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@ircuPar
OF THE
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PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS.
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CIRCULAR
OF THE
COMMITTEE ON INSTRUCTION,
PHILADELPHIA:
GLOBE PRINTING HOUSE,
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N. TWELFTH ST.
OFFICERS OF THE ACADEMY.
CIRCULAR
PRESIDENT.
OF THE
JAMES L. CLAGHORN.
COMMITTEE ON INSTRUCTION.
DIRECTORS.
GEO. S. PEPPE R,
HENRY C. GIBSON,
EDWARD H. COATES,
CLARENCE H. CLARK,
JAMES S. MARTIN,
WM. B. BEMENT,
E. BURGESS WARREN,
JOSEPH WILLIAM BATES,
CHARLES HENRY HART,
WILLIAM S. BAKER,
JOSEPH E. TEMPLE.
ATHERTON BLIGHT,
Treasurer
EDWARD H. COATES.
Secretary
GEORGE CORLISS.
Curator of the Schoot and Librarian
H. C. WHIPPLE.
COMM I TTEE ON INSTRUCTION.
EDWARD H. COATES,
WILLIAM S. BAKER,
JOSEPH WILLIAM BATES,
HENRY C. GIBSON,
CHARLES HENRY HART.
D£reclor Of School
THOMAS EAKINS.
Professor of Artistic Anatomy
W. W. KEEN, M.D.
Assista,zt Professor oj Paillti1lg and lJrawil1g
Demons/YalO?' of Anatomy
THOMAS ANSHUTZ.
WM. L. MACLEAN.
Correspondence on matter:; connected with the school should be addressed
to Mr. H. C. 'W HIPPLE, Curator.
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THE object of the School is to afford facilities and instruction of the highest order to those persons-men and women
-who intend making painting or sculpture their profession.
Secondarily: To extend, as far as possible, the same
benefits, as a foundation, to engravers, die sinkers, illustrators, decorators, wood-carvers, sto ne-cutters, lithographers,
photographers, etc., who have always been largely represented in the school. No advantages but those of pure art
education are offered to them, they learning outside, with
masters, in the ' workshop or in technical schools, the mechanical parts of their art or trade.
Lastly: To let amateurs profit by the same facilities.
When the classes are crowded, preference in admission will
be given to applicants in the order above indicated.
The course of study is believed to be more thorough than
that of any other existing school. Its basis is the nude
human figure.
In the anatomical department, the advanced students dissect; and the demonstrators use largely, in the dissecting
room, the nude living model for comparison.
A course of thirty-five anatomical lectures is given, and
also a series of lessons in perspective and composition.
Animals are also dissected from time to time, and a living
horse is used in the modeling room each season for a pose
of six or eight weeks.
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The hours being arranged so as not to interfere with each
other, every student has an opportunity of modeling in clay,
as well as of painting, from the nude. This combination is
an essential feature of the course.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR ADMISSION TO
THE SCHOOL OF THE PENNSYLVANIA
ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS.
CHARGES.
I desire to enter the Antique Class of the Academy. I
have read the rules embodied in th e circular of the Academy,
and agree to abide by them.
For the season of eight months, including all
privileges,
For one month, same privileges, .
For one month, Antique Class, day and night,
For one month, Night Life Class,
For the season of eight months in the Antique
Class, day or night, or in the Night Life
Class,
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Fees are payable in advance. A full season Ticket may
be paid for in six monthly instalments of eight dollars, or
in one payment of $48. A partial seaso n ticket may be
paid for in six instalments of four dollars, or in one pay·
ment of $24.
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ADMISSION OF STUDENTS.
Any person of good character, of eithe r sex, and over
fifteen years of age, giving satisfactory evidence of ability to profit by the course of study laid down in these
rules, will be admitted, on appl ication made in compliance with the following directions:
TIMES OF ADMISSION.-The committee will act upon applications for admission on the fourth Wednesday in
every month, excepting May, Jun e, July, and August.
All applications should be fil ed the day before the
meeting.
CONDITIONS OF ADMISSION.-Students are admitted to the
Antique Class without being required to submit any
drawing for examination, but each applicant must fill
up the following form, copies of which can be had at
the office of the Academy.
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Students will be transferred from the Antique to the Life
Class as soon as they have demonstrated, by their work in
the Antique, their ability to profit by the Life Class work.
For such transfer to th e Life Class when the Student is a
minor, the written permission of parent or guardian must be
obtained
The Life Class cannot be entered in any other way, except in the case of those who have previously belonged to
it, or those who can give satisfactory proof that they have
been members of Life Classes in other recognized Art
Schools.
Every person admitted to st udy in the Academy will be .
furnished with a ticket, which must be shown on entering,
until the holder is known to the door-keeper.
Life Class students only will be admitted to the dissecting
room; and the same restr iction applies to the modeling room
at the hours assigned for modeling from the living figure.
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In the space berore the asterisk above, the len gth of lime for which a
ticket is asked, should ue Hated.
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Students of the Antique as weJl as Life Class students are
entitled to attend the lectures on Art Anatomy in the lectureroom, and any other lectures that may be provided for the
school, unless specially prohibited. They may also use the
modeling room when it is not occupied for the regular sessions of the Life Class
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THE SCHOOL YEAR begins the first Monday in October, and
ends on the last Saturday in May.
The study of Art Anatomy JI1 the dissecting room
begins about the first of November and ends about
the 3 I st of March.
The lectures on Art Anatomy begin on the 13th of
October, and continue about four months.
Th e lessons on Perspective and Composition will follow
lectures on Art Anatomy.
Mode ling from the Living Horse wiJl begin the first
week in January.
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VACATIO ~S
AND HOLlDAys.-The school will be closed durIn g the months of June, July, August, and September;
and on Sundays, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas and New
Year's D ays , and vVashington 's Birthday, on which days
students wiJl not be admitted to any portion of the school
department.
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PRIVILEGES AND DUTIES OF STUDENTS.
REGULATIONS FOR ANTIQUE ROOMS.
Students are provided with closets or boxes, drawingboards and modeling stands.
Each student, on taking out his ticket, will be required
to deposit one dollar, which will be paid back to him when
he gives lip his keys and returns the property of the
Academy which he has been using.
At the 'expi ration of the time for which his ticket was
iss ued the student must remove all his personal property
from the Academy, and give up the keys which he has received from the Academy.
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.
A student's ticket entitles the holder to visit the galleries.
No cast shall be moved except by order of the tcacher , or
Curator, who shall decide how long it may remain away
from its place.
Students will be held responsible for breakage of casts resulting from their own carelessness.
REGULA nONS FOR THE LIFE CLASS ROOMS.
POSING TilE 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 commencement of that pose; for the second pose the next five; 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.
Each painting pose shall consist of six sittings, and each
sculpture pose of twelve or eighteen, unless the Director
should order otherwise.
REGULATIONS FOR THE DISSECTING ROOM.
The Demonstrator of Anatomy has charge of the Dissecting Room, and superintends, under the Director, the dissecting, casting, and drawing.
The Assistant Demonstrators (who are selected from the
students) make the dissections; and make daily demonstrations for the Life Class students, who are are admitted
to the Dissecting Room, and who may then, if they desire, make drawings of the dissections.
The period for dissection is included between the first of
November and the first of the following April.
0 dissection shall be made in the Academy except those
authorized by the Director, or the Professor of Anatomy.
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 to painters of the human
figure.
LECTURES ON ARTISTIC ANATOMY.
Prof. W. W. Keen will begin his ,ourse of lectures on
Artistic Anatomy, free to all Academy students, on the
J 3th of October.
Season tickets for these lectures, for persons not Academy
students, Five Dollars.
The course will consist of about thirty-five lectures, to be
given on Monday and Wednesday evenings, at six o·c1ock.
The lectures will be illustrated by diagrams, casts, anatomical models and preparations, skeletons of man and the
lower animals, 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 study 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 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 an imals.
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 expression.
One lecture to proportions.
LECTURES ON PERSPECTIVE AND COMPOSITION.
A course of eight or more lectures on perspective and
composition will be given by the Director during the months
of March and April.
Season ticket for this course to persons, not Academy students, Three Dollars.
GENERAL STATEMENT OF OBLIGATIONS.
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.
. The ~cademy does not undertake to furnish detailed
lllstructlOn, but rather facilities for study, supplemented by
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the occasional criticism of the teachers; and the classes are
intended especially for those who expect to be professional
artists.
THE CHARLES TOPPAN PRIZE.
This prize, established in 1881, by the gift of Mrs. Charles
Tappan, Miss Harriette R. Tappan, and Mr. Robert N.
Tappan, was awarded, for the first time, at the autumn exhibition of the Academ y in October, 1882. The conditions
are as follows:At each Annual Exhibition of the Pennsylvania Academy
of the Fine Arts, two prizes, one of Two Hundred dollars,
and one of One Hundred dollars, shall be awarded by the
Committee on Instr uction, or such other Committee as
may be appointed by the Board, for the two best pictures
by students of the Academy who have worked regularly in
its schools for at least two years; provided, however, that
there shall be no obligation to award a prize to any work
which is not, in the opinion of the Committee, of sufficient
merit.
The pictures submitted may be either in oil or water color,
and must be entered in the usual way for th e Annual Exhibition.
They may be either figure pieces, landscapes, cattle
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pIeces, or marInes.
The competition is not extend ed to sculpture.
According to the positively expressed terms of the gift,
the drawillg of the pictures will receive the first attention of
the examiners, that work which shows the most accurate
drawing receiving the preference.
In any case of uncertainty as to the right of a competitor
to be considered a student, the decision of the Board of
Directors upon a repo rt from the Committee on Instruction
shall be final.
