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Schools
of
The Pennsylvania Academy
of the Fine Arts
Broad Street above Arch
Philadelphia
Founded 1805
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Circular
OF
Committee on Instruction
SCHOOLS
OF
THE PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY
OF THE FINE ARTS
BROAD STREET ABOVE ARCH
PHILADELPHIA
FOUNDED IB05
SEASON
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OF
1907- 1908
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MANAGEMENT OF
THE PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE
FINE ARTS
PRESIDENT
JOHN FREDERICK LEWIS
VICE-PRESIDENT
JOHN H. CONVERSE
DIRECTORS
E. BURGESS WARREN
CLEMENT B. NEWBOLD
JOHN H. CONVERSE
EDWARD T. STOTESBURY
THEOPHILUS P. CHANDLER
THEODORE N. ELY
HERBERT M. HOWE, M.D.
ALFRED C. HARRISON
GEORGE H. MCFADDEN
CLARENCE C. ZANTZINGER
FRANK H. CAVEN
TREASURER
GEORGE H. MCFADDEN
SECRETARY AND MANAGER
JOHN E. D. TRASK
CURATOR OF THE SCHOOLS
HUGH H. BRECKENRIDGE
SCHOOLS OF THE PENNSYLVANIA
ACADEMY
MANAGEMENT OF THE SCHOOLS
OF
THE
FINE
ARTS
190 7- 1908
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FA CU LTY.
The one hundred and second year of these
schools will begin on Monday, October 7, 1<)07,
and will continue until Saturday, May 30, 1<)08.
The school year is divided into two terms of
seventeen weeks each, the first term beginning
Monday, October 7, 1907, and closing Saturday
February I, 1908; the second term beginning
Monday, February 3, 1908, and closing Saturday,
May 30, 1<)08.
The schools are open from 9 o'clock A.M.
until 5 o'clock P.M., daily, except Sunday.
Afterqoon and evening classes are open from
4.30 o'clock P.M. until 10 o'clock P. M.
Visitors are admitted to the schools only on
Wednesdays and Fridays from 4 to 5 P.M.
The schools are closed on Sundays, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, New Year's Day,
and Washington's Birthday.
The schools are under the immediate care
of the Curator and Committee on Instruction
appointed by the President and Board of Directors, together with the Faculty; and the methods
of instruction pursued will be the best experience suggests.
Chairman.
HERBERT M. HOWE, M.D.,
THOMAS P. ANSHUTZ.
GEORGE MCCLELLAN, M.D.
CHARLES GRAFLY.
HUGH H. BRECKENRIDGE.
CECILIA BEAUX.
WILLIAM M. CHASE.
FRANK MILES DAY.
HENRY MCCARTER.
HENRY R. POORE_
PAUL PHILLIPPE CRET.
W. SERGEANT KENDALL.
COMMITTEE
HERBERT M. HOWE, M.D.,
Chairman.
ON
INSTRUC-
THEOPHILUS P. CHANDLER.
TION.
CLARENCE C. ZANTZINGER.
JOHN FREDERICK LEWIS,
ex officio.
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THE
SCHOOL
YEAR .
HOURS .
VI SITORS .
HOLIDAYS.
MANAGEMENT.
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CLASSBS.
COURSBS.
The Courses of the Schools are as follows:
CLASSES .
DAY
UFE: AND
HRAD
COURSE.
DAY
ANTIQUE
COURSE.
Drawing from Figure. William M. Chase.
Modelling from Figure. Charles Grafly.
Composition.
Henry R. Poore.
Charles Grafly.
IJIustration.
Henry McCarter.
Perspective Lectures. Frank Miles Day.
Anatomy Lectures.
George McClellan, M.D.
INSTRUCTORS.
Drawing
from
Drawing
from
and Painting
William M. Chase.
Figure.
and Painting
William M. Chase.
Head.
Cecilia Beaux.
W. Sergeant Kendall.
Modelling from Figure
Charles Grafly.
and Head.
Henry R. Poore.
Composition.
Charles Grafly.
Henry McCarter.
Illustration.
Perspective Lectures. Frank Miles Day.
George McClellan, M. D.
Anatomy Lectures.
CLASSES.
Drawing from Cast.
First Section.
Second Section.
Still-life Painting.
First Section.
Second Section.
Modelling from Cast.
Composition.
I NSTRUCTORS.
CLASSES.
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Hugh H. Breckenridge.
Thomas P. Anshutz.
Drawing from Cast.
Modelling from Cast.
Composition.
Illustration.
Perspective Lectures.
Anatomy Lectures.
Hugh H. Breckenridge.
William M. Chase.
Charles Grafly.
Henry R. Poore.
Charles Grafly.
Illustration.
Henry McCarter.
First Section.
Henry McCarter.
Second Section.
Perspective Lectures. Frank Miles Day.
George McClellan, M.D.
Anatomy Lectures.
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AFTERNOON
LIFE
COURSE.
lNSTRUCTORS.
Drawing from Figure. Thomas P. Anshutz.
Modelling from Figure. Charles Grafly.
Composition.
Henry R. Poore .
Charles Grafly.
IJIustration.
Henry McCarter.
Perspective Lectures. Frank Miles Day.
Anatomy Lectures.
George McClellan, M. D.
CLASSES.
INSTRUCTORS.
WOMEN'S
MEN'S
NIGHT LlFR
COURSH.
INSTRUCTORS.
Thomas P. Anshutz.
Charles Grafly.
Henry R. Poore.
Charles Grafly.
Henry McCarter.
Frank Miles Day.
GeorgeMcClellan, M.D.
CLASSES.
INSTRUCTORS.
Problems in Design.
Drawing from Figure.
Modelling.
Drawing from Cast.
Perspective.
Paul Phillippe Cr~t.
Thomas P. Anshutz.
Charles Grafly.
Thomas p. Anshutz.
Frank Miles Day.
NIGHT
ANTIQUE
COURSE.
COURSE IN
ARCH ITECTURAL
DESIGN.
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COSTUME
SK ETCH CLASS.
MISS BEAUX'S
CLASS .
MR . CHASE'S
TALKS.
LECTURES
ON
COMPOSITION.
ANATOMY
AND PER SPECT IVE.
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The Costume Sketch Class will be under the
clirection of Mr. Anshutz.
At some time during the school year Miss
Beaux will conduct a Portrait Class for members
of the Life and Head Course.
The talks to students given by Mr. Chase
during the past year have been a feature of the
course, and will be continued for the coming
season.
Supplementary to the semi-monthly criticisms
of compositions there will be throughout the
year special talks on ' construction and selfexpression with black-board and stereopticon
demonstrations.
The Lectures on Anatomy and Perspective
begin in the second week of November.
A detailed schedule of Classes will be found
on page 22.
ADMISSION
REQUIREMENTS.
ELEMENTARY
ANTIQUE
COURSE.
AD MISSIONS .
It is understood that the First Sections of the
Antique Drawing and Still-life Painting Classes,
with the night Antique Class, are preparatory
and intended as a suitable introduction to the
higher study of art in the Academy's courses.
Drawings or sketches from the solid object will
be required for admission to the schools. Applicants may prepare these in the school rooms ,
or may forward specimens made for the purpose.
All applications for admission and for promotion to higher classes will be acted upon by
the Faculty, with the concurrence of the Committee on Instruction, at the regular meetings
held on the Thursday before the last Wednesday of each month, excepting the months of
June, July, and August. Students may enter
the schools or be promoted to higher classes at
any time during the season, but all admissions
and promotions are on probation and subject to
reconsideration at the cliscretion of the FacUlty. Before making any application for transfer
from one class to another, students must have
approval of such application from the Instructor
of the class in which they are working.
All applications must be on file the day before
the meeting of the Faculty.
It is an imperative rule that all work submitted
for examination for any purpose must be signed,
otherwise it will not be considered.
To avoid loss, studies must be reclaimed
promptly after examination.
Those desiring to enter the Second Section
of the Day Antique Drawing Class must present
signed drawings from the solid object. Those
desiring to enter the Second Section of the Stilllife Painting Class must present signed paintings
from the solid object.
Students will be admitted to the Life and
Head Classes only by the action of the Faculty
after an examination of their work in Drawing
from the full length figure, either antique or
life.
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AD MISS IONS
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A DMISSI ONS.
CONTINUE D.
Students admitted to a Day Life Class require
no further examination for admission to the
Head Class.
Color work in a Life Class or a Head Class
will be permitted, subject to the approval of the
Instructor in charge.
Specimens of modelling of sufficient merit
are required for admission or promotion to the
Life Modelling Classes.
Day Life and Head Course students are privileged to work without extra charge in all the
classes of the schools, including the evening
classes.
Day Antique Course students may work in
the Night Antique Classes without extra charge.
NIGJiT L I FE
MODELLING .
PART IAL
COURSES .
AR C HI TECT U-
RAL D E S IGN .
T-SQUA RE
ATE LI E R
OF TH E
ACADEMY .
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The Night Life Modelling Classes will be
continued unless the attendance should fall
below six in any class.
Students desiring partial courses, including
one or more of the above classes, will be required to make a special application to the
Faculty; but in this case they will not be entitled to the privileges or rates of tuition accorded to those taking the full course.
With the co-operation of the University of
Pennsylvania and the T-Square Club, the class
in Architectur;ll Design, established in 1904, and
known as the T-Square Atelier of The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, will be
continued. Professor Paul Phillippe Cret will
give regular criticisms throughout the season.
The work of the students in this course will
consist chiefly of problems in design, but drawing from the antique or life will also be required.
Modelling and Perspective may be included if
desired.
For the convenience of students who are
members of the T-Square Club, all work in
Architectural Design, other than nine-hour
sketches, may be done at the T-Square Club
House. Students of this course who are not
members of the T-Square Club will have facilities for doing their work in Architectural Design
at the Academy or the University as they may
elect. The following work will be done at the
Academy: Drawing from the Antique or Life,
Modelling, Perspective, and in Architectural
Design, all nine-hour sketches.
The class is divided into two sections:
The First Section consists of those who,
while not mere beginners, are still unprepared
for advanced work. Admission to the First
Section will be obtained by the submission of
satisfactory examples of work to the Faculty.
The Second Section will consist of students
who have been promoted from the First Section
or who have been admitted directly as graduates
of recognized schools of architecture or as
having equal qualifications.
ARCHITECTU-
R A L DES I GN.
CONTI NUED.
ARCHITECTU·
RAL DESIGN.
CONTINUED.
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Members of the architectural course desiring
to take part in the competitions of the New
York Society of Beaux Arts Architects 'will be at
liberty to send their work there for judgment
and award.
By the terms of the wills of Emlen Cresson
and Priscilla P. Cresson, a Fund has been
created as a Memorial to their deceased son
William Emlen Cresson, Academician, the in:
come of which is to be applied by The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in sending
pupils of merit of the said Corporation to Europe to study art.
By arrangement with the Managing Committee
of the ] ohn Stewardson Memorial Scholarship
in Architecture, awarded by the University of
Pennsylvania, the problem for the competition
for that scholarship will be identical in time and
subject with one of the more important problems of the Academy's course, so that students
of that course, if otherwise properly qualified
for the Stewardson competition, may take part
therein by simply performing their regular work.
Under this foundation, during the past five
years the Academy has sent abroad for study
forty-three pupils for terms varying from four
months to three years.
For the school year of I907-1908, the Academy
will have at its disposal a number of Travelling
Scholarships for awards to students of the
Schools, in Painting, Sculpture, and Architectural Design. These will consist of Long-term and
Short-term Scholarships, the number of each to
be determined by circumstances. The Longterm Scholarships will be for the period of one
year or more; the Short-term Scholarships will
be for a period of four months, from June to
September, inclusive.
It is also expected that arrangements will be
made by which the graduates of the School of
Architecture of the University of Pennsylvania,
who are students in the Academy course, may
take part in the competition for the Alumni
Fellowship by submitting in competition one of
the regular problems of the Academy course.
All students must enroll at the Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Arts and pay their dues
of ten dollars per term (twenty dollars per
annum) to the Curator, receiving a membership
card, without which no student will be admitted
to the classes. Those who have not previously
been students 'of the Academy will be required
to pay the Academy's matriculation fee of five
dollars.
Of the Short-term Scholarships it is a condition
that students shall return to the Academy for
study during the following school year, and it
is expected that they will again be competitors
for Cresson Scholarships.
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CRESSON
FUND FOR
FOREIGN
SCHOLARSHIPS.
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CRESSON
FUND FOR
FOREIGN
SCHOLARSHfPS .
CONTINUED.
Tile work r equired each mouth in the Academy Schools from students i?1 Paillting, Sculpture, and Architectural Desigll, will be tlte Prillcijal factor ill determining tile award of these
SclLOlarshijs. Candidates failing to submit sucl:
work will be illeligible.
Painters will be required to present work each
month in Composition, in drawing or painting
from the Figure, in drawing or painting from
the Head; and to participate in such Concours
and examinations as are announced during the
season.
Sculptors will be required to present each
month work done in the Life Modelling Class
and a composition in clay or wax. They
are required to participate in such COllcours and
examinations as are announced during the
season.
The requirements for the Night Classes are
the same as for the Day Classes, but Night Students will not be required to present drawings
from the Head, except in the ConCOltrS, which
for them will be held at night. There will be no
Still-life Concoltrs for night students.
CRESSON
FUND FOR
FOREIGN
SCHOLARSHIPS.
CONTINUED.
In the School of Architecture the awards
will be made upon two plan problems, two
sketches, one archaeology design and five
drawings from the cast or life, made in fi ve
different months, and entered for five different
monthly reviews.
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The Charles Toppan prizes for the year 19071908 will be, respectively, $400 and $300.
. These prizes were established in I88I by the
gift of Mrs. Charles Toppan, Miss Harriette R.
Toppan, and Mr. Robert N. Toppan.
The prizes will be awarded only to students
who have worked regularly in the Academy
Schools for at least two years, one of which
must be the year of the competition.
Neither of the prizes will be awarded to the
same person two years in succession, nor to the
same person more than twice.
CHARLES
TOPPAN
PRIZES.
The works submitted must be original paintings dealing with the subject or subjects named
by the Committee on Instruction , and all works
in competition must be presented on or before
Saturday, May 2, I908.
According to the positively expressed terms
of the gift, the drawing of the pictures will
receive the first attention of the judges. The
size of the canvasses submitted must not be
less than twelve inches nor more than thirty-six
inches in either dimension.
The subjects chosen for the year 1907-1908
are Solitude and Joy.
Pictures receiving the awards will become
the property of the Academy.
I t is required that pictures submitted in competition for these prizes shall be the unaided
work of the student, without criticism.
CHARLl!S
TOPPAN
PRIZES.
CONTINURD .
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No work will be accepted without the approval
of the Committee on Instruction, and there is
no oblio·ation to award a prize if in the opinion
of the Committee none of the works submitted
is of sufficient merit.
The Edmund Stewardson Prize of One Hundred Dollars, in the Department of Sculpture,
will be awarded for the ninth time at the close
of the school year.
HDMUND
STEWARDSON
SCULPTURE
PRIZR.
This is an annual prize, to be competed for
by present students of the Academy with such
pupils of other art schools as may be approved by
the Committee on Instruction. Having once received this reward, a student becomes ineligible.
The subject for the competition shall be a
full-length figure from the Antique or Life,
either in the round or in relief, and will be
announced by the Committee on Instruction on
the first day of the Competition.
Studies shall not be less than two feet six
inches in height and not more than three feet
in height, and shall be made within eighteen
hours, during three consecutive days, in six
sessions of three hours each.
Each competitor shall privately draw by lot a
number, and shall enclose the same with his or
her name in a sealed envelope to the Secretary
of the Academy. Upon completion of the work
the competitor shall place a corresponding
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. number upon the study submitted to the Jury
of Award. When the subject is in high relief,
position in the competition room shall be determined by lot. No one except the competitors
shall be admitted to the competition room at
any time during the days of the competition,
nor shall any person except the Judges be
present during their inspection of the studies.
The Judges or Jury of Award shall be three
professional sculptors, having no official connection with the Academy, or school or schools
whose pupils may have taken part in the
competition. When the successful number shall
have been announced by the Judges, the Secretary shall, in the presence of one or more of
the Directors of the Academy, open the sealed
envelopes, and declare the name of the successful competitor. If no study be satisfactory
to the Judges, the prize may, in their discretion,
be withheld; and when no award is made, the
amount of the prize may, in the discretion of
the Board of Directors of the Academy, be
added to the principal of the prize fund, or distributed with future prizes.
The clay models offered in competition must
be kept standing in good condition until otherwise ordered, and figures cast by the Academy
become its property.
The competition for the year 1908 will take
place on March 23, 24, and 25.
EDMUND
STEWARDSON
SCULPTURE
PRIZE .
CONTINUED.
AWARDS IN
COMPOSITION
CLASS.
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The followino-b awards, founded by Henry
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J. Thouron, a former Instructor in composItIon
in the Academy Schools, will be made at the
close of each school year, the terms of said
awards being as follows:
One of $50 and one of $25 for the two
best groups of not less than three compositions
upon subjects given to the class during the current season; the first to be decided by the
Faculty, the second by a vote of the students
then working in the schools; and one of $5 0 ,
and one of $25, the first for general progress
in the study; the second for the work showing,
in its treatment of said subjects, the most poetic,
or best abstract, or idealistic point of view, the
same to be decided by the Instructor of the
class. The same awards are not to be made
twice to the same student.
Exhibitions of the Students' work are held
each year in the Fall and Spring.
In the event of not making the annual awards,
or any portion of them, the money is to accumulate until it shall amount to the sum of $500,
when it shall be awarded, by vote of the Faculty,
as the result of a competition in Composition
upon a given subject, to the successful student
for a three months' summer trip abroad, to include certain specified places and galleries, and
for the special study of Composition.
ZOOLOGICAL
PRIZES.
Annual prizes have been founded for the best
groups of original studies made from living
animals. Competition for these prizes is open
to all students of the Academy.
The Cresson Travelling Scholarships and
other prizes will be awarded at the close of the
second term.
The income from the various Funds of the
Academy makes possible low rates of tuition,
as follows:
FEES FOR REGULAR COURSES.
H~ad Course. . $40.00
Including any Antique or Night
Life Classes desired.
Day Life and
per term.
20.00
"
20.00
16.00
"
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Night Antique Course. . . .
16.00
"
Architectural Design Course
10.00
"
Day Antique Course. . .
Women's Afternoon Life
Course . . . . . . . .
Men's Night Life Course .
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Including any Night Antique
Classes desired.
FEES FOR SPECIAL COURSES.
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Painting from Head. .
Drawing from Figure.
Drawing from Antique . . .
Modelling from Life, Day.
$3°.00
per term.
26.00
"
20.00
"
"
26.00
EXHIBITIONS.
AWARDS.
FEES .
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20
FEES.
CONTINUED.
Modelling from Life, Late
Afternoon . . . . . . .
Modelling from Life, Night
Modelling from Antique.
Still-life Painting
Composition
Illustration.
Perspective
Anatomy.
. $20.00
IS·OO
20.00
IS·00
12.00
20.00
I2.oo
I2.oo
per term.
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per course.
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Regular attendance is not compulsory but
no reduction from these rates will be made
on account of absence.
All new students upon entering the Academy
will be required to pay a Matriculation Fee of
five dollars.
A payment of one dollar is required for the
use of lockers. Materials for study must be
provided by the students. All articles required
in the classes are for sale in the Schools at
lowest prices.
A student's ticket entitles the holder during
and after attendance at the schools to the use of
the Galleries, Special Exhibitions, the Library,
the Print Collection, and the Lectures given
from time to time under the auspices of the
Academy.
Payments must be made, strictly in advance,
to the Curator.
Assistance in securing board or rooms will
be given upon request. The cost of living in
Philadelphia is not high, and suitable accommodations within reasonable distance of the
Academy are readily obtainable, for both men
and women.
Blank forms of application and any further
information regarding the Schools may be
obtained by addressing
HUGH H. BRECKENRIDGE,
Curator of the Schools.
BROAD STREET,ABOVE ARCH,
PHILADELPHIA.
FEES.
CONTINUED.
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SCHEDULE OF CLASSES.
TUESDAY .
WnDN1!SDAY .
THURSDAY .
MONDAY
Women's Life
Drawing.
Men's Life
Modelling.
Drawing from
Cast,
1St .
Drawing from
Cast, zd.
I) Illustration .
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Women's Life
Drawing.
2 Men's Life
Modelling.
Drawing from
Cast, :15t.
Drawing from
Cast, 2d.
Women's Life
Drawing.
Men's Life
Modelling.
Dra wing from
Cast ,
1St.
Drawing from
Cast, .d .
Still-Life Painting,
• d.
12 M . -I P.M., DAILY.
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Men's Life
Drawing.
Women's Life
Modelling.
Mr. Kendall's
Head Class.
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Drawing from
Cast,
Women's Life
Modelling.
Composition.
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Men's Life
Drawing.
Drawing from
Cast.
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Drawing from
Women's ife
Modelling.
Still-Life Painting,
1St.
1St.
Drawing from
Cast, 2d.
Modelling from Cast.
3
Mr. Kendall's
Head Class.
Men's Life
Cast,
.
Cast, 2d.
Drawint
Mr. Chase's
Head Class.
Mr. Kendall's
Head Class.
1
Drawing from
Cast,
1St.
ISt.
Drawing from
Cast, 2d .
Women's Life
Drawing.
1 Perspective
Lecture .
~en's Life
Modelling.
Modelling fr om
Cast.
.
Women's Life
Drawing.
Men's Life
Modelling.
Drawing from
Cast, 1St.
Drawing from
Cast 2d .
Still-Life Painting,
2d .
SATURDAY.
2Women's Life
Drawinl'
2 Men's ire
Modelling.
Costume Sketch
Class.
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PEN AND PENCIL SKETCH CLASS.
Mr. Chase's
Head Class
Mr. Kend all's
Head Class.
1
2\Vomen's Life
Drawing.
2 ~1:en's Life
Modelling.
Drawing from
Cast, 1St.
Drawing from
FRIDAY
Dca wing from
Cast, 2d.
Drawing from
Cast, 2d.
Women's Life
Modelling.
Anatomy Lec-
'Vomen's Life
Drawing.
Men's Life
Drawing.
Mr. Kendall's
Head Class.
Wom en 's Life
Modelling.
Still-LifePainting ,'1st
Drawing from
Cast.2d.
Modelling from Cast.
Women's Life
Modelling.
Mr. Chase's
Head Class.
Mr. Kend all's
Head Class.
1
Drawing from
Cast, zst.
Dca wing from
Cast, 2d.
Women's Life
Drawing.
lure, 4-5 P. M.
Men's Life
Drawing.
Drawing from
Cast.
Men's Life
Modelling.
Drawing from
Cast . •
Men's Life
Drawing.
Drawing from
Cast.
Men's Life
Modelling.
Modelling from
Cast.
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Held In alternate two weeks from 9 to 12 A.M., the Women 's Life Modelling and Men's Life Drawmg
being substituted from I to 4 P.M .
~ Not held on alternate two weeks when the Head Class meets from 9 Lo 12 A . M.
3 Cr~ticisms on the second Monday of each month at 4 P . M., and on the last Monday of each month at 8 P.M.
for painters and illustrators; for sculptors, criticisms monthly on dates to be announced.
i Held on the first and third Tuesdays of each month at 4 P . M.
i) Held every two weeks.
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