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PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS
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PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF T H E F INE A RTS
PHILADELPHIA
1890
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Instructors.
THOMAS P. ANSHUTZ,
Paintit/g, Drawing and Modeling.
JAMES P. KELLY,
Committee on Instruction,
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IN CHARGE OF THE SCHOOLS OF THE ACADEMY.
Pail/til/g, Drawing and l1fodelillg .
CHARLES. H. STEPHENS'
Drawil/g and Pail/ting.
FRANK L. KIRKPATRICK,
Composition and Portrait Class.
JOHN H. PACKARD, M.D., Chairman,
WILLIAM S. BAKER,
CHARLES HENRY HART,
CHARLES HARE HUTCHINSON,
HENRY WHELEN, JR.
GEORGE McCLELLAN, M.D.,
Art Anatomy.
ALEXANDER STIRLING CALDER,
Demonstrator 0./ Anatomy.
H. C. WHIPPLE,
CtJrator and Libraria?/.
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All 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, ev~ry s.tudent in the Life Classes has an opportunity
of modelmg 111 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 inst~c:ion, but rather facilities for study, supplemented by the
C:ItlcIsm of the t each ers; and the classes are intended espeCIally for those who expect to be professional artists.
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COMMITTEE ON INSTRUCTION.
Admission of Students.
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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 anatomical lectures is given, and also a series
of lessons in Perspective and Composition. Lectures by wellknown artists and others on general subjects will be arranged
by the Committee during the year.
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
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 m eeting.
Each applicant for admission to the Antique Classes must
submit a specimen of his or her work, signed with full name
and address . Drawings must represent the whol e or part of
the human figure, and must be made from the solid object.
They must be executed expressly for the purpose.
Students may 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 hum an figure. Such drawings must be upon paper
measuring at least I8 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 h ave previously belonged to them, or
those who can give satisfactory proof that they have been
members of Life Classes in other recog ni zed Art Schools, and
who at the same time submit a specimen of previous work.
Life Class students only will be admitted to the dissecting
room; and the same restriction applies to the modeling room
at the h ours assigned for modeling from the living figure.
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Calendar.
Students are provided with closets or boxes, drawing-boards
and modeling stands.
Eac.h student, on taking out his ticket, will be required to
deposIt one dollar, which will be paid back to' him when he
giv:s up his keys an~ returns the property of the Academy
~hlch he has been usmg. 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 tim e for which his ticket was
issued, the student must, unless it is renewed, 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.
Sketching, drawing or painting in the galleries is allowed
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 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.
Tlze School Year will begin on Monday, September 29, 1890 ,
and end on Saturday, May 30, 189I.
The lectures on Art Anatomy will begin on the 10th of
Noyember, and continue about four months.
The lessons on Perspective will begin on February 14, 18 91.
The Composition Class will meet on Friday, the 28th of
oyember, and on the last Friday of each succeeding month.
HolidaJ1s.-The schools will be closed on Sundays, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas and )l"ew Year's Days, and Washington's Birthday.
Charges.
For the season of eight months, including all pnvIleges, except POltrait Class . . . . . . . .
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 .
For the Portrait Class, each month.
To students in the Academy
To former students of the Academy
All payments to be mad~ in advaonce.
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Regulations for Class Rooms.
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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 three of the class, taken in reg ular order from the
alphabetical roll.
The committee for the first pose shall consist of the first
three on the roll who are present at the commencement of that
pose; for the second pose the next three ; 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 into the Life Class
Rooms during the regular hours.
Dissecting Roolll.-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 among 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 dissections
shall be made in the Academy except such as are authorized
by the Instructors.
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Lectures.
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The Composition Class will meet on the last.Friday
each
month, when drawings illustrative of the subJ~ct prevlOu~l~
announced will be submitted, and a lecture or mformal cnticism will be given.
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A course of eight or more lessons in Perspective Will be
commenced in February.
Dr. George McClellan will begin his course of lectures on
Art Anatomy on ::\:[onday, November 10th, at 4.% o'clock.
These lectures will be given regularly every Thursday evening at 8.% 0' clock and Monday afternoon at 4.% 0' clock
throuO'hout
the winter. They will be illustrated by diagrams,
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preparations, models, photographs and extempore drawmgs
on the blackboard. Dissections of the muscles will be shown
to the class, and such demonstrations on the cadaver will be
made as are valuable and important to art students. Special
attention will be given to the mechanism of the joints, to
their action, and the natural postures of the body in repose;
also to the prominences of the skeleton as affecting the outline, to the inter-action of the muscles, on which in life depends the contour of the body, and the :fine surface-marking
due to the disposition of fatty tissue and the relative elasticity of the skin, a study so essential to the artist in order to
faithfully represent the human form in drawing, painting or
sculpture.
The anatomy of expression will receive careful consideration, and the actions of the muscles will be frequently illustrated upon the living model.
Reference will also be made to the suggestions of comparative anatomy from this point of view.
The above subjects will be treated regionally, as far as such
treatment may be practicable, the system of teaching embraced by Regional Anatomy being believed by the lecturer
to be the best for conveying practical information and awakening the interest of the student in the relation of facts to
theories.
In addition to the lectures, demonstrations to advanced
students will be given on the living model,in the Life Classes
by Dr. McClellan.
For students and others, not members of the classes of the
Academy, the fee will be Ten Dollars.
Other lectures will be given by well-known artists and
competent teachers, as may be arranged by the Committee
during the year.
The lectures on Art Anatomy, Perspective and Composition ,
and such others as may be arranged by the Committee, are
open to all students in the several classes, and a general
attendance is expected.
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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 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 best two 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.
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They may be either figure pieces, landscapes, cattle pleces
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.
Instructions for students intending to exhibit will be furnished in a circular to be hereafter issued.
