159th Annual Report for the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
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159th Annual Report for the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
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1964
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THE PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS
B~OAD
AND CHERRY STREETS • PHILADELPHIA
159th ANNUAL
1964
REPORT
Cover: letter and His Ecol by Stuart Davis
Lambert Fund Purchase 1964
The One Hundred and Fifty-Ninth
Annual Report
of
PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS
FOR THE YEAR 1964
Presented to the Meeting of the Stockholders
of the Academy on February 1, 1965
OFFICERS
President
. Vice President
Treasurer
. Secretary
Frank T. Howard
Alfred Zantzinger
C. Newbold Taylor
Joseph T. Fraser, Jr.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Mrs. Leonard T. Beale
David Gwinn
J. Welles Henderson
Frank T. Howard (ex officio)
R. Sturgis Ingersoll
Arthur .C. Kaufmann
Henry B. Keep
James M. Large
James P. Magill (Director Emeritus)
Henry S. McNeil
John W. Merriam
C. Earle Miller
Mrs. Herbert C. Morris
Evan Randolph, Jr.
Henry W. Sawyer, 3rd
John Stewart
James K. Stone
C. Newbold Taylor
Franklin C. Watkins
William H. S. Wells
William Coxe Wright
Alfred Zantzinger
Ex officio
Mrs. John Grier Bartol (to May) .
Mrs. H. Lea Hudson (from May) .
Mrs. Erasmus Kloman (from May)
Fredric R. Mann
Roswell Weidner (to October) .
John W. McCoy, 2nd (from October)
Representing Women's Committee
Representing Women's CommiHee
Representing Women's CommiHee
. Representing City Council
Representing Faculty
Representing Faculty
Solicitor
Maurice B. Saul
STANDING COMMITTEES
COMMITTEE ON COLLECTIONS AND EXHIBITIONS
Franklin C. Watkins, Chairman
Mrs. Leonard T. Beale
Mrs. Herbert C. Morris
Alfred Zantzinger
William Coxe Wright
William H. S. Wells
COMMITTEE ON FINANCE
C. Newbold
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T~ylor,
Chairman
James Magill
John Stewart
COMMITTEE ON INSTRUCTION
John W. McCoy, 2nd (from October)
Mrs. John Grier Bartol (to May)
Mrs. H. Lea Hudson (from May)
Mrs. Erasmus Kloman (from May)
John W. Merriam, Chairman
David Gwinn
C. Earle Miller
Arthur C. Kaufmann
Roswell Weidner (to October)
SPECIAL COMMITTEES
PLANNING COMMITTEE
John W. Merriam, Chairman
James K. Stone
J. Welles Henderson, Jr.
Ex officio
Frank T. Howard
Henry S. McNeil
William H. S. Wells
C. Newbold Taylor
Joseph T. Fraser, Jr.
Alfred Zantzinger
NOMINATIONS COMMITTEE
Henry B. Keep, Chairman
J. Welles Henderson
C. Newbold Taylor
WOMEN'S COMMITTEE
Mrs.
Mrs.
Mrs.
Mrs.
Mrs.
Mrs.
Mrs.
Mrs.
Mrs.
Mrs.
Mrs.
Mrs.
Mrs.
Mrs.
Mrs.
John Grier Bartol, Chairman (to May)
H. Lea Hudson, Chairman (from May)
Erasmus H. Kloman, Jr., Vice Chairman (from May)
David J. Grossman, Treasurer and Corresponding Secretary (to May)
Caspar W. B. Townsend, Treasurer and Corresponding Secretary
(from May)
John Grier Bartol
Mrs. Francis T. Chambers
Joseph Sill Clark, Jr.
Mrs. Albert M. Greenfield, Jr.
David J. Grossman
Mrs. David Gwinn
J. H. Ward Hinkson
Mrs. Arthur C. Kaufmann
Edward B. Leisenring
Mrs. Howard H. Lewis
C. Earle Miller
Mrs. Evan Randolph
Herbert F. Schiffer
Mrs. James M. R. Sinkler
Boudinot Stimson
Mrs. T. F. Dixon Wainwright
Franklin C. Watkins
Mrs. Walter H. West
S. S. White, 3rd
Mrs. Arthur M. Young
Mrs. Alfred Zantzinger
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STAFF
GENERAL
Joseph T. Fraser, Jr.
. Director and Secretary
Mabel L. Eiseley
Assistant Director
Dorothy E. Runk
Secretary to the Director
August V. Viilu
Comptroller
Rita Damiano .
Assistant to the Comptroller
Louise Wallman
Registrar
Elizabeth Z. Swenson
Director of Membership and Special Events
E. Elizabeth Fermanis
Receptionist and Membership Assistant
Frances M. Vanderpool
. Exhibitions and Membership Clerk
SCHOOLS
M. Wister Wood
. Administrator
Roswell Weidner
In Charge of Evening Program
Nancy W. Dall (to May)
Constance A. Taylor.
LaVerne Delach
Ethel
v.
Ashton
PEALE
Assistant to the Administrator
Secretary to the Administrator
Receptionist
Librarian
HOUSE
James R. Knipe
Manager
Marjorie Rubin .
Director of Special Exhibitions
Mabel Gearhart Cook
. Resident · Counselor
George Carroll
Development Director
Ava Yvonne Gilbert
Frances Leone .
James J. Lulias
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Secretary to the Development Director
Receptionist
Superintendent
FA C U L T Y (Sea son of 1964-1 965 )
Day School
Morris Blackburn
Ben Kamihira
Paul A. Greenwood
Julian Levi
Walker Hancock
John Hanlen
Jimmy C. Lueders
John W . McCoy, 2nd
Homer Johnson
Daniel D. Miller
Hobson Pittman
Harry Rosin
Walter Stuempflg, Jr.
Franklin C. Watkins
Roswell Weidner
Even ing School
Morris Blackburn
Paul A. Greenwood
Adolph T. Dioda
Oliver Grimley
Jimmy Lueders
Thomas Gaughan
Homer Johnson
Roswell Weidner
Ben Kamihira
Summer Day School
John Hanlen
Jimmy C. Lueders
Ben Kamihira
Francis Speight
Roswell Weidner
ACADEMY BUILD I NG
Isaiah J. Sellers (to June) .
Superintendent
Michael G. lacocca (from June)
Superintendent
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REPORT OF THE OFFICERS AND
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
We report a most exciting and busy year for 1964, and, in the Director's
experience, we have never been so occupied with new projects. Although
additional personnel has been added, the faithful and dedicated workers
who have served over a period of many years have been hard pressed
indeed.
There have been but two changes in the list of our Board of Directors. The
resignation of Henry S. Drinker, reported as a grave possibility in last year's
record, was confirmed in January. At the February meeting the vacancy thus
created was filled with -the election of James M. large.
We lost one of the most able and devoted staff members in June with the
retirement of Isaiah J. Sellers because of ill health and advanced age.
Michael G. lacocca took on the responsibilities as Building Superintendent
at that time, having previously served as an assistant in the Summer School
at Chester Springs and in the Academy's school store.
We passed into a new phase in our fund raising drive when the contract
with Ketchum, Inc., terminated in February. Considerable disappointment
was experienced in the initial drive as directed by this Pittsburgh, Pa., firm,
which came to us with such an impressive record of past achievements. They
seemed never to have fully understood the unique problems facing the
Academy, nor the difficult situation in Philadelphia, where the supporting
citizens are a group all too small for the many demands from our multiple
cultural institutions.
To carry on our search for financial help, we employed Mr. George Carroll
in February, under the continuing guidance of Mr. Evan Randolph as chairman, and coupled his duties as fund raising agent with our general public
relations responsibilities. For this abbreviated record we note that we opened
the year at approximately the $200,000 mark, and closed with approximately $300,000.
In that same busy month of February we were fortunate to procure the
services of Mrs. Marjorie Rubin, who now has the responsibilities of planning
and implementing our exhibit program at Peale House, the reporting of
which leads us directly into the series of activities at 1811 and 1819 Chestnut
Street which account for the major pressures under which we have worked.
It is encouraging to report that in addition to the two floors renovated for
studios and one for the housing of girl students, the demand dictated the
refurbishing of another floor for girls. The initial winter had seen but sixteen
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girls rooming there and served with meals in our new cafeteria and this was
more than doubled in the second season. These students, joined by the one
hundred first-year students, who are chiefly assigned to work in these new
quarters, have also accounted for a very appreciable increase in the use
of the cafeteria.
We have cause to be exceedingly grateful for the generous financial support of Mrs. Herbert C. Morris, who made it possible to create two handsome,
modern galleries on the Chestnut Street front of the ground floor and,
through the same benefactress, we staged a brilliant Open House party on
October 2nd. The initial shows were a retrospective memorial of the paintings
of Stuart Davis held in the West Gallery, and fifteen items of contemporary
painting, drawing and sculpture recently acquired in our own permanent
collection, in the East Gallery. We have temporarily dedicated the East
Gallery to a series of one- or two-man shows of work from the members of
our illustrious faculty. The first of these- paintings by Ben Kamihira, chiefly
accomplished during his recent sojourn in Spain, were followed by a retrospective exhibition of paintings and pastels by Hobson Pittman.
We were also most fortunate in this first season to procure and show a
distinguished group of portrait studies of the late John F. Kennedy by Elaine
deKooning. This exhibition was of great popular interest. The attendance
record in these new galleries has given us the splendid figures of approximately 14,244 from the beginning of October through December.
In giving this thumbnail picture of our new ventures, we must not shirk the
reporting of all the regular features which continue with no curtailment at
Broad and Cherry Streets. The 159th Annual Exhibition, this year of oil
paintings and sculpture, was exceedingly well received and one of the most
successful on record. In addition to liberal funds available from our own
purchase endowments, we were fortunate again to have the attention of
the Ford Foundation. Through that agency funds approximating $25,000
were available. With large support also from private buying, we made the
enviable sales record of just under $70,000.00. In addition to the purchased
works there were a great many items added to the permanent collections
by which it was greatly enriched.
Before leaving the general subject of shows, we are happy to report that
within this year the ground work has been laid for a great retrospective
exhibition of the work of Andrew Wyeth to be held in the galleries at Broad
and Cherry Streets in the fall of 1966.
As one more activity which taxed the staff, we have had an unusual number
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of requests for loans: Seventy-three items being approved for showing in
exhibitions throughout the country.
We can but touch on the tremendous amount of work which has gone into
the finishing of the building housing the new lobby and lounge for the
Peale Club, and for the attendant planning for its opening which is now set
for February 1, 1965. Enough to say that a charter has been prepared and
is presently at Harrisburg for approval. A liquor license has been acquired
and, at the time of this writing, the day of the opening is at hand. Membership status has been established and details will be found in the complete
report.
Although a similar phrase is found in each of our Annual Reports, it is
with not one bit less appreciation that we record again the generous annual
grant of $25,000 from the City of Philadelphia. The State of Pennsylvania
also continues to help us with a yearly appropriation of $3,000.
The activities of our School continue in a most healthy and satisfactory
manner and we have reason to be exceedingly grateful to the hard-working
staff and the competence and understanding of those talented artists who
make up our very fine faculty.
In all of the above one of the most important agencies for help has been
our loyal Women's Committee. In a most gratifying and understanding way
they have sensed Jhe need for help on the part of the professional staff and
have given unprecedented aid. All of my co-workers join in this paean of
praise. The officers and members of the Board have rallied to help as in no
time past and all these factors add up to a vision of a great resurgence of
vitality and a new and wonderful chapter in the history of this great
institution.
FRANK T. HOWARD, President
JOSEPH T. FRASER, JR., Director
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CONSOLIDATED
TREASURER'S
REPORT
Septem ber 1, 1963 to Aug ust 31, 1964
INCOME:
Art Gallery and Exhibitions .............................. $ 62,809.68
School ....•......................................... 164,793.19
Trust Funds
147,420.85
Membership Dues .....................................
20,090.00
Contributions .... . ....................................
271.00
City Appropriation ..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..
25,000.00
Total ....................................... $420,384.72
EXPENSE:
Art Gallery and Exhibitions ...... . ............ ......... .. $219,221.60
School ....... ... ..... ..... ... .... .. . ................ 171,994.52
Peale House . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
68,216.92
Total ....................................... $459,433.04
Net Operating Deficit . .................. ..... $ 39,048.32
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CONTRIBUTIONS FOR THE CALENDAR YEAR 1964
UNRESTRICTED:
The Dietrich Foundation . .................... . ..... • . $ 1,000.00
Junior League of Philadelphia . ...... . . . . . .......... . .
200.00
Clarence Toland, Jr............ . ....................
50.00
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Rosenau and Henry Gerstly. . . . . . . .
20.00
Edith Stix Wasserman........... . ...... . ... . .... . . ..
30.00
Charles F. Ward. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
10.00
Bernard Friedman .. .. ............ . ........ .. ...... .
10.00
S. Emlen Stokes................. .. .......... . ......
25.00
Bert Atwater . .... . .. .. . . .. . .......................'-___1--,0-,-.0-,-0-,-
$ 1,355.00
MISCELLANEOUS:
City of Philadelphia, 1964 appropriation ........ . ..... • $25,000.00
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Grant................ . 3,000.00
Women's Committee, for concerts.............. . ... . ..
550.00
Fredric R. Mann Foundation, for concerts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . •
400.00
Nancy M. Ferguson, for Nancy M. Ferguson Fund.. . ... . .
650.00
Dr. and Mrs. Loren Eiseley, for concerts........... . . . ..
100.00
Fellowship, for Fellowship Exhibition Expense....... . . . • .
350.00
Mrs. H. Lea Hudson, in memory of Mrs. Mason.... . .. . ..
100.00
Henry S. McNeil, fo r publicity... .. ......... . .. . . .. .. .
183.65
Mr. and Mrs. T. F. Dixon Wainwright, for Peale
House garden .. . ......................... . ....
200.00
Mrs. James Beale, for Eichholtz Collection .. ........ . ...
80.00
Mrs. Herbert C. Morris, for Peale House Opening. . . . . . . .
2 ,429.07
Fidelity-Philadelphia Trust Company for Haney Award. . . .
150.00
Friends of the artist, for Abraham Hankins Memorial. . . . .
380.00
Philadelphia Fund, for Leona Karp Braverman Prize . ....._ _ _7--,,6-,-00
.:...2_
$33,648.74
SCHOOL:
School District of Philadelphia, for 26 scholarships .... • . . $ 5,200.00
Ford Foundation, fi rst payment of $55,000 grant. . . . . . . . . 11 ,000.00
George D. Widener, for Widener Scholarships .. •. ... .. . 2,000.00
Lubrizol Foundation, for scholarships for Cleveland, Ohio
students .. . .... . .......... . .......... . . . ..... .
1,000.00
Union Baptist Church, for needy student ........ . ..... .
200.00
John W. McCoy, 2nd, for student t uition ......... . .. . . .
125.00
Francis Speight, for student t uition ................... .
100.00
Mabel Gill, for Woodrow Prize .. . ...... . ............ .
50.00
250.00
Marion D. Higgins, for student prize . . .. . ........ . ... .
25.00
Herbert M. Syme, for student prize .... . ........ . . .. .. .
Mrs. Lambert Cadwalader, for student prize ...... , .. . . .
100.00
100.00
David Gwin n, for Eakins Prize ...... . ............ . .. .
122.72
David Gwinn, fo r student party ............ . .. . ...... •
122.72
John W. Merriam, for student party ............. . . . .. .
122.72
Arthur C. Kaufmann, for student party .......... .. .... .
122.72
C. Earle Miller, for student party ....... .. .... . ... .. . .
150.00
Horace Nicholso n, for student help ... . ... .. .... • .... ..
Pennsylvania Bureau of Vocational Rehabilitation,
Dormitory fees . .... . . . .. . . . .. . .. . . . ....... •• .. •_---=8:..:0:..::0:.:..00
:::..:::..
$21,590.88
Total . .. .. .... . .... .. . . . .... ..... .
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.... $56,594.62
DONORS TO THE PROGRESS FUND
Dr. and Mrs. J. Deaver Alexander
Ambrook Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Atwood, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. C. Wanton Balis, Jr.
Mrs. Charles J. Biddle
Mr. and Mrs. James Biddle
Frank G. Binswanger Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Frank G. Binswanger
Mr. Alfred E. Bissell
Mr. Francis Boyer
Mr. J. Bruce Bredin
Mr. and Mrs. Edward G. Budd, Jr.
Mrs. Avery B. Clark
Mr. and Mrs. Joel Claster
Mrs. Bertram D. Coleman
Mrs. G. Dawson Coleman
Mr. and Mrs. Tristam C. Colket
Mr. and Mrs. James S. Collins
Misses Elena and Bertha deHellebranth
Mrs. Rodolphe M. deSchauensee
Mr. and Mrs. Richardson Dilworth
Mr. and Mrs. Donald D. Dodge
Mrs. H. Hoffman Dolan
Mrs. Norton Downs
Mr. and Mrs. Ford B. Draper
Mr. Henry F. duPont
Mr. and Mrs. Pierre S. duPont
Mrs. Mary C. Earle
The Ely Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. John K. Ewing, III
Fidelity-Philadelphia Trust Company
The Firestone Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph T. Fraser, Jr.
Mr. Titus C. Geesey
Mrs. Jack C. Gilbert
Mrs. John Gribbel
Mr. and Mrs. David J. Grossman
Mr. Jacob Gutman
Mr. and Mrs. David Gwinn
Mrs. Flagler Harris
Mr. J. Welles Henderson
Mrs. M. Dunham Higgins
Mrs. J. H. Ward Hinkson
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Hopkinson, Jr.
Mr. Charles N. Howard
Mrs. Elizabeth N. Howard
Mr. and Mrs. Frank T. Howard
Mr. and Mrs. H. Lea Hudson
Mr. Stewart Huston
Miss Anna Warren Ingersoll ·
Mr. and Mrs. R. Sturgis Ingersoll
Mrs. T. Carrick Jordan
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur C. Kaufmann
Mr. and Mrs. Isidore Kohn
Total
Mr. and Mrs. Sydney L. W. Lea
Mr. and Mrs. Richard W. Ledwith
Mr. Walter H. Lenhard, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. H. Gates Lloyd
Mr. and Mrs. Morris Lloyd
Dr. and Mrs. Walter B. McKinney
Mrs. Robert McLean, Sr.
Mrs. William L. Mclean, III
Mr. and Mrs. Henry S. McNeil
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Maloney
Mr. and Mrs. John W. Merriam
Mr. and Mrs. C. Earle Miller
Mr. R. Alexander Montgomery
Mrs. R. L. Montgomery
Mrs. Herbert C. Morris
Mr. John A. Murphy
Mrs. F. Alex Nason
Mr. William Pahlmann
Mr. Hobson Pittman
Mr. and Mrs. Philip Price
Mr. and Mrs. Lambert O. Pursell
Quaker Chemical Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Evan Randolph
Mr. Thomas Reath
Mr. and Mrs. Isaac W. Roberts
Mrs. Nicholas G. Roosevelt
Sidney R. Rosenau Foundation
Mrs. Samuel P. Rotan
Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Saunders
Mr. and Mrs. Henry W. Sawyer, 3rd
Mr. Edgar Scott
Mr. and Mrs. R. Barclay Scull
Mr. Stanley Snellenburg
Mr. John Stewart
Mr. and Mrs. James K. Stone
Mr. and Mrs. C. Newbold Taylor
Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Titus
Mr. John J. Tosta
Mr. and Mrs. Caspar W. B. Townsend
Mr. and Mrs. H. Stuart Valentine
Mr. and Mrs. William L. Van Alen
Mr. and Mrs. Franklin C. Watkins
Mr. and Mrs. Henry M. Watts, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Wescott
Mrs. Walter West
The Weymouth Foundation
Mrs. S. S. White, III
Mr. William White, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. George D. Widener
Mr. and Mrs. Oliver G. Willits
Mr. and Mrs. George Woodward, Jr.
Mrs. Chas. C. Wriggins
Mr. and Mrs. William Coxe Wright
Mrs. Arthur M. Young
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Zantzinger
$167,141.43
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MEMBERSHIP REPORT
The Academy was privileged to add 276 new life and annual members to
its rolls during 1964, which, with those increasing their dues, has amounted to
$18,430 in new funds. There was a considerable upswing in contributing
memberships ($100 annually) due mainly to the desire of members to have
available to them the facilities of Peale Club which is due to open early
in 1965.
NEW MEMBERS
Enrolled during 1964, including those who increased their classification.
Patrons
**Mrs. Leonard T. Beale
** J. Welles Henderson, Jr.
**Mrs. T. Carrick Jordan
John W. Merriam
**Mrs. John W. Merriam
**C. Earle Miller
**Mrs. C. Earle Miller
**Mrs. James M. R. Sinkler
** John Stewart
** James K. Stone
**Mrs. James K. Stone
**Mrs. George D. Widener
**William Coxe Wright
**Mrs. William Coxe Wright
**Alfred Zantzinger
**Mrs. Alfred Zantzinger
Fellows
**Alfred E. Bissell
Mrs. Alfred E. Bissell
**Mrs. Lambert Cadwalader
**Mrs. G. Dawson Coleman
H. Richard Dietrich
**David J. Grossman
**Mrs. M. Dunham Higgins
**Mrs. Edgar Howard
**Frank Howard
Mrs. Frank Howard
**Miss Anna Warren Ingersoll
Arthur C. Kaufmann
**Mrs. Arthur C. Kaufmann
**M rs. Alec Nason
A. J. Sordoni, Jr.
**C. Newbold Taylor
Franklin C. Watkins
Mrs. Franklin C. Watkins
**Mrs. S. S. White, 3rd
**William White, Jr.
**Oliver G. Willits
Life Members
Mrs. Murray Fox Freeman
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E. Crosby Willet
Contributing Members
Benjamin Alexander, Jr.
**Dr. Orhan H. Alisbah
**Mrs. Walter H. Annenberg
Joseph R. Applebaum
Bert Atwater
C. Wanton Balis
** Joseph P. Barker, Jr.
Mrs. Eugene T. Barrett
**Mrs. Alfred Bendiner
**Gordon A. Block, Jr.
Joseph E. Boettner
Henry Bower
**Mrs. Clarence C. Brinton
**T. B. Buchholz
**M. Alan Bucks
Mrs. Ralph J. Burnard
**Albert J. Caplan
**Robert Carlen
J. B. H. Carter
**Cummins Catherwood
**Sylvan M. Cohen
Samuel R. Cox
**Samuel David
**Albert M. Davis
**Roy B. Davis
**Miss Florence E. de Cerkez
**Miss Bertha de Hellebranth
**H. M. De Van
Richardson Dilworth
**Miss Janet C. Durand
**Mrs. F. W. Elliott Farr
**Eugene Feldman
Bernard L. Feuerstein
**Mrs. Robert F. Fitzpatrick
Andrew G. Freeman
**Samuel Y. Gibbon
**Mrs. George C. Gillies
Julius Glauser
**Frank S. Glendening
** Joseph N. Gorson
**Mrs. Joseph J. Greenberg, Jr.
**Mrs. Paul H. Griffith
**Mrs. Marshall I. Groff
Donald Jerome Goldberg
Mrs. Norman M. Haac
**Mrs. M. Acton Hammond
Jacob Handel
Perch Hankin
**Mrs. R. A. Hauslohner
Mrs. Richard W. Havens
**Mrs. Joseph W. Henderson
**Mrs. R. Carroll Hoke
**Edgar B. Howard, Jr.
**Mrs. H. Lea Hudson
Frank Huggins
Sydney Jelinek
**John L. K. Jenney
**John H. Jensen
Fred Jessar
**Miss Helen M. Jones
Henry W. Jones
**Louis I. Kahn
Mrs. Braden Bayard Kane
**Mrs. Charles Zeller Klauder, Jr.
Samuel J. Korman
**Robert W. LaFore, Jr.
**William S. Lane
**Roy F. Larson
**E. George Lavino
Dr. Harold Lecks
**Mrs. J . Stauffer Lehman
Miss Miriam R. LeVin
**Mrs. Howard H. Lewis
Mrs. Arthur Littleton
** J. A. Livingston
* *Mrs. Jerry Locks
Mrs. Graeme Lorimer
Mrs. A. Basil Lyons
C. B. McCoy
Mrs. Robert H. McCracken
Robert S. McCracken
Robert S. Mack
Mrs. Peter J. Maggio
Isadore M. Marder
**Dr. Gustav J. Martin
**Dr. Frederick E. Maser
Colonel Eugene Miller
**Dr. David Myers
**Mrs. Price I. Myers
Mrs. H. Alarik W. Myrin
Philip Neff
**Theodore T. Newbold
**Dr. Leslie Nicholas
**Robert Scott Noone
**Dr. George W. Norris
**Miss Gertrude O'Brien
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**Mrs. Marvin Orleans
Isadore Ostroff
Miss Louise F. Peale
**Frederick W. G. Peck
**Mrs. Horace Pettit
David Pincus
**Mrs. S. Soski Piroeff
**Mrs. Felix B. Shay
J. Richard Shryock
**Mrs. Leonard Siegel
**Mrs. James M. Skinner
**Stanley S. Snellen burg
**Edwin A. Soast
**Mrs. William T. Southworth
**Mrs. M. P. Potamkin
Edward Starr, Jr.
**Mrs. J. Webb Potts
J. Harold Stephens
Robert A. Pratt
**Mrs. George Reath
**Mrs. J. Permar Richards, Jr.
**William H. Sylk
Edmond G. Thomas
Edgar W. Turner
**Edgar P. Richardson
**Miss Geraldine S. Tyson
**Mrs. John C. Russell
**R. M. Waddington
Arthur S. Salus
Miss Susan Carlen Waldbaum
**Henry W. Sawyer, 3rd
**Robert M. Walker
**Mrs. Alfred G. Scattergood
**Major General L. W. T. Waller
**Francis H. Scheetz
**Miss Margaret M. Walsh
**Dr. Lewis C. Scheffey
Charles F. Ward, Jr.
**Mrs. Frederick H. Schmidt
**Mrs. Joseph Wasserman
**Mrs. Edwin J. Schoettle
**Mrs. Henry M. Watts, Jr.
**Mrs. Ira Schwartz
**Mrs. John Sherwood Webster
**Frank S. Schwarz
**Mrs. C. Newbold Welsh
Mrs. Louis Schwerin
**Mrs. C. Alison Scully
Harry B. Seidenberg
***Paul Wescott
Mrs. Marian T. Wilson
The Hon. Nochem S. Winnet
Leonard Shaffer
**Mrs. Robert E. Worden
Paul Shaffer
**Mrs. Helen May Ziegler
Sustaining Members
Mrs. Constantin G. Alio
**Mrs. Malcolm J. Baber
**Mrs. Moreau D. Brown
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Professional Members
Humbert Howard
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Mrs. S. K. Fuller
Mrs. Louis Klein
Annual Members
Mrs. Edgar F. Adams
Mrs. C. Paul Denckla
Fredrick A. Hamilton
Miss Gladys M. Adams
Mrs. M. M. DeVan
Miss Rebecca Ellis Harrop
Mrs. Pliney E. Hartenstein
Mrs. William G. Alcorn, Jr.
Dr. Robert S. Diamond
Miss Eleanor Arnett
Mrs. Harold P. Dicke
Mrs. J. D. Hayes
Mrs. William E. Arnold
Mrs. John H. Dilks
Miss Carolyn Haywood
Mrs. Frederick C. Bachman
Mrs. Henry F. Bain, 3rd
Ronald D. Bakule
Mrs. William H. Baltzell, 4th
Mrs. Robert R. Batt
Miss Cynthia Bayer
Mrs. Herman Beerman
Mrs. I. B. Bender
Mrs. Helen Benoff
Mrs. Thomas S. Donohue
Robert F. Heckman, Jr.
Donald V. Dunlap
Mrs. Effie Mason Heisley
Mrs. Mary E. Dunlavey
Mrs. David Hellman
Douglas T. Henderson
Malcolm C. Eisenberg
Mrs. Robins Hendrix
Mrs. Irving I. Elkin
Mrs. John Bernard Heyl
Mrs. Werner Finks
Mrs. Edward N. Hibbert
Ade·Rolfe Floreen
Miss Helen J. Hibbs
Dr. Ann H. L. Ford
Dr. Joseph Lee Hollander
Mrs. Duncan Graham Foster
Clement R. Hoopes
Mrs. Bernard A. Bergman
Lawrence G . Horowitz
Thomas R. Bevan
Richard W. Foster
Francis Bosworth
Dr. Thomas P. Fox
Mrs. Charles W. Bowler
Robert B. Frailey
Mrs. Claude C. Bowman
Frank Franz
George A. Braknis
Dr. Lillian E. Fredericks
Mrs. Claire E. Brehme
Mrs. H. H. Fritz, Jr.
Iso Briselli
Mrs. Alan Emery Fuller
Henry S. Bromley
Mrs. Harry L. Buck
Ernest P. Galdi
C. Jones Buehler
Mrs. George D. Gammon
James Bush-Brown
Cyril Gardner
Mrs. Joseph H. Butera
Mrs. Elbert F. Garrett
Daniel Cades
Miss Judith Cauman
Paul M. Chalfin
William H. Chand lee, 3rd
Mrs. J . Hamilton Cheston
Mrs. Thomas C. Cochran
Mrs. Peter B. Colwin
Joseph J. Connolly
Mrs. Thomas J. Costello
Fra ncis Criss
Mrs. Harry L. Curtis
Miss Arrah Lee Gaul
William G . Gentner, Jr.
Dr. Louis Gerstley, 3rd
Dr. Louis M. Golden, Jr.
Sol Golden
Mrs. Benjamin Goldenberg
Mrs. Robert Goldner
Mrs. Nathan Horrow
Mrs. Karl S. Howard
Mrs. Clement E. Hoyler
Mrs. Perry A. Hunter
Miss Elsie Hutt
Mrs. Henry McK. Ingersoll
Mrs. Bertram Jacobs
Miss Katherine K. Jacobs
Mrs. Josef Jaffee
Mrs. Herbert Janis
Mrs. Dexter Jones
Mrs. Edward Morris Jones
Mrs. James H. Jones
Miss Joan W. Josephson
Mrs. Francis E. Judson
Miss Dorothy R. Justice
Martin Fred Kaelin
Mrs. Jack Goldstein
Mrs. Robert M. Kahl
Jesse N. Goldstein
Mrs. Harry Kalish
Mrs. Allen S. Gordon
Clinton Kaplan
Dr. Milton H. Gordon
Mrs. Charles P. Kehan
Mrs. Robert Greer
Miss Ruth E. Keim
Arthur A. De Costa
Mrs. A. Pierce Gregg
Dr. Norman Kendall
Paul W. Darrow
Mrs. E. Judson Griswold
Miss Estelle Kern
Samuel David
Mrs. Robert A. Groff
Mrs. Kenneth N. Kettenring
Mrs. William T. Davis
William Gundersheimer
Mrs. Milton P. King
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Mrs. James Nelson Kise
Mrs. Norman Klauder
Miss Joan Kornblum
Mrs. Joseph N. Kotzin
Mrs. Margaret Kehoe Kovner
Mrs. John E. Kramer
Mrs. Stanton W. Kratzok
Harry M. Kresch
Samuel Lafair
William S. Lane
Mrs. Dayton Larzelere
Mrs. Harry I. Lauer
Mrs. Samuel Laver
Mrs. Alvin Levi
Mrs. Roslyn W. Levit
Mrs. Clifford Lewis, 3rd
Mrs. Howard H. Lewis
Mrs. S. E. Lipschutz
Mrs. Allen B. Lockhart, Jr.
Mrs. John W. MacGuire
Mrs. B. H. Mackey
Mrs. Harry M. Madonna
Mrs. Joseph J. Melone
Mrs. Alexander Meyers
C. Harold Meyers
Mrs. Mary B. Michie
Henry W. Mitchell
Mrs. William W. Morrow
Mrs. William Netzky
Mrs. George W. Norris
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*** Also Life Member
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Mrs. Herbert R. Northrup
Mrs. Sol Schoenbach
Mrs. Kingsley V. Schroeder
Mrs. R. Terry Oakley
Mrs. Charles P. Orr
Mrs. Lloyd J. Schumacker
Mrs. J. Stinson Scott
Maurice Segal
Mrs. William Shoemaker
Mrs. Nathan Silberstein
Mrs. Eugene C. B. Simonin
Mrs. Norman R. Smith
Mrs. George L. Snell
Daniel A. Solari
Miss Helen McC. Southworth
Mrs. Joseph Specker
I. Jerome Stern
A. Purves Palmer
Mrs. Staunton B. Peck
Charles B. Peterson, 3rd
Mrs. George T. Pew
Mrs. Joseph N. Pew, Jr.
Mrs. Theodore W. Plume
Mrs. Macken Prather
Mrs. R. E. Putney, Jr.
Mrs. Abraham E. Rakoff
Mrs. Joseph S. Rambo
Mrs. Luther T. Ranck
Mrs. Ethel K. Redding
Dr. John B. Reddy
Miss Gertrude M. Redheffer
Armando T. Ricci
Mrs. Russell Richardson
Dr. Fred B. Rogers
Mrs. Alphonsus R. Romeika
Dr. Bernard J. Ronis
Mrs. Manuel Roth
Mrs. Lionel F. Rubin
Mrs. Arthur Saltzman
Mrs. Sidney S. Samuels
Mrs. Lewis A. Saret
Scott J. Schildress
Mrs. Guy Lacy Schiess
Mrs. J . Kirby Tompkins
James F. Tonkinson, Jr.
Evan H. Turner
Mrs. William H. Vaughn
T. F. Dixon Wainwright
James E. Walter
Mrs. Otis Walter
Mrs. Irving H. Wang
Miss Marie s. Weeks
Mrs. Fred Weihenmeyer
Mrs. Eugene W. Weiller
Mrs. Bernard Weinberg
Erwin Weiner
Mrs. Robert J. Wolfson
Andrew Wyeth
EXHIBITIONS
THE 159th ANNUAL EXHIBITION, OIL AND SCULPTURE (Reception
and Private View, January 15; open to the public, January 17 through
March 1).
Traditionally, the Academy has sought to serve the cause of the fine arts in
America, and to give Philadelphia a distinguished contemporary exhibition
chosen by professionally active painters and sculptors. This purpose, we
believe, has once more been accomplished in the long succession of annuals.
The plan of organization for this year's exhibition is identical with that
initially employed two years ago, and the 157th proved to be a comprehensive cross-section of works of quality. In addition, the Academy and the
many artists involved benefited greatly from resulting economies effected
by the new plan.
The details of the procedure, in brief, are these: The chairmen of the Painting
and Sculpture Juries were, as in the past, given the responsibility of inviting
work from those important artists of large reputation who should be included
in a major exhibition, and who no longer can be expected to submit their
work for jury action. Artists whose work was not invited were asked to send
colored slides of items they wished to submit, rather than to pack and ship
original works at this time. The slides sent in - there were 6,213 - were then
projected upon the screen and viewed by the Academy's Director and members of the faculty in sessions approximating one hundred hours. At these
sessions there were never fewer than two members of the faculty present,
and at the final one six participated. The work which passed this preliminary
judging was then sent in at the artists' expense, and final decisions were
made by the professional juries. The response this year would indicate that
the new system has been looked upon with general professional approval.
JURIES OF SELECTION AND AWARD
Painters
Julian Levi, Chairman
Lamar Dodd
Will Barnet
Lewis Iselin
Jacques Lipchitz
Sculptors
Theodore Roszak, Chairman
PRIZES AND AWARDS
Joseph E. Temple Gold Medal, to Stuart Davis for painting, Letter and
His fcol.
Jennie Sesnan Gold Medal, to Fred Conway for painting, Cafe Dome.
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Carol H. Beck Gold Medal, to Paul Georges for painting, Wife and
Children.
George D. Widener Memorial Medal, to Geraldine McCullough for
sculpture, Phoenix.
J. Henry Schiedt Memorial Prize ($2,000), to Paul Burlin for painting,
Red, Red, Not the Same #2.
Alfred G. B. Steel Memorial Prize ($750), to Rhoda Sherbell for sculpture,
The Acrobats.
Raymond A. Speiser Memorial Prize ($500), Rudolf Baranik for painting, Homage to Munch.
Walter Lippincott Prize ($600), to Jack Levine for painting, The Last Waltz.
Mary Smith Prize ($300), to Virginia Armitage McCall for painting, Dahlia:
Still Life.
Fellowship Prize ($100), to Ben Kamihira for painting Nude and Child.
Honorable Mentions in Sculpture: Kenneth Starbird for The Song of
Deborah; George Karas for The Attacking Rider.
Number sold: 42; Total $71,798.53.
FELLOWSHIP ANNUAL EXHIBITION (Reception and Private View, Friday
evening, March 13; open to the public March 14 through April 12).
This partly-invited, partly-juried exhibition consisted of work by professional
artists who have attended the Academy's Schools.
JURIES
Oil
John Hanlen
Morris Blackburn
Fran Lachman
Water Color and Graphics
Walter Reinsel
Oliver Nuse
Marce"a Klein
Sculpture
Raphael Sabatini
Charles Rudy
AWARDS
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Percy M. Owens Memorial for a Distinguished Pennsylvania Artist
($250), to Walter Stuempfig.
Harrison S. Morris Memorial for water color ($100 divided), to John Hanlen for Mardis Gras, and Betty Jane Lee for Fall.
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Mary Butler Memorial for any medium ($100), to Jimmy Lueders for oil,
Composition.
May Audubon Post Prize for oil or sculpture ($50), to Norman Carton for
oil, Merry-Go-Round.
Bertha M. Goldberg Memorial Award for any medium ($100), to Tom
Ewing for M M M (mixed media).
Caroline Gibbons Granger Memorial for oil ($50), to Jeanette Kohn for
Seated Figures.
Leona Karp Braverman Memorial for sculpture ($50), to Amelie Zell
Wright, for Primeval Awakening.
Mabel Wilson Woodrow Memorial for a student represented in the show
($50), to James Havard for four accepted items: Woman and Horse, Man
Training, Figure Walking, Two Figures.
26 items were sold from the show totaling $2,531.00.
ABRAHAM P. HANKINS (1900-1963) EXHIBITION OF PAINTING
AND SCULPTURE opened in conjunction with the Fellowship Show and continued through April 12. There were seventy-seven items in the show, the
greater number paintings.
STUDENT EXHIBITION FOR ANNUAL AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS (May 6 through 31). At special exercises held on May 6 at 4 P.M. it
was announced that fifteen traveling scholarships and other prizes, amounting to $27,510.00, had been awarded to students in the Schools of The
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. The address was given by Mr. Carl
Zig rosser, Curator Emeritus of Prints and Drawings, Philadelphia Museum of
Art, and following the address awards were made on recommendation of
the fac~lty.
William Emlen Cresson Memorial European Traveling Scholarships
(est. 1902, $1,800 each), James Gadson, Nancy D. Grigsby, James P. Havard,
Magtillt S. Laan, Dennis l. Manjone, Auseklis Ozols, James Franklin Shores,
James P. Stegall, Louise Tucker (painters); Stephen A. Hinkle (sculptor).
J. Henry Schiedt Memorial Traveling Scholarships (est. 1938, $1,300
each), Bernard J. Barbieri, James B. Horner, Margaret Anne GoodallGarabedian, Thomas Toner (painters).
Lewis S. Ware Traveling Scholarship (est. 1949, $1,300), Mark J. Oxman.
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Skowhegan Scholarships (tuition and board awarded by the Skowhegan
[Maine] School of Painting and Sculpture for the study in their school during
the months of July and August), William M. Brown.
ENDOWED PRIZES
Cecilia Beaux Memorial Prize (est. 1946, $100), Thomas N. Toner.
Honorable Mention: Dennis L. Manjone, James P. Havard.
John R. Conner Memorial Prize (est. 1954, $50), Paul H. Kane, Jr.
Catherine Grant Memorial Prize (est. 1955, $100), Magtillt S. Loan.
Honorable Mentions: Auseklis Ozols, Noel Mahaffey.
J. Maurice Gray Foundation Prize (est. 1960, $50), Nancy D. Grigsby.
Packard Zoological Sketch Prize (est. 1899), Paul T. Nagano (1 st Prize,
$50); Evelyn C. Mayland (2nd Prize, $25).
Ramborger Prize (est. 1910, $25), Ruth A. Kratz.
Edmund Stewardson Prize (est. 1899, $100), Stephen Robin.
Honorable Mentions: Steve Hinkle, Cynthia Bayer.
Emma Burnham Stimson Prize (est. 1917i $100), Mary Zityniuk.
Henry J. Thouron Prizes (est. 1903), Margaret Goodall ($100 awarded by
the Faculty), James P. Havard ($100 lst award by Instructor), Louise Tucker
($50 2nd award by Instructor), Clayton W. Anderson ($50 by Student Vote).
Cha,rles Toppan Prizes (est. 1881), Steve T. Pakyz, Jr., Milton Sanders, Carl
Ronald Thomason, James P. Stegall, Joyce H. Galanaugh, Magtillt S. Loan
($200 each).
UNENDOWED PRIZES
Lambert and Emma Cadwalader Prize (est. 1961, $100), James Gadson.
Honorable Mention: Auseklis Ozols.
Thomas Eakins Memorial Prize (est. 1949, $100), James Franklin Shores.
Gimbel Prize (est. 1958, $50 in art supplies), Carol Cervony.
Marion Higgins Prize (est. 1960) Murray Dessner.
Honorable Mentions: Frank V. Lauria, James P. Havard ($25 each).
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Mindel Caplan Kleinbard Award (est. 1958, $25 in art supplies), Sigfried
M. Halus.
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Perspective Prize (est. 1916, $20) William Brown.
Philadelphia Print Club Graphics Prize (est. 1953. A one-year membership in the Club and the use of its workshop facilities), William Brown.
Special Prize, donated by Elizabeth Grist Ely ($100. Not awarded in every
year), Betty Jane Lee.
Graphic Prize (free tuition for one semester in P.A.F.A. workshop), Marlene
Sellers.
M. Herbert Syme Prize (est. 1959, $25), James P. Stegall.
John Wanamaker Water Color Prize (est. 1954, $50 in art supplies),
James P. Stegall.
Woodrow Prize in Graphics (est. 1955, $50), Katharine Protassowsky.
On Friday, May 8, a cocktail party was held in the Academy from four
until six o'clock. The hosts were members of the Committee on Instruction,
carrying on this exemplary annual event established by Mr. and Mrs. David
Gwinn. Student work submitted for European Traveling Scholarships and
other awards were on the walls. Fifty-one items were sold during the exhibition, with a total of $3,453.00.
REGIONAL EXHIBITION, PAINTINGS, SCULPTURE, PRINTS AND
DRAWINGS by Artists of Philadelphia and Vicinity. (Reception and private
view, Friday evening, October 9; open to the public, October 10 through
November 15.)
Committee on Selection of Artists: Artists Equity, Joseph Greenberg, Jr.;
Beaver College, Benton Spruance; Moore College of Art, Dr. Donald Irving;
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Joseph T. Fraser, Jr.; Philadelphia
College of Art, Larry Day; Tyler School of Fine Arts, Charles LeClair; University of Pennsylvania School of Fine Arts, Thomas B. A. Godfrey; Fellowship of
the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Roswell Weidner.
As a considerable number of the participating artists were members of
P.A.F.A. Fellowship, it was decided to forego their usual spring exhibition
and award the 1965 prizes to members represented in this show.
AWARDS
Percy M. Owens Memorial for a Distinguished Pennsylvania Artist ($250),
Harry Rosin.
Harrison S. Morris Memorial for Water Color ($100), John McCoy for Iris
and Devil's Paint Brush.
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Mary Butler Memorial for any medium ($100), Edna Andrade for
Geometric 5.
Bertha M. Goldberg Memorial for any Medium ($100), to John William
Reilly for oil Woman and Child.
May Audubon Post Prize, Oil or Sculpture ($50), to Jimmy Lueders for
Side Pocket.
Caroline Gibbons Granger Memorial for oils ($50), to Joseph Tishler for
Distant Mountain.
Leona Karp Braverman Memorial for Sculpture ($50), to Frank Gasparro
for Theseus, Parthenope and the Minotaur.
Mabel Wilson Woodrow Memorial for Graphics ($50), to Benton Spruance
for Woman Offering Life.
SMALL PAINTINGS OF LARGE IMPORT from the Collection of Lawrence
A. and Barbara Fleischman of Detroit, Michigan. (Reception and Private View
November 24; open to the public November 25 through December 31.)
This exhibition consisted of fifty-two examples of American art of the nineteenth and twentieth century-landscapes, portraiture and still life.
PEALE
HOUSE EXHIBITIONS
An Open House Party was held on Friday evening, October 2, to officially
open the new Galleries and Club Lounge. A memorial exhibition of paintings
by Stuart Davis (1894-1964) was on the walls of the West Gallery, and in the
East Gallery, paintings and sculpture recently acquired by the Academy
(open to the public October 3 through November 8). In the Lobby and Clu,b
Lounge, paintings by members of the Peale family were on exhibition.
PAINTINGS BY BEN KAMIHIRA (Reception and Private View on Wednesday afternoon October 28; open to the public October 29 through November 29). Sixteen recent paintings, the greater number executed by Mr.
Kamihira while on a year's stay in Spain, were shown in the East Gallery,
which is dedicated temporarily to a series of one- or two-man shows of work
by members of the faculty.
SKETCHES OF THE LATE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY by Elaine de
Kooning. (Reception and Private View on Wednesday afternoon, November
13; open to the public November 14 through 29.) Oil sketches and charcoal
drawings, twenty-five in all, were on exhibition in the West Gallery.
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PAINTINGS BY CHARLES BURCHFIELD AND HOBSON PITTMAN
(Reception and Private View Wednesday afternoon December 2; open to the
public December 3 through January 3 and January 10, 1965, respectively.)
Sixteen paintings by Charles Burchfield were shown in the West Gallery. Mr.
Pittman's show was hung in the East Gallery and consisted of thirty-two
paintings.
SPECIAL EVENTS
Free Concerts
January 24. Works by Purcell, Schubert, Bartok, and Brahms; Joan Pladson,
soprano, assisted by Loren Kitt, clarinet; David Gray, French horn; Serge
Luca, violin; Vladimir Sokoloff, piano.
February 21. Works by Sammartini, Brahms, and Shostokovitch; William
Stokking, Jr., Cello, and Vladimir Sokoloff, piano.
March 27. Works by Spohr, Debussy, and Villa-Lobos; Judith Blegen, soprano, assisted by Loren Kitt, clarinet; Vladimir Sokoloff, piano; a cello ensemble composed of students of The Curtis Institute of Music. A Requiem by
Popper for three cellos and piano was played in memory of the late President John F. Kennedy directly following the intermission.
November 27. Works by A. Scarlatti, Schumann, and Bloch; Joseph di
Pasquale, viola; Vladimir Sokoloff, piano.
December 11. Works by Mozart, Beethoven, and Brahms; Radnor Chamber
Group, Agi Jambor, piano; Carol Stein, violin; Marcia Fullard, viola; Deborah Reeder, cello.
GALLERY TALKS (sponsored by the Fellowship of the Academy).
January 23. Dorothy Grafly, critic, editor and publisher of Art in Focus.
January 30. Harry Rosin, sculptor, teacher.
February 6; Raphael Sabatini, painter, sculptor, teacher.
February 13. Hobson Pittman, painter, teacher.
February 20. Benton Spruance, painter, teacher.
February 27. Morris Blackburn, painter, teacher, printmaker.
TOTAL ATTENDANCE 1964: 66,731. (Academy attendance 49,487; Peale
House for October, November and December, 17,244.)
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ACQUISITIONS
By Pu rc has e
Through the Lambert Fund:
Letter and His Ecol by Stuart Davis (oil)
Composition by Jimmy Lueders (oil)
Through the Gilpin Fund:
Interior With Doorway by Richard Diebenkorn
Through the Temple Fund:
Wash Line by Bruno Lucchesi (bronze)
Hero and Leander by Dan Miller (wood composition)
By
G i ft
From the Ford Foundation (purchased from the 159th Annual Exhibition):
Prometheus by Wolfgang Behl (wood sculpture)
Braided Hair by Dorothea Greenbaum (bronze)
Pick Up Ten by Patrick Kelly (iron assembly)
Woman With Red by Elizabeth Osborne (oil)
Tour by James McGarrell (oil)
Bikini by Milton Hebald (bronze)
From Mrs. Mary Venelia McNab:
Lovescape by Nora Jaffe (oil)
From Mrs. Herbert Morris:
Orpheus in the Studio by Julian Levi (oil)
From friends of the artist:
Enchanted Forest by Abraham Hankins (oil)
From Mrs. North Winship:
James McManes by Charles Grafly (bronze portrait head)
Bequeathed by Miss Eleanor C. A. Jackson:
The Reverend James B. Abercrombie by Thomas Sully
From Mr. Sol Brody (conditioned by life interest):
The Owl of Caceres by Leon Kelly (conti drawing)
From Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hallowell (conditioned by life interest):
Self-Portrait by Benjamin West.
CONSERVATION OF WORKS FROM
THE PERMANENT COLLECTION
Five paintings received attention during the year from Theodor Siegel, the
Academy's conservator and technical adviser: Git Ie Coeur by Adja Yunkers,
Portrait of Mary McKean Hoffman, by Thomas Sully, Portrait of the Rev.
James B. Abercrombie by Thomas Sully, and Landscapes No. 1 and No.2 by
Joshua Shaw.
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LOANS
Title
Artist
Institution
Bust of Joel Barlow
Jean Antoine Houdon
Tyrol Series No.7
John Marin
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Desert I
Gabor Peterdi
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C.
End of the Day
Charles Burchfield
New School Art Center,
New York City
Worcester (Mass.) Art Museum
Buchenwald Cart
Rico LeBrun
John Brown Going to his
Hanging
Horace Pippin
Portrait of Asher Marx
(Miniature)
Edward Greene Malbone
Carolina Art Association, Charleston, S. C.
Trapper's Trail
Arthur Meltzer
To artist-for Newman Galleries
exhibition, Philadelphia
Letter and His Ecol
Stuart Davis
Downtown Gallery, N. Y. C. for
exhibition, University Art Gallery, Lincoln, Nebr.
Penn's Treaty With the
Indians
Benjamin West
City Art Museum of St. Louis, Mo.
Major Thomas Biddle
Thomas Sully
University Hospital Antiques Show,
Philadelphia
Militia Training
James G. Clonney
Bowdoin College Museum of Art,
Brunswick, Maine
Ariadne Asleep on the
Island of Naxos
John Vanderlyn
Smith College Museum
Southampton, Mass.
of
Art,
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, O.
Palace of the Legion of Honor,
San Francisco, Calif.
Frances Anne Kemble
Thomas Sully
Portrait of Mr. and Mrs.
Field
John S. Sargent
Orpheus in the Studio
Julien Levi
Whiplash
Will Barnet
John Brown Going to his
Hanging
Horace Pippin
Hecksher
N. Y.
Museum,
Huntington,
Colorado Springs [Colorado] Fine
Arts
Boymans Museum, Rotterdam, Hoiland
Interior With Doorway
Richard Diebenkorn
Staempfli Gallery, New York City
East Wind Over Weehawken
Edward Hopper
Whitney Museum of American Art,
New York City
Lady With a White Shawl
William M. Chase
Art Gallery, University of California, Santa Barbara, Calif.
Pine Trees
Byron Thomas
Hopkins Center Art Galleries,
Dartmouth College, Hanover,
N. H.
Apartment Houses
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LOANS (Cont. )
Title
Artist
Institution
Cadence
Arlie Sinaiko
To Artist-for one-man show at
Bodley Galleries, New York City
Port Ben, Delaware and
Hudson Canal
Theodore Robinson
Art Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis.
The Turkish Page
Frank Duveneck
University
Ariz.
Resurgent Harmony
Vidor Riu
Allentown Art Museum, Allentown,
Po.
Young America
Andrew Wyeth
~e
Provident National Bank, Philadelphia
Alexandre Cabanel
Memorial Art Gallery, University
of Rochester, Rochester, N. Y.
Byron Thomas
Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, Mo.
Architectural Study
George Gordon Russell
Fidelity-Philadelphia Trust Co.
Rhapsody in Steel
Francis Criss
Birth 'of Venus
. Pine Trees
Corn, Wind and Snow
Paul Froelich
Apple Blossom Time
George Inness
Seven Pears
Arthur DeCosta
Farm Patterns
Margaret Gest
Cafe Tables, Haiti
Stephen Etnier
The Spinster
Hobson Pittman
Across the Bosphorus
Lamar Dodd
Trees
Morris Kantor
Turkey Knob Farm
Jessie Drew-Bear
Skating in the Park
Louis Bosa
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Art
Gallery,
Tucson,
SCHOOLS
The year of 1964 was one of solid growth for the Schools of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. The additional space provided by Peale
House made possible an increase in enrollment which brought with it an
expanding class program and greater activity.
The second semester of the 1963-1964 school year opened on January 6,
with 255 day and 95 evening school students enrolled. The quarters at Peale
House, in use as of this date, included the lobby, student lounge, and cafeteria on the main floor, and studios for preliminary students on the second
and third floors. Twenty girls were in residence on the fifth floor under the "
supervision of Mrs. Mabe"1 Cook, and with the beginning of the fall term the
number had increased to approximately 40, and both the 5th and 6th floor~
were occupied.
At the Cresson Day Exercises on May 6, Mr. Carl Zig rosser was guest speaker.
Fifteen European Traveling Scholarships (ten Cresson, four Schiedt, and one
Ware) were awarded, and a number of minor prizes.
The Summer School was conducted from J une 15 to July 24 with 97 students
enrolled. Courses included Portrait, Life, and Landscape drawing and
painting.
Registration for the Fall Semester was held on September 8 and 9, and 297
day and 134 evening students enrolled. Classes started on September 10.
An assembly was held shortly after the opening to award the engraved
certificates to the returned traveling scholarship winners, and some of their
photographs and paintings done in Europe were displayed.
During the year a number of trips were arranged for the students, including
a visit to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Rodolphe deSchauensee; the Van Gogh
show in New York; a trip to Cape May with Mr. Blackburn in the spring and
in the fall with Mr. Blackburn and Mr. McCoy; a visit to the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Lessing Rosenwald; and the Women's Committee arranged a trip
to the New York World's Fair.
Many interesting programs were arranged and parties given for the students:
Walter Gill gave an illustrated lecture on "Art in Nature"; Russell Woody
lectured on painting materials; and a number of students visited the Pennsylvania Ballet Company to sketch the dancers. An exhibition of work by
Academy students was held at the Woodmere Galleries, opening on March
3; Mr. Franklin Watkins gave a party, with supper served in the galleries of
the Academy on March 17; Mr. and Mrs. Merriam entertained at a party in
their home in Wynnewood, May 3; a party for the winners in the Cresson
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competition was given by the Committee on Instruction, May 8; and the
traditional Hallowe'en party on October 30.
In addition to the traveling scholarships (listed elsewhere in this report) the
Academy awarded thirteen full, and thirty half, paid-tuition scholarships
during the spring term; and eleven full and twenty-five half, during the fall
term, from funds designated for this purpose-a total of $12,875.00. From
City Council appropriation, twenty-one full-paid tuition scholarships were
given for the school year, totaling $5,250.00. The Board of Education also
gave to students in the Academy schools twenty-one part scholarships of
$200.00 each. In the fall of 1964, six full and nineteen half, paid-tuition
scholarships, a total of $3,875.00, were given for the first time from funds
made available by the Ford Foundation.
M. WISTER WOOD
Administrator of the Schools
PUBLIC RELATIONS
Concerts. This fine series has closed its fifteenth consecutive year with fourteen seasons under the outstanding musical direction of Dr. Vladimir Sokoloff.
As the personnel and programs are listed elsewhere, we only shall mention
here the importance of these events as they have been correlated with the
exhibition program, and thank Dr. Sokoloff and those fine musicians who
have collaborated with him for their distinguished contribution to the Academy. We also express our appreciation to the following for their financial
assistance: the Recording Industries' Trust Funds, and especially their National Trustee, Mr. Samuel R. Rosenbaum, without whose interest it is doubtful that we should ever have been able to launch the project fifteen years
ago; to the Fredric R. Mann Foundation; the Women's Committee of the
Academy; and two generous friends. We thank N. Stetson and Company for
their continued loan of a Steinway Piano for each event. This year's series
had an attendance of approximately 2,000 persons.
Other Activities. As reported elsewhere, the attendance in the galleries made
a marked step forward. Not a little of this may be attributed to group visits,
and these largely from public, private, and parochial schools in the greater
Philadelphia area, although many others came from more distant points.
Among outside organizations holding events in the galleries were: the
Society of Architectural Historians' luncheon; an afternoon party featuring
the piano music of Chopin, followed by refreshments, and sponsored by the
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"In and About Philadelphia Music Teachers' Club" for delegates to the
Music Educators' National Conference; the Philadelphia Chapter, American
Institute of Architects' dinner; the Da Vinci Art Alliance dinner honoring Mr.
Jack Bookbinder; and the Junior League's dinner dance.
Resume: I came to the Academy on February 1, 1947 to take on the newlycreated post of Director of Public Relations. In September 1961, following
my request to be released from some of my duties, '! became part-time Director of Membership and Special Events. As it is now my intention to retire
completely the end of May, 1965, this will be my last report to the membership. Perhaps it is in order that I give a brief account of some of the
more important tasks performed over the years.
Almost immediately after coming, I suggested we change our membership
rates from the then $10 Annual and $100 Life to the three yearly rates now
current; that we increase Life Memberships to $300; and that we establish
higher-form categories ($1,000 and up) with those members elected in
perpetuity. In this the Board of Directors concurred. At that time we had a
membership of something over 700. As of December 1, 1964, it had grown
to almost 2,000. However, within that period we had enrolled 3,450 new
members, but like every other institution, unfortunately, we do lose them
through death, resignation or delinquency. In new dues all of this has
represented some $81,373 including $7,400 from a special solicitation of the
$100 Life Members for the 150th Anniversary Fund in 1955.
While my initial responsibilities had been publicity and increasing the membership, as an institution's program becomes more active, the duties of its
staff members also grow. About two years after coming, I was able to
launch the series of free chamber music concerts, first having to find the
means of financing them outside the Academy budget. This independent
financing has. been continued during all the years that this worthwhile fea ture of our program has been carried on. And what is more, we were
among the first of the city's cultural institutions to supplement their regular
activities with free concerts. The attendance of music and art lovers during
these years has amounted to approximately 29,000.
Beginning in April 1947 and continuing for twelve years, I acted as secretary for the meetings of the Board of Directors.
Another early suggestion had been the printing of the Academy's Annual
Report for circulation to all members. The first one was issued in 1949 and
for several years thereafter the Reports were edited in this office.
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In 1950 the Women's Committee was organized and I have had the pleasure
of acting as liaison between it and the Academy, and of being its recording
secretary during these years.
Another phase of department activity has been the encouragement of outside organizations to hold their special events in our galleries. Many worthy
occasions have resulted.
In reflecting upon some of the projects accomplished, my thoughts naturally
turn to those which could never become realities due either to lack of time
or money or both. Since but a few months remain before I pass on to others
duties not turned over in 1962, this will be my last opportunity to express
my deep appreciation to all who have helped me along the way, and to
wish them and the Academy every success in the future.
ELIZABETH Z. SWENSON
PUBLICITY
In the spring of 1964, the contract with the Beacon Agency to do publicity
for the Academy, School, and Peale House was terminated, and a full-time
Development Director was appointed to the Academy staff to work with the
Progress Fund Committee, and to serve as Publicity Director.
The first duties of the Director were to publicize the Cresson Day Exercises
and awards activities in early May, the Summer School, and the summer
exhibition schedule. Planning was begun with various media to obtain publicity for the opening of Peale House in the early fall, and the exhibitions
set for this new undertaking. Art and other publications were informed of
the exhibition schedule at the Academy, also.
During the summer months, the Director was in constant touch with publicity
media-city, art, society, feature editors, and all local radio, TV, and magazine news editors. Many out-of-town contacts were also made, either by
personal visits, letters or news releases, and a series of fillers were written
which were widely used nationally. Direct contact was also made with the
various press associations (AP, UPI, NEA, NANA), here and in New York.
National magazines, such as Time, Newsweek, Life, etc., and the local
weekly and foreign language papers were kept aware of Academy events
through releases and personal contacts.
Excellent cooperation has been received from the local and out-of-town
radio and TV stations and we have been getting public service announcements from both sources. -Monthly radio spots listed our exhibitions and live
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interviews were given. Film was taken of our exhibitions and used on TV
news shows, and slides also were sent to them. Based on reports received
from one TV station, if we were to be billed for the free announcements
they have given us during a three-month period, they would total $5,500.00.
Taking this into consideration, and what we have received from all other
sources on the air, our billings in free time would amount to more than
$25,000.00 during this period.
It is almost impossible to measure the full impact of publicity; our news releases are used widely and in many ways. The efforts can be measured to a
certain extent by the number of people who attend our exhibitions. Continuing publicity for this institution can be obtained by giving the fullest
cooperation to the editors of various media-and this we pledge. The
cooperation of the Academy staff, Directors, and the Women's Committee
has been very much appreciated.
GEORGE L. CARROLL
Development Director
WOMEN ' S COMMITTEE
The year 1964 proved to be one of much trial and error and experimentation with active participation in the newly-formed Peale Club and the various
activities in the Peale House Galleries.
The Members' Subscription Dinner held on January 15th, before the Private
View of the 159th Annual Exhibition of Oil Painting and Sculpture, was attended by 334, far exceeding our sitting capacity.
On May 11th, under the expert planning of Mrs. Albert M. Greenfield, Jr.,
students were sent by bus to the World's Fair.
At the annual meeting in May, Mrs. Bartol, chairman and Mrs. Grossman,
treasurer, went out of office. They were given a tremendous vote of thanks
for their splendid work during 1961-64. The following new officers were
elected:
Mrs. Hudson, one year interim chairman
Mrs. Reath, chairman for the two following years
Mrs. Kloman, vice-chairman for three years
Mrs. Townsend, treasurer and corresponding secretary for two years
It was agreed that both chairman and vice-chairman would attend the meetings of the Committee on Instruction and the Board of Directors.
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Mrs. Miller and Mrs. Randolph were appointed by the Board of Directors to
serve for the next two years on the Academy's Committee on Exhibitions at
the Peale House.
Three new members were elected to the Women's Committee: Mrs. Howard
H. Lewis, Mrs. Edward B. Leisenring and Mrs. Arthur M. Young. The resignation of Mrs. Lawrance A. Brown, Jr., was accepted with regret.
Mrs. Reath, Mrs. Kloman and Mrs. Greenfield were appointed to represent
the Women's Committee on the Executive Commitee for the Progress Fund
Drive.
Under the able chairmanship of Mrs. Kaufmann, hostesses were provided for
all Teas before the opening of exhibitions in the Peale House galleries and
for other events at the Academy and the Peale Club during the year.
Plans for planting the garden at the Peale Club are being worked on by
Mrs. Zantzinger and her committee.
A contribution of $350 was made toward the expenses of the chamber music
concerts held at the Academy.
A television was donated by Mrs. Young for use of the students living at
Peale House. This was greatly appreciated by all and a warm letter of
thanks sent to Mrs. Young by the students.
Through the year our Committee has worked toward increasing the returns
to the Progress Fund and enrolling members in the Academy who would, by
subscribing $100 or more annually, be eligible for use of Peale Club.
Again, we would like to extend our grateful thanks and deep appreciation
for the "over and beyond" assistance given to our Committee by Miss
Swenson.
MARY MASON HUDSON
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THE COMMITTEE ON FELLOWSHIP
Mabel W . Gill, Chairman-Treasurer
Mary Mullineux
Irene Denney
Ethel Ashton
Roy C. Nuse
Roswell Weidner
The function of the Committee is to administer the following funds: Henry J.
Thouron Memorial Fund, Picture Purchase Fund, Special Fund, and the Mary
Butler Memorial Fund for the benefit of Fellowship members, either present
or former students and also the William Clothier Watts Fund, a welcome
gift of $2,000 for aid to students. The Butler Fund, with a goal of $15,000,
now amounts to approximtltely $12,000.
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 to improve the Loan Collection from which works are currently on exhibition in various institutionsi (2) to provide classes usually in settlement houses
to give study opporunities for the youth of those neighborhoods, as well
as teaching experience and income for present and/or former Academy
studentsi and (3) giving a type of financial assistance, not permissible from
the regular Fellowship treasury, to current and former Academy students,
art workers, and Fellowship members.
THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE P.A.F.A.
The main purpose of the Fellowship, which was organized in 1897, is to
foster a spirit of fraternity among former and present Academy students.
OFFICERS
Roswell Weidner
Roy C. Nuse
.
President
First Vice President
Mabel Woodrow Gill
· Vice President
Mary Townsend Mason (deceased June 1964)
· Vice President
Francis Speight
· Vice President
Franklin C. Watkins
· Vice President
Paul Wescott
· Vice President
•
Ethel V. Ashton .
Elizabeth Eichman .
Irene Denney •
Recording Secretary
Corresponding Secretary
Treasurer
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MEMBERSHIP
CLASSES
ANNUAL
Individual ...... . . . .................... . ...... . .... $
Sustaining
Professional
Contributing
10.00
25.00
25.00 } With Peale Club
100.00
privileges
LIFE
Fellow ............. .. . .. ...................... . ... $1 ,000.00 to 5 ,000
Pat ron .... . . . ... . . .. .. . .. . .. . .. . .. .... .... . ...... 5 ,000.00 to 25,000
Benefactor . .. .. ... . ......... . .. ... .. . .. . .. . . . . . . . . 2 5,000.00 or more
A membership in the Academy helps to support the oldest art institution in t he country. Founded
in 1805, its origin dates from the initial efforts begun in 1791 by Charles Willson Peale to organize a school for t he fine arts in Philadelphia.
The Academy school has trained many distinguished American painters, sculptors, and illustrators" and its students of today rank with the best.
In its galleries are shown two of America's major annual art exhibitions: Paintings and Sculpture,
and Water Colors and Prints; other special exhibitions; and the Academy's permanent collections, representing a cross-section of American art from the early eighteenth century through its
current acquisitions ..
Peale House, the Academy annex at 1811 Chestnut Street, serves as housing and additional
studio space for students, and contains two splendid public galleries for special exhibitions.
Peale Club, located ,at 1819 Chestnut Street, offers singular privileges to Contributing and
Professional members, and those in higher classes, by providing the ultimate in attractive surroundings for luncheon and dinner in the spacious dining rooms, with adjoining bar, and in the
lovely outdoor garden and terrace.
All members receive notices of Academy activities (concerts, lectures, motion pictures), invitations
to private shows at both the Academy and Peale House, catalogues of exhibitions and schools,
the Annual Report, and the privilege of using the art reference library. In addition, members
receive a 5% discount on all works of art purchased at an Academy exhibition, except at a
student show.
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 o·f said Academy.
The Academy is open weekdays (except Mondays) from 10 A.M. to 5 P.M., Sundays and some
Holidays from 1 to 5 P.M. Closed Mondays, New Year's Day, Good Friday, Memorial Day,
Fourth of July, Thanksgiving and Christmas.
B~OAD
AND CHERRY STREETS • PHILADELPHIA
159th ANNUAL
1964
REPORT
Cover: letter and His Ecol by Stuart Davis
Lambert Fund Purchase 1964
The One Hundred and Fifty-Ninth
Annual Report
of
PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS
FOR THE YEAR 1964
Presented to the Meeting of the Stockholders
of the Academy on February 1, 1965
OFFICERS
President
. Vice President
Treasurer
. Secretary
Frank T. Howard
Alfred Zantzinger
C. Newbold Taylor
Joseph T. Fraser, Jr.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Mrs. Leonard T. Beale
David Gwinn
J. Welles Henderson
Frank T. Howard (ex officio)
R. Sturgis Ingersoll
Arthur .C. Kaufmann
Henry B. Keep
James M. Large
James P. Magill (Director Emeritus)
Henry S. McNeil
John W. Merriam
C. Earle Miller
Mrs. Herbert C. Morris
Evan Randolph, Jr.
Henry W. Sawyer, 3rd
John Stewart
James K. Stone
C. Newbold Taylor
Franklin C. Watkins
William H. S. Wells
William Coxe Wright
Alfred Zantzinger
Ex officio
Mrs. John Grier Bartol (to May) .
Mrs. H. Lea Hudson (from May) .
Mrs. Erasmus Kloman (from May)
Fredric R. Mann
Roswell Weidner (to October) .
John W. McCoy, 2nd (from October)
Representing Women's Committee
Representing Women's CommiHee
Representing Women's CommiHee
. Representing City Council
Representing Faculty
Representing Faculty
Solicitor
Maurice B. Saul
STANDING COMMITTEES
COMMITTEE ON COLLECTIONS AND EXHIBITIONS
Franklin C. Watkins, Chairman
Mrs. Leonard T. Beale
Mrs. Herbert C. Morris
Alfred Zantzinger
William Coxe Wright
William H. S. Wells
COMMITTEE ON FINANCE
C. Newbold
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T~ylor,
Chairman
James Magill
John Stewart
COMMITTEE ON INSTRUCTION
John W. McCoy, 2nd (from October)
Mrs. John Grier Bartol (to May)
Mrs. H. Lea Hudson (from May)
Mrs. Erasmus Kloman (from May)
John W. Merriam, Chairman
David Gwinn
C. Earle Miller
Arthur C. Kaufmann
Roswell Weidner (to October)
SPECIAL COMMITTEES
PLANNING COMMITTEE
John W. Merriam, Chairman
James K. Stone
J. Welles Henderson, Jr.
Ex officio
Frank T. Howard
Henry S. McNeil
William H. S. Wells
C. Newbold Taylor
Joseph T. Fraser, Jr.
Alfred Zantzinger
NOMINATIONS COMMITTEE
Henry B. Keep, Chairman
J. Welles Henderson
C. Newbold Taylor
WOMEN'S COMMITTEE
Mrs.
Mrs.
Mrs.
Mrs.
Mrs.
Mrs.
Mrs.
Mrs.
Mrs.
Mrs.
Mrs.
Mrs.
Mrs.
Mrs.
Mrs.
John Grier Bartol, Chairman (to May)
H. Lea Hudson, Chairman (from May)
Erasmus H. Kloman, Jr., Vice Chairman (from May)
David J. Grossman, Treasurer and Corresponding Secretary (to May)
Caspar W. B. Townsend, Treasurer and Corresponding Secretary
(from May)
John Grier Bartol
Mrs. Francis T. Chambers
Joseph Sill Clark, Jr.
Mrs. Albert M. Greenfield, Jr.
David J. Grossman
Mrs. David Gwinn
J. H. Ward Hinkson
Mrs. Arthur C. Kaufmann
Edward B. Leisenring
Mrs. Howard H. Lewis
C. Earle Miller
Mrs. Evan Randolph
Herbert F. Schiffer
Mrs. James M. R. Sinkler
Boudinot Stimson
Mrs. T. F. Dixon Wainwright
Franklin C. Watkins
Mrs. Walter H. West
S. S. White, 3rd
Mrs. Arthur M. Young
Mrs. Alfred Zantzinger
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STAFF
GENERAL
Joseph T. Fraser, Jr.
. Director and Secretary
Mabel L. Eiseley
Assistant Director
Dorothy E. Runk
Secretary to the Director
August V. Viilu
Comptroller
Rita Damiano .
Assistant to the Comptroller
Louise Wallman
Registrar
Elizabeth Z. Swenson
Director of Membership and Special Events
E. Elizabeth Fermanis
Receptionist and Membership Assistant
Frances M. Vanderpool
. Exhibitions and Membership Clerk
SCHOOLS
M. Wister Wood
. Administrator
Roswell Weidner
In Charge of Evening Program
Nancy W. Dall (to May)
Constance A. Taylor.
LaVerne Delach
Ethel
v.
Ashton
PEALE
Assistant to the Administrator
Secretary to the Administrator
Receptionist
Librarian
HOUSE
James R. Knipe
Manager
Marjorie Rubin .
Director of Special Exhibitions
Mabel Gearhart Cook
. Resident · Counselor
George Carroll
Development Director
Ava Yvonne Gilbert
Frances Leone .
James J. Lulias
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Secretary to the Development Director
Receptionist
Superintendent
FA C U L T Y (Sea son of 1964-1 965 )
Day School
Morris Blackburn
Ben Kamihira
Paul A. Greenwood
Julian Levi
Walker Hancock
John Hanlen
Jimmy C. Lueders
John W . McCoy, 2nd
Homer Johnson
Daniel D. Miller
Hobson Pittman
Harry Rosin
Walter Stuempflg, Jr.
Franklin C. Watkins
Roswell Weidner
Even ing School
Morris Blackburn
Paul A. Greenwood
Adolph T. Dioda
Oliver Grimley
Jimmy Lueders
Thomas Gaughan
Homer Johnson
Roswell Weidner
Ben Kamihira
Summer Day School
John Hanlen
Jimmy C. Lueders
Ben Kamihira
Francis Speight
Roswell Weidner
ACADEMY BUILD I NG
Isaiah J. Sellers (to June) .
Superintendent
Michael G. lacocca (from June)
Superintendent
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REPORT OF THE OFFICERS AND
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
We report a most exciting and busy year for 1964, and, in the Director's
experience, we have never been so occupied with new projects. Although
additional personnel has been added, the faithful and dedicated workers
who have served over a period of many years have been hard pressed
indeed.
There have been but two changes in the list of our Board of Directors. The
resignation of Henry S. Drinker, reported as a grave possibility in last year's
record, was confirmed in January. At the February meeting the vacancy thus
created was filled with -the election of James M. large.
We lost one of the most able and devoted staff members in June with the
retirement of Isaiah J. Sellers because of ill health and advanced age.
Michael G. lacocca took on the responsibilities as Building Superintendent
at that time, having previously served as an assistant in the Summer School
at Chester Springs and in the Academy's school store.
We passed into a new phase in our fund raising drive when the contract
with Ketchum, Inc., terminated in February. Considerable disappointment
was experienced in the initial drive as directed by this Pittsburgh, Pa., firm,
which came to us with such an impressive record of past achievements. They
seemed never to have fully understood the unique problems facing the
Academy, nor the difficult situation in Philadelphia, where the supporting
citizens are a group all too small for the many demands from our multiple
cultural institutions.
To carry on our search for financial help, we employed Mr. George Carroll
in February, under the continuing guidance of Mr. Evan Randolph as chairman, and coupled his duties as fund raising agent with our general public
relations responsibilities. For this abbreviated record we note that we opened
the year at approximately the $200,000 mark, and closed with approximately $300,000.
In that same busy month of February we were fortunate to procure the
services of Mrs. Marjorie Rubin, who now has the responsibilities of planning
and implementing our exhibit program at Peale House, the reporting of
which leads us directly into the series of activities at 1811 and 1819 Chestnut
Street which account for the major pressures under which we have worked.
It is encouraging to report that in addition to the two floors renovated for
studios and one for the housing of girl students, the demand dictated the
refurbishing of another floor for girls. The initial winter had seen but sixteen
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girls rooming there and served with meals in our new cafeteria and this was
more than doubled in the second season. These students, joined by the one
hundred first-year students, who are chiefly assigned to work in these new
quarters, have also accounted for a very appreciable increase in the use
of the cafeteria.
We have cause to be exceedingly grateful for the generous financial support of Mrs. Herbert C. Morris, who made it possible to create two handsome,
modern galleries on the Chestnut Street front of the ground floor and,
through the same benefactress, we staged a brilliant Open House party on
October 2nd. The initial shows were a retrospective memorial of the paintings
of Stuart Davis held in the West Gallery, and fifteen items of contemporary
painting, drawing and sculpture recently acquired in our own permanent
collection, in the East Gallery. We have temporarily dedicated the East
Gallery to a series of one- or two-man shows of work from the members of
our illustrious faculty. The first of these- paintings by Ben Kamihira, chiefly
accomplished during his recent sojourn in Spain, were followed by a retrospective exhibition of paintings and pastels by Hobson Pittman.
We were also most fortunate in this first season to procure and show a
distinguished group of portrait studies of the late John F. Kennedy by Elaine
deKooning. This exhibition was of great popular interest. The attendance
record in these new galleries has given us the splendid figures of approximately 14,244 from the beginning of October through December.
In giving this thumbnail picture of our new ventures, we must not shirk the
reporting of all the regular features which continue with no curtailment at
Broad and Cherry Streets. The 159th Annual Exhibition, this year of oil
paintings and sculpture, was exceedingly well received and one of the most
successful on record. In addition to liberal funds available from our own
purchase endowments, we were fortunate again to have the attention of
the Ford Foundation. Through that agency funds approximating $25,000
were available. With large support also from private buying, we made the
enviable sales record of just under $70,000.00. In addition to the purchased
works there were a great many items added to the permanent collections
by which it was greatly enriched.
Before leaving the general subject of shows, we are happy to report that
within this year the ground work has been laid for a great retrospective
exhibition of the work of Andrew Wyeth to be held in the galleries at Broad
and Cherry Streets in the fall of 1966.
As one more activity which taxed the staff, we have had an unusual number
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of requests for loans: Seventy-three items being approved for showing in
exhibitions throughout the country.
We can but touch on the tremendous amount of work which has gone into
the finishing of the building housing the new lobby and lounge for the
Peale Club, and for the attendant planning for its opening which is now set
for February 1, 1965. Enough to say that a charter has been prepared and
is presently at Harrisburg for approval. A liquor license has been acquired
and, at the time of this writing, the day of the opening is at hand. Membership status has been established and details will be found in the complete
report.
Although a similar phrase is found in each of our Annual Reports, it is
with not one bit less appreciation that we record again the generous annual
grant of $25,000 from the City of Philadelphia. The State of Pennsylvania
also continues to help us with a yearly appropriation of $3,000.
The activities of our School continue in a most healthy and satisfactory
manner and we have reason to be exceedingly grateful to the hard-working
staff and the competence and understanding of those talented artists who
make up our very fine faculty.
In all of the above one of the most important agencies for help has been
our loyal Women's Committee. In a most gratifying and understanding way
they have sensed Jhe need for help on the part of the professional staff and
have given unprecedented aid. All of my co-workers join in this paean of
praise. The officers and members of the Board have rallied to help as in no
time past and all these factors add up to a vision of a great resurgence of
vitality and a new and wonderful chapter in the history of this great
institution.
FRANK T. HOWARD, President
JOSEPH T. FRASER, JR., Director
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CONSOLIDATED
TREASURER'S
REPORT
Septem ber 1, 1963 to Aug ust 31, 1964
INCOME:
Art Gallery and Exhibitions .............................. $ 62,809.68
School ....•......................................... 164,793.19
Trust Funds
147,420.85
Membership Dues .....................................
20,090.00
Contributions .... . ....................................
271.00
City Appropriation ..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..
25,000.00
Total ....................................... $420,384.72
EXPENSE:
Art Gallery and Exhibitions ...... . ............ ......... .. $219,221.60
School ....... ... ..... ..... ... .... .. . ................ 171,994.52
Peale House . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
68,216.92
Total ....................................... $459,433.04
Net Operating Deficit . .................. ..... $ 39,048.32
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CONTRIBUTIONS FOR THE CALENDAR YEAR 1964
UNRESTRICTED:
The Dietrich Foundation . .................... . ..... • . $ 1,000.00
Junior League of Philadelphia . ...... . . . . . .......... . .
200.00
Clarence Toland, Jr............ . ....................
50.00
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Rosenau and Henry Gerstly. . . . . . . .
20.00
Edith Stix Wasserman........... . ...... . ... . .... . . ..
30.00
Charles F. Ward. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
10.00
Bernard Friedman .. .. ............ . ........ .. ...... .
10.00
S. Emlen Stokes................. .. .......... . ......
25.00
Bert Atwater . .... . .. .. . . .. . .......................'-___1--,0-,-.0-,-0-,-
$ 1,355.00
MISCELLANEOUS:
City of Philadelphia, 1964 appropriation ........ . ..... • $25,000.00
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Grant................ . 3,000.00
Women's Committee, for concerts.............. . ... . ..
550.00
Fredric R. Mann Foundation, for concerts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . •
400.00
Nancy M. Ferguson, for Nancy M. Ferguson Fund.. . ... . .
650.00
Dr. and Mrs. Loren Eiseley, for concerts........... . . . ..
100.00
Fellowship, for Fellowship Exhibition Expense....... . . . • .
350.00
Mrs. H. Lea Hudson, in memory of Mrs. Mason.... . .. . ..
100.00
Henry S. McNeil, fo r publicity... .. ......... . .. . . .. .. .
183.65
Mr. and Mrs. T. F. Dixon Wainwright, for Peale
House garden .. . ......................... . ....
200.00
Mrs. James Beale, for Eichholtz Collection .. ........ . ...
80.00
Mrs. Herbert C. Morris, for Peale House Opening. . . . . . . .
2 ,429.07
Fidelity-Philadelphia Trust Company for Haney Award. . . .
150.00
Friends of the artist, for Abraham Hankins Memorial. . . . .
380.00
Philadelphia Fund, for Leona Karp Braverman Prize . ....._ _ _7--,,6-,-00
.:...2_
$33,648.74
SCHOOL:
School District of Philadelphia, for 26 scholarships .... • . . $ 5,200.00
Ford Foundation, fi rst payment of $55,000 grant. . . . . . . . . 11 ,000.00
George D. Widener, for Widener Scholarships .. •. ... .. . 2,000.00
Lubrizol Foundation, for scholarships for Cleveland, Ohio
students .. . .... . .......... . .......... . . . ..... .
1,000.00
Union Baptist Church, for needy student ........ . ..... .
200.00
John W. McCoy, 2nd, for student t uition ......... . .. . . .
125.00
Francis Speight, for student t uition ................... .
100.00
Mabel Gill, for Woodrow Prize .. . ...... . ............ .
50.00
250.00
Marion D. Higgins, for student prize . . .. . ........ . ... .
25.00
Herbert M. Syme, for student prize .... . ........ . . .. .. .
Mrs. Lambert Cadwalader, for student prize ...... , .. . . .
100.00
100.00
David Gwin n, for Eakins Prize ...... . ............ . .. .
122.72
David Gwinn, fo r student party ............ . .. . ...... •
122.72
John W. Merriam, for student party ............. . . . .. .
122.72
Arthur C. Kaufmann, for student party .......... .. .... .
122.72
C. Earle Miller, for student party ....... .. .... . ... .. . .
150.00
Horace Nicholso n, for student help ... . ... .. .... • .... ..
Pennsylvania Bureau of Vocational Rehabilitation,
Dormitory fees . .... . . . .. . . . .. . .. . . . ....... •• .. •_---=8:..:0:..::0:.:..00
:::..:::..
$21,590.88
Total . .. .. .... . .... .. . . . .... ..... .
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.... $56,594.62
DONORS TO THE PROGRESS FUND
Dr. and Mrs. J. Deaver Alexander
Ambrook Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Atwood, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. C. Wanton Balis, Jr.
Mrs. Charles J. Biddle
Mr. and Mrs. James Biddle
Frank G. Binswanger Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Frank G. Binswanger
Mr. Alfred E. Bissell
Mr. Francis Boyer
Mr. J. Bruce Bredin
Mr. and Mrs. Edward G. Budd, Jr.
Mrs. Avery B. Clark
Mr. and Mrs. Joel Claster
Mrs. Bertram D. Coleman
Mrs. G. Dawson Coleman
Mr. and Mrs. Tristam C. Colket
Mr. and Mrs. James S. Collins
Misses Elena and Bertha deHellebranth
Mrs. Rodolphe M. deSchauensee
Mr. and Mrs. Richardson Dilworth
Mr. and Mrs. Donald D. Dodge
Mrs. H. Hoffman Dolan
Mrs. Norton Downs
Mr. and Mrs. Ford B. Draper
Mr. Henry F. duPont
Mr. and Mrs. Pierre S. duPont
Mrs. Mary C. Earle
The Ely Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. John K. Ewing, III
Fidelity-Philadelphia Trust Company
The Firestone Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph T. Fraser, Jr.
Mr. Titus C. Geesey
Mrs. Jack C. Gilbert
Mrs. John Gribbel
Mr. and Mrs. David J. Grossman
Mr. Jacob Gutman
Mr. and Mrs. David Gwinn
Mrs. Flagler Harris
Mr. J. Welles Henderson
Mrs. M. Dunham Higgins
Mrs. J. H. Ward Hinkson
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Hopkinson, Jr.
Mr. Charles N. Howard
Mrs. Elizabeth N. Howard
Mr. and Mrs. Frank T. Howard
Mr. and Mrs. H. Lea Hudson
Mr. Stewart Huston
Miss Anna Warren Ingersoll ·
Mr. and Mrs. R. Sturgis Ingersoll
Mrs. T. Carrick Jordan
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur C. Kaufmann
Mr. and Mrs. Isidore Kohn
Total
Mr. and Mrs. Sydney L. W. Lea
Mr. and Mrs. Richard W. Ledwith
Mr. Walter H. Lenhard, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. H. Gates Lloyd
Mr. and Mrs. Morris Lloyd
Dr. and Mrs. Walter B. McKinney
Mrs. Robert McLean, Sr.
Mrs. William L. Mclean, III
Mr. and Mrs. Henry S. McNeil
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Maloney
Mr. and Mrs. John W. Merriam
Mr. and Mrs. C. Earle Miller
Mr. R. Alexander Montgomery
Mrs. R. L. Montgomery
Mrs. Herbert C. Morris
Mr. John A. Murphy
Mrs. F. Alex Nason
Mr. William Pahlmann
Mr. Hobson Pittman
Mr. and Mrs. Philip Price
Mr. and Mrs. Lambert O. Pursell
Quaker Chemical Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Evan Randolph
Mr. Thomas Reath
Mr. and Mrs. Isaac W. Roberts
Mrs. Nicholas G. Roosevelt
Sidney R. Rosenau Foundation
Mrs. Samuel P. Rotan
Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Saunders
Mr. and Mrs. Henry W. Sawyer, 3rd
Mr. Edgar Scott
Mr. and Mrs. R. Barclay Scull
Mr. Stanley Snellenburg
Mr. John Stewart
Mr. and Mrs. James K. Stone
Mr. and Mrs. C. Newbold Taylor
Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Titus
Mr. John J. Tosta
Mr. and Mrs. Caspar W. B. Townsend
Mr. and Mrs. H. Stuart Valentine
Mr. and Mrs. William L. Van Alen
Mr. and Mrs. Franklin C. Watkins
Mr. and Mrs. Henry M. Watts, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Wescott
Mrs. Walter West
The Weymouth Foundation
Mrs. S. S. White, III
Mr. William White, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. George D. Widener
Mr. and Mrs. Oliver G. Willits
Mr. and Mrs. George Woodward, Jr.
Mrs. Chas. C. Wriggins
Mr. and Mrs. William Coxe Wright
Mrs. Arthur M. Young
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Zantzinger
$167,141.43
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MEMBERSHIP REPORT
The Academy was privileged to add 276 new life and annual members to
its rolls during 1964, which, with those increasing their dues, has amounted to
$18,430 in new funds. There was a considerable upswing in contributing
memberships ($100 annually) due mainly to the desire of members to have
available to them the facilities of Peale Club which is due to open early
in 1965.
NEW MEMBERS
Enrolled during 1964, including those who increased their classification.
Patrons
**Mrs. Leonard T. Beale
** J. Welles Henderson, Jr.
**Mrs. T. Carrick Jordan
John W. Merriam
**Mrs. John W. Merriam
**C. Earle Miller
**Mrs. C. Earle Miller
**Mrs. James M. R. Sinkler
** John Stewart
** James K. Stone
**Mrs. James K. Stone
**Mrs. George D. Widener
**William Coxe Wright
**Mrs. William Coxe Wright
**Alfred Zantzinger
**Mrs. Alfred Zantzinger
Fellows
**Alfred E. Bissell
Mrs. Alfred E. Bissell
**Mrs. Lambert Cadwalader
**Mrs. G. Dawson Coleman
H. Richard Dietrich
**David J. Grossman
**Mrs. M. Dunham Higgins
**Mrs. Edgar Howard
**Frank Howard
Mrs. Frank Howard
**Miss Anna Warren Ingersoll
Arthur C. Kaufmann
**Mrs. Arthur C. Kaufmann
**M rs. Alec Nason
A. J. Sordoni, Jr.
**C. Newbold Taylor
Franklin C. Watkins
Mrs. Franklin C. Watkins
**Mrs. S. S. White, 3rd
**William White, Jr.
**Oliver G. Willits
Life Members
Mrs. Murray Fox Freeman
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E. Crosby Willet
Contributing Members
Benjamin Alexander, Jr.
**Dr. Orhan H. Alisbah
**Mrs. Walter H. Annenberg
Joseph R. Applebaum
Bert Atwater
C. Wanton Balis
** Joseph P. Barker, Jr.
Mrs. Eugene T. Barrett
**Mrs. Alfred Bendiner
**Gordon A. Block, Jr.
Joseph E. Boettner
Henry Bower
**Mrs. Clarence C. Brinton
**T. B. Buchholz
**M. Alan Bucks
Mrs. Ralph J. Burnard
**Albert J. Caplan
**Robert Carlen
J. B. H. Carter
**Cummins Catherwood
**Sylvan M. Cohen
Samuel R. Cox
**Samuel David
**Albert M. Davis
**Roy B. Davis
**Miss Florence E. de Cerkez
**Miss Bertha de Hellebranth
**H. M. De Van
Richardson Dilworth
**Miss Janet C. Durand
**Mrs. F. W. Elliott Farr
**Eugene Feldman
Bernard L. Feuerstein
**Mrs. Robert F. Fitzpatrick
Andrew G. Freeman
**Samuel Y. Gibbon
**Mrs. George C. Gillies
Julius Glauser
**Frank S. Glendening
** Joseph N. Gorson
**Mrs. Joseph J. Greenberg, Jr.
**Mrs. Paul H. Griffith
**Mrs. Marshall I. Groff
Donald Jerome Goldberg
Mrs. Norman M. Haac
**Mrs. M. Acton Hammond
Jacob Handel
Perch Hankin
**Mrs. R. A. Hauslohner
Mrs. Richard W. Havens
**Mrs. Joseph W. Henderson
**Mrs. R. Carroll Hoke
**Edgar B. Howard, Jr.
**Mrs. H. Lea Hudson
Frank Huggins
Sydney Jelinek
**John L. K. Jenney
**John H. Jensen
Fred Jessar
**Miss Helen M. Jones
Henry W. Jones
**Louis I. Kahn
Mrs. Braden Bayard Kane
**Mrs. Charles Zeller Klauder, Jr.
Samuel J. Korman
**Robert W. LaFore, Jr.
**William S. Lane
**Roy F. Larson
**E. George Lavino
Dr. Harold Lecks
**Mrs. J . Stauffer Lehman
Miss Miriam R. LeVin
**Mrs. Howard H. Lewis
Mrs. Arthur Littleton
** J. A. Livingston
* *Mrs. Jerry Locks
Mrs. Graeme Lorimer
Mrs. A. Basil Lyons
C. B. McCoy
Mrs. Robert H. McCracken
Robert S. McCracken
Robert S. Mack
Mrs. Peter J. Maggio
Isadore M. Marder
**Dr. Gustav J. Martin
**Dr. Frederick E. Maser
Colonel Eugene Miller
**Dr. David Myers
**Mrs. Price I. Myers
Mrs. H. Alarik W. Myrin
Philip Neff
**Theodore T. Newbold
**Dr. Leslie Nicholas
**Robert Scott Noone
**Dr. George W. Norris
**Miss Gertrude O'Brien
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**Mrs. Marvin Orleans
Isadore Ostroff
Miss Louise F. Peale
**Frederick W. G. Peck
**Mrs. Horace Pettit
David Pincus
**Mrs. S. Soski Piroeff
**Mrs. Felix B. Shay
J. Richard Shryock
**Mrs. Leonard Siegel
**Mrs. James M. Skinner
**Stanley S. Snellen burg
**Edwin A. Soast
**Mrs. William T. Southworth
**Mrs. M. P. Potamkin
Edward Starr, Jr.
**Mrs. J. Webb Potts
J. Harold Stephens
Robert A. Pratt
**Mrs. George Reath
**Mrs. J. Permar Richards, Jr.
**William H. Sylk
Edmond G. Thomas
Edgar W. Turner
**Edgar P. Richardson
**Miss Geraldine S. Tyson
**Mrs. John C. Russell
**R. M. Waddington
Arthur S. Salus
Miss Susan Carlen Waldbaum
**Henry W. Sawyer, 3rd
**Robert M. Walker
**Mrs. Alfred G. Scattergood
**Major General L. W. T. Waller
**Francis H. Scheetz
**Miss Margaret M. Walsh
**Dr. Lewis C. Scheffey
Charles F. Ward, Jr.
**Mrs. Frederick H. Schmidt
**Mrs. Joseph Wasserman
**Mrs. Edwin J. Schoettle
**Mrs. Henry M. Watts, Jr.
**Mrs. Ira Schwartz
**Mrs. John Sherwood Webster
**Frank S. Schwarz
**Mrs. C. Newbold Welsh
Mrs. Louis Schwerin
**Mrs. C. Alison Scully
Harry B. Seidenberg
***Paul Wescott
Mrs. Marian T. Wilson
The Hon. Nochem S. Winnet
Leonard Shaffer
**Mrs. Robert E. Worden
Paul Shaffer
**Mrs. Helen May Ziegler
Sustaining Members
Mrs. Constantin G. Alio
**Mrs. Malcolm J. Baber
**Mrs. Moreau D. Brown
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Professional Members
Humbert Howard
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Mrs. S. K. Fuller
Mrs. Louis Klein
Annual Members
Mrs. Edgar F. Adams
Mrs. C. Paul Denckla
Fredrick A. Hamilton
Miss Gladys M. Adams
Mrs. M. M. DeVan
Miss Rebecca Ellis Harrop
Mrs. Pliney E. Hartenstein
Mrs. William G. Alcorn, Jr.
Dr. Robert S. Diamond
Miss Eleanor Arnett
Mrs. Harold P. Dicke
Mrs. J. D. Hayes
Mrs. William E. Arnold
Mrs. John H. Dilks
Miss Carolyn Haywood
Mrs. Frederick C. Bachman
Mrs. Henry F. Bain, 3rd
Ronald D. Bakule
Mrs. William H. Baltzell, 4th
Mrs. Robert R. Batt
Miss Cynthia Bayer
Mrs. Herman Beerman
Mrs. I. B. Bender
Mrs. Helen Benoff
Mrs. Thomas S. Donohue
Robert F. Heckman, Jr.
Donald V. Dunlap
Mrs. Effie Mason Heisley
Mrs. Mary E. Dunlavey
Mrs. David Hellman
Douglas T. Henderson
Malcolm C. Eisenberg
Mrs. Robins Hendrix
Mrs. Irving I. Elkin
Mrs. John Bernard Heyl
Mrs. Werner Finks
Mrs. Edward N. Hibbert
Ade·Rolfe Floreen
Miss Helen J. Hibbs
Dr. Ann H. L. Ford
Dr. Joseph Lee Hollander
Mrs. Duncan Graham Foster
Clement R. Hoopes
Mrs. Bernard A. Bergman
Lawrence G . Horowitz
Thomas R. Bevan
Richard W. Foster
Francis Bosworth
Dr. Thomas P. Fox
Mrs. Charles W. Bowler
Robert B. Frailey
Mrs. Claude C. Bowman
Frank Franz
George A. Braknis
Dr. Lillian E. Fredericks
Mrs. Claire E. Brehme
Mrs. H. H. Fritz, Jr.
Iso Briselli
Mrs. Alan Emery Fuller
Henry S. Bromley
Mrs. Harry L. Buck
Ernest P. Galdi
C. Jones Buehler
Mrs. George D. Gammon
James Bush-Brown
Cyril Gardner
Mrs. Joseph H. Butera
Mrs. Elbert F. Garrett
Daniel Cades
Miss Judith Cauman
Paul M. Chalfin
William H. Chand lee, 3rd
Mrs. J . Hamilton Cheston
Mrs. Thomas C. Cochran
Mrs. Peter B. Colwin
Joseph J. Connolly
Mrs. Thomas J. Costello
Fra ncis Criss
Mrs. Harry L. Curtis
Miss Arrah Lee Gaul
William G . Gentner, Jr.
Dr. Louis Gerstley, 3rd
Dr. Louis M. Golden, Jr.
Sol Golden
Mrs. Benjamin Goldenberg
Mrs. Robert Goldner
Mrs. Nathan Horrow
Mrs. Karl S. Howard
Mrs. Clement E. Hoyler
Mrs. Perry A. Hunter
Miss Elsie Hutt
Mrs. Henry McK. Ingersoll
Mrs. Bertram Jacobs
Miss Katherine K. Jacobs
Mrs. Josef Jaffee
Mrs. Herbert Janis
Mrs. Dexter Jones
Mrs. Edward Morris Jones
Mrs. James H. Jones
Miss Joan W. Josephson
Mrs. Francis E. Judson
Miss Dorothy R. Justice
Martin Fred Kaelin
Mrs. Jack Goldstein
Mrs. Robert M. Kahl
Jesse N. Goldstein
Mrs. Harry Kalish
Mrs. Allen S. Gordon
Clinton Kaplan
Dr. Milton H. Gordon
Mrs. Charles P. Kehan
Mrs. Robert Greer
Miss Ruth E. Keim
Arthur A. De Costa
Mrs. A. Pierce Gregg
Dr. Norman Kendall
Paul W. Darrow
Mrs. E. Judson Griswold
Miss Estelle Kern
Samuel David
Mrs. Robert A. Groff
Mrs. Kenneth N. Kettenring
Mrs. William T. Davis
William Gundersheimer
Mrs. Milton P. King
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Mrs. James Nelson Kise
Mrs. Norman Klauder
Miss Joan Kornblum
Mrs. Joseph N. Kotzin
Mrs. Margaret Kehoe Kovner
Mrs. John E. Kramer
Mrs. Stanton W. Kratzok
Harry M. Kresch
Samuel Lafair
William S. Lane
Mrs. Dayton Larzelere
Mrs. Harry I. Lauer
Mrs. Samuel Laver
Mrs. Alvin Levi
Mrs. Roslyn W. Levit
Mrs. Clifford Lewis, 3rd
Mrs. Howard H. Lewis
Mrs. S. E. Lipschutz
Mrs. Allen B. Lockhart, Jr.
Mrs. John W. MacGuire
Mrs. B. H. Mackey
Mrs. Harry M. Madonna
Mrs. Joseph J. Melone
Mrs. Alexander Meyers
C. Harold Meyers
Mrs. Mary B. Michie
Henry W. Mitchell
Mrs. William W. Morrow
Mrs. William Netzky
Mrs. George W. Norris
**1 ncreased classification
*** Also Life Member
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Mrs. Herbert R. Northrup
Mrs. Sol Schoenbach
Mrs. Kingsley V. Schroeder
Mrs. R. Terry Oakley
Mrs. Charles P. Orr
Mrs. Lloyd J. Schumacker
Mrs. J. Stinson Scott
Maurice Segal
Mrs. William Shoemaker
Mrs. Nathan Silberstein
Mrs. Eugene C. B. Simonin
Mrs. Norman R. Smith
Mrs. George L. Snell
Daniel A. Solari
Miss Helen McC. Southworth
Mrs. Joseph Specker
I. Jerome Stern
A. Purves Palmer
Mrs. Staunton B. Peck
Charles B. Peterson, 3rd
Mrs. George T. Pew
Mrs. Joseph N. Pew, Jr.
Mrs. Theodore W. Plume
Mrs. Macken Prather
Mrs. R. E. Putney, Jr.
Mrs. Abraham E. Rakoff
Mrs. Joseph S. Rambo
Mrs. Luther T. Ranck
Mrs. Ethel K. Redding
Dr. John B. Reddy
Miss Gertrude M. Redheffer
Armando T. Ricci
Mrs. Russell Richardson
Dr. Fred B. Rogers
Mrs. Alphonsus R. Romeika
Dr. Bernard J. Ronis
Mrs. Manuel Roth
Mrs. Lionel F. Rubin
Mrs. Arthur Saltzman
Mrs. Sidney S. Samuels
Mrs. Lewis A. Saret
Scott J. Schildress
Mrs. Guy Lacy Schiess
Mrs. J . Kirby Tompkins
James F. Tonkinson, Jr.
Evan H. Turner
Mrs. William H. Vaughn
T. F. Dixon Wainwright
James E. Walter
Mrs. Otis Walter
Mrs. Irving H. Wang
Miss Marie s. Weeks
Mrs. Fred Weihenmeyer
Mrs. Eugene W. Weiller
Mrs. Bernard Weinberg
Erwin Weiner
Mrs. Robert J. Wolfson
Andrew Wyeth
EXHIBITIONS
THE 159th ANNUAL EXHIBITION, OIL AND SCULPTURE (Reception
and Private View, January 15; open to the public, January 17 through
March 1).
Traditionally, the Academy has sought to serve the cause of the fine arts in
America, and to give Philadelphia a distinguished contemporary exhibition
chosen by professionally active painters and sculptors. This purpose, we
believe, has once more been accomplished in the long succession of annuals.
The plan of organization for this year's exhibition is identical with that
initially employed two years ago, and the 157th proved to be a comprehensive cross-section of works of quality. In addition, the Academy and the
many artists involved benefited greatly from resulting economies effected
by the new plan.
The details of the procedure, in brief, are these: The chairmen of the Painting
and Sculpture Juries were, as in the past, given the responsibility of inviting
work from those important artists of large reputation who should be included
in a major exhibition, and who no longer can be expected to submit their
work for jury action. Artists whose work was not invited were asked to send
colored slides of items they wished to submit, rather than to pack and ship
original works at this time. The slides sent in - there were 6,213 - were then
projected upon the screen and viewed by the Academy's Director and members of the faculty in sessions approximating one hundred hours. At these
sessions there were never fewer than two members of the faculty present,
and at the final one six participated. The work which passed this preliminary
judging was then sent in at the artists' expense, and final decisions were
made by the professional juries. The response this year would indicate that
the new system has been looked upon with general professional approval.
JURIES OF SELECTION AND AWARD
Painters
Julian Levi, Chairman
Lamar Dodd
Will Barnet
Lewis Iselin
Jacques Lipchitz
Sculptors
Theodore Roszak, Chairman
PRIZES AND AWARDS
Joseph E. Temple Gold Medal, to Stuart Davis for painting, Letter and
His fcol.
Jennie Sesnan Gold Medal, to Fred Conway for painting, Cafe Dome.
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Carol H. Beck Gold Medal, to Paul Georges for painting, Wife and
Children.
George D. Widener Memorial Medal, to Geraldine McCullough for
sculpture, Phoenix.
J. Henry Schiedt Memorial Prize ($2,000), to Paul Burlin for painting,
Red, Red, Not the Same #2.
Alfred G. B. Steel Memorial Prize ($750), to Rhoda Sherbell for sculpture,
The Acrobats.
Raymond A. Speiser Memorial Prize ($500), Rudolf Baranik for painting, Homage to Munch.
Walter Lippincott Prize ($600), to Jack Levine for painting, The Last Waltz.
Mary Smith Prize ($300), to Virginia Armitage McCall for painting, Dahlia:
Still Life.
Fellowship Prize ($100), to Ben Kamihira for painting Nude and Child.
Honorable Mentions in Sculpture: Kenneth Starbird for The Song of
Deborah; George Karas for The Attacking Rider.
Number sold: 42; Total $71,798.53.
FELLOWSHIP ANNUAL EXHIBITION (Reception and Private View, Friday
evening, March 13; open to the public March 14 through April 12).
This partly-invited, partly-juried exhibition consisted of work by professional
artists who have attended the Academy's Schools.
JURIES
Oil
John Hanlen
Morris Blackburn
Fran Lachman
Water Color and Graphics
Walter Reinsel
Oliver Nuse
Marce"a Klein
Sculpture
Raphael Sabatini
Charles Rudy
AWARDS
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Percy M. Owens Memorial for a Distinguished Pennsylvania Artist
($250), to Walter Stuempfig.
Harrison S. Morris Memorial for water color ($100 divided), to John Hanlen for Mardis Gras, and Betty Jane Lee for Fall.
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Mary Butler Memorial for any medium ($100), to Jimmy Lueders for oil,
Composition.
May Audubon Post Prize for oil or sculpture ($50), to Norman Carton for
oil, Merry-Go-Round.
Bertha M. Goldberg Memorial Award for any medium ($100), to Tom
Ewing for M M M (mixed media).
Caroline Gibbons Granger Memorial for oil ($50), to Jeanette Kohn for
Seated Figures.
Leona Karp Braverman Memorial for sculpture ($50), to Amelie Zell
Wright, for Primeval Awakening.
Mabel Wilson Woodrow Memorial for a student represented in the show
($50), to James Havard for four accepted items: Woman and Horse, Man
Training, Figure Walking, Two Figures.
26 items were sold from the show totaling $2,531.00.
ABRAHAM P. HANKINS (1900-1963) EXHIBITION OF PAINTING
AND SCULPTURE opened in conjunction with the Fellowship Show and continued through April 12. There were seventy-seven items in the show, the
greater number paintings.
STUDENT EXHIBITION FOR ANNUAL AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS (May 6 through 31). At special exercises held on May 6 at 4 P.M. it
was announced that fifteen traveling scholarships and other prizes, amounting to $27,510.00, had been awarded to students in the Schools of The
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. The address was given by Mr. Carl
Zig rosser, Curator Emeritus of Prints and Drawings, Philadelphia Museum of
Art, and following the address awards were made on recommendation of
the fac~lty.
William Emlen Cresson Memorial European Traveling Scholarships
(est. 1902, $1,800 each), James Gadson, Nancy D. Grigsby, James P. Havard,
Magtillt S. Laan, Dennis l. Manjone, Auseklis Ozols, James Franklin Shores,
James P. Stegall, Louise Tucker (painters); Stephen A. Hinkle (sculptor).
J. Henry Schiedt Memorial Traveling Scholarships (est. 1938, $1,300
each), Bernard J. Barbieri, James B. Horner, Margaret Anne GoodallGarabedian, Thomas Toner (painters).
Lewis S. Ware Traveling Scholarship (est. 1949, $1,300), Mark J. Oxman.
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Skowhegan Scholarships (tuition and board awarded by the Skowhegan
[Maine] School of Painting and Sculpture for the study in their school during
the months of July and August), William M. Brown.
ENDOWED PRIZES
Cecilia Beaux Memorial Prize (est. 1946, $100), Thomas N. Toner.
Honorable Mention: Dennis L. Manjone, James P. Havard.
John R. Conner Memorial Prize (est. 1954, $50), Paul H. Kane, Jr.
Catherine Grant Memorial Prize (est. 1955, $100), Magtillt S. Loan.
Honorable Mentions: Auseklis Ozols, Noel Mahaffey.
J. Maurice Gray Foundation Prize (est. 1960, $50), Nancy D. Grigsby.
Packard Zoological Sketch Prize (est. 1899), Paul T. Nagano (1 st Prize,
$50); Evelyn C. Mayland (2nd Prize, $25).
Ramborger Prize (est. 1910, $25), Ruth A. Kratz.
Edmund Stewardson Prize (est. 1899, $100), Stephen Robin.
Honorable Mentions: Steve Hinkle, Cynthia Bayer.
Emma Burnham Stimson Prize (est. 1917i $100), Mary Zityniuk.
Henry J. Thouron Prizes (est. 1903), Margaret Goodall ($100 awarded by
the Faculty), James P. Havard ($100 lst award by Instructor), Louise Tucker
($50 2nd award by Instructor), Clayton W. Anderson ($50 by Student Vote).
Cha,rles Toppan Prizes (est. 1881), Steve T. Pakyz, Jr., Milton Sanders, Carl
Ronald Thomason, James P. Stegall, Joyce H. Galanaugh, Magtillt S. Loan
($200 each).
UNENDOWED PRIZES
Lambert and Emma Cadwalader Prize (est. 1961, $100), James Gadson.
Honorable Mention: Auseklis Ozols.
Thomas Eakins Memorial Prize (est. 1949, $100), James Franklin Shores.
Gimbel Prize (est. 1958, $50 in art supplies), Carol Cervony.
Marion Higgins Prize (est. 1960) Murray Dessner.
Honorable Mentions: Frank V. Lauria, James P. Havard ($25 each).
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Mindel Caplan Kleinbard Award (est. 1958, $25 in art supplies), Sigfried
M. Halus.
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Perspective Prize (est. 1916, $20) William Brown.
Philadelphia Print Club Graphics Prize (est. 1953. A one-year membership in the Club and the use of its workshop facilities), William Brown.
Special Prize, donated by Elizabeth Grist Ely ($100. Not awarded in every
year), Betty Jane Lee.
Graphic Prize (free tuition for one semester in P.A.F.A. workshop), Marlene
Sellers.
M. Herbert Syme Prize (est. 1959, $25), James P. Stegall.
John Wanamaker Water Color Prize (est. 1954, $50 in art supplies),
James P. Stegall.
Woodrow Prize in Graphics (est. 1955, $50), Katharine Protassowsky.
On Friday, May 8, a cocktail party was held in the Academy from four
until six o'clock. The hosts were members of the Committee on Instruction,
carrying on this exemplary annual event established by Mr. and Mrs. David
Gwinn. Student work submitted for European Traveling Scholarships and
other awards were on the walls. Fifty-one items were sold during the exhibition, with a total of $3,453.00.
REGIONAL EXHIBITION, PAINTINGS, SCULPTURE, PRINTS AND
DRAWINGS by Artists of Philadelphia and Vicinity. (Reception and private
view, Friday evening, October 9; open to the public, October 10 through
November 15.)
Committee on Selection of Artists: Artists Equity, Joseph Greenberg, Jr.;
Beaver College, Benton Spruance; Moore College of Art, Dr. Donald Irving;
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Joseph T. Fraser, Jr.; Philadelphia
College of Art, Larry Day; Tyler School of Fine Arts, Charles LeClair; University of Pennsylvania School of Fine Arts, Thomas B. A. Godfrey; Fellowship of
the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Roswell Weidner.
As a considerable number of the participating artists were members of
P.A.F.A. Fellowship, it was decided to forego their usual spring exhibition
and award the 1965 prizes to members represented in this show.
AWARDS
Percy M. Owens Memorial for a Distinguished Pennsylvania Artist ($250),
Harry Rosin.
Harrison S. Morris Memorial for Water Color ($100), John McCoy for Iris
and Devil's Paint Brush.
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Mary Butler Memorial for any medium ($100), Edna Andrade for
Geometric 5.
Bertha M. Goldberg Memorial for any Medium ($100), to John William
Reilly for oil Woman and Child.
May Audubon Post Prize, Oil or Sculpture ($50), to Jimmy Lueders for
Side Pocket.
Caroline Gibbons Granger Memorial for oils ($50), to Joseph Tishler for
Distant Mountain.
Leona Karp Braverman Memorial for Sculpture ($50), to Frank Gasparro
for Theseus, Parthenope and the Minotaur.
Mabel Wilson Woodrow Memorial for Graphics ($50), to Benton Spruance
for Woman Offering Life.
SMALL PAINTINGS OF LARGE IMPORT from the Collection of Lawrence
A. and Barbara Fleischman of Detroit, Michigan. (Reception and Private View
November 24; open to the public November 25 through December 31.)
This exhibition consisted of fifty-two examples of American art of the nineteenth and twentieth century-landscapes, portraiture and still life.
PEALE
HOUSE EXHIBITIONS
An Open House Party was held on Friday evening, October 2, to officially
open the new Galleries and Club Lounge. A memorial exhibition of paintings
by Stuart Davis (1894-1964) was on the walls of the West Gallery, and in the
East Gallery, paintings and sculpture recently acquired by the Academy
(open to the public October 3 through November 8). In the Lobby and Clu,b
Lounge, paintings by members of the Peale family were on exhibition.
PAINTINGS BY BEN KAMIHIRA (Reception and Private View on Wednesday afternoon October 28; open to the public October 29 through November 29). Sixteen recent paintings, the greater number executed by Mr.
Kamihira while on a year's stay in Spain, were shown in the East Gallery,
which is dedicated temporarily to a series of one- or two-man shows of work
by members of the faculty.
SKETCHES OF THE LATE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY by Elaine de
Kooning. (Reception and Private View on Wednesday afternoon, November
13; open to the public November 14 through 29.) Oil sketches and charcoal
drawings, twenty-five in all, were on exhibition in the West Gallery.
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PAINTINGS BY CHARLES BURCHFIELD AND HOBSON PITTMAN
(Reception and Private View Wednesday afternoon December 2; open to the
public December 3 through January 3 and January 10, 1965, respectively.)
Sixteen paintings by Charles Burchfield were shown in the West Gallery. Mr.
Pittman's show was hung in the East Gallery and consisted of thirty-two
paintings.
SPECIAL EVENTS
Free Concerts
January 24. Works by Purcell, Schubert, Bartok, and Brahms; Joan Pladson,
soprano, assisted by Loren Kitt, clarinet; David Gray, French horn; Serge
Luca, violin; Vladimir Sokoloff, piano.
February 21. Works by Sammartini, Brahms, and Shostokovitch; William
Stokking, Jr., Cello, and Vladimir Sokoloff, piano.
March 27. Works by Spohr, Debussy, and Villa-Lobos; Judith Blegen, soprano, assisted by Loren Kitt, clarinet; Vladimir Sokoloff, piano; a cello ensemble composed of students of The Curtis Institute of Music. A Requiem by
Popper for three cellos and piano was played in memory of the late President John F. Kennedy directly following the intermission.
November 27. Works by A. Scarlatti, Schumann, and Bloch; Joseph di
Pasquale, viola; Vladimir Sokoloff, piano.
December 11. Works by Mozart, Beethoven, and Brahms; Radnor Chamber
Group, Agi Jambor, piano; Carol Stein, violin; Marcia Fullard, viola; Deborah Reeder, cello.
GALLERY TALKS (sponsored by the Fellowship of the Academy).
January 23. Dorothy Grafly, critic, editor and publisher of Art in Focus.
January 30. Harry Rosin, sculptor, teacher.
February 6; Raphael Sabatini, painter, sculptor, teacher.
February 13. Hobson Pittman, painter, teacher.
February 20. Benton Spruance, painter, teacher.
February 27. Morris Blackburn, painter, teacher, printmaker.
TOTAL ATTENDANCE 1964: 66,731. (Academy attendance 49,487; Peale
House for October, November and December, 17,244.)
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ACQUISITIONS
By Pu rc has e
Through the Lambert Fund:
Letter and His Ecol by Stuart Davis (oil)
Composition by Jimmy Lueders (oil)
Through the Gilpin Fund:
Interior With Doorway by Richard Diebenkorn
Through the Temple Fund:
Wash Line by Bruno Lucchesi (bronze)
Hero and Leander by Dan Miller (wood composition)
By
G i ft
From the Ford Foundation (purchased from the 159th Annual Exhibition):
Prometheus by Wolfgang Behl (wood sculpture)
Braided Hair by Dorothea Greenbaum (bronze)
Pick Up Ten by Patrick Kelly (iron assembly)
Woman With Red by Elizabeth Osborne (oil)
Tour by James McGarrell (oil)
Bikini by Milton Hebald (bronze)
From Mrs. Mary Venelia McNab:
Lovescape by Nora Jaffe (oil)
From Mrs. Herbert Morris:
Orpheus in the Studio by Julian Levi (oil)
From friends of the artist:
Enchanted Forest by Abraham Hankins (oil)
From Mrs. North Winship:
James McManes by Charles Grafly (bronze portrait head)
Bequeathed by Miss Eleanor C. A. Jackson:
The Reverend James B. Abercrombie by Thomas Sully
From Mr. Sol Brody (conditioned by life interest):
The Owl of Caceres by Leon Kelly (conti drawing)
From Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hallowell (conditioned by life interest):
Self-Portrait by Benjamin West.
CONSERVATION OF WORKS FROM
THE PERMANENT COLLECTION
Five paintings received attention during the year from Theodor Siegel, the
Academy's conservator and technical adviser: Git Ie Coeur by Adja Yunkers,
Portrait of Mary McKean Hoffman, by Thomas Sully, Portrait of the Rev.
James B. Abercrombie by Thomas Sully, and Landscapes No. 1 and No.2 by
Joshua Shaw.
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LOANS
Title
Artist
Institution
Bust of Joel Barlow
Jean Antoine Houdon
Tyrol Series No.7
John Marin
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Desert I
Gabor Peterdi
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C.
End of the Day
Charles Burchfield
New School Art Center,
New York City
Worcester (Mass.) Art Museum
Buchenwald Cart
Rico LeBrun
John Brown Going to his
Hanging
Horace Pippin
Portrait of Asher Marx
(Miniature)
Edward Greene Malbone
Carolina Art Association, Charleston, S. C.
Trapper's Trail
Arthur Meltzer
To artist-for Newman Galleries
exhibition, Philadelphia
Letter and His Ecol
Stuart Davis
Downtown Gallery, N. Y. C. for
exhibition, University Art Gallery, Lincoln, Nebr.
Penn's Treaty With the
Indians
Benjamin West
City Art Museum of St. Louis, Mo.
Major Thomas Biddle
Thomas Sully
University Hospital Antiques Show,
Philadelphia
Militia Training
James G. Clonney
Bowdoin College Museum of Art,
Brunswick, Maine
Ariadne Asleep on the
Island of Naxos
John Vanderlyn
Smith College Museum
Southampton, Mass.
of
Art,
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, O.
Palace of the Legion of Honor,
San Francisco, Calif.
Frances Anne Kemble
Thomas Sully
Portrait of Mr. and Mrs.
Field
John S. Sargent
Orpheus in the Studio
Julien Levi
Whiplash
Will Barnet
John Brown Going to his
Hanging
Horace Pippin
Hecksher
N. Y.
Museum,
Huntington,
Colorado Springs [Colorado] Fine
Arts
Boymans Museum, Rotterdam, Hoiland
Interior With Doorway
Richard Diebenkorn
Staempfli Gallery, New York City
East Wind Over Weehawken
Edward Hopper
Whitney Museum of American Art,
New York City
Lady With a White Shawl
William M. Chase
Art Gallery, University of California, Santa Barbara, Calif.
Pine Trees
Byron Thomas
Hopkins Center Art Galleries,
Dartmouth College, Hanover,
N. H.
Apartment Houses
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LOANS (Cont. )
Title
Artist
Institution
Cadence
Arlie Sinaiko
To Artist-for one-man show at
Bodley Galleries, New York City
Port Ben, Delaware and
Hudson Canal
Theodore Robinson
Art Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis.
The Turkish Page
Frank Duveneck
University
Ariz.
Resurgent Harmony
Vidor Riu
Allentown Art Museum, Allentown,
Po.
Young America
Andrew Wyeth
~e
Provident National Bank, Philadelphia
Alexandre Cabanel
Memorial Art Gallery, University
of Rochester, Rochester, N. Y.
Byron Thomas
Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, Mo.
Architectural Study
George Gordon Russell
Fidelity-Philadelphia Trust Co.
Rhapsody in Steel
Francis Criss
Birth 'of Venus
. Pine Trees
Corn, Wind and Snow
Paul Froelich
Apple Blossom Time
George Inness
Seven Pears
Arthur DeCosta
Farm Patterns
Margaret Gest
Cafe Tables, Haiti
Stephen Etnier
The Spinster
Hobson Pittman
Across the Bosphorus
Lamar Dodd
Trees
Morris Kantor
Turkey Knob Farm
Jessie Drew-Bear
Skating in the Park
Louis Bosa
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Art
Gallery,
Tucson,
SCHOOLS
The year of 1964 was one of solid growth for the Schools of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. The additional space provided by Peale
House made possible an increase in enrollment which brought with it an
expanding class program and greater activity.
The second semester of the 1963-1964 school year opened on January 6,
with 255 day and 95 evening school students enrolled. The quarters at Peale
House, in use as of this date, included the lobby, student lounge, and cafeteria on the main floor, and studios for preliminary students on the second
and third floors. Twenty girls were in residence on the fifth floor under the "
supervision of Mrs. Mabe"1 Cook, and with the beginning of the fall term the
number had increased to approximately 40, and both the 5th and 6th floor~
were occupied.
At the Cresson Day Exercises on May 6, Mr. Carl Zig rosser was guest speaker.
Fifteen European Traveling Scholarships (ten Cresson, four Schiedt, and one
Ware) were awarded, and a number of minor prizes.
The Summer School was conducted from J une 15 to July 24 with 97 students
enrolled. Courses included Portrait, Life, and Landscape drawing and
painting.
Registration for the Fall Semester was held on September 8 and 9, and 297
day and 134 evening students enrolled. Classes started on September 10.
An assembly was held shortly after the opening to award the engraved
certificates to the returned traveling scholarship winners, and some of their
photographs and paintings done in Europe were displayed.
During the year a number of trips were arranged for the students, including
a visit to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Rodolphe deSchauensee; the Van Gogh
show in New York; a trip to Cape May with Mr. Blackburn in the spring and
in the fall with Mr. Blackburn and Mr. McCoy; a visit to the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Lessing Rosenwald; and the Women's Committee arranged a trip
to the New York World's Fair.
Many interesting programs were arranged and parties given for the students:
Walter Gill gave an illustrated lecture on "Art in Nature"; Russell Woody
lectured on painting materials; and a number of students visited the Pennsylvania Ballet Company to sketch the dancers. An exhibition of work by
Academy students was held at the Woodmere Galleries, opening on March
3; Mr. Franklin Watkins gave a party, with supper served in the galleries of
the Academy on March 17; Mr. and Mrs. Merriam entertained at a party in
their home in Wynnewood, May 3; a party for the winners in the Cresson
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competition was given by the Committee on Instruction, May 8; and the
traditional Hallowe'en party on October 30.
In addition to the traveling scholarships (listed elsewhere in this report) the
Academy awarded thirteen full, and thirty half, paid-tuition scholarships
during the spring term; and eleven full and twenty-five half, during the fall
term, from funds designated for this purpose-a total of $12,875.00. From
City Council appropriation, twenty-one full-paid tuition scholarships were
given for the school year, totaling $5,250.00. The Board of Education also
gave to students in the Academy schools twenty-one part scholarships of
$200.00 each. In the fall of 1964, six full and nineteen half, paid-tuition
scholarships, a total of $3,875.00, were given for the first time from funds
made available by the Ford Foundation.
M. WISTER WOOD
Administrator of the Schools
PUBLIC RELATIONS
Concerts. This fine series has closed its fifteenth consecutive year with fourteen seasons under the outstanding musical direction of Dr. Vladimir Sokoloff.
As the personnel and programs are listed elsewhere, we only shall mention
here the importance of these events as they have been correlated with the
exhibition program, and thank Dr. Sokoloff and those fine musicians who
have collaborated with him for their distinguished contribution to the Academy. We also express our appreciation to the following for their financial
assistance: the Recording Industries' Trust Funds, and especially their National Trustee, Mr. Samuel R. Rosenbaum, without whose interest it is doubtful that we should ever have been able to launch the project fifteen years
ago; to the Fredric R. Mann Foundation; the Women's Committee of the
Academy; and two generous friends. We thank N. Stetson and Company for
their continued loan of a Steinway Piano for each event. This year's series
had an attendance of approximately 2,000 persons.
Other Activities. As reported elsewhere, the attendance in the galleries made
a marked step forward. Not a little of this may be attributed to group visits,
and these largely from public, private, and parochial schools in the greater
Philadelphia area, although many others came from more distant points.
Among outside organizations holding events in the galleries were: the
Society of Architectural Historians' luncheon; an afternoon party featuring
the piano music of Chopin, followed by refreshments, and sponsored by the
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"In and About Philadelphia Music Teachers' Club" for delegates to the
Music Educators' National Conference; the Philadelphia Chapter, American
Institute of Architects' dinner; the Da Vinci Art Alliance dinner honoring Mr.
Jack Bookbinder; and the Junior League's dinner dance.
Resume: I came to the Academy on February 1, 1947 to take on the newlycreated post of Director of Public Relations. In September 1961, following
my request to be released from some of my duties, '! became part-time Director of Membership and Special Events. As it is now my intention to retire
completely the end of May, 1965, this will be my last report to the membership. Perhaps it is in order that I give a brief account of some of the
more important tasks performed over the years.
Almost immediately after coming, I suggested we change our membership
rates from the then $10 Annual and $100 Life to the three yearly rates now
current; that we increase Life Memberships to $300; and that we establish
higher-form categories ($1,000 and up) with those members elected in
perpetuity. In this the Board of Directors concurred. At that time we had a
membership of something over 700. As of December 1, 1964, it had grown
to almost 2,000. However, within that period we had enrolled 3,450 new
members, but like every other institution, unfortunately, we do lose them
through death, resignation or delinquency. In new dues all of this has
represented some $81,373 including $7,400 from a special solicitation of the
$100 Life Members for the 150th Anniversary Fund in 1955.
While my initial responsibilities had been publicity and increasing the membership, as an institution's program becomes more active, the duties of its
staff members also grow. About two years after coming, I was able to
launch the series of free chamber music concerts, first having to find the
means of financing them outside the Academy budget. This independent
financing has. been continued during all the years that this worthwhile fea ture of our program has been carried on. And what is more, we were
among the first of the city's cultural institutions to supplement their regular
activities with free concerts. The attendance of music and art lovers during
these years has amounted to approximately 29,000.
Beginning in April 1947 and continuing for twelve years, I acted as secretary for the meetings of the Board of Directors.
Another early suggestion had been the printing of the Academy's Annual
Report for circulation to all members. The first one was issued in 1949 and
for several years thereafter the Reports were edited in this office.
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In 1950 the Women's Committee was organized and I have had the pleasure
of acting as liaison between it and the Academy, and of being its recording
secretary during these years.
Another phase of department activity has been the encouragement of outside organizations to hold their special events in our galleries. Many worthy
occasions have resulted.
In reflecting upon some of the projects accomplished, my thoughts naturally
turn to those which could never become realities due either to lack of time
or money or both. Since but a few months remain before I pass on to others
duties not turned over in 1962, this will be my last opportunity to express
my deep appreciation to all who have helped me along the way, and to
wish them and the Academy every success in the future.
ELIZABETH Z. SWENSON
PUBLICITY
In the spring of 1964, the contract with the Beacon Agency to do publicity
for the Academy, School, and Peale House was terminated, and a full-time
Development Director was appointed to the Academy staff to work with the
Progress Fund Committee, and to serve as Publicity Director.
The first duties of the Director were to publicize the Cresson Day Exercises
and awards activities in early May, the Summer School, and the summer
exhibition schedule. Planning was begun with various media to obtain publicity for the opening of Peale House in the early fall, and the exhibitions
set for this new undertaking. Art and other publications were informed of
the exhibition schedule at the Academy, also.
During the summer months, the Director was in constant touch with publicity
media-city, art, society, feature editors, and all local radio, TV, and magazine news editors. Many out-of-town contacts were also made, either by
personal visits, letters or news releases, and a series of fillers were written
which were widely used nationally. Direct contact was also made with the
various press associations (AP, UPI, NEA, NANA), here and in New York.
National magazines, such as Time, Newsweek, Life, etc., and the local
weekly and foreign language papers were kept aware of Academy events
through releases and personal contacts.
Excellent cooperation has been received from the local and out-of-town
radio and TV stations and we have been getting public service announcements from both sources. -Monthly radio spots listed our exhibitions and live
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interviews were given. Film was taken of our exhibitions and used on TV
news shows, and slides also were sent to them. Based on reports received
from one TV station, if we were to be billed for the free announcements
they have given us during a three-month period, they would total $5,500.00.
Taking this into consideration, and what we have received from all other
sources on the air, our billings in free time would amount to more than
$25,000.00 during this period.
It is almost impossible to measure the full impact of publicity; our news releases are used widely and in many ways. The efforts can be measured to a
certain extent by the number of people who attend our exhibitions. Continuing publicity for this institution can be obtained by giving the fullest
cooperation to the editors of various media-and this we pledge. The
cooperation of the Academy staff, Directors, and the Women's Committee
has been very much appreciated.
GEORGE L. CARROLL
Development Director
WOMEN ' S COMMITTEE
The year 1964 proved to be one of much trial and error and experimentation with active participation in the newly-formed Peale Club and the various
activities in the Peale House Galleries.
The Members' Subscription Dinner held on January 15th, before the Private
View of the 159th Annual Exhibition of Oil Painting and Sculpture, was attended by 334, far exceeding our sitting capacity.
On May 11th, under the expert planning of Mrs. Albert M. Greenfield, Jr.,
students were sent by bus to the World's Fair.
At the annual meeting in May, Mrs. Bartol, chairman and Mrs. Grossman,
treasurer, went out of office. They were given a tremendous vote of thanks
for their splendid work during 1961-64. The following new officers were
elected:
Mrs. Hudson, one year interim chairman
Mrs. Reath, chairman for the two following years
Mrs. Kloman, vice-chairman for three years
Mrs. Townsend, treasurer and corresponding secretary for two years
It was agreed that both chairman and vice-chairman would attend the meetings of the Committee on Instruction and the Board of Directors.
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Mrs. Miller and Mrs. Randolph were appointed by the Board of Directors to
serve for the next two years on the Academy's Committee on Exhibitions at
the Peale House.
Three new members were elected to the Women's Committee: Mrs. Howard
H. Lewis, Mrs. Edward B. Leisenring and Mrs. Arthur M. Young. The resignation of Mrs. Lawrance A. Brown, Jr., was accepted with regret.
Mrs. Reath, Mrs. Kloman and Mrs. Greenfield were appointed to represent
the Women's Committee on the Executive Commitee for the Progress Fund
Drive.
Under the able chairmanship of Mrs. Kaufmann, hostesses were provided for
all Teas before the opening of exhibitions in the Peale House galleries and
for other events at the Academy and the Peale Club during the year.
Plans for planting the garden at the Peale Club are being worked on by
Mrs. Zantzinger and her committee.
A contribution of $350 was made toward the expenses of the chamber music
concerts held at the Academy.
A television was donated by Mrs. Young for use of the students living at
Peale House. This was greatly appreciated by all and a warm letter of
thanks sent to Mrs. Young by the students.
Through the year our Committee has worked toward increasing the returns
to the Progress Fund and enrolling members in the Academy who would, by
subscribing $100 or more annually, be eligible for use of Peale Club.
Again, we would like to extend our grateful thanks and deep appreciation
for the "over and beyond" assistance given to our Committee by Miss
Swenson.
MARY MASON HUDSON
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THE COMMITTEE ON FELLOWSHIP
Mabel W . Gill, Chairman-Treasurer
Mary Mullineux
Irene Denney
Ethel Ashton
Roy C. Nuse
Roswell Weidner
The function of the Committee is to administer the following funds: Henry J.
Thouron Memorial Fund, Picture Purchase Fund, Special Fund, and the Mary
Butler Memorial Fund for the benefit of Fellowship members, either present
or former students and also the William Clothier Watts Fund, a welcome
gift of $2,000 for aid to students. The Butler Fund, with a goal of $15,000,
now amounts to approximtltely $12,000.
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 to improve the Loan Collection from which works are currently on exhibition in various institutionsi (2) to provide classes usually in settlement houses
to give study opporunities for the youth of those neighborhoods, as well
as teaching experience and income for present and/or former Academy
studentsi and (3) giving a type of financial assistance, not permissible from
the regular Fellowship treasury, to current and former Academy students,
art workers, and Fellowship members.
THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE P.A.F.A.
The main purpose of the Fellowship, which was organized in 1897, is to
foster a spirit of fraternity among former and present Academy students.
OFFICERS
Roswell Weidner
Roy C. Nuse
.
President
First Vice President
Mabel Woodrow Gill
· Vice President
Mary Townsend Mason (deceased June 1964)
· Vice President
Francis Speight
· Vice President
Franklin C. Watkins
· Vice President
Paul Wescott
· Vice President
•
Ethel V. Ashton .
Elizabeth Eichman .
Irene Denney •
Recording Secretary
Corresponding Secretary
Treasurer
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MEMBERSHIP
CLASSES
ANNUAL
Individual ...... . . . .................... . ...... . .... $
Sustaining
Professional
Contributing
10.00
25.00
25.00 } With Peale Club
100.00
privileges
LIFE
Fellow ............. .. . .. ...................... . ... $1 ,000.00 to 5 ,000
Pat ron .... . . . ... . . .. .. . .. . .. . .. . .. .... .... . ...... 5 ,000.00 to 25,000
Benefactor . .. .. ... . ......... . .. ... .. . .. . .. . . . . . . . . 2 5,000.00 or more
A membership in the Academy helps to support the oldest art institution in t he country. Founded
in 1805, its origin dates from the initial efforts begun in 1791 by Charles Willson Peale to organize a school for t he fine arts in Philadelphia.
The Academy school has trained many distinguished American painters, sculptors, and illustrators" and its students of today rank with the best.
In its galleries are shown two of America's major annual art exhibitions: Paintings and Sculpture,
and Water Colors and Prints; other special exhibitions; and the Academy's permanent collections, representing a cross-section of American art from the early eighteenth century through its
current acquisitions ..
Peale House, the Academy annex at 1811 Chestnut Street, serves as housing and additional
studio space for students, and contains two splendid public galleries for special exhibitions.
Peale Club, located ,at 1819 Chestnut Street, offers singular privileges to Contributing and
Professional members, and those in higher classes, by providing the ultimate in attractive surroundings for luncheon and dinner in the spacious dining rooms, with adjoining bar, and in the
lovely outdoor garden and terrace.
All members receive notices of Academy activities (concerts, lectures, motion pictures), invitations
to private shows at both the Academy and Peale House, catalogues of exhibitions and schools,
the Annual Report, and the privilege of using the art reference library. In addition, members
receive a 5% discount on all works of art purchased at an Academy exhibition, except at a
student show.
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 o·f said Academy.
The Academy is open weekdays (except Mondays) from 10 A.M. to 5 P.M., Sundays and some
Holidays from 1 to 5 P.M. Closed Mondays, New Year's Day, Good Friday, Memorial Day,
Fourth of July, Thanksgiving and Christmas.