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DRAWING
PAINTING
SCULPTURE
ILLUSTRATION
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MURAL
DECORATION
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The Schools of
THE • PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY
OF THE FINE ARTS
BROAD
AND
CHERRY
5T5., PHILADELPHIA 2, PA.
OFFICERS
President
JOHN F. LEWIS , JR.
Treasurer
C. NEWBOLD TAYLOR
Vice-President
HENRY S. DRINKER
Secretory
JOSE PH T. FRASER, JR.
Dire c tor s
MRS. LEONARD T. BEAL E
HENRY S. DRINKER
HENRY C. GIBSON
DAVID GWINN
R. STURGIS INGERSOLL
AR THUR C. KAUFMANN
JAMES P. MAGill
SYDNEY E. MARTIN
WILLIAM CLARKE MASON
GEORGE P. ORR
HOWARD C. PETERSEN
GEORGE B. ROBERTS
C. ALISON SCULLY
JOHN STEWART
ROBERT STRAUSZ-HUPE
C. NEWBOLD TAYLOR
SYDNEY l. WRIGHT
Solicitor
MAURICE B. SAUL
Cu ra tor of Schools
RAYM O N D T. ENTENMANN
Committee on Instruc tion
WI LLIAM ClARKE MASON . C ha irman
MRS . LEONARD T. BEALE
C. NEWBOl D TAYLOR
The Academy recognizes that the schooling of an art student is a subtle business and through its years of experience realizes the virtue of freedom and
The Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fin e Arts is the oldest art institution in
and actually dates its existence from 1791, when Charles
the Uniled Slates
Willson Peale commenced his efforts to organize in Philadelph ia a school
the necessity for each individual to make of himself an artist. It is our aim to
stimulate all who attend our classes by caring for the physical comfort of the
classrooms, the adequacy and reliability of its models and the availability to
for the fine arts. It was formally founded in 1805, and chartered in 1806.
all students of a faculty of gifted practicing professional artists. This Faculty
constitutes the greatest single asset, etc.
Mr. Peale's first efforts resulted in the formation in 1794 of the Columbianum,
The Faculty is listed below in the order tn which they joined the Academy staff.
and in 1795 under the auspices of that Association there was held in Pennsylvania's old State House, now known as Independence Hall, the first exhibition
of paintings in Philadelphia. The Columbianum was ultimately succeeded by the
present Academy . In 1805, in Independence Hall, w here twenty-nine years
earlier the forefathers had signed the Declaration of Independence, seventyone public spirited citizens, of whom forty-one were lawyers, met for formol
organization. They prepared a petition for the incorporation of the Penn sylvania
Academy of the Fine Arts. The gathering was a distinguished one, and the
object of the association, quaintly and vigorously expressed in the language
ROY C. NUSE
Instructor In Drawing and Preliminary Portrait Painting and Head of the Coordinated
Program of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts with the University of Pennsylvania.
Born in Springfield. Ohio. February 23. 1885.
Pennsylvania Academy ot the Fine Arts.
Awards: Cresson European Scholarship, Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Arts. 1917; Second Cresson. First Tappan and First Thouron Prizes.
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. 1918; Medal. Philadelphia Sketch Club . 1921. Fellowship of P.A.F.A. Gold Medal Award. 1940. Past President of the Fellowship of Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Arts. Taught. Art Academy Cincinatti 1910-12; Oberlin College 1912-15;
Director. Beechwood School of Art 1915-33; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts 1925.
FRANCIS SPEIGHT
Instructor in Drawing and Painting.
Born in Windsor. North Carolina. 1896.
of the day, was:
Pupil of Duveneck. Cincinnati Art Academy.
Studied in the Corcoran School of Art . Washi nglon .
D. C ., and The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts .
Awards: Cresson Foreign Traveling
Scholarships. 1923 and 1925. The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; The Fellowship of
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts' Gold Medal. 1926; First Prize in landscape
"To promote the cultivation
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the Fine Arts. in ti,e United States of America. h y illiroduc
ing correct and elegant copies from works
0/ .Ile
first Masters in Sculpture and Painting. and
by t"us facilitating the access to such Standards. and also
by
occasionally co nferring mod -
erate but honorable premi.ums. and otil erwise assisting the Studies and exciting tI,e efforts
of tlH~ Arfid!lO grmlunlly to un/old. en ligl1ten. oucl invigorafe fil e talents of our Coun trym en."
Society of Washington Artists. 1929; The Fellowship of The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine
Arts Prize. 1930; First Hallgarten Prize. Notional Academy of Design. 1930; M. V. Kahmstamm
Prize. The Art In stitute of Chicago 1930; landscape Prize. Connecticu t Academy of Fine Arts.
1932; Third W. A. Clarke Prize and Bronze Medal. Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington.
D. C. 1937; Gold Medal. Philadelphia Sketch Club. 1938; The Jennie Sesnan Gold Medal .
The
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
National
Academy of
Design
Altman
Prize
1940; The Academy-Fellowship Prize. 1940.
1951; second Altman
Prize.
1953. Member.
National Academy of Design. New York City. Taught. University of North Carolina. Summers
1934 and 1935. lehigh University. Adult Education Dept. 1949. American Army University.
Shrivenhom. England 1945. The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts from 1925 till present.
(On leave of absence during 1945.)
The schools are under the immediate care of the Curator and Committee on
WALKER HANCOCK
Instruction appointed by the President and Board of Directors, together with
Instructor In Sculpture.
Born in St . louis. 1901.
a Faculty composed of celebrated Artists, who are experienced Teachers and
Academy of the Fine Arts.
eminently qualified to discover and develop every talent which students moy
possess.
Fine Arts. 1921; William Emlen Cresson Foreign Traveling Scholarship. 1922 and 1923; Widener
Studied
In
the St. Louis School of Fine Arts and the Pennsylvania
Awards : Edmund Stewardson Prize, Pennsylvania Academy ,of the
Memorial Gold Medal. Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. 1925; Fellowship Prize. 1932;
Helen Fosler Bornell Prize Notional Academy of Design,
Prize for bas relief, 1940.
1935; Notional
Sculptur~
Society
Anonymous Prize for Sculpture, Notional Academy of Design, 1949.
Awarded Fellowship in the American Academy in Rome. 1925 to 1927.
Represented: City Art
Museum. St. louis; Theron Art Institute, Indianapolis; Notional Academy of Design, New York
City; Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, l. I .. "Young Lobstermon" Pennsylvania Academy
~f
the Fine Arts; "Squirrel
Fountain,"
Brookgreen
Gardens.
Georgetown, S.
C.
Works:
U.S.M.e. Expedilionory Medal; U. S. Air Mail Fliers Medal of Honor ; Heroic Groups, SI.
louis Memorial Building; Bust of Stephen FO Sle r , New York University Hall of Fame; Air Medal
(Army and Navy).
Served Overseas as Monuments, Fine Art s and Archives Officer 1943-45.
Member: Architectural League of New York; The Fellowship of the Pennsy lvan ia Academy of
the Fine Arts; Notional Sculpture SocietYi National Academy of Design; National Institute of
Arls and lellers. Toughl, NOlianal Academy 1 yea r, Arl Sludenls leag ue of New York 1 year,
The Pennsylvania Academy of Ihe Fine Arls from 1929 10 present.
FRANKLIN CHENAULT WATKINS
Instructor In Painting and General Coaching.
Born in New. .York Cily, in 1894. Sludied in Th e Pennsylvanio Academy of the Fine Arts.
Awarded, Will,am Emlen Cre sso n Memorial Traveling Scholarship 1917 1918. S
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, econd Tappan
Pnze, ennsylvanlO Academy of the Fine Art s 1920· F' I P .
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International
. ..
Exhibition,
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1931 ; Bronze Medal,
, Irs
n ze and lehman Prize, Carne ie
Pari s International E
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g
XPOSI lon, 1937· Bronze
Medal, Musee de Jeu de Paume, Paris, 1938, Fi rsl Priz e and Corcoran Gold Med I C'
G II
f A
1939 S
o, orcoron
; econd Prize, Unrestricted Division, International Art Exhibi t, Golden
a ery a r t ,
Gale Inlernalional Exposition, 1939; Beck Gold Medal
co d emy of the Fine
Arls, 194 1; llppmcoll Pnze, Penn sy lvania Academy of Ihe Fine Arts 1942· T
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Med a l, Pennsy lvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1944; Pennsylvania A cademy of the Fine Arts
Gold Medal of Honor 1949; Fellowship Prize 1950; Relrospeclive Exhibilion Museum of Modern
ArI,. N. Y., 1950. Olher awards-Philadelphia Sketch Club, Philadelphia Arl Club, Chicago Arl
I~stltute Member: Vice President National Institute of Arts and Lellers; Advisory Board, John
ROSWELL WEIDNER
Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation . Boord of Trustees, American Academy in Rome.
Instructor in Dra win g a nd Painting.
Born in Reading, Po., 1911. Studied 01 Ihe Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arls, and the
Barnes Foundalion . Awarded Ihe William Emlen Cresson Foreign Traveling Scholarship, 1935;
Firsl Charles Tappan Memorial Prize, 1936; Honorable Menlian Philadelphia Skelch Club,
1936; Terry Art InSlilute of Florida, 1952. Fellowship Pr ize, Pennsy lvania Academy of the
Fine Arts, 1942. Represenled , Reading Museum; Philadelphia Museum ; Pennsylvania Academy
of the Fine ArlS; Penn Slale College. PrinlS, library 01 Congress; Melropolilon M useum, and
Privole Colleclions. Taught, Philadelphia Museum School of Arl three years. The Pennsylvania
Academy of Ihe Fine Arls from 1939 10 present.
Served Morine and Nava l Camouflage Operations, First World War. Represented in Public
and Private Collections. For bibliographica l data see the catalogue of the One Man Retro-
spec l ive Exhibilion held 01 Ihe Mu seum of Modern Art, New York, 1950. Taughl, Philadelphia
Museum School of Art three years, Tyler School of Art five years, The Penn sylvania Academy
of Ihe Fine Arl s 1942 10 present.
JOHN W. McCOY, B.F.A.
Instructor in Water Color.
HARRY ROSIN
Born
Instructor in Construction and Sculpture.
Born in Philadelphia, December 21 , 1897.
Arts and in Paris.
Siudied in The Pennsylvania Academy of Ihe Fine
Awarded: Stewardson Prize for Sculpture; Cresson Traveling Scholarship,
1926; Widener Gold Medal, 1939; P. A. Fellowship Prize, 1941. Fellowship of P.A.F.A, Gold
Medal Award, 1942; $1,000 grant from Amer ican Academy of Arls and leIters, 1946. Gold
Medal Award, Philadelphia Regional Exhibition, 1951. Represenled, by work for the French
Government on Ihe island of Guadaloupe, French WeSl Indies; a building in Papeele, Tahiti,
Soulh Seas; The Samuels Memorial, Schuylkill River, Philadelphia; Privale and Public Collections in London, Paris, Tahiti, New York and Philadelphia . On leave 01 absence for the
school year 1952-1953. Taught, Ogonlz School 1939 to 1942. Phi ladelphia Museum School of
Arl 1 year, The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts from 1939 to present.
in Pinole,
California,
1910.
Studied
Cornell
University,
N.
Y.,
American School
at
Fonlainbleau, France and privale Sludios of N. C. Wyelh in Chadds Ford, Po. Sludenl of
londislas Medgys and Despuiols, Paris. Awarded First Honorable Mention and Obrig Prize,
American Waler Color Sociely
1946-47. Honorable Menlion, Audubon Arlisls 1948. Firsl
1949. Second Prize
Ballimore Waler Color Club 1948. Obrig Prize Nalional Academy of Design 1951. Member,
Prize Phi ladelphia
Notional
Club.
Waler Color Club, Pennsylvania Week Exhibilion
Academy of
Design; Audubon
Artists.
Di re ctor Wilmington Society of Fine Arts.
Vice-President
Philadelphia
Water
Color
Murals in Nemours Building, Wilmington,
Del., and Metropolitan Life Insurance Building, New York City. Represented in Public and
Private Collections. Taught: B. F. A. degree from Cornell University, The Pennsylvania Academy
of Ihe Fine Arls from 1946 10 presenl.
EDWARD SHENTON
Instructor in Ad v ance d Illustration.
Barn in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, November 29, 1895 .
JULIUS BLOCH
Studied in the Philadelphia Museum
School of Induslrial Arl; Pennsylvania Academy of Ihe Fine Arls; pupil of Thornton Oakley;
Henry Mc~arler; George Harding. Awarded, lea Prize, 1922; Cresson Traveling Scholarship,
Pennsylvania Academy of Ihe Fine Arls, 1922, 1923. Represenled, IIluslrations "Sc ribne r's , "
"Salurday Evening Posl," "The Yearling," 1937; " Cross Creek " 1942 · " Face f
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1939 "
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a lon,
, Dune Boy. 19~3, " Brady's Bend, " 1946, "The Color 01 Ihe Counlry," 1947; "The
Book of Sldlmeadow," 1948; "Sli limeadow Seasons," 1949; "lillie Brilches" 1950· "Chari.
magne"
f ' " 1951; " The Huntsman at Ihe Gate" 1951 ' Twa M,
e
, 1950.; "0 ut a f A
nco,
ura I s, SI .
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James
M emonal Chapel ' U . S. M'I't
.
I I ary C emetery, Department of Manche
France Taug hl·
Phdadel h' M
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useum School of Arl 1922 to 1936, Swarlhmore College 1939 10 1940, The
Pennsytvanla Academy of the Fine Art s 1941 to present.
Instructor in Painting .
Born in Baden, Germany, 1888. Sludied 01 The Philadelphia Museum School of Induslrial Arl,
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the Barnes Foundation. Awarded Cresson Travel-
ing
Scholarship
Honorable
1911-12.
Mention,
Second
American
Tappan,
Painting
of
19 12.
Today,
Philadelphia
Worcester
Prinl
Art
Club
Museum
Prize,
1933.
1933,
First
Purcha se Prize, Wanamaker Regional Arl Exhibit 1934, Yarnall Abba" Memorial Prize, Philadelphia Art Alliance 1939. Represented in collec tion Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts,
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum, Whitney M useum of American Art, Cor·
ca ron Art Ga llery, Po rtrait in White House Collection. Taught: Philadelphia Museum of Art
1944 10 1945 , The Pennsylvania Academy of Ihe Fine Arls from 1947 10 presenl.
WALTER STUEMPFIG
Instructor in Co m position and Ge n e ral Crit icism .
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h·1 d I h'
1914 Studied at The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Awarded:
Born to P I a e pia,
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d· P bl·
d P . ate Coller
William Emlen Cresson Traveling Scholarship, 1935. Represente In u. Ie an
nv
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Nat·,onol Academy of Design. Tought: The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine
"ons.
em er:
Arts from 1948 fa presen t.
HO BSON PITTMAN
Instructor in Com p osition and Advance d Painting .
Born in rarboro. North Carolina, January 14, 1900. Studied at the Rouse Scho,ol of ,Art,
rth Carolina- Pennsylvania State College, Stote College, Po .; Carnegie lnslilule
Tor b 0 ra " No
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Y k C·
N
Y
of Technology (Art School) Pittsburgh , Po . ; Calumbio UniverSity, New
or
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Traveled extensively abroad in 192B , 1930, 1935, 194B. Awards , Honorable Mention Son
Francis co World's Fair, 1939; Schiedt Memorial Prize, The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine
Arts 1943· Dawson Memorial Medal, The Pennsylvonia Academy of the Fine Arts, 1944;
Hon~rable' Mention, New Hoven Point and Cloy Club, 1946; Second Prize , Son Francisco
Palace of legion of Honor, American Exhibition, 1947; fourth Clark Prize, Corcoran Gallery
of Art , 1948; Third Prize, Carnegie Institute, American Exhibition, 1949; Honorable Mention ,
Po mona , Cal., Exhibition of American Pointing, 1949; First Prize, Flower Pointing , Butler Art
Inst itute, Youngstown, Ohio, 1950. Memberships , Philadelphia Water Color Club ; Philadelphia Art Alliance; Artists Equity Association; Notional Academy of Design . Repre sented in
Metropol itan Museum of Art; The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; Whitney Museum
of Art; Brooklyn Museum; Phillips Memorial Ga l lery, Washlngton; Virginia Museum 01 Fine
Art s; Nebraska Art Association; Butler Art Institute, Youngs town, Ohio; Cleveland Museum 01
Art; Carnegie Institute; Brooks Memorial Gallery, Memph is, Tenn.; Addison Gallery of
American Art, Andover, Mass.; Phi lade lphia Museum of Art; John Heron Art Museum, Indianapolis , Ind.; Santo Barbaro Art Museum, Santo Barbara, Col.; Wilmington Society of Artists,
Wi lmington, Del.; International Business Machines Collection of American Paint ing; Pennsylvania State College, State College, Po.; Encyclopedia Britannica ; Mantciair Museum of Art,
Montclair, N . J. ; Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio. Abbott Collection. Taught, Friends
Central 22 years, Pennsylvania State College 22 years, The Pennsylvania Academy of the
Fine Arts from 1948 to present.
MORRIS BLACKBURN
Instructor in Grap hics and Desi g n
Born Philadelphia October 13, 1902. Studied at The Pennsy lvan ia Academy of Ihe Fine Arts ;
privately with Arthur B. Carles, Jr. Tought Philadelphia Museum School of Art 1933·41; Stella
Elkins Tyler School of A rt 194B-52; The Pennsylvan ia Academy of the Fine Arts 1952 to present.
Awarded the Williom Emlen Cresson European Traveling Scholarship in 192B and 1929; John
Gribbel Prize 1942, Print Club; John Gribbel Hanoroble Mention, 1944, Print Club; Honorable Mention American Color Print Society 1943; Third Prize American Color Print Society
1944; Honorable Mention Northwest Print Makers, 1943 ; Gold Medal Award Fe llowship
P.A .F.A . 1949; Mory S. Collins Prize 1950, Print Club; Lessing J. Rosenwald Prize 1950,
Pri.nt Club; ~arrison S. Morris Prize 1951, Equity Regional P.A.F.A.; John Simon Guggenheim MemOrial Fellowship in Pointing and Graphic Arts 1952. Represented : Philadelphia
Museum of Art, oils and prints; The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and The Capeha~t C~lIection, oils. Prints in U. S. State Deportment, Brooks Memorial Art Gallery , American
UnIVersity Women's Collection, Clearwater Museum.
J OHN HANLEN
Assista nt in Mural De coration
Born Janua ry I, 1922, Winfield, Kansa s. Studied: The Pennsy lvania Academy of the Fin e Arts
and the .Ba rnes. Foundation. Awards: Two Cresson Traveling Scholarships, Ware Memorial
Scholarshl.p; lOUIS Comfort Tiffany first award; Edwin Austin Abbey Award for Mural. Repres~nted: library 01 Cong res s, Washington, D. C., prints, The Penn sy lvania Academy 01 the
f ine Arts and Pri~ate Collections. Murals for the Budd Company's Twin City Zephyrs. Taught
01 The Pen nsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts 1953 to _
JOHN F. LEWIS, JR.
Chairman e x-officio, as Chairman of the Committee on Instruction of the Board of Directo rs.
JOHN F. HARBESON, M.S. in Architecture
Instructor In Perspective and Architectural Advisor In the Sculpture Ciasl in Com positi o n.
Born in Philadelphia, July 3D, lBBB . Studied in the University of Pennsylvania . Received B.S.
and Arthur Spayd Brooke Gold Medal in Design, 1910; M.S .A., 1911; Cope Prize IPhilodelphia
Chapter, A. 1. A. and T Square Club), 1913. Architect, Associate of Paul P. Cret. Fellow,
American Institute of Architects, Associate Professor in Architectural Design, School of fine
Arts, University of Pennsy lva nia; Author of " The Study of Architectural Design," Pencil Points
Press, N . Y., 1926.
WILLIAM M. CAMPBELL, B.S. in Architecture; A.M.
Assbtant Instructor In Perspective and Inst ructor in Le tte ring .
Born in Germantown, Philadelphia, 1887; studied in the University 01 Pennsylvania . B.S. in
Architecture, 1912. R.A. Assistant Profes sor in Design Ana lysis in the School of Fine Arts ,
University of Pennsylva nia.
PHILIP ALIANO
In structor in Stone Cutting.
Born in Corleto Perticara, Italy. Studied drawing and modeling at The Spring Garden Institute
and modeling at Dre xel Institute. Received Honorable Mention s.
Fo(eman in charge of stone, marble and granite lor different studios; also stone yard .
Fo(mer Chairman of the Architectural Sculptors and Carvers Association 01 Philadelphia and
Vicinity.
EDMOND J. FARRIS, B.A., Ph.D.
Le cturer in Anatomy.
Born in Buffalo , New York. Executive Director, Associate Member, The Wister Institute of
Anatomy and Biology. Author, "A rt Studen ts' Anatomy " (Lippincott); "Anatomy and Phys·
ia lagy , Laboratory Guide" llippincatt).
JACK BOOKBINDER, B.F.A. in Ed.; M.F.A.
Lecturer In Art History.
Born Odessa, Ukraine, 1911 . Studied Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; University of
Penn sylva nia , B.f.A. in Ed.; Temple University, M.F.A .; and in European ~useums: 1936, 1938,
1939. lecturer in art education University of Pennsy lvania, 1946-; SpeCial ASSistant to A~t
Director of Philodelphia Public Schools , 1945-. Awards, 1st Prize , lithography, Tyler Alumni,
1947; DaVinci Silver Medal, 1949; 3rd Prize , Contemporary Lith ography, Rochester Pnn'. Club,
1948 ; 1st Prize , pointing , Tyler Alumni, 1951; Clarence Wolf Me_mori~1 Prize , DaVlnc, Alhonc~,
1952 . Water Color Prize , P.A. F.A. Fellowship, 1952; Fellowship PrIZe 1953. Represented lin
Penn'sy lvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia M useum of Art, library of Congress, Te~p e
University, Yale University Museum , Art Museum of the New Britain Institute, Connecticut,
Woodmere Art Gallery, and privale collections.
G. HOLMES PERKINS, A.B. and M.Arch.
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nt of Archite cture and De an of the School of Fin e Arts, represe ntin g
Ch airman 0 t e
e pa m e .
the University In the Coordinated Program.
THEODOR SIEGL
Technical Advisor
Born Czechosolovo kiQ 1927. Studied four years Conservation of Pain l in.gs , .State Academy of
Fine Arts, Vienn a , Austria . 1948 Conservator of the Capucini Monastery In Vienna . Conservator
of the Pennsylva nia Academy of the Fine Arts. Conservation of various collect ions : Th e
University of Pennsyl vo nia , The Pennsylvania State M useum in Harrisburg; and others ..
RAYMON D TAYLOR ENTENMANN
Curator of Schools.
Born in Phila de lphia , De cember 7 , 1920. B. S. in landscape Architecture, Penn sy lvania State
College, 1942. A . M . in Fine Arls , Harvard Universily, 1947. M.C.P., Gradua l e School of
Design, Harva rd Univer sity , 1953.
LOCATION
T
HE Academy Building is located in th e heart of Philade lphia, within one block
of City Hall and within wa lking distance 6f practically every gallery, muse um, library, theatre and music hall of importance in the city. Its strategic location , Galleries, Library, Pri nt Collect ion, the Coordinated Programs with th e
UniverSity of Pe nnsylvania the American Academy in Rome Collaborative Problem and the many prizes and scholorship advantages contribute greatl y to the
strength of the present institution. Considering Ph ilodelphia's wealth in these
cultural attr ibutes the student in the Academy has immeasurable opportunities
to augmen t his school work in every possible field of ort and livin g.
The schools occupy the ground floor of the Academy, and tog ether with the
Anne x within a sh ort walking distance, occupy about 35,000 sq. ft. of space,
26,000 of w hich is used for instructional purposes. It is ful ly equipped with model
stands, draperies, props, tables, stoo ls, blackboards, 114 plaster casts, rocks
for storing canvases, slide pro iector, a motion picture prOiecto r and sc reen,
electric kiln for ceramic sculpture, etching and lithog raph presses, stones and
the necessary mater ia l for tra ining in the graphic arts. The school s offer ample
opportunity for the serious student to develop his capacities to the fullest degree.
ACADEMY GALLERIES. The Academy's Perma nent Collection of Pa intings and
Ben Kamihiro
1st Cresson Traveli ng Scholarshi p 1951
Schiedt Memoriol Tro veli ng Schol arshi p 1952
Sculpture afford s an oppartunity for the study of exampl es of famous masters,
and includes the Gallery of National Portraiture by Eorl y American Painters;
the Te mple Collection of Modern A merican Paintings; Th e Gibson Co llection,
la rgel y composed of wo rks of the Continental schools; and the Lambert Collection of Contemporary Art.
The Annual Exhibition s held by the Academy, of which this yeor's w ill be the
One H undred and Forty-ninth, bring together the best examples of current
Amer ican paint ing and scul pture, and enable students to follo w intelligently
the var ious movements of contemporary art, and to study the technica l methods
by w hich the art of today is achieving its results. Th ese exhibitions have bee'n
rec o gnized for many years as being the foremost in Amer ica . The Water Color
Exhibition is held in the Fall of each year. The exhibitio n of work of students
sub mitted in competition for Cresson Eu ropean Tra veling Sc holarships and other
pr izes is held at the end of May. Other special exhibit ions continual ly change
the aspect of the Galler ies throughout the W inte r season.
LIBRARY. An excellent reference library is ava ilable to all reg ister ed students
in the day schoo l. Books are of easy access to students for individua l resea rch
a nd for limited withdrawals.
PRINT COLLECTION . Th e Academ y is the owner of one of the largest and
most valuable print collections in the United States, with a total aggregate In
all collectio ns of 67,000 prints.
Although the Acad emy has no dormitory facilities, every effort wi ll be mode to
help the student secure satis fac tory accommodat ions from se lected listin gs In
our fl ies. Special attention w ill be g iven to girls requesting supervised housing.
2.
SCULPTURE
,
life Drawing
Cast Drawing
Slone Cutting
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Three Dimensional Design
I ntraduction to Design
The general method of instruction is by individual criticism of closs work, without the repressing effect of fixed methods. The purpose of this. training .IS to
develop the students' natural abilities, to enable them to acquire technique,
and to stimulate their sense of beauty. The various classifications of study are
closely allied and students in one deportment are privileged to work in the
other departments by arrangement with the Curator. This entails no additional
Perspective and
History of Art
Anatomy .
fee
Chemistry and Grounds
96 hours
Graphics
Construction
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Croquis and Head Skelch (Allernale Each' Wee k)
Letterin g
Portrait
life
Composition
FIRST YEAR COURSE. All students are required to toke the First Year Course as
outlined herein. Students entering the Academy with advanced credit from
other recognized institutions, or private instruction, may apply for exemption
from the first year course by submitting four 14) examples of work for action of
the Academy Faculty on Thursday of the first week of each term.
Stone Cutting
. . . . . .
Skill to be learned in the techniques and croft man ship of
fine art painting and sc ulpturing .
3.
life Drawing
Cost Drawing
Waler
Color
Three Dimensional Design
I ntroduction to Design
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Graphics
Construction
Croquis and Head Skelch (Allernale Each Week)
Perspective and
History of Art
Anatomy .
letterin g
Chemislry and Grounds
Portrait
life
Composition
Application of skill learned to assigned problems
in Illustration
COURSE OUTLINES
1. PAINTING
Hours Under
Life Drawing
Cost Drawing
Wate r Color
Three Dimensional Design
In trod uct ion 10 Design
Graphics .
Const ruc tion
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Croquis and Head Skelch (Aile rna Ie Each Week )
Pe rspective and
lettering
History of Art
Anatomy ,
Chemistry and Grounds
Portrait
life
Compo sition
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Slill life and landscape (Allernale Each Week)
96 hours
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384
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ILLUSTRATION
REGISTRATION OF WORK. Each student is required to register one example
of work, once each month, representing effort in each of the classes to which
the student has been assigned and bearing the stamp of the instructor from
each of those cla sses. An unbroken record of registration is necessary far
eligibility for all competitions and is required of all students in the Coordinated
Courses and all Veterans. Written requests for excuse upon legitimate grounds
lillness, unavoidable absence, etc.) must be addressed to the Cura tor for
approva l
96
96
96
96
96
384
384
96 hours
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384 "
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288
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MURAL
life Drawing
Cast
Waler
Drawing
Color
Three Dimensional Design
I ntroduction to Design
Graphics
Construction
Croquis and Head Sketch (Allernale Each Week)
Perspective and
Lettering
Hi slory of Art
Anatomy .
Chemistry and Grounds
Portrait
life
Construction
Slill life and landscape
Application of learned skills to mural Decoration
96 hours
96 "
96 "
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96 "
384 "
384 "
32 "
32 "
32 "
25 "
96 "
96 "
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SPECIAL LECTURES . A series of special ottractions a re planned to augment the
school program and olso for the generol public and members of the Academy
by way of visits for class criticism or lectures by distinguished profess lonol artists critics, etc. These events are mode possible throu gh the generous cooperdtlon of the Academy Fel lowship (Alumni Society) .
PROMOTION. All students whose re g istration record is complete moy, ot the
end of the Fi rst Year Cou rse, select the department in which he or she
wishes to major-i.e. Pa in tin g, Scu lpture or Illustration. Entrance into Mura l
Decorotion may only be made after at least two preparatory years arid then
after consultation with the Curator and th e Head of the Mura l Dec oro tio n
Department. The life and Portrait Cl asses are classified as Preliminary and
Advanced. Opportunity for promotion is mode ot stated Faculty meetings. One
painting and one drowing from th e Prel im in ary class must be submitted with
the application for the Advanced closs.
GENERAL IN FORMATION. A num be r of rules and regulotions are necessary
for the competent manogement of the school and for the orientation of the
students. Therefore, students are asked to cooperate with the Management
for their mutual good. In the first-year classes, attendance records will be kept
and excessive absences will be checked. Board of Education, ar outside scholarship holders, students coordinating wi th the Universi ty of Pennsylvan ia, and
all Veterans are required to have their work graded at the end of each term.
All special notices w il l be posted on the backboards in the Antiq ue Room. It
will be to every student's advantage to be constantly familiar with special
notices and all postings and regu lations placed on the official bulletin board.
Students are graded at the end of eac h term by individua l members of the
Faculty, an averoge struck and the grades posted on the individua l student
cards and a list of grades posted on th e Bulletin Board. There is also a list
sent to the University of Pe nnsylvania for those students who are coordinated.
A list of grades is also kept on file for the Veterans Adm inistration .
The grade range is from 95 plus down to 70 based on the quality of work and
progress shown. Any grade below 70 places the stude nt on probation for the
ensuing term and if the work does not improve the student is requested to leove .
Students are supposed to know how to conduct themselves upon princ iples of
honor without specific rule s, but the Management of the school reserve s the
right, at any time and wi thout advo nce notice, to reject or dismiss any st udent
Without recourse, for any reason which may se em suffi c ient in the opinion of
the Management, and without assigning any reason.
A student dismissed far unsa tisfactory conduct will not be ol lowed to re ·enter
the schools.
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STUDENTS ENROLLED UNDER PUBLIC LAW
550 . No leave will be g'on ted
nor absences nor class cu ts allowed unless an explonation is given which, in
the opinion of the Management, is valid. Work missed under these conditions
must be made up at the next regular regis trat ion of work. Tard iness amounting
to more. than 1112 hours per week will not be tolerated ond un exp la ined
absenteeism In any form will result in dismissal.
Poul S. Kromer
Eakins Prize 1951
lsI Cresson Traveling Schola rship 1952
Mollnew O. Gordon
S'im~on Prize in Sculo/ure
Frankl in Ross Droke
lst Cresson Traveling Schol arship 1952
COORDINATED PROGRAMS. The Universit
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of Bachelor of Fine Arts and Master af Fin~ ~/enn~y:~an~a oRers its degrees
of Science in Education to students of Painting s ~; I t ure
e e~ree of Bachelor
and Illustration who hove completed a course 'f u Pd :
urdal Decoration
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f
0 aca emlc stu y at the U .
verslty a Pennsylvania and the prescribed technical
k· h
nlthe Academy.
wor In t e schools of
THE FINE ARTS PROGRAM . The program for the Bachelor of
the Master of Fine Arts degrees is normally five years, during
semester
em'IC
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. credits must be completed in the requ'lred aca d
nlverslty and 122 semester credits in the technical work of the
Fine Arts and
which time 58
courses .In the
Academy.
Advanced standing. far. academic work up to 22 semester credits may be
allowed by the University. For prevIOUS technical study of the Fine Art th
Academy may allow credit up to 72 semester credits of the 122 reqUire~. e
BACHELOR DEGREE
MASTER DEGREE
University
Semester Credits
10 ) Hislory of Art
12
(b) English
12
Ic) Modern Longuage
6
Id) General History
6
Ie) A Science
6
6
If) Psycho logy
2
Ig) Philosophy
8
Ih) Electives
John l. Massey. Jr.
lsT Cresson Traveling Scholarship 1952
Academy
Technical
University
History of Painting
Elect ives
Semester Credits
Total Semester Credits
36
4
8
.
48
58
Acodemy (Technicol)
.
Tatol Semester Credits
Jomes Stoddard Ryan
h! Cresson Traveling Scholarship 1952
Suson V, Corse
lst Cresson Traveling Scholarship 1952
. 122
. 180
(Note) While this program is not designed primarily for teacher preparation,
specifically in the public school system, many graduates are holding responsible
teaching positions in the private school field.
ART EDUCATION PROGRAM. The program for the Bachelor of Science in
Education degree (for teaching and supervising art education in the public
schoo ls) is also a five year course; the first two years of which are divided
between the University and the Academy. At the end of the second year the
student must transfer from the undergraduate Coordinated Program, as outlined above, to the School of Education for a full time program to complete
the remaining three years of the course.
The technical work of the student is judged each term by the Committee on
the Coordinated Program and the student is graded on one example from each
class in which he is registered. Reports are rendered each term, and in the
academic courses standing is reported each term by the University.
The students in these courses share all privileges extended to the student-body
o f each institution and are also subject to th e regulations imposed.
Applications should be made as early as possible. Candidates for admission
to the Coordinated Courses must meet the requirements of each institution but
must be accepted and approved by the Academy before they can be admitted
to the University.
For information rega rding the University write direct to the Office of Admissions,
University of Pennsylvan ia, Philadelphia 4, Po.
EVENING CLASSES. The Evenin g Classes are planned for those students whose
activities or liveliho od do not permit them to attend the day sess ions. Students
admitted under his head are not eligible to compete for prizes ar scholarships
and credits are given only by special arrangement with the Curator. The fees
are set at a reasonable figure so that many may enjoy the privilege of Drawing, Pointing or Model in g in the life and partrait classes. See "fees" for details. Al l day students are entitled to work in the evening classes without extra
fee . The evening classes are conducted five nights of the week. Schedule of
classes will be posted. Instructars in the Evening classes are Francis Speight,
Roswell Weidner, Walker Hancock and Harry Rosin.
SUMMER SCHOOL. A six weeks Summer Session will be held in the Philadelphia School with the opportunity for study in Drawing, Portrait, Life and
landscape. For further particulars please apply to the Curator.
COLLABORATIVE PROBLEM. It is the aim of the Academy's Schools to
approach the fine arts in the broadest sense. Toward that end and because
of the ideal coord ination with the University of Pennsylvania, through its School
of Fine Arts, one of the most valuable features is the participation through and
with the Association of the Alumni of the American Academy in Rome in their
Collaborative Problem. This project enga ges students in architecture, landscape
architecture, mural decoration and sculpture. Teams of four are formed, the
latter two members from the Academy, in the study of these, the fou r great art
departments, toward a perfect whole. The Academy deems the opportunities
thu s afforded so val uable that it offers tuition scholarship prizes to those students whose teams place in the prize w inning groups in the Rome Academy's
judgment.
Two terms of free tuition in the Winter School are, therefore, to be awarded to
each pointer or painters and sculptor or sculptors whose team or teams place
first, second or third in the Association of the Alumni of the American Academy
in Rome judgment; provided, that in the acceptance of such scholarship, the
students will major in their respective departments (Mural Decoration and Sculpture), and shall use th is tuition credit in the school year directly following that
of the award.
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.!£ila .w?n& X/Wnedy- :£1tt JIe'l1UYJlia1 {!l1ffe
SUSAN V CORSE ROSS FRANKLIN DRAKE, PAUL S. KRAMER, JOHN l. MASSEY,
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LLOY, JR . 5cu IplureS RY AN , CHARLES VINSON. Illustralion - WILLIAM J. MA
JR., JAMES.
JOHN W. GARDNER. Mural-WALTER K. HOOD
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Pam""g -
~ea;ande-}< [!Jo'J'tno/f,jiemo'J'ial 2l1~e
PHILIP FOWLER
Poinling - CLARENCE SHERDON
Scu/plur. _ PHILIP FOWLER, MATTHEW O. GORDON
IIluslralion - CHARLES E. HARPT
Mura/- NAPOLEON V. GORSKI, JR.
.9j~ecial g?Jti;r fo !/cutjdu'1'e ct'Mnjtojdton
JOHN
£u.tiJ Y.1~e JI~ !/::lw/a-7<JIUfi
f. !/clu:edt J/emo)l/al !/::llOla/jl(jkft,
Poinling _ BEN KAMIHIRA
Painling -
!/feu.ta1,cUon g;~,e J/~cIt 1.952
MATTHEW O. GORDON
!/1Mn:ion (!IJ~e ./V{J//J.lm't6e)l 1.952
JOHN W. GARDNER
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Mural- RAYMOND M. SPILLER
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PHILIP R. WONSON
9IJonato !/cutj~tU'Jle ctflYlrl/Wjt"!lon ~tJe
HARRY REYNOlDS THOMAS
Honorable Mention
gd:inA f!4("-r.e
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MATTHEW O. GORDON
f!Jkcka'Jld f!i1tJ&
9tU'Wl60-}</le'Jl ,~~e
GEORGE GORDON RUSSElL, JR.
31tO(t-}<on /:?i3,tJ$
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PHILIP LUSARDI
ISAMI KASHIWAGI
WALTER K. HOOD
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Con.'ruC/ion -
PHILIP LUSARDI. Antiqu. Cast Drowing -
WILLIAM C. UTERMOHLEN, JR.
~~~~ ~ded ~ the ~j~ 0/ f!h,,~I'lJania
t"o .9I-adenti in the ct'oonlin.aled ct'o~jtn
BEN KAMIHIRA
ERIC J. RYAN, JR.
ROSS FRANKLIN DRAKE
THOMAS E. YERXA
Bachelor of Fine Arts - COlETTE AURITI, JOHN CROWLEY, JUNE HAYWARD, JOHN G.
NACE, JOHN W. GARDNER, MATTHEW O. GORDON, JOY POWEll.
Master of Fine Arts - CAROLYN MOORE, IRVING DRUMMOND, SEYMOUR TITONE.
FRANKLIN C. WATKINS •
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HOBSON PITTMAN.
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Corcoran 2nd Price $1500.
Saltus Gold Medal for Merit, National Academy of Design
Elected Full Member of National Academy of Design
FRANCIS SPEIGHT
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2nd Altman Prize $600.
National Academy of Design
Grant from National Institute of Arts and Letters $1000.
WALTER STUEMPFIG • •
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1st Altman Prize $1200.
National Academy of Design
Elected Full Member of National Academy of Design
WALKER HANCOCK
Art Alliance Medal of Achievement 1953
PHILIP FOWLER (sculptor) •
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Tiffany 1952 - $2000.
PAUL ANTHONY GREENWOOD (scu/ptod.
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Tiffany 1952 - $ 500.
THOMAS E. YERXA (painted • •
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Tiffany 1952 - $2000.
Carl Zabriski Cash Award - $100.
AI/ied Artists of America 1952, Gold Medal of Honor
BEN KAMIHIRA (painter).
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Tiffany 1952 - $1
First Hal/garten Prize - $300. National Academy of DeSign
CLEADE ENDERS (painter)
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. Tiffany 1952 - $500.
WALTER K. HOOD
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Abbey Grant 1953-$3000.
JIM LUEDERS .
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National Academy of DeSign
THOMAS E. YERXA - Firsl
JOAN KNIGHT - Second
FRANK MANCUSO - Third
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fREE TUITION SCHOLARSHIPS . Free tuition scholarships are avoilable to
registered students whose flnoncial obligations have been met in full, for at least
two terms. These scholarships are solely for the purpose of finanCially assisting
those who would otherwise be unoble to pursue their study of art. The major
number of these are made available each year by Gearge D. Widener in
memory of his father and mother, George D. Widener and Mrs. Alexander
Hamilton Rice, and through the John Lambert Memorial Fund. Others are made
available through bequests of various friends of the Acodemy to be used for
scholarship aid: The Louise Harrison Memorial Scholarships given by Thomas
S. Harrison in memary of his wife; The Mary R. Burton Scholarships; The Sarah
Kaighn Cooper Memorial Scholarship through the generosity of Mrs. George
K. Johnson; The Elizabeth H. Thoma s Memorial Scholarsh ip; and The George
M. Wiltbank Scholarships through the bequest of Ann ie C. Wiltbank.
Application may be made in the Spring of each year. These scholarships are
awarded by the Board of Directors upon the recommendation of the Com·
mittee on Instruction and the Faculty. Applicants must fill in a prepared form
and submit it together with no more than four unframed examples of their work
to the Curator before the stated meeting of the Faculty in April.
At the discretion of the monagement, and at times when there is a particular
demand for such help, certain of these scholarships may be granted as half
scholarsh ips.
The Board of Public Education of the City of Ph iladelphia awards a number
of scholarships to students who receive appointments. Graduates of all the City
High and Monual Training Schools are eligible for these appointments, nomina·
tions for wh ich are made by the Board of Education on the recommendation
of the Principols of the several sc hools, to whom all applications should be
addressed.
Ten full free tuition scholarships are made available by the Academy to June
graduates in the Public and Parochial Schools in Philadelphia through a recent
agreement with City Council. Judgment for those students applying will be
made by
0
committee of the Faculty of the P.A.F.A., at Broad and Cherry
Streets, and all applicants must submit at least six (6) examples of work to the
Academy. The date for judging the competition will be announced in the
Public and Parochial schools each spring.
One free tuition scholarship for two semesters is offered this year through the
Scholastic Magazine in their competition entitled Scholastic Awards.
THE WIlliAM EMlEN CRESSON MEMORIAL
TRAVELING SCHOLARSHIPS
'b
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" . 01 .he wills of Emlen Cresson and Priscilla P., his wife, a Fund ho s b ee n creo led
prOVISion
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as a memorlo
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By the II erc
ships sholl be awarded under such rules and regulot ions a s sholl be adopted from time to lime by the
Boord of Directors of th6- Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
The award of a Cresson Travel ing Scholarship credits each student with $1350;
$1050 to be used for a summer of travel and traveling expenses in Europe and
the remaining $300 pays for tuition in the ensuing two terms immediately followIng at the Academy. An award is not to be regarded as a certificate of proficiency. The winners should consider rother, thot their industry ond promise hove
won for them the opportunity to introduce into their period of schooling th is
the Academy for the continuance of regular class work and the registrotion
inspirational and broadening incident. Each recipient is required to return to
requirements for those enjoying study under a Cresson Scholarship will be the
same as for all other students.
The awards are divided among all departments of study and are allotted as to
standard of work as one factor, and the number of contestants proportionally
from each department as the other factor.
The awards are made by the Board of Directors through its Committee on
Instruction, upon the recommendation of the Faculty. Eight students were
awarded Cresson Traveling Scholarships in 1952 . The student illustrations in
this catalogue are selected ch iefly from the work of the winners in the 1952
competition . In the case of exceptional merit and when a very decided improvement is evident a student may, through the same autharity, receive the
award a second time. Competition for 0 second scholarship may be entered
only during the year suc ceeding the first award, unless otherwise ruled or a
satisfoctory excuse be accepted by the Committee on Instruction.
The Faculty is not obliged to recommend awards of Cresson scholarships if,
In ItS opinion, the wo rk submitted is not of sufficient merit to justify such
recommendations.
RULES GOVERNING THE CRESSON COMPETITION . Every student thirty-five
years of age or younger, in good health and without know ledge of any physical condition ~r ~ny ?ther reason to prevent accepting and properly using
such Scholarship, IS eligible for competition for a Cresson Traveling Scholarship .when. they each have on aggregate of 96 Academy school weeks to their
credit, :-vhlch must have been accumulated within five 15) years of the dote of
competition . The final 32 weeks Itwo terms) must be spent in the Winter School
of the Academy and must be within the school year of competition .
All students must have a complete and unbroken registration record over the
time included in computing eligibility Isee "Registration of Work"). They must
also have completed satisfactorily their work in Perspective Itwo terms) Del' _
q~~ncles due. to absence for illness or other causes must be satisfacto~ily ~:_
Pf II neddin writing to the Curator for excuse and all financial obligations must be
u y pal .
All students
entering the competition are required to pro cure an app I'1C0tion
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permission to compete at the Curator's Office before the 10th d
All wor k su b ml'tt e d .In competition
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must be that which h
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as een one In the
a emy c osses ar or co emy registration and has rece'lved
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a mem er or mem ers of the Faculty. It must also be work compl eted within
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the last 32 weeks of the Winter School or in the Summe S .
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prece d Ing. It er t e stamp
from monthly registration or on e by spec .10 I ar'
rangement at th e C urator s office must be upon each work exhibited.
All ~ompetitors are unrestricted as to the amount and variety of work they submit In the competltlo.n gr?ups, provided they do not exceed the space allotted
to them but each Painter s group mu st include a landscape and each Sculptor's
group must Include a composition .
Paintings, Drawings, and Illustrations exhibited in the Painting or Illustration
gro~ps may be any size but must not exceed the ollotted spa ce, and must be
exhibited unframed and unglazed. If tape is used to trim unsightly edges of
canvases It may be used to give order rather than enhance and must nat encroach upon the foce of the canvos.
A period of at least 90 days in Europe must be accounted for in the itinerary
and financial report which is requ ired for filing in the office of the Curator
before the first day of November following the award.
Each student awarded a Second Cresson Traveling Scholarship is granted the
privilege of using the cred it for travel 1$1050) ony time within two years and
four months of the receipt of the award. Th e $300 credit for tuition , however ,
must be used within the year fallOWing the awarded or be forfeited. A student
studying on a Second Cresson Scholarship must register one piece of work
each month and will arrange individually with the curator in regard to the
requirements in the various departments.
THE LEWIS S. WARE MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP. The Lewis S. Ware Memorial Scholarship, in accordance with the will of the Testator, provides a European Traveling Scholarship in amount and regulations similar to those of Cresson
Scholarships of that year . Thi s scholarsh ip will be available at interva ls of
possibly three or four years and is to be awarded when availab le by th e Boa rd
of Directors through its Committee an Instruction an the advic e of the Fa culty
to a student of outstanding merit who is not receiv ing a Cresson Scholarship
that year . One Scholarship was awarded in May, 1952.
THE J. HENRY SCHIEDT MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP. The J. Henry Schiedt
Memorial Scholarship, in accordance with the Will of Cornelio Sch iedt, provides for the award of Traveling Scholarships according to the income available. The amount available for the ne xt school year will provide for one scholarship of $1200. Th e award of this Scholarship will be made to an advanced
student of ou tstanding merit on the recommendation of the Faculty by the Board
of Directors under regulations and programs to be autharized.
Eligibility for th is competition will be based on the same requirements as set up
for first Cresson awards, and th e written application, covering a specific ob-
..
jective for carrying farward his or her training through travel, placed in the
hands of the Curator of the Schools before January 1st of the yeor of compe·
titian. A student may compete for a Sch iedt Scholarship and at the same time
for a Cresson Scholarship, but may not win both in anyone year.
THE CHARLES TOPPAN PRIZES. The Charles Toppan Prizes for 1953 are: First
Prize $300.00; Second Prize, $200.00; and one honorable mention of $100.00.
These prizes were established in 1881 by the gift of Mrs. C harles Tappan, MIss
Harriette R. Tappan, and Mr. Robert N. Tappa n. The prizes are awarded only
to students who have previously received and used a Cresson Scho larship.
Competitors who fulfill all of the requiremen ts for a Second Cresson Traveli ng
Scholarship will, at the same time, be considered eligible to compete for a
Tappan Prize.
Any student having received one Toppan prize is debarred from receiving
another Tappan prize of the same or lower value. The work submitted in competition must be an original painting, in oil, tempera or water color, the unaided
work of the student without criticism. The subject for the paintings to be submitted will be announced Friday, November 6, 1953. All work in competition
must be submitted without signature by Saturday, May 8, 1954, 12 o'clack noon.
No student may submit mare than one example.
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Canvases are numbered by the Curator, ond a memorandum of the numbers
and competitors' names is kept in a sealed envelope which is opened after the
prize -winnin g canvases have been selected by the Comm ittee 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.
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 Ramborger, who for some years was a student of the Academy, an annual prize of
$25.00 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, but who has been registered in the Academy for both terms of the current school year. Each competitor may submit one unmaunted drawing on white
paper 19 by 25 inches in size. HaVing once received an award, a student
becomes thereafter ineligible to compete again.
The Committee on awards is not obliged to award prizes or honorable mentions
If, In Its opin ion, the work submitted is not of sufficient merit to justify making
the awards.
THE EDMUND STEWARDSON PRIZE. The Edmund Stewardson Prize of One
Hundred Dollars in the Department of Sculpture will be awarded for the 52nd
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.
1st
Cre~~on
William J. Molloy. Jr.
Traveling Scholarship lQ52
Thomas E. Yetxo. III
Fir~f TapPOn Priz.e 1952
lsi Cresson Traveling
Scholarship 1951
Woller K. Hood
1st Cresson Traveling Scholarship 1952
Cecilia Beaux Prize 1952
The subiect for the competition is a full-length figure from life in the 0 d
Studies must not be less than two feet six inches in height, and not mor:
three feet in height, and must be made within eighteen hours, during three consecutive days, in six sessions of three hours each.
~hna ~
A student receiving one Stewardson Aword is ineligible to co mpete a second
time.
No one except the competitors is admitted to the com petiti o n roo m at an y time
during the days of the competition, and no one except th e members of th e Jury
is present during the iudging of the studies.
Each competitor draws a number by lot. This number dete rmines the competi tor's posit ion in the competition room and a correspondi ng number is placed
upon an envelope which contains the competitor' s nome a nd is depo sited
sealed, with the Secretory of the Academy. Upon completio n o f the work the
competitor places a corresponding number upon the study to be submitted to
the Jury of Award.
Ma tt hew O . Gordon
Sfewordson Prize in Sculp lure 1952
The Jury of Aword consists of three professiona l sculpto rs, hav ing no officia l
connection with the Academy, or any other schools whose pupil s may ha ve
taken port in the competition . If no study be sati sfactor y to the Jury, the prize
may, at their discretion, be withheld. When no awa rd is mo de, the a mount of
the prize may, at the discretion of the Boord of Directors, be a dde d to the
principa l of the prize fund or distributed with futu re prizes.
Charles N. Vinson
1st Cre sson Traveling Scholarship 1952
The clay models offered in competition must be kept standing in good con dition until o th erw ise ordered and figures cast by the Aca demy become its
property.
Raymond Spiller
Wore Traveling Scho larship 1952
The Jury of Aword iudging the Competit ion in the Spr ing of 1952 consisted ofPeter Dolton, Oronzio Maldorelli, Sidney Waugh .
THE STIMSON PRIZE . This prize was established in memory of Emma Burnha m
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Stimson and was created for the award each yeor of a prize in scu lpture of
$100.00 for the best work done by the students in the regula r course of the cl o ss .
The contest is open to students who have been regi stered for three terms and
who are members of the Life Modeling Classes, b ut is not open to former students who work in the class by special perm issio n.
The subiect for competition is a full-length figu re from life, in th e round, no t less
than two feet six inches in height, and must be ma de during clo ss hours a s a
rart of the regular wo rk in the closs The work must be subm itted a nonymously
TO a iury appointed by the C ommittee on Instruction o f the Boo rd of Directo rs.
The Jury must not include any instructor in the School. The Jury is not obliged
to award prizes or honorable mentions if, in its op in ion, th e wor k submitted IS
not of sufficient merit to iustify making the awards .
The Jury of Award iudging the Competition in th e Fall of 1952 consisted ofBeatrice Fenton, Paul Fielde, Harry Ros in.
THE THOURON PRIZES. The se a wards w ere founded by the la te Henry J.
Thou ron , a former Instructor in C ompositio n.
A pr ize of $50.00 a nd a pr ize of $25.00 for compositions completed dur ing
the current seaso n are o fTe/ed, the first to be dec id ed by the Fa cul ty, th e seco nd
by a vote of the students; and a prize of $50.00 and a prize of $25.00 both to
be awarded 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.
The Committee on awards is not obliged to award prizes .or honorable. me.ntions if, in its opinion, the work submitted is not of sufficient merit to lustlfy
making the awards.
THE PACKARD PRIZES . From the income of the John H. Packard Fund, established by the children of the late John H. Packard, M.D., for many years chairman of the Acodemy's Committee on Instruction, annual prizes of $30.00 and
$20.00 are awarded for the best and second best groups of original studies
mode from living animals in the Zoological Garden.
These prizes are open to all students of the Academy who have registered for
both terms of the school year. A student may not submit more than one set 01
drawings mounted on a sheet not to exceed 30 x 40 inches. A student having
once received a prize becomes ineligible to receive the same prize the second
time.
The Committee on awards is not obliged to award prizes or honora ble men'tions if, in its opinion, the work submitted is not of sufficient merit to justify
making the awards.
THE CECILIA BEAUX MEMORIAL PRIZE. The gold medals which Cecilia Beaux
received during her life in recognition of her work as a portrait painter have
been donated to the Academy by Miss Beaux's residuary legatees and converted
into a fund, the income of which will provide a prize to be given for the best
portrait painted during a school year by a student of the Academy. This prize
of $100 will be available at intervals of possibly three or four years and is to
be awarded, when available, by the President with the advice of the Faculty.
Students eligible for the prize must have been enrolled in the day classes for
twa consecutive terms and at the time of competition be members of the advanced portrait class. The award is to be for the outstanding portrait accomplished within such two terms then current and not more than three examples
of work may be submitted. Any student can receive the award but once and it
is particularly stipulated that the award does not need to be made if in the
opinion of the Faculty no work is submitted of sufficient distinction.
THE THOMAS EAKIN S MEMORIAL PRIZE . A prize will be offered for the best
figure canvas pointed in the regular life closs in the winter immediately preceding the competition. This prize of $100.00 will be awarded by the Faculty
and avalloble through the generosity of Mr. and Mrs. Dav id M. Gwinn.
THE LI LA AGNES KENNEDY HILL MEMORIAL PRIZE. Through the generosity
of Mr. Walter Stuempflg a prize of $50.00 will be owarded to the best single
piece of sculpture entered in the William Emlen Cresson Competition.
SPECIAL PRIZES. Two prizes are made available this year through the genero~lty of Mr. Giuseppi Donoto, former Academy student ond for many years
scu pture member of the Philadelphia Art Jury.
$50 will be awarded in memory of his parents, Teresa and Antonio Don t
by the Pointing Instructors to the student who exhibits the most creative laan~:
scope pointing, in either oil or water color.
$50 will be awarded in memory of his former Academy teachers, specificollyCharles Grafiy, Thomas P. Anschutz, Hugh Breckenridge, William Merritt Chase
and Dr. George McC lellen, by the Sculpture Instructors to the student who
exhibits the most creative composition in sculpture.
These prizes will be awarded at the time of the Cresson Competition for work
displayed there which was executed during the current school year.
THE ALEXANDER PORTNOFF MEMORIAL PRIZE . Through the generosity of
Mrs. Portnoff a prize of $50.00 will be awarded for the best head done by a
sculpture student in the schools of the Academy.
The application blank must be filled in and returned to the Curator with
letters of character reference, a doctor's certificate of health, a full-length
snapshot, passport photograph, together with FOUR examples of work in which
the Foculty can find on apparent ability and prom ise and an evident sincerity
of purpose, before the student may register. Admission is contingent upon complete satisfaction to Facu lty and Management in each and every particular
and is always subject to the unrestricted right of dismissal. No student is
eligible unless at least sixteen years of age and possessed of a complete high
school education or its equivalent. The Committee on Instruction reserves the
right to limit the number of students under any or all classifications.
OPPORTUNITIES FOR VETERANS . The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine
Arts offers opportunities for study to veterans who sotisfy entrance requirements
and who are eligible for educotional benefits under the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944 ond Public low 550.
FEES _ Day School ,
Students paying the Day School fees are entitled to all the privileges of the
Evening School classes.
Tuition Fee per term
Matriculation Fee (pa id only on entrance)
locker and library Fees per term
$150.00
10.00
2.00
$16200
Total, First Term
Tuition Fee, all Subsequent Terms
locker and library Fees per term
15000
2.00
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$31400
Total Fees, First Two Winter Terms
Eve ning School,
Tuition Fee per term
Matriculation Fee (paid only on entrance)
locker Fee per term
Total per Single Term, Evening School .
These fees do not include the cost of any materiols.
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$50.00
5.00
1.00
$56.00
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PA YMENT REGULATIONS . All fees are payable in advance and no deduction
is made for late registration or for absence and no refund is made far any
reason whatsoever, except in the case of a student under Public Law 550
who if he fails to enter the course, or withdraw or is discontinued therefrom at
any time prior to completion, will have refunded to him any unused balance paid
for tuition, fees and other charges on a pro-rated basis, other than the fee for
registration. Official credit or recommendation or the issuing of registration
cards will not be granted by the Academy either to a student ar a farmer
student who has not completely satisfied, in the opinion of the M anagement,
his financial obligations to the Academy.
Non-payment of fees according to the announced dates, as stated above,
shall prohibit such delinquent students from attendance in a ll classes, lectures,
etc.
New registration cards shall be issued at the beginning of each term to students
at the time of the payment of Fees. Admission to classes by registration card
only.
Day classes are held from nine to twelve and from one to five o'clock five days
per week, and from nine to twelve o'clock on Saturdays. Evening classes are
held from seven to ten o'clock fro m Monday to Friday, inclusive. All exceptions
are noted in the Calendar.
THE PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS
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ANNUAL MEMBERS
Persons who contribute yearly toward the maintenance of the Academy, as
indicated, may become: Annual Members, $10; Su sta ining Members, $25; Contributing Members, $100.
LIFE MEMBERS
Persons who contribute $300 outright may become Life Members.
PRIVILEGES
Registration .
September 14th to 19th
First Term Begins .
September 21 st
First Day of Pose for Stimson Competition
. Oc tober 19th
November 13th
Thanksgiving Day Holiday
10 P.M. Nov. 25th to 9 A.M. Nov. 30th
Christmas Holiday.
12 N oon D ec. 19t h to 9 AM
Jan . 4th
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January 19th to 23rd
Registration far Second Term
Second Term begins
Washington's Birthday Holiday
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Stewardson Competition.
Stewardson Judgment and Award
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CALENDAR, Sch oo l Yea r 1953 -54
Stimson Judgment and Award
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January 25th
February 22nd
March 17th, 18th, 19th
March 19th
Ea ster Holiday
. . 10 P.M . April 15th to 9 A.M. April 19th
Placement of Cresson Competitions an:! Exhibits
May 10th
Judgment of Tappan Pr izes
May 10th
Last Evening Class
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May 14th
Judgment for Cresson, Ware and Schie Jt Schola~ships, Thouron,
Packard, Ramborger, Hill and Do lato Pri ze:; .
May 18th
Exc' cise; in the Gallery for Awarding of Prizes
May 19th
Exhi:'ition of Competitors' Work
May 20th thru June 6th
Last Day of Winter School
. May 22nd
No models are eng
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a pose nor Criticism given during the last week of
e econd Te rm except by special arrangement.
Life and Annual Members receive notices of all activities, invitations to all
Priva te Views, access to the Print Collection (67,000 items, plates and original
drawings), use of the Art Reference library, and participation in the Academy's
educational program th rough lectures, demonstrations, etc. Checks may be
made payable to The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Membership
cards will be mailed. Membership dates from one year, beginning from the
date of subscription. Under a ruling by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue,
any contr ibutions to The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fi ne Arts are deductible
from income.
FORM OF BEQUEST
give, devise and bequeath to " The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine
Dollars, in trust to invest and keep invested
Arts"
and applv the income only to the maintenance of the said Academy.
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THE PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS
The Object of the Fell owship is to foster
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spirit of fraternity among the
former and present students of THE PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE
FINE ARTS in the interests of art. It functions somewhat as an Alumni, establishing a continuing link with the Academy after student days. The FELLOWSHIP
activities include exhibitions of the work of its members in the various media, and
it conducts a series of evening talks in the Academy Lecture Room on subjects
of interest to all art workers, and also fosters social activities. Admission is free
and advance notices a re sent by mail to all members.
Dues for Resident Members are Four Dollars a year, and for Non-Resident
Members (living more tha n fifty miles from Philadelphia) Two Dollars a year.
life Membership Fifty Dollars. Bills for dues will be rendered by mail.
If you have been, or a re , a student at The Pennsylvania Academy of the
Fine Arts you are cord iall y i nvited to become a member of the Fellowship
and to join with it in b uil d ing up and preserving a united spirit of true fel lowship in the interest of A rt and in association with your Academy.
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