floor of the Wes t Central Galle ry were made.
bn the ! t reet floor , glass in the Rear tife P~irtt i ng Class room
was replaced wi th lensr i b glass v!Th ich throws into the classroom
about 30% additional light .
were painted .
All of the locker s in the school
The floors in the Painting Class were painted
and in the Sculpture Class ,
the floors were oiled .
The walls
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and c e ilings wer e a ll giv en a coat of
calcimine
f~e s h
and woodwork g iven a fresh coat of pain t \iv-here necessary.
The wal ls of the stairway 10 bby , fihe entrance lobby , the
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Print Room , the l arge front office and the Secre t ary ' s office
wer e washed down and the woodwork of the las t named office
wa s g iven a coat of paint and the flo ors of both offices we r e
pa inted .
In the basement , all the f ir e doors were pa inted
and a ll the walls wh it ewashed .
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A new r e tur n steam line was put
through the c en t er corr i dor and the heat ing plant t hor.oughly
overhauled and put in order for th e Wi nter .
All fire
extingui sher s in the bu ilding wer e emptied and refilled •
.L\ t the annex at 1834 Arch Street , the exter i or rear of the bu i Hling
was painted in cluding the wo odwork and the fire-es cape .
New
window sash were placed in the fron t basement with r e framingo
The floors throughout the building were repaired and repainted .
All o f the work of repairing , et c. both at the Academy and at the
Annex , · wi th the except i on of the re-covering of Gallery F
wal l~
was done by our. own emp loyees o
The r ecent break in the high pressur e wa t er ma in on
Broad Street seems to have caused no damage to the Academy
build ing or its contents .
The 'I'reasurer ' s report in detail i s
submitted .
'rhe
thanks of the Management of the Academy i s extended to the
Honor able The Mayor of
Phi~ad e l ph i a ,
the Mayor's Cabine t
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Council for their support i n the past , to the Pres id ent and
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members of the Board of EdUcation in sending to our Schools
students who wish to study art .
We also a cknowl edge our debt ,
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to the Press of Philadelphia wh ich has g ive'n to the Academy
and to the cause of Art , intelli gent criticisms of a ll
the Exhibitions we have had o
We also make grateful
acknowledgment to the employees of the Academy for their
faithfu l performance of their duties o
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Treasurer 's Annual Report
Januarx 1, 1931 to December 31 , 1931
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2 183 88
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Instruction
92 877 77 '
Supplies
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COlID11is sion , Exp ense, ,Life & Annual Mem.
'97 91 .,
Cresson Bequest Scholarsh ips
36 1689 00 '
Cresson Expense
1 !846' 98 '
Exhibitio n a nd Catalo gue s
20 ' 549 '34
Sal e s
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2 :585 :71 '
Prizes, Me dals , etc.
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1 !433' 92
AccTued Intere st
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General Fund
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Sundry .T rust Fund
24 :,331' 65 ,
Toppan Prize Fund
4 1441. 58 ;
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6 :909 12
Life Member.ship Fund
Na tional Bank of Phoenixville
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Instr uct ion
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Life rVIembership
William L .. Ellcins Scholarship
Ge orge D. !Nidener Scholarsh ip
Exh i b it ions and Catalogues
Sal es
Investments Paid Off ·
Legacies and Spe cial Contributions
v Sal es · of Hep roduc tions
Cresson Scholarships
Income from Investments
Cit y of Phila. Mayor's Appr o
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