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PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF TIlE FINE ARTS.
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COMMITTEE OF INSTRUCTION,
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PHILADELPHIA:
COLLINS, PRINTER, 705 JAYNE STREET.
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OFFICERS OF TIlE ACADEMY.
CIRCULAR
llRESIDENT.
JAMES L. CLAGlIORN.
OF TIlE
COMMITTEE OF INSTRUCTION.
DIRECTORS.
GEO. S. PEPPER,
JOSEPH WILLIAM BATES,
HENRY C. GIBSO:-l,
WILLIAM S. BAKER,
FAIRMA:-I ROGERS,
EDWARD H. COATES,
W)l. B. BEMENT,
F. ODEN IIORSD!ANN,
CLARENCE H. CLARK,
ATHERTON BLIGHT,
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ADMISSION OF STUDENTS.
JAMES S. MARTIN.
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TREASURER.
EDWARD H. COATES.
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(1) Any person of gOOD character, of either sex, gIVing
satisfactory evidence of ability to profit by the course
of study laid down in these rules, will be admitted, on
application made in compliance with the following
directions .
SECRETARY.
(2) Times of Admission.-The committee will act npon
applications for admission on the fi rst and third
Wednesdays in every month, excepting June, July,
and August.
GEORGE CORLISS.
LIBRARIAN .
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H. C. WHIPPLE.
COMMITTEE OF INSTRUCTIO:-l.
FAIRMAN ROGERS,
JOSEPH WILLIAM BATES,
F. ODEN HORSTMANN.
Professor of Drawing and Painting
CHRISTIAN SCHUS!:)EI.E.
Assistant Professor of Painting and
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Chief Demonstrator of Anatomy
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Professor of Arlislic Anatomy
(3) Conditions of Admission. -Each applicant must give
satisfactory reference, must state that he or she has read
these rules and will abide by them, and must submit a
specimen of his or her work, signed with full name
and address. Th ese details may be arranged at any
conve nient time before the examination day, at the
office of the Academy, where blank forms of application may be obtained.
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THOMAS EAKINS
W. W. KEEN, M.D.
The work submitted must represent the whole or part of
th e human fi gure, and mllst be made from the solid
object.
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(5) The entire figure mllst be represented when admission to
Students of the antique as well as life class students
are entitled to attend the lectures on art anatomy in
the lecture room, and any other lectures that may be
provided for the school, unless specially prohibited.
They may also use the modeling room when not occupied for the regular sessions of the life class.
a life class is sought.
(6) Exceptions may be made to these conditions when, in the
opinion of the Committee of Instruction, they are justified by peculiar circumstances.
Every person admitted to study in the Acade my will be
furnished with a ticket, which must be shown to the
doorkeeper when required.
(8) Professional artists, on application to the Committee (with
reference when not known to any of the members)
may, without the above tests, receive tickets admitting
them to any of the classes. Those who have contributed of their own works to an y Annual Exhibition of
the Academy may receive their tickets on application
to the Secretary.
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(10) The School Year begins the second Monday in September, and ends on the 30th day of June.
( II) The study from casts by daylight is carried on during
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CLASSIFICATION OF S1'UDENTS .
(9) At the time of his admission each student shall be assigned
to one of the following classes:
First Antique Class.
Second Antique Class.
Life Class.
Members of the first class shall draw only from casts
of portions of the human figure; those of the second,
from casts of the whole figure; those of the tllird, from
the living model.
The proper period for commencing the use of colors
should be determined in each particular case by the
ad vice of the teacher.
Life class students only will be admitted to the dissecting room and to the modeling room at the hours
assigned for modeling from the Ii ving figure.
PROGRAMME OF STUDIES .
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the whole of the school year.
The same study by gaslight begins Oct. I and ends
May 3I.
The study of the living model begins the first Monday in October and ends the last Saturday in May.
The study of art anatomy begins about the first of
November and ends about the 31st of March.
(12) Vacations and' Holidays.-The school will be closed
during the months of July and August, aud on Sundays, Thanksgiving day, Christmas and New Year's
days, and Washington's Birthday, on which days students will not be admitted to any portion of the school
department.
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(14) Th e Academy furnishes teachers, models, and conveniently-arranged class·rooms, free to all students.
Those in regular attendance are also provided with
boxes, drawing-boards, and modeling stands.
Each student, on taking out his ticket for the year,
will be required to deposit five dollars ($5.00), half
of which will be paid back to him at the end of the
school year, when he gives up his keys and returns
the property of the Academy which he has been using.
The remainder of the deposit will be retained to pay
for the wear and tear of school property. The amount
of the deposit will be the same at whatever time the
student may enter the school.
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PRIVILEGES AND DUTIES OF STUDENTS.
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b efore the last day in each school year every student
must remove all his personal property from the Academy, and give up the keys which he has received from
the Academy.
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([5) Requirements at Close of a School Year.-On or
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(16) At the Opening of a New School Year, all persons
holding old students' tickets desiring to continue their
studies at the Academy, must exchange them for new
ones.
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(17) Examinations.-When a student desires to ad vance to
a higher class, he must submit a specimen of his work
in the class to which he belongs to the Committee of
Instruction. This drawing must be signed with the
full name and class of the examinee.
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(IX) Attendance.-Each student shall register his (or her)
attendance on a sheet provided by the Academy.
These sheets will be collected daily and preserved for
reference. The ticket of any student whose attenclance
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not satis factory is liable to be withdrawn. This does
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not apply to profess iOll al artists, however, wh~ se bus~
ness ell"a"ements must necessarily interfere wIth theIr
use of ~h: facilities for practice which are cordially
offered them by the Academy.
REGULATIONS FOR THE LIFE· CLASS ROOMS.
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(19) Posing the ModeL-Each new pose shall be determined
by a committee of five of the class, taken in regular
order from the alphabetical roll.
The committee for the first pose shall consist of the
first five on the roll who are present at the selection of
thal pose j for the second pose the next five; ann so
on to the end of the roll.
Any member of the class not present when by the
above regulations he would be placed upon the committee, will forfeit his turn.
The decision o f the committee as to the pose shall
be final.
(20) Each pose shall consist of six sittings, unless the teacher
should order otherwise, which he is heI'eby authorized
to do, in case he should consider it advantageous to
the class.
REGULATIOl\S FOR THE DISSECTING ROOM.
(23) The Chief De~10nstrator of Anatomy shall have charge of
the Dlssectlllg Room, and see that it is kept neat and
clean, all debris being removed daily. He shall superwtend, under the direction of the Professor of Anatomy, the dissecting, casting, and drawing.
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(24) The Assistant Demonstrato rs shall make all the dissections; and shall make daily demonstrations for the life
class students, who shall be admitted to the Dissecting
Room after finishing thei r regular work in the Painting
ROOI~l, and who may then, if they desire, make drawings of the dissections.
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(25) The period for dissection shall be includee! between the
middle of November and the middle of the followin '"
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April j and no dissection shall be made in the Academy except those authorized by the Professor of
Anatomy .
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( 26) NOTE.-The work in the dissecting room involves much
practical study of comparative anatomy, and is therefore of direct use to anim al painters as well as painters
of the human figure.
LECTURES ON ARTISTIC ANATOMY.
REGULATIONS FOR ANTIQUE ROOMS.
(21 ) No cast shall be moved except by order of the teacher,
who shall decide how long it may remain away from
its place.
( 22) Students will be held responsible for breakage of casts
resulting from their own carelessness.
(27) Prof. W. W. Keen will begin his next course of lectures
on Artistic Anatomy, free to all Academy students, on
Saturday evening, Nov. I , 1879.
The course will consist of about thirty·live lectures,
to be given on Wednesday ane! Saturday evenings, at
half past seven o'clock. The lectures will be illus trated by diagrams, casts, anatomical models and preparations, skeletons of man and the lower animals,
dissections, and the living mod el.
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The following subjects will be treated, although not
necessarily in precisely the following order or number
of lectures:The introductory lecture will treat of the relations
and importance of anatomy to art, and of the proper
methods of its study.
Ten lectures will be given to the study of the bones
and joints of the human skeleton ancl the comparative
anatomy of the skeleton.
Fourteen lectures to the muscles, especially to those
which directly influence external form. Two of these
will be devoted to the muscles of the face and the
anatomy of expression, both in man and the lower
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animals.
Four lectures to the eye, nose, mouth, chin, and ear.
Two lectures to the skin, with its various wrinkles
(especially those of the face), and the subcutaneous
layer of fat and the blood vessels in the superficial fascia.
One lecture to the hair and beard, and postural
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expressIOn.
One lecture to proportions.
GENERAL STATEMENT OF OBLIGATIONS.
(30) Every person admitted to study in the Academy is held
bound by all the foregoing regulations; and is also
expected to be orderly and proper in conduct.
SPECIAL NOTICE TO APPLICANTS.
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(31) The Academy does not uncJertake to furnish detail ecl
instruction, but rather facilities for study, supplemented
by the occasional criticism of the teachers; and the
classes are intended especially for those who expect
to be professional artists.
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COPYING IN THE GALLERIES.
(28) Any student well advanced in paintinK who desires to
. make a study copy of a picture belonging to the Academy, may receive from the President permission to
do so, on presenting a written application approved by
the Committee of Instruction, and specifying the picture to be copied.
VISITING THE GALLERIES.
(29) A student's ticket entitles the holder to visit the galleries;
but it is expected that this privilege will not be made
use of at times which should be devoted to 1V0rk in
the school rooms.
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