Item sets

• John Rhoden papers
  The John Rhoden papers consists of materials from Rhoden’s personal and professional life, including manuscripts, photographs, photo negatives and slides, and ephemera related to his exhibitions. A majority of the collection has been digitized. Please review the Finding Aid to get a better sense of the scope of the collection.
• Annual Exhibition photographs
  Photographs in this collection include study photographs of exhibited works of art submitted to PAFA or created by PAFA for research and documentation purposes. Collection also includes installation photography of Annual Exhibitions. Not all art works exhibited during PAFA's Annual Exhibition were documented using photography. Art works found in this digital collection simply indicates the art works that were photographed during PAFA's Annual Exhibition. As a result, if your search yields zero results, that does not necessarily mean the artist did not exhibit at PAFA. It just means we do not have photographic evidence in our collection.
• Annual Water Color and Miniature Exhibition photographs
  In 1904 watercolors, prints, and drawings were segregated into a separate annual exhibition, which also featured the annual display of the Pennsylvania Society of Miniature Painters. Thus, from 1904 to 1953, the Academy mounted two annual exhibitions. In 1954 the Academy held only the 149th Annual Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture; in 1955 only the special-format 150th Anniversary Exhibition took place; and in 1956 only the 151st Annual Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture was held. From 1957 to 1969 the annual exhibition of painting and sculpture alternated with the annual exhibition of watercolors, prints, and drawings. The exhibitions devoted to painting and sculpture occurred in 1958, 1960, 1962, 1964, 1966, and 1968.
• Annual Water Color and Miniature Exhibition records
  In 1904 watercolors, prints, and drawings were segregated into a separate annual exhibition, which also featured the annual display of the Pennsylvania Society of Miniature Painters. Thus, from 1904 to 1953, the Academy mounted two annual exhibitions. In 1954 the Academy held only the 149th Annual Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture; in 1955 only the special-format 150th Anniversary Exhibition took place; and in 1956 only the 151st Annual Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture was held. From 1957 to 1969 the annual exhibition of painting and sculpture alternated with the annual exhibition of watercolors, prints, and drawings. The exhibitions devoted to painting and sculpture occurred in 1958, 1960, 1962, 1964, 1966, and 1968.
• Annual Reports for the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
  PAFA's annual reports are comprehensive reports on the institution's activities throughout the preceding year. Annual reports are intended to give shareholders and other interested people information about the activities of the school and museum as well as PAFA's overall financial performance.
• Morris Gallery photographs
  The Morris Gallery (named for Harrison S. Morris, the turn-of-the-century secretary/managing director) was created in 1978 as a venue for small exhibitions of Philadelphia-connected contemporary artists. Its location is a gallery (formerly a school studio) on the ground floor of the Furness-Hewitt building. After a series of part-time curators, the Academy hired a full-time head for the Morris Gallery program and for other contemporary exhibitions. Judith E. Stein held this position from 1983 until 1994. She was advised by the Morris Gallery Committee, consisting of board members, local artists, and Academy staff. In 1994 the gallery space was converted to a video and orientation theater, and Morris Gallery exhibitions were held in the main galleries for two years. The program resumed its exhibitions in the ground floor location in 1998. Subsequent Morris Gallery or Contemporary Art curators have widened the scope of this program and the Morris Gallery Committee has been discontinued.
• Peale House Gallery photographs (beta release)
  Peale House exhibitions took place in the Academy’s school buildings on Chestnut Street. These exhibitions are generally documented only by an invitation and a checklist. Photography of artworks and of the installations for this series is extensive. From 1964 to early March 1978, the series was run by the museum.
• School Class photograph collection
  Photographs taken at PAFA classes while school is in session. Many photographs feature students in the studios with faculty and models. Photographs are in various formats.
• Daniel Muller photographs
  The Daniel Müller Papers consist of a collection of 48 photographs of Müller’s sculptures, models posing, and of Müller himself. The photographs are distributed as follows: 28 sculptures of nudes (one of Müller’s 1912 Stewardson Prize winner); 5 busts; 5 fountains (including the Mermaid Fountain in plaster); 7 female models posing; 1 painting of a female nude; 1 of Daniel Müller standing with the Mermaid Fountain, and one of an unidentified man painting. For two images there are glass negatives.
• PAFA School Catalogs (reference copies)
  Photocopies of select school catalogs. School catalogs provide details about programs, faculty, courses, scholarships, schedules, and organizational structure of the school.
• Special Exhibition photographs
• Cresson Awards photograph collection (beta release)
  Photographs of Cresson Award winners. Typically includes artwork, students, and group shots. Please note that the Archives has adopted a new strategy for providing access to our rich archival resources. Digitized records get published by default and descriptive information will be added or corrected as we go.
• Annual Student Exhibition and Graduation photographs
  Collection of photographs documenting the school's academic year end events: Annual Student Exhibition which includes students installing their works, Preview Party, public opening, prize ceremonies, and luncheon; graduation and commencement ceremony; alumni reunion party.
• Alumni Gallery photographs
  Collection of photographs documenting exhibition opening receptions at PAFA's Alumni Gallery. All exhibitions documented were organized and managed by Patricia Ingersoll.
• Edmund Stewardson Prize in Sculpture photographs
  The Edmund Stewardson Prize in Sculpture, in the amount of $500, is awarded during the school year. This is an annual prize, competed for by students of the Academy with pupils of other art schools. The subject for the competition is a full-length figure from life, in the round. A student receiving one Stewardson Award is ineligible to compete a second time. The Juror is a professional sculptors who has no official connection with the Academy nor with any other schools whose pupils may have taken part in the competition. The clay models offered in competition must be kept standing, in good condition, until otherwise ordered, and figures cast by the Academy become its property. (Awarded in early Spring semester.)
• Student Prizes photograph collection
  Fairly complete run of photographs documenting various student competition prizes and awards.
• Fellowship of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts photograph collection (beta release)
  Photographs from FPAFA’s events. Please note that the Archives has adopted a new strategy for providing access to our rich archival resources. Digitized records get published by default and descriptive information will be added or corrected as we go.
• Rare Books and Special Collections
  The unique materials of the Rare Book and Special Collections are primarily large volumes, folios, and catalogs donated to PAFA since its founding in 1805. Catalog information is attached to facilitate discovery. There is no digital access to items in this collection. Users must request physical access to use collection, archives@pafa.org.
• James Claghorn photographs
  Suite of five mounted photographs, by R. Newell and Son, of the interior of Claghorn's home on West Logan Square, showing his collection as it was displayed.
• Miscellaneous Photographs collection of cartes-de-visite
  Group of 34 cartes-de-visite of European artists that have been found in or given to the Academy archives, but which are not related to the history of the Academy. The grouping was originally part of a bound album but most likely fell apart due to age.