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PENNSYLV ANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS
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CIRCULAR
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Instructors.
THOMAS P. ANSHUTZ,
Painting, Drawing and Modeli1lg.
JAMES P. KELLY,
Painting, Drawing and Modeling.
Committee on Instruction,
BERNHARD UHLE,
IN CHARGE OF THE SCHOOLS OF THE ACADEMY.
Portrait Painting.
CHARLES H. STEPHENS,
Drawing and Painting.
EDWARD H. COATES, Chairman,
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WILLIAM S. BAKER,
WILLIAM W. KEEN, M.D.,
Artistic Anatomy.
CHARLES HENRY HART,
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H. PACKARD, M.D.,
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ALEXANDER STIRLING CALDER,
Demonstrator of Anatomy.
CHARLES HARE HUTCHINSON.
H. C. WHIPPLE,
Otrator and Libraria1t.
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A1l correspondence in regard to matters connected with the
Schools should be addressed to Mr. H. 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.
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.
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CIRCULAR
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THE object of the Schools of the Academy is to afford facilities and instruction of the highest order to those personsmen 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,
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
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Admission of Students.
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 on file the day
before the meeting.
Each applicant for admission to the Antique Classes must
submit a specimen of his or her work, signed with full narq.e
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.
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.
The Life Classes cannot be entered in any other way, except
in the case of those who have previously belonged to them, or
those who can give satisfactory proof that they have been
members of Life Classes in other recognized Art Schools, and
at the same time submit a specimen of previous work.
Life Class students only will be admitted to the dissecting
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room; and the same restriction applies to the modeling room
at the hours assigned for modeling from the living figure.
The lectures on Art Anatomy, Perspective and Composition
and others that may be arranged by the Committee on Instruction are open to all students in the several classes, and a
general attendance is expected.
Calendar.
Tile S cllool 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 will follow the lectures on Art
Anatomy.
The Composition Class will begin on the 29th of November.
Vacations and Holidays.-The schools will be closed during
the mouths of June, July, August and September; and on
Sundays, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas and New Year's
Days, and Washington's Birthday, on which days the school
departmeut will not be open for the purpose of study.
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Students are provided with closets or boxes draw'
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and modeling stands.
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Each student, on taking out his ticket will be
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deposit one dollar, which will be paid ba~k t h' reqUlre to
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which. he has been usmg, but the Academy will not be r?SPo?slble 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 m?st remove all his personal property from
the Academy, and give up the keys which he has received
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from the Academy.
A student's
ticket entitles the holder to visit the galler'les.
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Sket ch mg, drawing or painting in the galleries is allowec
only when special permission has first been obtained.
Any student well advanced in painting who desires to make
a study copy of a picture or piece of statuary belongiu<T to
the Academy, may receive from the President permissio~ 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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Charges.
For the season of eight months, including all privileges, except portrait class
$4 8.00
For one month, same privileges
8.00
For one month, Antique Class, day and night
4·00
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
10.00
All payments to be made in advance.
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Regulations for Class Rooms.
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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.
Life Classes.-Each new pose shall be determined by a committee of five of the class, taken in regular order from the
alphabetical roll.
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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 Instructors
should order otherwise.
Only students at work will be admitted in the Life Class
Rooms during the regular hours.
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
November and the first of the following April. No dissection
shall be made in the Academy except those authorized by the
Instructors.
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. 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.
The Composition Class will meet on the last Friday of each
month, when drawings illustrative of the subject previously
announced will be submitted, and a lecture or informal criticism will be given.
A course of eight or more lectures on Perspective will be
given during the months of March and April.
Prof. W. W. Keen will begin his course of lectures on
Artistic Anatomy on the 17th of October.
This 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 mo<,iel.
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
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anatomy of expression, both 1ll 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 ex.
pressIOn.
One lecture to proportions.
Other lectures will be given by well-known artists and
competent teachers, as arranged by the Committee during the
year.
The Charles Toppan Prizes.
These prizes, established in r88r, 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, r882. The conditions are as follows:
At each Anuual 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 Instmction, 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.
They may be either figure pieces, landscapes, cattle pieces
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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.
Instructions for students intending to exhibit will be furnished in a circular to be hereafter issued.
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