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PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS.
CIRCULAR
OF THE
COMMITTEE ON INSTRUCTION,
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PHILADELPHIA:
COLLINS, PRINTER, 705 JAYNE STREET.
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DIRECTIONS FOR FrLLING UP APPLICATION.
If the applicant desires admission into a certain class, and no other, the name
of that class should be written in the first blank space (after the date). Otherwise,
this blank should be left unfilled.
The remaining blanks should be filled as indicated by the leading words.
After the words" Work submitted," write a brief title or description of the
drawing or painting sent in with the application.
The recommendation may be signed by one or more persons, each giVing
address.
When admission to the Life Class is desired by a minor, the recommendation
must be signed by a parent or guardian of the applicant.
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To THE COMMITTEE OF
INSTR UCTION
PENNA_ ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS .
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I respectfully ask to he admitted to the Academy as a student in the
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REFERENCE.
I am personally acquainted with the writer , of the .above application, . and
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recommend h _______________ .to the favorable consideration of the Committee.
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OFFICERS OF THE ACADEMY.
CIRCULAR
PRESIDENT.
OF THE
JAMES L. CLAGIIORN.
COMMITTEE ON INSTRUCTION.
DIRECTORS.
JOSEPH WILLIAM BATES,
WILLIAM S. BAKER,
EDWARD H. COATES,
GEO. S. PEPPER,
HENRY C. GIBSON,
FAIRMAN ROGERS,
WM. B. BEMENT,
ATHERTON BLIGHT,
ADMISSION OF STUDENTS.
CLARENCE H. CLARK,
JAMES S. MARTIN,
E. BURGESS WARREN.
(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.
TREASURER.
EDWARD H. COATES.
(2) Times of Admission.- The committee will act upon
applications for admission on the first and third Fridays in every month, excepting June, July, and August.
All applications should be filed the day before the
meeting.
SECRETARY.
GEORGE CORLISS.
LIBRARIAN.
H. C. WHIPPLE.
COMMITTEE ON INSTRUCTION.
FAIRMAN ROGERS,
WILLIAM S. BAKER,
JOSEPH WILLIAM BATES,
EDWARD H. COATES.
}'rofessor of Drawing and Painting
THOMAS EAKINS.
Assistant Professor of Painting
Chief Demonstrator of Anatomy
Professor of Artistic Anatomy
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THOMAS ANSIlUTZ •
W. W.
KEEN,
M.D.
(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. These details may be arranged at any
convenient time before the examination day, at the
office of the Academy, where blank forms of application may be obtained.
(4) The work submitted must represent the whole or part of
the human figure, and must be made' from the solid
object.
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(5) The entire figure must be represented when admission to
a life class is sought.
(6) Exceptions may be made to these conditions when, in .the
opinion of the Committee of InstructlOn, they are JUstified by peculiar circumstances.
Every person admitted to study in the Academy 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 admlttmg
them to an y of the classes.
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Life class students only will be admitted to the dissecting room; and the same restriction applies to the
modeling room at the hours assigned for modeling from
the living figure.
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 l'rohibited.
They may also use the modeling room when not occupied for the regular sessions of the life class.
PROGRAMME OF STUDIES.
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 the
CLASSIFICATION OF STUDENTS.
At the time of his admission each student shall be assigned
to one of the following classes:
First Antique Class.
Second Antique Class.
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LIfe
Class.
Members of theftrs! 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 third, from
the living model.
Admissions to the life classes shall be for a term not
exceeding four years. By invitation of the Committee on
Instruction, this term may be extended. *
The proper period for commencing the use of colors
should be determined in each particular case by the
advice of the teacher.
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This rule applies to all students admitted to the life classes since September 3&, 1879.
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whole of the school year.
The same study by gaslight begins Oct. I and ends
May 31.
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
ovember and ends about the 31St of March.
(12) Vacations and Holidays.-The school will be closed
during the months of July and August, and 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
depart men t.
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PRIVILEGES AND DUTIES OF STUDENTS.
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(14) The Academy furnishes teachers, models, and conve.
niently-arranged class-rooms, free to all students.
Those in regular attendance are also provided with
closets or boxes, drawing-boards, and modeling stands.
Each student, on taking out hi s 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.
(IS) Requirements at Close of a School Year.-On or
before 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.
(r6) 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 advance to
a higher class, he must sub mit 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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(r8) Attendance.-Each student shall register his (or her)
attendance on a sheet provided by the Academy.
These sheets will be collected daily and preseryed for
reference. The ticket of any student whose attendance
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is not satisfactory is liable to be withdrawn. This does
not apply to professional artists, however, whose business engagements must necessarily interfere with their
use of the facilities for practice which are cordially
offered them by the Academy.
REGULATIONS FOR THE DISSECTING ROOM.
(23) The Chief Demonstrator of Anatomy shall have charge of
the Dissecting Room, and see that it is kept neat and
clean, all debris being removed daily. He shall superintend, under the direction of the Professor of Anatomy, the-dissecting, casting, and drawing.
(24) The Assistant Demonstrators shall make all the dissections j and shall make daily demonstrations for the life
class students, who shall be admitted to the Dissecting
Room after finishing their regular work in the Painting
Room, and who may then, if they desire, make drawings of the dissections.
REGULATIONS FOR THE LIFE-CLASS ROOMS.
(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 {i\'e on the roll who are present at the selection of
that pose j for the second pose the next five j and 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 of the committee as to the pose shall
be final.
The period for dissection shall be included between the
middle of November and the middle of the following
April j and no dissections shall be made in the Academy except those authorized by the Professor of
Anatomy.
NOTE.-The work in the dissecting room involves much
practical study of comparative anatomy, and is therefore of direct use to animal painters as well as painters
of the human figure.
(20) Each pose shall consist of six sittings, unless the teacher
should order otherwise, which he is hereby authorized
to do, in case he should consider it advantageous to
the class.
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 breakao-e of casts
resul ting from their own carelessness.
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Prof. W . W. Keen will begin his next course of lectures
on Artistic Anatomy, free 'to all Academy students, in
November.
The course will consist of about thirty-five lectures,
to be given on 'Vednesdayand Saturday .evenings, at
half-past seven o'clock. The lectures will be lllustrated by diagrams, casts, anatomical models and preparations, skeletons of man and the lower al1lmals,
dissections, and the living model.
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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 stpdy of .the bones
and joints of the human skeleton and the comparative
anatomy of the skeleton.
Fourteen lectures 'to the muscles, especially to those
which directl), 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
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 bloodvessels in the superficial fascia.
One lecture to the hair and beard, and postural
expresslOn.
One lecture to proportions.
COPYING IN THE GALLERIES.
GENERAL STATEMENT OF OBLIGATIONS.
(30) Every person admitted to study in the Academy is held
bound by all the foregoing regulation,s; and is also
expected to be orderly and proper in conduct.
SPECIAL NOTICE TO APPLICANTS.
(31) The Academy does not undertake to furnish detailed
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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(28) Any student well advanced in painting 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 on Instruction, and specifying the picture to be copied.
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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 work in the
school-rooms.
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