154th Annual Report for the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
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THE PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE
FIN EAR TS
BROAD AND CHERRY STREETS
154th ANNUAL REPORT
1959
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PHILADELPHIA
Cover:
Turkey by Arthur Carles. Purchased
through contributions of the President
and Directors from the private collection of Dr. and Mrs. Norman H. Taylor.
The One Hundred and Fifty-fourth
Annual Report
of
THE PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS
FOR THE YEAR
1959
Presented to the Meeting of the Stockholders
of the Academy on February 1, 1960
OFFICERS
Henry S. Drinker
Frank T. Howard
C. Newbold Taylor
Joseph T. Fraser, Jr.
President (October 1958 to September 1959)
President (September 1959)
. Treasurer
. Director and Secretary
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Mrs. Leonard T. Beale
Henry B. Keep
Henry S. Drinker
John F. Lewis, Jr.
James P. Magill
David Gwinn
Sydney E. Martin
J. Welles Henderson, Jr.
John W. Merriam
Frank T. Howard
Mrs. Herbert C. Morris
R. Sturgis Ingersoll
Howard C. Petersen**
Arthur C. Kaufmann
George B. Roberts
Henry W. Sawyer
Raymond A. Speiser*
John Stewart
C. Newbold Taylor
Sydney L. Wright**
William Coxe Wright
Alfred Zantzinger
Ex officio
Mrs. Elias Wolf
. Representing Women's Committee
Mrs. Richardson Dilworth, Fredric R. Mann
Representing City Council
George M. Harding, * Franklin C. Watkins .
Representing Faculty
* Deceased
** Resigned
STANDING COMMITTEES
COMMITTEE ON COLLECTION AND EXHIBITIONS
John F. Lewis, Jr., Chairman
Mrs. Leonard T. Beale
Mrs. Herbert C. Morris
R. Sturgis Ingersoll
George B. Roberts
Franklin C. Watkins, Adviser
Alfred Zantzinger
COMMITTEE ON FINANCE
C. Newbold Taylor, Chairman
Frank T. Howard
John Stewart
COMMITTEE ON INSTRUCTION
James P. Magill, Chairman
Mrs. Leonard T. Beale
Mrs. Richardson Dilworth
David Gwinn
Franklin C. Watkins
SOLICITOR
'Maurice B. Saul
WOMEN'S COMMITTEE
Mrs. Elias Wolf
. Chairman
Mrs. Evan Randolph, Jr.
Treasurer and Corresponding Secretary
Mrs. H. Lea Hudson Mrs. Julius Rosenwald, 2nd
Mrs. John G. Bartol, Jr.
Mrs. Francis T. Chambers Mrs. Arthur C. Kaufmann
Mrs. R. Barclay Scull
Mrs. Joseph Sill Clark, Jr;
Mrs. John F. Lewis, Jr. Mrs. Lawrence M. C. Smith
Mrs. Hart McMichael
Miss Anna K. Stimson
Mrs. Richardson Dil~oi1h
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Mrs.
Mrs.
Mrs.
Mrs.
Emlen P. Etting
A. O. Griswold
David J. Grossman
David Gwinn
Mrs. James P. Magill
Mrs. Samuel W. Pray
Mrs. George B. Roberts
Mrs. Boudinot Stimson
Mrs. Franklin C. Watkins
Mrs. Walter H. West
Mrs. Sydney l. Wright
STAFF
GENERAL
Joseph T. Fraser, Jr.
Mabel l. Eiseley
Charles J. Marsh
Ann Evans
August V. Viilu
E. Elizabeth Fermanis
Frances M. Vanderpool
Elizabeth Z. Swenson.
. Director and Secretary
Assistant Director
Assistant to the Secretary
Secretary to the Director
. Comptroller
Billing Clerk and Receptionist
Exhibition and Membership Clerk
. Director of Public Relations and Membership
5 C H 0 0 L 5 (Day and Evening)
Raymond T. Entenmann
Catherine R. Newbold
Ethel Ashton .
. Curator
Secretary to the Curator
. Librarian
FA C U LT Y (Day School) (Winter 1959-60)
Francis Speight
Walker Hancock
Roswell Weidner
Harry Rosin
Edward Shenton
Franklin C. Watkins
John W. McCoy
Walter Stuempflg
Hohson Pittman
Julius Bloch
Morris Blackburn
John Hanlen
Henry Varnum Poor
AUGMENTING FA C U L T Y (Day School)
William Campbell
Philip Aliano*
Edmond J. Farris
Jack Bookbinder
Theodor Siegl
Allen Harris
Frances Serber
FA C U L T Y (Evening School)
Francis Speight
Roswell Weidner
Morris Blackburn
Thomas Gaughan
Jim C. Lueders
Ben Kamihira
J. Stephen Lewis
FA C U LT Y (Summer Day School)
Francis Speight
Roswell Weidner
Julius Bloch
Morris Blackburn
Jim C. Lueders
BUILDING
Isaiah J. Sellers, Superintendent
* Deceased-October 5, 1959
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REPORT OF THE OFFICERS AND
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Although the year 1959 was not one of spectacular achievement, a number
of changes took place, some of which we had to accept with regret. Our
knowledge of the essential soundness of the Academy, however, gives us
confidence in our institution's abil ity to weather such changes without
damage to its capacity for continued advancement.
As previously reported, Mr. John F. Lewis, Jr.* resigned the presidency late
in the year 1958. Mr. Henry S. Drinker was elected to that position, moving
from the vice presidency which he had held since 1933. It is our pleasant
duty to record the vigor and understanding which Mr. Drinker brought to
that post, which he held until September 1959. Upon his resignation at
that time, Mr. Frank T. Howard was unanimously elected President.
As a number of director seats were unfilled, we review here the changes
within the year. Two members of the Board resigned: Mr. Sydney l. Wright
and Mr. Howard C. Petersen. It is a matter of great regret, also, to report
that two deaths further contributed to the vacancies. Mr. George M. Harding,
the first faculty representative on our Board of Directors, died on March 26,
1959. Distinguished illustrator and painter, Mr. Harding had served the
Academy as an inspired and loyal instructor since 1922, first in the illustration classes and later as head of the Department of Mural Decoration.
Mr. Raymond A. Speiser, recorded as a new director in November of 1958,
died May 2, 1959. A collector of importance, he had proved his friendship
for contemporary artists and had ' given liberally of his time and advice
through the Artists' Equity Association. His many friends have now singularly honored him by the establishment of a fund which makes possible
the award of the Raymond A. Speiser Memorial Prize.
* At a ceremony preceding the private view of our 154th Annual Exhibition, Mr. Lewis was
awarded the Academy Gold Medal of Honor as a tribute to his many important contributions to the Academy over a peri.o d of years..
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The School registration, attendance and activities can be recorded as very
satisfactory, with the usual gratifying awards of prizes and scholarships
being given in the spring. Including the European Traveling Scholarships,
the many awards amounted to approximately $19,500.
A necessary change in the faculty of the School occurred in the Department
of Mural Decoration as the result of the death of Mr. George Harding.
To conduct the work in that Department we were most fortunate in obtaining a most able and distinguished painter, Mr. Henry Varnum Poor.
The physical problems of the School continued to be uppermost in our
thoughts. Proposals to link us more intimately with the University of Pennsylvania, by moving our school activities near or on the University campus,
were thoroughly explored and rejected for the time being. Tribute must
be paid here to Mr. James P. Magill, head of the Committee on Instruction.
His understanding of these and other school problems, and his continuing
enthusiasm have been invaluable.
Physical improvements to the building at large, this year, consisted in the
complete renovation and modernization of the men/s and women/s public
washrooms in the front of our building. Other normal maintenance items
were well accomplished during the same period.
A variety of interesting events graced the exhibition season. In the fall
an unusual show, made up from collections owned by fourteen Philadelphia
artists opened. There followed a water color exhibition under the auspices
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of the Hallmark Company, and a one-man show of paintings by Michael
Mayor, an elderly artist whose lifelong devotion to painting had gone
unrecognized until this exhibition by the Academy. Highly successful artisticallYI the Mayor show was also financially rewarding; many canvases werf}
sold.
The Annual Exhibition takes precedence, in national interest over all other
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Academy shows of any given year. Our 154th, this year consisting of water
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colors, prints and drawings, made a remarkable record for sales, 180
items having been purchased by art institutions and private collectors. Our
expectation of continuing collaboration with the Detroit Institute of Arts on
annual exhibitions of oil paintings and sculpture (held in alternate years)
has materialized, and as our year closed, the 155th Annual Exhibition,
scheduled to open here on January 22, 1960, had already opened in
Detroit.
The Women's Committee, indispensable to the life of the Academy, loyally
assisted in all the above activities. We are indebted to them for organizing
the delightful and successful Subscription Dinner preceding the private
view of the Annual Exhibition, and arranging another important event on
the year's calendar-an evening when Franklin Watkins reported on his
recent trip to Russia as an American artist representing the State Department. For their many other contributions, as well, we record our thanks to
this Committee.
That we were again privileged to offer a series of distinguished chamber
music concerts in the spring and in the fall was due largely to the organization and planning of Elizabeth Swenson and Vladimir Sokoloff. Financed
through the Recording Industries' Trust Fund, the series was open to the
public without charge.
No Annual Report is complete without the recording of our gratitude to
the Philadelphia City Council for continuing financial aid. Praise must also
be given to our loyal staff and faculty who make our activities possible.
FRANK T. HOWARD, President
JOSEPH T. FRASER, JR., Director
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EXHIBITIONS
154th ANNUAL EXHIBITION OF WATER COLORS, PRINTS, A.ND
DRAWINGS (Private View, January 23rd; open to the public January 25th
through March 1st.)
The 154th Annual Exhibition marked the continuing of our collaboration
with the Philadelphia Water Color Club. This exhibition consisted of water
colors, prints, and drawings, following the general pattern of the long
succession of joint efforts with that organization.
JURY OF SELECTION
John Maxwell
Hobson Pittman
Gabor Peterdi
PRIZES AND AWARDS
The Academy Gold Medal of Honor was presented to Mr. John F. Lewis, Jr.,
for his contributions to American art at the dinner preceding the private view.
Awarded by Philadelphia Water Color Club:
Philadelphia Water Color Club Medal of Award-Frederic Whitaker.
Philadelphia Water Color Prize ($200)-James Brewton for The Deposition.
Honorable Mentions - Fritzi Morrison for Moonlight; Warren Rohrer for
Still Life With Onions.
Pennell Memorial Medal-Henry Varnum Poor for Flood Tide-Pamet.
Dawson Memorial Medal-Philip Jamison for Plummers Lilies.
Awarded by Jury of Selection:
Dana Water Color Medal-Morton Grossman for Approaching Fog.
Alice McFadden Eyre Medal-AI Blaustein for Happy Man.
Honorable Mentions - Richard Canner for Meal; Chaim Koppelman for
Napoleon Entering New York; Moishe Smith for The Four Seasons:
Summer.
Honorable Mention for Collage-Franklin Drake for Night in Gifu.
Special Commendation for Distinction in Drawing: Harold Altman for group
of eight drawings; A. P. Baker for group of three drawings.
The sales and attendance records were very good, with 121 items sold for
a figure slightly under $12,000, and the sold works ranging in price from $15
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to $1,000. The Academy bought 9 works, the Fleisher Memorial Fund 20,
The Philadelphia Water Color Club 1, and private individuals the remaining 91. Total attendance: 12,235.
FELLOWSHIP EXHIBITION
March 14 through April 12.)
(Private View March 13; open to public
This partly-invited, partly-juried exhibition consisted (as in past years) of
work by professional artists who, during their student days, attended the
Academy's Schools. A Fellowship-sponsored Student Show in the Student's
Gallery on the Main Floor was on view during this exhibition.
This year the Board of Managers decided to ask a charitable group, namely,
the Women's Auxiliary of the Einstein Medical Center, to be present during
the Exhibition and to hold a private view of their own on March 11 th, in
order to help promote sales. The money realized from the 15% sales commission usually charged by the Academy went to the Einstein Medical Center
instead of to the Fellowship.
JURIES
Oil Painting
Sam Freid
l. A. D. Montgomery
Sculpture
Harry Rosin
Water Color and Graphics
Jane Sperry Eisenstat
Raphael Sabatini
Anita Weschler
Abraham Hankins
Roswell Weidner
P"RIZES
Mary Butler Memorial Prize ($lOO.OO)-Henry Peacock for Thorn Tree.
Honorable Mention - Jim Lueders for Composition.
Harrison S. Morris Memorial Prize (divided)- George Harding ($50.00)
for Laurel; Walter Reinsel ($50.00) for Ballet.
Leona Karp Braverman Memorial Prize ($50.00)-Frank Gasparro for
Daphne.
May Audubon Post Prize ($50.00)-Jack Massey for Summer.
Caroline Gibbons Granger Memorial Prize ($50.00)-Quita Brodhead
for Abstract.
(STUDENT SHOW)
Mabel Wilson Woodrow Prize (divided)-Theresa Tai ($25.00) for Landscape; Rodney House ($25.00) Still Life.
Works sold- 8; total $2,925.00.
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PHILADELPHIA ART TEACHERS1 ASSOCIATION EXHIBITION
(April 15th through May 6th; Reception-April 21st.)
The Academy was pleased to play host again this year to the annual exhibition organized by the Philadelphia Art Teachers' Association.
JURY
Tom Gaughan
Walter Stuempfig
Jim Lueders
Art Teachers' Association Award-Mary Del Bello
Honorable Mentions-James Coughlin; Fanny Williams.
THE STUDENT EXHIBITION (May 15 through June 7, 1959.)
At Special Exercises held on May 13th at 4 P.M., Mr. Henry S. Drinker
announced that twelve traveling scholarships and other prizes, amounting
to $21,685.00, had been awarded to students in the Schools of The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. The address was given by Mr. W. McNeil
Lowry, Director of the Program in Humanities and the Arts of the Ford
Foundation. After the address, the following awards were made on recommendation of the Faculty:
William Emlen Cresson Memorial European Traveling Scholarships
(Est. 1902) ($1,700.00 each):
Painters-Pierre Brownell; Nicholas Bucciarelli; Bernard Fierro; Jack Fishbein;
Joan Hession; Marianne Keating; Ellen Powell; Edward G. Ruestow.
Muralist-Bernard Kozuhowski.
Honorable Mentions: Robert Corda no; Ronald Williams.
J. Henry Schiedt Memorial Traveling Scholarships (Est. 1949) ($1,400.00
each):
Painters-Cecilia Finberg; Herbert Lautman.
Sculptor-Sally Laird.
Honorable
($100.00) .
Mentions - Joseph
Amarotico
($200.00);
Frank
Vavrika
Charles Toppan Prizes (Est. 1882):
First Prize ($300.00)-William McK. Hoffman, Jr.
Second Prize ($200.00)-Herbert Lautman
Third Prize ($ 100.00)-Christine McGinnis
Packard Prizes (Est. 1899):
First Prize ($25.00 each)-Rita Lidkus; Edward Ruestow
Honorable Mention-Christine McGinnis; Jerome Schurr
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Edmund Stewardson Prize (Est. 1901) ($100.00). Awarded March 13,
1959, by Henry Kreiss, sculptor, to-So Joseph Winter
Honorable Mention - Eva Teisleri H. Reed Armstrongi and Coleman
Homsey
Henry J. Thouron Prize (Est. 1903):
Awarded by the Faculty ($50.00)-Seymour Rotman
Awarded by the Instructors ($50.00)-Joseph Amaroticoi ($25.00)-Louis
Green
Awarded by vote of Students ($25.00)-Peter Bottos
Ramborger Prize (Est. 1911) ($25.00)-Vernon Roessler
Honorable Mention-Thomas Smucker
Stimson Prize (Est. 1917) ($100.00). Awarded November 14, 1958, by a
jury composed of Henry Rox and Philip Fowler, sculptors, to-So Joseph
Winter
Honorable Mention-Anatole Bilokur
Thomas Eakins Memorial Prize (Est. 1946) ($100.00)-Marianne Keating
Honorable Mention-Christine McGinnisi Socrates Perakis i Nicholas Bucciarelli
Hill Memorial Prize (Est. 1952) ($50.00)-Michael Piper
Philadelphia Print Club Graphic Prize (Est. 1953), consisting of one year's
membership in the Club and the use of its workship facilities-Nina Klynowska
Wanamaker Award (Est. 1954), consisting of art materials to the value of
$50.00-Pierre Brownell
Honorable Mention-Theresa Taii Irving Mutshnick
Lux Prize in Graphics (Est. 1955) ($50.00)-Gordon Jansson
Grant Memorial Prize (Est. 1955) ($100:00)-Joseph Amarotico
Honorable Mention-Christine McGinnis
Woodrow Prize in Graphics (Est. 1955) ($50.00)-Jim Ferrell
Mason Portrait Prize (Est. 1958) ($100.00)-Victor Lasuchin
Honorable Mention-Jack Fishbein
Mason Sculpture Prize-Anatole Bilokur
Caplan Kleinbard Award (Est. 1958) ($25.00)-William Micheel
Gimbel Award (Est. 1958) ($50.00)-Nina Klymowska
Honorable Mention-Daniel Voitek
Syme Prize (Est. 1959) ($25.00)-Daniel D. Miller, Jr.
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Pesin Prize (Est. 1959) ($150.00)-Herbert Lautman
Honorable Mention-Christine McGinnis
Kreier Memorial Prize (Est. 1959) ($50 ..00)-Charles Kaufmann, Jr.
Perspective Prize ($20.00)-Daniel Voitek
Honorable Mention-Robert T. Myers
Instructor's Prize in Graphics ($lO.OO)-Daniel Voitek
Instructor's Prize in Painting ($50.00)-Joseph Amarotico
THE PHILADELPHIA WATER COLOR CLUB1S 42nd ANNUAL EXHIBITION (Private View October 15th. Open to the public October 16th
through November 15th, 1959.)
This exhibition consisted of 200 water colors, drawings, and prints by
members of the Philadelphia Water Color Club.
JURY OF SELECTION
Morris Berd
Benton Spruance
Fred Whitaker
PRIZES AND AWARDS
Philadelphia Water Color Medal of Award-Joseph T. Fraser, Jr.
Philadelphia Water Color Prize-Oliver Nuse for Circus and Spectators.
Dana Water Color Medal-Guy Fry for Pouring Steel.
Alice McFadden Eyre Medal-no award.
Dawson Memorial Medal-Fred Gill for Flowers at Dawn.
Pennell Memorial Medal-Jeanette Kohn for Bathers and Musicians.
Thornton Oakley Memorial Prize-Hilton Leech for Yellow Land.
M. V. Zimmerman Memorial Prize-Morris Blackburn for Taos Mountains.
Honorable Mention in Water Color-Tore Asplund for Midsummer Day.
Works sold-5; total $610.92. Attendance-4,420.
PRIVATE COLLECTIONS OF FOURTEEN PHILADELPHIA ARTISTS
(Private View November 6; open to the public November 7 through December 6.)
This exhibition consisted of 425 paintings, prints, drawings, sculptureAmerican and European - from the collections of the following persons:
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Bendiner
Mr. and Mrs. Blackburn
Mr. Hobson Pittman
Mr. and Mrs. Adrian Siegel
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Dr. and David L. Drabkin
(Stella Drabkin)
Mr. and Mrs. Emlen Etting
Mr. and Mrs. Lionel F. Levy
(Margaret Wasserman Levy)
Mr. and Mrs. Earle Miller
(Peter and Earle Miller)
Mr. and Mrs. Benton Spruance
Mr. Walter Stuempfig
Mr. and Mrs. Franklin C. Watkins
Mrs. S. S. Wh ite
(Vera White)
Mr. and Mrs. Ben Wolf
Attendance: 3,951
MICHAEL MAYOR PAINTINGS EXHIBITION (Private view Friday afternoon, November 20; open to the public November 21 through January 6,
1960.) A retrospective exhibition of 39 paintings.
Sold: 12; total $6,000.00
Attendance: 3,830
HALLMARK FOURTH INTERNATIONAL ART AWARD EXHIBITION
(Private View December 8, 4 to 6 P.M.; open to the public December 9
through January 3, 1960.)
The show was comprised of fifty water colors by contemporary artists of 16
countries of North and South America, and Europe: 28 from the United
States (including four from Philadelphia), five from France, two from England, three from Italy, two from Sweden, and one each from Canada,
Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Venezuela, Denmark, Germany, Holland, Norway,
Spain, and Switzerland. Five Americans, Edward Hopper, Charles Sheeler,
Robert Vickrey, Loren MacIver, and Walter Stuempfig, were among the
ten artists who received cash prizes for their work. Attendance: 2,083.
SPECIAL EVENTS-1959
FREE CONCERTS
January 30th-Works by Mozart, Brahms, Strauss, Schubert, and Poulenc;
Benita Volente, soprano; Vladimir Sokoloff, pianist; and five young performers of wind instruments.
February 20th- Works for four hands at one piano by Beethoven, Schubert
and Brahms; Vladimir and Eleanor Sokoloff, pianists; assisted by mixed
vocal quartet.
March 20th- Works by Corelli, Locatelli, J. S. Bach, Otey, Bartok, McCollin,
Prokofieff, Vassilenko, and Stix-Ormandy. Philadelphia String Virtuosi: Louis
Vyner, conductor; Vladimir Sokoloff, piano.
November 13th- Works by Beethoven, Barber, Bozza, and Poulenc; Artemus
Woodwind Quintet; Vladimir Sokoloff, piano.
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December 11th-Works by Schubert, Brahms, J. S. Bach, and Brahms; Oksana
Sowiak, contralto; Vladimir Sokoloff, piano; String Ensemble and Oboes
from The Curtis Institute of Music.
For the tenth year in succession these concerts, planned by Elizabeth Z.
Swenson, Director of Public Relations, and Mr. Vladimir Sokoloff, were
presented by the Academy in collaboration with the Music Performance
Trust Fund of the American Phonograph Industry, and through the courtesy
of local 77, American Federation of Musicians.
GALLERY TALKS (Sponsored by the Fellowship of the Academy)
January 29-Dorothy GraAy
February 5-Henry Peacock
February 12-Raphael Sabatini
February 19-Hobson Pittman
February 26-Morris Berd
SUBSCRIPTION LECTURES (Held during 154th Annual Exhibition)
February 10-Henry Pitz
February 17-Chen-Chi
February 24-Gabor Peterdi
(Note: This series was originally suggested by Mr. David J. Grossman, who
also underwrote the deficit as a memorial to his late brother Edgar Alan
Grossman.)
TOTAL ATTENDANCE FOR 1959: 35,520
ACQUISITIONS
Purchases
Through the Temple Fund:
Road by the Marsh (pastel) by Henry Varnum Poor;
The Tree House (pen and ink drawing) by Stuart H. Frost;
Avenue of the Americas (water color) by Chen-Chi;
Emerging Figure (pen and ink drawing) by Harold Altman;
Summer (gouache) by Art Jacobson;
The Four Seasons: Summer (intaglio) by Moishe Smith;
The Deposition (tempera) by James Brewton;
The Prey (lithograph) by Janet
E,
Turner;
Plummers Lilies (water color) by Philip Jamison.
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Gift s
From Mr. Benjamin D. Bernstein:
Painting Table # 1 (oil painting) by Walter Redding;
Bryn Mawr Landscape (oil painting) by Doyla Goutman;
Chicken Women (encaustic on panel) by Paul Keene;
Delaware River from Bridge, 7953 (oil painting) by Seymour Remenick.
From Mrs. Webster Plass: Euclayptus Leaves by Eliot Elisofon.
From an anonymous donor: Taxco (oil painting) by Morris Blackburn.
From Mr. Bernard Davis: Pitchforks (sculptural construction) by Lloyd R. Ney.
From the Estate of William Brook Rawle: Two miniature portraits on ivory.
From Mr. C. Newbold Taylor: A Cloisonne vase.
From Mrs. Samuel levitties: The White Gate (oil painting) by Jack Bookbinder.
From Dorothy Grafly: Vulture of War (sculpture) by Charles Grafly.
From Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Meltzer: A set of 19 letters written and signed
by Thomas Eakins (Estate of Harriet Sartain).
From Mr. and Mrs. Carl Zigrosser: 53 American Prints.
LOANS
Title
Artist
Institution
Jo Davidson
Dexter Jones
Philo. Museum of Art
Ephraim Wilson
Julius Bloch
Newman Galleries, Philadelphia
The Fox Hunt
Winslow Homer
Mus. Fine Arts, Boston, Mass.
Holy Family
Alfeo Faggi
National Institute of Arts and Letters,
New York City
Gemini No.2
Oronzio Maldarelli
Paul Rosenberg & Co., New York City
Ben;amin West
Matthew Pratt
Fidelity-Philo. Trust Co.
Medicine Show
Jack Levine
Schuylkill Valley Town
Francis Speight
A Little Girl
Cecilia Beaux
Roberto
Joseph P. Gualtieri
Home No.3
Morris Berd
Picnic at Bedford Hills
Florine Stettheimer
The Lighthouse
Morris Kantor
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LOANS
Institution
Title
Artist
Corn, Wind and Snow
Paul Froelich
Miss Eliza Leslie
Thomas Sully
Decoy
Hans Moller
Threshold to Success
Philip Evergood
Whitney Mus. American Art, New York
City
Edward Eicholtz
Jacob Eicholtz
Penna. Hist. Soc. & Museum Commission, State Museum, Harrisburg, Pa.
Clapboards
Charles Sheeler
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Wash., D C.
Oakdale Avenue at Night
Aaron Bohrod
Still Life
William Harnett
The Tides
Kenneth Callahan
Yellow Cup
Humbert Howard
Artist-for Exhibition at Howard University, Washington, D.C.
The Soda Fountain
William J. Glackens
U.S.I.A. for Ameren National Exhibition, Moscow
Mr. and Mrs . John W. Field
John Singer Sargent
Composition No.6, 1936
Arthur B. Carles
Graham Gallery, New York City
Buchenwald Cart
Rico Lebrun
Boston University, Boston
North River
George Bellows
National Cathedral School for Boys,
Washington, D.C.
Clown with Folded Arms
Walt Kuhn
Medicine Show
Jack Levine
The Gossips
Hobson Pittman
Mr. and Mrs. John W. Field
John S. Sargent
Disorder
Raphael Soyer
Sailing in Mist
John H. Twachtman
Crucifixion
Franklin C. Watkins
The Good Influence
Grant Wood
Fidelity-Phila. Trust Co.
Elizabeth Mower Lewis
John Frederick Lewis
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LOANS
Title
Artist
A Little Girl
Country Wedding: Bishop
White Officiating
John l. Krimmel
Portrait of Gen . U. S. Grant
James R. Lambdin
Cecilia Beaux
Institution
Westmoreland County Museum of Art,
Greensburg, Pa.
Portrait of Benjamin West
Matthew Pratt
Eagle
William Rush
Ultra-Marine
Stuart Davis
City Museum of Art, St. Louis, for circulation in Eastern & Western Europe
Dark Hollow
John Folinsbee
William A. Farnsworth library and Art
Museum, Rockland, Maine
The Birth of Venus
Alexandre Cabanel
Municipal Gallery, Los Angeles, Calif.
Plummers Lilies
Philip Jamison
Artist - for exhibition at Hirschi and
Adler Galleries, New York City
Schuylkill Valley Town
Francis Speight
Artist, for submission to Art Jury at
Ford Foundation, Baltimore, Md.
Fox Grapes and Peaches
Raphaelle Peale
American Federation of Arts, New York
City
The Blue Gulf Stream
Frederick Waugh
Aeneas and Anchises
Charles Grafly
Phila. Sketch Club
State House on the Day of
The Battle of Germantown
R. F. Rothermel
Upsala, Germantown
My House in Winter
Charles Morris Young
West Chester Art Association
Still Life
John Bannon
Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, Pa.
White Callas
Arthur B. Carles
Still Life-Fish
Wm. M. Chase
Fox Hunters at White Horse
Petunias
Henry Lee McFee
Strawberries and Cherries
Margaretta Peale
Still Life No.1
James Peale
Apples and Fox Grapes
Raphaelle Peale
Fish House Door
John F. Peto
Still Life-Grape Leayes
Henry Varnum Poor
The Great Oak of Ornans
Gustave Courbet
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Labrador Woman with
Young Geese
Geo. Harding
Century Association, New York City
Earthquake at Rabaul
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CONSERVATION OF WORKS FROM
THE PERMANEN T COLLECTION
The following fourteen works received attention during the year from
Theodor Siegl, the Academy's conservator and technical adviser: Portrait
of. William Lorman and Portrait of Mary Fulton Lorman by Chester Harding;
Portrait of Mrs. Samuel Gatliff and Daughter, Portrait of Samuel Gatliff;
Portrait of George Plumstead, and Portrait of Mrs. George Plumstead by
Gilbert Stuart; North River by George Bellows; Portrait of J. G. Whilldin ·
by John Neagle; Portrait of Whistler by Walter Greaves; Anna and Margaretta Peale by James Peale; Fairmount Water Works by Thomas Birch;
Portrait of Fanny Kemble, Portrait of John McLean, and Portrait of Margaret
Sarah Page by Thomas Birch.
LIBRARY
Books and Clippings withdrawn ............................... 2,300
Accessions: 50 by purchase; 120 as gifts.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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ETHEl V. ASHTON,
Librarian
PUBLIC RELATIONS
In the membership department, we have enrolled four new life, two new
contributing, five new sustaining, and 157 new annual members; nine members have increased their rates, all of which has permitted us to add
$3770.00 in new funds during the year. In addition to the foregoing, due
to their contributions, both Mr. and Mrs. · C. Earle Miller have been elected
Fellows in perpetuity. Mrs. Herbert C. Morris was elected a Patron, also in
perpetuity. Several members have been most helpful in suggesting persons
for membership. We urge those who have not done this to keep it in mind
as a most useful service to the institution.
Many public, private, and parochial schools, clubs, or other organizations
have made group visits to our exhibitions. They have come from the Greater
Philadelphia area, mid-Pennsylvania, central and southern New Jersey, and
Long Island. The Philadelphia Water Color Club and the School Art League
have held meetings here. The Women's Auxiliary of the Einstein Medical
Center held a Tea, and the Bargain Shop Committee of Pennsylvania
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Hospital a luncheon, the latter also attending a gallery talk. The Art
Teachers' Association of Philadelphia gave a dinner in the galleries, attended
by some 250 persons, in honor of Dr. Earl B. Mtlliette upon his retirement
from the Public School System. The local Miniature Camera Club has continued to hold its regular meetings in our auditorium. Other lectures or
special events, in which this department customarily lends cooperation, are
referred to elsewhere in this brochure.
The year has marked the completion of a decade of chamber music concerts in the rotunda. That the series is becoming increasingly an "art-andmusic" experience is evidenced by the greater number waiting to be admitted
when the doors open at 7:30, one hour ahead of concert time. These
audiences are spending more and more time with the exhibitions. The five
concerts drew well over 2000 visitors. It would be difficult to give Mr.
Vladimir Sokoloff, our music director, adequate praise for the high level
of performance he and his fellow musicians have brought to these programs
of rarely-heard works. Through their cooperation, the Recording Industries'
Trust Funds, and the Fredric R. Mann Foundation, continue to help the
Academy make these events free to all.
Annually we record in these reports our appreciation to press, periodicals,
radio, television, and those who appear personally in the latter media, for
their assistance in bringing our activities to the attention of the public. We
have had innumerable radio and television announcements. In addition to
these, in the Board of Education's television series "Exploring the Fine Arts,"
directed by Mr. Abner Miller, Mrs. Margaret Wasserman levy, Messrs. Alfred
Bendiner, Kneeland McNulty, and Vladimir Visson have appeared on separate programs featuring special Academy exhibitions.
Be it membership, publicity, or other activity, it is the responsibility of this
department to give all possible cooperation to our Board, committees,
groups holding activities here, or musicians performing for us, as they work
toward our common goal: all that is in the best interest of the Academy.
ELIZABETH Z. SWENSON,
Director
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WOMEN 1S COMMITTEE
In the calendar year 1959, the Women's Committee arranged two major
events whose primary purpose was to bring more people into the Academy
to share and enjoy the exhibits and other activities which are such an
enriching factor in the cultural life of Philadelphia.
The first event, held on February 13th, was a Subscription Dinner for members, followed by an illustrated talk on his trip to Russia by Franklin
Watkins. This occasion aroused great interest in the community and was
oversubscribed by a large number. Those fortunate enough to attend
thoroughly enjoyed the evening.
On November 13th the Committee arranged a Subscription Luncheon for
new members enrolled during the preceding two years. Hobson Pittman
spoke before the lunch on the "Exhibition of Private Collections of Philadelphia Artists" then in the galleries. Almost 200 people attended. It, too,
was oversubscribed and greatly enjoyed.
Committee rnembers presided at the refreshment tables for the private
views preceding the four principal exhibitions held at the Academy during
the year.
Although we have not undertaken any large money-raIsing project for the
last few years, we do maintain a Student Aid Fund, which is available for
emergencies. This year we also financed a trip to New York for Academy
students, under the guidance of a member of the Faculty, for the purpose
of seeing two very important exhibitions. Our funds are derived chiefly
from Committee members' dues and from the sale of the attractive note
pads which are available at the Sales Desk.
FRANCES E. WOLF,
Chairman
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THE FELLOWSHIP
OFFICERS
Roswell Weidner
Roy C. Nuse
. President
.
First Vice-President
Mabel Woodrow Gill
Vice-President
Mary Townsend Mason
Vice-President
Violet Oakley .
Vice-President
Franklin C. Watkins
Vice-President
. Recording Secretary
Ethel V. Ashton
Elizabeth Eichman
Corresponding Secretary
Irene Denney .
. Treasure'r
The main purpose of the Fellowship (organized in 1897) is to foster a spirit
of fraternity among former and present students of the Academy.
THE COMMITTEE ON FELLOWSHIP
Mabel W. Gill, Chairman-Treasurer
Mary Mullineux
Ethel Ashton
Roy C. Nuse
Irene Denney
Roswell Weidner
The function of the _Committee is to administer the following four funds:
Henry J. Thouron Memorial Fund; Picture Purchase Fund; Special Fund;
Mary Butler Memorial Fund; all for the benefit of Fellowship members, and
present or former students. The Committee also endeavors to be useful to
both the Fellowship and the Academy, whenever possible.
In addition, the Committee is responsible for (1) the purchase of painting
and sculpture to encourage or assist artists, or improving the loan Collec-tion from which works are currently on exhibition in various institutions; (2)
providing art classes, usually 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; and (3) giving a type
of financial assistance not permissible from the regular Fellowship treasury
to current and former Academy students with tuition, artists' materials, living
expenses. The Butler Fund now amounts to approximately $10,000.00; its
goal is $15,000.00. There is also an annual gift from Mrs. John S. Hurlbut
in memory of Mrs. Philip S. Collins.
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CONSOLIDATED TREASURER'S REPORT
September 1, 1958, to August 31, 1959
INCOME:
Art Gallery and Exhibitions .. .. ............ ........ ...... $ 20,108.14
School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..
67,696.13
Trust Funds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..
97,061.41
Membership Dues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..
17,255.00
City Appropriation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..
25,000.00
Contributions- unrestricted . . ............................
2,252.52
Total ......................... .. .. .. ...... .... . $229,373.20
EXPENSE:
Art Gallery and Exhibitions ......... . ....... ...... .. .... . $137,012.25
School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..
89,961.43
Total ......................................... $226,973.68
Net Operating Surplus ... ........... ...... ...... $
2,399.52
APPENDIX:
Loss on sale of General Fund Investments .................. $
775.82
Cancellation of shares of stock .. .. ........... . .... . ... .. .
300.00
Increase in Student Aid Fund . . .... ..... ... ..... . . . ...... .
15.00
Total .......................................... $
139.18
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CONTRIBUTIONS FOR THE CALENDAR YEAR 1959
UN RESTRICTED:
Mr. and Mrs. Earle Miller ...... ...... ........... . ... .. $ 5,000.00
John Stewart .. ..... . ........... . ........ . ......... .
17.67
Mrs. Williamina de Schauensee ....................... .
496.50
2.00
Mrs. Henry N. Platt ........................ . ....... .
24.00
Mrs. Dora K. Valentine . . ... ..... ... . .......... . ..... .
290.92
J. Howard Cloud ... .. .. .... . . . . . ...... ... ... .... . . .
17.00
Mrs. Lawrence M. C. Smith .. ..... ... . .... . . ...... .. . . .
500.00
Edgar P. Richardson . . .... .. .. ... ... .... ..... . ...... . .
5.00
Mrs. Elizabeth Newburger .. . ............... .. ..... .. .
25.00
$ 6,378 .09
MISCELLANEOUS:
City of Philadelphia-1959-60 Appropriation .. . ......... . 25,000.00
Henry S. Drinker-City Council Dinner ... ..... . ...... ... .
34.00
Mrs. Leonard T. Beale-City Council Dinner ............. .
34.68
Mrs. Herbert C. Morris-City Council Dinner ............. .
34.68
James P. Magill-City Council Dinner .... ..... . . .. ... .. . .
34 .68
Frank T. Howard-C ity Council Dinner .. .. .. .... . ... .. .. .
34.68
George B. Roberts-City Council Dinner ................. .
34.68
John F. Lewis, Jr.-City Council Dinner .. ...... .. .. .. .. .. .
34.68
R. Sturgis Ingersoll-City Council Dinner ...... .. ... •.. .. .
34.68
Alfred Zantzinger-City Council Dinner ..... .. . . .. .... .. .
34.68
Raymond A. Speiser-City Council Dinner ...... . .. .. . ... .
34.68
Sydney E. Martin-City Council Dinner ..... . .. ... . ... .. .
34.68
C. Newbold Taylor-City Council Dinner ......... ..... .. .
34.68
Arthur C. Kaufmann-City Council Dinner ........... .. .. .
34.68
Mrs. Elias Wolf-City Council Dinner .. .... . .. .. .. .. .. .. .
34.68
William Coxe Wright-City Council Dinner .... .. ... ..... .
34.68
Howard C. Petersen-City Council Dinner ............... .
34.68
David Gwinn-City Council Dinner ..................... .
34.68
John Stewart-City Council Dinner ... . ................. .
34.68
Philadelphia Water Color Club-154th Annual Exhibition .. .
200.00
Mabel M. Campion-George Harding Memorial . . .. ... . .. .
25.00
Amy Oakley-George Harding Memorial ................ .
25.00
John Hanlen-George Harding Memorial ... . ... ... ... ... .
15 .00
Mrs. R. T. Dooner-George Harding Memorial ........... .
10.00
Emily C. Carvill-George Harding Memorial ... ..... .. . .. .
25.00
Ann R. Webb-George Harding Memorial . .... . ......... .
8.00
Margaret F. Reichner-George Harding Memorial .. . ... . . .
15.00
William H. Crawford-George Harding Memorial .. ...... .
10.00
Harriet Crist-George Harding Memorial .. .- ............. .
25.00
Carried Forward
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25,981.56
32,359.65
MISCElLANEOUS (cont'd):
32,359.65
Brought Forward
David Grossman-lecture Series .. .. ................... .
Academy Fellowship-Annual Exhibition .. ... . .. .. ....... .
Fredric R. Mann Foundation-Concerts .................. .
Speiser Memorial Fund-Speiser Memorial Prize (1960) . ... .
Anonymous-ART IN FOCUS subscription ..... . ...... . ... .
Anonymous-Director's Membership Dues . ... ... ......... .
James P. Magill ........... ',' . . .......... .. .. . . ... .. .
Mrs. leonard T. Beale-Directors' Fund . . .. . . .... . ...... .
George B. Roberts-Directors' Fund .. ........... . ...... .
Sydney l. Wright-Directors' Fund .... . .. ......... ..... .
C. Newbold Taylor-Directors' Fund ... . .. . .......... . .. .
593.80
350.00
400.00
500.00
25.00
240.00
1,096.44
200.00
106.66
500.00
100.00
4,111.90
75.00
100.00
10.00
25.00
25.00
50.00
25.00
100.00
423.58
2,000.00
52.74
2,886.32
SCHOOL:
Mrs. Joseph Caplan-Mindel Caplan Kleinbard Memorial
Student Prizes 1959-61 ........................... .
Margaret Wasserman levy ........................... .
Morris Blackburn-Special Instructor's Prize in Graphics .. .. .
Franklin C. Watkins-Special Figure Composition Prize .. . . .
Hobson Pittman-Special Figure Composition Prize ........ .
George Kreier, Jr.-Kreier Memorial Prize .... . .......... .
Mrs. Herbert Syme-M. Herbert Syme Prize .... .. .. .. .... .
David Gwinn-Eakins Prize ....... . ................ . .. .
David Gwinn-Student Party ................ . ......... .
George D. Widener-Scholarships ..... . ........... . . .. .
Philadelphia Foundation-leona Karp Braverman Prize. . . . .
Total . ..
.... $39,357.87
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NEW MEMBERS
Enrolled during 1959, including those who increased their classification.
# Fellows
Mr. C. Earle Miller
Mrs. C. Earle Miller
# Patron
*Mrs. Herbert C. Morris
Life Members
Mrs. Joseph G. Butler
Norman J. Greene
*Frank T. Howard
Lawrence E. Jones
William Coxe Wright
*Mrs. Arthur M. Young
Contributing Members
Mrs. H. J. Grinsfelder
Henry B. Keep
Sustaining Members
*Leonard T. Beale
Mrs. Tillman Cahn
Lawrence A. Fleischman
*Mrs. R. A. Hauslohner
*Lionel Levy
Charles G. Lewine
*Mrs. A. Saunders Morris
*Dr. H. Herbert Parcher
Mrs. Wilbert V. Pike
*Mrs. Howard Wasserman
*Walter H. West, Jr.
Ralph Wright
Annual Members
Mrs. Alex Abel
Mrs. Albert Acker
Miss Esther Agensky
Mrs. A. A. Alexander
Charles D. Allen
Miss Elizabeth D. Allen
Mrs. Stuart B. Andrews
Mrs. Jacob Arronson
Mrs Frederick Bachman
John Ames Ballard
Mrs. Edward A. Barbieri
Mrs. Joseph S. Bates
Mrs. A. J. Becker
Mrs. Claude H. Bennett, Jr.
Mrs. Craig Biddle, Jr.
Miss Mary Y. Blakely
Victor H. Blanc
Samuel L. Borton, Jr.
Francis Bosworth
Mrs. Edward Boxer
Jules Boymel
Raymond J. Bradley
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Mrs. George H. Brown
Mrs. T. Wi star Brown, 4th
C. Jones Buehler
Mrs. William S. Buzzard
Louis Dreifus
Mrs. Hans F. Dresel
Mrs. Mary Dunlavey
Miss Janet C. Durand
Ralph E. Cades
Dr. William Carey
Frederick Chait
C. C. G. Chaplin
Donald Cherry
Henry S. Churchill
Mrs. Avery B. Clark
Mrs. Dorothea S. Collins
Mrs. Herman C. Cooke
Mrs. Ralph I. K. Cornwell
Lucius Crowell
Mrs. Edward E. Cullen, 3rd
Mrs. Anne Lewis Eurich
Robert E. Daffron
Mrs. Scott Darby
Mrs. Joseph W. Darling
Mrs. Edgar T. Darlington
Mrs. Kern Dodge
A. Harry Feldman
Eugene Feldman
Mrs. Robert Fischer
Mrs. Philip B. Fisher
Mrs. Edward Fishman
Mrs. Winfield A. Foreman, Jr.
Mrs. Harold J. Friedman
Mrs. Helen B. Fritsche
Dr. Thomas Georges
Sol Gitman
Miss Pauline Gollub
Samuel Gorson
Mrs. Dorothy Graham
Mrs. Ralph E. Grim
Myron H. Halpern
Mrs. F. Woodson Hancock
Mrs. Gordon A. Hardwick
C. W. Hart, Jr.
Mrs. Frances Sutro Heberton
Mrs. Harold B. Hess
Mrs. Charles Hodge, 4th
Miss Mary A. Hogan
Mrs. John J. Hopkinson
Mrs. Edgar B. Howard
Mrs. James W. Hubbell
Mrs. Joseph J. Imhof
Mrs. James Irvine
Charles Edwin Johnson
Miss Alma Jovanov
-Mrs. Higgins Kalpaschnikoff
Mrs. Theodore Kapnek
McClure Kelley
Mrs. Collins M. Ketcham
Lawrence C. Kline
M. J . Kluger
Albert Kraftsow
William Justice Lee
Mrs. Lora Warner Leprohon
A. Barton Lewis
Mrs. Jerry Locks
Mrs. W. Thacher Longstreth
Mrs. Edward Clark Lukens
Mrs. William Luria
Mrs. John R. McAusland
Louis N. McCarter, 3rd
Miss Margaret M. McGonigle
# Enrolled in perpetuity
* Classification increased
Mrs. Leighton H. Mcilvaine
Mrs. George H. McNeely, 3rd
Mrs. J. S. P. Makiver
Mrs. George V. Marston
Mrs. Daniel B. Michie, Jr.
Dr. Donald Edwin Miller
Mrs. John M. Miller
Mrs. Walter P. Miller, Jr.
Mrs. Edward Shippen Morris
Mrs. Isaac Naeye
Richard Naugler
Mrs. Frank L. Newburger
Mrs. Morris Newmark
Mrs. Raymond Pearlstine
Mrs. Charles H. Pearson
Mrs. Erling H. Pedersen
Mrs. Charles Penrose
Mrs. Isaac Pepp
Miss Catherine M. Peterson
Mrs. George Peterson, Jr.
Miss Dorothy E. Pierce
Mrs. George Platt Pilling, 3rd
Mrs. John Plant
Mrs. Walter W. Pollock, Jr.
Beryl Price
Harry T. Saylor
Mrs. Fletcher Schaum
D. Frederick Schick, Jr.
Mrs. Albert W. Schiffrin
Mrs. Malcolm L. Schoenberg
Sidney Schulman
Frank S. Schwarz
William T. Schwarz
Mrs. John J. Shaw, Jr.
Mrs. Leon Solis-Cohen, Jr.
Mrs. Albert W. Spitz
Stanley P. Stern
Mrs. N. H. Tate
Mrs. H. Eastburn Thompson
Mrs. S. Herbert Unterberger
Miss Charlotte C. Voorhis
Mrs. C. Egerton Warburton
Mrs. Jerome B. Weinstein
Mrs. James L. Whitaker
Mrs. Charles R. Whittlesey
Theodore A. Wiedemann
Mrs. Rose Bennett Williams
Mrs. Nochem S. Winnet
Dr. Sheri J. Winter
Mrs. Sheri J. Winter
Mrs. Thomas A. Wood
Mrs. George Woodward, Jr.
Warsen R. Rainear
Calvin H. Rankin
Mrs. Charles S. Redding
Mrs. Edward L. Reed
Mrs. George W. D. Rockett
Mrs. Richard P. Rosenau
Miss Anna Wells Rutledge
Mrs. Edward H. York, Jr.
Stuart Henri Yost
Mrs. Morton Sand
Mrs. Lucienne M. Zwirn
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MEMBERSHIP CLASSES
Yearly Members
Annual $10.00
Sustaining $25.00
{
Contributing $100.00
Life Member ................................................ $300
Fellow ............................................ $1000 to $5000
Patron. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. $5000 to $25,000
Benefactor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. $25,000 or more
(Fellows, Patrons and Benefactors are enrolled in perpetuity)
A membership in the Academy helps to support and affiliates you with the
oldest art institution in the country and one of the most important in the
community and the nation. Founded in 1805 and chartered in 1806, its
origin actually dates from the efforts made in 1791 by Charles Willson
Peale to organize a school for the fine arts in Philadelphia.
In the Academy's schools, many distinguished American painters, sculptors
and illustrators have been trained, and its students of today rank with
the best.
In its galleries are shown two of America's major annual art exhibitions;
American Painting and Sculpture; Walter Colors and Prints; other special
exhibitions; and the Academy's permanent collection, representing a crosssection of American art from the early eighteenth century through its current acquisitions.
Members receive notices of all activities (concerts, lectures, motion pictures),
invitations to private views, catalogues of exhibitions and schools, the Annual
Report, a discount on art works purchased from Academy-sponsored professional exhibitions, and have use of the art reference library.
FORM OF BEQUEST
I give, devise and bequeath to The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Dollars, in . trust, to invest and keep
invested and apply the income to the maintenance of the said Academy.
The Academy is open weekdays (except Mondays) from 10 A.M. to 5 P.M.;
Sundays and Holidays from 1 to 5 P.M. Closed Mondays, New Year's Day,
Good Friday, Memorial Day, Fourth of July, Thanksgiving and Christmas.
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FIN EAR TS
BROAD AND CHERRY STREETS
154th ANNUAL REPORT
1959
•
PHILADELPHIA
Cover:
Turkey by Arthur Carles. Purchased
through contributions of the President
and Directors from the private collection of Dr. and Mrs. Norman H. Taylor.
The One Hundred and Fifty-fourth
Annual Report
of
THE PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS
FOR THE YEAR
1959
Presented to the Meeting of the Stockholders
of the Academy on February 1, 1960
OFFICERS
Henry S. Drinker
Frank T. Howard
C. Newbold Taylor
Joseph T. Fraser, Jr.
President (October 1958 to September 1959)
President (September 1959)
. Treasurer
. Director and Secretary
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Mrs. Leonard T. Beale
Henry B. Keep
Henry S. Drinker
John F. Lewis, Jr.
James P. Magill
David Gwinn
Sydney E. Martin
J. Welles Henderson, Jr.
John W. Merriam
Frank T. Howard
Mrs. Herbert C. Morris
R. Sturgis Ingersoll
Howard C. Petersen**
Arthur C. Kaufmann
George B. Roberts
Henry W. Sawyer
Raymond A. Speiser*
John Stewart
C. Newbold Taylor
Sydney L. Wright**
William Coxe Wright
Alfred Zantzinger
Ex officio
Mrs. Elias Wolf
. Representing Women's Committee
Mrs. Richardson Dilworth, Fredric R. Mann
Representing City Council
George M. Harding, * Franklin C. Watkins .
Representing Faculty
* Deceased
** Resigned
STANDING COMMITTEES
COMMITTEE ON COLLECTION AND EXHIBITIONS
John F. Lewis, Jr., Chairman
Mrs. Leonard T. Beale
Mrs. Herbert C. Morris
R. Sturgis Ingersoll
George B. Roberts
Franklin C. Watkins, Adviser
Alfred Zantzinger
COMMITTEE ON FINANCE
C. Newbold Taylor, Chairman
Frank T. Howard
John Stewart
COMMITTEE ON INSTRUCTION
James P. Magill, Chairman
Mrs. Leonard T. Beale
Mrs. Richardson Dilworth
David Gwinn
Franklin C. Watkins
SOLICITOR
'Maurice B. Saul
WOMEN'S COMMITTEE
Mrs. Elias Wolf
. Chairman
Mrs. Evan Randolph, Jr.
Treasurer and Corresponding Secretary
Mrs. H. Lea Hudson Mrs. Julius Rosenwald, 2nd
Mrs. John G. Bartol, Jr.
Mrs. Francis T. Chambers Mrs. Arthur C. Kaufmann
Mrs. R. Barclay Scull
Mrs. Joseph Sill Clark, Jr;
Mrs. John F. Lewis, Jr. Mrs. Lawrence M. C. Smith
Mrs. Hart McMichael
Miss Anna K. Stimson
Mrs. Richardson Dil~oi1h
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Mrs.
Mrs.
Mrs.
Mrs.
Emlen P. Etting
A. O. Griswold
David J. Grossman
David Gwinn
Mrs. James P. Magill
Mrs. Samuel W. Pray
Mrs. George B. Roberts
Mrs. Boudinot Stimson
Mrs. Franklin C. Watkins
Mrs. Walter H. West
Mrs. Sydney l. Wright
STAFF
GENERAL
Joseph T. Fraser, Jr.
Mabel l. Eiseley
Charles J. Marsh
Ann Evans
August V. Viilu
E. Elizabeth Fermanis
Frances M. Vanderpool
Elizabeth Z. Swenson.
. Director and Secretary
Assistant Director
Assistant to the Secretary
Secretary to the Director
. Comptroller
Billing Clerk and Receptionist
Exhibition and Membership Clerk
. Director of Public Relations and Membership
5 C H 0 0 L 5 (Day and Evening)
Raymond T. Entenmann
Catherine R. Newbold
Ethel Ashton .
. Curator
Secretary to the Curator
. Librarian
FA C U LT Y (Day School) (Winter 1959-60)
Francis Speight
Walker Hancock
Roswell Weidner
Harry Rosin
Edward Shenton
Franklin C. Watkins
John W. McCoy
Walter Stuempflg
Hohson Pittman
Julius Bloch
Morris Blackburn
John Hanlen
Henry Varnum Poor
AUGMENTING FA C U L T Y (Day School)
William Campbell
Philip Aliano*
Edmond J. Farris
Jack Bookbinder
Theodor Siegl
Allen Harris
Frances Serber
FA C U L T Y (Evening School)
Francis Speight
Roswell Weidner
Morris Blackburn
Thomas Gaughan
Jim C. Lueders
Ben Kamihira
J. Stephen Lewis
FA C U LT Y (Summer Day School)
Francis Speight
Roswell Weidner
Julius Bloch
Morris Blackburn
Jim C. Lueders
BUILDING
Isaiah J. Sellers, Superintendent
* Deceased-October 5, 1959
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REPORT OF THE OFFICERS AND
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Although the year 1959 was not one of spectacular achievement, a number
of changes took place, some of which we had to accept with regret. Our
knowledge of the essential soundness of the Academy, however, gives us
confidence in our institution's abil ity to weather such changes without
damage to its capacity for continued advancement.
As previously reported, Mr. John F. Lewis, Jr.* resigned the presidency late
in the year 1958. Mr. Henry S. Drinker was elected to that position, moving
from the vice presidency which he had held since 1933. It is our pleasant
duty to record the vigor and understanding which Mr. Drinker brought to
that post, which he held until September 1959. Upon his resignation at
that time, Mr. Frank T. Howard was unanimously elected President.
As a number of director seats were unfilled, we review here the changes
within the year. Two members of the Board resigned: Mr. Sydney l. Wright
and Mr. Howard C. Petersen. It is a matter of great regret, also, to report
that two deaths further contributed to the vacancies. Mr. George M. Harding,
the first faculty representative on our Board of Directors, died on March 26,
1959. Distinguished illustrator and painter, Mr. Harding had served the
Academy as an inspired and loyal instructor since 1922, first in the illustration classes and later as head of the Department of Mural Decoration.
Mr. Raymond A. Speiser, recorded as a new director in November of 1958,
died May 2, 1959. A collector of importance, he had proved his friendship
for contemporary artists and had ' given liberally of his time and advice
through the Artists' Equity Association. His many friends have now singularly honored him by the establishment of a fund which makes possible
the award of the Raymond A. Speiser Memorial Prize.
* At a ceremony preceding the private view of our 154th Annual Exhibition, Mr. Lewis was
awarded the Academy Gold Medal of Honor as a tribute to his many important contributions to the Academy over a peri.o d of years..
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The School registration, attendance and activities can be recorded as very
satisfactory, with the usual gratifying awards of prizes and scholarships
being given in the spring. Including the European Traveling Scholarships,
the many awards amounted to approximately $19,500.
A necessary change in the faculty of the School occurred in the Department
of Mural Decoration as the result of the death of Mr. George Harding.
To conduct the work in that Department we were most fortunate in obtaining a most able and distinguished painter, Mr. Henry Varnum Poor.
The physical problems of the School continued to be uppermost in our
thoughts. Proposals to link us more intimately with the University of Pennsylvania, by moving our school activities near or on the University campus,
were thoroughly explored and rejected for the time being. Tribute must
be paid here to Mr. James P. Magill, head of the Committee on Instruction.
His understanding of these and other school problems, and his continuing
enthusiasm have been invaluable.
Physical improvements to the building at large, this year, consisted in the
complete renovation and modernization of the men/s and women/s public
washrooms in the front of our building. Other normal maintenance items
were well accomplished during the same period.
A variety of interesting events graced the exhibition season. In the fall
an unusual show, made up from collections owned by fourteen Philadelphia
artists opened. There followed a water color exhibition under the auspices
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of the Hallmark Company, and a one-man show of paintings by Michael
Mayor, an elderly artist whose lifelong devotion to painting had gone
unrecognized until this exhibition by the Academy. Highly successful artisticallYI the Mayor show was also financially rewarding; many canvases werf}
sold.
The Annual Exhibition takes precedence, in national interest over all other
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Academy shows of any given year. Our 154th, this year consisting of water
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colors, prints and drawings, made a remarkable record for sales, 180
items having been purchased by art institutions and private collectors. Our
expectation of continuing collaboration with the Detroit Institute of Arts on
annual exhibitions of oil paintings and sculpture (held in alternate years)
has materialized, and as our year closed, the 155th Annual Exhibition,
scheduled to open here on January 22, 1960, had already opened in
Detroit.
The Women's Committee, indispensable to the life of the Academy, loyally
assisted in all the above activities. We are indebted to them for organizing
the delightful and successful Subscription Dinner preceding the private
view of the Annual Exhibition, and arranging another important event on
the year's calendar-an evening when Franklin Watkins reported on his
recent trip to Russia as an American artist representing the State Department. For their many other contributions, as well, we record our thanks to
this Committee.
That we were again privileged to offer a series of distinguished chamber
music concerts in the spring and in the fall was due largely to the organization and planning of Elizabeth Swenson and Vladimir Sokoloff. Financed
through the Recording Industries' Trust Fund, the series was open to the
public without charge.
No Annual Report is complete without the recording of our gratitude to
the Philadelphia City Council for continuing financial aid. Praise must also
be given to our loyal staff and faculty who make our activities possible.
FRANK T. HOWARD, President
JOSEPH T. FRASER, JR., Director
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EXHIBITIONS
154th ANNUAL EXHIBITION OF WATER COLORS, PRINTS, A.ND
DRAWINGS (Private View, January 23rd; open to the public January 25th
through March 1st.)
The 154th Annual Exhibition marked the continuing of our collaboration
with the Philadelphia Water Color Club. This exhibition consisted of water
colors, prints, and drawings, following the general pattern of the long
succession of joint efforts with that organization.
JURY OF SELECTION
John Maxwell
Hobson Pittman
Gabor Peterdi
PRIZES AND AWARDS
The Academy Gold Medal of Honor was presented to Mr. John F. Lewis, Jr.,
for his contributions to American art at the dinner preceding the private view.
Awarded by Philadelphia Water Color Club:
Philadelphia Water Color Club Medal of Award-Frederic Whitaker.
Philadelphia Water Color Prize ($200)-James Brewton for The Deposition.
Honorable Mentions - Fritzi Morrison for Moonlight; Warren Rohrer for
Still Life With Onions.
Pennell Memorial Medal-Henry Varnum Poor for Flood Tide-Pamet.
Dawson Memorial Medal-Philip Jamison for Plummers Lilies.
Awarded by Jury of Selection:
Dana Water Color Medal-Morton Grossman for Approaching Fog.
Alice McFadden Eyre Medal-AI Blaustein for Happy Man.
Honorable Mentions - Richard Canner for Meal; Chaim Koppelman for
Napoleon Entering New York; Moishe Smith for The Four Seasons:
Summer.
Honorable Mention for Collage-Franklin Drake for Night in Gifu.
Special Commendation for Distinction in Drawing: Harold Altman for group
of eight drawings; A. P. Baker for group of three drawings.
The sales and attendance records were very good, with 121 items sold for
a figure slightly under $12,000, and the sold works ranging in price from $15
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to $1,000. The Academy bought 9 works, the Fleisher Memorial Fund 20,
The Philadelphia Water Color Club 1, and private individuals the remaining 91. Total attendance: 12,235.
FELLOWSHIP EXHIBITION
March 14 through April 12.)
(Private View March 13; open to public
This partly-invited, partly-juried exhibition consisted (as in past years) of
work by professional artists who, during their student days, attended the
Academy's Schools. A Fellowship-sponsored Student Show in the Student's
Gallery on the Main Floor was on view during this exhibition.
This year the Board of Managers decided to ask a charitable group, namely,
the Women's Auxiliary of the Einstein Medical Center, to be present during
the Exhibition and to hold a private view of their own on March 11 th, in
order to help promote sales. The money realized from the 15% sales commission usually charged by the Academy went to the Einstein Medical Center
instead of to the Fellowship.
JURIES
Oil Painting
Sam Freid
l. A. D. Montgomery
Sculpture
Harry Rosin
Water Color and Graphics
Jane Sperry Eisenstat
Raphael Sabatini
Anita Weschler
Abraham Hankins
Roswell Weidner
P"RIZES
Mary Butler Memorial Prize ($lOO.OO)-Henry Peacock for Thorn Tree.
Honorable Mention - Jim Lueders for Composition.
Harrison S. Morris Memorial Prize (divided)- George Harding ($50.00)
for Laurel; Walter Reinsel ($50.00) for Ballet.
Leona Karp Braverman Memorial Prize ($50.00)-Frank Gasparro for
Daphne.
May Audubon Post Prize ($50.00)-Jack Massey for Summer.
Caroline Gibbons Granger Memorial Prize ($50.00)-Quita Brodhead
for Abstract.
(STUDENT SHOW)
Mabel Wilson Woodrow Prize (divided)-Theresa Tai ($25.00) for Landscape; Rodney House ($25.00) Still Life.
Works sold- 8; total $2,925.00.
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PHILADELPHIA ART TEACHERS1 ASSOCIATION EXHIBITION
(April 15th through May 6th; Reception-April 21st.)
The Academy was pleased to play host again this year to the annual exhibition organized by the Philadelphia Art Teachers' Association.
JURY
Tom Gaughan
Walter Stuempfig
Jim Lueders
Art Teachers' Association Award-Mary Del Bello
Honorable Mentions-James Coughlin; Fanny Williams.
THE STUDENT EXHIBITION (May 15 through June 7, 1959.)
At Special Exercises held on May 13th at 4 P.M., Mr. Henry S. Drinker
announced that twelve traveling scholarships and other prizes, amounting
to $21,685.00, had been awarded to students in the Schools of The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. The address was given by Mr. W. McNeil
Lowry, Director of the Program in Humanities and the Arts of the Ford
Foundation. After the address, the following awards were made on recommendation of the Faculty:
William Emlen Cresson Memorial European Traveling Scholarships
(Est. 1902) ($1,700.00 each):
Painters-Pierre Brownell; Nicholas Bucciarelli; Bernard Fierro; Jack Fishbein;
Joan Hession; Marianne Keating; Ellen Powell; Edward G. Ruestow.
Muralist-Bernard Kozuhowski.
Honorable Mentions: Robert Corda no; Ronald Williams.
J. Henry Schiedt Memorial Traveling Scholarships (Est. 1949) ($1,400.00
each):
Painters-Cecilia Finberg; Herbert Lautman.
Sculptor-Sally Laird.
Honorable
($100.00) .
Mentions - Joseph
Amarotico
($200.00);
Frank
Vavrika
Charles Toppan Prizes (Est. 1882):
First Prize ($300.00)-William McK. Hoffman, Jr.
Second Prize ($200.00)-Herbert Lautman
Third Prize ($ 100.00)-Christine McGinnis
Packard Prizes (Est. 1899):
First Prize ($25.00 each)-Rita Lidkus; Edward Ruestow
Honorable Mention-Christine McGinnis; Jerome Schurr
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Edmund Stewardson Prize (Est. 1901) ($100.00). Awarded March 13,
1959, by Henry Kreiss, sculptor, to-So Joseph Winter
Honorable Mention - Eva Teisleri H. Reed Armstrongi and Coleman
Homsey
Henry J. Thouron Prize (Est. 1903):
Awarded by the Faculty ($50.00)-Seymour Rotman
Awarded by the Instructors ($50.00)-Joseph Amaroticoi ($25.00)-Louis
Green
Awarded by vote of Students ($25.00)-Peter Bottos
Ramborger Prize (Est. 1911) ($25.00)-Vernon Roessler
Honorable Mention-Thomas Smucker
Stimson Prize (Est. 1917) ($100.00). Awarded November 14, 1958, by a
jury composed of Henry Rox and Philip Fowler, sculptors, to-So Joseph
Winter
Honorable Mention-Anatole Bilokur
Thomas Eakins Memorial Prize (Est. 1946) ($100.00)-Marianne Keating
Honorable Mention-Christine McGinnisi Socrates Perakis i Nicholas Bucciarelli
Hill Memorial Prize (Est. 1952) ($50.00)-Michael Piper
Philadelphia Print Club Graphic Prize (Est. 1953), consisting of one year's
membership in the Club and the use of its workship facilities-Nina Klynowska
Wanamaker Award (Est. 1954), consisting of art materials to the value of
$50.00-Pierre Brownell
Honorable Mention-Theresa Taii Irving Mutshnick
Lux Prize in Graphics (Est. 1955) ($50.00)-Gordon Jansson
Grant Memorial Prize (Est. 1955) ($100:00)-Joseph Amarotico
Honorable Mention-Christine McGinnis
Woodrow Prize in Graphics (Est. 1955) ($50.00)-Jim Ferrell
Mason Portrait Prize (Est. 1958) ($100.00)-Victor Lasuchin
Honorable Mention-Jack Fishbein
Mason Sculpture Prize-Anatole Bilokur
Caplan Kleinbard Award (Est. 1958) ($25.00)-William Micheel
Gimbel Award (Est. 1958) ($50.00)-Nina Klymowska
Honorable Mention-Daniel Voitek
Syme Prize (Est. 1959) ($25.00)-Daniel D. Miller, Jr.
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Pesin Prize (Est. 1959) ($150.00)-Herbert Lautman
Honorable Mention-Christine McGinnis
Kreier Memorial Prize (Est. 1959) ($50 ..00)-Charles Kaufmann, Jr.
Perspective Prize ($20.00)-Daniel Voitek
Honorable Mention-Robert T. Myers
Instructor's Prize in Graphics ($lO.OO)-Daniel Voitek
Instructor's Prize in Painting ($50.00)-Joseph Amarotico
THE PHILADELPHIA WATER COLOR CLUB1S 42nd ANNUAL EXHIBITION (Private View October 15th. Open to the public October 16th
through November 15th, 1959.)
This exhibition consisted of 200 water colors, drawings, and prints by
members of the Philadelphia Water Color Club.
JURY OF SELECTION
Morris Berd
Benton Spruance
Fred Whitaker
PRIZES AND AWARDS
Philadelphia Water Color Medal of Award-Joseph T. Fraser, Jr.
Philadelphia Water Color Prize-Oliver Nuse for Circus and Spectators.
Dana Water Color Medal-Guy Fry for Pouring Steel.
Alice McFadden Eyre Medal-no award.
Dawson Memorial Medal-Fred Gill for Flowers at Dawn.
Pennell Memorial Medal-Jeanette Kohn for Bathers and Musicians.
Thornton Oakley Memorial Prize-Hilton Leech for Yellow Land.
M. V. Zimmerman Memorial Prize-Morris Blackburn for Taos Mountains.
Honorable Mention in Water Color-Tore Asplund for Midsummer Day.
Works sold-5; total $610.92. Attendance-4,420.
PRIVATE COLLECTIONS OF FOURTEEN PHILADELPHIA ARTISTS
(Private View November 6; open to the public November 7 through December 6.)
This exhibition consisted of 425 paintings, prints, drawings, sculptureAmerican and European - from the collections of the following persons:
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Bendiner
Mr. and Mrs. Blackburn
Mr. Hobson Pittman
Mr. and Mrs. Adrian Siegel
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Dr. and David L. Drabkin
(Stella Drabkin)
Mr. and Mrs. Emlen Etting
Mr. and Mrs. Lionel F. Levy
(Margaret Wasserman Levy)
Mr. and Mrs. Earle Miller
(Peter and Earle Miller)
Mr. and Mrs. Benton Spruance
Mr. Walter Stuempfig
Mr. and Mrs. Franklin C. Watkins
Mrs. S. S. Wh ite
(Vera White)
Mr. and Mrs. Ben Wolf
Attendance: 3,951
MICHAEL MAYOR PAINTINGS EXHIBITION (Private view Friday afternoon, November 20; open to the public November 21 through January 6,
1960.) A retrospective exhibition of 39 paintings.
Sold: 12; total $6,000.00
Attendance: 3,830
HALLMARK FOURTH INTERNATIONAL ART AWARD EXHIBITION
(Private View December 8, 4 to 6 P.M.; open to the public December 9
through January 3, 1960.)
The show was comprised of fifty water colors by contemporary artists of 16
countries of North and South America, and Europe: 28 from the United
States (including four from Philadelphia), five from France, two from England, three from Italy, two from Sweden, and one each from Canada,
Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Venezuela, Denmark, Germany, Holland, Norway,
Spain, and Switzerland. Five Americans, Edward Hopper, Charles Sheeler,
Robert Vickrey, Loren MacIver, and Walter Stuempfig, were among the
ten artists who received cash prizes for their work. Attendance: 2,083.
SPECIAL EVENTS-1959
FREE CONCERTS
January 30th-Works by Mozart, Brahms, Strauss, Schubert, and Poulenc;
Benita Volente, soprano; Vladimir Sokoloff, pianist; and five young performers of wind instruments.
February 20th- Works for four hands at one piano by Beethoven, Schubert
and Brahms; Vladimir and Eleanor Sokoloff, pianists; assisted by mixed
vocal quartet.
March 20th- Works by Corelli, Locatelli, J. S. Bach, Otey, Bartok, McCollin,
Prokofieff, Vassilenko, and Stix-Ormandy. Philadelphia String Virtuosi: Louis
Vyner, conductor; Vladimir Sokoloff, piano.
November 13th- Works by Beethoven, Barber, Bozza, and Poulenc; Artemus
Woodwind Quintet; Vladimir Sokoloff, piano.
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December 11th-Works by Schubert, Brahms, J. S. Bach, and Brahms; Oksana
Sowiak, contralto; Vladimir Sokoloff, piano; String Ensemble and Oboes
from The Curtis Institute of Music.
For the tenth year in succession these concerts, planned by Elizabeth Z.
Swenson, Director of Public Relations, and Mr. Vladimir Sokoloff, were
presented by the Academy in collaboration with the Music Performance
Trust Fund of the American Phonograph Industry, and through the courtesy
of local 77, American Federation of Musicians.
GALLERY TALKS (Sponsored by the Fellowship of the Academy)
January 29-Dorothy GraAy
February 5-Henry Peacock
February 12-Raphael Sabatini
February 19-Hobson Pittman
February 26-Morris Berd
SUBSCRIPTION LECTURES (Held during 154th Annual Exhibition)
February 10-Henry Pitz
February 17-Chen-Chi
February 24-Gabor Peterdi
(Note: This series was originally suggested by Mr. David J. Grossman, who
also underwrote the deficit as a memorial to his late brother Edgar Alan
Grossman.)
TOTAL ATTENDANCE FOR 1959: 35,520
ACQUISITIONS
Purchases
Through the Temple Fund:
Road by the Marsh (pastel) by Henry Varnum Poor;
The Tree House (pen and ink drawing) by Stuart H. Frost;
Avenue of the Americas (water color) by Chen-Chi;
Emerging Figure (pen and ink drawing) by Harold Altman;
Summer (gouache) by Art Jacobson;
The Four Seasons: Summer (intaglio) by Moishe Smith;
The Deposition (tempera) by James Brewton;
The Prey (lithograph) by Janet
E,
Turner;
Plummers Lilies (water color) by Philip Jamison.
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Gift s
From Mr. Benjamin D. Bernstein:
Painting Table # 1 (oil painting) by Walter Redding;
Bryn Mawr Landscape (oil painting) by Doyla Goutman;
Chicken Women (encaustic on panel) by Paul Keene;
Delaware River from Bridge, 7953 (oil painting) by Seymour Remenick.
From Mrs. Webster Plass: Euclayptus Leaves by Eliot Elisofon.
From an anonymous donor: Taxco (oil painting) by Morris Blackburn.
From Mr. Bernard Davis: Pitchforks (sculptural construction) by Lloyd R. Ney.
From the Estate of William Brook Rawle: Two miniature portraits on ivory.
From Mr. C. Newbold Taylor: A Cloisonne vase.
From Mrs. Samuel levitties: The White Gate (oil painting) by Jack Bookbinder.
From Dorothy Grafly: Vulture of War (sculpture) by Charles Grafly.
From Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Meltzer: A set of 19 letters written and signed
by Thomas Eakins (Estate of Harriet Sartain).
From Mr. and Mrs. Carl Zigrosser: 53 American Prints.
LOANS
Title
Artist
Institution
Jo Davidson
Dexter Jones
Philo. Museum of Art
Ephraim Wilson
Julius Bloch
Newman Galleries, Philadelphia
The Fox Hunt
Winslow Homer
Mus. Fine Arts, Boston, Mass.
Holy Family
Alfeo Faggi
National Institute of Arts and Letters,
New York City
Gemini No.2
Oronzio Maldarelli
Paul Rosenberg & Co., New York City
Ben;amin West
Matthew Pratt
Fidelity-Philo. Trust Co.
Medicine Show
Jack Levine
Schuylkill Valley Town
Francis Speight
A Little Girl
Cecilia Beaux
Roberto
Joseph P. Gualtieri
Home No.3
Morris Berd
Picnic at Bedford Hills
Florine Stettheimer
The Lighthouse
Morris Kantor
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LOANS
Institution
Title
Artist
Corn, Wind and Snow
Paul Froelich
Miss Eliza Leslie
Thomas Sully
Decoy
Hans Moller
Threshold to Success
Philip Evergood
Whitney Mus. American Art, New York
City
Edward Eicholtz
Jacob Eicholtz
Penna. Hist. Soc. & Museum Commission, State Museum, Harrisburg, Pa.
Clapboards
Charles Sheeler
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Wash., D C.
Oakdale Avenue at Night
Aaron Bohrod
Still Life
William Harnett
The Tides
Kenneth Callahan
Yellow Cup
Humbert Howard
Artist-for Exhibition at Howard University, Washington, D.C.
The Soda Fountain
William J. Glackens
U.S.I.A. for Ameren National Exhibition, Moscow
Mr. and Mrs . John W. Field
John Singer Sargent
Composition No.6, 1936
Arthur B. Carles
Graham Gallery, New York City
Buchenwald Cart
Rico Lebrun
Boston University, Boston
North River
George Bellows
National Cathedral School for Boys,
Washington, D.C.
Clown with Folded Arms
Walt Kuhn
Medicine Show
Jack Levine
The Gossips
Hobson Pittman
Mr. and Mrs. John W. Field
John S. Sargent
Disorder
Raphael Soyer
Sailing in Mist
John H. Twachtman
Crucifixion
Franklin C. Watkins
The Good Influence
Grant Wood
Fidelity-Phila. Trust Co.
Elizabeth Mower Lewis
John Frederick Lewis
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LOANS
Title
Artist
A Little Girl
Country Wedding: Bishop
White Officiating
John l. Krimmel
Portrait of Gen . U. S. Grant
James R. Lambdin
Cecilia Beaux
Institution
Westmoreland County Museum of Art,
Greensburg, Pa.
Portrait of Benjamin West
Matthew Pratt
Eagle
William Rush
Ultra-Marine
Stuart Davis
City Museum of Art, St. Louis, for circulation in Eastern & Western Europe
Dark Hollow
John Folinsbee
William A. Farnsworth library and Art
Museum, Rockland, Maine
The Birth of Venus
Alexandre Cabanel
Municipal Gallery, Los Angeles, Calif.
Plummers Lilies
Philip Jamison
Artist - for exhibition at Hirschi and
Adler Galleries, New York City
Schuylkill Valley Town
Francis Speight
Artist, for submission to Art Jury at
Ford Foundation, Baltimore, Md.
Fox Grapes and Peaches
Raphaelle Peale
American Federation of Arts, New York
City
The Blue Gulf Stream
Frederick Waugh
Aeneas and Anchises
Charles Grafly
Phila. Sketch Club
State House on the Day of
The Battle of Germantown
R. F. Rothermel
Upsala, Germantown
My House in Winter
Charles Morris Young
West Chester Art Association
Still Life
John Bannon
Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, Pa.
White Callas
Arthur B. Carles
Still Life-Fish
Wm. M. Chase
Fox Hunters at White Horse
Petunias
Henry Lee McFee
Strawberries and Cherries
Margaretta Peale
Still Life No.1
James Peale
Apples and Fox Grapes
Raphaelle Peale
Fish House Door
John F. Peto
Still Life-Grape Leayes
Henry Varnum Poor
The Great Oak of Ornans
Gustave Courbet
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Labrador Woman with
Young Geese
Geo. Harding
Century Association, New York City
Earthquake at Rabaul
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CONSERVATION OF WORKS FROM
THE PERMANEN T COLLECTION
The following fourteen works received attention during the year from
Theodor Siegl, the Academy's conservator and technical adviser: Portrait
of. William Lorman and Portrait of Mary Fulton Lorman by Chester Harding;
Portrait of Mrs. Samuel Gatliff and Daughter, Portrait of Samuel Gatliff;
Portrait of George Plumstead, and Portrait of Mrs. George Plumstead by
Gilbert Stuart; North River by George Bellows; Portrait of J. G. Whilldin ·
by John Neagle; Portrait of Whistler by Walter Greaves; Anna and Margaretta Peale by James Peale; Fairmount Water Works by Thomas Birch;
Portrait of Fanny Kemble, Portrait of John McLean, and Portrait of Margaret
Sarah Page by Thomas Birch.
LIBRARY
Books and Clippings withdrawn ............................... 2,300
Accessions: 50 by purchase; 120 as gifts.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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ETHEl V. ASHTON,
Librarian
PUBLIC RELATIONS
In the membership department, we have enrolled four new life, two new
contributing, five new sustaining, and 157 new annual members; nine members have increased their rates, all of which has permitted us to add
$3770.00 in new funds during the year. In addition to the foregoing, due
to their contributions, both Mr. and Mrs. · C. Earle Miller have been elected
Fellows in perpetuity. Mrs. Herbert C. Morris was elected a Patron, also in
perpetuity. Several members have been most helpful in suggesting persons
for membership. We urge those who have not done this to keep it in mind
as a most useful service to the institution.
Many public, private, and parochial schools, clubs, or other organizations
have made group visits to our exhibitions. They have come from the Greater
Philadelphia area, mid-Pennsylvania, central and southern New Jersey, and
Long Island. The Philadelphia Water Color Club and the School Art League
have held meetings here. The Women's Auxiliary of the Einstein Medical
Center held a Tea, and the Bargain Shop Committee of Pennsylvania
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Hospital a luncheon, the latter also attending a gallery talk. The Art
Teachers' Association of Philadelphia gave a dinner in the galleries, attended
by some 250 persons, in honor of Dr. Earl B. Mtlliette upon his retirement
from the Public School System. The local Miniature Camera Club has continued to hold its regular meetings in our auditorium. Other lectures or
special events, in which this department customarily lends cooperation, are
referred to elsewhere in this brochure.
The year has marked the completion of a decade of chamber music concerts in the rotunda. That the series is becoming increasingly an "art-andmusic" experience is evidenced by the greater number waiting to be admitted
when the doors open at 7:30, one hour ahead of concert time. These
audiences are spending more and more time with the exhibitions. The five
concerts drew well over 2000 visitors. It would be difficult to give Mr.
Vladimir Sokoloff, our music director, adequate praise for the high level
of performance he and his fellow musicians have brought to these programs
of rarely-heard works. Through their cooperation, the Recording Industries'
Trust Funds, and the Fredric R. Mann Foundation, continue to help the
Academy make these events free to all.
Annually we record in these reports our appreciation to press, periodicals,
radio, television, and those who appear personally in the latter media, for
their assistance in bringing our activities to the attention of the public. We
have had innumerable radio and television announcements. In addition to
these, in the Board of Education's television series "Exploring the Fine Arts,"
directed by Mr. Abner Miller, Mrs. Margaret Wasserman levy, Messrs. Alfred
Bendiner, Kneeland McNulty, and Vladimir Visson have appeared on separate programs featuring special Academy exhibitions.
Be it membership, publicity, or other activity, it is the responsibility of this
department to give all possible cooperation to our Board, committees,
groups holding activities here, or musicians performing for us, as they work
toward our common goal: all that is in the best interest of the Academy.
ELIZABETH Z. SWENSON,
Director
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WOMEN 1S COMMITTEE
In the calendar year 1959, the Women's Committee arranged two major
events whose primary purpose was to bring more people into the Academy
to share and enjoy the exhibits and other activities which are such an
enriching factor in the cultural life of Philadelphia.
The first event, held on February 13th, was a Subscription Dinner for members, followed by an illustrated talk on his trip to Russia by Franklin
Watkins. This occasion aroused great interest in the community and was
oversubscribed by a large number. Those fortunate enough to attend
thoroughly enjoyed the evening.
On November 13th the Committee arranged a Subscription Luncheon for
new members enrolled during the preceding two years. Hobson Pittman
spoke before the lunch on the "Exhibition of Private Collections of Philadelphia Artists" then in the galleries. Almost 200 people attended. It, too,
was oversubscribed and greatly enjoyed.
Committee rnembers presided at the refreshment tables for the private
views preceding the four principal exhibitions held at the Academy during
the year.
Although we have not undertaken any large money-raIsing project for the
last few years, we do maintain a Student Aid Fund, which is available for
emergencies. This year we also financed a trip to New York for Academy
students, under the guidance of a member of the Faculty, for the purpose
of seeing two very important exhibitions. Our funds are derived chiefly
from Committee members' dues and from the sale of the attractive note
pads which are available at the Sales Desk.
FRANCES E. WOLF,
Chairman
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THE FELLOWSHIP
OFFICERS
Roswell Weidner
Roy C. Nuse
. President
.
First Vice-President
Mabel Woodrow Gill
Vice-President
Mary Townsend Mason
Vice-President
Violet Oakley .
Vice-President
Franklin C. Watkins
Vice-President
. Recording Secretary
Ethel V. Ashton
Elizabeth Eichman
Corresponding Secretary
Irene Denney .
. Treasure'r
The main purpose of the Fellowship (organized in 1897) is to foster a spirit
of fraternity among former and present students of the Academy.
THE COMMITTEE ON FELLOWSHIP
Mabel W. Gill, Chairman-Treasurer
Mary Mullineux
Ethel Ashton
Roy C. Nuse
Irene Denney
Roswell Weidner
The function of the _Committee is to administer the following four funds:
Henry J. Thouron Memorial Fund; Picture Purchase Fund; Special Fund;
Mary Butler Memorial Fund; all for the benefit of Fellowship members, and
present or former students. The Committee also endeavors to be useful to
both the Fellowship and the Academy, whenever possible.
In addition, the Committee is responsible for (1) the purchase of painting
and sculpture to encourage or assist artists, or improving the loan Collec-tion from which works are currently on exhibition in various institutions; (2)
providing art classes, usually 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; and (3) giving a type
of financial assistance not permissible from the regular Fellowship treasury
to current and former Academy students with tuition, artists' materials, living
expenses. The Butler Fund now amounts to approximately $10,000.00; its
goal is $15,000.00. There is also an annual gift from Mrs. John S. Hurlbut
in memory of Mrs. Philip S. Collins.
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CONSOLIDATED TREASURER'S REPORT
September 1, 1958, to August 31, 1959
INCOME:
Art Gallery and Exhibitions .. .. ............ ........ ...... $ 20,108.14
School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..
67,696.13
Trust Funds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..
97,061.41
Membership Dues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..
17,255.00
City Appropriation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..
25,000.00
Contributions- unrestricted . . ............................
2,252.52
Total ......................... .. .. .. ...... .... . $229,373.20
EXPENSE:
Art Gallery and Exhibitions ......... . ....... ...... .. .... . $137,012.25
School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..
89,961.43
Total ......................................... $226,973.68
Net Operating Surplus ... ........... ...... ...... $
2,399.52
APPENDIX:
Loss on sale of General Fund Investments .................. $
775.82
Cancellation of shares of stock .. .. ........... . .... . ... .. .
300.00
Increase in Student Aid Fund . . .... ..... ... ..... . . . ...... .
15.00
Total .......................................... $
139.18
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CONTRIBUTIONS FOR THE CALENDAR YEAR 1959
UN RESTRICTED:
Mr. and Mrs. Earle Miller ...... ...... ........... . ... .. $ 5,000.00
John Stewart .. ..... . ........... . ........ . ......... .
17.67
Mrs. Williamina de Schauensee ....................... .
496.50
2.00
Mrs. Henry N. Platt ........................ . ....... .
24.00
Mrs. Dora K. Valentine . . ... ..... ... . .......... . ..... .
290.92
J. Howard Cloud ... .. .. .... . . . . . ...... ... ... .... . . .
17.00
Mrs. Lawrence M. C. Smith .. ..... ... . .... . . ...... .. . . .
500.00
Edgar P. Richardson . . .... .. .. ... ... .... ..... . ...... . .
5.00
Mrs. Elizabeth Newburger .. . ............... .. ..... .. .
25.00
$ 6,378 .09
MISCELLANEOUS:
City of Philadelphia-1959-60 Appropriation .. . ......... . 25,000.00
Henry S. Drinker-City Council Dinner ... ..... . ...... ... .
34.00
Mrs. Leonard T. Beale-City Council Dinner ............. .
34.68
Mrs. Herbert C. Morris-City Council Dinner ............. .
34.68
James P. Magill-City Council Dinner .... ..... . . .. ... .. . .
34 .68
Frank T. Howard-C ity Council Dinner .. .. .. .... . ... .. .. .
34.68
George B. Roberts-City Council Dinner ................. .
34.68
John F. Lewis, Jr.-City Council Dinner .. ...... .. .. .. .. .. .
34.68
R. Sturgis Ingersoll-City Council Dinner ...... .. ... •.. .. .
34.68
Alfred Zantzinger-City Council Dinner ..... .. . . .. .... .. .
34.68
Raymond A. Speiser-City Council Dinner ...... . .. .. . ... .
34.68
Sydney E. Martin-City Council Dinner ..... . .. ... . ... .. .
34.68
C. Newbold Taylor-City Council Dinner ......... ..... .. .
34.68
Arthur C. Kaufmann-City Council Dinner ........... .. .. .
34.68
Mrs. Elias Wolf-City Council Dinner .. .... . .. .. .. .. .. .. .
34.68
William Coxe Wright-City Council Dinner .... .. ... ..... .
34.68
Howard C. Petersen-City Council Dinner ............... .
34.68
David Gwinn-City Council Dinner ..................... .
34.68
John Stewart-City Council Dinner ... . ................. .
34.68
Philadelphia Water Color Club-154th Annual Exhibition .. .
200.00
Mabel M. Campion-George Harding Memorial . . .. ... . .. .
25.00
Amy Oakley-George Harding Memorial ................ .
25.00
John Hanlen-George Harding Memorial ... . ... ... ... ... .
15 .00
Mrs. R. T. Dooner-George Harding Memorial ........... .
10.00
Emily C. Carvill-George Harding Memorial ... ..... .. . .. .
25.00
Ann R. Webb-George Harding Memorial . .... . ......... .
8.00
Margaret F. Reichner-George Harding Memorial .. . ... . . .
15.00
William H. Crawford-George Harding Memorial .. ...... .
10.00
Harriet Crist-George Harding Memorial .. .- ............. .
25.00
Carried Forward
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25,981.56
32,359.65
MISCElLANEOUS (cont'd):
32,359.65
Brought Forward
David Grossman-lecture Series .. .. ................... .
Academy Fellowship-Annual Exhibition .. ... . .. .. ....... .
Fredric R. Mann Foundation-Concerts .................. .
Speiser Memorial Fund-Speiser Memorial Prize (1960) . ... .
Anonymous-ART IN FOCUS subscription ..... . ...... . ... .
Anonymous-Director's Membership Dues . ... ... ......... .
James P. Magill ........... ',' . . .......... .. .. . . ... .. .
Mrs. leonard T. Beale-Directors' Fund . . .. . . .... . ...... .
George B. Roberts-Directors' Fund .. ........... . ...... .
Sydney l. Wright-Directors' Fund .... . .. ......... ..... .
C. Newbold Taylor-Directors' Fund ... . .. . .......... . .. .
593.80
350.00
400.00
500.00
25.00
240.00
1,096.44
200.00
106.66
500.00
100.00
4,111.90
75.00
100.00
10.00
25.00
25.00
50.00
25.00
100.00
423.58
2,000.00
52.74
2,886.32
SCHOOL:
Mrs. Joseph Caplan-Mindel Caplan Kleinbard Memorial
Student Prizes 1959-61 ........................... .
Margaret Wasserman levy ........................... .
Morris Blackburn-Special Instructor's Prize in Graphics .. .. .
Franklin C. Watkins-Special Figure Composition Prize .. . . .
Hobson Pittman-Special Figure Composition Prize ........ .
George Kreier, Jr.-Kreier Memorial Prize .... . .......... .
Mrs. Herbert Syme-M. Herbert Syme Prize .... .. .. .. .... .
David Gwinn-Eakins Prize ....... . ................ . .. .
David Gwinn-Student Party ................ . ......... .
George D. Widener-Scholarships ..... . ........... . . .. .
Philadelphia Foundation-leona Karp Braverman Prize. . . . .
Total . ..
.... $39,357.87
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NEW MEMBERS
Enrolled during 1959, including those who increased their classification.
# Fellows
Mr. C. Earle Miller
Mrs. C. Earle Miller
# Patron
*Mrs. Herbert C. Morris
Life Members
Mrs. Joseph G. Butler
Norman J. Greene
*Frank T. Howard
Lawrence E. Jones
William Coxe Wright
*Mrs. Arthur M. Young
Contributing Members
Mrs. H. J. Grinsfelder
Henry B. Keep
Sustaining Members
*Leonard T. Beale
Mrs. Tillman Cahn
Lawrence A. Fleischman
*Mrs. R. A. Hauslohner
*Lionel Levy
Charles G. Lewine
*Mrs. A. Saunders Morris
*Dr. H. Herbert Parcher
Mrs. Wilbert V. Pike
*Mrs. Howard Wasserman
*Walter H. West, Jr.
Ralph Wright
Annual Members
Mrs. Alex Abel
Mrs. Albert Acker
Miss Esther Agensky
Mrs. A. A. Alexander
Charles D. Allen
Miss Elizabeth D. Allen
Mrs. Stuart B. Andrews
Mrs. Jacob Arronson
Mrs Frederick Bachman
John Ames Ballard
Mrs. Edward A. Barbieri
Mrs. Joseph S. Bates
Mrs. A. J. Becker
Mrs. Claude H. Bennett, Jr.
Mrs. Craig Biddle, Jr.
Miss Mary Y. Blakely
Victor H. Blanc
Samuel L. Borton, Jr.
Francis Bosworth
Mrs. Edward Boxer
Jules Boymel
Raymond J. Bradley
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Mrs. George H. Brown
Mrs. T. Wi star Brown, 4th
C. Jones Buehler
Mrs. William S. Buzzard
Louis Dreifus
Mrs. Hans F. Dresel
Mrs. Mary Dunlavey
Miss Janet C. Durand
Ralph E. Cades
Dr. William Carey
Frederick Chait
C. C. G. Chaplin
Donald Cherry
Henry S. Churchill
Mrs. Avery B. Clark
Mrs. Dorothea S. Collins
Mrs. Herman C. Cooke
Mrs. Ralph I. K. Cornwell
Lucius Crowell
Mrs. Edward E. Cullen, 3rd
Mrs. Anne Lewis Eurich
Robert E. Daffron
Mrs. Scott Darby
Mrs. Joseph W. Darling
Mrs. Edgar T. Darlington
Mrs. Kern Dodge
A. Harry Feldman
Eugene Feldman
Mrs. Robert Fischer
Mrs. Philip B. Fisher
Mrs. Edward Fishman
Mrs. Winfield A. Foreman, Jr.
Mrs. Harold J. Friedman
Mrs. Helen B. Fritsche
Dr. Thomas Georges
Sol Gitman
Miss Pauline Gollub
Samuel Gorson
Mrs. Dorothy Graham
Mrs. Ralph E. Grim
Myron H. Halpern
Mrs. F. Woodson Hancock
Mrs. Gordon A. Hardwick
C. W. Hart, Jr.
Mrs. Frances Sutro Heberton
Mrs. Harold B. Hess
Mrs. Charles Hodge, 4th
Miss Mary A. Hogan
Mrs. John J. Hopkinson
Mrs. Edgar B. Howard
Mrs. James W. Hubbell
Mrs. Joseph J. Imhof
Mrs. James Irvine
Charles Edwin Johnson
Miss Alma Jovanov
-Mrs. Higgins Kalpaschnikoff
Mrs. Theodore Kapnek
McClure Kelley
Mrs. Collins M. Ketcham
Lawrence C. Kline
M. J . Kluger
Albert Kraftsow
William Justice Lee
Mrs. Lora Warner Leprohon
A. Barton Lewis
Mrs. Jerry Locks
Mrs. W. Thacher Longstreth
Mrs. Edward Clark Lukens
Mrs. William Luria
Mrs. John R. McAusland
Louis N. McCarter, 3rd
Miss Margaret M. McGonigle
# Enrolled in perpetuity
* Classification increased
Mrs. Leighton H. Mcilvaine
Mrs. George H. McNeely, 3rd
Mrs. J. S. P. Makiver
Mrs. George V. Marston
Mrs. Daniel B. Michie, Jr.
Dr. Donald Edwin Miller
Mrs. John M. Miller
Mrs. Walter P. Miller, Jr.
Mrs. Edward Shippen Morris
Mrs. Isaac Naeye
Richard Naugler
Mrs. Frank L. Newburger
Mrs. Morris Newmark
Mrs. Raymond Pearlstine
Mrs. Charles H. Pearson
Mrs. Erling H. Pedersen
Mrs. Charles Penrose
Mrs. Isaac Pepp
Miss Catherine M. Peterson
Mrs. George Peterson, Jr.
Miss Dorothy E. Pierce
Mrs. George Platt Pilling, 3rd
Mrs. John Plant
Mrs. Walter W. Pollock, Jr.
Beryl Price
Harry T. Saylor
Mrs. Fletcher Schaum
D. Frederick Schick, Jr.
Mrs. Albert W. Schiffrin
Mrs. Malcolm L. Schoenberg
Sidney Schulman
Frank S. Schwarz
William T. Schwarz
Mrs. John J. Shaw, Jr.
Mrs. Leon Solis-Cohen, Jr.
Mrs. Albert W. Spitz
Stanley P. Stern
Mrs. N. H. Tate
Mrs. H. Eastburn Thompson
Mrs. S. Herbert Unterberger
Miss Charlotte C. Voorhis
Mrs. C. Egerton Warburton
Mrs. Jerome B. Weinstein
Mrs. James L. Whitaker
Mrs. Charles R. Whittlesey
Theodore A. Wiedemann
Mrs. Rose Bennett Williams
Mrs. Nochem S. Winnet
Dr. Sheri J. Winter
Mrs. Sheri J. Winter
Mrs. Thomas A. Wood
Mrs. George Woodward, Jr.
Warsen R. Rainear
Calvin H. Rankin
Mrs. Charles S. Redding
Mrs. Edward L. Reed
Mrs. George W. D. Rockett
Mrs. Richard P. Rosenau
Miss Anna Wells Rutledge
Mrs. Edward H. York, Jr.
Stuart Henri Yost
Mrs. Morton Sand
Mrs. Lucienne M. Zwirn
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MEMBERSHIP CLASSES
Yearly Members
Annual $10.00
Sustaining $25.00
{
Contributing $100.00
Life Member ................................................ $300
Fellow ............................................ $1000 to $5000
Patron. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. $5000 to $25,000
Benefactor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. $25,000 or more
(Fellows, Patrons and Benefactors are enrolled in perpetuity)
A membership in the Academy helps to support and affiliates you with the
oldest art institution in the country and one of the most important in the
community and the nation. Founded in 1805 and chartered in 1806, its
origin actually dates from the efforts made in 1791 by Charles Willson
Peale to organize a school for the fine arts in Philadelphia.
In the Academy's schools, many distinguished American painters, sculptors
and illustrators have been trained, and its students of today rank with
the best.
In its galleries are shown two of America's major annual art exhibitions;
American Painting and Sculpture; Walter Colors and Prints; other special
exhibitions; and the Academy's permanent collection, representing a crosssection of American art from the early eighteenth century through its current acquisitions.
Members receive notices of all activities (concerts, lectures, motion pictures),
invitations to private views, catalogues of exhibitions and schools, the Annual
Report, a discount on art works purchased from Academy-sponsored professional exhibitions, and have use of the art reference library.
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I give, devise and bequeath to The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Dollars, in . trust, to invest and keep
invested and apply the income to the maintenance of the said Academy.
The Academy is open weekdays (except Mondays) from 10 A.M. to 5 P.M.;
Sundays and Holidays from 1 to 5 P.M. Closed Mondays, New Year's Day,
Good Friday, Memorial Day, Fourth of July, Thanksgiving and Christmas.
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