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PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS.
(FOUNDED 1805.)
CIRCULAR
OF THE
COMMITTEE ON INSTRUCTION,
1885-1886.
PHILADELPHIA:
GLOBE PRINTING HOUSE,
188 5.
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N. TWELFTH ST.
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OFFICERS OF THE ACADEMY.
CIRCULAR
PRESIDENT.
OF THE
GEORGE S. PEPPER.
COMMITTEE ON INSTRUCTION.
DIRECTORS.
r88S-I886.
JAME S. 1IARTIK,
E. BURGESS WARREN,
HE:\RY C. GIBSON,
CLAREXCE H. CLARK,
CHARLES HENRY HART.
JOSEPH E. TEMPLE,
JOIl T II. PACKARD, M.D.
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B. BDlEKT,
JOSEPH WILLl.UI BATES,
WILLIAM S. BAKER,
EDWARD H. COATES,
HENRY C. LEA.
EDWARD II. COATES.
Trtasurtr
Secretary
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Cltrator of tlu ScI,oot m,d Librarian
CO~ L\IlTTEE
GEORGE CORLISS.
H. C. \VHIPPLE.
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ON INSTRUCTION.
EDW ARD II. COATES,
WILLIAM S. BAKER,
JOSEPH WILLIAM BATES,
HENRY C. GIBSON,_
CHARLES HENRY HART.
Director of Scllool
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Proftssor of Artistic Anatomy
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Assistant Professor of Painting and Drawing
DtfllOllstrator of Anatomy
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THOMAS EAKINS .
W. W. KEEN, M.D .
TIlOMAS ANSnUTZ.
WM. L. MACLEAN.
Correspondence on matters connected with the school should be addressed
to Mr. H. C. WHIPPLE, 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, ill ustrators, decorators, wood-carvers, stone-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 faciliti es.
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 thorou gh than
that of any other existing school. Its basis is the nu de
human figure.
In the anatomical department, the advanced students dissect; and the demonstrators use largely, in th e dissecting
room, the nude living model for comparison.
A course of thirty-five anatomical lectures is given; also
a series of lessons in perspective and composition, and lectures by well-known artists and others on general subjects
as arranged by the Committee during the year.
Animals are also dissected from tim e to tim e, and a living
horse is used in the modeling room each season for a pose
<>f 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 pai nting, 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 the circular of the Academy,
and agree to abide by them.
For the season of eight months, including all
$48 00
privileges,
800
For one month, same privileges, .
For one month, Antique Class, day and night,
4 00
For one month, Night Life Class,
400
For the season of eight months in the Antique
Class, day or night, or in the Night Life
Class,
24 00
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 season ticket may be
paid for in six instalments of four dollars, or in one payment of $24.
ADMISSION OF STUDENTS.
Any person of good character, of either 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 application made in compliance with the
following directions:
TDIES OF ADMISSION.-The committee will act upon applications for admission on the last Wednesday in every
month, excepting May, June, July, and August. All applications should be filed 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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After three months study (or upon recommendatio n of
the Director of the school) students will be transferred from
the Antique to the Life Class, if they have demonstrated,
by their work their ability to profit by the Life Class work.
For such transfer to the 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 t~ley have
been members of Life Classes in other recogl11zed Art
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furnished with a ticket, which must be shown on enterIng,
until the holder is known to the door-keeper.
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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 th e Antique as well 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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VACATIONS AND HOLIDAys.-The school will be closed
during the months of June, July, August, and September;
and on Sundays, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas and New
Year's Days, and Washington's Birthday, on which days
students will not be ad mitted to any portion of the school
department.
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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 in the dissecting room
begins about the first of November and ends about
th e 31st of March.
The lectures on Art Anatomy begin on the 13th of
October. and continue about four months.
The lessons on Perspective and Composition will follow
lectures on Art Anatomy.
Modeling from the Living Horse will begin the first
week in January.
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PRIVILEGES AND DUTIES OF STUDENTS.
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 up his keys and returns the property of the Academy which he has been using, but the Academy will not be
responsible for money, watches, jewelry or other valuables,
which may be lost from the closets or boxes.
At the expiration of the time for which his ticket was
issued 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 or piece of statuary 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
work to be copied.
A student's ticket entitles the holder to visit the galleries.
REGULATIONS FOR THE LIFE CLASS ROOMS.
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 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
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should order otherwise.
Only stu~ents at work will be admitted in the Life Class
Rooms dUring the regular hours.
REGULATIONS FOR ANTIQUE ROOMS.
No cast shall be moved except by order of the teacher,
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.
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 (selected from the students)
make the dissections; they also give daily demonstrations
to the Life. Class students. admitted to the Dissecting Room,
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. No 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 A l ATOMY.
Prof. W. W. Keen will begin his course of lectures on
Artistic Anatomy, free to all the Academy students, on the
13th of October.
Season tickets for these lectures, for persons not Academy
students, Five Dollars .
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The course will consist of about thirty-five lectures, to be
given on Monday and Wednesday evenings, at 6~ o'clock.
The lectures will be illustrated by diagrams, casts, anatomical models and preparations, skeletons of man and the
lower animals, dissections, and the living model.
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 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 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.
Other lectures will be given by well-known artists and
competent teachers, as arranged by the Committee during
the year.
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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 Academy does not undertake to furnish detailed instruction, but rather facilities for study, supplemented by
the criticism of the teachers; and the classes are intended
especially for those who expect to be professional artists.
THE CHARLES TOPPAN PRIZES.
These prizes, established in 1881, by the gift of Mrs. Charles
Toppan, Miss Harriette R. Toppan, and Mr. Robert N.
Toppan, were awarded, for the first time, at the autumn exhibition of the Academy in October, 1882. The conditions
are as follows:At ea,ch 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 of Instruction, for the two best pictures by stu-,
dents of the Academy who have worked regularly in its
schools for at least two years, one of them being the school
year preceding the exhibition at which the prize is awarded;
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 the Annual Exhibition.
They may be either figure pieces, landscapes, cattle pieces,
or mannes.
The competition is not extended to sculpture.
According to the positively expressed terms of the gift:,
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the drawing 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 report from the Committee on Instruction
shall be final.
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