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PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS
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COMMITTEE ON INSTRUCTION
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1888-1889.
PH I LADELPHIA.
1888.
SCHOOL DEPARTMENT
THOMAS P. ANSHUTZ,
Illstructor in Paitlting, Drawing and
Mod~ling.
JAMES P. KELLY,
COMMITTEE ON INSTRUCTION,
Instructor itl Pa£t1ti1l.g, Drawing a1td Modeling.
HERBERT II. GILCHRIST,
In Charge of the S chools of the Academy .
Instruct01' in Drawing and Painting .
CHARLES H. STEPHENS,
EDWARD H. COATES, Cllai!'''';'''.
WILLIAM S. BAKER,
CHARLES HENRY HART,
JOliN H. PACKARD, M.D.,
CHAR LES HARE HUTCHI NSON.
.l1utrucior itt Drawing and Pai1tt£1'g .
WILLIAM W. KEEN, M.D.,
Instructor £n Artistic Anatomy.
FRANK R. WHITESIDE,
Demonstrator of Atta/o m)'.
H. C. WHIPPLE,
Curator of th, ScllOo/s.
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All correspond ence in regard to matters connected with this depart
ment should be addressed to MI'. II. C. Whipple at the Academy.
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other, every student in the life classes has an opportunity
of modeling in clay, as well as of painting, from the nude.
This combination is an essential feature of the course.
CHARGES.
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COMMITTEE ON INSTRUCTION,
1888-1889.
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,
400
For one month, Night Life Class,
4 00
For the season of eight months in the Antique
Class, day or night, or in the Night Life
Class,
24 00
For the Portrait Class, each month,
6 00
All payments to be made in advance.
THE object of the Schools is threefold. First, to afford
facil ities and instruction of the highest order to those persons
-men and women-wh o intend making painting or sculptu re 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,
photographers, 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, and
also a series of lessons in perspective and composition. Lectures by well-known artists and others on general subjects
will be arranged by the Committee during the year.
The hours being arranged so as not to interfere with each
ADMISSION OF STUDENTS.
Any person of good character 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:
TIMES OF ADMISSION.-The Committee will act upon applications for admission on the last Wednesday in everr
month, excepting May, June, July and August. All appl1cations should be on file the day before the meeting.
CONDITIONS OF ADMISSION.-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 ~xpressly ~or the purpose
upon paper measuring 18 x 24 I11ches, whIch should not
be rolled or folded.
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Schools, and at the same t'!me su b't
m! a specimen of previous work.
Every person admitted to study in the Academy will be
furni shed 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 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 .
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR ADMISSION TO
THE SCHOOLS 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 ArL ............................................................................ .
I desire to take out a ticket for .................................................... *
Signature ............................................................................................................... ..
CALENDAR.
Address ................................................................................................................ ..
T HE SCHOOL YEAR begins the first Monday in October,
and ends on the last Saturday in May.
The lectures on Art Anatomy begin on the 17th of
October, and continue about four months.
The lessons on Perspective and Composition will follow
the lectures on Art Anatomy.
VACATIONS AND HOLIDAys.-The schools will be closed
during the months of June, July, August and September;
and on Sundays, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas and New
Year's D ays, and Washington's Birthday, on which days
the school department will not be open for the purpose of
study.
ADMISSION TO THE LIFE CLASSES.
Students will be transferred from the Antique to the Life
Classes upon recommendation of the Instructors. They
must, at the same time, submit a drawing or drawings
executed by them in the Academy, and representing the
entire human figure. Such drawings must be upon paper
measuring 18 x 24 inches, and signed with full name.
For such transfer to the Life Class, when the student is
a minor, the written permission of parent or guardian must
be obtained.
Th~ Life Class cannot be entered in any other way, ex~ept 111 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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the space before the asterisk above the length of time for which a
ticket is asked should be stated.
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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, except 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 permission to do SOj on presenting a written application approved by the Committee on Instruction, and specifying the
work to be copied.
REGULATIONS FOR THE LIFE CLASS ROOMS.
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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
live on the roll who are present at the commencement of
that pose; for the second pose the next live; and so on to
the end of the roll.
Any member of the class not present when, by the above
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forfeit his turn .
The decision of the committee as to the pose shall be
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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 regular hours.
The lectures will be illustrated by diagrams casts anat .
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omlca. model~ and ?reparations, skeletons of man and the lower
ammals, dissectIOns and the living model.
The ~oll~wing ~ubjects will be treated, although not
necessanly 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 t o the muscles, especially to those
which directly influence external form. Two of these will
be devoted to the muscles of the face and the a~atomy 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 blood-vessels in the superficial fascia.
One lecture to the hair and beard and postural expression.
One lecture to proportions.
REGULATIONS FOR ANTIQUE ROOMS.
No cast shall be moved t xcept 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 Demonstrators (selected from the students)
make the dissections; they also give 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
ovember 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.
LECTURES ON ARTISTIC ANATOMY.
Prof. W. W. Keen will begin his course of lectures on
Artistic Anatomy, free to all the Academy students, on the
17th of October.
Season tickets for th ese lectu res, for persons not Academy
students, Ten Dollars.
The course will consist of about thirty-five lectures, to be
given on Monday and Wednesday evenings, at 631. o'clock.
LECTURES ON 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
students, 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 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.
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SPECIAL lonCE TO APPLICANTS.
The Academy does not undertake to furnish detaileJ 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
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pieces, 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.
