145th Annual Report for the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
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THE PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE
FINE ARTS
BROAD AND CHERRY 5T5.
145th
ANNUAL
1950
•
REPORT
PHILADELPHIA
Cover: Picnic at Bedford Hills by Florine Stettheimer.
Acquired as the gift of Miss Ettie Stettheimer in
November, 1950.
The One-Hundred"and Forty-Fifth
Annual Report
of
THE PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY of the FINE ARTS
FOR THE YEAR
1950
J
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Presented to the Meeting of the Stockholders
of the Academy on February 5, 1951
OFFICERS
John f. lewis, Jr;
President
Henry S. Drinker .
Vice-President
C. Newbold Taylor
Treasurer
Joseph T. Fraser, Jr.
Secretary
BOARD
Mrs. leonard T. Beale
Henry S. Drinker
Henry C. Gibson
R. Sturgis Ingersoll
Sydney E. Martin
OF
DIRECTORS
William Clarke Mason
Marshall S. Morgan
George P. Orr
George B. Roberts
STANDING
C. Alison Scully
John Stewart
Robert Strausz-Hupe
C. Newbold Taylor
Sydney l. Wright
COMMITTEES
COMMITTEE
ON
EXHIBITION
George B. Roberts, Chairman
Henry S. Drinker
George P. Orr
Sydney E. Martin
Sydney l. Wright
COMMITTEE
ON
FINANCE
C. Newbold Taylor, Chairman
C. Alison Scully
John Stewart
COMMITTEE
ON
INSTRUCTION
William Clarke Mason, Chairman
C. Newbold Taylor
Marshall S. Morgan
COMMITTEE
ON
CHESTER
C. Alison Scully
SPRINGS
William Clarke Mason, Chairman
Sydney E. Martin
George B. Roberts
COMMITTEE
ON
COLLECTIONS
George P. Orr; Chairman
R. Sturgis Ingersoll
George B. Roberts
Sydney E. Martin
Robert Strausz-Hupe
COMMI.TTEE
ON
NOM INATIONS
C. Alison Scully, Chairman
John Stewart
Marshall S. Morgan
SOLICITO,R
Maurice B; . Saul
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WOMEN1S
COMMITTEE
Mrs. Leonard T. Beale, Chairman
Mrs. Francis T. Chambers
Mrs. Emlen P. Etting
Mrs. David M. Gwinn
Mrs. Horace Binney Hare
Mrs. Arthur C. Kaufmann
Mrs. John F. Lewisl Jr.
Mrs. Graeme Lorimer
Mrs. Morton McMichael
Mrs . .George B. Roberts
Mrs. Julius Rosenwald, II
Mrs. Lawrence M. C. Smith
Mrs. Alfred G .. B. Steel
Mrs. John F. Steinman
Mrs . Boudinot Stimson
Mrs. Robert Strausz-Hupe
Mrs. Franklin C. Watkins
Mrs. John P. Wheeler
Mrs. ·Sydney L. Wright
STAFF
GENERAL
Joseph T. Fraser, Jr.
Robert L. Wood
Charles J. Marsh .
Marian N. Little
Barbara S. Roberts
Frances M. Vanderpool
Elizabeth Z. Swenson
. Director and Secretary
Assistant Secretary and Comptroller
Assistant to the Secretary
Secretary to the Director
Registrar and Research
Exhibition and Membership Clerk
Director of Public Relations and
Membership
SCHOOLS
(Philadelphia and Chester Springs)
. Curator
Secretary to the Curator
Librarian and Sales
Vernon M. Dodge
Catherine R. Newbold
Martha K. Schick .
FACULTY
(Philadelphia)
Daniel Garber
George Harding
Roy C. Nuse
Froocis Speight
*Walker Hancock
Roswell Weidner
Harry Rosin
Edward Shenton
* *Charles Rudy
Franklin Chenault Watkins John F. Harbeson
Allan Jones
William M. Campbell
John W. McCoy
Philip Aliano '
Julius Bloch
Edmond L Far~is
Walter Stuempflg
Jack Bookbinder
Joseph Schindler
• Leave-af-absence first term •
•• First term only.
(Chester Springs)
~oy
Walter Stuempflg
Charles Rudy
Roswell Weidner
C. Nuse
Francis Speight
Paul Froelich
BUILDING
Mayland T. McAvoy, Superintendent
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FOREWORD
The 145th Annual .Report of the President and Board of Directors of The
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts sets forth in some detail the year's
achievements and it is followed in turn by even more detailed reports of
the Treasurer, contributions, exhibitions, loans, acquisitions, buildings and
schools.
We have in Philadelphia in the Academy the finest, as well as the oldest,
school of the fine arts in the United States. Our two great annual exhibitions of contemporary American art -
water colors, prints and drawings
in the autumn, sculpture and oils in the winter -
are outstanding in their
fields.
However, just a word concerning unrealized obj.e ctives. In addition to the
great schools and our annual exhibitions, the Academy has in its perma nent collections one of the most notable treasuries of American art throughout the whole history of the arts in our country. Until very recently this
collection was unrivaled, but this is so no longer. There are some notable
gaps in the completeness of the collection in its representation of the earlier
periods ·and this incompleteness is more marked in respect to the leading
contemporary American painters and sculptors. The simple truth is that
we lack sufficient funds to purchase each year enough work by contemporary artists or those of the recent past, to enable us · to continue for very
long our former supremacy in this field. The acquisitions, for example, listed
in this report are inadequate to the realization of our purpose and duty
to maintain a truly representative collection of American art. Therefore
we are currently dependent on our friends, our members and stockholders
to help us in this matter. Accordingly, we will mail out shortly, as we did
last year, a list of our major needs, outstanding American artists, living
and dead, not a t present adequately represented in our collection.
I hope most earnestly that some of the friends of the Academy will avail
themselves of the opportunity to serve us and the cultural life of Philadelphia by presenting us with work of these artists or of others similar in
·quality, or with funds wherewith to achieve -this objective.
JOHN F. LEWIS, JR.
President
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REPORT OF THE
BO ·ARD OF
PRESIDENT AND
DIRECTORS
In the meeting of January 9, 1950, and by unanimous vote, Mr. Robert
Strausz-Hupe was elected a member of the Board of Directors for a term
expiring in February 1952, that vacancy having been made by the death
of. Mr. Alfred G. B. Steel.
At the' same meeting, Article I of the By-Laws was amended to read as
follows:
"The Officers of the Corporation shall consist of a President" and
fifteen (15) direCtors.. At each election hereafter held fjve (5)
directors shall be elected by the stockholders to hold office for
three (3) years. If a vacancy in said office, or among the members
of the Board of Djrectors, occurs by death, resignation, or otherwise, the Directors may fill the same by electing a President and/or
Director to hold office until the next annual meeting. The President
shall be ex officio a member of the Board of Directors."
and it was further Resolved that Article VI of the By-Laws be amended to
read as follows:
"Eight (8) members shall constitute a quorum of the Board ' of Directors, but at any meeting at which five (5) or more members are
actually present, they shall constitute a quorum" proviqed additional members sign the minutes to bring the total participating
to eight (8)."
Final action on the above amendments was taken at the meeting of
February 13th.
Mr. R. Sturgis Ingersoll was elected a member of the Board of Directors
for a term expiring in February, 1951.
In the meeting of October 9, 1950, .Mrs. Leonard T. Beale was electea
a member of the Board of Directors for a term expiring in February, 1952.
Her election marks the advent of the first lady on the Board of Directors.
Mrs. Beale is also serving the Academy as Chairman of the newly formed
Women's Committee, the aim of which is generally to assist the Academy
by encouraging greater interest and attendance.
We must pay particular tribute to our new Women's Committee, an enthusi-
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astic and working unit which we have long needed and which has already
wonderfully justified itself by cultivating general interest and by planning
and gracing many social events which have greatly increased our attendance and enhanced our exhibition program.
The Women's Committee inaugurated its activities by giving a Garden
Cocktail Party on the grounds of the Academy summer school at Chester
Springs. The affair was eminently successful with a large attendance. Upon
the opening of the exhibition of Contemporary British Painting on the
evening of December 8th, the Women's Committee organized a large
dinner attended by approximately 200 guests and at which the guest of
honor was Mr. Andrew C. Ritchie of the Museum of Modern Art. This was
one of the most successful social events in the history of the Academy.
With deep regret we record the resignation of Mr. Marshall S. Morgan
from the Board of Directors by his letter of November 27, 1950. He had
~erved faithfully from the time of his election in 1927 and the loss of his
·interest and counsel will be deeply felt.
The Academy is glad to acknowledge the second and final payment of
$500.00 from the American Philosophical Society to assist in the carrying
forward of the research by Miss Anna Rutledge in compiling an index of
the exhibitions presented by the Academy from 1805-1875. That project is
very close to the completion of the research phase and it is hoped that in
the ensuing year steps may be taken for further support of its publication.
Last year the Academy published an annual report for the first time in
.many years. We were very gratified with the enthusiastic response which
it met. Accordingly, we will continue to publish it.
It is unfortunate that this report embodies the activities of a calendar year
when actually our program is always planned on a fiscal year which ru·ns
from September 1st through August 31 st. We are currently engaged in
activities which far transcend any season on record. The two large contemporary exhibitions have been joined by others which has meant that
the members of the staff have been taxed to their utmost and we are
happy to pay tribute to their devotion and help, without which we would
most certainly have failed.
The augmenting features have been major exhibitions, each departures
from precedent. The Art Directors' Club of Philadelphia made a most
earnest plea to us to stage its annual exhibition and although the Academy
has been dedicated in its schools and galleries to the fine arts only, their
request was looked on with favor, and we consider that the Academy
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w,as honored by the handsome and thoroughly representative exhibition
of advertising and editorial 'art which resulted.
The second extra show of really great magnitude was the presentation of
a large number of pai!1tings by contemporary British painters. No other
comparable ' undertaking has been staged in the United States. Even
though this was a departure from our regular program concerned w ith
American art and the American artist, we felt that we enjoyed a rare privilege in housing this particular phase of the painting of today. The outstanding quality evidenced in the selections and the very efficient organization are a tribute to Mr. George E. Dix, Jr.,' of New York City, whose
cooperation we enjoyed.
Another feature which afforded us particular pleasure, and which brought
great numbers of people who perhaps would not otherwise have visited
our galleries, was the showing of the famous carpet composed of panels
of tapestry worked by Queen Mary of England which was so genuinely
admired through its extensive travels to the major cities of the United States
and carried such a message of good will.
The Academy was privileged again in presenting two memorial exhibitions
of outstanding Philadelphia artists whose deaths within a year closed their
long and disting'u ished careers. Galleries C and D have seldom been more
handsomely furnished than when the works of Alexander Portnoff (18871949) and Maurice Molarsky (1885-1950) were exhibited.
The Philadelphia Artists' Gallery continues its program of one-man shows
by Philadelphia artists, adding four more to bring the total to date t o 44.
The permanent collection was on view when other special or annual exhibitions were not current.
A very important start has been made in the care of our large and important historical pictures. Benjamin West's Paul and Barnabas at Lystra
and Washington Allston's Dead Man Restored to Life, which have hung
high in the stair hall for obout fifty years, received expert attention from
Hans Gassman of Richmond, Virginia, through the summer months. They
have been placed in the entrance vestibule where they can now be seen
ancd enjoyed and where they are easy of access for constant attenti,o n and
cleaning.
We are extremely glad to report that there have been several excellent
gifts to the permanent collection as a result of publishing a list of artists
not represented in the permanent collection. Many gaps remain, however,
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and "we hope that our members and friends will be alert to give personally
or let us know of the availability of such items.
We have long possessed in our library a great number of books which
were of interest to art historians and people interested in general reference works in art, but which filled space in our limited book cases badly
needed for modern books of genuine interest to art students. The sale of
approximately 1500 of these books and pamphlets to the Free library of
Philadelphia means, not only that these books are still available to the
public of the Philadelphia area for consultation, but also that we have
the space and funds with which to supply our art students with a far bet.t er
art library than they hitherto enjoyed.
Since the
tions for
$26] .25.
Alfred G.
last Stockholders' meeting, the Academy has received contribuspecific purposes of $8,335.00, and for general purposes
We al'so received the generous bequest of our last President,
B. Steel, in the sum of $10,000.00.
On October 13th, we felt honored to make several of our galleries available for the annual luncheon and presentation of awards to Pennsylvania's
twelve Distinguished Daughters, as a preliminary event in connection with
Pennsylvania Week. The gold medals were presented by Mrs. James H.
Duff, wife of Pennsylvania's Governor. The event brought representative
women from all parts of the state.
During the year the Academy also was host to the Miniature Camera Club
of Philadelphia (for its regular meetings); the Philadelphia Chapter, American Institute of Architects; the Architectural ' Alumni Association of the
University of Pennsylvania; the Beaux Arts Institute of Design; the Art
Teachers' Association of Philadelp'hia; School Art league; the Water Color
Club of Philadelphia; the Junior league; and the Franklin Inn Club.
This brief message which has mentioned only the high spots of our aetivities
will lead our members to the more detailed accounts which follow in this
report, for we are dedicated to a proQram of service to them.
JOSEPH T. FRASER, JR., Director
JOHN F.' lEWIS, JR., President
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EXHIBITIONS
THE 145th ANNUAL EXHIBITION OF OIL PAINTING AND SCULPTURE
The 145th Annual Exhibition ' of Oil Painting and Sculpture w~s held in
the Galleries from January 22nd through February 26th, with a Private
View on Saturday, January 21 st, from 9 to 11 P. M.
PAINTING JURY
SCULPTURE JURY
Charles Burchfield" Chair'man
Vaughn Flannery
George Harding
John Heliker
Ben Shahn
Oronzio Maldarelli, Chairman
Waldemar Raemisch
William Zorach
PRIZES AND AWARDS
The Painting Jury awarded the following:
Temple Gold Meda/- Harvey Dinnerstein for his oil Noah-Wolf as
being the best painting regardless of subject.
' Jennie Sesnan Gold Medal - Albert Gold for his oil Nicetown as
being the best landscape in the Exhibition.
Carol H. Beck Gold Meda/- Henry Mattson for his oil Self-Portrait
as being the best portrait in oil.
J. Henry Schiedt Memorial Prize - Joseph Meert for his oil Still Life
on a Sewing Machine as being of special importance in the Exhibition.
The Sculpture Jury awarded the following:
George D. Widener Memorial Gold Meda/- Hugo Robus for his
sculpture Dawn as being the most meritori0us work in sculpture.
Honorable Mention in Sculpture - Sol A. Bauer for his f>rocessiona/.
Honorable Mention in Sculpture - Milton Hebald for his Circus
Maximus.
The Committee on Exhibition awarded the following:
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Walter Lippincott Prize - Darrell Austin for bis oil Sorceress as the
best figure in oil.
Mary Smith Prize - Marie-Celeste Fadden for her oil French Child
on Train as being the best work by a Philadelphia woman.
A Special Jury appointed by the President of the Academy's Fellowship
awarded:
The Fellowship Prize tion.
Franklin C. Watkins for his oil The Resurrec-
Gallery Talks, sponsored by the Fellowship, were held at 2:30 P. M., as
follows: January 26th, Raphael Sabatini; February 2nd, Hobson Pittman;
9th, Gladys Rockmore Davis; 16th, Dorothy Grafly; 23rd, Walter E. Baum.
The Exhibition consisted of 238 paintings and 124 pieces of sculpture; 362
artists were represented. The Academy purchased 2 oils and 2 sculptures
through the Temple Fund, 8 oils through the Lambert Fund, and 1 oil
through the Gilpin Fund. Three oils and 1 sculpture were sold to the public.
A total of 17 items were purchased from the Exhibition, representing a
sales value of $10,119.70. The total attendance was 11 ,724.
THE FELLOWSHIP ANNUAL EXHIBITION
The Fellowship Annual Exhibition of Oil Painting, Sculpture, Water Colors,
and Graphics, and the Fellowship-Sponsored Exhibition of Student Work
was held in Galleries A, B, C, D, and N from March 11 th through April
2nd, with a Private View on Friday, March 10th, from 3 to 5 P. M.
JURIES
OIL
FOR
FELLOWSHIP EXHIBITION
WATER COLOR
GRAPHIC
PAINTING
AND
SCUL-PTURE
Morris Blackburn
Walter Reinsel
Andrew Wyeth
Martin Jackson
Cora Purviance
Benton Spruance
JURIES
James House, Jr.
Wallace Kelly
Harry Rosin
FOR STUDENT EXHIBITION
PAINTING
SCULPTURE
Amelie Zell Felton
Angelo Frudakis
Raphael Sabatini
Morris Berd
Paul Froelich
John Lear
PRIZES
AND
AWARDS
The Juries awarded the following:
Harrison
gouache
gouache
Neuman
S. Morris Prize, equally divided - Ben Eisenstat for his
Fisherman's Shack and Nets, and Abraham 'Hankins for his
Gloucester, Mass., with Honorable Mention - Jeanette
Kohn for her water color Bayside.
May Audubon Post Prize - Julian Levy for his oil Nets, with Honorable Mention - Francis Speight for his oil Jamestown Street .
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Fellowship Gold Medal Award -
Leon Karp for his oil Evening Bath.
Fellowship Prize for Sculpture ture Waiting.
Gladys Edgerly Bates for her sculp-
Wit/iam Penn Charter School Prize - Margaret Gestfor h'er oil Roses.
Caroline Gibbons Granger Memorial Student Prize - Jimmy C.
leuders for his oil Interior With Girl.
Student Sculpture Prize of Christ.
Emideo di Placido for his sculpture Head
Three free chamber music concerts by members of the Alumni Association
of The Curtis Institute of Music (arranged by Joseph levine) were held on
Friday evenings, March 17,24 al'!d 31 at 8:30. They were presented in
cooperation with local 77, American Federation of Musicians, with a grant
from the Music Performance Trust Fund of the American Phonograph
Industry.
The Fellowship Exhibition consisted of 140 works; the Student Exhibition
67 works. Three items were sold, representing a sales value of $87.00. The
total attendance was 4556.
EXHIBITION OF PORTRAIT DRAWINGS BY VIOLET OAKLEY
An Exhibitoin of Portrait Drawings by Violet Oakley was held in Gallery
M from March 10th through April 2nd. Miss Oqkley spoke of her experiences in making these studies of the delegates to the 1949 World Assembly for Moral Re-Armament at Caux, Switzerland, in Gallery M, on March
14th at 4 P. M. The total attendance was 3426.
MEMORIAL " EXHIBITIO.N OF WORK BY ALEXANDER PORTNOFF
A Memorial Exhibition of Sculpture, Drawings, and ,Prints by Alexander
Portnoff (1887-1949) was held ' in Galleries C and D from April 11th
through May 7th. The total attendance was 2768.
THE
STUDENT EXHIBITION
The Student Exhibition held in conjunction with the Competition
William Emlen Cresson Memorial European Traveling Scholarships
view in Galleries C, D, E, F, J and the Rotunda from May 18th
June 4th, opening with exercises for the students and their friends
17that4P.M.
for the
was on
through
on May
An address was made in Gallery F by Mr. R. Sturgis Ingersoll, President of
The Philadelphia Museum of Art, before the awarding of Cresson Scholarships and other prizes.
The Board of Directors, on recommendation of the faculty, awarded the
following:
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William Emlen Cresso"1't Memorial European Traveling Scholarships
($i250J:
P. Allen Harris
Donald W. luft
William A. Hirsch
Henry W. Peacock
Joan S. Knight
Arnold H. Pierson,
Sam ladenson
Simone C. Titone
Jimmy C. lueders
Honorable Mentions:
Marion Crawford
Charles E. Hewins
Kathryn Fligg
Homer W. Johnson
Philip E. Fowler
Palle Ib Mylner
Charles C. Parks
Jr.
Lewis S. Ware Memorial European Traveling Scholarship ($12.50J:
John A. Hanlen
J. Henry Schiedt Memorial Scholarship ($1200):
Oliver Grimley
Thomas Eakins and Susan M. Eakins Memorial Prize ($100):
John Antonik
Honorable Mention - Arnold H. Pierson, Jr.
Packard Prizes:
First Prize ($30) - Clarence F. Sherdon
Second Prize ($20) - Shirley Larkin Tassencourt •
Thouron Prizes:
Awarded by
Awarded by
Awarded by
Awarded by
the
the
the
the
Faculty ($50) - Ben Kamihari
Students ($25) - Royal lewando
Instructor ($50) - James A. Hanes
Instructor ($25) - Harry Thomas
Perspective Class Prize:
Awarded by Instructors, John F. Harbeson and William M.
Campbell ($20) - Charles E. Harpt
Honorable Mention - leo Franey
Honorable Mention - Nial C. Bartram
Cecilia Beaux Memorial Prize ($700):
Sam Ladenson
Honorable Mention - Peggy Bradford Long
Honorable Mention - Ben Kamihari
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Anatomy - Class Prize;
Nial C Bartram
Htmorable Mention -
Milton Becker
Lila Agnes Kennedy Hill Memorial Sculpture Prize ($50); ,
Charles C. Parks
Walker Hancock Sculpture Prize ($50);
Philip Fowler
Special Prize in Sculpture ($250);
Emidio di Placido
The Stewardson Prize ($1 DO), awarded on March 17th, by a Jury consisting of Joe Brown, Cecil Howard and Heinz Warneke - Charles C. Parks
The Stimson Prize ($100), awarded on November 10th, by a Jury consistof Nina Winkel, Adlai S. Hardin, and Maurice Glickman - Mary P. Love
Honorable Mention - Irving Drummond
The University of Pennsylvania, in conjunction with the Academy, through
the Co-ordinated Courses, awarded to the following Bachelor of Fine Arts
degrees;
Marie Capazzoli
Naomi C. Nissley
Shirley Larkin Tassencourt
Harriet Dolfman
Charles E. Hewins
Dolores less'e raux
Sally Kravitch
John S. Schneider
and to the following Master of Fine Arts degrees;
Donald Meeker
James R. Garnor
Oliver Grimley
Total attendance at the Exhibition was 12,387.
EXHIBITIONS OF WORK BY JOHN A. HANLEN AND
A. BROCKIE STEVENSON
Exhibitions of sketches and paintings by John A. Hanlen and A. Brockie
Stevenson, two Academy students who enjoyed a year's' travel in Peru on
William Emlen Cresson Memorial Traveling Scholarships, were held in
Galleries M and A from May 17th through June 4th. Total attendance
was 12,387.
EXHIBITION OF QUEEN MARY'S NEEDLEPOINT CARPET
An exhibition of the needlepoint carpet worked by Her Majesty, Queen
Mary, was held in Gallery L from May 30th through June 2nd. Mrs. E.
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Florens Rivinus, as First Vice-Chairman of the American Women's Voluntary Services, Philadelphia Unit, entertained at a reception at the Academy
on June 1st from 5:30 to 7 P. M., for a special viewing of the carpet. A
reception was held by the British Consulate General for the members of
the press on May 29th from 3 to 5 P. M. The total attendance was 10,308.
EXHIBITION OF ADVERTISING AND EDITORIAL ART
The 16th Annual Exhibition of Advertising and Editorial Art, staged by
The Art Directors' Club of Philadelphia, was held in Galleries E, J, K,
and the Rotunda from September 23rd through October 15th, with a
Private View on Friday, September 22nd, from 5:30 to 7 P. M. The total
attendance was 5183.
THE 48th ANNUAL WATER COLOR AND PRINT EXHIBITION
The
with
with
with
48th Annual Water Color and Print Exhibition, held in collaboration
the Philadelphia Water Color Club, was hung in all of the Galleries
the exception of H and I, from October 28th through November 26th,
a Private View on Saturday, October 27th, from 9 to 11 P. M.
JURY
OF
SELECTION
Chosen By Water Color Club
Chosen By Academy
Francis Chapin
Paul Froelich
Benton Spruance
PRIZES
Will Barnett
Margaret Gest
AND
AWARDS
The Jury of Selection awarded the following:
Special Prize, 1950 - Charles Burchfield for his Autumn Wind, in
recognition of his distinguished achievements as a watercolorist.
Philadelphia Water Color Prize - Karl Zerbe for his Palatial Front
as being the strongest work in the Exhibition executed iii water color.
Dana Water Color Medal- William Thon for his Venus as being
outstanding for its boldness, simplicity and frankness.
Alice McFadden Eyre Medal- Vera Berdich for her Time Different
from the Present as being the best print entered.
Honorable Mention - Miyoko Ito for group: A Tree in a Window, My Room at Ox Bow, and Objects in the Nursery.
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The Directors of the Water Color Club awarded t!J-e---fgJJowing:
Pennell Memorial Medal - Dong Kingman for his Triple Decker, for
achievement in the graphic arts.
Dawson Memorial Medal - Andree Ruellan for her October Still
Life, for distinction in painting or drawing of flowers, or of gardens.
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Philadelphia Water Color Club Medal of Award- Thornton Oakley.
Conferred at the discretion of the Club, upon that individual, or group
of individuals or museum, publisher, dealer, or corporation, or any
other agency whose sincerity of purpose is recognized ' in their ad vancement of art.
Gallery Talks, sponsored by the Fellowship, were held at 2:30 P. M., as
follows: November 3rd, John W. McCoy; 10th, Albert Gold; 17th, Benton
Spruance; 22nd, James Kirk Merrick; December 1st, Dorothy Grafly.
A' total of 25 water colors and prints were sold, representing a .sales val ue
of $1,627.50. The Exhibitiori consisted of 511 items; 244 artists were
represented. The total attendance was 6228.
The 49th ANNUAL EXHIBaTlON OF MINIATURES
The 49th Annual Exhibition of Miniatu res, held in collaboration with the
Pennsylvania Society of Miniature Painters, was hung in Gallery A from
October 28th through November 26th, opening with a Private View on
Saturday, October 27th, from 9 to 11 P. M., concurrent with the Water
Color and Print Exhibition.
JU RY
OF S ELECT IO N
Walter Emerson Baum
Elizabeth White McCarthy
Katharine K. Borda
Josephine Neall Phillips
Ruel P. Tolman
P RIZES
A N D A WAR DS
A Jury composed of Walter Emerson Baum, Katharine K. Borda, and
Elizabeth White McCarthy awarded the following:
D. J. McCarthy Prize - Virgiriia H. Irvin for My Son as being the best
portrait in the Exhibition.
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Miniature Society Prize outstanding worth.
Eulabee Dix for Mary E. Dix as being of
Miniature Society Prize - Grace Collier for Magnolia as being the
best miniature still life in the Exhibition .
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The Jury of Selection awarded the following:
Society's Medal of Honor - Alexandrina R. Harris for My Old Professor, J. B. W. for high achievement, to a miniature painter whose
work is · in the Exhibition.
The exhibition consisted of 86 miniatures; 49 artists were represented.
Three miniatures were sold, representing a sales v<llue of $50.00. The total
attendance was 6228.
MEMORIAL EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS BY MAURICE MOLARSKY
A Memorial Exhibition of Paintings by Maurice Mqlarsky (1885-1950) was
held in Galleries C and D from September 23rd through October 15th.
Mrs. Molarsky received guests on Friday, October 6th, from 3to 5 P. M.
The total attendance was 4583.
EXHIBITION OF CONTEMPORARY BRITISH PAINTING (1925-1950)
An Exhibition of Contemporary British Painting (1925-1950), selected ,by
Mr; George E. Dix, Jr., was held in Galleries C, D and F from December
9th, through January 7th (1951), opening on Friday, December 8th, with
a private dinner given by the Women's Committee, followed from 9 to 1,1
P. M. by a Private View. The total attendance was 2985.
PHILADELPHIA ARTISTS' GALLERY
GALi.ERY M
Paintings by Charles Coiner -
April 11 th through 23rd
Paintings by Jessie Drew-Bear -
April 25th through May 14th
Paintings by Abraham Hankins""':" December 5th through 17th
Drawings by Daniel Rasmusson -
December 19th through January 7 (1951)
STUDENT GALLERY
MAIN
Paintings by Hugh Weiss -
FLOOR
January 9th through February 5th
Prints from Life Magazine series, 1848 Drawings by N. C. Wyeth -
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February 6th through 12th
March 2'Oth through 26th
Oils, water colors and drawings of the Mardi Gras by William Billings,
Donald E. Schlegel, and Raymond M. Spiller - March 28th through
April 2nd
Drawings by Jos~ph Coli - April 7th through 22nd
Photographic series Making a Lithograph - October 27th through Novem~r9~
.
Paintings and drawings by Daniel J. Murphy December 3rd
November 13th through
European Posters (courtesy of Mr. Raymond A. Ballinger) 12th through 31 st
December
In addition to the sales for special exhibitions indicated in the foregoing
report, 32 additional works representing a sales value of $2,752.00 have
been sold from other exhibitions during the year.
TOTAL ATTENDANCE IN THE GALLERIES during 1950: 55,906 .
. ACQUISITIONS
Purchases
Through the Temple Fund, from the 145th Annual Exhibition:
Processional by Sol A. Bauer (wood carving)
Whom Shall I Fear? by Alice Decker (wood carving)
Sorceress by Darrell Austin (painting)
Self-Portrait by Henry Mattson (painting)
Through The Gilpin Fund, from the 145th Annual Exhibition:
Girl in White by Alexander Brook (painting)
Through the Lambert Fund, from the 145th Annual Exhibition:
The Tides by Kenneth Callahan (painting)
View of Philadelphia by James A. Hanes (painting)
Nicetown by Albert Gold (painting)
Noah-Wolf by Harvey Dinnerstein (painting)
Applebutter Time by Kathryn K. Rank (painting)
The Hex Sign by Henry W. Peacock (painting)
Turkey Knob Farm by Jessie Drew-Bear (painting)
Craige's Meadow by John W. McCoy (painting)
Through the Committee on Collections:
Sidewalk Market. by Louis Bosa (painting)
Jungle in Venezuela by Adolph Dehn (painting)
Olsen's Men by Zoltan Sepeshy (painting)
Fallen Tree by Max Weber (painting)
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Gift s
Mother and Daughter by Cecilia Beaux, from Miss Frances C. Griscom.
(painting)
The Clown by Nahum Tschacbasov, from an anonymous donor. (painting)
Picnic at Bedford Hills by Florine Stettheimer, from Miss Ettie Stettheimer.
(painting)
Portrait head of Richard T. Dooner by Alexander Portnoff, from Mrs. Alexander Portnoff. (bronze)
The Boxers by Joseph Brown, from Mr. J. Brooks B. Parker. (bronze)
Hecid, Amazon, by Helene Sardeau, from Mr. George Biddle. (terra cotta)
Black Beetle by Cornelia Van A. Chapin, from Mr. George Biddle. (stone)
Woman Bathing by Sigmund Menkes, and Henrietta As My Model) by Leon
Kelly, from Mr. Bernard Davis. (paintings)
Reclining Nude by Arthur B. Davies, from Macbeth Gallery. (water color)
Along the Tracks by Andrew Dasberg, from Miss Gertrude S. Ely (water
color)
Forty-one sketches on paper, board and canvas, and 6 maior sketches on
canvas (one signed "John Lambert"), photographs and prints of
drawings, by Cecilia Beaux, from Mr. Henry S. Drinker.
Copper urn, two Spanish shawls and 12 books (8 titles) from Mrs. Maurice
Molarsky.
The Works of John Trumbull by Theodore Sizer (one volume) from Mr.
John Stewart.
LOANS
Ninety loans were made from the Permanent Collection, as follows:
Free Library of Philadelphia, on indefinite loan, portrait of William III
by an unknown artist.
International House, Philadelphia, on indefinite loan, Farm Pattern by
Margaret R. Gest, Blue and Still Life by William E. Mackey, Zebras by Suzanne S. Martyl, Girl from Bali by Norman Jacobsen, Three Flowers by
Caroline Faught Armstrong, The Village by Ellen Donovan, Grandmother's
Dressing Gown by Frederick Gray, Intersection by' Jeanne McLavy, The
Lunch Basket by Carl F. Binder, Petunias by Laura Stroud Ladd, Steamboat
- Venice by Arthur M. Young, The China Cup by Cora Gibson Purviance.
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Nurses' Home of the University of Pennsylvania Hospital, on indefinite loan,
Asters by Everett Bryant, Flower Study by Christine Chambers, Sargeant
Street by Edmund Quincy, Monomy by Katherine Farrell, South Street
Corner by Alice Elizabeth Whitten, White Flowers by Florence Standish
Whiting, Skating - Central Park by Mildred Williams, A Provincetown
Street by Ross E. Moffett,August - Lanesville by Yarnall Abbott, The River
by James lechay, Taos Plaza in Snow by Ward Lockwood, and Lake by
Ellen Sinclair.
R~cquetClub, Philadelphia, on indefinite loan, Dead Game and Dog,
Dead Game and Fruit, and Boar Hunt by Frans Snyder, and Falls of Tivoli
by Richard Wilson.
lincoln University, Pennsylvania, for 96th Anniversary Dinner, February
8th, Abraham Lincoln by Samuel Waugh.
Whitney Museum of Art, New York City, for Retrospective Exhibition of the
Work of Edward Hopper, February 11th to March 26th, and on . to the
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, from April 13th to
May 14th, Apartment Houses by Edward Hopper.
Woodmere Art Gallery, Philadelphia, for an Exhibition of the Work of
~lIzabeth Coyne, February 12th to March 4th, Landscape Nantucket
by Elizabeth Coyne.
The Century Association, New York City, for an exhibition titled Aspects of
New York City Life, March 1st to May 1 st, Walt Whitman by Thomas Eakins.
Memorial Exhibition of the Work of Alexander Portnoff, Harvey Cedars,
New Jersey, during the summer, portrait head of Richard T. Dooner by
Alexander Portnoff.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. c., for exhibition Makers of History in Washington, June 28th through November 19th Walt Whitman by
Thomas Eakins, and James Monroe by Gilbert Stuart.
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D. c., for Sesqui-Centennial Exhibition American Processional, July 8th through December 17th, Penn's
Treaty with the Indians by Benjamin West, and Fairmount Water Works by
Thomas Birch.
James A. Hanes, for the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Competition,
September 7th to 30th, View of Philadelphia by James A. Hanes.
Fidelity-Philadelphia Trust Company, Philadelphia, one picture each month
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for its Picture of the Month exhibition, September to May (1951 I, Mrs.
Samuel Blodget by Gilbert Stuart, Fourth of July in Center Square by John
Lewis Kdmmel, The Coal Mine by Henry McCarter, ,Fox Hunters at White
Horse by Charles Morris Young, North River by Georg~ Bellows, Benjamin
Franklin by Charles Willson Peale, George Washington by ~embraJidt
Peale, New England Woman by Cecilia Beaux, and Craige's Meadow by
John McCoy.
Farnsworth Library and Art Museum, Rockland Maine, .for Waldo Peirce
Retrospective Exhibition, September 15th to October 30th, Spring in
Monsey~by Waldo Peirce.
Los Angeles County Fair Association, California, for exhibition, The Evolution of Contemporary Painting, September 1st to October 20th, The ,Cello
Player by Thomas Eakins.
Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, for a series of Exhibitions of
American Portraiture, Genre and Landscapes, October through January
(1951), Mrs. Richard Peters, Jr. by Gilbert Stuart, Gideon Fairman and
Elizabeth Willing Jackson by Thomas Sully, Strawberries and Cherries by
Margaretta A. Peale, Self-Portrait, Landscape with Figures, and Painter's
Triumph by William Sidney Mount, Self-Portrait, and Mumble the Peg by
Henry Inman, Country Wedding by John Lewis Krimmel, Dancing Doll
(paper) by Thomas Sully, Anna Maria Hodkinson by James Peale, Landscape No. 1 and Landscape No. 2 by Thomas Doughty, and Chew House,
Germantown by Russell Smith.
The Blum Store, Philadelphia, for display in its windows during Pennsylvania Week, October 15th through 21 st, Dark Hollow by John Folinsbee,
Leverington Avenue by Antonio P. Martino, Place of Echoes by Martin
Jackson, Black Crows by A. Brockie Stevenson, Dock Street by Charles
Semser, The Villa Maria by Catharine Grant, Landscape by Edward Loper,
Mother and Child by Stella Drabkin, Canal Bridge by Giovanni Martino,
Trappers' Trail by Arthur Meltzer, The Hex Sign by Henry W. Peacock,
Turkey Knob Farm by Jessie Drew-Bear and Applebutter Time by Kathryn
K. Rank.
Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts, for an Exhibition of Canaletto, November 1st to 25th, Old Fishmarket by Antonio
Canaletto.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, for Diamond Jubilee Exhibition Masterpieces
in America, November 3rd through February 11th (1951 I, The Fox Hunt
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by Winslow Homer, and Abraham Directed to Return to the Land of His
Fathers by G. B. Castiglione.
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, for Exhibition of Contemporary
American Painters, November 8th through January 4th (1951), Lighthouse
by Morris 'Kantor.
Philadelphia Sketch Club, for its 90th ·Anni~ersary Exhibition of Members'
Work, November 20th through December 31 st, Picture Book by Adolph
Borie, Tree of Life and Village Stream by Hugh Breckenridge, · Glimpse of
the St. Lawrence by L. Birge Harrison, Venice by Thomas Moran, In a Garret
by Thomas Anshutz, and Pioneer Mother by Charles GraAy.
A. Brockie Stevenson, for Exhibition for Candidates of Arts and Letters
Grants, at the National Institute of Arts and Letters, New York City, December 8th through January 15th (1951), Black Crows by A. Brockie Stevenson.
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SCHOOLS
The winter school sessions w ere successfully conducted and the report of
the faculty on the calibre of work performed very satisfactory. The enrollment was lower than during the preceding year in both the day and
evening sessions due to the wit hdrawal of veterans whose enl"itlement for
study under the G. I. Bill of Ri ghts had expired. However, some of that
reduction was overcome by a larger enrollment of other students.
Mr. Hobson Pittman was added to the faculty for the year 1950-51 as
Instructor in General Crificism and Advanced Painting. Mr. Walker Hancock was on leave the first term 1949-50. Mr. Charles Rudy of the summer
school faculty was with 'us during Mr. Hancock's absence.
The school at Chester Springs was open for twelve weeks: June 12th
th rough September 2nd, with a tot al attendance of 78 students and an
average of 39.
The enrollment of the schools was as follows:
Winte r School:
September 1949 through January 1950
January 1950 through May 1950
September 1950 through January 1951
Summe r School: June
12 ~ h
through September 2nd
278
261
253
78
This ,year marked the fortieth during which Mr. Daniel Garber had been a
member of the School's faculty. It would be difficult to put into a few
words the respect and gratitude for the man and the artist that have
been his during this long period of time. He served lhe institution and its
students, and 'i n so doing, art and the artist in America, in a most distinguished manner. The Academy has had great pride and satisfaction
in this association. The Board of Directors ent ertained the members of
the faculty for luncheon on June 16t.h in honor of Mr. Garber and this
ann iversary.
An Open House f or Friends and N eighbors of the Chester Springs Summer
School was held at t he School on Sunday afternoon, June 18th. This event
inaugurated the activities of the Academy' s Women' s Committee.
This has been a year particularly rich in honors for those who either were
still students in the schools, or who had left it during the preceding year .
In March, Ange!o Frudakis (sculptor) was awarded a Rome Pri ze Fellowship for 1950-51, generally known as a Prix de Rome, estimated at approximately $3000. In May, Edward Fenno Hoffman, 3rd (sculptor) and John A.
Hanlen (painter), with a University of Pennsylvania student of architecture,
won the Rome Collaborative Competition . Twenty-eight teams representing
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ten universities and art schools, competed. In June, Kenneth Lochhead
topped over 500 artists when he won the $1000 O'Keefe Art Award
Scholarship Competition in Canada. In October word was received that
from over 300 contestants from all parts of the country, three of the
Academy's students had won three of the four $2000 Louis Comfort Tiffany
Foundation Grants. They were James Hanes and John A. Hanlen (painters)
and Edward Fen!,1o Hoffman, 3rd (sculptor). In November Mr. Hanes was
also awarded a Gold Medal of Honor in the 37th Annual Exhibition of the
Allied Artists of America held at the National Academy in New York.
Toward the close of December, Donald W. Luft won the $2000 Edwin
Austin Abbey Memorial Scholarship for Mural Painting.
Traveling scholarships and other cash prizes amounting to well over
$14,000 - and, indeed, we believe no other art school in the country .
has similar advantages to offer - were awarded by the Academy in
May (see details in Director's report).
It is also encouraging to note that while the Academy's two annual exhibitions are purely professional, some of our advanced students oftimes enter
work for jury action. In 1950, taking their chances with several thousand
artists from all parts of the country, four students had work selected for the
Water Color and Print Exhibition, and the same number won places in the
Oil and Sculpture Exhibition.
The elimination of books no longer useful to the students, and the purchase
of others so badly nee.d ed, as reported by the Director, have proven a
great boon to our already active library. The record indicates 1035 books
and clippings were withdrawn, with only 11 items unaccounted for. This,
of course, is in addition to the great amount of reading and reference
work which took place in the room itself. We purchased 224 new books
during the year and received 9 as gifts.
PUBLIC
RELATIONS
The purpose of the program of every cultural institution is to educate,
inform and/or entertain. Members receive notices of events and activities
but the public must learn of these through established news channels.
The task of successfully accomplishing this objective, particularly with but
two major local newspapers, continues to be the "problem child" of every
public relations representative.
Added to what the two papers have done for the Academy (and, indeed,
we are grateful for it, as their civic responsibility is great) has been the
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cooperation of the national press and art publications, our community
newspapers, organization and special publications, radio, and television.
W.e deeply appreciate the contribution of each and everyone. But withal
the disparity between the considerable flow of material from this desk on
behalf of both galleries and schools, and the amount which actually finds
its way into print, is very great.
The department has continued collaboration with representatives of public
and private schools, women's clubs and other groups, as a part of the plan
to encourage a larger number of people to make greater use of Academy
facilities.
This department suggested the plan whereby the Alumni Association of
The Curtis Institute of Music co"aborated ' with our Fe"owship (alumni) in
presenting three free chamber music concerts on Friday nights during the
1950 Annual Fe"owship Exhibition. The musicians' fees were provided by
the Music Perf9rmance Trust Fund of the American Phonograph Industry
in cooperation with Local 77 of the American Federation of Musicians. The
Academy, the Fe"owship, and the Curtis Alumni shared the other expenses.
Infrequently'-heard works for various combinations of instruments were programmed. The concerts were enthusiastically received and we" attended.
For both the 1949 and 1950 campaigns of the Community Chest, the head
of this department served as chairman of the Libraries and Museums
Group, and is now serving as secretary for the Women's Committee of
the Academy.
Where membership is concerned, this has been one of the most encouraging years since the department came into bein'g. We have enrolled 237
new members in a" classes. Their dues made a sum of $3940 available
for current operating expenses, or in the case of life memberships, for the
endowment fund. Unfortunately, we must report the loss of 79 members
throug,h death, resignation or delinquency. The year's enrollment is as
follows:
Annual Members .
1037
(221 new during year)
SustQining Members .
40
(11 new during year)
Contributing Members
6
(1 new during year)
Life Members
167
(4 new during year)
1250
Total members
,803
Stockholders
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BUILDINGS
MAIN
BUILDING, BROAD AND CHERRY STREETS
and
ANNEX,
1834
ARCH STREET
No major alteration or improvement was accomplished through the year
in the Main Building wtih the exception of reclaiming" for more useful purposes two of the rooms on the mezzanine floor over the Director's office,
and the student exhibition room. As a result of work accomplished by
our own maintenance crew through the summer months, a new Board
Room has been achieved, access to which is made possible from the
landing of the main stairs. This improvement has several distinct advantages. For many years the Board of Directors met for its stated meetings
in the library, which necessitated the closing of that very active branch
of our school activities for every Board session. The forming of our new
Women's Committee also called for a convenient and comfortable place
where that group ~ould meet at all times. The Fellowship (alumni) of the
Academy had also had no regular place of meeting. Alon~ with the room
itself which now serves so adequately for all of these groups, a very adequate storage closet was provided for the Fellowship records. This new
room has eliminated .the Fellowship's crowding into the rear section of the
School office for its meetings.
Another small room, formerly used for storage, was redecorated and furnished to provide a much-needed rest room for the administrative staff
or for the accommodation of anyone taken ill in our galleries.
The readjustments in still a third room in this series has given us a very
much more adequate office store room.
The usual painting and general freshing-up of our school rooms, together
with similar work at 1834 Arch Street, was accomplished with our own staff.
CHESTER SPRINGS
The routine painting here, as laid out in our general program, was accom- "
plished in the spring of the year by the maintenance crew from Broad and
Cherry Streets, and we " completed the five-year plan for re-wiring the
buildings. The pond, which supplies the water for our swimming pool, had
become so filled with silt over a period of years that it became necessary
for us to dredge it this year. This work was done before the opening of
the summer session. The major item of maintenance was the repair and
painting of some of the tin roofs and the replacement of some old gutters
and leaders, which was ' completed by the early part of the summer. No
other expenditures above normal maintenance were made for Chester
Springs.
THE
FELLOWSHIP
The Fellowship (organized in 1897) is the Academy's alumni association.
It conducts an annual program of lectures, motion pictures, demonstrations,
and twice weekly during the winter school season, a Croquis Class, for its
members and Academy students. It has a Students' Committee whose
members are chosen from the student body wifh one of the group serving
on the Fellowship's Board of Managers, the purpose being to keep the
Board informed concerning the welfare of the students, recommend them
for teaching positions, or direct them to other opportunities or sources
of income.
It stages an Annual Fellowship Exhibition in the Academy's galleries and
contributes $350 to the institution for the use of its various ' facilities for
each exhibition. In 1950 it sponsored the free chamber music concerts of
the Alumni Association of The Curtis Institute of Music during the Fellow- '
ship Exhibition. It· also provides the Fellowship Prize of $100 in each
Academy Annual Oil and Sculpture Exhibition.
It reports a membership of 664 and an annual income of approximately
$1500.
Mr. Charles W. Bentz is its President.
THE
COMMITTEE
ON
FELLOWSHIP
The Committee on Fellowship administers the Henry J. Thouron Memorial
Fund, the Special Fund, the Picture Purchase Fund, and the Mary Butler
Memorial Fund, all for the benefit of Fell9wship members, and present or
former students, and seeks to be useful to both the Fellowship and the
Academy when needed.
It (1) purchases pictures or sculpture to encourage or assist artists, or
. improve the Loan Collection from which works are currently on exhibition
in some forty schools, settlement houses, hospitals and other organizations
or institutions; (2) provides art classes, generally in settlement houses, to
give study opportunities for the youth of those neighborhoods, as well as
teaching experience and income for present and/or former Academy
students; (3) gives a type of financial assistance not permissible ' from the
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regular Fellowship treasury, to current and former students; (4) assists
needy current Academy students with tuition, artists' materials, or living
expenses; (5) pr,ovides the Annual Gold Medal Award in the Annual Fellowship Exhibitions.
An Emergency Committee of Students has been organized, in association
with the Committee on Fellowship, to meet illness and accident emergency
needs in the .student body.
Between the years 1912 and 1950, inclusive, the Committee reports the
purchase of 407 works representing a sum of $24,974.20, and an expenditure of $39,881.05 for all p~rposes .
Mrs. A. Bruce Gill is its Chairman and Treasurer.
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CONSOLIDATED TREASURER1SREPORT
September 1, 1949 -'0 August 31, 1950
INCOME
Art Gallery and Exhibitions
Philadelphia School
Chester Springs School
Trust Funds
Membership Dues
Contributions
$ 18,461.01
82,569.43
20,758.86
60,554.13
Total Income
$194,030.43
9,630~00
2,057.00
EXPE NSES
Art Gallery and Exhibitions
Philadelphia School
Chester Springs School
$ 98,160.53
55,674.91
29,557.67
Total Expenses
Net Operating Surplus
$183,393.11
10,637.32
BEQUEST
Under the terms of the Will of the late Alfred G. B. Steel., the Academy was
bequeathed the svm o.f $10,000 for its Consolidated Investment Trust
for Unrestricted Funds, the income to be used for operation and maintenance of the Academy.
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CONTRIBUTIONS FOR SPEC IFIC PURPOSES
February 1950 to Jaryuary 1951, inclusive
$ 672.00
John F. Lewis, Jr., for dredging pond, Chester Springs
for student prizes
300.00
for Charles Burchfield Prize
200.00
for British Exhibition
William Clarke Mason, for
for
for
for
1,550.00
30().00
250.00
150.00
106.00
student prizes
sculpture prizes
Flower Show prizes
new camera
George D. Widener, for scholarships
2,000.00
American Philosophical Society, for indexing project
500.00
Fellowship of the Academy, for Fellowship Exhibition
350.00
Water Color Club, for Water Color Exhibition
200.00
50.00
Miniature Society, for Miniatures Exhibition
100.00
Charles Bregler, for student prize
Walter Stuempfig, for student prize
50.00
Walker Hancock, for student prize
50.00
John Stewart, for Print Club prize
25.00
Mrs. Alfred G. B. Steel, for Garden Party, Chester Springs
for the Steel Memorial Prize Fund, 16 shores
Standard Oil of New Jersey stock
50.00
William E. Lingelbach, Jr., for British Exhibition
of
1,082.00
50.00
C. Mahlon Kline, for British Exhibition .
100.00
Henry P. Mcilhenny, for British Exhibition
100.00
Mrs. Charles Grace, for British Exhibition
50.00
Mrs. Lawrence M. C. Smith, for British Exhibition
50.00
Clifford P. Allen, Jr., for general purposes
C. Alison Scully, for general purposes .
5.00
50.00
James B. Mehorter, for general purposes
6.25
Sydney E. Martin for general purposes .
200.00
Total
$8,596.25
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MEMBERS
This list includes those enrolled since the printing of
the 1949 Annual Report
Life Member s
Franklin, Walter S.
Horner, Mrs. Joseph
MacFarland, Mrs. William J.
Martin, Sydney E.
Vogel, Irving H.
Contributing · Member
Pricket, Stanley G.
Sustaining Members
Baton, Henry E., Jr.
Beale, Mrs. Leonard T.
Cann, Harry E.
Deicher, Irving B.
Hare, Mrs. Horace Binney
McMichael, Mrs. Morton
Adames, George E.
Adams, Miss Margaret
Albert, Daniel J.
Alexander, Mrs. William C.
Allen, Clifford P., Jr.
Ancker, Laurence l.
Andraae, C. Preston, Jr.
Antonelli, Severo
Antrim, Mrs. E. Hulings
Atmore, Frank B.
Dall, Mrs. William
Delaplaine, Mrs. Henry
Dickey, Mrs. Samuel
Doherty, George H. M.
Dunn, Mrs. J. Struthers
Dunn, Roland I.
du Pont, Eleuthere I.
Rosenwald, Mrs. Julius, II
Rosenwald, Mrs. Lessing
Stassen, Harold
Annual Members
Baber, Mrs. Malcolm J.
Badenhausen, Mrs. Bayard
Barnes, Miss Catherine
Bartow, Miss Alice Smith
Bates, Miss Lauralou Courtney
Biddle, Mrs. Alexander
Birkhead, Mrs. Arthur G.
Blanckensee, Jack
Bolton, Earle W., Jr.
Bongard, Miss E. Helen
Bortin, David
Brock, Mrs. Lynmar
Brogan, Mrs. Edward T.
Brown, Mrs. Darwin Charles
Brubaker, Mrs. W. G.
Burnside, Cameron
Campbell, Miss Cora A.
Caplan, Albert J.
Caprano, Mrs. Julius John
Cornman, Mrs. Ralph M.
Crane, Dr. A. Reynolds
Crossan, Dr. Edward T.
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Eisenberg, Mrs. B. D.
Elfreth, Mrs. W . Henry
Ellis, Mrs. Richard
Fahnestock, Mrs. McClure
Felix, Mrs. Samuel P.
Finkelstein, Mrs. Clara
Flagg, Miss Adelaide Gordon
Fleming, Miss Geraldine M.
Florin, Mrs. Francis Andre
Fox, Mrs. William Logan
Friedland, Mrs. George
Gaul, Miss Arrah Lee
Geist, Mrs. Clarence H.
Gibson, Miss Margaret
Gill, Mrs. Sue May
Goldman, Dr. Joel
Goodfellow, Mrs. Arthur N.
Gould, Erl C. B.
Goutman, Dolya
Graham, Mrs. Thomas
Granger, Percival H.
Green, Mrs. Raymond S.
Greenwood, Mrs. Richard
Greenwood, Mrs. Walter B.
Gutner, Chester Coleman
Haas, Mrs. Stephen
Hammond, Mrs. M. Acton
Harmer, Mrs. J. P.
Harvey, Mrs·. John S. C.
Hay, Miss Dorothy Gordon
Heltzel, Mrs. Eleonor Reed
Herring, Mrs. James Morton
Heymann, Mrs. Roy
Hirst, Miss Alice M.
Hohenlohe, Princess
Holloway, Mrs. Sidney J.
Horn, Miss Marion R.
Howland, Mrs. Ralph B.
Irish, Mrs. Warren L.
Jackson, Mrs. Irene Williams
Jackson, Miss Joan Louise
Jameson, Mrs. James J.
Keedy, Edwin R.
Kent, Mrs. Dorothy C.
Kester, Miss Irene
Ketterer, Mrs. Gusta v
Ketterlinus, Miss Eugenia
Kimboll, Albert
Kohler, William
Kohn, Mrs. George Ellis
Korninsky, Joseph
larer, Miss Marian l.
lee, Miss Jean Gordon
leidner, Mrs. Nelson
leonhardt, Miss Edna F.
leves, Mrs. Elizabeth S.
l ittle, Miss N. Bernice
loeb, Mrs. Joel Traitel
ludlum, Mrs. Seymour De W.
McGoldrick, Joseph A.
McGonigal, Mrs. John F.
McGranary, Mrs. Catherine
Corcoran .
McManus, Charles J., Jr.
McFarlane, Dr. Norman M.
Macloskey, Miss M. Christine
Marder, Mrs. David
Marquis, Mrs. Donald J.
Master, Mrs. I. Edward
Masterman, Miss Dorothy
Mates, Miss Anna H.
Matthews, Mrs. Charles J.
Meigs, Mrs. Arthur I.
Middleton, Mrs. G. Plantou
Miller, Mrs. Isabel lazar~s
Molarsky, Mrs. Maurice
Montani, M.rs. Nicola A.
Morris, M.rs. Caspar W.
Morris, Mrs. J. B.
Nelsen, Mrs. Blanche Hunter
Noble, Miss Emma l.
Norton, Mrs. Adelaide I.
Otley, J. D.
Ott, Mrs. George W.
Overton, Mrs. Beatrice Clare
Pancoast, George T.
Pardi, Justi n
Patton, John William
Patzau, Otto J.
Pedrick, Miss Lyola C.
Peiser, Kurt
Perl off, Dr. William Harry
Persichetti, Vincent
Phillips, Miss Marguerita
Poinsard, Mrs. Paul J.
Rainear, Mrs. Warren R.
Rains, Claude
Rauscher, Mrs. Robert G.
Reed, Wesley
Reese, Charles lee, Jr.
Renouf, Miss Edna M.
Rex, Mrs. Walter E., J r.
Rhoads, Dr. Jonathan E.
Roberts, Miss Frances F.
Robertson, Mrs. Marion N.
Rowland, Mrs. Edmund
Russell, Mrs. John C.
Samuel, Edward, Jr.
Sapp, Allen D.
Saxman, Mrs. Edwin F., Jr.
Schaub, Mrs. Frank Carter
Schlegel, Mrs. Carl A.
Schmidt, Allan
Schuirmann, Mrs. R. E.
Schultz, John A.
Scott, Mrs. William T.
Scull, William E.
Seltzer, Miss Elmo
Shepard, Mrs. Willard C.
Shoemaker, R. M.
Shollenberger, Mrs. C. l.
Slepin, Mrs. William
Smith, C. Ross
Smith, Miss Dorothy Alden
Smith, Dudley S.
Snyder, Mrs. C. Paul
Solis-Cohen, Hays, Jr.
Spiess, Mrs. C. William
Spruance, Benton M.
Starr, Dr. Isaac
Stephenson, Mrs. Wilson
Stewart, Miss Betty Rahn
Stillwell, Mrs. Winfred N.
Stimson, Mrs. Boudinot
Sundheim, Harry G.
Sweet, John E.
Taylor, Miss Helen B. ,
Thayer, Mrs. Frederick M.
Thomas, Mrs. George H.
Tifft, Mrs. John Alden
Tindall, Mrs. Morris
Valentine, Mrs. Harry S.
Van Seiver, Mrs. Grace T.
Von Bernuth, Miss Lecian
Walker, Robert Miller
Ward, Mrs. Mary Kimball
Warner, Mrs. Paul McC.
Wasserman, Mrs. Charles K.
Weiller, Mrs. Eugene W.
Wessels, Mrs. Walther J.
Whyte, Thomas, Jr.
Willson, Mrs. Laurence M.
Wilson, Mrs. John G.
Winkelman, Dr. N. W.
Wirkman, Emanuel W.
Woodall, Mrs. John
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FINE ARTS
BROAD AND CHERRY 5T5.
145th
ANNUAL
1950
•
REPORT
PHILADELPHIA
Cover: Picnic at Bedford Hills by Florine Stettheimer.
Acquired as the gift of Miss Ettie Stettheimer in
November, 1950.
The One-Hundred"and Forty-Fifth
Annual Report
of
THE PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY of the FINE ARTS
FOR THE YEAR
1950
J
"'!
Presented to the Meeting of the Stockholders
of the Academy on February 5, 1951
OFFICERS
John f. lewis, Jr;
President
Henry S. Drinker .
Vice-President
C. Newbold Taylor
Treasurer
Joseph T. Fraser, Jr.
Secretary
BOARD
Mrs. leonard T. Beale
Henry S. Drinker
Henry C. Gibson
R. Sturgis Ingersoll
Sydney E. Martin
OF
DIRECTORS
William Clarke Mason
Marshall S. Morgan
George P. Orr
George B. Roberts
STANDING
C. Alison Scully
John Stewart
Robert Strausz-Hupe
C. Newbold Taylor
Sydney l. Wright
COMMITTEES
COMMITTEE
ON
EXHIBITION
George B. Roberts, Chairman
Henry S. Drinker
George P. Orr
Sydney E. Martin
Sydney l. Wright
COMMITTEE
ON
FINANCE
C. Newbold Taylor, Chairman
C. Alison Scully
John Stewart
COMMITTEE
ON
INSTRUCTION
William Clarke Mason, Chairman
C. Newbold Taylor
Marshall S. Morgan
COMMITTEE
ON
CHESTER
C. Alison Scully
SPRINGS
William Clarke Mason, Chairman
Sydney E. Martin
George B. Roberts
COMMITTEE
ON
COLLECTIONS
George P. Orr; Chairman
R. Sturgis Ingersoll
George B. Roberts
Sydney E. Martin
Robert Strausz-Hupe
COMMI.TTEE
ON
NOM INATIONS
C. Alison Scully, Chairman
John Stewart
Marshall S. Morgan
SOLICITO,R
Maurice B; . Saul
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WOMEN1S
COMMITTEE
Mrs. Leonard T. Beale, Chairman
Mrs. Francis T. Chambers
Mrs. Emlen P. Etting
Mrs. David M. Gwinn
Mrs. Horace Binney Hare
Mrs. Arthur C. Kaufmann
Mrs. John F. Lewisl Jr.
Mrs. Graeme Lorimer
Mrs. Morton McMichael
Mrs . .George B. Roberts
Mrs. Julius Rosenwald, II
Mrs. Lawrence M. C. Smith
Mrs. Alfred G .. B. Steel
Mrs. John F. Steinman
Mrs . Boudinot Stimson
Mrs. Robert Strausz-Hupe
Mrs. Franklin C. Watkins
Mrs. John P. Wheeler
Mrs. ·Sydney L. Wright
STAFF
GENERAL
Joseph T. Fraser, Jr.
Robert L. Wood
Charles J. Marsh .
Marian N. Little
Barbara S. Roberts
Frances M. Vanderpool
Elizabeth Z. Swenson
. Director and Secretary
Assistant Secretary and Comptroller
Assistant to the Secretary
Secretary to the Director
Registrar and Research
Exhibition and Membership Clerk
Director of Public Relations and
Membership
SCHOOLS
(Philadelphia and Chester Springs)
. Curator
Secretary to the Curator
Librarian and Sales
Vernon M. Dodge
Catherine R. Newbold
Martha K. Schick .
FACULTY
(Philadelphia)
Daniel Garber
George Harding
Roy C. Nuse
Froocis Speight
*Walker Hancock
Roswell Weidner
Harry Rosin
Edward Shenton
* *Charles Rudy
Franklin Chenault Watkins John F. Harbeson
Allan Jones
William M. Campbell
John W. McCoy
Philip Aliano '
Julius Bloch
Edmond L Far~is
Walter Stuempflg
Jack Bookbinder
Joseph Schindler
• Leave-af-absence first term •
•• First term only.
(Chester Springs)
~oy
Walter Stuempflg
Charles Rudy
Roswell Weidner
C. Nuse
Francis Speight
Paul Froelich
BUILDING
Mayland T. McAvoy, Superintendent
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FOREWORD
The 145th Annual .Report of the President and Board of Directors of The
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts sets forth in some detail the year's
achievements and it is followed in turn by even more detailed reports of
the Treasurer, contributions, exhibitions, loans, acquisitions, buildings and
schools.
We have in Philadelphia in the Academy the finest, as well as the oldest,
school of the fine arts in the United States. Our two great annual exhibitions of contemporary American art -
water colors, prints and drawings
in the autumn, sculpture and oils in the winter -
are outstanding in their
fields.
However, just a word concerning unrealized obj.e ctives. In addition to the
great schools and our annual exhibitions, the Academy has in its perma nent collections one of the most notable treasuries of American art throughout the whole history of the arts in our country. Until very recently this
collection was unrivaled, but this is so no longer. There are some notable
gaps in the completeness of the collection in its representation of the earlier
periods ·and this incompleteness is more marked in respect to the leading
contemporary American painters and sculptors. The simple truth is that
we lack sufficient funds to purchase each year enough work by contemporary artists or those of the recent past, to enable us · to continue for very
long our former supremacy in this field. The acquisitions, for example, listed
in this report are inadequate to the realization of our purpose and duty
to maintain a truly representative collection of American art. Therefore
we are currently dependent on our friends, our members and stockholders
to help us in this matter. Accordingly, we will mail out shortly, as we did
last year, a list of our major needs, outstanding American artists, living
and dead, not a t present adequately represented in our collection.
I hope most earnestly that some of the friends of the Academy will avail
themselves of the opportunity to serve us and the cultural life of Philadelphia by presenting us with work of these artists or of others similar in
·quality, or with funds wherewith to achieve -this objective.
JOHN F. LEWIS, JR.
President
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REPORT OF THE
BO ·ARD OF
PRESIDENT AND
DIRECTORS
In the meeting of January 9, 1950, and by unanimous vote, Mr. Robert
Strausz-Hupe was elected a member of the Board of Directors for a term
expiring in February 1952, that vacancy having been made by the death
of. Mr. Alfred G. B. Steel.
At the' same meeting, Article I of the By-Laws was amended to read as
follows:
"The Officers of the Corporation shall consist of a President" and
fifteen (15) direCtors.. At each election hereafter held fjve (5)
directors shall be elected by the stockholders to hold office for
three (3) years. If a vacancy in said office, or among the members
of the Board of Djrectors, occurs by death, resignation, or otherwise, the Directors may fill the same by electing a President and/or
Director to hold office until the next annual meeting. The President
shall be ex officio a member of the Board of Directors."
and it was further Resolved that Article VI of the By-Laws be amended to
read as follows:
"Eight (8) members shall constitute a quorum of the Board ' of Directors, but at any meeting at which five (5) or more members are
actually present, they shall constitute a quorum" proviqed additional members sign the minutes to bring the total participating
to eight (8)."
Final action on the above amendments was taken at the meeting of
February 13th.
Mr. R. Sturgis Ingersoll was elected a member of the Board of Directors
for a term expiring in February, 1951.
In the meeting of October 9, 1950, .Mrs. Leonard T. Beale was electea
a member of the Board of Directors for a term expiring in February, 1952.
Her election marks the advent of the first lady on the Board of Directors.
Mrs. Beale is also serving the Academy as Chairman of the newly formed
Women's Committee, the aim of which is generally to assist the Academy
by encouraging greater interest and attendance.
We must pay particular tribute to our new Women's Committee, an enthusi-
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astic and working unit which we have long needed and which has already
wonderfully justified itself by cultivating general interest and by planning
and gracing many social events which have greatly increased our attendance and enhanced our exhibition program.
The Women's Committee inaugurated its activities by giving a Garden
Cocktail Party on the grounds of the Academy summer school at Chester
Springs. The affair was eminently successful with a large attendance. Upon
the opening of the exhibition of Contemporary British Painting on the
evening of December 8th, the Women's Committee organized a large
dinner attended by approximately 200 guests and at which the guest of
honor was Mr. Andrew C. Ritchie of the Museum of Modern Art. This was
one of the most successful social events in the history of the Academy.
With deep regret we record the resignation of Mr. Marshall S. Morgan
from the Board of Directors by his letter of November 27, 1950. He had
~erved faithfully from the time of his election in 1927 and the loss of his
·interest and counsel will be deeply felt.
The Academy is glad to acknowledge the second and final payment of
$500.00 from the American Philosophical Society to assist in the carrying
forward of the research by Miss Anna Rutledge in compiling an index of
the exhibitions presented by the Academy from 1805-1875. That project is
very close to the completion of the research phase and it is hoped that in
the ensuing year steps may be taken for further support of its publication.
Last year the Academy published an annual report for the first time in
.many years. We were very gratified with the enthusiastic response which
it met. Accordingly, we will continue to publish it.
It is unfortunate that this report embodies the activities of a calendar year
when actually our program is always planned on a fiscal year which ru·ns
from September 1st through August 31 st. We are currently engaged in
activities which far transcend any season on record. The two large contemporary exhibitions have been joined by others which has meant that
the members of the staff have been taxed to their utmost and we are
happy to pay tribute to their devotion and help, without which we would
most certainly have failed.
The augmenting features have been major exhibitions, each departures
from precedent. The Art Directors' Club of Philadelphia made a most
earnest plea to us to stage its annual exhibition and although the Academy
has been dedicated in its schools and galleries to the fine arts only, their
request was looked on with favor, and we consider that the Academy
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w,as honored by the handsome and thoroughly representative exhibition
of advertising and editorial 'art which resulted.
The second extra show of really great magnitude was the presentation of
a large number of pai!1tings by contemporary British painters. No other
comparable ' undertaking has been staged in the United States. Even
though this was a departure from our regular program concerned w ith
American art and the American artist, we felt that we enjoyed a rare privilege in housing this particular phase of the painting of today. The outstanding quality evidenced in the selections and the very efficient organization are a tribute to Mr. George E. Dix, Jr.,' of New York City, whose
cooperation we enjoyed.
Another feature which afforded us particular pleasure, and which brought
great numbers of people who perhaps would not otherwise have visited
our galleries, was the showing of the famous carpet composed of panels
of tapestry worked by Queen Mary of England which was so genuinely
admired through its extensive travels to the major cities of the United States
and carried such a message of good will.
The Academy was privileged again in presenting two memorial exhibitions
of outstanding Philadelphia artists whose deaths within a year closed their
long and disting'u ished careers. Galleries C and D have seldom been more
handsomely furnished than when the works of Alexander Portnoff (18871949) and Maurice Molarsky (1885-1950) were exhibited.
The Philadelphia Artists' Gallery continues its program of one-man shows
by Philadelphia artists, adding four more to bring the total to date t o 44.
The permanent collection was on view when other special or annual exhibitions were not current.
A very important start has been made in the care of our large and important historical pictures. Benjamin West's Paul and Barnabas at Lystra
and Washington Allston's Dead Man Restored to Life, which have hung
high in the stair hall for obout fifty years, received expert attention from
Hans Gassman of Richmond, Virginia, through the summer months. They
have been placed in the entrance vestibule where they can now be seen
ancd enjoyed and where they are easy of access for constant attenti,o n and
cleaning.
We are extremely glad to report that there have been several excellent
gifts to the permanent collection as a result of publishing a list of artists
not represented in the permanent collection. Many gaps remain, however,
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and "we hope that our members and friends will be alert to give personally
or let us know of the availability of such items.
We have long possessed in our library a great number of books which
were of interest to art historians and people interested in general reference works in art, but which filled space in our limited book cases badly
needed for modern books of genuine interest to art students. The sale of
approximately 1500 of these books and pamphlets to the Free library of
Philadelphia means, not only that these books are still available to the
public of the Philadelphia area for consultation, but also that we have
the space and funds with which to supply our art students with a far bet.t er
art library than they hitherto enjoyed.
Since the
tions for
$26] .25.
Alfred G.
last Stockholders' meeting, the Academy has received contribuspecific purposes of $8,335.00, and for general purposes
We al'so received the generous bequest of our last President,
B. Steel, in the sum of $10,000.00.
On October 13th, we felt honored to make several of our galleries available for the annual luncheon and presentation of awards to Pennsylvania's
twelve Distinguished Daughters, as a preliminary event in connection with
Pennsylvania Week. The gold medals were presented by Mrs. James H.
Duff, wife of Pennsylvania's Governor. The event brought representative
women from all parts of the state.
During the year the Academy also was host to the Miniature Camera Club
of Philadelphia (for its regular meetings); the Philadelphia Chapter, American Institute of Architects; the Architectural ' Alumni Association of the
University of Pennsylvania; the Beaux Arts Institute of Design; the Art
Teachers' Association of Philadelp'hia; School Art league; the Water Color
Club of Philadelphia; the Junior league; and the Franklin Inn Club.
This brief message which has mentioned only the high spots of our aetivities
will lead our members to the more detailed accounts which follow in this
report, for we are dedicated to a proQram of service to them.
JOSEPH T. FRASER, JR., Director
JOHN F.' lEWIS, JR., President
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EXHIBITIONS
THE 145th ANNUAL EXHIBITION OF OIL PAINTING AND SCULPTURE
The 145th Annual Exhibition ' of Oil Painting and Sculpture w~s held in
the Galleries from January 22nd through February 26th, with a Private
View on Saturday, January 21 st, from 9 to 11 P. M.
PAINTING JURY
SCULPTURE JURY
Charles Burchfield" Chair'man
Vaughn Flannery
George Harding
John Heliker
Ben Shahn
Oronzio Maldarelli, Chairman
Waldemar Raemisch
William Zorach
PRIZES AND AWARDS
The Painting Jury awarded the following:
Temple Gold Meda/- Harvey Dinnerstein for his oil Noah-Wolf as
being the best painting regardless of subject.
' Jennie Sesnan Gold Medal - Albert Gold for his oil Nicetown as
being the best landscape in the Exhibition.
Carol H. Beck Gold Meda/- Henry Mattson for his oil Self-Portrait
as being the best portrait in oil.
J. Henry Schiedt Memorial Prize - Joseph Meert for his oil Still Life
on a Sewing Machine as being of special importance in the Exhibition.
The Sculpture Jury awarded the following:
George D. Widener Memorial Gold Meda/- Hugo Robus for his
sculpture Dawn as being the most meritori0us work in sculpture.
Honorable Mention in Sculpture - Sol A. Bauer for his f>rocessiona/.
Honorable Mention in Sculpture - Milton Hebald for his Circus
Maximus.
The Committee on Exhibition awarded the following:
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Walter Lippincott Prize - Darrell Austin for bis oil Sorceress as the
best figure in oil.
Mary Smith Prize - Marie-Celeste Fadden for her oil French Child
on Train as being the best work by a Philadelphia woman.
A Special Jury appointed by the President of the Academy's Fellowship
awarded:
The Fellowship Prize tion.
Franklin C. Watkins for his oil The Resurrec-
Gallery Talks, sponsored by the Fellowship, were held at 2:30 P. M., as
follows: January 26th, Raphael Sabatini; February 2nd, Hobson Pittman;
9th, Gladys Rockmore Davis; 16th, Dorothy Grafly; 23rd, Walter E. Baum.
The Exhibition consisted of 238 paintings and 124 pieces of sculpture; 362
artists were represented. The Academy purchased 2 oils and 2 sculptures
through the Temple Fund, 8 oils through the Lambert Fund, and 1 oil
through the Gilpin Fund. Three oils and 1 sculpture were sold to the public.
A total of 17 items were purchased from the Exhibition, representing a
sales value of $10,119.70. The total attendance was 11 ,724.
THE FELLOWSHIP ANNUAL EXHIBITION
The Fellowship Annual Exhibition of Oil Painting, Sculpture, Water Colors,
and Graphics, and the Fellowship-Sponsored Exhibition of Student Work
was held in Galleries A, B, C, D, and N from March 11 th through April
2nd, with a Private View on Friday, March 10th, from 3 to 5 P. M.
JURIES
OIL
FOR
FELLOWSHIP EXHIBITION
WATER COLOR
GRAPHIC
PAINTING
AND
SCUL-PTURE
Morris Blackburn
Walter Reinsel
Andrew Wyeth
Martin Jackson
Cora Purviance
Benton Spruance
JURIES
James House, Jr.
Wallace Kelly
Harry Rosin
FOR STUDENT EXHIBITION
PAINTING
SCULPTURE
Amelie Zell Felton
Angelo Frudakis
Raphael Sabatini
Morris Berd
Paul Froelich
John Lear
PRIZES
AND
AWARDS
The Juries awarded the following:
Harrison
gouache
gouache
Neuman
S. Morris Prize, equally divided - Ben Eisenstat for his
Fisherman's Shack and Nets, and Abraham 'Hankins for his
Gloucester, Mass., with Honorable Mention - Jeanette
Kohn for her water color Bayside.
May Audubon Post Prize - Julian Levy for his oil Nets, with Honorable Mention - Francis Speight for his oil Jamestown Street .
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Fellowship Gold Medal Award -
Leon Karp for his oil Evening Bath.
Fellowship Prize for Sculpture ture Waiting.
Gladys Edgerly Bates for her sculp-
Wit/iam Penn Charter School Prize - Margaret Gestfor h'er oil Roses.
Caroline Gibbons Granger Memorial Student Prize - Jimmy C.
leuders for his oil Interior With Girl.
Student Sculpture Prize of Christ.
Emideo di Placido for his sculpture Head
Three free chamber music concerts by members of the Alumni Association
of The Curtis Institute of Music (arranged by Joseph levine) were held on
Friday evenings, March 17,24 al'!d 31 at 8:30. They were presented in
cooperation with local 77, American Federation of Musicians, with a grant
from the Music Performance Trust Fund of the American Phonograph
Industry.
The Fellowship Exhibition consisted of 140 works; the Student Exhibition
67 works. Three items were sold, representing a sales value of $87.00. The
total attendance was 4556.
EXHIBITION OF PORTRAIT DRAWINGS BY VIOLET OAKLEY
An Exhibitoin of Portrait Drawings by Violet Oakley was held in Gallery
M from March 10th through April 2nd. Miss Oqkley spoke of her experiences in making these studies of the delegates to the 1949 World Assembly for Moral Re-Armament at Caux, Switzerland, in Gallery M, on March
14th at 4 P. M. The total attendance was 3426.
MEMORIAL " EXHIBITIO.N OF WORK BY ALEXANDER PORTNOFF
A Memorial Exhibition of Sculpture, Drawings, and ,Prints by Alexander
Portnoff (1887-1949) was held ' in Galleries C and D from April 11th
through May 7th. The total attendance was 2768.
THE
STUDENT EXHIBITION
The Student Exhibition held in conjunction with the Competition
William Emlen Cresson Memorial European Traveling Scholarships
view in Galleries C, D, E, F, J and the Rotunda from May 18th
June 4th, opening with exercises for the students and their friends
17that4P.M.
for the
was on
through
on May
An address was made in Gallery F by Mr. R. Sturgis Ingersoll, President of
The Philadelphia Museum of Art, before the awarding of Cresson Scholarships and other prizes.
The Board of Directors, on recommendation of the faculty, awarded the
following:
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William Emlen Cresso"1't Memorial European Traveling Scholarships
($i250J:
P. Allen Harris
Donald W. luft
William A. Hirsch
Henry W. Peacock
Joan S. Knight
Arnold H. Pierson,
Sam ladenson
Simone C. Titone
Jimmy C. lueders
Honorable Mentions:
Marion Crawford
Charles E. Hewins
Kathryn Fligg
Homer W. Johnson
Philip E. Fowler
Palle Ib Mylner
Charles C. Parks
Jr.
Lewis S. Ware Memorial European Traveling Scholarship ($12.50J:
John A. Hanlen
J. Henry Schiedt Memorial Scholarship ($1200):
Oliver Grimley
Thomas Eakins and Susan M. Eakins Memorial Prize ($100):
John Antonik
Honorable Mention - Arnold H. Pierson, Jr.
Packard Prizes:
First Prize ($30) - Clarence F. Sherdon
Second Prize ($20) - Shirley Larkin Tassencourt •
Thouron Prizes:
Awarded by
Awarded by
Awarded by
Awarded by
the
the
the
the
Faculty ($50) - Ben Kamihari
Students ($25) - Royal lewando
Instructor ($50) - James A. Hanes
Instructor ($25) - Harry Thomas
Perspective Class Prize:
Awarded by Instructors, John F. Harbeson and William M.
Campbell ($20) - Charles E. Harpt
Honorable Mention - leo Franey
Honorable Mention - Nial C. Bartram
Cecilia Beaux Memorial Prize ($700):
Sam Ladenson
Honorable Mention - Peggy Bradford Long
Honorable Mention - Ben Kamihari
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Anatomy - Class Prize;
Nial C Bartram
Htmorable Mention -
Milton Becker
Lila Agnes Kennedy Hill Memorial Sculpture Prize ($50); ,
Charles C. Parks
Walker Hancock Sculpture Prize ($50);
Philip Fowler
Special Prize in Sculpture ($250);
Emidio di Placido
The Stewardson Prize ($1 DO), awarded on March 17th, by a Jury consisting of Joe Brown, Cecil Howard and Heinz Warneke - Charles C. Parks
The Stimson Prize ($100), awarded on November 10th, by a Jury consistof Nina Winkel, Adlai S. Hardin, and Maurice Glickman - Mary P. Love
Honorable Mention - Irving Drummond
The University of Pennsylvania, in conjunction with the Academy, through
the Co-ordinated Courses, awarded to the following Bachelor of Fine Arts
degrees;
Marie Capazzoli
Naomi C. Nissley
Shirley Larkin Tassencourt
Harriet Dolfman
Charles E. Hewins
Dolores less'e raux
Sally Kravitch
John S. Schneider
and to the following Master of Fine Arts degrees;
Donald Meeker
James R. Garnor
Oliver Grimley
Total attendance at the Exhibition was 12,387.
EXHIBITIONS OF WORK BY JOHN A. HANLEN AND
A. BROCKIE STEVENSON
Exhibitions of sketches and paintings by John A. Hanlen and A. Brockie
Stevenson, two Academy students who enjoyed a year's' travel in Peru on
William Emlen Cresson Memorial Traveling Scholarships, were held in
Galleries M and A from May 17th through June 4th. Total attendance
was 12,387.
EXHIBITION OF QUEEN MARY'S NEEDLEPOINT CARPET
An exhibition of the needlepoint carpet worked by Her Majesty, Queen
Mary, was held in Gallery L from May 30th through June 2nd. Mrs. E.
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Florens Rivinus, as First Vice-Chairman of the American Women's Voluntary Services, Philadelphia Unit, entertained at a reception at the Academy
on June 1st from 5:30 to 7 P. M., for a special viewing of the carpet. A
reception was held by the British Consulate General for the members of
the press on May 29th from 3 to 5 P. M. The total attendance was 10,308.
EXHIBITION OF ADVERTISING AND EDITORIAL ART
The 16th Annual Exhibition of Advertising and Editorial Art, staged by
The Art Directors' Club of Philadelphia, was held in Galleries E, J, K,
and the Rotunda from September 23rd through October 15th, with a
Private View on Friday, September 22nd, from 5:30 to 7 P. M. The total
attendance was 5183.
THE 48th ANNUAL WATER COLOR AND PRINT EXHIBITION
The
with
with
with
48th Annual Water Color and Print Exhibition, held in collaboration
the Philadelphia Water Color Club, was hung in all of the Galleries
the exception of H and I, from October 28th through November 26th,
a Private View on Saturday, October 27th, from 9 to 11 P. M.
JURY
OF
SELECTION
Chosen By Water Color Club
Chosen By Academy
Francis Chapin
Paul Froelich
Benton Spruance
PRIZES
Will Barnett
Margaret Gest
AND
AWARDS
The Jury of Selection awarded the following:
Special Prize, 1950 - Charles Burchfield for his Autumn Wind, in
recognition of his distinguished achievements as a watercolorist.
Philadelphia Water Color Prize - Karl Zerbe for his Palatial Front
as being the strongest work in the Exhibition executed iii water color.
Dana Water Color Medal- William Thon for his Venus as being
outstanding for its boldness, simplicity and frankness.
Alice McFadden Eyre Medal- Vera Berdich for her Time Different
from the Present as being the best print entered.
Honorable Mention - Miyoko Ito for group: A Tree in a Window, My Room at Ox Bow, and Objects in the Nursery.
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The Directors of the Water Color Club awarded t!J-e---fgJJowing:
Pennell Memorial Medal - Dong Kingman for his Triple Decker, for
achievement in the graphic arts.
Dawson Memorial Medal - Andree Ruellan for her October Still
Life, for distinction in painting or drawing of flowers, or of gardens.
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Philadelphia Water Color Club Medal of Award- Thornton Oakley.
Conferred at the discretion of the Club, upon that individual, or group
of individuals or museum, publisher, dealer, or corporation, or any
other agency whose sincerity of purpose is recognized ' in their ad vancement of art.
Gallery Talks, sponsored by the Fellowship, were held at 2:30 P. M., as
follows: November 3rd, John W. McCoy; 10th, Albert Gold; 17th, Benton
Spruance; 22nd, James Kirk Merrick; December 1st, Dorothy Grafly.
A' total of 25 water colors and prints were sold, representing a .sales val ue
of $1,627.50. The Exhibitiori consisted of 511 items; 244 artists were
represented. The total attendance was 6228.
The 49th ANNUAL EXHIBaTlON OF MINIATURES
The 49th Annual Exhibition of Miniatu res, held in collaboration with the
Pennsylvania Society of Miniature Painters, was hung in Gallery A from
October 28th through November 26th, opening with a Private View on
Saturday, October 27th, from 9 to 11 P. M., concurrent with the Water
Color and Print Exhibition.
JU RY
OF S ELECT IO N
Walter Emerson Baum
Elizabeth White McCarthy
Katharine K. Borda
Josephine Neall Phillips
Ruel P. Tolman
P RIZES
A N D A WAR DS
A Jury composed of Walter Emerson Baum, Katharine K. Borda, and
Elizabeth White McCarthy awarded the following:
D. J. McCarthy Prize - Virgiriia H. Irvin for My Son as being the best
portrait in the Exhibition.
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Miniature Society Prize outstanding worth.
Eulabee Dix for Mary E. Dix as being of
Miniature Society Prize - Grace Collier for Magnolia as being the
best miniature still life in the Exhibition .
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The Jury of Selection awarded the following:
Society's Medal of Honor - Alexandrina R. Harris for My Old Professor, J. B. W. for high achievement, to a miniature painter whose
work is · in the Exhibition.
The exhibition consisted of 86 miniatures; 49 artists were represented.
Three miniatures were sold, representing a sales v<llue of $50.00. The total
attendance was 6228.
MEMORIAL EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS BY MAURICE MOLARSKY
A Memorial Exhibition of Paintings by Maurice Mqlarsky (1885-1950) was
held in Galleries C and D from September 23rd through October 15th.
Mrs. Molarsky received guests on Friday, October 6th, from 3to 5 P. M.
The total attendance was 4583.
EXHIBITION OF CONTEMPORARY BRITISH PAINTING (1925-1950)
An Exhibition of Contemporary British Painting (1925-1950), selected ,by
Mr; George E. Dix, Jr., was held in Galleries C, D and F from December
9th, through January 7th (1951), opening on Friday, December 8th, with
a private dinner given by the Women's Committee, followed from 9 to 1,1
P. M. by a Private View. The total attendance was 2985.
PHILADELPHIA ARTISTS' GALLERY
GALi.ERY M
Paintings by Charles Coiner -
April 11 th through 23rd
Paintings by Jessie Drew-Bear -
April 25th through May 14th
Paintings by Abraham Hankins""':" December 5th through 17th
Drawings by Daniel Rasmusson -
December 19th through January 7 (1951)
STUDENT GALLERY
MAIN
Paintings by Hugh Weiss -
FLOOR
January 9th through February 5th
Prints from Life Magazine series, 1848 Drawings by N. C. Wyeth -
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February 6th through 12th
March 2'Oth through 26th
Oils, water colors and drawings of the Mardi Gras by William Billings,
Donald E. Schlegel, and Raymond M. Spiller - March 28th through
April 2nd
Drawings by Jos~ph Coli - April 7th through 22nd
Photographic series Making a Lithograph - October 27th through Novem~r9~
.
Paintings and drawings by Daniel J. Murphy December 3rd
November 13th through
European Posters (courtesy of Mr. Raymond A. Ballinger) 12th through 31 st
December
In addition to the sales for special exhibitions indicated in the foregoing
report, 32 additional works representing a sales value of $2,752.00 have
been sold from other exhibitions during the year.
TOTAL ATTENDANCE IN THE GALLERIES during 1950: 55,906 .
. ACQUISITIONS
Purchases
Through the Temple Fund, from the 145th Annual Exhibition:
Processional by Sol A. Bauer (wood carving)
Whom Shall I Fear? by Alice Decker (wood carving)
Sorceress by Darrell Austin (painting)
Self-Portrait by Henry Mattson (painting)
Through The Gilpin Fund, from the 145th Annual Exhibition:
Girl in White by Alexander Brook (painting)
Through the Lambert Fund, from the 145th Annual Exhibition:
The Tides by Kenneth Callahan (painting)
View of Philadelphia by James A. Hanes (painting)
Nicetown by Albert Gold (painting)
Noah-Wolf by Harvey Dinnerstein (painting)
Applebutter Time by Kathryn K. Rank (painting)
The Hex Sign by Henry W. Peacock (painting)
Turkey Knob Farm by Jessie Drew-Bear (painting)
Craige's Meadow by John W. McCoy (painting)
Through the Committee on Collections:
Sidewalk Market. by Louis Bosa (painting)
Jungle in Venezuela by Adolph Dehn (painting)
Olsen's Men by Zoltan Sepeshy (painting)
Fallen Tree by Max Weber (painting)
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Gift s
Mother and Daughter by Cecilia Beaux, from Miss Frances C. Griscom.
(painting)
The Clown by Nahum Tschacbasov, from an anonymous donor. (painting)
Picnic at Bedford Hills by Florine Stettheimer, from Miss Ettie Stettheimer.
(painting)
Portrait head of Richard T. Dooner by Alexander Portnoff, from Mrs. Alexander Portnoff. (bronze)
The Boxers by Joseph Brown, from Mr. J. Brooks B. Parker. (bronze)
Hecid, Amazon, by Helene Sardeau, from Mr. George Biddle. (terra cotta)
Black Beetle by Cornelia Van A. Chapin, from Mr. George Biddle. (stone)
Woman Bathing by Sigmund Menkes, and Henrietta As My Model) by Leon
Kelly, from Mr. Bernard Davis. (paintings)
Reclining Nude by Arthur B. Davies, from Macbeth Gallery. (water color)
Along the Tracks by Andrew Dasberg, from Miss Gertrude S. Ely (water
color)
Forty-one sketches on paper, board and canvas, and 6 maior sketches on
canvas (one signed "John Lambert"), photographs and prints of
drawings, by Cecilia Beaux, from Mr. Henry S. Drinker.
Copper urn, two Spanish shawls and 12 books (8 titles) from Mrs. Maurice
Molarsky.
The Works of John Trumbull by Theodore Sizer (one volume) from Mr.
John Stewart.
LOANS
Ninety loans were made from the Permanent Collection, as follows:
Free Library of Philadelphia, on indefinite loan, portrait of William III
by an unknown artist.
International House, Philadelphia, on indefinite loan, Farm Pattern by
Margaret R. Gest, Blue and Still Life by William E. Mackey, Zebras by Suzanne S. Martyl, Girl from Bali by Norman Jacobsen, Three Flowers by
Caroline Faught Armstrong, The Village by Ellen Donovan, Grandmother's
Dressing Gown by Frederick Gray, Intersection by' Jeanne McLavy, The
Lunch Basket by Carl F. Binder, Petunias by Laura Stroud Ladd, Steamboat
- Venice by Arthur M. Young, The China Cup by Cora Gibson Purviance.
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Nurses' Home of the University of Pennsylvania Hospital, on indefinite loan,
Asters by Everett Bryant, Flower Study by Christine Chambers, Sargeant
Street by Edmund Quincy, Monomy by Katherine Farrell, South Street
Corner by Alice Elizabeth Whitten, White Flowers by Florence Standish
Whiting, Skating - Central Park by Mildred Williams, A Provincetown
Street by Ross E. Moffett,August - Lanesville by Yarnall Abbott, The River
by James lechay, Taos Plaza in Snow by Ward Lockwood, and Lake by
Ellen Sinclair.
R~cquetClub, Philadelphia, on indefinite loan, Dead Game and Dog,
Dead Game and Fruit, and Boar Hunt by Frans Snyder, and Falls of Tivoli
by Richard Wilson.
lincoln University, Pennsylvania, for 96th Anniversary Dinner, February
8th, Abraham Lincoln by Samuel Waugh.
Whitney Museum of Art, New York City, for Retrospective Exhibition of the
Work of Edward Hopper, February 11th to March 26th, and on . to the
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, from April 13th to
May 14th, Apartment Houses by Edward Hopper.
Woodmere Art Gallery, Philadelphia, for an Exhibition of the Work of
~lIzabeth Coyne, February 12th to March 4th, Landscape Nantucket
by Elizabeth Coyne.
The Century Association, New York City, for an exhibition titled Aspects of
New York City Life, March 1st to May 1 st, Walt Whitman by Thomas Eakins.
Memorial Exhibition of the Work of Alexander Portnoff, Harvey Cedars,
New Jersey, during the summer, portrait head of Richard T. Dooner by
Alexander Portnoff.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. c., for exhibition Makers of History in Washington, June 28th through November 19th Walt Whitman by
Thomas Eakins, and James Monroe by Gilbert Stuart.
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D. c., for Sesqui-Centennial Exhibition American Processional, July 8th through December 17th, Penn's
Treaty with the Indians by Benjamin West, and Fairmount Water Works by
Thomas Birch.
James A. Hanes, for the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Competition,
September 7th to 30th, View of Philadelphia by James A. Hanes.
Fidelity-Philadelphia Trust Company, Philadelphia, one picture each month
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for its Picture of the Month exhibition, September to May (1951 I, Mrs.
Samuel Blodget by Gilbert Stuart, Fourth of July in Center Square by John
Lewis Kdmmel, The Coal Mine by Henry McCarter, ,Fox Hunters at White
Horse by Charles Morris Young, North River by Georg~ Bellows, Benjamin
Franklin by Charles Willson Peale, George Washington by ~embraJidt
Peale, New England Woman by Cecilia Beaux, and Craige's Meadow by
John McCoy.
Farnsworth Library and Art Museum, Rockland Maine, .for Waldo Peirce
Retrospective Exhibition, September 15th to October 30th, Spring in
Monsey~by Waldo Peirce.
Los Angeles County Fair Association, California, for exhibition, The Evolution of Contemporary Painting, September 1st to October 20th, The ,Cello
Player by Thomas Eakins.
Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, for a series of Exhibitions of
American Portraiture, Genre and Landscapes, October through January
(1951), Mrs. Richard Peters, Jr. by Gilbert Stuart, Gideon Fairman and
Elizabeth Willing Jackson by Thomas Sully, Strawberries and Cherries by
Margaretta A. Peale, Self-Portrait, Landscape with Figures, and Painter's
Triumph by William Sidney Mount, Self-Portrait, and Mumble the Peg by
Henry Inman, Country Wedding by John Lewis Krimmel, Dancing Doll
(paper) by Thomas Sully, Anna Maria Hodkinson by James Peale, Landscape No. 1 and Landscape No. 2 by Thomas Doughty, and Chew House,
Germantown by Russell Smith.
The Blum Store, Philadelphia, for display in its windows during Pennsylvania Week, October 15th through 21 st, Dark Hollow by John Folinsbee,
Leverington Avenue by Antonio P. Martino, Place of Echoes by Martin
Jackson, Black Crows by A. Brockie Stevenson, Dock Street by Charles
Semser, The Villa Maria by Catharine Grant, Landscape by Edward Loper,
Mother and Child by Stella Drabkin, Canal Bridge by Giovanni Martino,
Trappers' Trail by Arthur Meltzer, The Hex Sign by Henry W. Peacock,
Turkey Knob Farm by Jessie Drew-Bear and Applebutter Time by Kathryn
K. Rank.
Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts, for an Exhibition of Canaletto, November 1st to 25th, Old Fishmarket by Antonio
Canaletto.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, for Diamond Jubilee Exhibition Masterpieces
in America, November 3rd through February 11th (1951 I, The Fox Hunt
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by Winslow Homer, and Abraham Directed to Return to the Land of His
Fathers by G. B. Castiglione.
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, for Exhibition of Contemporary
American Painters, November 8th through January 4th (1951), Lighthouse
by Morris 'Kantor.
Philadelphia Sketch Club, for its 90th ·Anni~ersary Exhibition of Members'
Work, November 20th through December 31 st, Picture Book by Adolph
Borie, Tree of Life and Village Stream by Hugh Breckenridge, · Glimpse of
the St. Lawrence by L. Birge Harrison, Venice by Thomas Moran, In a Garret
by Thomas Anshutz, and Pioneer Mother by Charles GraAy.
A. Brockie Stevenson, for Exhibition for Candidates of Arts and Letters
Grants, at the National Institute of Arts and Letters, New York City, December 8th through January 15th (1951), Black Crows by A. Brockie Stevenson.
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SCHOOLS
The winter school sessions w ere successfully conducted and the report of
the faculty on the calibre of work performed very satisfactory. The enrollment was lower than during the preceding year in both the day and
evening sessions due to the wit hdrawal of veterans whose enl"itlement for
study under the G. I. Bill of Ri ghts had expired. However, some of that
reduction was overcome by a larger enrollment of other students.
Mr. Hobson Pittman was added to the faculty for the year 1950-51 as
Instructor in General Crificism and Advanced Painting. Mr. Walker Hancock was on leave the first term 1949-50. Mr. Charles Rudy of the summer
school faculty was with 'us during Mr. Hancock's absence.
The school at Chester Springs was open for twelve weeks: June 12th
th rough September 2nd, with a tot al attendance of 78 students and an
average of 39.
The enrollment of the schools was as follows:
Winte r School:
September 1949 through January 1950
January 1950 through May 1950
September 1950 through January 1951
Summe r School: June
12 ~ h
through September 2nd
278
261
253
78
This ,year marked the fortieth during which Mr. Daniel Garber had been a
member of the School's faculty. It would be difficult to put into a few
words the respect and gratitude for the man and the artist that have
been his during this long period of time. He served lhe institution and its
students, and 'i n so doing, art and the artist in America, in a most distinguished manner. The Academy has had great pride and satisfaction
in this association. The Board of Directors ent ertained the members of
the faculty for luncheon on June 16t.h in honor of Mr. Garber and this
ann iversary.
An Open House f or Friends and N eighbors of the Chester Springs Summer
School was held at t he School on Sunday afternoon, June 18th. This event
inaugurated the activities of the Academy' s Women' s Committee.
This has been a year particularly rich in honors for those who either were
still students in the schools, or who had left it during the preceding year .
In March, Ange!o Frudakis (sculptor) was awarded a Rome Pri ze Fellowship for 1950-51, generally known as a Prix de Rome, estimated at approximately $3000. In May, Edward Fenno Hoffman, 3rd (sculptor) and John A.
Hanlen (painter), with a University of Pennsylvania student of architecture,
won the Rome Collaborative Competition . Twenty-eight teams representing
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ten universities and art schools, competed. In June, Kenneth Lochhead
topped over 500 artists when he won the $1000 O'Keefe Art Award
Scholarship Competition in Canada. In October word was received that
from over 300 contestants from all parts of the country, three of the
Academy's students had won three of the four $2000 Louis Comfort Tiffany
Foundation Grants. They were James Hanes and John A. Hanlen (painters)
and Edward Fen!,1o Hoffman, 3rd (sculptor). In November Mr. Hanes was
also awarded a Gold Medal of Honor in the 37th Annual Exhibition of the
Allied Artists of America held at the National Academy in New York.
Toward the close of December, Donald W. Luft won the $2000 Edwin
Austin Abbey Memorial Scholarship for Mural Painting.
Traveling scholarships and other cash prizes amounting to well over
$14,000 - and, indeed, we believe no other art school in the country .
has similar advantages to offer - were awarded by the Academy in
May (see details in Director's report).
It is also encouraging to note that while the Academy's two annual exhibitions are purely professional, some of our advanced students oftimes enter
work for jury action. In 1950, taking their chances with several thousand
artists from all parts of the country, four students had work selected for the
Water Color and Print Exhibition, and the same number won places in the
Oil and Sculpture Exhibition.
The elimination of books no longer useful to the students, and the purchase
of others so badly nee.d ed, as reported by the Director, have proven a
great boon to our already active library. The record indicates 1035 books
and clippings were withdrawn, with only 11 items unaccounted for. This,
of course, is in addition to the great amount of reading and reference
work which took place in the room itself. We purchased 224 new books
during the year and received 9 as gifts.
PUBLIC
RELATIONS
The purpose of the program of every cultural institution is to educate,
inform and/or entertain. Members receive notices of events and activities
but the public must learn of these through established news channels.
The task of successfully accomplishing this objective, particularly with but
two major local newspapers, continues to be the "problem child" of every
public relations representative.
Added to what the two papers have done for the Academy (and, indeed,
we are grateful for it, as their civic responsibility is great) has been the
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cooperation of the national press and art publications, our community
newspapers, organization and special publications, radio, and television.
W.e deeply appreciate the contribution of each and everyone. But withal
the disparity between the considerable flow of material from this desk on
behalf of both galleries and schools, and the amount which actually finds
its way into print, is very great.
The department has continued collaboration with representatives of public
and private schools, women's clubs and other groups, as a part of the plan
to encourage a larger number of people to make greater use of Academy
facilities.
This department suggested the plan whereby the Alumni Association of
The Curtis Institute of Music co"aborated ' with our Fe"owship (alumni) in
presenting three free chamber music concerts on Friday nights during the
1950 Annual Fe"owship Exhibition. The musicians' fees were provided by
the Music Perf9rmance Trust Fund of the American Phonograph Industry
in cooperation with Local 77 of the American Federation of Musicians. The
Academy, the Fe"owship, and the Curtis Alumni shared the other expenses.
Infrequently'-heard works for various combinations of instruments were programmed. The concerts were enthusiastically received and we" attended.
For both the 1949 and 1950 campaigns of the Community Chest, the head
of this department served as chairman of the Libraries and Museums
Group, and is now serving as secretary for the Women's Committee of
the Academy.
Where membership is concerned, this has been one of the most encouraging years since the department came into bein'g. We have enrolled 237
new members in a" classes. Their dues made a sum of $3940 available
for current operating expenses, or in the case of life memberships, for the
endowment fund. Unfortunately, we must report the loss of 79 members
throug,h death, resignation or delinquency. The year's enrollment is as
follows:
Annual Members .
1037
(221 new during year)
SustQining Members .
40
(11 new during year)
Contributing Members
6
(1 new during year)
Life Members
167
(4 new during year)
1250
Total members
,803
Stockholders
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BUILDINGS
MAIN
BUILDING, BROAD AND CHERRY STREETS
and
ANNEX,
1834
ARCH STREET
No major alteration or improvement was accomplished through the year
in the Main Building wtih the exception of reclaiming" for more useful purposes two of the rooms on the mezzanine floor over the Director's office,
and the student exhibition room. As a result of work accomplished by
our own maintenance crew through the summer months, a new Board
Room has been achieved, access to which is made possible from the
landing of the main stairs. This improvement has several distinct advantages. For many years the Board of Directors met for its stated meetings
in the library, which necessitated the closing of that very active branch
of our school activities for every Board session. The forming of our new
Women's Committee also called for a convenient and comfortable place
where that group ~ould meet at all times. The Fellowship (alumni) of the
Academy had also had no regular place of meeting. Alon~ with the room
itself which now serves so adequately for all of these groups, a very adequate storage closet was provided for the Fellowship records. This new
room has eliminated .the Fellowship's crowding into the rear section of the
School office for its meetings.
Another small room, formerly used for storage, was redecorated and furnished to provide a much-needed rest room for the administrative staff
or for the accommodation of anyone taken ill in our galleries.
The readjustments in still a third room in this series has given us a very
much more adequate office store room.
The usual painting and general freshing-up of our school rooms, together
with similar work at 1834 Arch Street, was accomplished with our own staff.
CHESTER SPRINGS
The routine painting here, as laid out in our general program, was accom- "
plished in the spring of the year by the maintenance crew from Broad and
Cherry Streets, and we " completed the five-year plan for re-wiring the
buildings. The pond, which supplies the water for our swimming pool, had
become so filled with silt over a period of years that it became necessary
for us to dredge it this year. This work was done before the opening of
the summer session. The major item of maintenance was the repair and
painting of some of the tin roofs and the replacement of some old gutters
and leaders, which was ' completed by the early part of the summer. No
other expenditures above normal maintenance were made for Chester
Springs.
THE
FELLOWSHIP
The Fellowship (organized in 1897) is the Academy's alumni association.
It conducts an annual program of lectures, motion pictures, demonstrations,
and twice weekly during the winter school season, a Croquis Class, for its
members and Academy students. It has a Students' Committee whose
members are chosen from the student body wifh one of the group serving
on the Fellowship's Board of Managers, the purpose being to keep the
Board informed concerning the welfare of the students, recommend them
for teaching positions, or direct them to other opportunities or sources
of income.
It stages an Annual Fellowship Exhibition in the Academy's galleries and
contributes $350 to the institution for the use of its various ' facilities for
each exhibition. In 1950 it sponsored the free chamber music concerts of
the Alumni Association of The Curtis Institute of Music during the Fellow- '
ship Exhibition. It· also provides the Fellowship Prize of $100 in each
Academy Annual Oil and Sculpture Exhibition.
It reports a membership of 664 and an annual income of approximately
$1500.
Mr. Charles W. Bentz is its President.
THE
COMMITTEE
ON
FELLOWSHIP
The Committee on Fellowship administers the Henry J. Thouron Memorial
Fund, the Special Fund, the Picture Purchase Fund, and the Mary Butler
Memorial Fund, all for the benefit of Fell9wship members, and present or
former students, and seeks to be useful to both the Fellowship and the
Academy when needed.
It (1) purchases pictures or sculpture to encourage or assist artists, or
. improve the Loan Collection from which works are currently on exhibition
in some forty schools, settlement houses, hospitals and other organizations
or institutions; (2) provides art classes, generally in settlement houses, to
give study opportunities for the youth of those neighborhoods, as well as
teaching experience and income for present and/or former Academy
students; (3) gives a type of financial assistance not permissible ' from the
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regular Fellowship treasury, to current and former students; (4) assists
needy current Academy students with tuition, artists' materials, or living
expenses; (5) pr,ovides the Annual Gold Medal Award in the Annual Fellowship Exhibitions.
An Emergency Committee of Students has been organized, in association
with the Committee on Fellowship, to meet illness and accident emergency
needs in the .student body.
Between the years 1912 and 1950, inclusive, the Committee reports the
purchase of 407 works representing a sum of $24,974.20, and an expenditure of $39,881.05 for all p~rposes .
Mrs. A. Bruce Gill is its Chairman and Treasurer.
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CONSOLIDATED TREASURER1SREPORT
September 1, 1949 -'0 August 31, 1950
INCOME
Art Gallery and Exhibitions
Philadelphia School
Chester Springs School
Trust Funds
Membership Dues
Contributions
$ 18,461.01
82,569.43
20,758.86
60,554.13
Total Income
$194,030.43
9,630~00
2,057.00
EXPE NSES
Art Gallery and Exhibitions
Philadelphia School
Chester Springs School
$ 98,160.53
55,674.91
29,557.67
Total Expenses
Net Operating Surplus
$183,393.11
10,637.32
BEQUEST
Under the terms of the Will of the late Alfred G. B. Steel., the Academy was
bequeathed the svm o.f $10,000 for its Consolidated Investment Trust
for Unrestricted Funds, the income to be used for operation and maintenance of the Academy.
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CONTRIBUTIONS FOR SPEC IFIC PURPOSES
February 1950 to Jaryuary 1951, inclusive
$ 672.00
John F. Lewis, Jr., for dredging pond, Chester Springs
for student prizes
300.00
for Charles Burchfield Prize
200.00
for British Exhibition
William Clarke Mason, for
for
for
for
1,550.00
30().00
250.00
150.00
106.00
student prizes
sculpture prizes
Flower Show prizes
new camera
George D. Widener, for scholarships
2,000.00
American Philosophical Society, for indexing project
500.00
Fellowship of the Academy, for Fellowship Exhibition
350.00
Water Color Club, for Water Color Exhibition
200.00
50.00
Miniature Society, for Miniatures Exhibition
100.00
Charles Bregler, for student prize
Walter Stuempfig, for student prize
50.00
Walker Hancock, for student prize
50.00
John Stewart, for Print Club prize
25.00
Mrs. Alfred G. B. Steel, for Garden Party, Chester Springs
for the Steel Memorial Prize Fund, 16 shores
Standard Oil of New Jersey stock
50.00
William E. Lingelbach, Jr., for British Exhibition
of
1,082.00
50.00
C. Mahlon Kline, for British Exhibition .
100.00
Henry P. Mcilhenny, for British Exhibition
100.00
Mrs. Charles Grace, for British Exhibition
50.00
Mrs. Lawrence M. C. Smith, for British Exhibition
50.00
Clifford P. Allen, Jr., for general purposes
C. Alison Scully, for general purposes .
5.00
50.00
James B. Mehorter, for general purposes
6.25
Sydney E. Martin for general purposes .
200.00
Total
$8,596.25
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MEMBERS
This list includes those enrolled since the printing of
the 1949 Annual Report
Life Member s
Franklin, Walter S.
Horner, Mrs. Joseph
MacFarland, Mrs. William J.
Martin, Sydney E.
Vogel, Irving H.
Contributing · Member
Pricket, Stanley G.
Sustaining Members
Baton, Henry E., Jr.
Beale, Mrs. Leonard T.
Cann, Harry E.
Deicher, Irving B.
Hare, Mrs. Horace Binney
McMichael, Mrs. Morton
Adames, George E.
Adams, Miss Margaret
Albert, Daniel J.
Alexander, Mrs. William C.
Allen, Clifford P., Jr.
Ancker, Laurence l.
Andraae, C. Preston, Jr.
Antonelli, Severo
Antrim, Mrs. E. Hulings
Atmore, Frank B.
Dall, Mrs. William
Delaplaine, Mrs. Henry
Dickey, Mrs. Samuel
Doherty, George H. M.
Dunn, Mrs. J. Struthers
Dunn, Roland I.
du Pont, Eleuthere I.
Rosenwald, Mrs. Julius, II
Rosenwald, Mrs. Lessing
Stassen, Harold
Annual Members
Baber, Mrs. Malcolm J.
Badenhausen, Mrs. Bayard
Barnes, Miss Catherine
Bartow, Miss Alice Smith
Bates, Miss Lauralou Courtney
Biddle, Mrs. Alexander
Birkhead, Mrs. Arthur G.
Blanckensee, Jack
Bolton, Earle W., Jr.
Bongard, Miss E. Helen
Bortin, David
Brock, Mrs. Lynmar
Brogan, Mrs. Edward T.
Brown, Mrs. Darwin Charles
Brubaker, Mrs. W. G.
Burnside, Cameron
Campbell, Miss Cora A.
Caplan, Albert J.
Caprano, Mrs. Julius John
Cornman, Mrs. Ralph M.
Crane, Dr. A. Reynolds
Crossan, Dr. Edward T.
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Eisenberg, Mrs. B. D.
Elfreth, Mrs. W . Henry
Ellis, Mrs. Richard
Fahnestock, Mrs. McClure
Felix, Mrs. Samuel P.
Finkelstein, Mrs. Clara
Flagg, Miss Adelaide Gordon
Fleming, Miss Geraldine M.
Florin, Mrs. Francis Andre
Fox, Mrs. William Logan
Friedland, Mrs. George
Gaul, Miss Arrah Lee
Geist, Mrs. Clarence H.
Gibson, Miss Margaret
Gill, Mrs. Sue May
Goldman, Dr. Joel
Goodfellow, Mrs. Arthur N.
Gould, Erl C. B.
Goutman, Dolya
Graham, Mrs. Thomas
Granger, Percival H.
Green, Mrs. Raymond S.
Greenwood, Mrs. Richard
Greenwood, Mrs. Walter B.
Gutner, Chester Coleman
Haas, Mrs. Stephen
Hammond, Mrs. M. Acton
Harmer, Mrs. J. P.
Harvey, Mrs·. John S. C.
Hay, Miss Dorothy Gordon
Heltzel, Mrs. Eleonor Reed
Herring, Mrs. James Morton
Heymann, Mrs. Roy
Hirst, Miss Alice M.
Hohenlohe, Princess
Holloway, Mrs. Sidney J.
Horn, Miss Marion R.
Howland, Mrs. Ralph B.
Irish, Mrs. Warren L.
Jackson, Mrs. Irene Williams
Jackson, Miss Joan Louise
Jameson, Mrs. James J.
Keedy, Edwin R.
Kent, Mrs. Dorothy C.
Kester, Miss Irene
Ketterer, Mrs. Gusta v
Ketterlinus, Miss Eugenia
Kimboll, Albert
Kohler, William
Kohn, Mrs. George Ellis
Korninsky, Joseph
larer, Miss Marian l.
lee, Miss Jean Gordon
leidner, Mrs. Nelson
leonhardt, Miss Edna F.
leves, Mrs. Elizabeth S.
l ittle, Miss N. Bernice
loeb, Mrs. Joel Traitel
ludlum, Mrs. Seymour De W.
McGoldrick, Joseph A.
McGonigal, Mrs. John F.
McGranary, Mrs. Catherine
Corcoran .
McManus, Charles J., Jr.
McFarlane, Dr. Norman M.
Macloskey, Miss M. Christine
Marder, Mrs. David
Marquis, Mrs. Donald J.
Master, Mrs. I. Edward
Masterman, Miss Dorothy
Mates, Miss Anna H.
Matthews, Mrs. Charles J.
Meigs, Mrs. Arthur I.
Middleton, Mrs. G. Plantou
Miller, Mrs. Isabel lazar~s
Molarsky, Mrs. Maurice
Montani, M.rs. Nicola A.
Morris, M.rs. Caspar W.
Morris, Mrs. J. B.
Nelsen, Mrs. Blanche Hunter
Noble, Miss Emma l.
Norton, Mrs. Adelaide I.
Otley, J. D.
Ott, Mrs. George W.
Overton, Mrs. Beatrice Clare
Pancoast, George T.
Pardi, Justi n
Patton, John William
Patzau, Otto J.
Pedrick, Miss Lyola C.
Peiser, Kurt
Perl off, Dr. William Harry
Persichetti, Vincent
Phillips, Miss Marguerita
Poinsard, Mrs. Paul J.
Rainear, Mrs. Warren R.
Rains, Claude
Rauscher, Mrs. Robert G.
Reed, Wesley
Reese, Charles lee, Jr.
Renouf, Miss Edna M.
Rex, Mrs. Walter E., J r.
Rhoads, Dr. Jonathan E.
Roberts, Miss Frances F.
Robertson, Mrs. Marion N.
Rowland, Mrs. Edmund
Russell, Mrs. John C.
Samuel, Edward, Jr.
Sapp, Allen D.
Saxman, Mrs. Edwin F., Jr.
Schaub, Mrs. Frank Carter
Schlegel, Mrs. Carl A.
Schmidt, Allan
Schuirmann, Mrs. R. E.
Schultz, John A.
Scott, Mrs. William T.
Scull, William E.
Seltzer, Miss Elmo
Shepard, Mrs. Willard C.
Shoemaker, R. M.
Shollenberger, Mrs. C. l.
Slepin, Mrs. William
Smith, C. Ross
Smith, Miss Dorothy Alden
Smith, Dudley S.
Snyder, Mrs. C. Paul
Solis-Cohen, Hays, Jr.
Spiess, Mrs. C. William
Spruance, Benton M.
Starr, Dr. Isaac
Stephenson, Mrs. Wilson
Stewart, Miss Betty Rahn
Stillwell, Mrs. Winfred N.
Stimson, Mrs. Boudinot
Sundheim, Harry G.
Sweet, John E.
Taylor, Miss Helen B. ,
Thayer, Mrs. Frederick M.
Thomas, Mrs. George H.
Tifft, Mrs. John Alden
Tindall, Mrs. Morris
Valentine, Mrs. Harry S.
Van Seiver, Mrs. Grace T.
Von Bernuth, Miss Lecian
Walker, Robert Miller
Ward, Mrs. Mary Kimball
Warner, Mrs. Paul McC.
Wasserman, Mrs. Charles K.
Weiller, Mrs. Eugene W.
Wessels, Mrs. Walther J.
Whyte, Thomas, Jr.
Willson, Mrs. Laurence M.
Wilson, Mrs. John G.
Winkelman, Dr. N. W.
Wirkman, Emanuel W.
Woodall, Mrs. John
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{
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