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THE
PEN!~SYL VANIA
ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS
BROAD AND CHERRY STREE'l'S
PHILADELPHIA
1805 -
Calendar of Events -
1955
Ja~uary
to June, 1955
January- 16 through March 13
150th Annual Exhibition
Friday, January 21J 8:30 p.m.
January 28
February 4
11
18
25
March
4
11
Lecture
Chamber Music Recital
Lecture
Chamber Music Recital
Lecture
Lieder Recital
Lecture
Chamber Music Recital
March 25 through April 24
Annual Exhibition Of Painting,
Sculpture and Graphics by members of
the Academy's Fellowship (alumni)
April 7 through May
April
5
(dates to be set)
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Retrospective Exhibition of the Work
of ~barles Sheeler
27th Annual Festival of the American
Society of Ancient Instruments
May 15 through June 15
19th Century American Paintings
(1815-1865) from the Private Collection
of Maxim Karo1ik
Wednesday, May 18, 4:00 p.m.
Cresson Day Exercises
May 19 through June 5
Exhibi tion of Competitors' Work for
Traveling Scholarships and other
School Prizes
The galleries are open weekdays (except Mondays) from 10:00 a.m~
to 5:00 p.m e ; Sundays and holidays from 1;00 to S~oo pom.
During the 150th Annual Exhibition, they will also be open
every W-ednesday evening, and on Tuesday evenings, by appointment,
for groupsQ . Admission is free at all timeso
LIST OF \~ORKS, ARTISTS MID IENDffiS FOR
THE 150th ANNUAL EXHIBITION
PENNSYLVANIA ACADEJ.I1Y OF THE FINE A..-qTS
BROAD AND CHERRY STREE'rS
PHILADELPHIA
JANUARY 16 THROUGH MARCH 13, 1955
Artist
Title of Work
Lender
3
Anshutz, Thomas Pollock
(1851-1912)
The Tanagra
Penna, Academy of
Philade Iph~a
Self-Portrait
National Academy of Design,
New York City
Becky Sharp
penna. Academy of Fine Ar ts ,
Philadelphia
steelworkers-Noontime
Mr, lawrence A. Fleishman
19480 Burlington Drive,
Detroit 3, idchigan
A studio Study
Miss Helen W. Henderson
John Bartram Hotel, Philadelphia
The Cabbage pa tch
Metropolitan Museum of Art
l';ew York City
Portrait of the
Artist's Wife
Mr. Edward R. Anshutz
Ambler, Pa.
•
Beaux, r,e cilia
(18 6)-1942)
F~ne
Arts,
Mrs. Theodore RooseMrs. Richard Derby
Oyster Bay,
velt and Daughter
(Edith Ker mit Carow
Long Island } New York
and Ethel Carow Roosevelt ) (Nrs .. Richard
Derby)
After the Meeting
Museum of Art , Tole do, Ohio
Cardina l Mercier
National Collection of Fine Arts,
Smithsonian Institute,
Washington, D. C.
Mrs. Alexander Biddle
Mrs John Penn Brock
Kenilworth Apartme nts, Phi lade l phia
Ernesta and Nurse
Mrs 0 Ernesta Drinker Barlow Coll e c.
(Mrs Samue 1 L. M. Bar low)
New York Cit y
$
Q
Robert Brande gee
Village Library" Farmington, Conn.
2.
Artist
Title of Work
Lender
Beaux, Cecilia
Portrait of Mrs.
Alexander Sedgwick
and Christina
Mrs. R. E. Welch, Jr.
R,F.D. 1, Glasgow, Va~
Les Derniers Jours
d'Entance
Henry S. Drinker,
Merion, Pa~
The Dancing Lesson
Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois
Self-Portrait
National Academy of Design
New York City
Man in White (or Man
1JI1ith Cat)
Smithsonian Institute
National Collect ion of Fine Arts
Washington, D.C.
Sita and Sarita
Corcoran Gallery of Art
W-2shington, D.C.
Bertha Vaughan
Radcliffe College for Women
Cambridge, Masso
A Little Girl (Miss
Fanny Travis Cochran)
Miss F. T. Cochran
Westtown, pat
Rev e Dr. William H.
Furness
Unitarian Church
Chestnut and Van Pelt Sts.
Philadelphia
Daniel Boone
Escorting, etc.
Washington University,
St. louis, Mo.
The Jolly F1atboatmen
The City Art Museum
St. Louis, Mo.
Bingham, Geo~ge Caleb
(18l1-l87 9)
Self-PC!:lrtrait
The City Art Museum
St. Louis, Mo.
Raftsmen Playing Cards The City Art Museum
st Louis, Mo.
Q
Fur Traders Descending Metropolitan Museum of Art
the Missouri
New Yo rk City
Watching the Cargo
State Historical Society of
Missouri, Columbia, Mo.
Fis hing on the
Mississippi
William Rockhill Ne Ison Gallery
of Art, Kans a s City, Mo.
Artist
Title of Work
Lender
Birch, Thomas
(1779-1851)
Falls of The
SChuylkill River and
Chain Bridge
(before 1811)
Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Shipwreck
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, N. Y.
The "Macedon ian" and
the "United States"
Historical society of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
The ItWasp and the
Frolic!!
New York Historical Soc iety
New York City
Oommodore Silas Talbot Miss Frances I<:atharine Talbot
Philade lphia
Calder, Alexander S.
(1870-1945)
Penn's Treaty Tree Shackamaxon
Historical Society of PennFlylvania
Philade Iphia
Sailing Vessel in a
Heavy Sea
Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Philade;Lphia
Talking Man
Mrs. C. C. White
160 E. 71st St" New York City
Tragic Figures
Mrs. C. C. White
160 E. 71st st" New York City
Youth and Old Age
Mrs. C. c. White
160 E' 71st st., New yorl<: City
Circle of Habit
Mrs. C. C. White
160 E. 71st St., New York City
Cruel Nature
Mrs 0 C. C, White
160 E. 71st St., New York City
Bust of Robert He nri
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
Phi12de lphia
Man Cub
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
Philade lphia
Scratching Her Heel
Mrso C. C. White
160 E. 71st st., Now York City
Se lf-Partr2.it
Mrs. C. C. White
160 Eo 71st St., New York City
4.
Artist
Title of Work
Carles, Arthur B.
(1882-1952)
Blue
Lender
Abstracti~n
Composition No.6,
1936
Collection of Mr. and Mrs.
Joseph Wood
Flower Piece, 1927
Collection of Mr. and Mrs.
Raymond A. Speiser> phil adelphia
Turkey, 1927
philade Iphia Museum of Art
Flowers
Philade Iphia Museu.TJl of Art
Whi.te Nude with Apple
Collection of NIr .. a nd Mrs.
Raymond A. Speiser, Philade lphia
Arrangement~
Cassatt, Mary
Collection of Mr. and Mrs.
Robert McLean, Fort Washington, Pa.
1925
Art Institute of Chicago,
Chi.cago, Ill.
Mixed Bouquet
Collection of Mr. and Nirs .
Gonzalo C. Muno~, Philade Iphia
Abstraction
Collection of Mr. and Mr s.
Charles E. Ingersoll
Last Painting
Mrs. Herbort Matter
lady at the Tea Table
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
New York City
Alexander Cassatt
and His Son
Mr. A. J. Ca ssatt,
Radnor, PD. .
The Long Gloves
Mrs. Pe rcy C. Madeira, Berwyn, Pa.
Reading Le Figaro
Mrs. Eric de Spoe Ib erch
Haverford, Pa.
Woman Arranging Her
Veil
PhiladGlphia Museum of Art
Mrs. William M. Elkins' Collection
Philade lphia
The Cup of Tea
Me tropolitan Museum of Art
New York City
In the BoX
Mr", a nd Mrs. Edgar Scott
Villanova, Pc:: .
Miss Lydia Cassatt
in the Gardon
Mr. A. J. Cassatt, Radnor, Pa.
The Bath
Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, .1.111.
(1844-1926)
Artist
Title of Work
lender
Cassatt, Mary
Young Women Picking
Fruit
Carnegie Institute
Pittsburgh, Pa .
At the Opera
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Mass.
Woman and Child
Driving
Phi lade Iphia Museum of f-irt
Philade Iphia
\
Chase, William Merritt
(1849-1916 )
The Open Air Breakfast Toledo Museum of lirt
Toledo, Ohio
North River Shad
Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, rll.
still Life
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
Philadelphia
Portrait of Dora
Wheeler
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Ohio (Gift of
Mrs. Boudlnot Keith)
Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, Ill.
Alice
lady with .the Vvhi te
Shawl
Cleveland~
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine fi.rts
Philadelphia
James McNeill lAJ1lj.stler Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York City
Demuth, Charles Henry
Waiting
~t
Flowers
Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago ~ Ill.
My Egypt
Whitney Museum of American Art
New York City
And thee Home of the
Brave
Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, Ill.
At a House in Harley
Street (Illinois)
Museum of Modern f,rt
New York City (Gift of Mrs. John
D. Rockeff) ller, Jr.)
The Governess
Mrs. F. C. Osborn, Manchester, vt.
Flora and
Governess
Mrs.
Institute of Chic ago
Chicago, Ill.
(1883-1935)
the
The Governoss,
Mrs. Gross
F~
C. Osborn, Manchester, vt.
Mrs. F. C. Osborn, Mc::nchester, vt.
6.
j,.rtist
Titlo of Work
lBnder
Demuth, Charles Henry
Mil e s and the
Governess
Mrs . F . C. Osborn, ManchesteJ', vt.
Two Acrobats
Mrs. Halpert , -Downtown Ga llery
New York Cit y
After Sir Christopher
Wren
The Worcester Museum
Worcester, Mass.
Eggplant and Plums
Art Institute of
Chicago, Ill.
The Swimming Hole
Fort Worth Art Association
Fort Worth, Texas
The Cello Player
pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
Philade lphia
Eakins, Thomas
(1844-1916)
Ch~cago
The Biglen Brothers
The Clevelanq Mus eum of Art
Turning the Stake Boat Cle ve land, Ohio , Hinman B. Hurlbut
Collection
The Agnew Clinic
Universit y of Pennsylva nia
philade l phia
Max Schmitt in a
Singl e Scull
Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York City
Benjamin Howard Ra nd
J efferson Hed ica l College
Phila de lphia
The Oarsme n
Philadelphia Muse um of Art
Philade Iphia
William Rush Caving
Philade lphia Mus eum of Art
the Alle gorical Figttre Philade lphia
of the Schuylkill
River
The Conce rt Singer
Philade Iphia Museum of Art
Philaqe Ip h~a
Mrs .. Thoma s Eakins
(Sus an Hannah
MacDowell)
M. Knoe dlor & Co., Inc.
Portrait of a lady
with a Setter Do g
Me tropolitan Museum of
Now York City
The Gross Clinic
Jefferson MGdical College
Philadelphia
Knitting
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
philade lphia
Art
Artist
Title of Work
Lender
Eakins, Thomas
The Fairman Rogers
Four ... in...Hand
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Philade Iphia
Letitia Wilson Jordan Brooklyn Huseum
Bacon
Br00klyn, N. Y.
Salutat
Addison Gallery of American Art
Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass.
The Thinker
The Metropolitan Museu.rn of Art
New York City
Miss Van Buren
Phillips Collection
Washington, DoC.
The Pathetic Song
The Corcoran Gallery of Art
Washington, D.C.
Sailboats (Hikers)
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Racing on the Delaware Philadelphia
spinning
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
Philadelphia
Professor William
Smith Forbes
Jefferson Medical College
Philadelphia
Walt Whitman
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
Philadelphia
Self-Portrait
National Academy of Design
New York City
Hrs ~ William D.
Frismuth
philadelphia Museum of Art
Phila.de lphia
Starting Out After
\ Rail
Glackens, William J.
(1870-1938 )
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Mass.
Shoppers
Kraushaar Galleries
New York City
Nude with Apple
Mrs. Glrwkens
Family Group
Mrs. Glackens
The Drive, Central
Park
The Cleveland Museu..'ll of Art
The J. H. Wade Collection
Clevel.and, Ohio
Promenade
Institute of Art, Detroit, Mich.
Luxembourg Gardens
Corcoran Gallery of Art
Washington, D.C,
8~
Artist
Ti tle of Work
Lender
Glackens, William J ,
Girl in Black and
White
Vfuitney Museum of American Art
New York City
Chez Mouquin
Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, Ill.
Bouquet in Quimper
Pitcher
Mr. lra Glackens
Aeneas and Anchises
Pennsylvania Academy.of Fine Arts
Philadelphia
Thomas Pollock
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
Philadelph;i.a
Grafly, Charles A,.
(1862-1929)
~nshutz
Childe Hassam
Dorothy Grafly Drummond
131 N. 20th St., Phila delphia
Paul Wayland Bartlett
Dorothy Grafly Drummond
131 N. 20th st., Philadelphia
Daedalu13
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
Phil adelphia
Felix, the
Evangelist
Dorothy Grafly Drummond
131 N. 20th St~, Pl:.J.iladelphia
Meade Memorial
(Preltminary Design)
Dorothy Grafly Drummond
131 No 20th St., Philadelphia
Dr. Joseph H. Price
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
Philadelphia
Edward Willis Redfi eld
Dorothy Grafly Drummond
6) th St., Philadelphia
131 N.
Vul ture of War
Dorothy Grafly Drummond
131 N. 20th St., Philadelphia
8 Drawings of Female
NuGie
Dorothy Grafly Drummond
131 N. 20th St~, Philadelphia
Drawing of Female
Nude
Belen W. Henderson
John Bartram Hotel, philadelphia
Artist
Title of Work
Lender
Harnett, William M.
The Fai thful Colt
Wadsworth Atheneum
Hartford, Conn.
Still Life with
London Times
Anonymous
Head of a German Girl
Fogg Art Musel+m, Harvard University
Me ta and Paul J. Sachs Collection,
Cambr~dge, Mas;:i.
After the Hunt
Gallery of Fine Arts
Columbus, Ohio
Job IJot Cheap
Julian Nugent
St, Louis, M;issouri
The Old Violin
Mrs, Charle p R. vvi11iams
C/o Kyte , Conlan, He ekin & Wulsin
Cincinnati, Ohio
Embl ems of Peace
Springi'iGlld Museum of Arts
~pringfield, Mass.
After th e Hunt
Oalifornia Palace of Legion of
Honor, San Francisco, Cal.
Still Life with Letter
to Thomas B~. Clarke
Aodison Gall ery of .American Art
Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass.
Fay Bainter
HirschI and Adler
New York City
Fifty-seventh Street
Yale University Art Gallery
New Haven, Conn.
Himself
Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, Ill.
The Beach Hat
Institute of Arts
Detroit, Mich.
George Luks
Miss Violet Organ Collection
New Yo rk City
Irish Girl
Museum of Fine Arts
Boston, Mass.
Summer Storm
Miss Violet Organ Collection
New York City
Red Top
A~os
(1848-1892)
Henri, Robert
(1865-1929 )
R.
E. Pinchot Collection
New Yo rk City
Young Woman :i,n White
U..8 t National Gallery of Art
Was hington, D.C.
10.
Artist
Title of Work
Lender
Henri, Robert
Eva Green
Wichita Art Museum
Wichita, Kan.
Herself
Art Institute of Chipago
Chicago, Ill.
East River - Snow
Miss Violet Organ Collection
New York City
Guide to Croaghan
Mrs. Richard Andreae
Port Huron, Mich.
Mrs. Gamley
Whitney Museum of American Art
New York City
Woman with Macaws
Institute of Arts
Detroit, Mich.
The Little Milliner
Toledo Museum of Art
Toledo, Ohio·
Round-Houses at
Highbridge
Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute
Utica, N" Y.
Otis Skinner as
Colonel Bridau in
"The Honor of the
Family"
The Phillips Collection
Nashington, D.C.
The Clown
Museum of Fine Arts
Boston, Mass.
The Spielers
,Addison Gallery ofAxne rican Art
phillips Academy
Andover, Mass.
The Wrestlers
Museum of Fine Arts
Boston, Mass.
Fifth Avenue at 42nd
Street
The Phillips Gallery
Washington, D.C.
Tunk Mountains, Maine,
in Autumn
The Phillips Gallery
Washington, D.C.
Luks, George B.
(1867 -1933)
Marin, John
(1870-1953)
Movement - Boat, Rocks, Whitney Museum of American Art
Sea and Sky, Maine
New York City
Cape Split, Maine
Mr" & Mrs. Philip S. We ld
Ess ex, Mass.
Tree and Sea, Maine
The Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, Ill.
ll G/
Artist
Title of Work
Marin, John
st. paul's
Manhattan
~
lender
LQwer
Three Master No. 2 Off the Cape, Maine
Autumn piece, Maine
Tvir . John McHugh
New York City
The Downtown Gallery
32 E. 51st Stre et, New York City
The Downtown Gallery
32 E. 51st street, New York City
McCarter, Henry
(1864-194 2 )
A Chime of Bells
Mrs. Francis To Chambe rs
Vvillovv Grove, pa"
Morning Coming
Phi~adelphia
Museum of Art
Philadelphia
Neagle, John
(1796-1865)
Fantasy
Mr. Eugene Ormandy
Philadelphia
or
c/o Mr s. Kraus
Ac ademy of Music
Philade lphia
Coal Mine
pe nnsylva nia Academy of Fine Arts
Philade lphia
Sunset in the Fie Ids
Mr. & Mrs It Sturgis Ingersoll
Pe nll;vn, Pa.
The Light of an Hour
of a Day
Miss Anna Warren Ingersoll
Penllyn, Pa.
Early Italy
Mr . & Mrs. R. Stur gis Ingersoll
Penllyn, Pa.
Still Life
Mrs. G.. Brinton Roberts
1900 s. Rittenhouse Square
Philade lphia
Men Is Gods
NErs 0 Ingersoll Benson
"Romrna nyll - Penllyn, Pa.
Between ~vilight and
Moonlight
Mrs. and N:rs. Robert Mc Lean
IIPhe asant Run"
Fort Washingt on, pa.
William Stickland,
Esquire
Yal e University Art C£,llery
New Have n) Conn.
Miss Anna Gibson
Johnson
Penns yl vania Academy of Fine Arts
Philadelphia
View of'L'he Schuylk;i..ll
Rive r, philadelphia
Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, Ill~
12.
Artist
Title of Work
Lender
Neagle ~ John
Matilda Washington
Dawson
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
Philadelphia
Dr~ William Potts
Dewees
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Indian Heads
Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Pat Lyon at the Forge
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
Philadelphia
Family Group
Mrs. Isaac Naeye Collection
Wyncote, Pa.
Thomas
The Free Library of Philadelphia
philadelphia
Peale, Charles IJV illsop
(1741-1827)
P~m
Cope
The Peale Family
New York Historical Sod-ety
New York City
Exhuming the First
American Mastodon
Peale Museum
Baltimore, Md.
The Artist in his
Huseum
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
Philadelphia
TinlOthy Matlack
National Gallery of Art
Mellon Collection
W0.s hington, D.C.
Noah and his Ark
Penns ylvania Acade my of Fine Arts
Philadelphia
Mrs. Thomas Harwood
Me tropoli t a n Museum of Art
New York City
General John Cadwale.der, Commander John Cadwalader
Phi lade Iphia
Wife and Child
Peto, J ohn F.
(1854-1907)
The Staircase Group
PhiladolphL, Hus eum of Art
Philade lphia
George Washington
(At Princeton)
Pennsylvania
Fish House Door
Dallas Museum of Fine Arts
D211as, Tex.
carpet B2g~ Umbrella
and FRrmer' s Hat
H3l1ging on a Wall
Mr. and Mrs, Irving Vogel
Loaned now to Philadelphia
Mus eum of Art
Phibdelphia
A ca~emy
of Fine Arts
13.
Artist
Title of Nork
Lender
Pe to, John F.
Old Companions
Mrs. He l en Smiley
Island Heig hts, N. J.
Let ter Rack with
I.e.re do postmark
Maxim Karolik
Newport, R. I.
Discarded Treasurers
Smith College Museum of Art
Northampton, Mass.
Self-Portrait with
Rack Pa intings
Mrs. He len P. $miley
Island Heights, N. J.
Old Scra ps
Museum of Modern Art
New York City
Gift of Nelson A. Rockefe ller
Ordinary Obje cts in the Maxim Karolik
Artist's Creative Mind Bellevue Av enue, Newport, R. I.
Rus h, vVilliam
(1756 -1833 )
Book, Beer stein and
Corncob Pipe
Alfre d V. Franke nste in
San Francisco, Cal.
(24 - 6th Avenue)
pipe, Mug and
New spaper
John V{ . Barne s Colle ction
105 - 5th Avenue, N8w York City
Prote ction
WIrs. H" Gat8s Lloyd
Have rford, pa .
A Closet Door
Private Collection
Self...Portrait
Pennsylvania Acad8my of Fine Arts
Philade Iphia
Eagle
Penns ylva nia Academy of Fine Arts
PhiladelpLia
Eagle
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
Philadelphia
Marquis De lafaye tte
P8nnsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
Philadelphia
Justice
The Commissione rs of Fairmount
Pa rk, PhiJ-<'2 delphia
Courte sy of :philadelphia Museum
of Art, Philadelphia
ViTtsdom
The Commissioners of Fairmount
Park, Phil a de lphia
Courte sy of Philadelphia Museum
of Art, Philadelphia
Dr~
Pennsylva nia Academy of Fine Arts
Philadelphia
Benjamin Rush
14.
Artist
Title of Work
Lender
Rush, William
George Washington
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
Philadelphia
Joseph Wright
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
Philadelphia
Comedy
The Edwin Forrest Home
(Courtesy of Phi ladelphia Museum
of Art, Philadelphia)
Tragedy
The Edwin Forres t Home
(Courtesy of Philadelphia Museum
of Art, Philadelphia)
Dr. Philip Syng Physick Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
Philadelphia
Water Nymph and Bittern The Commissioners of Fairmount
Park, Philadelphia
Courtesy of Philaqelphia Museum
of Art, philadelphia
Shinn, Everett
(12,76-1953)
Sherman Statue
Phi lade Iphia Mus eum of Art
Philadelphia
The Flower Market
NIr. and lfJrs. William L. Elkins
Collection (Shown at Philadelphia
Museum of Art)
Revue
Whitney Museum of American Art
New York City
Theatre
Hudson Walke r
40 Deepdene Road
Forrest Hills, N. Y.
KnMdlert s, 34th street M. Knoedler & Company
14 E. 57th street, New York City
Early Morning, Paris
Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, Ill.
The London Hippodrome
Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, Ill.
The Green Ballet
Mr. Victor D, Spark
521 Park Avenue
New York 21, N. Y.
Electi on Banner,
Madison Square
Mr. Victor D. Spark
521 Par k Avenue
New York 21, N. Y.
15.
Artist
Title of Work
Lender
Sloan, John
(1871..,1951)
The Hairdresser's
Window
vVadsworth Atheneum
Hartford, Conn.
Chama Running Red
Miss Ruth Martin
c/o Glover Associates, Inc.
Chrysler Bldg., New York City
Backyards, Greenwich
Village
Whitney Museum of American Art
New York City
Soula 1 P Rathske ller
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, Ohio
Gift of Hanna Fund
Three A.M.
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Philadelphia
The Wake of t he Ferry
Phillips Collection
Wash ington, D. C.
Old HaymarkElt
Brooklyn Huseum
Brooklyn, N. Y.
McSorley's Bdr
Detroit Institute of Art
Detroit, Mich.
Nude and Nine Apples
Whitney Museu'll of l\rnerican Art
New York City
Eliza Leslie
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
Phila de Iphia
Major Thomas Biddle
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
Philadelphia
Samuel Coates
The pe~~sylvania Hospital
Philadelphia
Mrs. Edward Hudson
Detroit Institute of Arts
Detroit, Mich.
William Edmonci,s Horner
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Thomas Cadwalader
Commander John Cadwalader
8402 Ocean Front.
Virginia Beach, Va.
Lady with a Harp Eliza Rid gely
Uni ted States National GalJe ry
of Art
Washington, D. C.
Sully" T~omas
(1733-1872 )
16.
Artist
Title of Work
Lender
vvest , Benjamin
Death on a Pale Horse
Penns ylvania Academy of Fine Arts
Phila del phia
Christ Rejected
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
Philade lphia
Penn's Tre ilty with the
Indians
Independence Hall
Philadel phia
(1738-1820)
Only a few months from now • • • in January 1955 • • •
THE PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS will celebrate its
150th ANNIVERSARY
with a full-scale exhibition of distinguished works by American
masters who have been intimately associated with the Academy
during its long history.
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THIS EVENT - THE 150th ANNUAL EXHIBITION OF PAINTING
AND SCULPTURE - WILL BE ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT MILESTONES
IN THE HISTORY OF AlvlERICAN ART.
TO HAKE THIS EVENT vlORTHY OF
ITS NATIONAL SIGNIFICANCE, ART MUSEUMS AND COLLECTORS
EVERYI>1lHERE ARE ADDING THEIR RESOURCES TO THOSE OF THE AC AD EHY .
NO EXHIBITION LIKE THIS HAS EVER BEEN HElD IN THE ANNALS OF
AMERICAN ART.
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The 150th Annual Exhibition will be the central function
of the Anniversary.
There will be, in addition:
(1) a formal dinner
(2) a three-day symposium in which eminent scholars
and artists will participate.
ANOTHER IMPORTANT FEATURE OF THE EXHIBITION WILL BE
THE 150th ANNIVERSARY CATALOG
The creation of this catalog provides the subject of
your attention on these pages .
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The l50th Anniversary Catalog will be a notable book,
to be used and treasured for years to come. • .
• • • this Catalog will be illustrated with works of the
American masters from three different centuries - the paintings
and sculpture featured in the Exhibition •••
· •• the Catalog will be written by twenty, or more,
outstanding experts in the field of American art. • •
• • • the design of the Catalog will be executed by one of
the foremost specialists in the field of the graphic arts. • •
• • • this volume is certain to take its place among the
great books on art ••• it will be a publication of monumental
importance in the history of the nation's cultural accomplishments.
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Here is a volume that tells what has been achieved by
American artists since the days of Benjamin West. • •
• • • the list of the artists whose works appear in this
Catalog is a distinguished representation from every generation of
our nation's life •••
• • • here are the works of Charles Willson Peale, Thomas
Sully, Thomas Eakins, George Caleb Bingham, Mary Cassatt, Thomas
Anschutz, William Rush, Alexander Stirling Calder, John Sloan,
William Glackens, George Luks, Charles Demuth, and John }4arin • ••
the l50th Anniversary Catalog presents the work of these
artists and many others in a review that spans the years and links
these works as a continuing vital force in the nation's cultural
heritage.
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The Anniversary Catalog will be outstanding for the
pre-eminence of the writers who will provide the essays relating
to each artist •••
• • • the nation has been combed in order to find men
and women who will invest this volume with valid and original
interpretations of the artists and their creative production . • •
• • • the Catalog will receive wide distribution in
libraries, museums, and schools in this country, Europe and South
America. • •
copies will be presented to the President of the
United States, the Library of Congress, and high public officials
including the Secretary of State. • •
• • • it will receive widespread publicity in periodicals
and other media of public information.
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The cost of printing the
Anniversary Catalog is
$12,500 .
Every penny of this amount
is for preparation and production.
No distribution costs will
be necessary because The Academy
will provide for its direct
promotion and sales in
retail stores and other outlets.
8
$12,500.
will pay for five thousand catalogs .
Four thousand of these will be sold
by the Academy at
$1.50
One thousand copies will be
retained for presentation to
distinguished guests at the
Anniversary Dinner,
to libraries and
cooperating art museums.
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Here is what the Academy requests you to do. • •
to make a tax-free contribution in order to print the Catalog.
This is a contribution of $12 ,500.
The Academy will realize, after the sale of the Catalog
at $1 .50, a return of $6,000 .
This amount will be returned to you,
at the completion of the sale.
Hence, your ultimate tax-free gift to the Academy for this
purpose should be only $6 ,500.
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You will receive entire credit for the publication of
the Catalog. • •
• • • your name will appear as the donor in the Catalog
and you will be thanked in its foreword. • •
• •• at the 150th Anniversary Dinner, you will also
be introduced and thanked publicly for making this great
publication possible. • •
• • • you will have the lasting satisfaction of knowing
that you have created a work of permanent value - a distinctive
contribution to the cultural advancement of the City, the State
and the Nation.
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The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts is a great
institution - its traditions are steeped in the growth of
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and the nation itself .
The Academy was founded in Independenee Hall by seventyone leading citizens .
found the nation .
Many of the founders had also helped to
The first president of The Academy was George
Clymer, a signer of the Declaration of Independence .
of the founders were lawyers .
were blessed with vision.
Forty-one
They were practical men and they
They saw that a nation's spiritual
resources required the support of the creative arts .
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The vision of these founders and their pioneering
investment in the arts has flourished well in Philadelphia.
TODAY, AFTER 150 YEARS
OF CONTINUOUS SUCCESS,
THE PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS
ENJOYS AN INTERNATIONAL
REPUTATION AS
THE FOREMOST ART SCHOOL
IN THE NATION
AND
THE FOUNDATION STONE OF
AMERICAN ART
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As the oldest art school and the oldest art gallery
in the nation, the Academy has achieved this remarkable
record of continuous existence within the traditional framework
of American free enterprise .
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts has mainly
supported itself in all these years through the private
generosity of public-spirited citizens.
Unlike many art museums
and cultural institutions, it reaffirms the principle of its
founders; that art should receive its vitality from the
voluntary cooperation of the individual.
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NO OTHER INSTITUTION IN AMERICA PROVIDES A BETTER
EXAMPLE OF HOW THE BUSINESS, INDUSTRIAL, AND PROFESSIONAL
GROUPS HAVE GIVEN SUPPORT TO THE ARTIST AND HIS CREATIVE
WORKS .
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts is living
proof that demolishes the Communist lie that America does
not encourage the artist and his creative talent .
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As a permanent record, the Anniversary Cat alog will
be a volume of enduring value • • • and it will also be a force
which will add lustre to America's cultural heritage at home
and abroad.
Your financial assistance will make this work possible.
We also invite your personal participation in the
successful observation of the Academy's l50th Anniversary • • •
by assuming a position of importance at the dinner. • • by
preparing a distribution of presentation copies of the volume to
your friends and associates.
Your generosity in this tax-free cultural enterprise will
be rewarding to you in the knowledge that a great work has been
added to mankind's store of learning
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If you wish to divide your contribution into
separate years, this arrangement will be acceptable.
The Academy will not invite any other source to
share in this opportunity to create this great work.
You will be given sole credit for a publication of which
you may well be proud.
The 150th Anniversary of
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
The Pennsylvanis Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia will celebrate the l50th
a.nniversary of its founding this season with the principal events centering around
the 150th Annual Exhibition - January 16 through March 13, 1955.
It will be a great retrospective of the history of the Academy and in addition is expected to be one of the most comprehensive exhibitions of American art ever held in
this country. Composed of a group of works by each of 25 of the most distinguished
artists who have studied or taught here (none living), it will begin with its founder,
Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827) and end with John Marin (1870-1953). The paintings
and sculpture will come from museums and private collectors throughout the country,
as well as from the Academy's great permanent collection of American art.
The Academy's galleries will be open every weekday, except Mondays, from 10 to 5;
Sundays abd holidays from 1 to 5. A schedule of open evenIngs for the duration of
this exhibition includes Tuesdays, by appointment, for groups; Wednesdays for the
general public (no appointments necessary); Fridays for concerts-ana lectures on
alternate weeks.
Admission is free at all time~
The following chronology covering 150 years is necessarily greatly abbreviated. There
are many artists not named, whose association with the Academy has greatly enhanced
its stature and reputation; a host of generous friends who, through the years, have
given works of art to the permanent collection, or contributed services and financial
support in order that the Academy might continue to live.
1786
Peale Museum founded in Philade Iphia by Charles Wjllson Peale.
1794
The Columbianum, or American Academy of Painting, Sculpture, Architecture
and Engraving founded in Philadelphia by C. W. Peale.
1795
The Columbianum held first exhibition of art in America, but failed later
that year.
1802
C. W. Peale moved his Museum to Independence Hall.
1805
Meeting held in private homes looking toward founding an art academy. Chief
figures: C. W. Peale; his son Rembrandt, and Joseph Hopkinson.
July
Benjamin West elected the first honorary member. Building Committee:
William Rush, William Poyntell and John Dorsey. Suggested purchase of lot
on north side of Chestnut Street between Tenth and Eleventh Streets.
Dec.
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts founded at meeting in Independence
Hall. Group of 71 (chiefly lawyers) subscribed to articles of agreement.
1806 Mar. Charter obtained. Casts of antique sculpture arrived from Europe. Philadelphia's Nicholas Biddle, acting as agent, selected from those made from origi nals taken to Paris from Italy by Napoleon, Ftrst exhibitton opened to the
public.
June
First election of officers, with George Clymer, signer of the Declaration of
Independence, the first president, at meeting in Independence Hall.
1807 Apr. Regular schedule of open days established - 25¢ admission charge.
set apart for ladies.
June
Artists invited to exhibit.
Oct.
First plans for establishment of regular classes as school.
Mondays
Chronology - 2
1809
Resolution to add wing to building.
1810
First mention of agreement with Society of Artists, later called Columbian
Society of Artists, for use of Academy rooms as school.
18n
First exhibition to be numbered as "Annual" and titled "First Annual Exhibition of the Society of Artists of the UnHed States."
1812
Second Annual Exhibition of the Society of Artists of t he United States, and
the Pennsylvania Academy.
"It was resolved that the LHe Academy" be immediately established with a
professorship of anatomy.
Pictures sent from
as prize of war.
enemy countries in
to Academy and set
Europe by Joseph Allen Smith taken to Halifax by British
Famous decision favoring free trade in works of art to
times of war, made in Halifax court released paintings
world precedent.
1820
Addition to building .
1822
Consideration of professorship
1824
Artists Fund Society established (incorporated 1835).
of historical and landscape painting.
Lafayette elected honorary member on visit to Academy.
satisfaction."
"Expressed great
1830
First mention of medal given for merit at exhibitions.
1834
Embarrassed state of finances .
1835
Resolved to erect two buildings on property in front of academy for revenue.
Purchased West's "Death on a Pale Horse."
1839
Year of United States' financial panic.
Fund Society.
Leased new buildings to Artists'
Artists' Fund Society, John Neagle, president, in arrears; gave up lease.
1843
Excellent report: renovations and repairs; debt reduced; pride in exhibits.
1844
1845 Jan. Financial balance in hand for year. Plans for greater picture buying.
June Antique Sculpture Gallery set on fire.
lection.
Great damage to building and col-
1846
Building rebuilt and enlarged - DeSigner Richard A. Gilpin.
rooms under Committee of Artists.
1847
New building opened.
1856
Fiftieth Anniversary celebrated . Six founders present . School organization
improved with Sartain on Board. Ladies' Day abolished; Fig leaves ordered .
Women in list of students; a few had appeared earlier.
Academy sustains Dr. W. H. Furness in asking admission of "All decent and
respectable colored persons and upon same terms with decent and respectable
white persons ."
1857
5000 paying visitors in year.
Improved school
Chronology - 3
1859
"We have ' been favored with increased attendance of ladies during the day ,
which has had a refining tendency."
1862
Total of 352 students registered.
1866
Building needs repairs.
1868
Christian Schussele engaged as Professor of Art at $1000 per year.
1869
Separate life class for ladies.
1870
Old property sold . Lot bought at Broad and Cherry Streets.
temporarily to Soldiers' Home at 16th Street below Filbert.
1871
Furness and He\"itt appointed architects for new building.
1872
Cornerstone laid.
1876
New building opened. Great National Centennial celebration .
teaching in life class.
1878
Establishment of the Henry D. Gilpin Trust Fund for purchase of pictures and
sculpture.
1879
Establishment of Mary Smith Memorial Prize, for Philadelphia woman painter •.
1880
Organization of Germania Concerts.
1881
Portrait Class established. Thomas Anshutz joins faculty.
Memorial Prizes (school) established.
First consideration of new location.
School moved
Horace Binne y, sole surviving founder, spoke.
Eakins begins
Establishment of Temple Fund Gold Medal.
Charles Toppan
First record of student tuition charge. Eakins made director of school.
This appointment marked a revolution in American art teaching
1886
Eakins' resignation.
1887-88 Loan Exhibition of Historical Portraits .
Harrison S. Morris elected Managing Director. The Henry C. Gibson Collection
1892
received.
1882
1893
Charles Grafly joins faculty.
Honor.
1894
Establishment of Walter Lippincott Prize for Figure Painting.
1899
Establishment of John H. Packard Prize s (animal drawings) for school.
1901
Founding of The Pennsylvania Society of Miniature Painters.
1902
Establishment of Edmund Stewardson Sculpture Prize (school). Establishment
of the William Emlen Cresson Memorial European Traveling Scholarships
(school). Establishment of Jennie Sesnan Gold Medal for Landscape Painting.
1903
Establishment of Henry J. Thouron Memorial Prizes for Pictorial Composition
(school).
First exhibition of Water Colors in collaboration .lith the Philadelphia Water
Color Club. Seventy-third Annual Exhibition.
1904
1905
Establishment of the Academy Gold Medal of
100th Annual Exhibition. Boe.rd moved to number the "Annual" exhibition to
correspond with the years of the Academy's life.
Chronology - 4
1906
The Pennsylvania Society of Miniature Painters joins the Philadelphia Water
Color Club for exhibition .
1907
Establishment of William L. Elkins Memorial Tuition Scholarships (school).
1908
Establishment of Carol H. Beck Gold Medal for Portrait Painting.
1909
FOunding of the Academy's Fellowshtp (alumni society) and establishment of
Fellowship Award. Establishment of Mary Robinson Burton Tuition Scholarships (school).
1911
Establishment of Aspasia Eckert Ramborger Prize for Drawing (school). Publication of "The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and Other Collections
of Philadelphia" by Helen W. Henderson.
1912
Establishment of George D. Widener Memortal Tuition Scholarships (school).
Establishment of George D. Widener Memorial Gold Medal for Sculpture.
Establishment of John Lambert Endowment Fund for purchase of pictures,
and for school.
1915
Establishment of Philadelphia Water Color Prize.
1916
Establishment of Sarah Kaighn Cooper Memorial Tuition Scholarships (school).
1917
Establishment of Emma Burnham Stimson Sculpture Prize (school).
Summer School at Chester Springs, Pa.
1917-18
Memorial Exhibition of the works of Thomas Eakins.
1918
Establishment of Charles E. Dana. Meda.l for
1920
Establishment of Louise Harrison Memori.a1 Tuitton Scholarships (school).
Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings by Representative Modern Masters,
organized by Arthur B. Carles and Carroll. Tyson.
1921
Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings Showing the Later Tendencies in Art.
Committee of Selection: Thomas Benton, Paul Burlin, Arthur B. Carles,
Bernard Gussou, Joseph Stella, Alfred Stieglitz and WilHam Yarrow.
1922
Memorial Exhibition of Portraits by Thomas Sully
1923
Exhibition of Portraits by Charles Willson Peale, James Peale, and Rembrandt Peale. Exhibition of Contemporary European Paintings and Sculpture,
organized by Dr. Albert C. Barne s. "All of the artists represented, except Modigliani, are Hving and all are under 35 years of age, except
Matisse, Picasso and Derain.'J
1924
Establishment of Al ice McFadden Eyre Gold Medal for Prints.
Establishment
of Elizabeth H. Thomas Memorial Tuition Scholarship (school).
1925
Exhibition of Portraits by John Neagle.
1928
Opening of Winter School at Chester Springs, Pa.
Pennell Memorial Medal for Graphic Art.
1933
Closing of Winter School at Chester Springs, Pa.
~vater
Opening of
Color.
Establishment of Joseph
Chronology - 5
1938
Establishment of George D. Widener and Mrs. Alexander Hamilton Rice Memorial Tuition Scholarships (school) . Establishment of J. Henry Scheidt
Memorial Prize for Painting. Establishment of George Walter Dawson
Memorial Medal for Water Color or Drawing (flowers). Establishment
of the Lewis S. Ware Traveling Scholarship (school).
1944
Establishment of George M. Wiltbank Tuition Scholarship (school).
1945
"Star Presentation" - Exhibition of the Academy1 s most important possessions following return from storage as a war precaution.
1947
Establishment of Cecilia Beaux Memorial Prize for Portraits (school).
1949
First time a complete Annual Report is printed and sent to Academy members
and stockholders. Establishment of Alfred G. B. Steel Memorial Prize
for Sculpture. Establishment of J. Henry Scheidt Memorial Scholarship for
Travel (school).
1950
Closing of Summer at Chester Springs, Pa.
1951
50th Anniversary Exhibition of The Pennsylvania Society of Miniature
Painters.
1955
Celebration of the 150th Anniversary of The Pennsylvania Academy of the
Fine Arts.
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for the cOl!dng year, according to
l.'Ul
announeenent. )'.aotordt.J.y' 1i'om tho Gugeenheim lI'ounda.ti
in tio'W York C1tv.
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HiG Bt'udy will be gi yen larS 1y to the mWl6'1.U!1S ltD.d their colloct.ions; the
&reh! teciure, .iDeluding ce.t..hetlr&ls ani! chc.pela 'With t.twir
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Tochnology~ ~~d
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OVOl' tha ent11'e country; hae had his works
pur~ed
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will be heard
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Broad and Cherry Streets, Philadelphia 2
February 16, 1955
From:
Elizabeth Z. Si"enson
Director of Public Relations
Lieder Recital at the Pennsylvania Academy
Ilona Kombrink, soprano, and Wayne Conner, tenor , ¥dth Vladimir Sokoloff , pianist,
will be presented in a lieder recital by The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, in its
galleries at Broad and Cherry Streets, on Friday evening, February 25th, at 8:30 .
The first half of the program ¥dll be devoted to a group of songs by Schubert, for
tenor; another by Brahms and Wolf for soprano , and close with five duets by Schumann .
The latter half will feature two works:
.
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Poeme de l'Amour et de la Mer Py ChaBsson, for
/
Both works are rarely heard in public .
soprano; and La Bonne Chanson by Faure, for tenor .
This may be the first public performance in Philadelphia for the Faure.
Miss Kombrink is a native of St. Louis , Missouri where she won a young artists'
contest about the time she entered the Curtis Institute of Music in 1951 for study with
Mme . Euphemia Giannini Gregory, and was presented in recital by the St. Louis Symphony,
which organization she has recently appeared with a soloist in a performance of Mahler's
Resurrection Symphony.
She is a member of the St. Louis Municipal Opera Company, and
on February 27, ¥dll be heard over WPTZ television station (Philadelphia) in the title
role of Stanley Hollingsworth ' s opera The Mother.
She is soprano soloist at the Lansdowne
Presbyterian Church.
'Hr . Conner of Dallas , Texas, has been heard in
Texas
an'
frequent:.~ concert
appearances in
elsewhere prior to coming to the Curtis Institute three years ago to study voice
with Richard Bonelli .
He will also appear with Miss Kombrink in the Hollingsworth opera
The Mother , as Blackthorn.
He is tenor soloist at First Baptist Church, Philadelphia.
Mr . Sokoloff has arranged the programs for the Pennsylvania Academy ' s series for
the past five years .
Internationally known pianist, he is also repertoire coach at the
Curtis Institute where these two young artist-stUdents study with him.
The recital is free and a feature of the Academy's l50th
No cards are required .
~~versary
Exldbition .
The doors open at 7:30 to permit visitors to see the Exhibition.
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The Pennsylvan.1a Ac.ademy of the Fine Arts
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Jo Mielziner.
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is for the 'l'exmepee Williams play - Cat Qn the Hot
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the MorosCQ Theatre in New York C1 ty on Thursda.y evening, March
This play opens at
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eveuing an exhibition of his water color paintings for such. mast.erpieces as Deathot
a
Sal esras;
A
TrOIi'J
Grows in,
J2rook±y-;;, Glass
l-ien&t-$6ti..e; and many O'!:,her s, opens at
The Pennsylvan..i.t'. Academy of the :F.1.ne Arts in Philadel phia, where
th~
young Hielz1ner
stud1ed before World War I.
Thrilled a t the prospect of a one-ma..l s .'Jm: a t. bi B Alrr.a Mater.. M1elz1ner
wrote to the Ace,dEm'('{ Fello'Ylsbip (alU!n.!li ) 1
ttl have al ways been grn teful
training they gave
lll';
'~ o
t Lc
~'. :::t:-!aroy
of
t!'Hi~
F1...ne Arts for the
and for the t,\{O scholar ships 'l-'lhi ell were El.warded
to me ... Qne before thellrst 110rld 1<18.r aI~d
The sC:l o1 arsl'dps ~,f1S1 ZL'1(;:J.'
G i .i.C
ju.st I:d'term.'. rdfl .. If
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to .c,('(:l7 ::;,:;.rope<.u:l
TI':.,Yf::.L.... Ui,; ;";(Lol&.rstdps,
Cele bra titan.
Above sent to Adelphia Associates and t hey will try
to use it ,,{here they can. Mr . Freid sugge sted
Leonard Lyons (column); Walter Winchell (column or TV)
ART NEWS The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Broad and Cherry Streets, Philadelphia 2
From:
For release
Friday, March 25,
1~55
Elizabeth Z. Swenson
nirector of Public Relations
Academy Fellowship Opens Annual -Exhibition and
One ·-Man Show of Jo Mielziner I s Stage -Set Designs
The Annual Exhibition of Oil Painting, Sculpture, Water Colors and Graphics by the
Fellowship (alumni) of The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, opened on Friday,
March 25, to remain through April 24, following its Preview last night from 8 to 11.
An added feature for this l50th Anniversary season is one gallery of water colors by
Jo Mielziner, America's outstanding designer of stage sets, including those for
Death of a Salesman, Glass Menagerie, A Tree GrOV1S in Brooklyn, Pillar of Fire
(ballet), and others.
Whereas the recently -closed l50th Anniversary Exhibition showed no work by living
artists, this one includes approximately 160 works by living professional artists
who have studied in the Academy's schools at some time during their careers, and runs
the gamut from conservative to abstraction.
Among these professionals are some of the most celebrated names in American art, and
winners of practically every art award or honor available to present--day artists.
Since the group also includes instructors in practically every first -rate art school
in the country, the influence exerted by this great institution (America's oldest)
on the art training in America is almost inestimable.
The juries choosing the exhibition comprised: for oils - Edna Andrade, Oliver Nuse,
and Leonard Nelson; for water colors and graphics .- John McCoy, Ben Solowey, and
John Hanlen; for sculpture - Evangelos Frudakis and Wharton Esherick.
Prizes were announced at the Preview as follows:
Prize
Harrison S. Morris Memorial
Prize of $100 for Water Color
or-Graphic. nivided $50 to each:
Artist
Eleanor Arnett
Approaching Storm (casein)
1301 Spruce St., Phila.
Martha A. Zelt
2043 Moravian St.,
Honorable Mention:
Work
Jewel Figure (wood cut)
Ir
Homer Johnson
Group of Figures (ink& wash)
2037 Moravian St., Phila.
Gold Medal Award of $50, for
Oil or SCUlpture:
Paul Anthony Greenwood Tycoo~ (sculpture)
5009 Fenn St., Phila.
May Audubon Post Prize of $50
for Oil or Sculpture:
Sam Freid
Carnival in Savannah (oil)
5005 Hazel Ave., Phila.
Caroline Gibbons Granger Memorial
Prize of $50, for Oil:
Julian Levi
Weeds (oil)
282 W. 4th St., New York
Mar Butler Memorial Prize of
50, for Oil or Sculpture:
J. Wallace Kelly
Ardmore, Pa.
The Philosopher (sculpture)
During the Exhibition, on April 13, 14 and 15, at 8:30 P.M., The American Society of
Ancient Instruments will present three different concerts for its 27th Annual Festival
Doors open at 7:30.
Galleries are open each weekday (closed Mondays) from 10 to 5; Sundays and Holidays
from 1 to 5. Admission is free.
At the Preview, to VIOLET OAKLEY, a vi ce-pres.i.dent af the FeUQYr~ht.p.:J 'Walker Hancock,
i t s PreSi dent, presented a ci tation and a pur se of $100, in honor of her contributioa
to American art over a long period of year s .
The ., fWl·ylvania Acaderuy Qf the Fine llo%'ts
Broad and CherI'j' Street , Pb1l delphia .2
Eliz beth Z. Swell. n
PJ.reetor af fuh110 R .la "(Ins
mIlU
n, will be hOD.Ol'ed by his ",..!me. m_ter, The Pellnsylvanis. Academy of t!le Fine
Hu
.Arts~
'With
~
a l'etrQlS'pectiva. exhihi tionof 53 paint:L"lgs, l.cm.(@ora miniatures, crayon dnnr.i.nga. and
photo rap IS, . f~ ling Thuracla;y,. .April 7th i3J'-4d continuing through Sl.1nduy, "f~.y 1st.
·itlri tes Frederick 5,. \11g~.I.t ·o f tb.e tLni. v-er6i ty of C&lii'ornia.,. in thEJ Ex.r~ hi t1<m cataloln
' li g:r-eat deal has bean 2aid about Sheeler' e hnericanism beoause Me subject n.ll.lt,ter
Any ratro peetive eli' Sneeler. s 'W'ox-ki would 1':1. hUy include photOgl"&phy.
his .lllea.ns of livelihood in lil2; and
~a
$ Qm.
It baerune
gOne ha.nd in hlU1d w.1th his development, both,
an end in itself un.d as a source of da:l:.a.
would
eads
We 'uote him;
ll'Photograpby is n8.ture seen
that the eneI'oachment. Qf one upon the terri tory of the other is 1mPQss:tble
'I'
.Jt
Chlirles Shoeler was born in Philadel hie. (1883); studied at the .Museum School of
Industrial A.rt (1900....0J)J a d at 'rhe Pennsylvania Aead~ of t be Fine h,·ts (1903-6) wJ..th
. ...111.am M.. Chase.
!Io m de tra.ps: with Chase' s class toLQno.on
t d.by six p.a.1nti..rl.gs in the famous A:rmory ShQW in Nell tark..
f't'
191Q....19' and had _ studio ldth
~1orton 3c~1ll1berg
aLl'-
,lolland (1904) a.nd
He lived in Ptdladei.ph1a
at 1626 Choawut st:-eet.
During th:l.s
period lI1.0st of h1g we .. - nde were spent ina. house he ha.d purchased irJ. Doylestown.. Bueku
SheelGl"ts 'Worka are owned by pra.ctically overy im.por·tunt !Q.'UseUI:l. in -the country and
he has been an exten iva exh1 bi tor.t w1 th many one-man
Pennsylvania Aca.demyl'lAnnuals u without. his
111
'WaX",
:3 OW'S ..
The~have been fev if
during his professional carel'.
Ho waa a
ber of the painting jury for the 149th Annual in 1951...
This exhib! tion w: s organized by . Art Galleries, Uni vers.1 ty of Co.lifciIl"ll1.a .. Los
Angle
Worth
J
}t{.
fl .. De Young Memorlal }{u,seum, Sen FraneiscoJ San Diego Fine Al't.sGallery. Fort
(T~m$)
Pennsyl VW1i
Art Center; Mun n-Willie:n.s....Proctol" Insti tute, Ut1.oo.,t Nev York; and tho
.Aead__ it
It
final. shoWing will be in uti efl followlng ita close in .Phil ...
Galleries open wekdays (closed MoodaY'13)1~5, Sundays and holidays lJ,..5; Free ..
The Pennsylvania
Acad~
of the
~:tne
Arts
Broad and Cherry St reets, Philadelphia 2
From.
For release Monday,
April 4, 1955
E1.1zabeth Z. Swenson
Director of Public Relations
Members of t he Women's Committee of The Pennsylvania Aca.demy of the F.1na Arts
will act as hostesses wen the Academy gives a reception in honor of Charles Sheel ;r,
di tinguished American artis t and alumnus of the Acadeuy, on Thursda.y afternoOIl,
April 7th, from. 4 to 6
0' clock:.
The occasion 1s the opening ·o f a retrospcct.i.va
exh1bitian of Mr. Sheeler's work which viII continue a.t the Academy through Sunday,
May 1st.
the Women's Committee includes;
Mrs. Hart McHichael, Chairman, and
Mesd~es:
Leonard T. Beale
Francis T. Chambers
1!inlen P. Etting
John A. Griswold
J.avid M. Gw.lnn
Horace Binney Hare
Arthur C. Kaufmann
John F. LewiS, Jr.
, rge B. Roberts
Julius Rosenwald, II
Lawrence M. C. &ith
John F. Steinman
Boudinot Stimson
Robert Stra.usz-Hupe
Franklin C. Wa tkins
Sydney L. Wright
JOSE)ph S111 Clark, Jr.
Wal tar H. West
'lhc Pennqlvania Academy of the F.Lne Arts
Broad e.ud Cherry St.r t.o. Pbiladelphia 2
April
From:
Elizabeth Z.. Svenson
ll1.reotor of Public Role-tiona
4i
1955
Pennsylvania AsudOJn.1 Director to 1'''ly to
Euro for Tour \d. th part of the A clemyl s
Recpp.t 150;t,b ARmVBrMa
lIt»OS
Joe.eph T. hf".o0r, Jr., D:1.rector of The Pennoylvan1a Acadccy of t.h 11'1ne Arts 111
Pb1ltl.delphia will fly to !-ladrid, 8pain on WednetJdayI April 6th. tiwre to JOin the 106
wn&3 fl"QI:l the
.Acad~t a
recent 150th. Az.url. vor8ary hh1 b1 tatoo, now on route there vi
boat, vb1ch will op n at Sa.la de 14 Dlrecc1oll,
111 Madrid.
on A,"')ril
a"t.
The GrOUP of worice includes 95 paintings and II ,l.Jiece.a of seulptuz"Q - the 'WOrk
of the 25 artista represented in the; l50th Ann! verear/ Exhi hi tion. all of vhom hl:t.d
clo e a:Sltocie.tion vi ttl the
Acn.d.~
over this contury and
8.
•
h.al.f.
Mr. Fraser will &l V1 a serieB of lectures on the works and artists represonted
in the Exh.1b1 td.on, ae veU as on the general field of art. in
enu.
Mrs.
Fr~8Gr
will aceomptUtT l:d.nt.
A.fter leaving Madrid, the exhi 1:d. tiona for the collection have been
&3
lollovs&
Pale.Ji%O
SClleciul
d
Strozzt in florence, Italy'J The Ferdinandeuu Mu::eum in I.unabl'\l
,
file Ponnay1 'ft\n1a ACltdemy of the F.l ., Al'"
Broad nnd Cherry 8tre ta, Philad i.l.ph:1.a 2
M
nmdum to. ' 1.fra. Be:tulon
MiaD GI'~
Mr. Baum
Hr. Fe1nateiD.
from. the private collacUon of 1'1ftX1m. Karolik. and circulated
Insti tution, will open here on
previ~.
-
3" " ,~
~y
b7 the
15tb., as i.1J.diC6.ted 1n ca.len.ds.rs
&:dth&on1
SGllt
out
\:;t.,
vri ting. Are not on the 'Walle.
Each picture bas a number on :its ......._
,ending \d. ttl the catalog n ber, so the fact t.b.at t.ney
aN
eorre
not h1.1.ni need uot.
De '" det«rront if it is nore eCJllvenient for you to see thVl:1 fairly' SOOll.
Since the ce.ts.log 1 tl bere _ wi til 1 to foreword b1 Ot'OO 'Ji t.1'llWl, Jr
for you.
It,
"NINETEENTH CENTURY AMERICAN PAINTINGS"
1815-1865
From the
Private Collection of 11axim Karolik
Smithsonian Institution
Traveling Exhibition Service
Washington 25~ D.C.
SUGGESTED PRESS RELEASE:
A carefully selected cross-section of American Painting from 1815 to 1865
will be on View at the_'T.A
l.......I...!,
::A
:;;;;;-._ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ from MCi Y /5 , 1955
q.....
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ll~iIoLn.lloe_~
! t:)..:.",..
, .....
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'1',>l..-_ _ _ _ _•
to
Lent by V.II'. Maxim Karolik of Newport, Rhode Island
from his private collection, this cross-section will be presented in ten leading
museums from coast to coast under the auspices of the Smithsonian Institution.
The collection, which James Thrall Soby has called "One of the most
courageous and imaginative ones ever formed in this country,1I was formed by Mr.
Karolik~
and the late l·TI's. :Martha Codman Karolik.
It was inspired by their con-
viction that the period between the end of the vJar of 1812 and the Civil vIaI'
produced work of much greater variety and artistic merit than has been general ly
accepted.
The results of their pioneering activity may be seen in this exhibi-
tion of fifty-one paintings by forty-two artists, all acquired since 1949.
V.II'. Karolik's purpose in collecting these Nineteenth Century American
paintings was stated in a letter to the Director of the Boston Museum of Fine
Arts as follows:
"To show what happened in this country in the art of painting
in the period of half a century - from 1815 to 1865 - and to show the beginning
and the growth of American landscape and genre painting.
The aim was to make a
collection not of 'Americana' for the antiquarian, but of American art for the
Nation •••• each painting was judged and acquired on the basis of artistic merit.
Names and history were of secondary importance. 1I
- 2 -
Mr. Karolik continued:
sent a 'School.'
I~e
all know that this collection does not repre-
Traces of many influences may be found in it.
But it is
not necessary to be an expert to see that the beauty of this collection springs
from the roots of this nation; that it contains its own national characteristics;
that it expresses its own idiom, which is definitely American.
In that idiom,
I believe, lies the reason for its universal appeal."
The present collection includes landscapes, portraits, genre scenes, still
life and primitive paintings by the following artists, among others: Washington
Allston, Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Birch, George Loring Brown, Charles Deas,
Thomas Doughty, Seth Eastman, Martin J. Heade, Thomas Hicks, Eastman Johnson,
John F. Kensett, Fitz Hugh Lane, vHlliam H. Prior and George Tirrell.
addition, there are several paintings by unidentified artists.
In
All provide a
delightful reflection of Victorian life: The love of nature in all its moods
and changes; the newly-founded American spas, Niagara Falls and Newport; the
romantic appeal of far-away places such as Naples and Sorrento; classical
literature and the work of the New York poets and novelists, and, above all,
the people, the homes, the scenes from everyday American life in the early
Nineteenth Century.
As otto ldittmann, Jr., Associate Director of The Toledo Museum of Art,
1rJrites in his foreword to the illustrated catalogue: "The impact of the M. and
M. Karolik Collection has already stimulated a broader interest in American
painting, has made it possible to compare visually the works of most of the
period's important artists, and has led to the reappraisal of two almost completely forgotten painters, Martin Johnson Heade, and Fitz Hugh Lane."
"NINETEENTH CENTURY .A11ERICAN PAINTINGS II
1815-1865
From the
Private Collection of Maxim
-~ Karoli.~
AVAILABLE DATES:
1954 October 1 - 31
November 1 - December 19
1955 January 1 - 31
1956
Smithsonian Institution
Traveling Exhibition Service
Hashington 25, D. c.
RESERVED FOR:
J. B. Speed Art Museum
Third and Shipp Streets
Louisville 8, Kentucky
Mr. Paul S. Harris" Director
The Toledo Museum of Art
Monroe Street
Toledo 2" Ohio
Mr, otto vJittmann" Jr,
Lowe Gallery" University of Niami
Coral Gables 46, Florida
Mr. Allan McNab" Director
February 18 - 11a.rch 20
Virginia I'1llseum of Fine Arts
Boulevard and Grove Avenue
Richmond 20, Virginia
Mr. Leslie Cheek, Jr., Director
April 1 - 30
Columbia l'fruseum of Art
Corner Senate and Bull Streets
Columbia, South Carolina
Dr. John Richard Craft, Director
May 15 - June 15
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Broad and Cherry Streets
Philadelphia 2, Pennsylvania
Mr. Joseph T. Fraser" Jr., Director
October 1 - 31
Wilmington Society of the Fine Arts
Park Drive at vJoodlawn Avenue
Wilmington 6, Delal-lare
Miss Constance Moore, Director
November 15 - December 15
The Baltimore Museum of Art
Wyman Park Drive
Baltimore 18, Maryland
Mrs. Adelyn D. Breeskin, Director
January 1
Dept. of Fine arts" Carnegie Institute
4400 Forbes Street
Pittsburgh 13, Pennsylvania
Mr. Gordon B. Washburn
~
31
ART NEHS from
For release in P. :1'-1.
May 18, 1955
The Pen..llsyl vania Academy of the Fine .Arts
Broad and Cherry Streets, Philadelphia 2
3
$24,YS75.00 in Traveling Scholarships and
other Prizes awarded
BY
the Pennsylvania AcademY
3
Sixteen Traveling Scholars hips and other prizes totaling $24 ,.(575. 00 were 8.varded to
students of The Pemlsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts by its president, John F. Lei·,'is, Jr.,
at special exercises held there this afternoon.
Hi11iam Clarke l-'1ason, esquire, prominent lawyer, a member of the Academy's Boaro_ of Directors,
was the speaker of the afternoon. (for llJ:IIedal of Honor" aw&-rd, see attached release)
TRAVELING SCHOLARSHIPS
/
If
/
10 ~lilliaJn Eulen Cresson Memorial European Traveling Scholarships for $1400 each ($1100 :tn
cash- fo-r-tra:~ei; --$J60 i-;or t'Ui'tion at' tile AZac~ie~y -in 1955-56) c,war'ded to: .......
.\/ Pain ting - .-i)onald H. Abrams, 37 N. 11th St, Phila. & 2200 Park Drive, liilmington, Dela.
A alle 1. Nylner, st. Thomas, Virgin Islands .
,-..,
.
,. .Eva Odli vak, 9 Di verty Fed, Trenton, N. J. l ;>,.....
u ....... _e"
v'Joseph Tishler, 4143 'W. Girard Ave, Phila.
<t...
v
Cressons for 2nd consec'C:.ti ve year:
--' Ina Pivar, 37 N. 11th St, Phila •
...-,F,;ranldin R. Drake, 2211 St. ,James st, Phila. & Sadsburyville, Pa .
v'Gl1ap:man -Kelley, R. 4, SC?..il Antonio, Texas
Honorc.ble Nention, carrying free tuition a t ~300 at Academy for 1955-56:
I Barbare, Courtney, Carroll ton, Va.
(with right to compete again)
Nural Decoration - - Howard Kerwick, 1727 Vine St, Phila •
• ,'J 000 Needfe, Jr., 211 - 30th St, N'eWl)Ort News, Va.
Illustration - (no award)
Honorable Hention, carrying free tuition at $300 c,t Academy for 1955-56:
Theron A. Hardes, Coryville, Pa.
Sculpture
(wi th right to compete ",.gain)
rf", .•
n
'i"
Sheila Lamb Travaglia, 131 N. 21st St, Phila.
1.;#<:1' ,/1-/1.'~"' 1
V
, Four J. Henry Schie.dt Hemoria14Scholarships ($1200 each) , based on the same recluirements
as the Cressons; do not, howe-fer, limit travel in Europel1, but must be awarded to an advanced
student of outstanding merit, on i-rri tten application of the contestant covering 8. specific
obj ecti ve fol,~ carI"Jing fori-raro. his tr&ining through travel; awarded to:
!
Painting - Wnomas J. Gaughan, Hackley Apts, N & Bristol Sts, Phila.
vPeter Lister, 421 E. Lancaster Ave, St. Davids, Pa •
.;
Honorable Mention to - Lois B. Rhodes, 6508 Gratz St, Pl1ila.
,
1--"
Mure,l Decoration - vtfartha ZeIt, 626 E. Beau St, WaShington, Pa •
.I
Sculpture , earlo J. Trava gli a , 8 Blake Hill, Springfield, HaGS, 131 N. 21st St, Phila.
One [lewis S. Ware Hemorial European Traveling Scholarship for
for tuition at the ACE'.demy in 1955-56) ai-rarded to:
~ta350
y Painting - James A. He.milton, 3rd, 59 Cricket Ave, AI' dmppe, Pa.
(~&1050
for travel; $300
P.AFA Prizes, Hay 18, 1955 - 2
v/ Catherwood Foreign Travel Award for $1580 (first time awarded) to:
l'
IElizabeth
Osborne, 229 N. Lansdmme Ave , Lansdowne, Pa.
V Board of Directors' Prize of $500 , wi.th honorable mention, to student not yet eligible
for travel scholarship competitions, for excellence of his work:
,.'
'J Louis Sloan, 1503
s.
50th St, Phila.
OTHER PRI:6ES
\/ Charles Toppan Prizes. for best original oil, tempera or water color, work unaiC'..ed and
without criticism, available only to students who have previously received End used
Cresson Scholarships, to:
/ FiTst Prize $300: Lois Rhodes, 6508 Gratz St, Pltila. ).,
V'Second Prize $200:
(~~ ~-....r.t-
Franklin H. Drake , 2211 St. Jeunes St, Phila. &. Sadsburyville, Pa.
y""Honorable Hention Iii tll $100 : Peter Lister, 421 E. Lancaster Ave , St. Davi.ds , Pa.
\ Thomas Eakins Nemorial Prize of $100 for best .:1)'gure painted in regular life clc:.ss in
'Hinter imInediately preceding competition, to: " Peter Lister, St. Davids, Pa.
Honorable Hentions to:,Do~'othy Gra:1t, 238 S', 21s~ ~t, /ltila. _.
ilJonn vIm. Rellly, 545 r1cKrng.Gt \...it , Reao.lng , Pa.•
v' Cecilia Beaux Hemorial Prize of $100 for best lJortrai t painted during the school year,
to:
V Jolm 'Vii:n. Eeilly, 545 NcK..."light St, Reading, Pa.
Honorable Mentions to: VDonald Abrams, 37 H. 11th ;:~t, Phila. & 2200 Park Drive ,
,/
l<Jill1:d.ngton, Dela.
V Chapman Kelley, R. 4., San Antonio, Texas
i
", . Catk'..arine Grant :Memorial Prize of $100 for best 12"ndscape to: /Louis Sloan, 1503 S. 50th st,
(awarded first time)
PltilB.•
/.
I.e ~~.,
Honora ble l"fen tions to: o'Vahan Amadouni, $202 Ha:cket St, Phila. & Allepo, Syria
,<'Haymond Salmders, 234 Burrows st, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Hilbert Sabin, 330 S . 4th St, Phila.
:l'D aniel Jvriller, 447 Madison Ave , Brookville, Po.. ( ('9z·tfL>~ 'O'"
.lDonald Abrams, 37 i'iJ'. 11th St,Philc.• &: 220 Park Dr, \{ilmington,Del.
J
The Henry J. T'nouron Prizes, for compositions completed during curTent season:
)$50 for best romposi tion,
judged by FaC1.ll ty:'\l ahe.n Amadouni , 6202 Narket St, Phila.
&: Allepo, Syria
$25 as judged by students: ,ILouis Sloan, 1503 S. 50th St, Phila.
Honorable Mention to:
8.S
Y.
Barbara Brmm, 100 Rockford Drive, Syracuse, N.
~50 as ,judged by instructor of class: h homas Gaughan, Hackley Apts , M
& Bristol Sts,
Phila .
~25 as ,judged b;z: instructor of class: t <D8.J."li el Miller, 447 Ma dison Ave, Brookville, Pa.
/
John H. Pa ckard Prizes for best group of original studies made from living animals at the
Philadelpbia Zoo:
V $30 First Pri ze to:
, $20 Second Prize to:
Honorable Hention to:
Elizabeth Osborne, 229 N. L811Sdoi-me Ave , Lansdoi-me , Pa.
Sue Sharp, 7906 Chandler Rd, Chestnut Hill, Phila.
Julie Shield , Chestnut Rid ge Rd, SE.ddle River, 1\1. J.
PAFA pri zes , May 18, 1955 - 3
"r') ,
~\'" ~
"'John vlanar2aker Store Prize of $50 wor"'of ar t materials, for best water color, to:
'Pt.2.ymond Saunders, 234 Burrows St , Pi ttsbur gh, Pa .
$25 Second Prize to: A. John Kfu~Eer, 5132 N. 15th St, pr~ la .
Honorable Mention to:
Lorr8.ine Hal ach, 13th & Halifax St s , Regina , SasketcheHan, Canada
V/Ramborger Pri ze of $25 for best line dravnng in black and white of a head , from life, by
student not 1l.l:ier instruction here more than 2 years, to:
!/Elizabeth Os borne, LallSdO'l-T.£le, Pa.
~~nes Spanfeller, 1407 E. Cardeza St, Plrila .
Honorable Mentions to:
Iq
'William HcK. Hoffman, Jr., 437 Lloyd J..ve , Latrobe, Pa .
for firs t time
\< Lux Pr i ze in Graphics of $50 , ,awarded/in memo r y of Jo}:l..n
n.
Conner, to:
iI'Sue Sharp , 7906 Chandler Rd, Chestnut Hill, Phila.
;,'\ ."
...
\:..,
V Philadelphia Print Club Prize in Graphics, of 1 year ' s membership in t he Club and use of
its workshop, to:
" \, ' - ,~
~.
/ lVIartha Zelt, 626 E. Beau st, v[ashington, Pa.
Honora ble Iviention to: .;fames Spru;l! teller, 1407 E . Cardeza St, Phila.
VMabel IITilson lioodrow Memori alPri ze in Graphics of $50 , to: Hilbert Sabin, 330
( ah~rded first time)
Phila.
v'
s.
4th St .
Lila Agnes Kennedy Hill Memorial Pri ze of $50, awarded for best single piece of sIxnlpture
entered in t he ,Cresson Competition, to:
irraIlcis Acquaye , 843 N. Broad St, Phila . & Gold Coast,
vles t Afri ca
\I
Alexander Portnof f Memorial Prize of $25, for be s t sculptured head , to:
Vcarlo J. Travaglia , 138 .N . 21 s t St, Phila . & 8 Blake Hill ,Springfield,IvIass .
Honor&ble Men tion: ?ranci s Lcquaye,
IAntioue Cast Drayrrng Prize of $50 , to:
/
Honorable Mention tol
J08e'p~line
8*~T.
Broad St, Phila. & Gold Coast, W. Afri ca
r
Elizabeth Os born e, Lansdmme, Pa.
Chapmen , Belrose Lane , R&onor , Pa.
~'~'I' __ .t . ~ -~
4 -•
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'! ConstrL,cti C?Q.. _QJ_ass Prize of ~~50, to: f \ljil lialTl HcK. Hoffman , J r ., 437 Lloyd Ave, Latrobe, P¥,'.'
I
Honorable Mention to: J8..mes Spe..nfeller, 1407 E. Cardeza St, Phila .
,JLal~Ctscape Prize of
$2 5
to: ~y:mond Saunders,
234 BurroHs St, Pitt sburgh, Pa.
, Honorable Mention to: "' L01.US Sloan , 1503 S . 50th St, Phila.
/ Perspe ctive Cla ss Prize of $20, awarded persona lly by the instructors, John F. Harbe son
and "lV"illiam M. Campbell, to: ,"
"' FJ. chard D. Currie, 4221 Pine St, Pl".:ila.
Honorable Mention to: Valentina Gubar, 839 N. 6th st, Phila.
~,,-
PAFA Prizes, Nay 18, 1955 - 4
Evening School Prize of $25, to:
/ Domonic Di Stefano, 5023 Baltimore lwe, Phila.
Honorable Hention to:
!
Henry Kloczynski, 867 N. Judson St, PlUla.
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'vi The Academy recommends to the University of Pel1..l1sylvania. the following pere·ons for
Bc chelor of Fine Arts degrees, C'.E hE.ving finisned the technical part of their training
at the Academy~ as a requirement of the Co-Ordinated Courses:
J Illustr&.tion najor:
I~d.
for Master of Fine
'" P&.in ting ma'; or:
Paul E. Gorka, 1204 S. Hanover st, Nanticoke, Pa.
f~ts
degrees:
BicD~rd
Nural Decoration major:
S. Chew, Jr., 202 State Rd, Bala-Cynwyd, Pa.
Burlingame Harvey, 317 N. 18th St, Phila.
f
nte P nnsylva.ni& Academy of the Fine Arts
Broad and Cllen"7 Streets. Pb11adelpJtL 2
KUaabetb
Z~
Dhyc.tQr ef
t.~e
Swensoa
hbl1e 3eJ.a!4gna
ape -er of the afto..·,_.-....
Mr. Mason ha.s been in the active practiee of the 1
1(
for more thal:l i1.ft7 '¥
He is a past Ch.ane llor of t.h.e Philadelplda B&.r As so e1a tion,. past presiden.t
ot
a.
tJ;w
POUQ.sylvonia Bar Association, and e.ctie in the a.ffa.1rs of tho Amorica.n Dar ABooe1a
He has Mon a friend of the Academy for almost as long as he ha.s practJ.
rd. of
law; his v1fe is one of ito alumni"
Directors, ill 1944 sppointed
8.
t'lGmber of 1 ts Comm1 ttH on
Inet:ru.~t1o.n, ~d
in 1949
cha1rwm Qf tbat committe.. "
'lhe Acaderq Gold Medal (1)£ Honor we establlshed in 189.3 by Johu H. ConV'eJ"08,
then a. l1em.ber
d1~:l(~ret1on
oi~
the Be !.I'd of Directors, and its terms r
of the Board of D1reetors, to Jimmean pa1nters and a<:u.lptons who may be
exhi 1:4 tora of the Acad£:ay, or represented in the pemanent. coUttCtiOD, 1D. reeop1 tiOl3. ot
high &c tie
en~
in tt oir profeat1l.on; or to those
or art or to the Aced 1. haw merited the distinc't100.. lt
The Medal has been :ward.ed to 31 pcrscm.a prev1ou~ - maj nly
is c:mly the tOUl"tb. time 1 t has gone to
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ART NEWS from
The Pennsllwnia Acadet1Y of the Fine Arts
Broad and Cherr.r Streots, ?hill.ldelphia ;2
14 Y 18, 1:
'S
Elizabeth £:.. Swenson, D1:-Elctor of Public Helat1,on8
•
$24.675.00 in TPavGling Scholarah1pe and
Other
P~'LAw:rded
by Penna-.{].vams. A.e dg
Sixteen Traveliug Scholarshl.ps end othor prizes totaUng
24. 675~OO
awarded to students ot The PO!luoylvWlih Academy of the Fino Arts by ita
.f!'. 1ewii.i" Jr:.,
..:II (1400
Ci.\.
..,peciu.l
eXtU'cil!at;l
each)
SeoolArebip I/went to. Donald
il.
Virgin rs.J..u..uds; tVa Odlivak/!R
held here this afternoon..
Ten
1'9
pres1d~t.,
ere
John
Travel
g
AbrloUlla, VilIlington, Dela; Pallo L Mylner, St.. Thomas
ton, N. J.; Joe. Tiflnler, Phila; Ina Pivar, Plrl.laJ
Fri:l.~lid1n j:~. lJl'l.lle, &licbur;rJ:l.lle, Pa; Che.pt~aa KoU('\1, SIUl Arl.WJlio" TexAlit
(all paintsr )J
HOlolard A:el''.{i~, f'hila, omd .John Needre, Jr.; .Na'"1pOrt :~e'-18JO Va. (roth mur.al painters) J
;;:;l~~l.u ~'t> .£:rtL\'t\g.l~~j' ?h.... .i.L.. (;)c-:.;lpt~:;."ti).
Fo-:"'C"
T,. Hmlr-.f Sc' .ie"!'!t : !~~r!.;!,l TrJ:.vellS'l.g
t
"'00 each)
(
Schol/;#.rships!tol'l'hom&a J. Gaughan and Peter L1ster of Philadelphia (painter
ZGl1;,. "Wa ... 1dJl~to.t&.t Pa..
h
(mural ptdnt1.ngh Carlo J. 'fravo.gl1a, Springfield, 14n.as. ( sculp r).
One Lewis S. Ware 'l'.ravel Scoolar$.hip of $13.50 to James A.. Hamil ton, Jrd, Ardmo
Catherwood JPoreign 'Xravcl Award of $1580
(pa.i.ut.Oi.').
Martha
t,Q
Eli
, Pa..
beth. Osborne (painter)
Lansdowue ~ Pa.
'W11111lln GIGl'ke Mason, pro.."linont laliTer, was the speelter of 'the afternoon.
lie WhS awaJ.'<i
1
the Acaderayf s highest honor -
II
The J\eedemy Gold Modal of HOllor n for
eminen t seni cas to the Acader.lY and t.Ue cause 01' art.
01' the Ae clemyt s Board oj.' Diroctors oince 1935; its CoIaroi tt.ee on Instruction aiD.ce 19J.4.
and chairman of that e.omm1ttee sine 1949.
The exhi bi t1..on of student 'WOrk, entered for th
will remain on view through June 5.
variOU6 campaU tiano,
ART NEWS f
The Pennaylwnin Ac.a d __ ot' the F.1ne Arts
Broad and Cherry
Eli .
~~
Str~te,
May lS, 1955
Pb11a.{1e1ph1a 2
Z.. SlIe;nson, Director of fBbl1eRelati up
.675.00 in Traveling SchQlar&b1p
and Othor Prizes 8..'W"'-rded py Pmmsylvru:lia Acadsr
Sixteen Traveling 8<:.:holarship , and. other prizes, tot&l:ing $24,675.00 ven
warded to students of The Peonsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts by its president,
Jobn F. Lewis, Jr., at
I!lp c1~1
exercises here this efternoo.ll.
William ClatkeMaaon,. prpminent lawyer, was the speaker of the aftern.oon.
He
Wfl.8
awarded tb.e Acad y'ill highest honor, "1'0$ .Aoodamy Gold N.eda.l of Iion,u,l\ for
of the Acadt!l%lW'8 Board of D1rectorp since
and chairman of that committee since 1949 ..
19 3~;
its Committee on Instruet1.00 since 19i.4j
JOHN
F. LEWIS
JR.
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• "fII.
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11
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.MABEL
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pro tern •
To radio and TV stations
'rlhe
Pen.~aylVl.lllia
Broad. and Ch.erry'
1I.cc;.{Jw;{ 01' the l::iD.C AJ.. ttl
streetl3, Philadelphia 2
Elizabeth Z. w';"'lt:?On,
Di~ctor
af Public Relations
Work ldnn1ng $24,675 in Travel Scholarships and.
Other Prize! on :xhiBit1on
Galleriel? open weokdl:.7S, except U()ndays, 10 to 5;
1 to 5.
Closed Mondc.yp.
Froe
~t
all
~eB.
Sundays and holicAya
;1;
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Broad and Cherry Streets, Philadelphia 2
June 7, 1955
Ell zabeth Z.. SVenson
Director of Public Relatio-:ns
Pennsylvania
'1".11e 1'155
SU!llmCI'
Aead~v
Summer School to Open
School of The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts will
open at Broad and Cherry Streets on Monday"
Jlli18
27th and continue through Friday"
August 5th.
Francis Speight and .Roswell 'Vleidner,. of the winter sc:b...ool faculty, will
I,
j.. '( \'
'"
"-
~.p
conduct la..l1dscape classes :Ln the field in city areas, at the F'hiladelphia Zoo I on
the banks of the two r1 vers; and on the Jersey shore .
These two art.ists ,dll also
conduct studi@ work in portrait, lire and still life painting, and in drawing.
Morris Blac...1tbtlrn, also a -wl.,."1.ter school instructor, will give
lectures and demonstrations on grapbic technic.tues, a.J.d th3 tecl:JUC;V,8S
(I.
or
series of
pai:i1ting
in various media.
Tne design studio will
'be
conducted by Wallace Peters of the School of
Jim Lueders, a recent graduate of the Academy, will supplement the wrk of
the regular fa. cuI ty members.
Classes 'Hill be helc1 Ho:o.days throl1gh Frid.ays 8.ud sb.dents VI"ill be nn:t:'olled
for four or six weeks" peri.ods.
ART NEVSThe PelUlU.11van.1e" d«J:l1' ot tho F.i.n Art6
Broad and Cherry Stre.te. Ph11ad4alpbia 2
From,
Elizabeth~.
June 9, 1955
8veneon
lllrec;tor ot Pybl1ct Relations
to 1 ts pematlent collection of painti.ng end uculpt.ur •
p
PorV!1 t of Edward EtsA!;o:}.;Y by Jacob E1ehhol til (17'16-1842) from
Mis-It K5.tbarlne EtChholtz ot PMlndelpbi8,
Au-ram Still Lite 1:',1; \lfilliem l-I. Chas.e (1849-1916), frau Mr.
Joeeph Bash Field of Chicago, Il11z:I.o18
LageJocape !d. t.h Figul"! - ~ e
B1il Valley.
Glad101e.~
8uDri
Beee by J. F. CroP867 (182.3-1900) J
by John F. Ken ett (1S18-1872), and
b,r ChArles Demuth (1883-19.38),
II tram Mr. John 1", Lewis, Jr.
Lo'f"
of Philadelphia (tne Academy I s president)
S fi1l1 bf tan1el Garber (1880 - ). end Polish nm r b,y Georse Luke
1867-1933). both hom the Locust Club of Ph.11adelpb1 1n honor of
the ACULdanyte 150th Aun1versaJ'7.
Portr. • tor
Young tM tv 811' AIlthonlc Vi
Dl'ck(1599-1641), from
Mr. ,twart Huston of Contesv111 , Penna.
i"ne Soda Fountaj.s by Will1n.m J.. Glackens (J.87(h.19.38). pur~sed
Academ.y ~ugh income t-rom its Gilpin and -.r.,Ple FUnd••
b3
tho
Dcmol1 t.1.SS by' Harry Lei tb-Roe , purc.bll ed by the Council of" tn.e lia t.ional.
Aea~
of Dos1&1l, ct.1.ne as trustee of tilt: Henry W. Re.nger·
•
&nd assigned to the ACMl8:lT on the terms Qf Mr. RAnger's Will. '1b
artist lives in Nw Hope) Pa.
Tb King (wood sculpture) by Joseph J. Greenberg, Jr., of M"bAnicevill ,
Pe.ana, from. lire R. Sturgie Inger 011 Qf Penl.l¥n. Pemul.
J}
of lienu s.
(bron e) by Uargaret YU8fJl'm&A LeV of
Mt. Airy, Philadelphia.
Gift of the artist.
(Mr. Drinker ie
nee-president of the Aeaduq)
'rue
?!IJ!.lni'_Jlv~iil ~d~ oi' thtt Fina Ar-1W
acld ChGrl}- c>'t.r3t)'(,~J l;)hila.del9!:i1~;. 2.
Broud
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IRT NEWS from
The Pennsylwni,a Academy of the Fine Arts
Broad Blld
Cherr~·
Streets, Philadelphia 2
J uJ.y 12, 1955
..
Elizabeth Z. Swenson. Director of Public Relations
Pennsylvania Academy to G1 ve Large Painting to Mllseum.
at Leyden in The NetherlAnds
Dell verance of Leyden from the Siege of the Sp@ards under Valgez.
1274.
paillted by Johwm Bernard Wi ttkamp (182Q-lS85), dep1ct.tng one of the most imp
t
episodes in the histo-ry of Holland, will be shipped to the Museum of RiJkSUlli vera tel t
in Leyden.. Holland, on July 20th, a.s the gift of The Pennsylvan.i.a .A(:ademy of the Fine Arts.
The Academ'1 pm'chased the large canvas, measuring 14' x
24tt
in
1851.
early in the 1890's until late in 1951, it hung high in the institutionts stairwll.
Because the Academy had re-emphasized 1 ts
ea~'lier
role of ded1cation to American art only'j
its president, John F. LewiS, Jr., became active ill an effort to seek the ideal. inst1tut1
to 'Which the Dutch painting might be presented.
The NetheI'lands Embat:lsy in Washington became interel3ted in the wrk, a...YJ.d through
the good offices of Messrs. Arthur C. Kau.flnanu and Bernard Davis, it was presented to the
Netl.l.I!!Jl'laxl.ds through its Alabaseador to the Un! ted States, Dr. J. H. van RoiJel1, at a. dinner
at the National Philatelic lruasum in Philadelphia on January 2.6, 1952.
since t.hen by the
Acad~..nyl
It has beau held
pending a docision on its ul t:l.mate dest.ina
Follow1.o.g r\imoval from t/:le Acudemy w-alls, the painting was unframed and roU ed
on
8.
huge drum built by Academy staff :men 'Ullder the direction of its building,super'in-
tendent,. 11ayland T. McAvoy.
long.
men.
The drum is 4' in diameter. 11' in cl..rcumference, and 16'
A. special box to hold drum and paintJ.ng has recentl..v been cQmpleted by the same
Professional riggers will come to the Academy on July 19th., to take the box and
contents to S. S
Tente, at the Holland American Line's pier B 1n Ph1lad iJ.pbi ; from.
which port 1 t will sail for The Netherlands.
35 copies to local papers, suburban ones,
\.Jilmington, Camden, etc.
For
'rue Penna:rlvr..niu .t\oode!lY of the Fine Arta
relf'..a~?
during
of Jul 1S t 1955
az·O<1G. Ct..ld ChCA:"l7 t.tl~cet:3, Philt:.delphia 2
Eliz<:,.bcth Z. Swcn:::on, Diroctor of Public Relations
keed§1!.1Y: Ga lle!:1,. 08 to Close Part or Sm;i.!l
at 5 o"clock
O.b.
s''llldG-Y, july 24th, anc. not
!'e-o:-~
until Sunday aftem
l.
Doth WrOTe and after the closed period, parts of the Acacll;lzny' P
Bulletin, Inquirer, Daill Hews
ART NEWS
fr
Juue 22, 1955
The PeDnsylvania Acad-.y of the Fine Arts
Broad and Cherry Streets, Philadelplrla 2
Elizabeth
z.
Swen60J1t Director of Publ,1c Relations
Pennsylvania Acad~ Sw~er School tq
ORes
The 1955 SUlllIler School of The Pe.l!.lsylvania AcadCJIIU of t he F.1.ne Arts will
open at BrQa.d and .Cherry s t reets on Monday, June 27th and co tinne through Friday.,
August 5th.
Francis Spei ght and Roswell Weidner, of' the winter school faculty, will
conduct landscape cla SSAS in t he field in various city areas, 1 eluding the
Zoo, on t he banks of t he t\1O x1. vf3rs; and on t he JerBey c s t.
These
tHO
Ph1ladelpl~a
a r tis"lis will
also conduct studio work in port-rai t, life and still life pa1nt1ng, and in drawing.
~or:r1s
Blackbu.rn, also a
~dl1t l3!' 8c"~o ol'
A;uctor, will give a series of
lectures and de,Y onstra.tions on ; ra!)hic techniques, t'.nd the techniques of painting
in various meaia.
Jim L').eders; a. i'ece'1t :)','
t :~e
regtJ.ar f a CIlity me.!'1bers.
for four 01' six ' ''3el:s' periods.
rlOrk of
15 releases sent to local art critics,
art magazines, and other Ebrn: calendars
The Ponnsylvania AcadEmy of' t..'1.e nne Arts
Broad and Chorry Str ts. Philadelphia 2
July
26,. 1955
Ell.beth Z. SwonaOll., fllrector of Public Relatione
October 16 through No
bel'
a> -
Members- Exh1l:x1ti n. PhUadel.pbili.4 Wa
r Color Club
Private Viw; Saturday o-vcmng, October l5 ..
9 to II
october
a,
8:.30 P. M. -
Octobfn:' .30 t:1rCu.gn November 20 -
Concert
*Clrlldl'tl!l t 5 Book Fair and Exhihi 14.on, EmBpioea of
the Free L1 i:tr2uy of Philadelpma" v1 th t.~e
ACL.de..:;,y" ~.ud The lnq;uil'101' '-Olll.:.h:ll:'.ut:i..lls.
Private viev, Satlll'd&y fJ'1Gn.1n£..I Oct'lbtu' 29,
9 to 11
Concert
.. A considerable progr3li! Q.f events 'Ilt11 tflko ,?lscc c'.1.l..dr.g etc; )"rlocl ci'
tmd will be announced, in detail. 111 t.61' ..
~Li.z
jj;i;l·.i.1:Ii . _ ,
ART NEWS from
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
BrO'a.d and Cherry Stree,ts.. Philadelphia 2
September 14" 1955
El.izabeth Z. Swenson ; Director of PUblic Relatj..o ns
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, BrQad and Cherry Streets, still
in its l;Oth ann1 versary year (1805- 1955) ,Will open its program of special. events
on October 16th, with an exhibi. tion of watercolors, prints and drawings not previously
show in Philadelphia, by members of The Philadelphia 'Water CclO'r Club, to continue
t hrough November 20.
world.
The Club' s meIl1bersbip is dra'W'n
f.J:'QID
artists in, many parts of the
Gallery Talks will be held each Thursda.y afternoGm at 2 ; 30.
On October 30th, the first Children's Book Fair and Exhibition ever hel.d in
wi: th t he '\";' I
Philadel phia will ope~under the a.:uspj.~es of the Free LibraI7 o~.!.h~ladel1?hi.~J
Academy' and The Philadelphia Inquirer,
CO'lla~~~;';'~g~l;;··haii>:f
gallerie~)I
the Academy' s
An extensive program of talks by authors, illuBtrators, and O'ther events, will take
pla~G
during the Fair1i with that program announced in detail later,
At those times when spe¢1al exhibi tiona are not being held, part O'f the Academy ' s
f3J:ll01,1s permanent colle ction of Ameli"li:.can art (early 19th century th!'ough current
acqui 6i tiona) ,,1111 be hanging.
HarryZAratzian, first viO'li st of the Philadel phia Orchestra, and Vladimir Sokol off ,
distinguished pianist, 'Will open the Academy ' s seventh consecutive a.n:nual seri es
Of~~:."¥~(!.'~
4~~n. ,-r'~.,1
'P::f
J"
Illusica.l program.s on Jtridayevening, October 21, at 8;30, with t lw foHowl:iig work~ for ~
t he two inst.ruments:
( copy to f ollow) il
I··"
Other programs offering a 'Hide variety of
the worldts great mUSic sel dom heard in public t oday, will be scheduled :for December 2nd"
January 27, February 24th, and March 23 .
The String Virtuosi of Phil adelphia; the
string quartet reeently organized by the Philadelphia Orchestra's concert master, Jacob
Krachmalni ckl original works for four hands at c:me piano; and a lieder reeital, are
,,,ICl} ,t."",,£.
~~
rl<"
fOr t he succeeding conoerts ..
The instrumental events in the serles
h a:I,'e
been
po.s sible without cest to the public through the Music Performanee Trust Fund; the lieder
re.e i tal through the Frear! c R. l{ann Founds. tiQn,
The Academy galleries are open weekdays ( closed Mondays ) from 10 to 5$ Sundays and
holidays from 1 t o' 5"
AdmiSSion is free at all times and the public is invited .
Education editors, Sunday papers.
ART NEWS from the Schools. of
The Pennsyl va.nia. Ae~demy of the Fine Arts
Broud and Cherry Streets ,Philadelphia .2
SlIeO-soIl" Dtrec,'OOx- of
Octo bel' :3, 1955
Pub;y.o Bela tio9;S
Pennsylvania AC€l.damy Announces 'Winners of Scholarships
it Offllrej City and Parochial High Schools' puptl@
During the 195.3-54 s~son" tJ:J.e Academy established the plan of awarding
annually approximately ten free tuition scholarships to students from Philadel pbi
18
public nndparochiaJ. high schools ""hose work could .meet Academy s t andards.
The following public and parohial high school gradut toe vere accepted by the
faculty of the Academy ' s s chools and begQll thei r 'W'Q.rk at the Aca.demy When it re-opened
its schools on September 26,
Vi vi an Clark, 5509 Girard Avenue
J ack fishbein , 5804 'Woodcrest Avenue
Jeanmarie Fleck, 931 South 46th Street
Edward Humphries; l 007-B Parrish Place
Mary Lipp, 5710 Ashland street
Sally Lynch. 7191 Ruskin Lane, Upper Darby
Christine McGinnis, 5116 Cedar Avenue
Joseph A. Venut1, 3610 North Warnock St reet
I n addi tion to the above, the J:.eademy has auarded for the current season
thirty-six full or half tuition a.cllolarships from its Crosson, Wid0ner, trIare, La.mber t,
Harrison" Burton, Cooper, lnomas and Wilt'bank Scholarship Funds.
These grants will
assist students not only from Philadel phia and 1Jicinity, bt'tt from other sections of the
country'.J in addition to Canada, Formosa, African Gold C06llst, Syria, Hawaii, a.t.'"1d the
Virgtn I slands.
ART AND MUSIC NEWS
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Broad and Cherry Streets, Philadelphia 2
From:
October 5, 1955
Elizabeth Z. Swenson, Director of Public Relations
Pennsylvania Academy Announces its 1955-56 Series of Free Concerts
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts announces the 1955-56, and seventh
consecutive, season of Chamber Music Concerts to be held in its galleries.
The series will open with a sonata recital by Harry Zaratzian, first violist of
the Philadelphia Orchestra, and Vladimir Sokoloff, well-known pianist, on Friday
evening, October 21st, at 8:30.
One lieder recital will augment the series, on December 2nd, with Ilona
Kombrink, sopranOj Wayne Conner, tenorj assisted by Mr. Sokoloff.
The third event is scheduled for January 27th, ",ith the Philadelphia Chamber
Players, a group recently organized by Jacob Krachmalnick (the Philadelphia Orchestra's
concert master), and composed of
l~.
Krachmalnick and Veda Reynolds, violinists;
Harry Zaratzian,violistj Lome Munroe, cellist (all of the Orchestra); and Mr. Sokoloff.
On February 24th, Eleanor and Vladimir Sokoloff will present again, by request,
a program of original works for four hands at one piano.
The series will close on
~~rch
23rd, with the String Virtuosi of Philadelphia,
composed of first desk players from the Philadelphia Orchestra.
Louis Vyner is its
conductor.
The purpose of the series is to bring to these audiences music seldom heard in
public today and to combine the arts by listening to these masterpieces as one sits in
the midst of exhibitions of the finest of American art.
The doors open at 7:30 to
give visitors time, in add:l..tion to intermiSSions, to see the exhibitions.
In order that concerts of this q1.18.lity may be available to the public without
cost, the Music Performance Trust Fund of the American Phonograph Industry, in cooperation with Local 77, American Federation of MUSiCians, co-sponsors the instrumental
events with the Academy; the song recital is made possible through the Frederic R.
Mann Foundation.
e. e,
The PGmlsylvan1a .lea GmT of the .Fine Arts
Broad and Cherry Stroeta, Philadelphia 2
From:
Eli
beth Z. SvenSon
Pennsylveaia Aead
119010
l!rs'tY Zarat !!h
~r
October ? 1955
Soko,!oft;
announce its first free Ch8m.ber
Met tal for tbi s p . 9
first violist ot The Philadelphia Orchestra, and
vell-known plan1st, wUl give a sonata ree1tal in the gelled
of Tho Pouusylv=1a Acaderq ot the fine Arts, Broad and Cherr.y Streets
OA
It''r.Lday
ewn1ng, Octo r 21. at 8 30
!
'.1lla11" program will comprise,
Sonata ia E minor - Ariost1-Zarata1an
Sonata in , minor, opus 120, !fo. 1 - Bra.hme
4-
Sonata, Opus 11, No.
TJ.rl..s is the f-lret event in the 1955-56 seriee
to be held at the ,,\cad
, ar.u:l the soventh
purpos is to bring to th se auction
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or
:free chambor music coneorte
COlls.ecu.tiveson for tho e events.
music
ecab.l.ne the arts . D.1 listening to theoe maste:rplec
exb1hi t.i.0ll8
01·
Hi..ndGl!d th
8
as one a1. ts in the midst of
the tinest, pt Amari Ctm art.
Doors vUl open at
7,30.
'fna public 1s invited.
e wuld appre ate it if your station w.U.l make
an armoun
nt of tb1s d. tal at any tim d'Uli.ng
the wok bog1nrrln October 15.
are
"ART AND THE ARTIST"
FEATURES AMERICAN ARTISTS IN ACTION
Please release prior to Sun., Oct. 9th.
Thirteen leading American art:.sts will be the topic of a new series I'If half-hour
weekly telecasts to be seen on
12:30 p.m.
~VPT:~,
Channel 3, beginning Sunday, October 9th, at
!tArt and the Artist" wjll be mcderated by nationally famous art expert,
Jack Bookbinder.
The series will
ce
presented in cooperation with the Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Arts.
Each program will featur e an artist selected for diversity in skill, technique
and art form.
Exact duplicates nf the artist's studio will be created each week in
WPTZ's Philadelphia studios.
Viewers will see each week's guest actually at work.
Featured on the first program will be Halker Hancock, SCUlptor.
Mr. Hancock is
well known for his Wnrld War II Hemorial located in the Pennsylvania Railroad's 30th
Street Station.
His other works include President Eisenhower's Inaugural medal,
the Air, Army and Navy medals, the bust of Stephen Fnster in the Hall of Fame at New
York University, and the U.S. Marine CArps Expeditionary medal.
He is a member of
the faculty of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
Jack Bookbinder, host on "Art and the Artist, If has a vast background, not only
as a teacher but as television moderator.
WPTZ's "Operation Blackboard."
He presented a series of art programs for
A painter himself, many of his canvases hang in
various museums throughout the country.
The half-hour weekly telecasts will be directed by WPTZ's Dennis Kane.
ing ttArt and the Artist," WPTZ will present their famous "Academy Theater. tt
FollowThis
Sunday's top dramatic film is "Forbidden," starring Douglas Montgomery and Hazel
Court.
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Copy for "Tempos"
The Pennsyl vania Academy of the Fine Arts
Broad and Cherry Streets, Philadel phia 2
From:
October
13, 1955
Elizabeth Z. Swenson, Director of Public Relations
Ilona Kombrink. soprano; Wayne Conner, tenor; assisted by Vladimir Sokoloff .
pianist, will be heard in a lieder recital at The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts ,
Broad and Cherry Streets; on Friday evening, December 2nd, at 8 : 30.
This is the second
in the 1955-56 series which the Academy is presenting in connection 'With its exhibitions .
Miss Kombrink v.i.ll sing songs by Wagner, Debussy and Barber; Mr. Conner ' s program
They will Sing thr
will include Scarlatti , Durante, Legrenzi, Schubert and Brahms .
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duets by Schumann .
A native of St. Loui s, ¥..iss Kombrink was winner of the young artists' contest
there in 1951, and presented then in recital by the St. Louis Symphony.
after she entered the Curtis Institute of Music as a pupil of
Gregory, from which I nstitution she was graduated last year .
l!ofme ~
Shortly there-
Euphemia Giannini
Her appearances with the
St,. Loui s Symphony included one several months a.go as soloist in Mahler ' s Resurrection
Symphony,
She is a member of the St.. Louis Municipal Opera Company.
Hr. Conner, a native of Texas, had frequent concert appearances there and else'Where in the south prior to coming to the Curtis I nstute as a pupil of Ri.chard Bonelli.
He was gra.duated from Southern Methodist University, "With two additional years of law study,
prior to his arrival in Philadel phia.
Last summer he sang the tenor role in Honegger ' s
"King David" in Dallas, and made several oratorio appearances in the state .
As tenor
soloist at the First Baptist Church in Philadelphia, Mr . Conner is heard weekly in
connection wi th its Sunday evening oratorio program.
Mr. Sokoloff , internationally known pianist.. has arranged the pr ograms f or the
PelIDsylvania
~cadem.y t
s series f or the past six years .
repertoire eOach at the Curtis Institute .
He is instructor in piano and vocal
•
The Fredric · R. Mann Foundation has collaborated with t he Academy in making this
recital free to the public.
No cards are required .
The doors open at 7: 30.
Th Perwylvawia Academ,y of the Fine Arts
Broad and Cherry Streets, Philadelphia 2
W~abeth
Z, SWT.tnson. Piresrtgr crt Pub~te itel!;.;tA.oA
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The Philadelp iia. Water Color Club coni'orred upon Ja...rn.es Kirk M.errick, it
president, the Philadelphia Water Color Club
35th .A."'lD.ual
M~bers Ex.hibit.iOll, 1n
I~edal
of Award, at. the opening of its
the galleries of The Penns:rlvEWia J\Cb.d
of the
Fine Jlrts, Slaturday evening, October 15th.
Tne Medal 1.0 given.
"fOT
thG advenC8moo't of' water color art, to be conferreG
annually, at the discretion of the Club, upon tna.t indiVidual, or group
or l1uaeum, Publis
ot ind1vJ.dwrJ. ,
r, Dealer or Corporation, or aJJ.Y other agency "noaa sincereiV of
purpose is recognized.It
'WAS
awarded first to the Pennsylvania.
A~€!.dem,y
in. 1945..
include Carl Zlgros:eer .. Curator of Prints fLt ttle Phtllld.elphia MUS8\lm
Other
aipi·
ot Art,
t.l:l$
klerican Art1t:rt Magazine (Nev York City), Jo.hn lfarin, J. Frank Copeland, Thornton VQjr...r.\~,
the CathnnJOod Foundation, and the Philadelphia Art AUi8.llee.
Mr. Merrick receiyeti his art trtdning at the Philadelphia Mw'>eum School 01'
'Where he is now an instructor.
From 1939, until 11e became pre idtmt in 19S:;, he w
secr otary of the "Wnter Color Club.
of the Ph1l.adelplda Art
AlliNlC"e
.,\rtr,
He br1.S aleo been
since 19.38.
~cretary
of the Bonro of Direetors
v1de11,
honor:J, and h1s lIOrk 18 owned by both 1n.uti tutioll and private collector,
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wral.
ART NEWS from
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
and Cherry Streets, Philadelphia 2
For release
Sunday, October 16, 1955
Br~ad
Fr~m:
Elizabeth Z. Swenson, Director of Public Relations
Water Color, Print and Drawins Exhibition QPens at Academy
The 38th Annual Exhibition by Members of The Philadelphia Water Color Club, composed
of 120 papers, will Open at The Pennsylvania Academy of the ]'ine Arts, Broad and
Cherry streets, on Sunday afternoon, October 16th, at 1 o'clock, and continue through
November 20th.
The Club was founded in 1900, and hel~ the first exhibition in Philadelphia to be
~evoted exclusively to water colors, in the Academy's galleries in 1901.
Since then,
through 1953, the Academy and the Cl~b have cooperated annually in bringing the best
~n water colors from many parts of this country and the world for exhibition in these
galleries. The graphic arts were included later. The Club has become internationally recognized for its part in winning for the art of water color the prestige it
so richly deserves, and the Academy for its collaboration in achieving this objective.
+t is anticipated that, in place of the annual exhibitions in these media, the Water
Color Club will hold an exhibition of work by its members biennially in the fall
starting with the current show. In alternate years, the two organizations will stage
an international exhibition open to. a+l artists, the first of these to be held ip
January of 1957.
Dong Kingman, HeI)ry C. Pitz and Carl
1955 exhibition.
~igrosser
comprised the Jury of Selection for the
The following awards were announced at the private view last night :(Qc,<. \'S , I,
~)
.T~e
,Philadetphia ,Water Color Chlb M:ldaJ of Award, recogl1izing individu.al, or institutl.on for sincerity of purpose in the cause of art, to James Kirk Merrick, 2107
Svruce St.,Philadelp~ia. Mr. Merrick iathe Club's president.
.
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Philadelphia Water Color Prize ($200) to John McCoy, Chadds Ford, Fa., for Woods
Interior.
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Alice McFadden Eyre Medal to A~yhur Ffor~~ 18,+4 Beech Aye., Melrose Park, Fa., for
The Fisherman (coler +itbograph)
"-..
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Dawson Memorial Medal to. Paul Darrow, R. D. 3, Doylestown, Pa., for
(watar color)
spr~ng ~till
Life
Dana Water Coler Medal to Frederick Gill, 164 W. Hortter st., Phila., for Beach
Morning
P~nnell Memorial Medal to. Edward Betts, 1507~ Grandview Drive, Champaign, Ill., for
,
'
Granite Landsca~ (casein)
Thornton Oakley Memorial Pri~e ($ 0) to Morris Blackburn, 2104 Spring St., Phila.
for Lobster uo s (casein)
\
for the duration Of the exhibition, at 2:30 in
'
Thu:us~t OctolOer 20 ~ I}en Eisenstat .. painter, teacher
"
'I' i
27 .. Dprotpy Graf~y .. critic, lecturer
Wed. November
2 'l' ~ame~ ' Ktrk Merr~ck - painter, teacher
Thurs. , . ~~___,
10 .. Walter Emersop 13aum - painter, critic
"
"
if '- 'Johii'"Mc'c ey :; " pe;lnter~ teacher
Gallery Talks wil~ pe held
the afternoen, on:
e~ch ~~ek
A senata recital will be given by Harry Zaratzian, first violist of the Philadelphia
Orchestra, and Vladimir Sekeloff, well-knewn pianist, on Friday evening, October 21,
at 8:30. Doers will epen at 7:30 to permit visiters to see the exhibitien ahead of
concert time.
Galleries will be epen weekdays 10 to 5 (closed Mendays); Sundays and helidays 1 to 5.
Admissien is free at all times including gallery talks and the cencert.
For "Daily Newsll
The Penn sylvania Acad~y o f tile Fine Arts
Broad and Cherry Str ee ts , Philadel phia 2
FrOm;
October 18, 1955
EJ..:tzabeth Z. Swenson, Director of Publ i c Helation s
Art Academy to Open 1955- 56 Concert Series
'*
HarIj Zaratzian~ first violist
0:
the Phil udelphia Qrchestra, and
Vl adimir Sokolo ff, well-known pianist aIld member of tne fa culty o f The Curti s
I nsti tute of Musi c, wil l be !leard in a sonata. reci tal at The Pennsyl vania Academy
of the }I'ine Arts, Broad and Cherry Streets, on Fri day evening of tbis week,
October 21st, at 8:30 o ' clock .
Ttey will play Sonata in E minor by Ariosti, arranged by Mr . Zaratzian,
Brarl1ll.S' Sonata in
j;'
minor, and Sonati;;., Opus 11, No . 4, by tlil1demitb.
This is the first concert in ttle 1955-56 ne:d.e;3 at the Academy.
It is
a vaila ble t o the public ,41. thout w et through the collatJoration o f the Musi c
Performance Tru st Fund.
*'
No cards are t~equired.
The o.oors open. at 7: 30 .
Tr,i s is Mr . Zara ~Jzian t s firat app earance in r9ci t;;;.l in PJ:liladelpbia
since he became concert :adstcl'of the Orcllestl'&'. lc..st year .
,
b Pennsyl'fWlia Aca.denv- ot th& J'in.e Art
Broad tlnd Chsrr,r . Str eta, Philadelphia 2
!!1z
Novenber 10, 19;5
,tJl Z. Swenet Dirt?ctor Q,f fu,bl1c R9l:!ti<m§
That. part of the
the Fine Ari:J llhich vent
l~tll
Ann1. verse.ry Extt.1 bi tion of Tho PO!ltlsy1 vania Acad 1 of
to Europe for a auccees10u of appearances late le.at winWr,
tollo'Wina its eloa8 at the Acad.- ou March lJ'th, :1s no,,' on the last lAp of 1
t:r vels* and 1s to retu.rn to Amorica late in De
bar.
the collection had eo very uueplc1ou.s opening in the Royal
in
stockholn, Sveden,
lAS
the 27th of t.h1s month.
A~~
ot tllo Fine Ar-t8
ita final appe&.rance, on NoftliIlber' 5th, where it will rena1.n to
There it is
in
sponsored by the Svedish-JImol"ican SocieV
as a feature of tha.t organization's 50th Anniversary.
Ii. R. H.. Prince :sertil,
n of
Sweden t s King, and well known in Amel'i.ca. io Honorary Cho.:lman of the Society, and
pres nt at tho Pl'ivate view, along with Prof. BortilOhlin, Chail'I!lUll of tbo Society,
J .. M. Cabot, J:& r1
&.red
• s Amlxu5..sador to S'liedw, and sewral. hundred guests prominent 1A
'8 public and cultural affaire.
Al!::bassador Ce.bot mAde a
ry appropriate Dnd excellent spech, and
is being exceedingly well received.
i.o quoted as
f}
Preas comutcrtnte f'rcw tllore indicate that
t the collect1OJl
The director of tile P.oyal Academy, Otte SldoLl,
ying the Swedish Acadetl7 cnm.s no vox'kG by tJ.:D¥ of the ~5 JWel1.can w"t1Dta
represented in the exhibition but that he hopes this situation 'Will
T'ne exh1b1ti.on in Stockholm. 10 open not only every'
~,
8OO.D.
cll.w1go.
but on Tueool.lY and. Fr1dq
venings, when special lac1'it1r&& are being g1ven (~om in Inglish; ao.'":le in Swocli0h) by
AmeriCM professors there on Mbriallt Scholarah1pfJ.
The UDited Statea Infomation Agency, beliGV1ng it wuld be a great opportunitq'
to be able to ahoy
century and
6.
~U:"OpeWlS ~t
e. single llme:r1can institution hed eontr1bu.ted to
hal.t or cultwal dewlop!!l
t in our count1'7, inVited tho Ac.c..demy to sleet
alnost half of ita 150th Anniversary Exhibition for this u,ur w.ry eoan altar ttll) exb1btt.i.on opened in Philadelphia :1n the "Winter of 1955.
chosen frcn the 254 P41nting lll1d sculpturea
b:r
tfhe 'WOrk mrl.ch vent to iu.."'Oye ~
artists who wre
.cners, students, or
directors of the Academy dur1ng its f1rot 150 years, nou of w.bom is
llOW
11v1ng.
It
began with Charles Yilloou Pealo, the p4inter chiefiy responsible for the Acadfayts
foundiug in 180;, and concluded with tlwt "orld renowod contemporary vatGr colorist.,
Jo!lD l-Iartn, 'Who died in 1953.
1he colloction left the Pon.noylvania AChdemy on
Mal~ch
15 lest 1'or liev York C1t,y
where it va:: packed in boxoe oapec1ally made to stand such a tr..i.p.
th re a.board the S. S. Exchorda.
Oll
It left from
March 25th, arrl ving in Barcelona, b"pain, on April.
4th.
On
April 6th, tile Academy's director, Joceph T. Praser, Jr., acC01:lpaniQd.
MrD. Fraser, went direct to Mudrld, Spain,
vi.~
coll ction and prepare for 1 t,fI opWling there.
bt
the Ihona Airlines, to join tne
Exhibi tiona, mo.inly of three to four
veel£a f d~on, followed 1n Florence, Innsbruck, and Ghent, batON thl> oponing in
Stockh.ola.
)'1r. Fraser remained with the collection until- it had been fomally op ned
at. I:msbnlck, returning to
Ph11e.del~hia
in early Atlgu t.
~Tom
toot po1ut on, a special.
representative from the Un! ted States lnfornation Agency, took charge,).
Mr. Fraser gave lectures on the collectton and.
While in Europe
the Academy.
Several of the Academy's most important, and in some ca.&os its la.rge t, worko
are 1n the travolingex.b.1l.dt.1on,but mainl.y the lenders include institutions lU14
private 1nd1v1dua.ls from s pral parts of the United Btatos.
Tb.\} Pennsylvania. Aca~ of t.lw Fine Arts
Broad and Cherry Streets, P.bil~pbia 2
PEtllllsylvan1a ~ Announces Changed Plan for
Agsabl,ing its 19at &mUll) Ez:hibAtd.Oll at Pa1ut.1n& and Sculpture
The plan for
~s8embling
the ISlet AnnuAl
~~ib1t1on
of Oil Painting and
Sculpture at The Pen.naylvanta AClideJlJ,Y of the F.1.n.e Arts (Je.nu.a.ry
~ thru. P'ebrl.u.Lry
26,
19,6) will be different from. past seaaons, ace.ording to Academy Director, Joseptl T.
Fra.ser, Jr.
'l'he distinguished fa.culty of this venera.ble institut.1on has been liMed to
co11 borate 111 ass. bl1n.g the eolleetion by chOOsing 50 or f:IJ liv4....ng American painters
and sculptors of unqueet10ned national. reputation fI'OI:l whom groupe of frGm.
not previously show Ln Philadelphia, viII be in.v1 ted..
this jury serv.1ce, one
~
to , 'Works each
Ae s. gesture to the fncul ty fer
llery will be devoted to its work, Vi th one example tor eaeh
instl'Uctor.
Prizes va11able includes
thre
two gold medals (one for painting - one fa I' :se~t.ure);
$300 priz 8; and a purchase fund of approximately 06000 :from t he Titraple 8.;:i.d - Gilpin
FUnds.
In the future the Academy expects to return to 1 ts form€lr program of .partly
iDv1ted-p rtly juried exhibitions beeause it believes it to be a really important s rv1ee
to tho kasrican artist.
It will be remem.bore.d that, in the Winter of 1955, the Academy chose a grohP
of 'WOrks by each of25 artists (none living) who had been
of tlle institution over a period
te~eherf3,
students, or
d1rc~tore
f 150 years, to comprise it-s AwUverearJ Exhibition,
The P WlsylV&Zl1a AcuO.emy of the )l.no Arts
Broad and Cherry Streets, Philadelphia 2
ti2,m1 El1za,beth Z. Swenuon, DLreptor of .P1.lblic
tIona
Kornbrini. 50pran\
"
November 22. 1955
latioAQ
Wayne Conger, tenor, assisted by VI d1m1r SgkoloU,
pianist, ldll be heard in n Bong recital at The Pennsylvania Academy of tho
i..rte,
~"1ne
Broad and Cherry Stroets, on Frld&3' evening, December 2nd, at 8,30.
Miss Kombri.nJt will sing
SODgS by
\fagner, Debu.ssy and Baroor} Mr. Conner 'WOrks
bl Scarlatti, Durante, Legrenz1, Schubert and BramuJ.
Th(ill will join fore a for
three duets by Schumann.
Miss Kombrtnk is a member of the St. Louie Municipal Opera
S6VEll'al
~P6ll¥, ha~
appearnnces 'Wi th the St. LoW. 6 Sy!lpholl71 and been heard in ms.n,y
lwd
concerts.
lu: . Conner is \1611 kno'n'n to audiences in several parts of his native &mt.i1., both aa
reci tali at and oratorio singer,
He is now tenor 8<.Iloist Illt the First BaptJ.!)t Church 1a
Philadelphia. and heard there Sunday evenings in connect.i.on 'With ita oratorio,?TOgI'
Sokoloff, vr..o has arranged the pro gre.ms for this popula.r AChdomy senoa lor the
six Tears .. 1e instructor in piano, lmd vocal repertoire coach a.t Tile
Cu.rti~
•
p~st
hat! tute of
Muaic.
Spec1t.l.l exhi hi tiona of ffRecen t Li thograp1l5 tuld Dr wing by Ben ton Sp.ruane
and "Paintings b-I William 'l'rost fliehards"J in addit10n to part
0.1'
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the institution's-
permanent collection, vill be hanging at the Um.e of the reel tal.
The Fredric R. Harm Foundation bas collaborl:l.ted with the POllllsylvania AeadC/1
in mak1ng tb1s event free to the public, which is cordially inv1 too to attend.
cards iAra required.
DoQrs open at 7;30 ..
Mr,
No
ART NEWS from
The Pennsylvania Academy Qf the Fine Arts
Broad uud Cherry Streets, Philadelphia 2
November 23, 1955
Elizabeth Z. Swenson. Diregtor of Public R! lations
Young Sculptor Wins $100 Stimson Prize
~o
J. Travaglia, 131 North 21st street. Philadelphia, a fift•.t.'J.-ycar
sculpture student at The Pennsylvania Academy of t he Fine Arts, lias been uw.).rded the
Stimson Prize of $100 for excellence in mode-ling a sea ted m.ale figure fr,om life as
~n~~~
a part of the regular c1l:l.sS work.
The prize was established in 191'1 0, W.l.EJ l ..... be
&una Burnham Stimson >.--md is competed for annually .
Young Travaglla is the son of Mrs. Aathony
Springfield, Mass.
·.rr~vag1ib.
of 8 Dla::.{e
In the 1954 Stimson competi tion he was given
~1ill J
hOllc~~ble ~elltion,
li.nd in the spring of 1955, the Alexander Portnoff J-leI!lcrial Sculpture Prize in adc'G. tion
to a $1200 Schiedt Memorial Traveling Scholarship, all froIll the Academy ..
All work in the Stimson competition must be submitted a.a.onymously to a jur:r
of sculptors none of wl:!om are present instructors i:.l t he: ACci.damy
s caool~, t:..nd. thi.;::;
year
was coillj,JOsed of Vincent Glinsky of New Yor.k City, and RapLlael Sa.batini of Pl.liladelpr.ia....
ijonorable Mention. tnis year, went to New'Con a .darrison. of Plymouth Meetin.g,
Penna.,
SOil
of Mr. and }'1ra. Harvey H. Harrison of IJew Rochelle, N. Y.
Messrs . Walker Ha.n.cock and il8..rry Rosin are
Academy.
tl~e ~culpture
instructo:l.'s a.t the
The Pennsyl
a Aco.d
of the PJ.n Ar
Broad and Gher.r,y street, PtdJadelph1a
Exhibition of Vork
by
November 25, 1955
W1111e.m Trout RichArd. (J,8»:lW2)
In 1905. the lAst year of his lif , The Pennsylvlinia AC&.demy of the Fine Arts collf rred
\
1 ts highest honor - The Aca.d~ Medal. of Honor - upon William Trost RichArda.
50th anniwrsary of this avard, the AcadGM.'Y pre onts
&.n
In 195~, the
exhlbit10n of 68 works by this well-
known artist of the late 19th centw:y, begjnn:lag December 1 and 010 1ng January S.
Mr. Richards devoted his 55 years of artistic productton mainly to large realistic
paintings
ot the sea, its beaehe8# rocks and cliffs.
His earlier years had been dewted to
landscape painting, but after a atcmn3' ocean voyage from Europe in 1867, he t.urned primar1l;y
to the stu.dT of the sea for the rest of his Ufe.
Mr. Richard; was born in Philadelphia and died in Newport, R. [.
student09 of his day, he sought study in Europe.
pror.dnent ,usker fBmily.
Like tleD¥ young art
In. 18;6 he married .Anna Matlack, of a
Several of their children carried his talents and creative ability
forward, but usuallT in fields other than art..
For exsmple, Theodore lii.ll1am,
Ilarvard professor, vas the first American to receive a Nebel Prize in Chemistry.
one - Anna (1870-1952) - followed in her father' 2 footstep..
6
son and
BQt..
0lllT
Six pat.rai ts by Anno. Richard.
Brewster have been included in this exhibition because of her close affiliation with hQr
rat.~er
as an artist, end the personal interest wbieh these portra1. ts of her mother and father
add to the presont exbi bi t.1on.
tlon1' ofMx-. Richards 1 innumerable oils and water colore today are part of the pel"JllBllent collections of museuma throughout the world.
He exbibited at the Balon, tr.e ftOyal
AeadEJmY, ws awarded medals at the Centennial. Exposi ti.on (1876) I in Paris (li389) J atlcne
pth ra.
He wea at work on a large marine on the ew of hi f ' de&. th.
Hr. C. Neloon Richards of Brooklyn Heights, NeN York, a great-gre.ndson of W. T.
Richards, il3 the principal lander of works to this Ubi b1 t.iQn. ' Mrs. H.arr1son S .. l'orl"'iu, t-fr ..
Mri:l. bydnel L. Wright, Mr. and Mrs .. Bertram Lippincott, Mr. W. Pa.ul OINeili. Hr. and Mrs.
I
los ph
~ton
Lippincott, .Co1onel and Mre. Uicholas Biddle of Philadelphia,. and the Acc:4
COlllplete tbl list of lenders.
,
The Penneylwn1 Acad
of tl nil Art:J
Broad and Cherry Streets, Philhdelphia 2
No¥ bor 25, 19;5
Be ll'l.rector Of Public
Benton Sprwm
\1'111 be presented by The Pe:w:uJyl'WUia Acaden-.y of the FiDe Arts
Thursday, December 1 throu,p
in a one-aan exhibition of his most roc nt work fro
Sunday. Januar,r 8.
A reception in
J.'.r. Spruanc
Honor will be held on the open1n
'5
afternoon from 4 to 6 o'clock.
The collection will include 46 1i thosr-aphs in color, and black and white,
and 15 drawings.
The m Jor part of tue work
xecuted in 1954 and 1955, \d th e.
'WaS
fey 1 te.ms dating fram the period immediately preceding this.
]I!r .. Spnarulc6, pa1nter, 11 t.hographer and
1904.
du
He studied at the Scbcol of Fine Arts, Un!
PennsylVlUlie. Academy of the Fine .Arts.
tor, WlU3 born. in Philad.elphia 1n
rsiv of Pennqlv&lia, and
t Tn.
The latter aW'Al"ded him Cresson Europeaa
Traveling Scholarships in 1928 and 1929.
lie has racei vEld many awrds and prizes from the Academy, as well as from other
low
exhibitions, in addition to ttlOs
YOrk 1s in th pe
H1a
from V"...u'ious oth r parts of the COUlltry'.
eat colleeUona of Carnegie Institute, Library of
Gallery of Art, the Academy', and the Philadel:pbi
National
Museum of Art, the Hev York. Public:
Library, t.nd is ovned extens1vely by private collec'tDre.
in the ttun1c1pal Court Building, Phil.Js.delphia.
Co~ree,
'l'hor 18 a mural. by him
He has exbibi ted 1n all national print.
Mr. Spl'UWlCe :1.:l Profus or 0"1' Fine Arts u. t Bea Vi r Collage, J enk1n tcrwn, .IUld
Dir6ctior' of the nLvision of Graphic Art at the Philudelphia Museum School of Art.
studio is at 45 West Walnut
LonG;
Ph11ad tlpbia.
li1e
Tn Pennerlvania Academy of the Fino Arts
Broad and Cherry Streete, Pb1l&delph:1a 2-
Dee
ber 1, 1955
.El.1zabeth Z...8weJ!soR,a Director of Public Relat.1on
York of Kathryn rugg, done while in recent residence in Italy, vUl he prestnltec1
by The Pennsylve.nia Aeade~.;y of the Fine Arts in 1 ts Philadel.p:u.a 1U~t1atst Gallery beg.i.J:lnil:lg
Friday, DeCEDber 9 and continuing t1rrU. J'B.IlllU7 8, \l.ith a. :reC6ption in Mise Fllggte honor
Oll the ollen1ng dlq, from 4 to 6 1). M.
~ughter
of Hr. Wld l·!r{;i. JWlles A. Fllgg of 8216 Cedar Road, Elk1ua Park, Mias Fllgg
graduated from. Cheltenham High School in 1943 and that hll entered b
of th
Fine .Arts, and, through its eool'd1n.ated eouroes J the
1Dg at the fomer in Illustration,
In 1948 she received
of Pennuylvau1a.
Ii
{'!.Jld
Pe1lllsj1WAia ,Acad
tim. verGi ty of Pennsylvania, lD.8Jo
c4t the latter in the Fine Arta aAd Engliah.
Bachelor of Fine ArUi degree, m:t.ll boners, £l'Qm. the Un1verei't4
While there she vas mad a member of Tau Sipa Delta, t:tational Honorar,y
Soc1etq of Architecture and the Allied Arts.
In 1949 sh.e va£} t.varded
i.t
Cresson .E'uropesn
Traveling Scholarship from the Academy and went abroad for about. 4 mouths.
on scholarship at tlle Acad
retumed to rurol'.
In lt51, vhil.
y, she roceived a Lewis S. W&..I'e Traveling Sch olarsh1p &ld
During her last student year at the Acadeq, sne sold her first
illustration to a l4rge nat1onc.l magazine - -Holiday,"
Late in 1951 'The Budd ComPaDiY eommisBiOl1ed hal'
Chicago, Burlington aud Quincy P.ailroad traina.
this and
19~3,
to
paint.
tw large
aUl'1l1a for
These were her first murals.
Betveen
tiM vas secl'Gtary to the Dean of Temple UDiv8rs1 tq Law School..
In the .Fall of 1953
Mi ~ s
Fllgg began work on the large 7' x 50' l'1ureJ. eommissioned
by the First Federal Savings s.nd Loan. Association of tJpfJar rarby', for 1 t
69th and Wi lnut Streets.
new build1ng at
Based on the history of Delaw re County, the mural. vas cnt.hu81-
st1call.y ree.1 ved when the building opened to tho public in FebI'1l4rY 1954.
A student of t.he It&l.ian language, 1'1168
oxpect.t.ng to
IS~
ruga loft
aeon thore iter for I
tall,
in FlQrence for tbreemontb , and wrk on. a book with Dl'. Do1ll.w
Vittori.n1 of the Uni
raity of Pennsylvania.
Insto d
he rem.tdll c!
year.
While
ez
she l11ustr ted six Italian Childron'5 Dooks for Adriano S8J.ruJ1 fim in FlorellceJ
illustrated. "several children' e stories for oaga2inesi and 'a'ote filld 111ustrtited an
ut1ele tor the magazine "Florenee and
i l l over Europe.
'l'u8~tt -
'" sem1-11ter~rl
tourist tl1a.gazine circulate
During the lear ahe also spent som.e time in Rome.
Because of her Ace..dElm1
scholarships in the po-at, she we gi veil permiesion by the iWlcrican Aca.demy in Rome to 11 ve
and vork there tor the dura'\1.an af her Rome visit.
During that wintor aue also visited.
the lllD.Jor cities of the Middle East.
HisD rugg returned to 1imcrica in JUQr of' this year
bringi~g
Wi til her llOt only the
,
fru1 ts of her acti vi tics P..n.d suceess in I tUy,
CiS
au al'ti st, but a. gl'eat love ot the poople
and the land - ·and especially Tuee&ny uud the Florentines.
Thie exh.ibi tiLon v.1.l.1 include ink drawing:! a.L1d gouaehes from Italy,t Md orig1nal.s
of the illustrations for the w.rious Italian publications"
The Academy galleries are open wcokd.ays 10 to ,.
Sundays and Holidqs 1 to 5;
lJ:!!.. at all
Closed Chr1t31:i:lae Wld ti&w Year's DB;y
timee.
CC for Tempos
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Broad and Cher~ Streets, Philadelphia '2
Frome
December 12, 1955
Elizabeth Z. Swenson. Director of Public Relations
Debut Concert for Philadelphia Chamber Group
The philadelphia Chamber Players, a group organized this season by Jacob
Karachmalnick., concert master of The Philadelphia Orchestra, will give its first
public performance on Friday evening, January 27, at 8:.30 in the galleries of The
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
The organization plans to devote its programs
to 'WOz:lts rarely heard, and at the same time give its members an opportunity to play
solos, sonatas, or compositions for other combinations of instruments, in addition
to quartets and quintets.
The distinguished members of the organization, in addition to Mr. Kzachmalnick,
include Veda Reynolds, violinist; Harry Zaratzian, violist; Lorne Munroe, cellist) and
Vladimir Sokoloff, pianist.
Miss Reynolds is a member of the first violin section of
The Philadelphia Orchestra; the other two string players are leaders of their sections
in the Orchestra; Mr .. Sokoloff is a member of the faculty of The Curtis InsU tute of
Music.
The program for their first concert will include String Quartet in G minor.
Opus 74, No.4 by Haydn} Dueo, No.2, in B flat, for violin and viola, by Mozart; Sonata
for violin and cello by Ravel; and Quintet for piano and strings by Bloch.
The Mozart
and Ravel works are very rarely heard.
It may not be the firat, but one of the first
performances in the city for the Ravel.
The Mozart and Bloch composi tiona are played
in honor of the .200th and 75th anniversaries, respectively, of the births of these tw
composers.
Free admission is possible as the concert is presented by the Academy of the
Fine Arts in co-sponsorship with the Music Performance Trust Fund of the American
Phonograph Industry, ,·;.i n cooperation wi th Local 77, Ameri can Federa tion of Musi cians.
It will take place during the Academy's 151st Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American
Oil Painting and Sculpture.
Doors wili open at 7:30.
CC delivered to I nquirer, Pnoned t o Bulletin c:.ud
Daily News
The Pennsylvania Academy Qf the Fille Arts
Broad and Cherry streets, Philadelphia :2
'What began as a good-will trip for over 100
April
fCill' a
wrk~
from the 150th .A.rul!versary
succession ef exhi bi tiona in. :E;uropsa.ll d t;ies, ends a.s a.
not enl.v to the Academy which q;wned several of the works; but
w
we~come
Christm..a s gift.
thQ·sema.ny i.,t;},s'l;,i tuUons
The Academyfa paintings and . sculptures I'ot;ul"ned to their
and private lenders of wQrks.
hQ1I16 last rdght and toda.y the ""an is busy returning their muoh t.raveled treasures tQ
Philadelphia lenderat
Philadel:phia. }!useum of Art
t-1r. Hen.ry S. Dri:oker j f4erltlu
Miss Fanny T.. Cochran.#, WestWi>'n,
W1star Institute
1>1r:3 ,. Francis T~CtJP.;m ber s" Will.01i GrQ~1$
Pennsylvani.a. HG>Bpi tal. .
};{r. R. Sturgis Inger~;Qll.' Penllyn
}listorical SOCiety of Penna~ .
Miss .Anna Ingersoll,.
If
Nr. Alexander Cassatt, Radn.Q.!'
1-1.r .. Charl€s IngersalJ..,· ChestnutfIill
Hrs .. JOM Penn . Brock. Germa.ntown Mr Robert Mc4eanjFort Wash.:1ngwn
Mr" Joseph 'Vlood, HatbC)ro
Mr. Percy :r1ed~ira, Bel'w/ll
Mr", Ed'\faI'd R. Arlshut~, Ambler
Mr. Raym¢;lud Speiser., Phila"
f.:fi 8S Doro thy Grt,tfly, Phi 1a.
J.lrs. Gonzalez }1un02.; Ht . Jdry
Hiss Helen Henderson, The John Bartram ilotel
The Um_.ted States InfO:::'re.ation Age:n cy , believing it would be a g;r'eaiJ op,P.Ol't-.mi ty
Un1versi ty of Pennsylvania.
M
to shol\t Eu,ropeans what a, Single Anlerlcan iUlStitution he.d contributed to
Ii
century and a ha·lf
of cultural development in our country" invited the Academy to select alm.ost half .of' its
l50th A..'1ni. versary Exhi.bi tian for tM s tour very soon after the exb.1 bi t1'on opened in
Philadelphia. in t he winter of
1955~
The work wbich went to Europe was cr.tosen. from the
254 paintings and sculptures by artis ts who ha d been
teacher~"
students., or
dir~ctQrs
of
It began w:l th Charles
the Ace.deXllY during its first 150 years, Ilone of whQID. .is nOi-T.11 ving ..
Willson Peale, the painter chiefly responsible for the Acaclemyl IS fountiing in 180'1 and.
The co1;lection left the Penusyl vauia Academy on Harch 1.5 last for New Y·o r.l£ City
where it was
pa~ed
in boxes especiall:! laade to stand such a trip .•
I.t OOiled i'rolllthere
aboard the S. S. Excho·r da on 11:a1'ch 25, arriving in Barcelona" Spain on Apr.il 4w
Spain by air .. tit)
Stockholm.
j~in
the eol1ecti0l1 and prepare f or it,s op8n.:trl.g the!'e ..
Mr .. Ji'raser rem.ained
w). th
t he cQllac't:loi'l until it had been fonnally opened
at InnsbruGk,.. retun:rl.ng tGl Philadelpru,a in early Attgust,
representative frOm the Utd tad
~fr.,
State~
From that point Oll. a special
ll'1fontlatiou AgencYt took charge.
Fraser gave lectures on the collection and t.he Academy_
While in Europe.
the Oi ty t President of the
r~ur,eum;J
et cetera - bad part in the formal. openings.
In t he
Qpen1n. g~, and ):.arge alld lnte:re~ted ga.l lory s:ttan(':la;aQe haVbeen thecas6t
Several of the Academytg most mporttmt, Etnd in seme oo,ses
were. in t,be travel..tng group, but me1nly the lendel'oS i1l.cluda
:t:t1l!1ai~ga~t~
works
i~st1 tuUonsandpnwte
, I
To art magazines
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Broad and Cherrl streets~ Philadelphia 2
December 22,
1955
Elizabeth Z. Swenson. Director of .P ublic Relations
.Art Works Retul'll for Christmas After Long European Tour
woo, t began as a good-will trip for oyer 100 'Hork's from the 150th An.ni versary Exhi bi tiOll
of' The PennRylvP...nia Academy of the Fine Arts , as it started its journey last April for a
succession of exhibitions in European cities, ends as
8
welcome Christmas gift not only to
the Acad€rn.y which Q'f4l.ed several of the works" bu.t to those many institutions and private
l enders of works.
The Academyt s paintings and s(,'ulptures returned to their home l ast
night and today the van is bus.y returning their much traveled trea sures to Philadelphia
Philadelphia Museum. of Art, Urrlversi ty of Pennsylvania" Wistar Institute,
l.enders;
Pennsyl vania Hospital, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, and 16privaee individuals .•
'fhe U. S. Ini'Qrmatdon Agency, believing it 1muld be a great opportu.ni ty to show
Europeans what a single American institution had contributed to a century and a half of
cultu.'r-al developihent in our country, invited the Academy to select a.lmost half of its 150th
llnni versary Exhibi tien for this tour very soon after the exl'.ibi tien opened in Pb.i.la .. in
the winter of 1955.
'Llhe collection left the Academy on March 15 l ast ..
Officialdom o f the various cities where the collection
VdS
shown - Mayor of the
Ci tYi President of the Museum, et cetera; had part in the various forma.l openings ..
case of Madrid, John D. Lodge, American Ambassador ,
form~ly
opened the exhibition, in
Stockholm." J. M. Cabot, American .Ambassador to Sl,eden, the ' the sam,ef
H. S. H.. Prince Bertil had a part in the
cere:mo~.
In the l atter cit.Y,
Bu t wherever the works were sho'Wll,
impressive openings;, and large and interested gallery attendance have been the case...
addi tion
In the
In
to those ci liies already mentioned,. other places visited include Florence, Innsbruck,
and Ghent.
Several of the l!.cademy"s Most important, find. in some cases .1 ts largest, works
were in the traveling gr·oup.- but mainly the lenders include illsti tu tions and pri va te
individuals from several parts of the United States (see list attached) ..
