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PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS.
(FOU:NDED 1 80 5.)
<Xl CIRCULAR
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COMMITTEE ON INSTRUCTION
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1886-1887.
PHILADELPHIA
1886.
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SCHOOL DEPARTMENT .
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THOMAS IIOVENDEN,
Instructor £11 Paill.tillg and Drawing.
COMMITTEE ON INSTRUCTION,
In Charge of the Schools of the Academy.
WILLIAM W. KEEN, M.D.,
Instructor t'u Artistic Anatomy.
THOMAS ANSIIUTZ,
Instructor in Pailltiltg and Drawin.g.
JAMES P. KELLY,
EDWARD H . COATES, Chairman.
WILLIAM S. BAKER,
HENRY C. GIBSON,
CHARLES HENRY H ART,
JOHN I-I. PACKARD, M.D.
Illstructor ill Pain/jug and DrawiIJg.
CHARLES F. BROWNE,
Dt1llo1tstrator
of Alla/omy.
H. C. WHIPPLE,
Curator
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of th,
Schools.
All correspondence in regard to matters connected with tllis department should be addressed to Mr. H. C. Whipple at the academy.
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other, every stu?e~t has an opportunity of modeling in clay,
as well as of pamtmg, from the nude. This combination is
an essential feature of the course.
CIRCULAR
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COMMITTEE ON INSTRUCTION.
THE object of th e Schools 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, stone-cutters, lithographers,
photog raphers, etc., who have always been largely represented in the schools. 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.
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 time to time, and a living
horse is used in the modeling room each season for a pose
of six or eight weeks.
The hours being arranged so as not to interfere with each
CHARGES.
All payments to be made in advance.
For the season of eight months, including all
privileges, except portrait class,
$48 00
For one month, same privileges,
8 00
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,
2400
For the Portrait Class, season of eight months
ADMISSION OF STUDENTS.'
Any person of good character, of either sex, and over
fifteen 'years of age, giving satisfactory eviden'ce 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:
TIMES OF ADMISSION.-The committee wiJI 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 ADMISSIOI<.-Each applicant for admission
to the Antique Classes must sign the following form, and
submit a specimen of his or her work, signed with full
name and address. Drawings must represent the whole or
part of the human figure, and must be made from the solid
object. They must be executed expressly for the purpose,
upon paper measuring 18 x 24 inches, which should not be
rolled or folded.
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FORM OF APPLICATION FOR ADMISSION TO
THE SCHOOLS OF THE PE NSYLVANIA
ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS.
I desire to enter the Antique Class of the Academy. I
have read the rules embodied in th e ci rcular of the Academy,
and agree to abide by them.
My age is
Occupation
Object in studying Art _............................ .
I desire to take out a ticket for ......... .
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Schools, and at the same time submit a specimen of previous work.
Every person admitted to study 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 restricti on applies to th e 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 prohibited. They may also use
the modeling room when it is not occupied for the regular
sessions of the Life Class.
Signature ..............................................................................................................
Address
ADM ISSION TO THE LIFE CLASSES.
Students will be transferred from the Antique to the Life
Classes upon recommendatio n of the Instructors. They
must, at the same tim e, submit a drawi ng or drawings executed by them in th e Academy, and representing th e entire
human figure. Such drawings must be upon paper measuring 18x24 inches and signed with full name.
For such transfer to the Life Class when the Student is a
minor, the written perm ission of parent or guardian must
be obtained.
The Life Class cannot be ente red 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
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lhe space hefore lhe a>leri,k above, the length of time fo which a
ticket is asked, should be stated.
THE SCHOOL Y EAR begins the first Monday in October, and
ends on the last Saturday in May.
The lect ures 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.
VACATIOXS AND HOLI DAYS.-The schools will be closed
durin g the months of Jun e, July, August, and September;
and on Sundays, Thanksgiving Day, Ch ri st mas 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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PRIVILEGES AND DUTIES OF STUDENTS.
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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.
A student's ticket entitles the holder to visit the galleries.
No sketching, drawing or painting in the galleries shall
be allowed excepting upon special permission first obtained.
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 permissioil to do so, on presenting a written application approved by the Committee on Instruction, and specifying the
work to be copied.
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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 th e 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 th e 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.
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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 followin g subj ects 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 (e pecially 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 expression.
One lecture to proportions.
Each painting pose shall consist of six sittings, and each
sculpture pose of twelve or eighteen, unless the Instructors
should order otherwise.
Only students at work will be admitted in the Life Class
Rooms during the regu lar 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 Instructors, the
dissecting, casting, and drawing.
The Assistant Demontrators (selected from the students)
make the dissections; they also give demonstrati ons 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 Instructors.
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.
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LECTURES ON ARTISTIC A 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.
. The course will consist of about thirty-five lectures, to be
given on Monday and Wednesday evenings, at 6 Yo o'clock.
PERSPECTIVE AND COMPOSITION.
A course of eight or more lectures on perspective and
composition will be given during the months of March and
April.
Season ticket for this course to persons, not Academy
st udents, Three Dollars.
Other lectures will be given by well-known artists and
competent teachers, as arranged by the Committee during
the year.
GENERAL STATEMENT OF OBLIGATIO S.
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.
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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 188 I, 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 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 Instruction, for the two best pictures by students 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,
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or mannes.
The competition is not extended to sculpture.
According to the positively expressed terms of the gift,
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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FORM OF APPLICATION FOR ADMISSION TO THE SCHOOL OF
THE PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS.
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.
,
My age is ............................................. ·..... ·.............................................................. .
Occupation ..................... ........................................................................... ... ......... .
Object in studying Art .......................................................................................... .
I desire to take out a ticket for ......... .......... ....................... ....................____ ._ *
Signature ........................................................................._..........._........................... _..
Address
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Date; __ ......... _.......... __ ......... .......................... _.........._
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In the space before the asterisk above, the length of time for which a
ticket is asked, should be stated.
Penns~luania .Acabem~
Special
of the Fine Arts.
l\.nno~ncement.
Since the publication of the Circular of the
Committee on Instruction for the Season, 18861887, arrangement has been made under which
Mr. Bernhard Uhle will take charge of the Portrait Classes of the Academy.
The Schools will re-open Monday, Oct. 4th,
1886.
EDWARD H. COATES.
Chairman.
