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SCHOOLS OF THE
·PENNSYLVANIA
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ACADEMY OF THE
FINE ~ARTS
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PHILADELPHIA
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1926
SCHOOLS OF THE
PENNSYLVANIA
ACADEMY OF THE
FINE ARTS
BROAD STREET ABOVE ARCH
PHILADELPHIA
This Circular contains information which will be
appreciated by many an art student. When
you have finished with it, will you kindly hand
it to some one who may be interested,
and oblige
ONE HUNDRED AND
TWENTIETH YEAR
THE PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY
OF THE FINE ARTS
SUMMER SCHOOL
CHESTER SPRINGS. CHESTER COUNTY. PENNA .
1925-1926
"No su dden inspi ration can
replace the long toil which is
indispen sable to give the eyes
a true knowledge of form and
of proportion and to render the
hand obedient to the c o mmands of feeling."
AUGUSTE RODIN
"An artist worthy of the
name should express all the
truth of nature, not only the
exterior truth, but also, and
above all, the inner truth."
AUGUSTE RODIN
Harry J. Oshi ver
PORTRAIT STUDY (PAINTING) 1925
COMPOSITIONS BY MARION P. KING (SCULPTURE) 19 2 5
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THE PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE
FINE ARTS
PRESIDENT
JOHN FREDERICK LEWIS
VJCB-PRBSIDI!NT
ARTHUR H. LEA
DIRECTORS
THEOPHILUS P. CHANDLER
GEORGE H. MCFADDEN
CLEMENT B. NEWBOLD
EDWARD T. STOTESBURY
ALFRED C. HARRISON
ARTHUR H. LEA
JOSEPH E. WIDENER
ELI KIRK PRICE
HENRY S. DRINKER. JR.
THOMAS S. GATES
HENRY C. GIBSON
ALFRED G . B. STEEL
FRANK H. CAVEN
TR'BASURER
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HENRY C . D1BSON
SECRETARY
JOHN ANDREW MYERS
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CURATOR OF PAINTINGS
ERNEST L. PARKER
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CURATOR OF THE SCHOOLS
BARBARA BELL
SOLICITOR
MAURI CE B. SAUL
HESIIJENT l\'IANA GER.
CHBSTER S PRIN GS SCHOOl..
D. ROY MILLER
COMM I TTEE ON INSTRUCTI ON
THEO PHILUS P. C HANOLER
ARTHUR H. LEA
ELI KIRK PRICE
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THOMAS S. GATES
HENRY C. GIBSON
ALFRED G. B. STEEL
INDEX
PACE
. . . . . . . . .. .. . . . . , . . . . . .... . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
GENERAL ANNOUNCEMENT
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..... .
SOME ADVANTAGES OF LOCATION
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...
PHILADELPHIA CALENDAR
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CHESTER SPRINGS CALENDAR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. .. . . . . . ....
ApPLICATION FOR ADMISSION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . ..
MANAGEMENT OF THE ACADEMY
FACULTy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
SCHEDULE OF FEES • . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . ..........••••. .
INSTRUCTION
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MR. LAESSLE ' S CLASS (CONSTRUCTIVE ANATOMV ) . . .•. •..
MR. HARBESON'S CLASS (PERSPECTIVE). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
MR. HALE'S LECTURES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..
MR. HAYWARD'S LECTURES (CARICATURE).. ...... . . ... .
MR.
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SKETCH
CLASS . • . . . . . . . . . . . " . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..
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SCULPTURE . . . . . . . . ..... .. .. .. ••• . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .....
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ILLUSTRATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... ...... .............••..
SCHOLARSHIPS AND PRIZES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
FREE TUITION ScHOLARSHIPS . . . . .... ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
TRA VELLING SCHOLARSHIPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . ... .
TOPPAN PRIZES ..• . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. .. . . . . . . . . . . . .
THOURON PRIZES IN COMPOSITION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
STEWARDSON PRIZE IN SCULPTURE . •........ ... ..... . ...
STIMSON PRIZE IN SCULPTURE ... .. .. . . •• .. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
PACKARD PRIZES ... .. . . . . . . . . . . .••••. • ...... ... ..• •..
RAM BORGER PRIZE •..•. . . . . . . . . . . ..... ...••.. ..• •• . ..
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THE CHARLES M. LEA PRIZES . ... .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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DRAWING AND PAINTING (LIFE AND HEAD) •... " . .... .. . .
SPECIAL CLASSES
MR. POORE'S CLASS (COMPOSITION)....... ........ . ....
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DRAWING (ANTIQUE) ••••..... . .... ....... ...•• ••• . ...
MR. MCCARTER'S CLASS IN DECORATIVE PAINTING . ..•. _
Earl M. Reed
GENI):RAL EXHIBITION (ILLUSTRATION) 1925
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THE ACADEMY'S FREE HAND DRAWING PRIZES .......... .
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93
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ACADEMY'S PRIZES (CHESTER SPRINGS ANNUAL EXfIIBITION)
RULES OF THE SCHOOLS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... .
SCHEDULE OF CLASSES •.•.. ..... .... ...... .. .•• ... • . ..••..
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99
THE SUMMER SCHOOL AT CHESTER SPRINGS .... ...•••.........
ACADEMY'S HONOR ROLL. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
HONOR ROLL OF THE ACADEMY'S SCHOOLS. . . . • • • • • • . . • . . . . . . . 1 0 7
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Born in Philadelphia. December 3. 1862. Studied in the Spring Garden
Institute. PhlladelJ?hla. the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and in
P aris. Pupil of L' E cole des Beaux Arts, and of Chapu, Dampt, Bou~uercau
and Fleury, Member Society of American Artists. Honorable Mention
P aris Salon. 189 1; Medal. World's Columbian Exposition. 1893 ; Medal:
Atlanta Exposition , 1895 ; The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Gold Medal of Honor. 1899; Gold Medal. Exposition-Universelle . Paris.
1900; Gold Medal. Pan-American Exposition.!Buffalo; Gold Medal. Charleston Exposition, 1902; Member of the Internat ional Jury of Awards, World's
Fair, St. Louis, 1904; Grand Prize, Buenos Aires Exposition, 1910; George
D. Widener Memorial Gold Medal, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts,
1913; The Charles M. Lea First Prize, The Pennsy lvania Academy of the
Fine Arts. 1916; The Watrous Gold Medal. National Academy of Design.
1919; The Potter Palmer Prize and Gold Medal, Chicago Art Instit.ute,
1921; Prize, Concord Art Association , 1922; Gold Medal of Honor. Concord Art Association. 1923; The Spaulding Pri ze, The Chicago Art Institute ,
1924; Member of the National Academy of Design, the Architectural
League of New York. the National Institute of Arts and Letters; Member
the National Sculpture Society ; Member Municipal Art Jury of Philadelphia; Member of International Jury of Award. Panama-Pacific Exhibition. 1915. Instructor in Scu lpture.
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Born in Leeshurg, Virgini a . October 6, 1870 . Studied in the Schoo ls o f
the Pennsylvania Academy and with Bouguereau, Ferrier and Doucet in
Paris. Awarded European Scholarship. Pennsylvania Academy; First Class
Toppan Prize, Pennsylvania Academy ; Medal. Atlanta Exposition . 1 89 .~:
H o norable Mention. Exposition Universclle. Paris. 1900; Med~l. Pan-A~eTl
can Exposition. BufIalo:1901; Corcoran Prize, Society?f W a~h tngton ~rtl st.s .
1903; Gold Medal. Art Club of Philadelphia . 1907; First PrIZe: WashIngton
W a• t er C 0 lor Club , 1908'. Silver Medal , In ternatIOnal ExpOSitIOn. Buenos
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Gold
Medal
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San Francisco, 1915; Third William A. Clark PTlze, Co:coran a ery ~
C 1916 ·, Edward T . Stotesbury Pnze. Pennsylvania
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Ac;dcmy of the Fine Arts. Philadelphia. 19 17; The Academy Gold Me a
of Honor, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 19 19j TI~e ] cl1ll1e Sesnan
Gold Medal Pennsylvania Academy . 1920; The FellowshIp Gold Medal.
Philadelphia'. 1920. Member of the Jury of Selection for the Pan-Amenca~
Water Color Cl ub.
E XpOSI·t·lon, B U ffalo • 1901·I Member of the New York
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Aca d emy of th
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Honorary Member Philadelphia Chapter, American Institute 0
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Connecticut Academy of the Fine Arts; Member of the Jury .of Selection.
United States Section. Department of Art. and of the InternatIOnal J~r~ of
Awards. Universal Exposition. St. Louis, 1904;. Member of. the MUnIcIpal
Art Jury of Philadelphia; Member of the AdVIsory CommIttee for Pennsylvania and the Southern States, and of the Jury of Select.ion. Department
of Art, Panama· Pacific International Exposition. San FrancIsco . 191 S. Repre·
sented in the co llect ions of the Delgado Museum of Art, New Orleans; San
Francisco Art Association, San Francisco; Dayton Museum. Dayton, Ohio;
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; Los Angeles Museum, Los Angeles
Cal.; St. Louis Club. St. Louis; University of Virginia; Art Club of Philadelphia; University of Pennsylvania; Memorial Hall, Hartford, Conn.;
University Club of Indianapolis; Jefferson Medical College. College of
Physicians, College of Pharmacy. Historical Society, Pennsylvania Hospital,
Philosophical Society and in the City H all. Philadelphia; Court House.
Reading. Pa.; State Capitol. Harrisburg. Pa.; State Normal School West
Chester, Pa., and in collections in New York, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Cleveland
etc. Instructor in Drawing and Painting.
HENRY McCARTER.
Born in Norristown. July 5. 1865. Studied in the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and under Puvis de Chavannes, Bonnat, Merson,
Courtois, Rixens. Member Art Students' League, New York. Charles W .
Beck. Jr .. Prize. P en nsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. 1906; Silver
Medal. World's Fa.ir. St. Louis Exposition. 1904; Bronze Medal. PanAmerican Exposition. Buffalo; Gold Medal, Panama-Pacific Exhibition,
San Francisco, 1915. Instructor in Decorative Painting.
DANIEL GARBER.
Born in North Manchester. Indiana. April II. 1880. Studied in the Art
Academy of Cincinnati, and in The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
Awarded First Toppan Prize, Pennsylvania Academy, 1904, and Cresson
Travelling Scholarship, 1905- 1907; First Hallgarten Prize, National Academy of Design. 1909; H onorable Mention. The Art Club of Philadelphia.
1910; Honorable Mention, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 1910; Bronze
Meda~, Buenos Aires Exposition, 1910; Fourth Clark Prize and Honorable
M~ntlOn, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 1910; Walter Lippincott
Pnze, The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1911 i Potter Palmer
Gold Medal. Art Institute of Chicago. 1911 ; Second W. A. Clark Prize and
S,lver Medal. Corcoran Gallery of Art. 1912; Gold Medal. Panama-Pacific
Inte.rnational Exposition, 1915; Second Altman Prize, National Academy of
Deslgn, 1915;, Shaw Purchase Prize, Salmagundi Club, 1916; Edward T.
Stotesbury Pnze. Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1918; Temple
Gold Med~l. The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. 1919; First
A~tman Pnze for Figure, National Academy of Design New York 1919 '
FIrst W. A. Clark Prize and Gold Medal. Corcoran Galle~y of Art. W~shing:
ton, 1921; FIrst Altman Prize, National Academy of Design New Yo k
1922; The Loc~st Club Gold Medal, 1923; Carnegie Pri~e, Natio~ai
Acad:myof DeSIgn. New York. 192 3; Gold Medal. Art Club of Philadelphia.
1923, Medal of ThIrd Class, International Exhibition, Carnegie Institute of
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THE FACULTY (Continued)
Art. Pittsburgh. 1924. Member of the National Acad
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b er 0 f th e N a t IOna
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D rawing and Painting.
JOSEPH T. PEARSON, Jr.
Born in Germantown. Philadelphia. February 6. 1876. Studied in The
Pennsylvania
Academy of the, Fine Arts and und er J . AId en W elr.
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shIp Pnze. The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts 1910' B
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e a, u~nos Ires ExpOSition, 1910 ; Jennie Sesnan Gold Medal, The
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1911 ; Second Hallgarten Prize,
National Academy of Desig n. New York, 1911; Honorable Mention
Carnegie Institute. Pittsburgh. 1911; Innes Gold Medal. National Academ;
of DeSIgn. New Y ork. 1915; Gold Medal. Panama-Pacific International
Exposition, San Francisco, 1915 ; Norman Wait Harris Silver Medal. Art
Institute of Chicago. 1915; T emple Gold Medal. The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. 1916; The Edward T. Stotesbury Prize. The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. 1916 ; The Carol H . Beck Gold Medal. The
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. 191 7; The Potter Palmer Gold
Medal. Chicago Art Institute. Chicago. 1918. Member of the National
Academy of Design . Instructor in Drawing and Painting.
GEORGE HARDING.
Born in Philadelphia. October 2. 188 2. Studied in the Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Arts. and with Howard Pyle. and independently abroad.
Has travelled extensively in foreign countries and is the author of travel
articles and the illustrator of fictional and descriptive work in Harper's and
other magazines. Assigned by the United States War Department to duty
as artist with the American Expeditionary Forces in 1918 and 1919. Has
executed Mural Decorations in Banks, Hotels and Theatres. Fellow of the
Royal Geographic Society; Member of National Society of Mural Painters;
Architectural League of New York; The Society of Illustrators; The
Philadelphia Water Color Club. Philadelphia. and of the Salmagundi Club.
New York. Instructor in Illustration.
HENRY R. POORE.
Born in Newark. N . J . • March 21 . 1859. Pupil of Peter Moran and
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia; National Academy
of Design. New York; Lum inais and Bouguereau in Paris . . Membe,r:
Associate National Academy of Design. New York. 1888; PhIladelphIa
Sketch Club; Art Club. Philadelphia; Salmagundi Club; Lotus Club; Umon
International des B eaux Arts et des Let tresj Fellowship Pennsyl~anta
Academy of the Fine Ar ts. 191 6. MacDowell Club. New York; NatlOna~
Arts Club, New York; Connecticut Academy of FlOe Arts, Hartford,
S OCle
· ty , Phl·ladelphia·, Animal Painters and
Sculptors; League
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A mencan
of American Artists.
Awards: First Prize, Am,encan Art ASSOCIatIon,
Second H allgarten Prize. National Academy of DeSIgn. 1888; Bronze Medal
Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo , 1901; Silver Medal: St. LOUIS ExposItIon.
1 0 • Gold Medal. American Art Society. Philad elphIa : 1906; Gold Medal.
B9ue~os Aires, 1910; Silver Medal, Panama Pacific EXpoSltlOn, SanffF~a~~.I~C:e
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k · "Night of the Nativity." Fine Arts Academ y . Bu [a II
1915. W or.
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THE FACULTY (Continued)
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ALFRED HAYWARD.
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' . "In the Meadow," "Hounds in Sunlight,"
Shore," Ci~y ~1useum: t. o~I~ '''Old English Stag Hound," Worcester
Art ASSOCiatIOn. Indl~nap?hs.
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Conception of Art." Instructor in Drawmg an
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Me~ber: T~e Fellowship of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine
Arts; Philadelphia Water Color Club'I New Y ork W a t er C0 Ior Club
Awarded
the
.
. Dana Gold Medal., Pennsylvania Aead emy 0 f t h e P'me Arts..
Philadelphia Water Color Club,
10 1919
. SpecI'al Lect urer on C·
ancature.
JOHN F. HARBESON, B.S., M.S.A. , R.A.
ROY C. NUSE.
Dorn in Philadelphia. July 30, 1888. Attended the University of Penn. R
. d B S 1910 and Arthur Spayd Brooke Gold Medal III
sylvania. ecelve
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Design, 1910; M. S. A., 1911; Cope Prize (Phlladelpllla Chapter A. I. A. and
T Square Club) 1913. Member American Inst~tute of Arc~ ltec~s , ASSistant
Professor in Architectural Design, School of FlOe Arts, Un,lver~l ty of Pennsylvania, Instructor in Perspective and Architectural AdVisor In the Sculpture Class in Composit ion.
B orn in Springfield, Ohio, February 23. 1885. Pupil of Duve k
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~ademy, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
M em ber: Fellows~lP of the, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, League
of Amenc,an Artists; P~lladelphja Alliance , Awards: Cresson European
Scholarship, Pennsylvanta Academy of the Fine Arts. 1917i Second
Cresson,. First Toppan and First Thouron Prizes. Pennsylvania Academy
of the FlOe Arts, 1918: Medal, Philadelphia Sketch Club. 192I. Instructor
in Drawing and Painting
ALBERT LAESSLE.
Dorn in Philadelphia. March 28. 1877. Studied in the Spring Garden
Institute. Drexel Institute, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and with
Charles Grafly. Member: National Sculpture Society . Fellowship of Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; Philadelphia Art Alliance; Societe les
Arnis de la M~daille d 'Art, Brussels. Belgium; The Society of Painters and
Sculptors of Animal Life. New York; The New Society of Artists, New
York. Awards: Stewardson Prize and Cresson Travelling Scholarship,
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1904; Bronze Medal, Buenos Aires,
1910; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Fellowship Prize, 1915; Gold
Medal, Panama-Pacific Exposition, San Francisco, 1915; First Sculpture
Prize, Americanization Through Art, Philadelphia. 1916; The George D.
Widener Memorial Gold Medal. Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts,
1918; Honorable Mention for Sculpture, Art Institute of Chicago, 1920; The
Fellowship of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Gold Medal, 1923.
Represented in the ~ol1ection of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Philadelphia, Philadelphia Art Club. Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Peabody Institute, Baltimore. Metropolitan Museum, New York. Instructor
in Sculpture (Summer School) and Anatomy.
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PHILIP L. HALE.
Dorn in Boston. May 2 1. 1865. Pupil of J. Alden Weir, the J ulian
Academy and L 'Ecole des Deaux Arts, Pa ris. Member of Art Students.
League, New York; St. Botolph Club, Doston ; The National Arts Club.
New York; The Art Club. Philadelphia; The Art Club, San Francisco,
Honorable Mention, Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, 1901 i Bronze
Medal, St., Louis Exposition, 1904; Gold Medal, I nternational Exposition,
Bue~os Aires, 1910j Norman Wait Harris Silver Medal. Ch icago Art
Institute, 1916j Proctor Port.rait Prize. National Academy of Design, New
York, 1~16j The Charles M. Lea Second Prize, The Pennsylvania Academy
of the FI~e Arts, 1916; The Philadelphia Prize, The Pennsylvania Academy
of t~e Fme Arts, 1919. Associate Member of the National Academy of
Desl.g~;, Member of the International Jury of Awards. Panama-Pacific
ExhibitIOn, 1915. Special Lecturer.
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THE PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY
OF THE FINE ARTS
The Pennsylvania Academy conducts the oldest scho I in
America devoted exclusively to the cultivation of the Fine Arts~ s
The Academy also conducts at Chester Springs Chester C
Pennsylvania, w.hat ~s believed to be the best equi;ped Open-:i;
Summer School In thiS country. For details see page 87 .
. Duri~g the .one ~undred ~nd twenty years of the Academy's
eXIstence It has aIded m the traming of many men and women whose
names are illustrious on the pages of American Art. Among its
former students are eminent painters-figure, landscape, and marine
-mural decorators, illustrators, and sculptors of national reputation. Its history is in no small measure the history of American
Art itself.
The schools are under the immediate care of a Curator and
Committee on Instruction appointed by the President and Board
of Directors, together with a Faculty composed of representative
artists of the day, who are experienced teachers and eminently qualified to discover and develop every talent which students may
possess.
The Academy is equipped in every way to teach the technique
of Painting and Sculpture, and engages its students at once and
exclusively in the study of the Fine Arts. Its aim is to equip them
with a thorough knowledge of Correct Drawing, Color Value, Composition, Modelling, Constructive Anatomy, and Perspective.
Mary C. McKechnie
LIFE STUDY (PAINTING) 1925
Lectures of general and special interest are given during the
year, and visits are made to private collections, museums, etc.,
which students may attend without extra charge. During the past
year a partial list includes a series of Lectures on the "Hist?~ of
Technique" and "Hopes and Fears for American Art," by PhIlip L.
Hale and under the auspices of the Fellowship of the Academy, by
Albert Sterner, "Drawing"; by George Luke, "Knights of the
Tracing Paper and Custodians of the Pantograph"; by George
Howe .. The Garden"; by Frank Alva Parsons "Democracy and
our Present Art Problems. "
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The Academy's Permanent Collection of paintings and sculpture
affor.ds an opportunity for the study of examples of famous masters
an~ mclud es the Gallery of National Portraiture by Early American
Pamters; the Temple Collection of Modern American P . t'
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e 1 son ollection, largely composed of works of the Contmental schools.
Copying in the galleries is permitted to students under reasonable regulations.
The Annual Exhibitions held by the Academy bring together
the best examples of current American painting and sculpture,
and enable students to follow intelligently the various movements
of modern art, and to study the technical methods by which the
art of today is achieving its results. These exhibitions have been
recognized for many years as being the foremost in America. During
the past year they included:
An Exhibition of Water Colors composed of 495 examples,
representing 122 different artists;
An Exhibition of Miniatures composed of 144 exampl es, representing 73 different artists;
The Academy's [20th Annual Exhibition of Oil Paintings and
Sculpture, composed of 408 paintings and 169 sculptures, representing a total of 412 artists. This Exhibition was opened to public
view for seven weeks and was visited by 34,789 people.
Special Exhibition: April [2, 1921, to May [3, 1925. An Exhibition of portraits by J ohn Neagle (1796-18 65).
SOME ADVANTAGES OF LOCATION
The Academy building is located in the heart of Philadelphia,
within one square of City Hall and within two or three blocks of the
central city railroad stations. The new Parkway brings it within
easy reach of Fairmount Park and 3000 acres of beautiful scenery.
While it is convenient to the business portion of the city, it is also
readily accessible to the residential districts. Philadelphia is often
caned" The City of Homes," and of all the greater American cities
it is probably the most worthy of the name. Apartments and studios
can be obtained by the year or by the month for reasonable rates.
The CO&t of living is comparatively low.
,
The city contains, in addition to the Academy's own gallery, a
number of notable collections of paintings which are accessible to
students. Among the more important may be mentioned: The
Wilstach Collection in Fairmount Park; The Lankenau Collection
at the Drexel Institute; The John G. Johnson Collection; the important paintings at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, and at
Independence Hall. The Private Collection of Joseph E. Widener
(admission by appointment only).
To students attending the Academy, the Reference Library and
the Galleries are free during the time of their attendance .
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COMPOSIT
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PORTRAIT STUDY (PAINTING) 1925
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PHILADELPHIA CALENDAR
The One Hundred and Twentieth Year Begins
October 5, 1925.
The school year is divided into two terms of 17 weeks each.
The first term begins Monday, October 5, 1925, and closes J anuary
30, 1926; the second term begins Monday, February I , 1926 and
closes Saturday, May 29, 1926.
The schools are open from 9 o'clock a.m. until IO o'clock p.m.
daily except Sunday. Saturdays, 9 o'clock a.m. until 6 o'clock p.m.
Evening classes are open from 7 0 'clock until 100 'clock.
Visitors are admitted to the school on week-days from 4 to 5 p.m.
The schools are closed on Sundays, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas
Day, N ew Year's Day, Washington's Birthday and Good Friday.
During the Christmas holidays the schools are open, but from
six 0 'clock p.m. December 23rd to nine 0 'clock a.m. January 4th
no models are engaged to pose and no criticisms are given. On
the Sat urday preceding Easter and on Easter Monday no models
are engaged to pose and no criticisms are given. No models are
engaged to pose fbr the last week of the second term.
CHESTER SPRINGS CALENDAR
The Chester Springs Summer School is open from April 1st to
October 1st. Criticisms are given between April 15th and October 1st.
During the Autumn and Winter months, special arrangements may
be made with the Resident Manager for working at the school.
Oscar Moller
STILL LIFE (PAI NTING) 1925
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APPLICATION FOR ADMISSION TO THE
PHILADELPHIA SCHOOL
Application hlanks are sent on request and must be filled in and
returned to the Curator before the student registers.
Students may register for the first term of the season of 19 2 5- 1926
after September 15 th , 19 25. Classes meet Monday, October 5th, 192 5.
Students may register for the second term after January 15th,
19 26 . Classes meet Monday, February 1st, 1926.
No reduction in tuition is made for those registering after a
term has begun.
Stud en ts must register in person.
ELIGIBILITY
No student under sixteen years of age is eligible for admission.
No student is eligible for admission unless possessed of a good
common-school education such as is reached by the highest grade
of the grammar schools. A high school education is recommended.
REQUIREMENTS FOR ADMISSION
All new students, except those applying for admission to the
modelling classes, must work on trial in the Antique Drawing Classes
and submit not later than the second Faculty meeting after registra tion, two drawings, made in the School, for the purpose of
classification.
For admission to the Life Modelhng Classes, photographs of
work or specimens of modelling of sufficient merit are required.
ROOMS AND BOARD IN PHILADELPHIA
Harry
J. Oshiver
PORTRAIT STUDY (PAINTING)
19 2 5
The Academy's Philadelphia Schools are Day Schools only and
no responsibility for Students is assumed by the Acade~y bey~nd
the limits of the School buildings. However, assistance III secunng
board or rooms is given upon request. The cost of living in
Philadelphia is not high, and accommodations within reasonable
distance of the Academy are available for both men and women.
SCHEDULE OF FEES
PAYMENT MUST BE MADE IN ADVANCE TO THE CURATOR
P E R T E RM
Tuition, per term of 17 weeks .. .. ...... . . . . '"
Locker Rent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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All new students must pay a matriculation fee of five dollars.
The payment of $75 a term for tuition, $1 a t erm for locker rent ,
and the matriculation fee of $5 covers all fees, but does not cover the
cost of materials.
No extra charge is made for the use of models.
No reduction is made to studen ts registering after a term has
begun.
No reduction is made to stud ents who desire to take special
criticisms, to work in the night classes only, or to work under one
instructor only.
The payment of the tuition fees entitl es the student to work in
the Day Classes, the Night Classes or, in both.
TUITION FEES ARE NOT REFUNDED FOR ANY
CAUSE WHATEVER
The Academy accepts ch ecks in payment of fees but students are
advised that all checks which they wish to have cashed in Philadelphia should be in the form of drafts on a Philadelphia bank.
Harry J. Oshiver
STILL LIFE (PAINTING) 1925
INSTRUCTION
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ANTIQUE DRAWING, 1925
ANTIQUE DRAWING
J, R olston Clarke
ANTIQUE DRAWING, 1925
Instruction is given in Drawing from Casts (head and full figure),
Students entered in these Classes have the privilege of drawing and
painting from still life, working in the Decorative Painting Class and
the Composition Class, and may attend the lectures upon Composition, Perspective, and Constructive Anatomy,
For Fees, see Schedule, page 25,
SCI-I EDULE OF CLASSES
Drawing from Cast.
INSTRUCTORS
Daniel Garber
Every morning and afternoon, every
night, excepting Saturday.
Decorative Painting, Friday mornmgs and afternoons.
Henry McCarter
Composition, Wednesday afternoons.
Henry C. Poore
Still-Life Drawing and Painting, Hugh H. Breckenridge
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday mornings and afternoons.
Perspective Lectures, Monday afternoons.
J ohn F. Harbeson
Constructive Anatomy Lectures,Wednesday afternoons.
Albert Laessle
Saturday Morning Costume Sketch Roy C. Nuse
Class.
Reber S. Hartman
DRAWING (ILLUSTRATION) 1925
THE LIFE AND HEAD CLASSES
The purpose of these classes is to give the student thorough
instruction in the technique of painting.
The day Life Classes are under the supervision of Mr. Pearson.
The night Life Classes are under the supervision of Mr. Garber.
SCHEDULE OF CLASSES
INSTRUCTORS
Drawing and painting from Life. For Joseph T. Pearson, Jr.
women: three hours daily excepting
Saturdays.
For men: three hours daily excepting Joseph T. Pearson, Jr.
Saturdays.
Harry
J. Oshiver
For women: weekday evenings excepting Saturdays.
Daniel Garber
For men: weekday evenings excepting Saturdays.
Daniel Garber
Drawing and painting from the Head.
Monday, Wednesday, and Friday
mornings and afternoons.
Hugh H. Breckenridge
Drawing and painting from Still Life.
Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday
mornings and afternoons.
Hugh H. Breckenridge
Decorative Painting, Friday mornings and afternoons.
Henry McCarter
Composition, Wednesday afternoons.
Henry C. Poore
Perspective Lectures, Monday after- John F. Harbeson
noons.
LIFE STUDY (PAINTING) 1925
Constructive Anatomy Lectures, Wednesday afternoons.
Albert Laessle
Saturday Morning Costume Sketch
Class.
Roy C. Nuse
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REQUIREMENTS FOR ADMISSION
Students are ad mitted to the Life and H ead Classes on presentation of not less than t wo drawings made in the schools from
th e fulJ- fig ure Antique, which in the opinion of the Faculty are
of sufficien t meri t to warrant promotion. Application for these
classes may be made at the termination of the first month's work
or at any stated faculty meeting thereafter.
FEE FOR T HE LI FE AND HEAD CLASSES
The Tuition fee for the Life and Head Classes is $75 a term.
Paymen t of this tuition fee entitles a student to work in the folJowing
Classes ; Ant ique Drawing, StiIJ Life, Night Life, Decorative Painting, Composition, Saturday Sketch, Sculpture, and to attend the
lectures on Composition, Perspective Caricature, History of Technique
and Constructive Anatomy. All students in drawing and painting
are recommended to do a certain amount of mod elling (this entails
no additional fee ).
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Harry
J. Oshiver
GROUP IN COMPETITION FOR SECOND CRESSON AWARD (PAIN TI NG) 1925
Robert At wood
COMPOSITION (PAINTING) 1925
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SPECIAL CLASSES
OPEN TO ALL STUDENTS WITHOUT EXTRA CHARGE
Mr. McCarter's Class in Decorative Painting
The Class in Decorative Painting meets once a week for
criticism of work submitted. The object of the class is to study
Decorative Design and Color Values, and to encourage the student
to express courageously and forcefully his own impressions and
conceptions.
Mr. Poore's Class in Composition
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Mr. Laessle's Lectures on Constructive Anatomy
Lectures on Constructive Anatomy aim to give the student a
clear and practical understanding of artistic anatomy and are
illustrated by drawings made by Mr. Laessle during the lecture;
many from a living model used for the purpose.
Mr. Harbeson's Lectures on Perspective
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perspective, shadows projected by artificial and natural lights and
reflections, illustrated by drawings made before the class. Problems in drawing and painting from the solid object and from nature
are given to the class at stated intervals. The principles of perspective as used by artists of various schools are demonstrated by
lantern projections of their works.
Mr. Hale's Lectures
During the season Mr. Hale will deliver lectures on "The
History of Technique."
Mr. Hayward's Lectures
A short series of Illustrated Lectures on the subject of Caricature will be given by Mr. Hayward.
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Mr. Nuse's Costume Sketch Class
The Costume Sketch Class is conducted throughout both terms
and meets Saturday mornings from nine 0 'clock until noon. Sketches
from the living model are made in black and white, or in color.
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The chief object of the Sketch Classes is to teach students to
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presented.
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GROUP IN COMPOSITION AND GROUPS IN COMPETITION FOR FIRST AND SECOND CRESSON AWARDS
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SECON D CRESSO:'< A WARDS (ILLUSTRA TIO:'<) 1925
SCULPTURE
The Classes in Sculpture are under the direction of Mr. Grafty,
and are scheduled as follows: For men: Life Class, every morning,
Saturdays excepted, and Monday, Wednesday and Friday nights.
Portrait Class, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday afternoons. For
women: Life Class every afternoon, Saturdays excepted, and Monday, Wednesday and Friday nights. Portrait Class, Tuesday,
Thursday and Saturday mornings.
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E. Bruce Moore
COMPOSITION (SCULPTURE) 1925
The work of the Classes in Sculpture consists of modelling, gen-
Lippa Rosenzweig
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E. L. Hubbard
COMPOSITION (SCULPTURE) 1925
Marion P. King
GROUP IN COMPETITION FOR SECO)lD CRESSON AWARD· (SCULPTURE) 1925
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COMPOSITION (SCULPTURE)
1925
REQUIREMENTS FOR ADMISSION
Photographs of work or specimens of modelling of sufficient
merit are required for admission to the life modelling classes.
Students not sufficiently advanced for admission to the Life Class
are offered facilities for modelling from casts. When they have
acquired sufficient proficiency, they are admitted to the Life Class
without the payment of an additional fee.
Both Painters and Illustrators would manifestly profit by the
added appreciation of form and proportion gained by working in the
Sculpture Classes.
Students in Sculpture are permitted to work in the Drawing and
Painting Classes, and are recommended to work therein (without
extra charge), but admission to the Life Drawing Classes is, for
sculptors, subject to the same requirements as for painters.
The Night Life Class meets from 7 to 10 p. m. Criticisms are
given once a week as in the Day Life Class.
Students are required to furnish their own clay, life modelling
stand and bucket for clay. The Academy furnishes one head stand
for each student.
Cornelia Tucker
GROUP IN COMPETITION FOR FIRST CRESSON AWARD (SCULPTURE) 19 2 5
E. Bruce Moore
COMPOSITION (SCULPTURE)
19 2 5
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FEES FOR SCULPTURE CLASSES
The fee for the Classes in Sculpture is $75 a term. Payment of the
tuition fee entitles a student to work in the Day Classes Or Night
Classes or in both. Modellers are permitted to work in the Drawing
and Painting Classes and to attend the lectures on Decorative Painting, Composition, P erspective and Constructive Anatomy without
extra charge.
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Hallie Davis
GROUP IN COMPETITION FOR SECOND CRESSON AWARD
(SCULPTURE) 1925
Hallie Davis
COMPOSITION (SCULPTURE) 1925
Sylvia Borst
COMPOSITION (SCULPTURE) 1925
E. Bruce Moore
Lippa Rosenzweig
COM POSITIO ' S (SCULPTURE) 1925
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COMPOSlTlON (SCULPTURE) 1925
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Cornelia Tucker
COMPOSITION (SCULPTURE) 1925
Hallie Davis
COMPOSITION (SCULPTURE) 1925
Marion P. King
Hallie Davis
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Hallie Davis
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PORTRAIT STUDY (SCULPTURE) 1925
ILLUSTRATION
The Class in Illustration is under the direction of Mr. Harding.
Its purpose is to provid e the student with such practical instruction
in Drawing, Composition and Interpretation as will enable him to
enter the professional field of magazine and book illustrating.
The Class in Illustration will meet daily throughout the school
year.
Models are engaged for the morning and afternoon classes and
individual cri ticism is given twice a week.
Allan F. Thomas
DRAWING (I LLUSTRATION) 1925
Allan F. Thomas
DRAWINGS (ILLUSTRATION) 1925
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REQUIREMENTS FOR ADMISSION
Students are admitted to the Class in Illustration upon presentation of drawings made in the schools from the full-figure
Antique, which, in the opinion of the Faculty, are of sufficien merit
to warrant promotion. Application for this class may be made at
the termination of the first month's work or at any stated faculty
meeting thereafter.
Admission to the Life Classes is subject to the same requirements for illustrators as for painters.
FEES FOR THE ILLUSTRATION CLASS
The fee for the Class in Illustration is $75 a term.
Illustrators are entitled to work in the Day Life, Night Life,
Still-Life, Decorative Painting, Composition and Sketch Classes, and
attend the Lectures on Composition, Perspective, Caricature, History
of Technique and Constructive Anatomy, without extra charge.
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Reber S. Hartman
DRAWIKGS (ILLUSTRATION) 1925
Page Trotter
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COMPOSITION (THOU RON PRIZE COMPETITION) 1925
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SCHOLARSHIPS AND PRIZES
Through the generosity of Mrs. Alexander Hamilton Rice ,
twenty Scholarships in the Academy have been provided, entitling
the holders thereof to free tuition. Ten of them are in memory of
William L. Elkins, and ten in memory of George D. Widener.
Through the generosity of Edward Bok, a scholarship is available from the" Philadelphia Prize," established in the Academy's
Annual Exhibition.
Under the will of Mary R. Burton, deceased, another free scholarship is provided, and through the generosity of Mrs. George K.
Johnson, the Sarah Kaighn Cooper Free Scholarship has been established. A Scholarship has also been established in memory of Elizabeth H. Thompson.
The above Free Scholarships are available this year for returning students only, and are awarded solely for the purpose of financially assisting those who would otherwise be unable to pursue the
study of art.
These Scholarships are awarded by the Board of Directors upon
the recommendation of the Committee on Instruction and the
Faculty of the Schools.
Applicants must fill in a prepared form and submit it together
with examples of their work to the Curator of the Schools before
September 25th. This application must be accompanied by a letter
addressed to the Committee on Instruction, stating in detail the
necessity for requesting Free Tuition.
Page Trotter
DRAWING (ILLUSTRATION) 1925
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GROUP I N COMPETiTION FOR FIRST CRESSON AWARD (PAIN TI NG)
19 2 5
THE WILLIAM EMLEN CRESSON MEMORIAL
TRAVELLING SCHOLARSHIPS
By the liberal provisions of the wills of Emlen Cresson and
Priscilla P., his wife, a Fund has been created as a memorial to
their deceased son, William Emlen Cresson , Academician , the
income of which is to be applied by The Pennsylvania Academy
of the Fine Arts in sending pupils of merit to Europe.
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Alice V. Lewis
G R OUP I N COMPETITION FOR FIRST CRESSON AWARD
(PAI N TI NG) 1925
During the past year the Academy award ed twenty-seven Cresson
Scholarships. Included in this number were fif teen painters, five
sculptors, and seven illustrators. These awards were made by the
Board of Directors upon the recommendation of the Faculty.
The awards are divided among the Painting. Illustration and
Sculpture Classes, and are based upon the number of contestants
from each Class as one factor, and the standard of the work as
another factor. It is hoped that not less than three students of
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It is the intention of the Cresson Scholarships to give to the
students of the Academy the advantage of seeing some of the important Galleries and Art Schools abroad, and the Academy desires to
extend the. benefit of the Scholarships to as many students as possible, provided they possess the necessary merit. The trip abroad is
limited to the summer vacation, a period of four months, from June
to September inelusive, so that students can return to the Academy
for study during the ensuing school year. The Board of Directors ,
upon the recommendation of the Committee on Instruction, may,
in case of exceptional merit, permit a student to receive a second
Cresson Scholarship, with an award of $0]00. Unless some satisfactory excuse be accepted by the Committee on Instruction , a
second scholarship must be competed for during the year succeeding the first award.
The award of a Travelling Scholarship is not to be regarded as a
certificate of proficiency. Students receiving an award for the first
time are required to return to the Academy for further study after
having travelled abroad in accordance with the terms of the award.
Students receiving a second award are expected to return to the
Academy for furth er study during the school year next succeeding
the award.
New students registering during the season of 1921 - 1922 and
thereafter will not become eligible to compete for a Cresson Travelling Scholarship until they have completed twenty-four months,
or six terms, (not necessarily consecutive) of st.udy in the Academy's
Schools.
Students who have been registered previous to the school year of
1921 -1922 will be eligible to compete for a Cresson Travelling Scholarship after sixteen months of study in the Academy's Schools.
In estimating the total number of months necessary to qualify
competitors, time spent at work at the Chester Springs Summer
School is counted provided certain requirements there have been
fulfill ed.
All students in competition for Cresson Travelling Scholarships
must be registered in t.he Philadelphia School for both terms ?f
their Competition Year. During Competition year no change m
registmtion is permitted.
Every student awarded a Cresson Travelling Scholarship must
sail for Europe on or before July 1st of the year of Award. Otherwise the scholarship is revoked.
Wenonah D. Ben
GROUP I N COMPETITION FOR SECOND CRESSON AWARD (PAINTING) 1925
Illustration, three of Sculpture, and ten students from the classes in
Painting will be found worthy of the Award.
The awards provide each student with Seven Hundred Dollars
to expend in actual travel and travelling expenses.
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TIlE CHARLES TOPPAN PRIZES
REQUIREMENTS GOVERNING THE CRESSON
COMPETITION
The Charles Toppan prizes for 1926 are: first prize, $300, second
prize, $200, and two honorable mentions of $ 100 each.
These prizes were established in 188 ( by the gift of Mrs. Charles
Toppan, Miss H arriette R. Toppan, and Mr. Robert N. Toppan.
AIl students entering the Competition are expected to register
as Competitors before the first of November, 1924.
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Work must be submitted each month by Competitors in the
Painting Sculpture and illustration Classes for review. Competitors
failing t~ submit work as required will be ineligible for receiving
an award.
Drawings and paintings must not exceed thirty-six inches in
ei ther dimension.
The date for each review is posted on the School Bulletin Board
at the beginning of every month. Students are not given credit
for their work unless it is registered at the Curator's office on the
dates specified and within the following time limits:
For a morning review, before 2.00 p.m. of the previous day.
For an afternoon review, before 9.30 a.m. of the same day.
For an evening review, before 12.00 noon of the same day.
Painters are required to register each month beginning with the
November Reviews, work from the Figure in drawing or painting,
from the Head in drawing or painting, one composition and, each
term, one painting from Still-Life.
Illustrators are required to register each month beginning with
the November Reviews, one head made from the model in the Illustration class, one drawing or painting from the model in the Life
Class, one ComposItion and, each term, one illustration.
Sculptors are required to register each month a composition
(subject assigned), a study from the Figure and, each term, one study
from the model in the Head Class.
AIl Paintings, Drawings and Sculptures from the Figure and
Head must be from models posing in the Academy's Schools.
The same work can not be registered more than once.
Students failing to submit the required work for review place
themselves out of competition, and can be reinstated only by action
of the Faculty.
All competitors are unrestricted as to the amount and variety
of work they exhibit in their Competition Groups , provided they do
not exceed the space alloted to them, but no work will be considered
eligible which has not been made during the current school season
and registered in the Curator's office for one of the specified reviews.
All competitors must attend the Class in Composition, the series
of lectures on Constructive Anatomy and must do the work required
in the Perspective Class.
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FIRST TOPPAN PRIZE. 1925
The prizes are awarded only to students who have previously
received a Cresson Scholarship. Competitors who fulfil all of the
requirements for a second Cresson Travelling Scholarship will,. at
the same time be considered eligible to compete for a Toppan Pnze.
Competitors who are not in Competition for a Second ~resson
Travelling Scholarship are required to submit each month dun~g the
year of competition two life drawings hom models posmg m the
Academy, or two full-figure Antique drawmgs madem the Academy.
Any student having received one Toppan pnze IS debarred from
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receiving another Toppan prize of the same or lower v~l~e.
The work submitted in competition must be an on gmal pamtmg,
in oil or water color, the unaided work of the student with~ut cntlcism. All work in competition must be submitted without slguature
or mark of identification and must be presented on or before Saturday, May IS,
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The subject assigned for May, ~926 !s: "An Inter!or wit~ on~,
or more figures in which mere PortraIture IS not the leadmg motive.
o student may submit more than one canvas. Canvases submitted must not measure less than twelve inches nor more than
thirty-six inches in either dimension, and must not be framed or
presented under glass.
THE THOU RON PRIZE
The following awards, founded by the late Henry J. Thouron,
a former Instructor in Composition, are made as follows :
A prize of $50 for a group of not less than three compositions
upon subjects given to the class during the current season, and a
prize of $25 for a second similar group, the first to be decided by the
Faculty, the second by a vote of the students then working in the
Schools; and one of $50 and one of $25. the first for general progress
in study, the second for the work showing, in its treatment of said
subjects, the most poetic, or abstract, or idealistic, point of view,
both to be decided by the instructor of the class.
A competitor is not eligible a second time for the same prize,
and cannot receive more than one award the same season.
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. This sum will be awarded by the Faculty to the student
submitting the best work in Composition upon a given subject. The
intention of the award is to give the successful student a threemonths' summer trip abroad, for the purpose of special study of
Composition in specified places and galleries.
THE STEWARDSON PRIZE
Wenonah D. Bell
SECOND TOPPAN PRIZE, 1925
Canvases are numhered by the Curator, and a memorandum
of the numbers and competitors' names are kept in a scaled envelope
which is opened after the prize-winning canvases have been selected
by the Committee on Instruction.
According to the positively expressed terms of the gift, the
drawing of the work submitted will receive first consideration.
The Committee on awards is not obliged to award prizes or
honorable mentions if, in its opinion, the work submitted is not of
sufficient merit to justify making the awards.
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The Edmund Stewardson Prize of One Hundred Dollars, in the
Department of Sculpture, will be awarded for the twenty-seventh
time at the close of the school year.
This is an annual prize, 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 on~e. received
this award, a student becomes ineligible for furth er competItion. .
The subject for the competition is a full-length figure from LIfe
in the round.
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not more than three feet in height, and must be mad e wlthm eIghteen
hours, during three consecutive days, in six sessions of three hours
each.
None except the competitors are admitted to the competition
room at any time during the days of the competition, a.nd n.one except
the members of the Jury are present during the Judgmg of the
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corresponding number is placed upon an envelop~ whIch ;:>ntams
the competitor's name and is deposited sealed, WIth the cretary
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of the Academy. Upon completion of the work the competitor
places a corresponding number upon the study to be submitted to
the Jury of Award.
Lippa Rosenzweig
THE STEWAR DSON PRIZE (SCULPTURE) I925
!he J ury .of Award consists of three professional sculptors,
havmg no official connection with the Academy, or any other schools
whose pupIls may have taken part in the competition. When the
successful n umber has been announced by the chairman of the Jury,
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the Secretary, in the presence of one or more of the officials of the
Academy, opens the envelope bearing that number and announces
the name of the successful competitor. If no study be satisfactory to
Marion P. King
THE STIMSON PRIZE (SCULPTURE) 1925
the Jury, the prize may, in their discretion, be withheld: Wh.en no
award is made, the amount of the prize may, in the d,scretIOn of
the Board of Directors of the Academy, be added to the pnnclpal
of the prize fund, or distributed with future prizes.
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The day 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 1926 takes place on March 8,
9, and 10.
. The subject for competition is a full-length figure from life,
m the ro~nd, not less than 2 feet 6 inches in height, and must be
made dunng class hours as a part of the regular work in the class.
The work ~ust be submitte.d anonymously to a jury appointed
~y the Comm.lttee on InstructlOn of the Board of Directors. The
Jury must not mclude any instructor in the School.
The contest for the year 1926 takes place during the month~ of
January and February.
THE PACKARD PRIZES
From the income of the J ohn H. Packard Fund, established by
the children of the late John H. Packard, M.D., for many years
chairman of the Academy's Committee on Instruction , annual prizes
of $30 and $20 are awarded for the best and second best groups
of original studies made from living animals. These prizes are open
to all students of the Academy who have registered for both terms
of the school year. A student having once received a prize becomes
ineligible to receive the same prize a second time.
THE RAMBORGER PRIZE
From the income of a fund established by the late William K.
Ramborger, Esq., as a memorial to his sister, Aspasia Eckert R amborger, who for some years was a student of the Academy, an annual
prize of $25 is awarded for the best line drawing in black and white
of a head from life by a pupil of the Academy who has not been
under instruction over two years, bu t who has been registered in
the Academy for both terms of the current school year. Each competitor may submit one unmounted drawing. Having once received
an award, a student becomes thereafter ineligible to compete again.
THE CHARLES M. LEA PRIZES
Lucius B. Kutchin
FIRST PACKARD PRIZE, 1925
THE STIMSON PRIZE
In memory of Emma Burnham Stimson, a fund has been created
for the award each year of a prize in sculpture of $100.00 for the
best work done by the students in the regular course of the class.
The contest IS open to students who have been registered for three
terms and who are members of the Life Modelling Classes, but is not
o~en to former students who work in the class by special permission.
TIme spent at work in the Sculpture Classes at the Chester Springs
Summer School, not exceeding four months;, will be counted.
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The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts holds a Special
Exhibition of Drawings by Stndents of American Art Schools in
November, 1925.
A first prize of two hundred dollars, a second prize of one
hundred and fifty dollars and a third prize of one hundred dollars
are awarded respectively to the best, the second best and the third
best drawings.
Any student having received one Lea prize is debarred from
receiving another Lea prize of the same or lower value.
Drawings eligible for competition must be executed by students
regularly enrolled before November 1St, 1925 in any American School
of Art which has a faculty of at least two instructors.
A competitor may not submit more than two drawings.
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· Th~ dr~wings must be upon white paper eighteen by twenty-four
Inches In sIze unmounted and unframed.
The. s.ubject must deal with the human figure, either singly or in
composltton, and be executed in black and white by pen, pencil or
hard crayon, but not in chalk or charcoal. The awards are based
upon the precision, accuracy of delineation, proportion, detail
simplicity, and picture quality of the drawings submitted.
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Members of the Jury of the Academy's Water Color Exhibition
make the awards. They may withhold any or all prizes if in their
judgment the drawings are not of sufficient merit.
All entries must have the following information legibly written
on the back: name of competitor; address to which the work is to
be returned; name of the school in which the student is working;
and the signature of the Principal of that school.
Drawings must reach the Academy not later than Saturday,
November 21, 1925.
THE ACADEMY'S FREE-HAND DRAWING PRIZES FOR THE
HIGHER SCHOOLS OF PHILADELPHIA AND VICINITY
The Directors of The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
have established a system of prize awards for original Free-hand
Drawing by students of the higher schools of the city of Philadelphia
and vicinity. The purpose of making these awards is to stimulate
interest in Free-hand Drawing, to discover those who possess marked
talent, and to offer them the advantages of study at the Academy.
A first prize of $10 and a second prize of $5 are awarded by
the Academy upon the recommendation of the instructor of the school
where made, for the best and second best drawings by regularly
enrolled students of each school.
The drawings must be made free-hand from a cast or other object
assigned by the instructor, and must be the unaided work of the
student, without criticism.
The drawings must be made with lead pencil, charcoal or crayon
on white paper 19 inches by 25 inches in size and unmounted.
The drawings may be made at any time during the months of
March and April, but must be submitted to the instructor of the
school where made, and the prizes announced before the thirtieth
of April, 1926.
The two prize drawings from each school must be sent to the
Secretary of The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Broad
and Cherry Streets, Philadelphia, not later than May 17 th , .1926.
The Faculty of the Academy will then judge the drawings submItted,
and award the final prizes as follows:
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$25 for the best drawing; $15 for the second; and $10 for the thtrd.
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All entries must have the following infonnation legibly written
on the back: name of the competitor; name of the school in which
the student is working, and the signature of the Principal of the
school. Drawings will be returned to the schools from which received.
It is hoped that these awards, and the stimulus they afford, will
lead to a closer sympathy between the art instruction in the city's
higher schools and the work of the Academy itself.
RULES OF THE SCHOOLS
HOURS
The Schools are open from 9 0 'clock a.m. until IO 0 'clock p.m.
except on Saturdays when the closing hour is 6 0 'clock. Models pose
from 9 a.m. to 12 noon, from 1 to 4 and from 7 to IO p.m.
Classes begin at 9 a.m. promptly, and students are urged to
start work early to utilize the best light of the day.
Regular attendance by students is not compulsory, but no redtution from tuition rates is made on account of absence.
At 5.30 p.m. the Cherry Street entrance will be opened for
members of the night classes.
MATERIALS
Materials for study must be provided by the student. All articles required in the classes are for sale in the school store at lowest
prices. All sales are for cash only.
DEPORTMENT
Students are expected to be self-govermng, and to know and obey
the rules of tlte A cademy from principles of Itonor.
Violation of the rules will result in suspension or dismissal from
tlte Academy.
Any conduct unbecoming a student is a violation of the rules.
The property of other students must not be used without the
owner's knowledge and consent.
MONITORS
It shall be the duty of the monitors to maintain order and, if
necessary, to report to the Curator any interference with the work
of the class.
Monitors shall see that the class-rooms are kept properly lighted
and ventilated.
The monitor of each class shall have charge of the model and
of the class-room during working hours.
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LIFE CLASSES
Only members of the Life Classes are permitted in the Life
Class-rooms during working hours.
Members of the Life Classes must under no circumstances speak
to models who are posing.
POSITIONS IN THE CLASS-ROOMS
Students w.ho ar~ .not ?resent at the hour when classes begin
must. take theIr poslttons In order of arrival. No student will be
permItted to select and reserve a position for one who is absent.
Students absent from three meetings of the class will forfeit
their positions unless arrangements were made previously with the
moni tor of the class.
MONTHLY REVIEW OF WORK
A general review of the work of each class is held once a month
by the respective instructor. Studies submitted will be hung for exhibition in the class-rooms. A record of the work so exhibited is
kept for use in determining the standing of students at the end
of the season and their eligibility for entering the Cresson Competition. Studies cannot be recorded or accepted for exhibition unless presented at the Curator's desk within the following time limits:
Students in either of the Antique Classes will register two drawings each month. Students in the Painting, Illustration and Sculpture classes will register the same work required of the Cresson
Competitors (see page 55).
For a morning review, before 2.00 p.m. of tlte previous day.
For an afternoon review, before 9.30 a.m. of tlte same day.
For an evening review, before I2.00 noon of tlte same day.
The date for each review will be posted on the school Bulletin
Board at the beginning of every month. Drawings are not accepted when rolled or when not carefully" fixed." Paintings must
be thoroughly dry, and aU work must be signed with the student'sfuU
name and tlte name of the class in which tlte work was done. Studies
marked by the instructor are reserved by the Academy for an
indefinite period. In order to prevent loss, unmarked studies should
be reclaimed at the close of each review.
APPLICATION FOR PROMOTION
Students may apply for promotion at the regular Faculty meetings, but before doing so they must obtain the approval of the
instructor under whom they are working.
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MOVING OF CASTS
PRIVILEGES FOR STUDENTS
St1ldents must not move the casts. A ny chan~e desired in the position of casts or other objects must be authorized by an instructor or the
curator, and carried oul under his direction.
A student's ticket entitles the holder during atte d
Academy to free admission to the Galleries Special E nh'ba~t~e at the
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.u es, an 0 e use 0 the Library and Print Collection.
PLASTER CASTING
Casting in plaster will not be permitted in any of the schoolrooms. A special room is provided for this work.
LUNCH-ROOMS
Luncheon must not be eaten in the school-rooms. Lunch-rooms
are provided in the basement.
CARE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY
All personal property should be marked with the owner's name.
Students are cautioned not to leave personal property of any
description about the school-rooms, as the Academy will in no case
be responsible for the loss of articles from the rooms or lockers.
Large steel lockers, fitted with combination locks, are provided
for each student, and are expected to be kept locked.
Any damage done to a locker will be charged to the student
occupying it.
Students are not permitted to leave canvases, and drawingboards about the school-rooms, but must place them, when not
in use, in the racks especially provided for the purpose.
Canvases and Materials left at the Academy and not called
for by the beginning of the fall term will be disposed of.
VISITORS
The school-rooms are open for the inspection of visitors on
week-day afternoons, from four until five 0 'clock.
S.tudents are not to be called from the class-room unless in
the Judgme~t of th.e Curator the matter is of urgent importance.
N.o one IS pernutted to remain in any of the class-rooms during
working hours except the regular members of the class h
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Telephone calls are not reported to students. Messages are placed
in students' mail boxes.
Application forms and any further information regarding the
Schools may be obtained by addressing.
BARBARA BELL,
BROAD STREET, ABOVE ARCH,
Curator
PHILADELPHIA
SKETCHING IN GALLERIES
Students may sketch from the works in the Permanent Collection of the Academy, but copies must not be made without special
permission from the management.
LIBRARY
Students may have free use of the Library, upon application to
the Curator, between the hours of 3 and 5 p.m. Books must not
be taken from the room.
ZOOLOGICAL GARDEN TICKETS
Annual tickets for the Zoological Gardens may be obtained, at
a small charge, from the Superintendent of the Gardens on presentat.ion of a letter from the Curator.
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The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts owns a tract of
~o acres at Chester ?prings, Chester County, Pennsylvania, where
It conducts an open aIr school for instruction in the Fine Arts.
Chester Springs is seven and one-half miles northwest of Phoonixville on the Pickering Valley Railroad, and about forty miles northwest of Philadelphia. It is a beautiful little village, with postoffice,
schools, stores and churches. The population is purely native
American.
The Academy's property is one-quarter of a mile from the station. It is about 300 feet above mean ocean tide level, supplied with
electric light from Phcenixville and reached in about one hour and
thirty minutes by train service from the Reading Terminal at
Philadelphia. It is north of the village, surrounded by typical
Pennsylvania farm land, the scenery of which is enriched by gently
rolling hills and by Pickering Creek with its meadows and valleys.
It is at the foot of a hill rising to the north over 500 feet, and includes
a number of buildings upon the hillside, affording ample studio
room, and separate dormitories for men and women.
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The men's building, known as the Washington Building, is a large
three-story stone structure, 146 feet long, with airy dormitories on the
second and third floors, private rooms for those who want them, and
contains on the first floor the main kitchen and general dining room.
The women's building, known as the Lincoln Building, is also
three stories in height, is 88 feet long, with similar airy dormitories
on the second and third floors, also with private rooms. It contains on the first floor a library and reading room used by all of the
students. It is about 60 feet to the eastward of the Washington
Building. Both are near the public road.
Across the road from the Lincoln Building, and slightly to the
east of it, stands the New Studio, a substantial stone building,
the dimensions of which are 42 by 37 feet. One large studio occupies
the whole upper floor. It is lighted by a north sky-light and contains a large stone fire-place for use on cool or rainy days in spring
or fall. A bakony opening on the south side affords an extended
view of the meadow through which runs the Pickering Creek.
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In the meadow below the New Studio Building are tennis courts
and near these are the croquet grounds.
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A.bout 1 30 f~et .back of these two dormitory buildings, and up
the sIde of the hIli, IS the mam Studio Building, 78 by 49 feet, which
has upon the first floor a theatre or lecture room with dressing rooms
for men and women, and upon the second floor one large studio used
by the students in common, and several smaller ones, affording together ample space for all the students to work indoors in wet weather.
The old Kimberton Road, upon which the dormitories face
joins in front of the property, with the White Horse Road leadin~
down to the village. From the dormitory buildings there is a long
covered walk up the hillside to the Studio, so that students are protected during wet weather. Further west on the Kimberton Road ,
about 160 feet, is the Bungalow, affording additional dormitory
accommodations.
On the opposite side of the Kimberton Road, at its junction with
the White Horse Road, is the Faculty Building, a double stone residence, used to accommodate resident teachers, and conveniently
near the main dormitories. Directly across the Kimberton Road,
is a large and quaint one-story frame building called the Art Gallery,
used by the students to exhibit their work and in which are accommodations for the washing of palettes and brushes, for the making of
frames, and like purposes.
In the meadow below the Faculty Building is the New Bath
House and Swimming Pool. It is of concrete construction and
enclosed by a wall eight feet high. The dimensions of the building
are 125 feet by 30Y, feet. At the west end there are dressing rooms
for the men; while at the east end there are dressing rooms for the
women. All the dressing rooms are provided with clothes hooks,
benches, mirrors and shelves to hold the toilet articles.
The Pool itself is 87 feet long by 21 feet wide. At its deepest
end under the diving board, it is 7 feet deep; while at the shallow
end it is 4 feet, 3 inches deep for the use of those who do not swim.
The Pool is fed by the waters of the Pickering Creek, the level of
which has been raised above the pool by a dam. The sheet of water
formed by the dam is a picturesque addition to the landscape. The
out-of-door portrait class sometimes poses a model in a boat on the
dam. The dam is 125 feet wide and about 400 feet long, and over
the breast the water of the creek falls upon a series of steps.
In the centre of the meadow, below the Washington Buildi~g ,
is the famous Yellow Spring. Its waters are so heavily charged WIth
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t gave t ~ o~a Ity the ancient name of the" Yellow Springs. "
The dr~nkin.g .water for all of the buildings descends by gravity
from a spnng nstng near the top of the hill, the water being conducted by a piping system into concrete reservoirs, which can be
augmented by an auxiliary system, permitting water to be pumped
t? the res~rvoirs from another spring, known as the Diamond Spring,
situated 10 the meadow far from the buildings, and the water of
which is of singular clearness and purity.
The countryside is remarkably paintable, with many attractive
old dwellings, quaint barns and spring houses, with old trees, abundant woodland, creeks and ponds, and with beautiful views near at
hand. Directly in front of the Washington Building is a grove of
sycamores of great age, and back of it is one of the largest sycamores
in Pennsylvania, possessing a mighty spread of limb and containing
in one of its large arms the iron prongs, now almost covered with
bark, which were used in the olden days to support the bell which
called the guests to dinner, when the Washington Building was
an 1On.
The chief object of the Academy in establishing a school in the
country is to supplement the work done during the Winter in its
Philadelphia schools by instruction in painting and Sculpture in
the open air, and to afford an opportunity for the study of art to
school teachers and to others who cannot spare time for study except
during the vacation months.
The methods of instruction are substantially the same as those
used at the Academy in Philadelphia, special attention, however,
being paid to landscape drawing and painting, to figure painting
in the open air, and to the study of sunlight and shade. Students
are taught to make" studies" of nature rather than" sketches, " and
are also taught to carryon their work as far as their abilities permit.
The general method of instruction is by individual criticism of
work submitted. The instructors will, from time to time, work with
the students for the purpose of assisting them in the selection and
interpretation of their subjects.
CRESSON TRAVELLING SCHOLARSHIPS
To compete for Cresson Travelling Scholarships students .must
be registered for six terms in the Academy's Schools. In estimating this period, time spent at work at the Summer School \~lll be
counted, but no student will be eligible to compete who IS not
registered in the Philadelphia Schools for both terms of the competition year.
PRIZES
. A. Prize of $ I 00 is a warded for the best landscape drawing or
pamtmg done at the Chester Springs School by a regularly enrolled
student of the Academy, or by a student of the Chester Springs
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secon .pnze 0 50 for the second best, and a third prize of $25 for
the thIrd best. T~ese prizes are awarded about December 6th.
ork d?~e by arnved artists, who may be working at the School,
IS not ehglble.
CRITICISMS
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Criticisms in the Drawing and Painting classes are given from
time to time by different members of the Faculty: by Joseph T.
Pearson, Jr. in ~pril, May, June, July, August and September; by
Robert Spencer m June, July and September; by Daniel Garber in
June, July and August; and in Illustration, by George Harding in
June, July and September.
Criticisms in the Sculpture classes are given by Albert Laessle
in June, July, August and September.
ENROLLMENT
During the Summer of the School's eighth year, which began in
April, 1924, there was a total enrollment of 210 students. 143 had
never studied at the Academy in Philadelphia, and 12 of them afterwards became students in the City.
The students came not only from Pennsylvania, but also from far
distant points: from Alabama, one; Arkansas, one; Connecticut,
two; Delaware, five; Florida, one; Georgia, two; Idaho, one; Illinois,
one; Indiana, two; Kansas, one; Kentucky, one; Louisiana, two;
Maine, one; Maryland, seven; Massachusetts, four; Michigan, one;
Minnesota, two; Missouri, five; Montana, one; New Jersey, thirteen; New York, twenty-six; North Carolina, five; Ohio, four;
South Carolina, three; Tennessee, one; Texas, two; Utah, one;
Virginia, five; Washington, D. C., sixteen; West Virginia, one;
Wisconsin, seven; Wyoming, one; Canada, one; Cuba, one.
RATES
The intention of the Academy is to accept serious students
only and not those who simply desire an advantageous place to
board in the summer.
The rates are as low as possible, since they include both board
and tuition. But these rates do not include the expense of cloth!~g
laundry and materials for drawing, painting, and sculpture. I he
latter may be purchased at the school store.
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including . tUItion,
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During the winter months, special rates will be given to those
students who are registered at the Academy in Philadelphia.
Rooms may be reserved at any time, but such reservations must
be again confirmed by letter which will reach the school two weeks
before the date arranged for occupancy. Otherwise the management will be at liberty to dispose of the room.
EQUIPMENT
The equipment of the school affords ample studio room, and
includes separate dormitory buildings for men and women, an
Exhibition Hall and a Swimming Pool.
The buildings are supplied with hot and cold running water and
with electric light.
The Reading Rooms arc supplied with current magazines and a
library of several hundred volumes. The Recreation Hall is provided with a stage, footlights and dressing rooms.
REQUIREMENTS AND RULES
Satisfactory references are required from all applicants, and
as the students live in the buildings, conformity with reasonable
regulations is necessary to secure proper chaperonage. Students
are expectcd to know how to conduct themselves from principles of
honor without specific rules.
Students are not permitted to smoke inside the buildings. This
is an absolute rule and is necessary to guard against fire and insure
cleanliness.
No student will be received at the School unless all arrangements for accommodations have been previously made with the
management. Students must not come to the Scho?l until ~heir
applications have been accepted and their accommodatIons provided.
No student is admitted for a shorter stay than two weeks except
by the special consent of the Manager.
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No student under 16 years of age is eligible for admlSSlOn.
For further particulars, address
D. Roy MILLER, Resident Manager,
Chester Springs, Chester County, Pennsylvania.
Bell Telephone: Chester Springs, 10.
BARBARA BELL, Curator of Schools,
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts,
Broad and Cherry Streets, Philadelphia.
Bell Telephone: Rittenhouse, 1877·
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The time shown in this table is in Eastern Standard Time.
TRAINS FROM TIlE READL G TERMIl>AL, PHILADELPHIA
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Arrive Chester Springs 2.42 p. m.
Arrive Philadelphia 4.40 p. m.
L eave Philadelphia 1.25 p . m.
Leave Chester Springs 3.20 p . m .
All vassengers must change trains at Phcenixville.
Trams leave Phrenixville for Chester Springs, 5.00, 9.23 a. m. and 4.55 p. m.
Saturday only, leave Phoonixville for Chester Springs at 2. 15 p. m.
Sunday on ly. leave Phoonixville for Chester Springs at 5.50, 9.23 a. m . and
4.55 p. m.
NOTE
Chester Springs can be reached by AUTOMOB ILE in several different
ways from Philadelphia:
RO UTE I: Out the Lancaster Pike to Malvern; then under the main
line of the Pennsylvania Railroad down into the Chester Valley, and
still along the Lancaster Pike to a school-house on the right-hand
side, where the old Conestoga Road unites with the Lancaster Pike;
then along the Conestoga Road to Anselma, and then along the
banks of the Pickering Creek to Chester Springs.
ROUTE 2: From Philadelphia to Devon Garage by way of Lancaster
Pike ; thence to Valley Forge; thence to Phcenixville, and from
Phcenixville along the Kimberton Road to Kimberton, and from
Kimberton to Chester Springs.
ROUTE 3: From Philadelphia to Norristown, from Norristown to
Phcenixville or Valley Forge, and from thence to Chester Springs.
Time required: about an hour and a half.
Day visitors will be welcomed at any time, and upon notice to the
resid ent manager, lunch or tea may be obtained.
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THE ACADEMY'S HONOR ROLL
MEDALS AND PRIZES AWARDED IN THE ACADEMY'S
ANNUAL EXHIBITIONS
1893
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1895
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189 8
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1899
1901
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190 4
190 5
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D. Ridgway Knight
1906 Horatio Walker
Alexander Harrison
190 7 Edward W. Redfield
William M. Chase
1908 Edmund C. Tarbell
\Vinslow Homer
1909 Thomas P. Anshutz
Edwin A. Abbey
191 I Willard L. Metcalf
Cecilia Beaux
19 14 Mary Cassatt
Charles Grafly
19 15 Edward H . Coates
Henry J. Thouron
(A\\arded for eminent s!(vices to the Academy)
James A. MacNeil Whistler 1916 J. Alden Weir
John S. Sargent
191 8 John McLure Hamilton
John W . Alexander
1919 Hugh H . Breckenridge
William T. Richards
1920 Childe Hassam
Violet Oakley
TEMPLE GOLD MEDAL
1884 George W. Maynard
190 3 Edward W. Redfield
188 5 Charles Sprague Pearce
1904 Thomas Eakins
188 7 Clifford Prevost Grayson 1905 J. Alden Weir
1888 Charles Stanley R einh art 1906 Eugene Paul Ullman
1889 Anna Elizabeth Klumpke 190 7 Willard L. Metcalf
1908 Frank W. Benson
1890 William H enry Howe
189 1 Abbott H. Thayer
1909 Frederick P. Vinton
189 2 Henry S. Bisbing
19 10 Howard Gardiner Cushing
1894 JamesA. Mac . Whistler 19 1I Richard E. Miller
1894 J ohn S. Sargent
19 12 Emil Carlsen
1895 Edmtmd C. Tarbell
19 13 Frederick Frieseke
1895 John H. Twatchtman
1914 W. Elmer Schofield
19 15 Charles W. Hawthorne
189 6 Gari Me1chers
19 16 J oseph T. Pearson, Jr.
1896 J. Humphreys J ohnston
19 17 George Bellows
1897 George DeForest Brush
19 18 GeorgeLuks
1897 John W. Alexander
19 19 Daniel Garber
189 8 Wilton Lockwood
19 20 Earnest Lawson
189 8 Edward F. R ook
19 21 Leopold Seyffert
1899 Joseph DeCamp
1922 William L. Lathrop
18 99 Childe Hassam
19 23 WalterUfer
1900 Cecilia Beaux
192+ William G lackens
190 1 William !VI. Chase
19 2 5 Clifford Addams
1902 Winslow H omer
188 3
1884
188 5
188 7
1888
TDtJ:PLE SILVER
1889
William Thomas Trego
1890
Thomas Hill
189 1
William T. Richards
189 2
Alexander H arrison
H oward Russell Butler
:\IEDAL
Arthur Parton
Edward L. Simmons
Kenyon Cox
George Inness
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1894
1895
1896
18 97
18 98
18 99
1900
1901
1902
1903
1904
1905
1905
1906
190 7
1908
1909
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Courtesy of Albert \Yarrington, Philadelphia. Photographic Society
AN OLD BUILDIl\G, CHESTER SPRINGS
WALTER LIPPINCOTT PRIZE
William Sergeant Kendall 1910 J. Alden Weir
Edmund C. Tarbell
1911 Daniel Garber
William L. Picknell
19 12 Edward W. Redfield
Albert Herter
19 13 Emil Carlsen
James J ebusa Shannon
19 14 M. Jean McLane
John W. Alexander
19 15 William M. Paxton
Henry O. Tanner
19 16 Karl Anderson
Charles H. Davis
19 17 Arthur B. Carles
Walter MacEwen
1918 DeWitt M. Lockman
Frank W. Benson
19 19 Colin Campbell Cooper
Mary Cassatt
19 20 Joseph DeCamp
Alexander Stirling Calder 19 21 Irving Couse
T. W. Dewing
1922 Irving R. Wiles
Childe Hassam
19 23 Charles W. Hawthorne
Marion Powers
19 24 Edward Dufner
James R. Hopkins
19 25 E. Martin Hennings
Thomas P. Anshutz
~1ARY S~1lTH
PRIZE
18 79
1880
1881
1882
188 3
188 4
188S
188 7
1888
1889
18go
18 9 1
1892
1894
1895
1896
1897
1898
1899
1900
19 01
1902
1903
Susan H. MacDowell
Catharine A. Janvier
Emily Sartain
Mary K. Trotter
Emily Sartain
Lucy D. Holme
Cecilia Beaux
Cecilia Beaux
Elizabeth F. Bonsall
Elizabeth W. Roberts
Alice Barber Stephens
Cecilia Beaux
Cecilia Beaux
Maria L. Kirk
Gabrielle D. Clements
Elizabeth H. Watson
Elizabeth F. Bonsall
Caroline Peart
Carol H. Beck
Mary F. R. Clay
Janet Wheeler
Elinor Earle
Jessie Willcox Smith
1903
1904
190 5
1906
190 7
1908
1909
1910
19 I1
JENNIE SESNAN GOLD MEDAL
W. Elmer Schofield
19 12 William L. Metcalf
Colin Campbell Cooper
19 13 George Bellows
Edward W. Redfield
19 14 Robert Spencer
Albert L. Groll
19 15 Carol S. Tyson, J r.
Ernest Lawson
19 16 Emil Carlsen
Everett L. Warner
19 17 Haley Lever
Theodore Wendel
19 18 J. Alden Weir
Childe Hassam
19 19 Charles H. Davis
Joseph T. Pearson, Jr.
1920 Hugh H. Breckenridge
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1904
19 05
1906
1907
190 8
1909
1910
19 I1
19 12
19 13
1914
19 15
19 16
19 17
19 18
19 19
1920
19 21
19 22
19 23
19 2+
1925
Lillian M. Genth
Elizabeth Shippen Green
Alice Mumford
Mary Smythe Perkins
Elizabeth Sparhawk Jones
Martha Walter
Alice Mumford Roberts
Alice Kent Stoddard
Elizabeth SparhawkJones
Alice Kent Stoddard
NinaB. Ward
Gertrude A. Lambert
Nancy M. Ferguson
Elizabeth F. Washington
Helen K. McCarthy
Juliet White Gross
l\Iildred B. Miller
Katherine Patton
l\Iary Townsend Mason
Isabel Branson Cartright
Lillian B. Meeser
Mary Butler
,
1921
1922
1923
JENNIE SESNAN GOLD MEDAL (Continued)
Charles Morris Young
1924 Walter Griffin
GeorgeOberteuffer
1925 WalterEmersonBaum
Aldro T. Hibbard
1909
19 10
1911
19 12
19 13
19 14
19 15
19 16
19 17
CAROL H. BECK GOLD MEDAL
John S. Sargent
1918 Leopold Seyffert
Adolphe Borie
1919 Leslie P. Thompson
Edmund C. Tarbell
1920 Eugene Speicher
Joseph DeCamp
1921 George Bellows
J. Alden Weir
1922 Ellen Emmet Rand
Robert Henri
1923 Lilian Walcott Hale
Charles Hopkinson
1924 Sidney E. Dickenson
Douglas Volk
1925 William James
Joseph T. Pearson, Jr.
1915
1916
1917
1918
1919
1920
THE PHILADELPHIA PRIZE
Lydia Field Emmet
1921 William M. Paxton
Marie Danforth Page
1922 Violet Oakley
Ernest Major
1923 Sidney E. Dickenson
Paul King
1924 William M. Paxton
Philip L. Hale
1925 Lydia Field Emmet
Alfred R. Mi tchell
1916
1917
1918
1919
THE EDWARD T. STOTESBURY PRIZE
Joseph T. Pearson, Jr.
1920 Edward W. Redfield
Hugh H. Breckenridge
1921 William M. Paxton
Daniel Garber
1924 Joseph Capolino
Arthur B. Carles
1925 Charles Morris Young
1924
THE LOCUST CLUB GOLD MEDAL
1925 Frederick A. Bosley
Richard E. Miller
1913
1914
1915
1916
1917
1918
1919
GEORGE D. WIDENER :'vmMORIAL GOLD MEDAL
1920 Malvina Hoffman
Charles Grafly
1921 Evelyn Beatrice Longman
Paul Manship
1922 Beatrice Fenton
Albin Polasek
1923 Brenda Putnam
Edward McCartan
1924 Arthur Lee
Atillio Piccirilli
1925 Walker Hancock
Albert Lressle
Jess M. Lawson
THE FAIRMOUNT ART ASSOCIATION PRIZE
1925
PICKERING CREEK
Albin Polasek
CHARLES W. BECK, JR., PRIZE (Water Color Exhibition)
1905 Joseph Lindon Smith
19 10 N. C. Wyeth
1906 Henry McCarter
19 11 Jessie Willcox Smith
1907 Elizabeth Shippen Green 19 12 W. J. Aylward
1908 Maxfield Parrish
19 13 Jules Guerin
1909 Ernest L. Blumenschein
19 14 Thornton Oakley
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19 16
19 17
19 18
19 19
CHARLES W. BECK, JR., PRIZE (Continued)
Blanche
H G'l Greer
19 20 F . W alter Taylor
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I es
1921 George Wright
C. B. Falls
1922 Ethel Betts Bains
Henry Reuterdahl
1923 Nat. Little
THE DANA GOLD MEDAL (Water Color Exhibition)
19 18 Francis McComas
1922 Wilmot E. Heitland
19 19 Alfred Hayward
1923 Charles H. Woodbury
1920 M. W. Z,mmerman
1924 Frank W. Benson
192 1 John R. FraZIer
1915
19 16
19 17
19 18
19 19
THE PHILADELPHIA WATER COLOR PRIZE
(Water Color Exhibition)
Alice Schille
1920 John R. Frazier
Dodge McKnight
19 21 Francis McComas
Gifford Beal
1922 Birger Sandzen
Hayley Lever
1923 Frank W. Benson
Chi Ide Hassam
1924 W. Emerton Heitland
THE JOHN FREDERICK LEWIS PRIZES
(Water Color Exhibition)
1st Prize
2nd Prize
D. R. Fitzpatrick
Titus (William Auerbach-Levy)
THE ALICE McFADDEN BRINTON GOLD MEDAL
(Water Color Exhibition)
George Bellows
19 16
19 17
19 18
19 19
192 0
MINIATURE PAINTERS' MEDAL OF HONOR
(Minia tu re Exhibition)
Laura Coombs Hills
1921 MariaJ-Strean
Lucy May Stanton
1922 A. Magaretta Archambault
Margaret Foote Hawley
1923 Rosina C. Boardman
Emily Drayton Taylor
1924 Harry L. Johnson
Mabel R. Welch
19 16
THE CHARLES M. LEA PRIZES
1st Prize, C harles Grafly
1916 2nd Prize, Philip L. Hale
I
1917
1919
19 20
1<)21
19 22
192 3
192 4
THE CHARLES M. LEA STUDENT PRIZES
2d Prize : Rowley W. Murphy
1st Prize : Edith Sturtevant
2d Prize: Susan A. Jones
1st Prize: John H. Crosman
3rd Prize
2d Prize
1st Prize:
Ralph Smith
Semour Bigelow
RuthH. Deal
Beatrice :\1. Dwan
Edward Shenton Sarah Langly
Luigi Spizzirri
Glenna Latimer
Sarah Langly
Eleanor Beckman
Edwin B. Rosskam
Luigi Spizzirri
Betty Welsh Paul
Paul D. Webb
Glenna Latimer
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HONOR ROLL OF THE ACADEMY'S SCHOOLS
1924-1925
AWARDS MADE MAY. 1925
CRESSON TRAVELLING SCHOLARSHIPS
$700 awarded to each of the followma
SCULPTORS
PAI NTERS
FRANK BAISDEN
E. BRUCE MOORE
JOSEPH BRZENK
LIPPA ROSENZWEIG
MARIAN
D.
CORNELIA TUCKER
HARRIS
-HALLIE DAVIS
ELISE HOELZEL
-MARIO N
LEON KELLEY
ALICE
P.
Kl~G
V. LEWIS
MARGUERITE LIPP
ILLUSTRATORS
KATHERINE MERRITT
CHARLES BARXEY MOORE
FAYE RUTH SWENGLE
ETHELWYN
.WENONAH
-HARRY
J.
PRISCILLA
A. WOOD
D. BELL
ALLAN
F.
ISABELLE
OSHIVER
R. PARSONS
THOMES
V AUGl-IAN
-MA RJORIE COLLISON
.WILLIAM SCHULHOFF
·REBER
-FRANCIS SPEIGHT
.CATHERINE STEWART V."ILLIAMS
S.
HARTMAN
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THE TOPP AN PRIZES
HELEN E. DAVIES (First Prize)
WENONAH D. BELL (Second Priz e)
BE~NARD BADURA (Honorable Mention
MEYER RADITZ (Honorable Mention)
THE THOU RON PRIZES
FRANK BAISDEN
REBER S. HARTMAN
AGNES CLARKE
LEON KARP
HENRIETTE WYETH
THE STEWARDSON PRIZE
LIPPA ROSENZWEIG
THE STIMSON PRIZE
MARION P. KING
THE PACKARD PRIZES
THE TENNIS COURT MEADOW
WALTER ANDERSON (2nd PRIZE)
LucIUS B. KUTCH IN (1st PRIZE)
THE RAMBORGER PRIZE
ELMER
. SECOND AWARD
E.
HARMES
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PORTRAIT CLASS BESIDE THE POND
THE KIMBERTON ROAD PAST THE SCHOOL
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THE PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY
OF THE FINE ARTS
'He is great who is what he is from
nature and who never reminds us of
others.' The secret of the highest
power is simply the uniting of the
outer agencies of Expression with the
Power that works from within. Are
you a painter? Then in the degree
that you open yourself to the power
of the forces within, will you become
great instead of mediocre. You can
never put into permanent form inspirations higher than those that
come through your own soul."
- Ralph Waldo Trine
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as contribute $10 annually for
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