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Pennsylvania Acade-m y of the Fine Arts
BROAD AND CHERRY STREETS PHILADELPHIA, PA 19102
NEWS
(215) 972-7600
For further information, contact:
Wendy Pollard Metzger, P.R. Coor dinator
(215) 972-7642 (Office)
732-0721 (Home)
For Immediate Release
PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS CELEBRAT ES
JANUARY AS "WARM UP TO MUSEUMS" MONTH
( Philadel ph ia, Pa. , Januar y 2, 1986) - The Penns ylvania Aca demy inv ites one and
all to visit the Academy' s museum at Broad and Cherr y Streets during the mont h of
January, which has been declared "Warm Up t o Museums " month by the Museum Counc il of
Philadelphia.
This cooperative effort of the sixty membe rs of the Museum Council and
its one hundre d affiliate members, is intended to increase public aware ness of museums ,
to increase museum attendance, and to expand the museum audience.
Althoug h t he entire month of January i s "Warm Up to Museums" mon th, the weekend s
of January 11 & 12, and January 18 & 19 , wi l l be highlight ed.
The official mascot,
Warm-Up Willie, is a penguin who is easily recognized by his red hat and muffler.
He
appears on the cover of the "Warm-Up to Museums" month brochure, which lists the special
events being held by the museums. - The brochures can be obtained at the Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Arts and other participating museums.
There will be seventeen prizes offere d to museum visitor s who enter their names in
the "Warm-Up to Museums" month raffle.
There is no cost to enter the raffle and entr y
fo r ms are available at the Academy and other participating museums.
Some luc ky museum
visitor will win a trip to the warmer climate of Miami via Pan Am , or tickets to wat ch
the Pennsylvania Ba l l e t or Phi l a de lphia Orche s tra "warm up."
One could also spe nd a
warm and wonderf ul we eke nd fo r two at Philadel phia's Four Seasons Hotel.
Other pr i ze s
include four ti ckets t o the performance "The Adaptors in Auto bahn" at the Annenber g
Center , as wel l as dinner for two at the restaurant "A Ri sin g Star" on South Street.
There is also a "Wa r m-UR Willie" -P-.enguin cOQkie---4ar~roill_--Abraham & Straus , f illed t o the
muffler with "hot" suprises.
Also included i n the raffle is the opportun i ty to warm up year r ound at muse ums by
winning fami l y memberships bei ng offered by the Pe nnsylvania Academy and other museums.
The Academy will "warm up" during January by hanging two of its galleri e s with
works of art reflecting a summer theme.
There will be approximately fo rty works on
display, spanning the last one hundred years of American art.
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On view fo r the first
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Museum Winter Warm Up
time at the Academy is Maurice Prendergast's Bathers in a Cove, one of the Academy's
latest acquisitions made possible through an exchange with the Philadelphia Museum of
Art.
Old favorites such as Philip Hale's The Crimson Rambler, Chi1de Hassam's Catboats:
Newport, Arthur B. Carles's White Callas, Walter Stuempfig's Sturgeon, and Daniel
Garber's Mother and Son, as well as contemporary works by Rackstraw Downes and Fairfield
Porter will also be in the show.
In addition, Maxfield Parrish's Search for the Singing
Tree and Humbert Howard's The Yellow Cup, which have not be on view for several' years,
will be on display.
On Saturday, January 18, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m., the Academy will present a family
program for children ages 7 to 10, which features storyteller Jack Briggs.
Briggs will
warm to the task of telling tales, using the permanent collection and several of its
portraits as his starting point.
Afterwards, inspired by either the Academy collection
or their own imaginations, participants will create their own character portraits by
using construction paper, crayons, markers, and other materials.
public, this family program is limited to 35 people.
Though open to the
The cost is $5.00 per person.
Please call the museum education office to make reservations:
(215) 972-7608.
There are other featured attractions in the Pennsylvania Academy museum during the
month of January.
Opening to the public on Friday, January 24, 1986, will be the main
gallery exhibition American Graphic Arts: Watercolors, Drawings, and Prints from the
Collection of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
This exhibition of 300 works
of art, will consist of rarely seen treasures; including watercolors, pastels,
charcoals, pencil drawings, and all types of prints. This exhibition closes April 13,
1986.
On view in the Academy's Morris Gallery from January 10 through February 23,
1986, is the exhibition, Adela Akers: Recent Work.
Seven major hangings made of sisal
and linen using the techniques of tapestry weave and pulled warp will be on display.
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts is located just two blocks north of City
Hall and is convenient to all public transportation and parking.
Hours are Tuesday
through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Wednesday evenings until 7 p.m., and Sunday
from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.; closed Monday.
and $1 students.
General admission is $2, $1.50 senior citizens,
The public is admitted free on Tuesday; donations are appreciated.
Regularly scheduled museum tours are given Tuesday through_ Eriday at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.,
Wednesday evenings at 5:30 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday at 2 p.m.
information, call (215) 972-7600.
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BROAD AND CHERRY STREETS PHILADELPHIA, PA 19102
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(215) 972·7600
For further information, contact:
Kirby F. Smith, Public Relations Director
(215) 972-7642 (Academy)
843-9917 (Home)
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
THE PHILADELPHIA PREMIERE OF A MUSICAL PERFORMANCE, FREE AT LAST, FREE AT LAST,
COMPOSED BY MALCOLM GOLDSTEIN AND ARCHIE SHEPP, TO BE PERFORMED AT THE
PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF TIlE FINE ARTS ON SUNDAY, JANUARY 19
(Philadelphia, PA - January 3, 1986) - In honor of the first national
holiday observance of Martin Luther King's birthday, the Pennsylvania Academy
of the Fine Arts, along with the Painted Bride Art Center and Relache, The
Ensemble for Contemporary Music, will present a musical performance entitled
Free at Last, Free at Last, in the Academy museum at Broad and Cherry Streets
on Sunday, January 19, at 7:30 p.m.
The performance at the Academy will be a
Philadelphia premiere that follows the world premiere performance to be held
the previous week at Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts. The
second Philadelphia performance will be held at the Painted Bride Art Center,
one of the cosponsors for the Philadelphia production, on Monday, January 20,
beginning at 8 p.m.
Free at Last, Free at Last is a musical celebration of the life and work
of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, written by composer and virtuoso violinist
Malcolm Goldstein and renowned jazz musician Archie Shepp. The program will
feature a new work by Goldstein entitled ", .•. that hung like fire on
heaven' ,"
a setting of Dr. King's speech "I Have a Dream."
The program will
also include such works as: Archie Shepp's "Funeral," a memorial piece for
Medgar Evers; "Been in the Storm So Long," a set based upon the folk
spiritual; and "'My feet is tired, but my soul is rested' ," a solo violin
piece by Malcolm Goldstein. Free at Last,
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performances by Goldstein, Archie Shepp and
at Last will feature
ab ensemble
of nine other
internationally acclaimed musicians working in the jazz and new music
traditions (see list on page 2).
The concert will be a reunion for Malcolm Goldstein and Archie Shepp,
who first played together in the 1960's when they collaborated with dancers
and artists of the Judson Dance Theater in New York City. Both musicians are
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now residents of Massachusetts; Archie Shepp is a tenured professor at the
University of Massachusetts in Amherst and Malcolm Goldstein lives and works
in Brookline.
Malcolm Goldstein, a composer/violinist active in new music and dance
since the early 1960's, has been acclaimed for having "reinvented violin
playing .••. a new, ego-free virtuosity", and recognized as one of the foremost
violin improvisors in contemporary music. He has toured extensively throughout
North America and Europe with concerts at the Next Wave Series/Brooklyn
Academy of Music, New Music/New York at the Kitchen, New Music America
Festivals, Wiener Festwochen, Steirischer Herbst/ISCM World Music Festival and
recently at the first Westdeutscher Rundfunk Koln "Acustica International". In
1985 his concerto for violin and orchestra, "Cascades of The Brook:
Bachwasserfall," was premiered at the Brooklyn Philharmonic/Meet the Moderns
series.
Archie Shepp has been a luminary on the jazz scene since the early
1960's when he performed with John Coltrane. He has won several major jazz
awards, including both the Downbeat "artist deserving of wider recognition
(new star)" award in 1965 and the Downbeat critics poll as best tenor
saxophone in 1982. Mr. Shepp has recorded and performed
extensively
throughout the United States and internationally. Since his first major
European debut at the Newport Jazz Festival in Europe in 1967, he has
performed at the Haag Festival, Montreux Festival, and the Newport Festival in
Japan. Numerous recordings have been released in Europe, most recently "Mama
Rose" in Germany and, in this country, Rounder Records has' recently released
"The Good Life."
A brief description of the program follows:
"Been in the Storm So Long" - based on the folk spiritual of that name
"Funeral" (1963/85) - reworked from the original 1963 version, this
piece was composed by Archie Shepp in memory of slain civil rights leader
Medgar Evers
"Soweto Stomp" - composed by Malcolm Goldstein, the music commemorates
the Soweto uprising in 1976, in which approximately 1,000 black people were
killed. This piece is dedicated to the black people of South Africa in their
struggle for freedom and equality. The melody that begins Soweto Stomp is
"Nkosi Sikelel'i Afrika" (God Bless Africa!), the anthem of the African
National Congress.
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Intermission
"'My feet is tired, but my soul is rested '" (1985)- violin solo composed
and performed by Malcolm Goldstein
II, ••• that hung like fire on heaven'" - music by Malcolm Goldstein and
set to Dr. King's speech, "I Have a Dream," for instrumental ensemble and
computer-generated tape. All of Dr. King's words, as well as articulation,
phrasing, and overall pitch/tonal shape, are transformed into sound textures
(non-verbal) and extended by the instrumental ensemble to become a song-mass.
The computer tape, derived from the recorded speech, is realized as a slow
moving melody. It serves as the tonal foundation upon which the ensemble
elaborates, within an improvisation framework, following the word structure of
the speech and culminating in "Free at Last, Free at Last; Thank Almighty, I'm
Free at Last". This piece was commissioned through the Massachussetts Council
on the Arts and Humanities/New Works.
The ensemble will consist of the following performers:
Archie Shepp, tenor saxophone
David Murray, bass clarinet
Ray Anderson; trombone
Fred Hopkins, string bass
Denardo Coleman, percussion
Henry Threadgill, alto saxophone
Joseph Celli, English horn
Vincent Chancey, French horn
Diedre Murray, cello
Borah Bergman, piano
Malcolm Goldstein, violin & conductor
General admission for members of the public is $8; members of the
Academy may reserve tickets for $7 per person by calling the membership
office at (215) 972-7630. Although seating is limited, advance tickets
will be available at the Academy's reception desk at Broad and Cherry
Streets; the public relations office at the Peale House, 1820 Chestnut
Street (weekdays only); and at the door the day of the performance. For
further information, the public can call the Academy at (215) 972-7642 on
weekdays and 972-7605 on weekends.
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BROAD AND CHERRY STREETS PHILADELPHIA, PA 19102
NEWS
(215) 972·7600
For further information, contact:
Kirby F. Smith, Public Relations Director
(215) 972-7642 (Academy)
843-9917 (Home)
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
RECENT WORK BY ADELA AKERS TO BE DISPLAYED IN THE MORRIS GALLERY OF
THE PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS FROM JANUARY 10 - FEBRUARY 23
(Philadelphia, PA - January 7, 1985) - Adela Akers will display seven
major fiber hangings made of sisal and linen, using techniques of tapestry
weave and pulled warp, in the Morris Gallery of the Pennsylvania Academy of
the Fine Arts from January 10 through February 23, 1986.
An opening reception, to which the public is invited, will be held on
Thursday, January 9, 1986, from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
When then Curator of Twentieth Century Art Anne d'Harnoncourt included
the fiber hangings of Adela Akers in her 1978 exhibition 8 Artists at the
Philadelphia Museum of Art, she introduced a major talent who had been living
and working in Philadelphia since 1972. Unfortunately, Philadelphia has not
had an opportunity to see her work in the intervening eight years. But this
situation will soon be remedied when Adela Ake rs' new work is installed in the
Academy's Broad and Cherry Streets museum.
Five years ago, Akers' work was described by one critic as resembling
large woven walls, "monochromatic constructions made up of individual strips
that suddenly leave their strict verticality and curve out away from the wall
before resuming their vertical movement." Her latest pieces retain their
actual verticality. Now color undulates and skips across the woven accordion
folds of her surfaces, intimating and underscoring changes .in line and plane.
This format accentuates the play of light and shadow, because the strips
alternate light and dark colors, usually silver-gray and black.
Regarding this new body of work, Adela Akers has written:
Sea and Sky are inspiration to my work. My
attraction to architecture ha s something
to do with my affinity with structure and
my need for order. Weaving combines
structure and order and offers me the best
way to put together my visions.
Traveling cross country from California
and trips to the Dominican Republic and
Puerto Rico marked the beg i nning of a
change in my work and a merge of
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experience and VlSlon. The intensity of
light and color, the exuberance of the
people and life style in the islands
brought to the present the time spent in
Cuba where my formative years were spent.
Places where the air and water have a
brilliance greater that I have ever seen
anywhere else. This intensity stimulates
the desire to invent intense color
intervals. The sea always constant and a
presence in my work becomes a reflecting
surface, a mirror to the colors I see
everwhere.
Adela Akers was born in Santiago de Compos tela , Spain, in 1933, and spent her
childhood in Cuba. In 1955 she received a degree from the University of Havana. She
studied art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1957-60) and at
Cranbrook Academy of Art (1960-61, 1962-63). Before coming to the Tyler School of
Art, in 1972, where she now holds the position of professor, Akers taught at the
Cooper Square Art Center, N.Y., the New School for Social Research, N.Y., and the
Penland School of Crafts, N.C.
She has received numerous fellowships and grants from Temple University as
well as those from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts (1983), National Endowment
for the Arts (1980, 1974, 1971), New Jersey State Council on the Arts (1971), and
the Centas Foundation (1967-68), 1968-69). Her work is represented in many
permanent collections, including those of the Museum of Contemporary Crafts, N.Y.:
Museum of Art, Providence, R.I.; and the Everson Museum, Syracuse, N.Y.
Solo exhibitions of her work include Modern Master Tapestries, N.Y. (1984);
The Mandell Gallery, Los Angeles (1981); The Triangle Gallery, San Francisco
(1981); The Hadler Galleries, N.Y. (1977). Group shows include: Multiplicity in
Clay-Metal-Fiber, Skidmore Coll e ge Invitational (1984); Jacquard Textiles, Museum
of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, and Cooper-Hewitt Museum, N.Y. (1982);
Fiber: Thread and Cloth Forms, Dayton Art Institute (1981); Fibers, Southeastern
Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, N.C. (1980); Fiberworks, International
Invitational Exhibition, Cleveland Museum of Art (1977); Objects: USA, Johnson Wax
Collection, Smithsonian Institution (1969).
On Friday, January 10, at 12 Noon, Adela Akers will deliver an informal
gallery talk in the Morris Gallery; free with the price of museum admission.
The Morris Gallery, located in the Academy museum at Broad and Cherry
Streets, displays the work of outstanding contemporary artists with a connection to
Philadelphia, determined by birth, schooling, or residence.
Hours are Tuesday
through Saturday from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.; Sunday from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.;
Wednesday evenings until 7:00 p.m.
citizens; and $1.00 students.
Admission: $2.00 general; $1.50 senior
Free Tuesdays; donations appreciated.
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BROAD AND CHERRY STREETS PHILADELPHIA, PA 19102
(215) 972-7600
For further information, contact:
Kirby F. Smith, Public Relations Director
(215) 972-7642 (Academy)
843-9917 (Home)
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
AMERICAN GRAPHIC ARTS: WATERCOLORS, DRAWINGS, AND PRINTS FROM THE COLLECTION
OF THE PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS TO BE ON VIEW AT THE ACADEMY
FROM JANUARY 24 THROUGH APRIL 13
(Philadelphia, Pa., - January 9, 1986) - Rarely seen treasures from the
Pennsylvania Academy's rich collection of works of art on paper will be featured
this winter in American Graphic Arts: Watercolors, Drawings, and Prints from the
Collection of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, on view in the main
galleries of the Furness building at Broad and Cherry Streets in Philadelphia, from
January 24 through April 13.
This exhibition of approximately 350 prints and
drawings, drawn from the more than seven thousand works of art on paper in the
museum, will present the largest survey ever shown of the Academy's holdings in
this area.
From Benjamin West and the Academy's founding generation to the most
recent trends in contemporary prints and drawings, the exhibition covers two
hundred years of American art, with an emphasis on Philadelphia's artists and the
Academy's role as teacher and collector.
Watercolors, pastels, charcoals, pencil
dr awings, and all types of prints - etchings, engravings, lithographs, woodcuts,
and monotypes - will demonstrate the range of American art on paper.
United by
their common reliance on line, these diverse works show the expressive potential of
all the "graphic" media based on drawing.
The show culminates five years of curatorial work, cataloguing and conserving
the pieces, reorganizing the "print room" storage, adapting the gallery space, and
preparing for the publication of a comprehensive checklist of the entire collection
of prints and drawings.
This massive project, principally underwritten by grants
from The Pew Memorial Trust, with support from the National Endowment for the Arts
and the Institute of Museum Services, demonstrates the Academy's current commitme nt
to the conservation, exhibition, and publication of its own permanent collection .
Following last year's A Growing American Treasure exhibition, which featured recent
acquisitions, this show will introduce another little-seen component of the
Academy's holdings.
The richness and diversity of thi s exhibition will offer familiar favorites,
such as Mary Cassatt's Young Thomas and His Mother or Charles Demuth's Gladiolas as
well as surprises - such as three more Demuth watercolors that have rarely been
shown - or items by more obscure talents whose work has never been exhibited at t he
Academy at all.
In some instances, the new faces are recent acquisitions, such as
the Still Life from a suite of contemporary lithographs by Jack Beal, given in 1985
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by Jalane and Richard Davidson.
In many cases, however, the unexpected comes from
the century-old bequest of John S. Phillips, whose massive gift of prints and
drawings in 1876 has only recently been fully inventoried.
More than a thousand
items, "discovered" in the vaults in 1980 and painstakingly catalogued by the
Academy's curatorial staff, add a new historical dimension to the collection.
From
this trove came the group of Plains Indian drawings displayed last fall as Images
of a Vanished Life, as well as other nineteenth-century pieces deserving new
attention.
Mr. Phillips is also indirectly responsible for several new additions
to the collection acquired from the Philadelphia Museum of Art in partial exchange
for the Phillips European prints.
These items, including Winslow Homer's etching,
Eight Bells, and John Marin's watercolor, Sun, Sea, Land - Maine, will be featured
in the exhibition.
The galleries will be organized chronologically, from the late eighteenth
century to the present, with sections devoted to the artists, techniques, and
subjects most important to the Academy's collection and its history.
Benjamin
West, the Swarthmore-born painter who rose to eminence as the first president of
the British Royal Academy, will be at the center of the first group, since his
example directly inspired the Pennsylvania Academy's founders in 1805.
West, his
son Raphael, his student Charles Willson Peale, and Peale's son Rembrandt, are
represented by eight prints and drawings displaying the range of subject and
technique in this first generation.
British engravings after West's paintings, often the only source of
information about his work, introduce the role of "reproductive prints" in the
development of American art.
Philadelphia, with its large publishing industry and
community of skilled engravers, soon began to produce its own reproductive prints,
leading to a crescendo of work at midcentury from the hand of John Sartain and his
family.
Etchings and engravings of this type, from the early decades of the
century (including work by John Cheney, Moses Danforth, Asher Durand, Alexander
Lawson, J.T. Pease, and Joseph Yeager, after painters such as Thomas Birch, John
Vanderlyn, John Lewis Krimmel, Henry Inman, Gi l bert Stuart, and George C. Bingham)
through the golden age of the Art Unions (1840-50's), will be shown for the first
time at the Academy.
Even after the advent of photoengraving, the tradition of the
artistic reproduction continued until the turn of the twentieth century, with
virtuoso etchings and wood engravings by Stephen Ferris, Timothy Cole, Frederick
Juengling, and others.
The Academy's library, which held such prints for the
instruction of students, continued to acquire reproductive prints of all types
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until well into the twentieth century, amassing a collection that tells the history
of the "art print" right down to the color lithographs now sold in museum shops
everywhere.
More individualized expression by printmakers, inspired by the example of
James McNeill Whistler, grew popular in the 1870's, with the creation of etching
clubs in New York and Philadelphia.
The Academy was the site of the Philadelphia
Society of Etchers' first exhibition in 1882-83, and examples by local printmakers
such as Joseph Pennell, Stephen Parrish, and the Moran family were acquired by gift
or purchase from the beginnings of the etching revival.
This movement, which
enjoyed a second generation of activity in the early twentieth century, is well
represented in the Academy's collection, with work in the show from Childe Hassam,
Daniel Garber, Herbert Pullinger, John Taylor Arms , and the many Philade lphia
printmakers of the period.
The nineteenth-century drawings in the show will be organized principally by
subject, with special emphasis on the figure tradition taught at the Academy from
the time of West and Peale.
Cast drawings, life studies, portraits, and
compositional sketches show the methods of the figure painters of this period, fr om
preparatory drawings and studies (John Vanderlyn, Thomas Eakins, William Paxton),
to studio exercises (Peter Rothermel, Kenyon Cox, William Harnett, Daniel Garber),
to finished drawings for exhibition purposes (Thomas Anshutz, Mary Cassatt, James
M. Hamilton, Arthur B. Carles).
Since most of these artists were Academy s tudents ,
the survey of figure drawing demonstrates the methods and media of the teaching
program here, which was one of the most thorough and progressive in the country
during this period.
Landscape drawing was never so central to the school's curriculum, al though
Philadelphia developed its own community of landscape pa inters early in t he
century.
The British school inspired most local art i sts, who, l ike Wi l l i am Trost
Richards or the Moran family, turned to watercol or in a s tyle i nspired by J .M.W .
Turner or the Pre-Raphaelites.
Late-blooming exponents, like Char l es
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maintained this tradition until early in the twentieth century.
Other Academy students, such as Maxfield Parrish and Jessie Willcox Smith,
turned their attention to decorative design and illustration.
Some, like John
Sloan, William Glackens, and their colleagues in the "Ash Can" s c hool , s upported
themselves as illustrators for Philadelphia's newspapers and maga zines .
Driven to
New York by changes in publishing technology, these artists joined in the fer ment
of the modernist spirit in the early decades of the twentieth century .
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Not all
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r emained in New York or Paris, however.
Arthur Carles returned to teach at the
Academy a nd to promote modernist principles along with Henry McCarter and Earle
Hort er .
Charles Demuth and John Marin, both students here, continued to work i n
the a r ea or exhibit work at the Academy, although the Academy's realist tradition
res i s ted major inroads by the new abstractionists.
Work by all these artists, an d
others active in the modernist movement" will be included in the show.
The course of printmaking and drawing, separated by both technique and intent
in the nineteenth century, drew closer together and even became pleasingly confuse d
in the modern period.
While some printmakers adhered to the realistic and
nar rative tradition, particularly the regionalist artists such as Charles
Bur chf ield and Grant Wood, the geometry of cubism or the gestural freedom of
exp ressionism influenced even the most apparently reactionary artists.
In the
cont emporary period, when collage, drawing, painting, and printmaking may be unite d
in the s ame work (William Dole, Grace Hartigan, Isaiah Zagar, Anthony Go r ny, Ma r t ha
ZeIt , and ot hers), and when printmaking techniques can produce work of mon ume ntal
impac t (Robert Rauschenberg, Kenneth Noland, Alex Katz), the exchange of effect
between media makes segregation less logical.
The twentieth-century gallery, with
diverse wor k by artists such as Andy Warhol, Mark Tobey, Leonard Baskin, Edna
And rade, Red Grooms, Philip Pearlstein, Morris Graves, Joseph Rafael, Jody Pinto,
Alf red Leslie, Sidney Goodman, Jim Dine, and many others of local as well as
nati onal repute, will make an exhilarating survey of modern trends in media that
c an be, by turns, intimate or bold.
The exhibition will be accompanied by an illustrated brochure and checklis t
( cost - $.50), which will serve as a forecast of the complete catalogue of the
c ol lection, to be published this fall in tandem with a companion volume on the
sculpture collection.
These two books inaugurate the Academy's series of permanent
col lection catalogues, which will ultimately include three additional volumes on
the American paintings collection.
Special gallery lectures by faculty members will take place on Tuesdays and
Wednesdays, at noon, in addition to regular docent tours of the exhibition.
The poster for the exhibition, Charles Demuth's Gladiolas, will be on sale i n
the mu seum s h op.
The Pe nnsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts is located at Broad and Cherry
Str eet s in Philadelphia, just two short blocks north of City Hall.
conve nie nt to public transportation and parking.
It is
It is open to the public fr om
10: 00 a .m . to 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday; 10:00 a.m. to
7:00 p . m. on Wednesday; and 11:00 a.m. "to 5:00 p.m. on Sunday.
is $2.00, $1.50 for senior citizens, and $1.00 for students.
General admission
The public is
a dmi t t ed free of charge on Tuesdays; donations are appreciated.
Re gularly
s c he du led museum tours are given Tuesday through Friday at 11:00 a.m. and 2:00
p.m. , We dne s day evenings at 5:30 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday at 2:00 p.m.
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BROAD AND CHERRY STREETS PHILADELPHIA, PA 19102
NEWS
(215) 972-7600
For further information, contact:
Kirby F. Smith, Public Relations Director
(215) 972-7642 (Academy)
843-9917 (Home)
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
A SERIES OF BLACK HISTORY MONTH EVENTS PLANNED FOR FEBRUARY AT THE
PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS
(Philadelphia, Pa. - January 20, 1985) - Throughout the month of February,
designated Black History Month, the Pennsylvania Academy will celebrate black
contributions to the cultural life of our community by presenting a program of special
events, detailed below. These events include a performance of gospel music, a one-act
play, a series of gallery talks, a film, and a juried exhibition of work by contemporary
black American artists.
BLACK HISTORY MONTH EVENTS
SAT., FEB.1 AT 1 P.M.
SOJOURNER - This one-act play, presented by
The Philadelphia Theater Caravan, re-creates
the life of the black American heroine
Sojourner Truth as she struggles from slavery
to a position of national prominence.
Admission: $5 for members of the Academy, $6
for members of the general public.
SAT., FEB. 8, AT 1 P.M.
DOBBINS HIGH SCHOOL GOSPEL CHOIR - One hundred
voices from Philadelphia's Dobbins High School
will perform a varied program of music. This
event is free with the price of museum
admission.
THURS., FEB. 13
SUN., APRIL 13
U.S. ART CENSUS '86/CONTEMPORARY AFRO-AMERICAN
ARTISTS opens to the public - To coincide
with the annual convention of the National
Conference of Artists, the largest
organization of black artists in the United
States, the Academy will mount a national
juried exhibition of works in all media by
contemporary black American artists
SAT., FEB. 22 AT
11 A.M. & 3 P.M.
FILM: ROLL OF THUNDER - HEAR MY CRY - A
dramatization of a true story, seen through
the eyes of a thirteen-year-old, the plot
concerns a poor but proud black family's
depression-era struggle to retain their farm
and land. There will be a $1 charge plus cost
of museum admission.
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BLACK HISTORY MONTH
GALLERY TALKS
Free with museum admission
SAT.,FEB. 15 AT 12 NOON
& TUES., 18th AT 2 P.M.
TOPIC: "Afro-American Art and the Contemporary
Art World" - This talk will focus on how
contemporary black American artists depict
their experience and feelings on being black
in America today.
22 SATURDAY, AT 12 NOON &
25 TUESDAY, AT 2 P.M.
TOPOC: "AFRO-AMERICAN ART AND THE CONTEMPORARY
ART WORLD" - This talk will focus on how
contemporary black American art is accepted by
the art establishment. It will examine the
question of whether or not there is a
distinctly black American art style.
These events, which will take place at the Academy's Broad and Cherrry Streets
museum, require no advance reservations and are open to members and the general
public. Academy members have free admission to the museum, while general admission
for the public is $2, $1.50 senior citizens, and $1 students. The public is
admitted free on tuesday; donations are appreciated.
For further information on
Black History Month events at the Academy, please call (215) 972-7642.
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts is located at Broad and Cherry
Streets in Philadelphia, just two short blocks north of City Hall.
convenient to public transportation and parking.
It is
It is open to the public from
10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday; 10:00 a.m. to
7:00 p.m. on Wednesday; and 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Sunday.
is $2.00, $1.50 for senior citizens, and $1.00 for students.
General admission
The public is
admitted free of charge on Tuesdays; donations are appreciated.
Regularly
scheduled museum tours are given Tuesday through Friday at 11:00 a.m. and 2:00
p.m., Wednesday evenings at 5:30 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday at 2:00 p.m.
The Academy, founded in 1805, is the oldest art museum and art school in North
America.
Its collection of over 7,300 works of American art is housed in its third
building, a National Historic Landmark, designed by Frank Furness in 1876, and
restored to its original Victorian splendor in 1976.
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FACULTY GALLERY TALKS, A SILKSCREEN PRINTING FAMILY WORKSHOP, A GRAPHIC ARTS
DISCOVERY DAY, AND ART WORKSHOPS, TO ENHANCE AMERICAN GRAPHIC ARTS EXHIBITION
AT THE PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS
(Philadelphia, Pa. - January 20, 1986) - Several special events are planned
throughout the run of the exhibition American Graphic Arts: Watercolors, Drawings, and
Prints from the Collection of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, which will be
on view in the main galleries of the Academy's Furness building at Broad and Cherry
Streets in Philadelphia, from January 24 through April 13.
These events will include
faculty gallery talks, a silkscreen printing family workshop, a graphic arts discovery
day, and art workshops.
Information on these events follow.
FACULTY GALLERY TALKS - Distinguished faculty members from the Academy's school
will share their insights with students, Academy members, and the public in a series of
gallery lectures during the American Graphic Arts exhibition.
These informal talks, at
noon on Tuesdays or Wednesdays, will focus on certain media from the perspective of
artists working in these techniques today.
Looking at both historical and contemporary
examples from the Academy's collection, the lectures will help analyze the effects and
styles possible in watercolor, pastel, and print processes.
The series will begin on
Tuesday, February 4, with Arthur De Costa, who will strike the keynote theme with "How
the Medium Forms the Message."
In March, Homer Johnson, Elizabeth Osborne, and Jody
Pinto will discuss watercolor painting.
Dan Miller, Ed O'Brien, Peter Paone, and Tony
Rosati will comment on different printmaking techniques.
Roswell Weidner will examine
pastels, and Anthony Visco will consider the range of figure drawings in the
exhibition.
All lectures are free with admission to the Academy museum.
The public is
admitted free to the museum on Tuesdays.
SCHEDULE
Tuesday, February 4
- Arthur de Costa ... "How the Medium Forms the Message"
Tuesday, February 11 - Peter Paone ... "Printmaking"
Tuesday, February 18 - Roswell Weidner ... "Pastel Drawing"
Tuesday, February 25 - Dan Miller ... "Woodcut and \vood Engraving"
Tuesday, March 4
- Tony Rosati ... "Late Nineteenth- Century and Early
Twentieth-Century Etching"
Wednesday, March 12
- Elizabeth Osborne ... "Watercolor"
Tuesday, March 18
- Jody Pinto .. "Watercolor: The Sensuous Mouse that Roared"
Wednesday, March 26
- Homer Johnson ... "Light and Dark in Watercolor"
Wednesday, April 9
- Ed O'Brien ... "Printmaking"
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SILKSCREEN PRINTING FAMILY WORKSHOP - In conjunction with the American Graphic Arts
exhibition, the museum education department is sponsoring a silkscreen printing family
workshop on Saturday, March 15, from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m., at the Broad and Cherry
Streets museum.
This workshop has been organized in cooperation with the Visiting
Artist program of Prints in Progress.
After a brief look at the prints in the show, Joan Flannery, the visiting artist
from Prints in Progress will demonstrate several silkscreen printing methods.
Afterwards the participants will be able to create their own bold and colorful designs
and patterns using the demonstrated silkscreen printing techniques.
Advance registration is necessary since space is limited.
anyone over the age of seven.
members of the Academy.
The workshop is open to
The cost is $6.00 for the general public and $5.00 for
For reservations and further information, call the museum
education department at (215) 972-7608.
GRAPHIC ARTS DISCOVERY DAY - Those who have unidentified works of art on paper are
invited to bring those mystery prints and drawings to the Pennsylvania Academy's Graphic
Arts Discovery Day to get a curator's opinion and a little information.
On Saturday,
March 22, from 10:00 a.m. to noon, members of the museum staff will be available to
offer comments on objects brought in.
They will try to help identify what these works
are, and what steps might be taken to conserve or protect them better.
Those who bring
in works will have an opportunity to find out whether they are genuinely old or
authentic, but staff members are not allowed to estimate value.
This occasion is an
opportunity to learn about one's own "heirlooms" and compare them to works in the
Academy's collection, on view in the American GraphiC Arts exhibition.
The focus of
Graphic Arts Discovery Day will be on American prints and drawings, but if one is not
sure that whether particular works are American, one may bring them along for
investigation.
If works are in original frames, the frames should be brought in as
well.
Because of the interest in such a "Discovery Day," reservations will be
mandatory.
Those interested should call the Academy at (215) 972-7630 .
Once
reservations have been made, visitors will be helped on a first-come-first-served
basis.
The price for the consultation will be $7.50 for the general public (including
admission to the museum), and $5.00 for members of the Academy.
Each individual is
allowed to bring up to three items.
ART \"ORKSHOPS - In conjunction with the American Graphic Arts: Watercolors,
Drawings, and Prints from the Collection of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
exhibition, the Academy's museum and school are jointly sponsoring four weekend art
workshops open to anyone, from the amateur to the experienced artist.
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Each workshop will use the exhibition for inspiration and will consist of
demonstrations and instruction by skilled artists/teachers in each discipline.
workshops will meet from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. on a Saturday and Sunday.
The
All
workshops will be held at the Academy building at Broad and Cherry Streets.
Tuition is $50 per person ($40 for an Academy member) for each workshop.
are not included but a supply list will be sent to each registrant.
Supplies
Advance
registration is necessary since space is limited in order to provide the most
individualized instruction.
SCHEDULE
Monotypes
Black and white - April 5 - Ed O'Brien (Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts)
Color - April 6 - Tony Rosati (Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts)
Collage:
April 5 and 6 - Bobbi Lippman (Philadelphia College of Art)
Drawing:
April 12 and 13 - Bruce Samuelson (Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts)
Watercolor: April 12 and 13 - Homer Johnson (Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts)
To register for these workshops, checks payable to the Pennsylvania Academy of the
Fine Arts should be sent to the Education Department, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine
Arts, Broad and Cherry Streets, Philadelphia, PA 19102.
one is registering should be indicated on the check.
The specific workshop for which
For additional information on the
workshops, one should call the museum Education Department at (215) 972-7608.
American Graphic Arts: Watercolors, Drawings, and Prints from the Collection of
the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts will feature rarely seen
Pennsylvania Academy's rich collection of works of art on paper.
treasur~s
from the
This exhibition of
approximately 350 prints and drawings, drawn from the more than seven thousand works of
art on paper in the museum, will present the largest survey ever shown of the Academy's
holdings in this area.
From Benjamin West and the Academy's founding generation to the
most recent trends in contemporary prints and drawings, the exhibition covers two
hundred years of American art, with an emphasis on Philadelphia's artists and the
Academy's role as teacher and collector.
Watercolors, pastels, charcoals, pencil
drawings, and all types of prints - etchings, engravings, lithographs, woodcuts, and
monotypes - will demonstrate the range of American art on paper.
United by their common
reliance on line, these diverse works show the expressive potential of all the "graphic"
media based on drawing.
This massive project, principally underwritten by grants from
The Pew Memorial Trust, with support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the
Institute of Museum Services, demonstrates the Academy's current commitment to the
conservation, exhibition, and publication of its own permanent collection.
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PAINTINGS BY VIRGINIA MAITLAND TO BE ON VIEW
IN THE PEALE HOUSE GALLERIES OF THE PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS
FROM FEBRUARY 6 THROUGH MARCH 2, 1986
(Philadelphia, Pa., January 22, 1986) - An exhibition of ten paintings by Virginia
Maitland will be on view in the Peale House Galleries of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine
Arts, 1820 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, from February 6 through March 2, 1986.
An opening reception, to which the public is invited, will be held on Wednesday,
February 5, from 5 to 7 p.m.
Fred Osborne, director of the schools of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
comments on Virginia Maitland's show at the Peale House, "We at the Academy are always very
proud and pleased when distinguished alumna can return to the Academy and once again hang
their work on its walls."
Maitland was born in Philadelphia in 1947 and educated at the Pennsylvania Academy of
the Fine Arts (1965-1968).
Since 1970 she has lived in Boulder, Colorado.
Maitland's chief inspiration is not the world of art, but the world of nature.
She
approaches her inspiration respectfully and therefore metaphorically, and bypasses the
somber, so-called "earth colors" for a vibrant, somewhat astringent palette that resonates
with the painful brightness of the sky or sunlit rocks.
Maitland limits her palette to a few
strong colors - mostly blues and reds, but also some yellows and oranges.
"For me," the
artist comments, "blue is a color that has a great deal of intensity, and the ability to move
out and back.
Blue is also a meditative color.
I do meditation myself.
similiar quality in the act of meditation and in the act of creation.
to focus and then suddenly enter yourself.
I think there is a
In making art you 'tend
As for red, it is a very joyous color.
I see
reds, yellows and oranges as very exciting, hot, joyous colors."
Maitland works primarily in acrylics.
Beginning with raw canvases she builds up many
layers in her paintings, sometimes as many as 15 or 20.
She does this by working on the
floor, pouring the paint onto the canvas as a technique to obtain the forms.
Most of her
paintings have a broad center consisting of a partially collapsed square or rectangle.
Maitland uses this pour-painted staining technique in order to achieve the effect of
spaciousness.
Her work is large-scale, up to seven or eight feet, on a side, and that
provides the arena for the powerful and subtle play of color.
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As Maitland explains her technique of painting, "The texture is created by using many
layers of paint.
There is more going on undermeath.
There are black areas coming from
underneath.
The migration of paint has a different way of hanging on to the heavier paint
underneath.
I've always thought of the way I paint as chance migration.
It's spontaneous.
I can't always predict the outcome."
Maitland's work has appeared in numerous one-person and group shows nationally and is
included in public and private collections.
Most recently, Maitland has had one-person
exhibitions at the Wright Gallery, Dallas, Texas, (1985); the Inkfish Gallery, Denver,
Colorado (1985); and the Elaine Horwitch Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico (1984).
She has been
included in numerous group exhibitions throughout the country and has gallery affiliations
with the Elaine Horwitch Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico and in Scottsdale, Arizona; the
Inkfish Gallery, Denver, Colorado; The Wright Gallery, Dallas, Texas; and The McIntosh
Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia.
Her work is included in many corporate collections including
Mountain Bell, Denver, Colorado (1985), the Amoco Corporation, Denver, Colorado (1980), and '
the Arco Corporation, Denver, Colorado (1978); to name just a few.
The Peale House Galleries, located at 1820 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, display a
rotating series of stimulating exhibitions in all media.
In addition to Academy students,
the shows in the Peale House Galleries feature artists who have not recently exhibited in the
Philadelphia area.
school students.
noon to 4 p.m.
These shows are organized for the benefit and education of Academy art
Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Sunday from 12
No admission charge.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
STUDENTS OF THE PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS TO PRESENT DIGNITY FOR
THE HOMELESS, AN EXHIBITION TO BENEFIT THE COMMITTEE FOR DIGNITY & FAIRNESS
FOR THE HOMELESS ... ON VIEW IN THE ACADEMY'S PEALE HOUSE GALLERIES FROM
FEBRUARY 4 THROUGH FEBRUARY 25, 1986
(Philadelphia, Pa., - January 22, 1986) - Students of the Pennsylvania Academy of
the Fine Arts are organizing an exhibition, entitled Dignity for the Homeless, to
benefit the Committee for Dignity and Fairness for the Homeless.
Academy students and
faculty have donated works to this show, and all proceeds are tax deductible.
The
exhibition will be on view in the student galleries of the Peale House of the
Pennsylvania Academy from February 6 through February 25.
A gala preview sale, to which
the public is invited, will be held on Tuesday, February 4, between 5:00 p.m. and 8:00
p.m., in the main galleries of the Peale House.
The February 4 date is most
appropriate, for it was on this date in 1983 that the Committee for Dignity and Fairness
for the Homeless shelter at 20th and Spring Garden Streets in Philadelphia was opened.
The idea for this show was first presented to the Academy's Student Committee by
second-year student Linda Bean last month, and the committee gave the idea enthusiastic
and overwhelming approval.
The committee, which numbers about 30 members, then
authorized students Linda Bean, Helen Mirkil, and Ed Sutton to serve as the steering
committee for the event.
The response by the Academy's students in support of the show
has been generous and overwhelming, according to the steering committee.
Thus far, 137
students have donated over 450 pieces for the benefit sale, and new works continue to be
received every day.
sculpture.
These works are in all media - painting, works on paper, and
In addition, 9 members of the school faculty have donated works to the show.
The gala preview sale on Tuesday, February 4, will represent an opportunity to
learn more about the Committee for Dignity and Fairness for the Homeless, in addition to
being an event during which one can buy art for a worthy cause.
Members of that
committee will be present at the preview, including Chris Sprowal, one of its founders.
Sprowal is a college graduate who had worked in the human services field until a failed
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business venture left him homeless in 1982.
Toe committee wi ll have an information
table set up, and will have Sprowal and other representatives available to answer
questions about the committee and its work.
A video tape, explaining and illustrating
the committee's self-help program, will be running continuously during the preview, in
an area adjacent to the exhibition space.
The Committee for Dignity and Fairness for
the Homeless will also be providing refreshments for the evening.
In addition, gospel
singer Kevin Peterson and folk singer Pepi Plowman, an Academy student, will perform
during the preview sale.
The Philadelphia-based Committee for Dignity and Fairness for the Homeless is the
only organization in the country founded and run by homeless people, for the purpose of
helping others who have lost their homes.
The thrust of the committee's programs is to
help homeless persons regain control of their lives, and to become self-sustaining
members of society again.
To this end the committee runs shelters, job-training
programs, medical screening services, and peer support counseling groups.
The
committee's abandoned building reclamation project rehabilitates houses in the
Philadelphia area.
The project, in addition to providing employment and homes for the
homeless, is a benefit to the community at large.
The committee has been endorsed by
State Senator Roxanne Jones, State Representatives Mark Cohen and David Richardson, City
Councilmen David Cohen, Angel Ortiz, and Milton Street, Judge Lisa Richette, Sister Mary
Scullion of the Women of Hope Mercy Shelter, Father Paul Washington of the Church of the
Advocate, and entertainer Bruce Springsteen, to name just a few.
The committee's
abandoned building reclamation project operates with the advice and support of local
professional construction trades unions.
The exhibition was made possible in part by generous contributions from Taws
Artist Materials, Humphrey's Banners, Replica I, Framer's Workroom, and Penn Jersey
Paper Co.
The Peale House Galleries, located at 1820 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, display
a rotating series of stimulating exhibitions in all media.
In addition to Academy
students, the shows in the Peale House Galleries feature artists who have not recently
exhibited in the Philadelphia area.
These shows are organized for the benefit and
education of Academy art school students.
Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10
a.m. to 4 p.m., Sunday from 12 noon to 4 p.m.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF ARTISTS, IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY
OF THE FINE ARTS, PRESENTS THE EXHIBITION U.S. ART CENSUS '86: CONTEMPORARY
AFRICAN-AMERICAN ARTISTS, FROM FEBRUARY 13 THROUGH APRIL 13
(Philadelphia, Pa., - February 3, 1986) - To coincide with the annual
conference of the National Conference of Artists, the largest organization of black
artists in the United States, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts will be the
host for an exhibition of East Coast artiSts, which is expected to include
approximately 37 participants and 75 works of art.
U.S. ART CENSUS '86:
CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN-AMERICAN ARTISTS will be on display at the Academy's museum at
Broad and Cherry Streets in Philadelphia, from February 13 through April 13, 1986.
The exhibition was conceived and organized by a committee of members of the
Philadelphia chapter of the National Conference of Artists.
The NCA has received
partial support for the show from the Pennsylvania Humanities Council; assistance
was also provided by Philadelphia's Office of the City Representative.
This exhibition is composed of works by mid-career artists who may have
attained regional, but not necessarily national, recognition.
Mrs. Justine P.
DeVan, president of the Philadelphia Chapter of NCA is the exhibition's
coordinator.
Mrs. DeVan notes that "the National Conference of Artists was
established for the purpose of preserving, developing, and promoting the art and
material culture of African-Americans, within the context of 'mainstream American
culture. ,,,
This show is the first of a series of regional exhibitions that the NCA
will be presenting in this decade.
"It is no mere coincidence that the NCA offered the Academy the opportunity
to be the host for their first regional exhibition of African-American artists,"
observes the Academy's Linda Bantel.
"This show was organized to coincide with
NCA's annual conference, which is being held for the first time in Philadelphia.
Indeed, since the nineteenth century, the Academy has been supporting black artists
working in America.
It was one of the earliest institutions to admit black
students into its art school and one of the first to purchase and exhibit their
works."
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The NCA has also organized auxiliary exhibitions, in addition to the one at
the Pennsylvania Academy, which are to be on display during the annual conference.
The following is a tentative list of locations for these auxiliary exhibitions:
West Philadelphia regional branch of the Free Library of Philadelphia; Villanova
University; University City Science Center; Houston Hall at the University of
Pennsylvania; Philomathean Art Gallery of the University of Pennsylvania;
University Lutheran Church of the Incarnation; October Art Gallery; Temple
University; LaSalle University; Antioch University of Philadelphia; and the
Pavilion Gallery at Burlington County Memorial Hospital in Mount Holly, N.J.
For
further information on these exhibitions, please write to the Philadelphia Chapter
of the National Conference of Artists, P.O. Box 42873, Philadelphia, Pa. 19101, or
call (215) 763-5677.
The National Conference of Artists was founded in 1959 at Atlanta University
and is the oldest and largest organization of African-American visual artists, art
educators, art administrators, and others interested in art, in the United States.
Its membership in 1986 extends to Mexico, the Caribbean, and West Africa.
Philadelphia is the site of the NCA's annual conference for the first time in its
28-year history.
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts is located at Broad and Cherry
Streets in Philadelphia, just two short blocks north of City Hall.
convenient to public transportation and parking.
It is
It is open to the public from
10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday; 10:00 a.m. to
7:00 p.m. on Wednesday; and 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Sunday.
is $2.00, $1.50 for senior citizens, and $1.00 for students.
General admission
The public is
admitted free of charge on Tuesdays; donations are appreciated.
Regularly
scheduled museum tours are given Tuesday through Friday at 11:00 a.m. and 2:00
p.m., Wednesday evenings at 5:30 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday at 2:00 p.m.
The Academy, founded in 1805, is the oldest art museum and art school in
North America.
Its collection of over 7,300 works of American art is housed in its
third building, a National Historic Landmark, designed by Frank Furness in 1876,
and restored to its original Victorian splendor in 1976.
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PAINTINGS BY PAUL GORKA TO BE ON VIEW IN THE PEALE HOUSE GALLERIES
OF THE PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS
FROM MARCH 6 THROUGH MARCH 30, 1986
(Philadelphia, Pa., February 12, 1986) - An exhibition of approximately
twenty-five paintings by Paul Gorka will be on view in the Peale House Galleries of the
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1820 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, from March 6
through March 30, 1986.
An opening reception, to which the public is invited, will be held on Wednesday,
March 5, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Working primarily in oils, Gorka's style is figurative with a surrealistic
overtone.
As written in the publication Arts Exchange, "The very precise technical
quality of Gorka's work gives it the appearance of that done by a medieval Flemish
master gone mad.
There is also a sense of mysticism to these paintings.
Gorka's art
seems beyond his control, the act of creation no longer a matter of free will but a
vehicle of a higher need to express his inner urgings at all cost."
Born in 1931, Gorka graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1955 and
attended the graduate schools of New York University and the University of Munich.
After serving in the armed forces from 1951 to 1954, he attended the Art Students League
of New York for three years, followed by two years of study at the Pennsylvania Academy
of the Fine Arts (1960).
Gorka has received many awards and has exhibited widely.
His work is included in
the permanent collection of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; the Museum of
Fine Arts, Springfield, Mass.; and the Woodmere Art Gallery, Philadelphia, to name a few.
The Peale House Galleries, located at 1820 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, display
a rotating series of stimulating exhibitions in all media.
In addition to Academy
students, the shows in the Peale House Galleries feature artists who have not recently
exhibited in the Philadelphia area.
These shows are organized for the benefit and
education of Academy art school students.
Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10
a.m. to 4 p.m., Sunday from 12 noon to 4 p.m.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
WOMEN'S HISTORY WEEK AT THE PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS TO
FEATURE VIDEO ON WOMEN IN ART AND, ON SATURDAY, MARCH 8, A GALLERY TALK ... AND
AN INVASION OF GUERRILLA GIRLS
(Philadelphia, Pa. - February 12, 1986) - In recognition of Women's History
Week, March 2 - March 9, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts is sponsoring
three programs focusing on women in the arts, all of which will take place in the
Academy's museum at Broad and Cherry Streets in Philadelphia.
These programs are
free with the price of museum admission.
VIDEO: WOMEN IN ART - A video tape entitled Women in Art will be running
continuously throughout Women's History Week in the museum's History Gallery.
This
half-hour program includes a look at and several interviews with women artists
involved in the Celebration of American Women Artists exhibition held at the Sidney
Janis Gallery.
The program will also feature interviews with Marisol at her solo
exhibition at the Janis Gallery, and Nancy Graves at her solo exhibition at the
Knoedler Gallery, as well as a view of that artist working on a piece at a foundry.
GALLERY TALK - On Saturday, March 8, at 1:30 p.m., Judith Stein, associate
curator of the Pennsylvania Academy, will give a talk entitled, "What's a Nice Girl
Like You Doing in a Place Like This?
Academy's Collection."
The Tradition of Women Artists in the
Stein will use examples from the Academy's current main
gallery exhibition, American Graphic Arts: Watercolors, Drawings, and Prints from
the Collection of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, to discuss the
historic and SOCiological relationship between women artists and works on paper.
TALK WITH A GUERRILLA GIRL - Saturday, March 8, at 3:00 p.m. - Museums,
galleries, and libraries aren't the only places to learn about contemporary art.
In New York City an innovative group that calls itself the Guerrilla Girls has
taken to the streets to inform people that women artists are rarely shown in the
city's most powerful and prestigious galleries.
Using straightforward but strongly
worded wall posters that publicly cite the names of the offenders, this anon ymous
group uses the street as a potent forum for communication, sending new shivers of
consciousness through the New York art community.
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The Guerrilla Girls, who in fact r egard their actions and gesture s as
"basically ladylike," have playfully and cleverly co-opted the language of
guerrilla warfare.
They see their role as gadflies to those who would prefer not
to be aware of the continuing sexism in the art world.
Anonymity allows them both
to speak for everyone and to keep their individual personalities and careers out of
the discussion.
As part of the Academy's Women's History Week presentation, museum visitors
will have a rare opportunity to "Talk with a Guerrilla Girl," during an hour-long
appearance by two members of the group on Saturday, March 8, at 3:00 p.m. in the
auditorium of the Furness building at Broad & Cherry Streets.
This special visit,
cosponsored by the Philadelphia chapter of the Women's Caucus for Art, will include
a display of posters, a staged presentation, and a lively question-and-answer
session with the audience.
A recent article on the group in the New York Daily
News noted: "They do not pack AK-47's.
But they are the Guerrilla Girls.
again,' says one Guerrilla Girl.
gorilla suit,' another noted.
They don't build bombs in their basements.
'We're trying to make feminism fashionable
'One of us was photographed postering in a
'We have a sense of humor.
We're sort of turning
anger into fun.'"
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts is located at Broad and Cherry
Streets in Philadelphia, just two short blocks north of City Hall.
convenient to public transportation and parking.
It is
It is open to the public from
10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday; 10:00 a.m. to
7:00 p.m. on Wednesday; and 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Sunday.
is $2.00, $1.50 for senior citizens, and $1.00 for students.
General admission
The public is
admitted free of charge on Tuesdays; donations are appreciated.
Regularly
scheduled museum tours are given Tuesday through Friday at 11:00 a.m. and 2:00
p.m., Wednesday evenings at 5:30 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday at 2:00 p.m.
The Academy, founded in 1805, is the oldest art museum and art school in
North America.
Its collection of over 7,300 works of American art is housed in its
third building, a National Historic Landmark, designed by Frank Furness in 1876,
and restored to its original Victorian splendor in 1976.
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NEW SCULPTURES BY JUDITH SHEA TO BE DISPLAYED IN THE MORRIS GALLERY OF THE
PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS FROM MARCH 7 - APRIL 20
(Philadelphia, PA - February 28, 1986) - An exhibition of New Sculptures by artist
Judith Shea will be on display in the Morris Gallery of the Pennsylvania Academy of the
Fine Arts from March 7 through April 20, 1986.
Shea's show will consist of 9 new
sculptures, 6 of which are primarily bronze, and 3 of which are fabrications made from
cloth and wool felt.
In addition, 5 graphite and colored pencil drawings will be on
view.
An opening reception, to which the public is invited, will be held on Thursday,
March 6, from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
For the past twelve years, Judith Shea has maintained a unique focus on clothing
as the form and content of her art.
If clothes "make" the man (or woman), as her work
seems to posit, then what is the potential of uninhabited garments as a metaphor for
human experience?
narrative content.
But it would be limiting to plumb her images solely for their
Shea is as concerned with the literal structure of clothing as she
is with its capacity for meaning.
Recently critic Stephen Hestfall cited Shea, among others, as "presiding over an
ironically Minimalist-influenced American renaissance of figurative sculpture."
It was
of course not Minimalism but the Pattern and Decoration movement that first brought Shea
to critical attention.
Her early work, which emphasized the profile of sleeves or the
cut of a neckline, suggested unassembled pattern pieces.
Shifting from such dressy
stuffs as organza and taffeta, the artist later worked with canvas linen, creating
shaped bodices with rich, gestural painted surfaces.
As her work evolved from low
relief to fully three-dimensional forms, Shea began to work in bronze.
While the formal references in her earlier work touched on the world of fashion
and the actual construction of clothing, Shea's latest pieces are more likely to evoke
such art historical personages as the Winged Victory or an Egyptian statue.
In these
new sculptures her surfaces often have multiple readings as skin, fabric and bronze.
In
addition to the palpable presence of the human body, her work manifests the rough,
visible seams of fabrication.
In Shea's view, some commentators on her recent work went
overboard in only deciphering a narrative intent in pieces that juxtaposed two figural
garments.
Thus her current images often include a geometric shape placed in proximity
to the figure, thereby aiding a more formal interpretation of the coupled segments.
Judith Shea was born in 1948 in Philadelphia and attended The Annunciation School,
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Havertown, Pa .
She has a degree in fashion design from the Parsons Sc ho ol of Design,
N. Y. (1969) a nd earned her B.F . A. in 1975 from Pars ons and The New School for Social
Research.
Shea's one-person exhibitions include: Judith Shea/Robert Moscowitz, Hayden
Gallery, M.I.T., Cambridge, Mass., and Knight Gallery, Chapel Hill, N.C ., (1985);
Willard Gallery, New York City, (1984, 1983, and 1980); Dart Gallery, Chicago, (1983);
Sculpture as Clothing, 80 Washington Square East Galleries, New York University, New
York City, (1981); 481, The Woman's Center Gallery, New Haven, Conn., (1978); and The
Clocktower, Institute for Art and
Urban Resources, New York City, (1976).
Group
exhibitions include: Special Project Room, P.S. 1, Long Island City, N. Y., (1986); Body
and Soul: Recent Figurative Sculpture, The Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, 0.,
(1985); Judith Shea/Nick Vaughn, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, (1984); Four Sculptors:
Ritual and Artifact, Zabriskie Gallery, New York City, (1984); Directions 1983,
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, \vashington, D.C., (1983); Sculpture Now, The
Institute of Contemporary Art, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, (1983); Painting
and Sculpture Today 1982, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Ind., (1982); 1981 Biennial
Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, (1981); Art Materialized:
Selections from The Fabric Workshop, organized by Independent Curators Inc., New York
City - circulated to The New Gallery for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, 0.; Gibbs Art
Gal lery, Charleston, S.C.; The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, N.Y.; University of South
Florida Art Galleries, Tampa; The Art Museum and Galleries, California State University,
Long Beach; Alberta College of Art Gallery, Calgary, Canada; Nelson-Atkins Museum of
Art, Kansas City, Mo.; and Pensacola Museum of Art, Fl.; - (1981); Seven Artists,
Ne uberger Museum, S.U.N.Y., College at Purchase, N.Y., (1980); and Collection in
Progress: 200 or So Selections from the Collection of Milton Brutten and Helen Herrick,
Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, (1977).
The Morris Gallery, located in the Academy museum at Broad and Cherry Streets,
displays the work of outstanding contemporary artists with a connection to Philadelphia,
determined by birth, schooling, or residence.
Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from
10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.; Sunday from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.; Wednesday evenings until
7:00 p.m.
Admission: $2.00 general; $1. 50 senior citizens; and $1.00 students.
Free
Tuesdays; donations appreciated.
Morris Gallery exhibitions are chosen by a committee composed of area artists,
museum personnel and collectors, and the curatorial staff of the Academy.
Currently
serving on the Morris Gallery Exhibition Committee are: Cynthia Carlson, Bill Freeland,
Dr. Helen Herrick, Jay Richardson Massey, Cheryl McClenney, John Moore, Elizabeth
Osborne, Eileen Rosenau, Mark Rosenthal; and Academy staff: Judith Stein - Morris
Gallery Coordinator, Frank H. Goodyear, Jr., Linda Bantel, Kathleen A. Foster, Elizabeth
Romanella; and Academy students Ed Lewis and Anna Yates.
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STUDENTS OF THE PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS RAISE $17,000 FROM
EXHIBITION TO BENEFIT THE COMMITTEE FOR DIGNITY & FAIRNESS FOR THE HOMELESS
(Philadelphia, Pa. - March 3, 1986) - Students of the Pennsylvania Academy of
the Fine Arts reported today that they had raised $17,000 to benefit the Committee
for Dignity and Fairness for the Homeless.
This amount represented the proceeds
from the sale of works in a benefit exhibition that the Academy students organized,
entitled Dignity for the Homeless, which was on view in the student galleries of
the Academy's Peale House from February 6 through February 25.
faculty, and alumni donated 500 works to the show.
Academy students,
The $17,000 was turned over to
the Committee for Dignity & Fairness for the Homeless on Friday, February 28.
The ideas for this show was first presented to the Pennsylvania Academy's
Student Committee by second-year student Linda Bean last December, and the
committee gave the idea enthusiastic and overwhelming approval.
The committee,
which numbers about 30 members, then authorized students Bean, Helen Mirkil, and Ed
Sutton to serve as the steering committee for the event.
"Dignity for the Homeless
is the most wonderful thing that has ever happened to us," said Bean, Mirkil, and
Sutton.
respect.
"The response of people to the show exceeded our expectations in every
Words are inadequate to express our thanks to our fellow students,
faculty, alumni, and the Academy's administration.
From our viewpoint, it was like
watching a miracle come forth, and we feel blessed to be in a place where this can
happen."
The Philadelphia-based Committee for Dignity and Fairness for the Homeless is
the only organization in the country founded and run by homeless people, for the
purpose of helping others who have lost their homes.
The thrust of the committee's
programs is to help homeless persons regain control of their lives, and to become
self-sustaining members of society again.
To this end the committee runs shelters,
job-training programs, medical screening services, and peer support counseling
groups.
The committee's abandoned building reclamation project rehabilitates
houses in the Philadelphia area.
The project, in addition to providing employment
and homes for the homeless, is a benefit to the community at large, and operates
with the advice and support of local professional construction trades unions.
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The exhibition was made possible in part by generous contributions from Taws
Artist Materials, Humphrey's Banners, Replica I, Framer's Workroom, and Penn Jersey
Paper Co.
The Peale House Galleries, located at 1820 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia,
display a rotating series of stimulating exhibitions in all media.
In addition to
Academy students, the shows in the Peale House Galleries feature artists who have
not recently exhibited in the Philadelphia area.
These shows are organized for the
benefit and education of Academy art school students.
Hours are Tuesday through
Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Sunday from 12 noon to 4 p.m.
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THE PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS A~NOUNCES IMPORTANT ACQUISITIONS
OF WORK BY MICHELE FELICE CORNE, MARTIN JOHNSON HEADE, ELIHU VEDDER, AND
ARTHUR G. DOVE
(Philadelphia, Pa., - March 7, 1986) - The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
announced today that it has added four important works of art to its collection: Michele
Felice Corn~'s The Landing of the Pilgrims (ca. 1803-12, oil on canvas), Martin Johnson
Heade's Sunset--Harbor at Rio (1864, oil on canvas), Elihu Vedder's The Sphinx, Egypt
(1890, oil on canvas), and a series of 27 water colors, (1943-44, bound in book), by
Arthur G. Dove.
The Landing of the Pilgrims - Michel Felice Corne- (1752-1845) - (given by Mrs. Henry S.
McNeil, in loving memory of her husband, who was president of the Pennsylvania Academy
from 1977-1981)
Michele Felice Corne was born on the island of Elba in 1752.
To escape military
duty in the Neapolitan army during a conflict between Naples and France, Corn; left
Italy in 1799 aboard the Salem ship Mount Vernon.
When he arrived in America in 1800,
Corn6 was apparently introduced to Salem society by the commander of the Mount Vernon,
Elias Hasket Derby, Jr.
Corn~ earned his reputation as a marine painter, although he
was a very versatile artist.
He was also a portraitist and a decorative artist;
examples of scenic murals, over-mantle pictures, fireboards, and large panoramas still
survive.
The Landing of the Pilgrims is a nineteenth-century interpretation of an important
event in American history.
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Corne, who often depended on engravings for inspiration,
derived this work from an engraving by Samuel Hill that appeared on the invitation for
the anniversary dinner of the Pilgrim Society, held on December 18, 1800.
Anachronistic
details, such as the crew wearing British redcoats and carrying flintlocks, were
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undoubtedly invented by Corne himself.
This addition to the Pennsylvania Academy's
permanent collection complements such retrospective historical paintings as Edward
Savage's Penn's Treaty with the Indians and the newly acquired Peaceable Kingdom by
Edward Hicks.
Sunset--Harbor at Rio - Martin Johnson Heade (1819-1904) - (purchased through the Henry
C. Gibson Fund)
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The son of a prosperous farmer, Reade was born in Lumberville, a small village in
Bucks County, some twenty-five miles north of Philadelphia.
Reade first traveled to
Brazil in the fall of 1863 on the encouragement of his friend, the Reverend James C.
Fletcher.
Re remained there through the following year and Sunset--Rarbor at Rio is one
of several major oils that he completed, depicting the tropical landscape.
It is likely
that the artist brought this painting with him on his trip from Brazil to England in
1865.
Its exact location remained unknown until its rediscovery in England in 1979.
This view of the bay at Rio de Janeiro was painted in 1864 during Reade's first
trip to South America.
Unlike the few other known versions, there are no figures, and,
therefore, there is no anecdotal associations.
Typical of the best of Reade's work,
this picture has an exceptionally quiet, brooding quality created by the gray-green
tonality and the rather threatening-looking oversized plant in the foreground.
Its
delicate and precise brushwork invites close examination, while its strong, simple
design and ample size make it a perfect museum picture that has impact and drama from a
distance.
A pivotal picture, it combines the attention to detail associated with the
Hudson River School, and the tonalism, atmospheric effect, and expansive landscapes
associated with the luminists.
The acquisition of a landscape by Martin Johnson Heade has been one of the
Academy's unspoken goals for many years.
A loner and the master of interpreting
landscape in a highly personal symbolic manner, Reade is one of the archetypical
luminists.
Re first exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy in 1841, and in 1847 had a
studio at the corner of Arch and 8th Streets.
Throughout the 1840's and mid-1850's, he
intermittently exhibited portraits; in 1856, 1861, and 1868 he exhibited landscapes; in
1880, a still life, and in 1881, a South American hummingbird.
Because of the recent
discovery of this picture, it is unrecorded in the standard literature on Heade.
The Sphinx, Egypt - Elihu Vedder (1836-1923) - (bequest of the late American art
historian, Edgar P. Richardson, who was a founder of the Archives of American Art)
Elihu Vedder first left for Europe in 1856 to study in Paris.
On a trip to Italy
in 1857 he became attracted to a group of artists in Florence known as the Macciaioli,
whose practice of plein air painting in the surrounding Italian countryside Vedder
readily adopted.
Except for an occasional visit to his homeland, he remained in Italy
for most of his life.
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Vedder's visionary paintings combine his observations of nature with a strong
personal symbolism drawn from the imagination.
As a designer, Vedder is recognized as
an early American artist working in the style of Art Nouveau.
During his lifetime he
was acclaimed for his illustrations of Omar Khayyam's Rubaiyat, published in 1884.
The
original drawings were exhibited in the Pennsylvania Academy's 56th Annual Exhibition of
1885.
Vedder executed important mural decorations in this country, upon commission,
important mural decorations in this country, upon commission, including the Government
series at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.
In 1889 Vedder was invited to travel to Egypt with George F. Corliss, who paid all
expenses.
The Sphinx, Egypt is the most important painting from this trip.
As recorded
in his diary, it was begun in Cairo on April 14, shortly before their return to Italy.
As early as 1863 Vedder had shown his interest in a similar subject when he painted The
Questioner of the Sphinx.
He was probably drawn to the subject then from the publicity
over the purchase of Dr. Henry Abbott's collection of art and antiquities by the New
York Historical Society in 1861.
The Academy owns one painting by Vedder, a small study entitled Girl with Bundle.
The Sphinx, Egypt is a mature, fully documented work representing a recurring theme in
the artist's oeuvre.
It combines the duality of Vedder's interests, from the observed
to the imaginary, through the archeological accuracy of the ancient stone sphinx to the
mysterious nature of the subject.
The play of scale between the monumental sphinx to
the relatively insignificant human presence, evident in the earlier The Questioner of
the Sphinx, is here made less ambiguous with the inclusion of the pyramid in the
background.
In The Sphinx, Egypt, Vedder has gained through the advantage of first-hand
observation.
Series of 27 Water Colors - Arthur G. Dove (1880-1946) - (gift of Mr.
& Mrs. William
Dove)
Arthur G. Dove's working method was to sketch out his composition in very complete
minature water color, ofter translating it into oil.
This group of 27 water colors
contains a few which can be directly related to finished compositions.
complete work, in and of itself.
Each is a
The group represents a period in Dove's work in which
he was concerned with working with the flatness of the picture plane and denying the
depth for which his earlier works were noted.
The active brush strokes of his earlier
periods were replaced by flat, evenly applied areas of color.
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THE PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS
HOSTS AN OPEN HOUSE ON FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 1986
(Philadelphia, Pa., March 10, 1986) - The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
invites the public to an Open House on Friday, March 21, 1986 from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00
p.m.
Admission is free to the public on this day.
The Academy's Open House is an excellent opportunity for the public to visit the
museum and school facilities at Broad and Cherry Streets and at the Peale House at 1820
Chestnut Street.
Visitors can observe the drawing, painting, sculpture and graphic arts
classes that will be in session, and view the student and faculty studios that are not
ordinarily open to the public.
Academy faculty will also be available to discuss
artwork by prospective students.
Students and alumni will be leading continuous tours at the Peale House.
Paintings by Paul Gorka will be on view in the gallery, in addition to works by the
Academy's students.
At the museum at Broad and Cherry Streets, there will be tours of the classrooms,
studios, library, and galleries. The Academy's main gallery exhibition is American
Graphic Arts:
Watercolors, Drawings, and Prints from the Collection of the Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Arts; also on exhibit is the U. S. Art Census '86:
African-American Artists, and in
Contemporary
in the Morris Gallery, an exhibition of bronze
sculpture by Judith Shea will be on view.
The program of special events at the museum
includes:
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"Burchfield's Vision," a video of the life of artist Charles
Burchfield - at 10:30 a.m. and 2:00 p.m.
"The Unbroken Line," a video presentation of the Academy Schools at 11:00 a.m. and 2:30 p.m., in the auditorium.
"Business and the Fine Arts," a panel discussion with Peter Paone,
Tony Direnzi, Kurt Solmson, and Maggie Lawler - at 12:00 noon, in the
auditorium.
A gallery talk by Kathy Foster, curator of the American Graphics
exhibition - at 1:00 p.m.
A cast drawing demonstration by faculty member Homer Johnson at 1:30 p.m., in the cast corridor.
Open House visitors should register at the museum entrance at Broad and Cherry
Streets.
Free round trip transportation between the two facilities will be provided.
For more information, please call the school office at (215) 972-7625.
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THE EXHIBITION U.S. ART CENSUS '86: CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN-AMERICAN ARTISTS
CONTINUES ON VIEW AT PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS THROUGH APRIL13 ...
FOUR AFRICAN-AMERICAN ARTISTS HONORED
(Philadelphia, Pa., - March 12, 1986) - U.S. ART CENSUS '86: CONTEMPORARY
AFRICAN-AMERICAN ARTISTS, an exhibition that is presented by the National Conference of
Artists, in association with the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, remains on view
at the Academy's museum at Broad and Cherry Streets in Philadelphia, through April 13.
The exhibition and the forthcoming 28th annual conference of the NCA, the largest
organiz' tion of black artists in the United States, honor four African-American artists
who are associated with Philadelphia and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
These artists are: Robert M. Douglass, Jr., (1809-1887); Henry O. Tanner (1859-1937);
Meta Warrick Fuller (1877-1968); and Laura Wheeler Waring (1887-1948).
According to material culture scholar Steven Loring Jones, a doctoral student at
the University of Pennsylvania and archivist/information officer for NCA's local
chapter, Douglass is being honored as the first person of African descent to to have his
work presented in a Pennsylvania Academy exhibition (1834); Tanner is honored for being
the African-American most often represented in Academy exhibitions and for being the
first to receive a major prize (1900); Fuller is honored for being the first black
sculptor to have her work in an Academy exhibition (1906); and Waring is honored for
being the first African-American to win the Academy's coveted William Em1en Cresson
European Traveling Scholarship (1914).
The U.S. ART CENSUS '86 show consists of 46 pieces by 32 artists.
Those
exhibiting their work include: Ellsworth Ausby, Roland Ayers, Joseph Bailey, Michael
Braithwaite, James Brantley, Moe Brooker, Barbara Bullock, Nanette Carter, Dana
Chandler, John Dowell, Jr., James Dupree, Walter Edmonds, DiAntonio Ramos Ferrer, James
M. Green, Barkley Hendricks, Edward Hughes, Ben Jones, Richard Jordan, Dery1 Daniel
Mackie, Clarence Morgan, Dr. Ademo1a 01ugebefo1a, Joe Overstreet, James Phillips, Ellen
Powe11-Tiberino, Charles Searles, Louis Sloan, Vincent Smith, Therman Statom, Marilyn
Thornton, Richard Watson, Pheoris West, and Emmett Wigglesworth.
The National Conference of Artists was founded in 1959 at Atlanta University and
is the oldest and largest organization of African-American visual artists, art
educators, art administrators, and others interested in art, in the United States.
membership in 1986 extends to Mexico, the Caribbean, and West Africa.
Philadelphia is
the site of the NCA's annual conference for the first time in its 28-year history.
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THE PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS PRESENTS GRAPHIC ARTS DISCOVERY DAY
ON SATURDAY, MARCH 22, DURING THE RUN OF THE CURRENT MAIN GALLERY EXHIBITION,
AMERICAN GRAPHIC ARTS: WATERCOLORS, DRAWINGS, AND PRINTS FROM THE COLLECTION
OF THE PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS
(Philadelphia, Pa. - March 12, 1986) - Those who have unidentified works of art on
paper are invited to bring those mystery prints and drawings to the Pennsylvania
Academy's Graphic Arts Discovery Day to get a curator's opinion and a little
information.
On Saturday, March 22, from 10:00 a.m. to noon, members of the museum
staff will be available to offer comments on objects brought in.
They will try to help
identify what these works are, and what steps might be taken to conserve or protect them
better.
Those who bring in works will have an opportunity to find out whether they are
genuinely old or authentic, but staff members are not allowed to estimate value.
This
occasion is an opportunity to learn about one's own "heirlooms" and compare them to
works in the Academy's collection, on view in the American Graphic Arts exhibition.
The
focus of Graphic Arts Discovery Day will be on American prints and drawings, but if one
is not sure that whether particular works are American, one may bring them along for
investigation.
If works are in original frames, the frames should be brought in as
well.
Because of the interest in such a "Discovery Day," reservations will be
mandatory.
Those interested should call the Academy at (215) 972-7630.
Once
reservations have been made, visitors will be helped on a first-come-first-served
basis.
The price for the consultation will be $7.50 for the general public ( including
admission to the museum), and $5.00 for members of the Academy.
Each individual is
allowed to bring up to three items.
Graphic Arts Discovery Day is meant to focus attention on the exhibition American
Graphic Arts: Watercolors, Drawings, and Prints from the Collection of the Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Arts, which is on view in the main galleries of the Academy's
Furness building at Broad and Cherry Streets in Philadelphia through April 13.
This
show features rarely seen treasures from the Pennsylvania Academy's rich collection of
works of art on paper.
This exhibition of approximately 350 prints and drawings, drawn
from the more than seven thousand works of art on paper in the museum, presents the
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largest survey ever shown of the Academy's holdings in this area.
From Benjamin West
and the Academy's founding generation to the most recent trends in contemporary prints
and drawings, the exhibition covers two hundred years of American art, with an emphasis
on Philadelphia's artists and the Academy's role as teacher and collector.
Watercolors,
pastels, charcoals, pencil drawings, and all types of prints - etchings, engravings,
lithographs, woodcuts, and monotypes - demonstrate the range of American art on paper.
United by their common reliance on line, these diverse works show the expressive
potential of all the "graphic" media based on drawing.
This massive project,
principally underwritten by grants from The Pew Memorial Trust, with support from the
National Endowment for the Arts and the Institute of Museum Services, demonstrates the
Academy's current commitment to the conservation, exhibition, and publication of its own
permanent collection.
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts is located at Broad and Cherry Streets
in Philadelphia, just two short blocks north of City Hall.
transportation and parking.
It is convenient to public
It is open to the public from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on
Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday; 10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday; and 11:00
a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Sunday.
$1.00 for students.
appreciated.
General admission is $2.00, $1.50 for senior citizens, and
The public is admitted free of charge on Tuesdays; donations are
Regularly scheduled museum tours are given Tuesday through Friday at 11:00
a.m. and 2:00 p.m., Wednesday evenings at 5:30 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday at 2:00 p.m.
The Academy, founded in 1805, is the oldest art museum and art school in North
America.
Its collection of over 7,300 works of American art is housed in its third
building, a National Historic Landmark, designed by Frank Furness in 1876, and restored
to its original Victorian splendor in 1976.
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ART IN CITY HALL (COORDINATED BY BRANDYWINE WORKSHOP), THE FABRIC WORKSHOP,
THE PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS, AND THE PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART
PRESENT "PHILADELPHIA PRINT PORTFOLIO SUNDAY," OR "SUNDAY YOUR PRINTS WILL
COME," ON MARCH 23
(Philadelphia, Pa., - March 12,1986) - On March 23, from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.,
Art in City Hall (coordinated by Brandywine Workshop), The Fabric Workshop, the
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art will present
Philadelphia Print Portfolio Sunday, or "Sunday Your Prints \hll Come," which consists
of a series of free activities and visits to the organizations listed above, to
celebrate the graphic arts, which are in the Philadelphia spotlight this month.
Delaware Valley residents and visitors are encouraged to partake of the activities
described below, and to register for a drawing, the winner of which will receive an
original offset lithograph by the artist Daniel Dallman.
The winner will be selected on
Monday, April 7th, at 1:00 p.m., at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
ART IN CITY HALL - (Corridor Showcase - enter through the Northeast stairway tower and
follow the signs) - Visitors will see a preview of the exhibition Artists' Books and
Prints, the third in the Art in City Hall exhibition series.
The show features some of
the best works of Philadelphia-based artists working with printed images in
limited-edition, original book or print form, including monoprints, serigraphs, etching,
woodcut, hand printed and offset lithography.
Schedule of Activities (jointly sponsored by the Turtle Island Press and the
Brandywine Workshop, two Philadelphia-based art organizations)
12 noon until 5:00 p.m. - Registration for the Daniel Dallman print.
1:00 p.m. - Daniel Tucker and Claire Owen, Turtle Island Press, will hold an
informal workshop on the production of artists' books.
2:30 p.m. - Informal discussion of the exhibition with some of the artists.
Continuous slide shows on bookmaking and printmaking.
The first 100 visitors to the Art in City Hall activities will receive a free copy
of an original poster by Lois M. Johnson.
THE FABRIC WORKSHOP - 1133 Arch Street (5th floor) - This nationally recognized facility
specializes in the production of original handprinted fabrics by some of Philadelphia's
and the nation's most talented artists.
In the gallery, there will be an exhibition of
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Furniture, Chairs, and Upholstered Pieces, by recent visiting artists.
Visitors will be
invited to tour the gallery and workshop spaces, which will be active with printers
producing fabrics using the silkscreen method.
Schedule of Activities
11:00 a.m. - Marie Keller, executive director, will lead a tour of the facility
and discuss the programs of this unique organization.
1:30 p.m. - Susan Chrysler White, painter, will discuss her current project at the
workshop.
All visitors will be able to enter a drawing for an original handbag by artist Jun
Kaneko, as well as the Daniel Dallman print.
PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS - Broad & Cherry Streets - The exhibition American
Graphic Arts: Watercolors, Drawings and Prints from the Collection of the Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Arts is on display and includes approximately 350 prints and
drawings.
The show presents the largest survey of the Academy's holdings in this area.
From Benjamin West and the Academy's founding generation to the most recent trends in
contemporary prints and drawings, the exhibition covers two hundred years of American
art, with an emphasis on Philadelphia's artists and the Academy's role as teacher and
collector.
Schedule of Activities
12:00 noon - Gallery talk - "Contemporary American Works on Paper," by Moe
Brooker, instructor in painting at the Pennsylvania Academy, noted teacher and artist,
whose drawings and prints are represented in the Academy and Art in City Hall
exhibitions.
2:00 p.m. - Gallery talk - "Women in the Graphic Arts," by Kathleen James,
University of Pennsylvania graduate intern.
All visitors may register for the Daniel Dallman print.
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PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART - 26th and the Parkway (west entrance) - The exhibition From
Mantegna to Goya: Selections from the Muriel and Philip Berman Gift of European Old
Master Prints features exceptional works by some of the seminal figures in the history
of European printmaking.
The prints are drawn from three collections of over 43,000
prints acquired from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1985.
A special installation of drawings by artists working in Philadelphia will be on
view in the Director's corridor.
All works were produced in the 1970s and 1980s.
Among
the approximately 30 artists included in the installation are: Larry Day, John Dowell,
Sidney Goodman, Maurie Kerrigan, Edith Neff, Jody Pinto, Italo Scanga, Phil Simkin, and
Isaiah Zagar.
Schedule of Activities
9:30 a.m. until 12:00 noon - registration in the west foyer (back entrance) for
special admissions and the Daniel Dallman print.
1:30 p.m. - Lecture - "Hendrik Golzius, Printmaker: Performance and
Impersonation," by Clifford S. Ackley, curator of prints, drawings, and photographs,
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
2:30 p.m. - Gallery Talk - "Old Master Prints: from Mategna to Goya," by Ted Lind,
division of education, PMA, in the Berman Gallery.
3:30 p.m. - Concert - Vladimir Shapiro, violin - Van Pelt auditorium.
Admission is free on this day to those visiting Art in City Hall, The Fabric
Workshop, and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; admission is free on this day
to all those who registered at the Philadelphia Museum of Art between 9:30 a.m. and
12:00 noon.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
PAINTINGS BY ADOLPHE BORIE TO BE ON VIEW
IN THE PEALE HOUSE GALLERIES OF THE PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS
FROM APRIL 10 THROUGH MAY 2, 1986
(Philadelphia, Pa., March 27, 1986) - An exhibition of approximately
forty-five paintings by Adolphe Borie will be on view in the Peale House
Galleries of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1820 Chestnut Street,
Philadelphia, from April 9 through May 2, · 1986.
The exhibition will include
thirty-five works that have been recently cleaned and restored, from the
private collection of Peter Borie, the artist's son, as well as works loaned
by several other members of the Borie family.
The Picture Book, by Adolphe
Borie, from the Pennsylvania Academy's permanent collection, will also be on
view.
An opening reception, to which the public is invited, will be held on
Wedne sday, April 9, from 5 to 7 p.m.
Adolphe Borie (1877-1934), along with Henry McCarter and Arthur B.
Carles, played a significant role in the artistic community of Philadelphia
during the first three decades of the the twentieth century.
He studie d at
the Pennsylvania Academy from 1895 to 1899 under the tutelage of William
Merritt Chase and Thomas Anshutz.
From 1899 to 1902 he studied under Carl
Marr at the Royal Academy in Munich, and frequently visited Paris.
The artist
r e sided at 4100 Pine Street in Philadelphia, until his death in 1934.
Borie was subjected to three deep influences: the Munich School, French
I mpr e ssionism, and Paris Modernism.
Because of his eclectic sensitivity,
sometimes one, and sometimes another, of these influences was dominant.
But
from the earliest days, and throughout his career, he was always a colorist individual, sensitive, and rich.
Borie's colorful, impressionistic work was part of a rebellious spirit
among Philadelphia's younger artists, also including McCarter and Carles,
against the established order that included such influences as the Academy's
Thomas Eakins.
Borie's work reflects a participation in and reflection of a
certain social background in the same way as the work of Eakins, Manet,
Renoir, and Sargent reflected their periods.
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On his return from Munich, Borie exhibi ted portraits and received
immediate recognition.
Commissions came easily and continued until he died.
He was a member of the National Society of Portrait Painters, and later was
made an Academician of the National Gallery.
Although Borie most loved to
paint still lif~s, flowers , and nudes , he was not able to attain the
commercial success in these modes that he did with his portraits.
Borie's work was included in the Pennsylvania Academy ' s annual
exhibitions from 1904 until his death.
His only one- person exhibition during
his career was in 1915 at the Folsom Gallery in New York; after his death, in
1935, the Philadelphia Museum of Art held a Memorial Exhibition of Borie's
work.
He received numerous awards, including the Carol Beck Gold Medal for
Portraiture at the Pennsylvania Academy in 1910; the Silver Medal at the
Panama-Pacific exhibition in 1915 in San Francisco; the Maynard Portrait Prize
from the National Academy, of which he was also an associate member, in 1917;
the Silver Medal at the Sesquicentennial Exhibition in Philadelphia in 1926;
the Third William A. Clark Prize and Corcoran Bronze Medal at the Corcoran
Gallery in Washington in 1926; the Gold Medal from the Philadelphia Art Club
in 1928; and the Norman Wait Harris Bronze Medal from the Art Institute in
Chicago in 1928.
His work is now included in the collections of the
Me t ropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum, and the Philadelphia Museum of
Art , i n addition to private collections .
The Peale House Galleries, located at 1820 Chestnut Street,
Philadelphia, display a rotating series of stimulating exhibitions in all
media.
In addition to Academy students, the shows in the Peale House
Galleries feature artists who have not recently exhibited in the Philadelphia
area.
These shows are organized for the benefit and education of Academy art
school students.
Hours arc Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.,
Sunday from 12 noon to 4 p.m.
No admission charge.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
ARTHUR HALL AFRO-AMERICAN DANCE ENSEMBLE TO PERFORM TWICE AT THE PENNSYLVANIA
ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS ON SATURDAY, APRIL 5 ... A TREAT FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY SPONSORED BY YOUNG AUDIENCES OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA
(Philadelphia, Pa., - April 1, 1986) - On Saturday, April 5, at 11:30 a.m., and 1:30
p.m., the Arthur Hall Afro-American Dance Ensemble will present a program that explores the
rich culture and history of Ni geria through music and dance, at the Pennsylvania Academy of
the Fine Arts at Broad and Cherry Streets in Philadelphia.
The ensemble's performances will include a song of hope from Farewell to a Cannibal
Rage, by Nigerian playwright Femi Osofisan and an audience participation song of praise to
the ancestors.
The group wil l also perform a Nigerian dance to the gods and a religious
dance in honor of the god Shango.
There will also be an informative explanation and
demonstration of the various instruments that will be played, including the conga drum,
shekere/calabash, agogo, talking drum, and the bata drum.
The Arthur Hall ensemble will be performing in the Academy museum rotunda, where the
exhibition U.S. Art Census '86: Contemporary African-American Artists will be on view,
through Sunday, April 13.
This exhibition coincides with the annual conference of the
National Conference of Artists, the largest organization of black artists in the United
States.
The exhibition, consisting of 46 pieces by 32 artists, is composed of works by
mid-career artists who may have attained regional, but not necessaril y nationa l , recognition.
These Arthur Hall Afro-American Dance Ensemble performances at the Pennsy lvania Academy
are sponsored by Young Audiences of Eastern Pa.
For over 30 years Young Audie nces has
presented educational performing arts programs in schools, hospitals, and senior centers.
Each year the Eastern Pa. chapter presents more than 800 separate pro gr ams that reach over
180,000 students and adults t hroughout the Delaware and Lehigh Valleys.
Admission to these performance is free for Academy members and all childr en up through
the age of eighteen, and is free with museum admission to the general public.
The Pennsylvania Academ y of the Fine Arts is located at Broad and Cherr y Streets in
Philadelphia, just two short blocks north of City Hall.
transportation and parking.
It is convenient to pu blic
It is open to the public from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p .m. on
Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday; 10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday; and 11:00 a.m .
to 5:00 p.m. on Sunday.
students .
General admission is $2.00, $1.50 for senior citizens , and $1.00 fo r
The public is admitted free of charge on Tuesdays; donations are ap preciated.
Regularly scheduled museum tours are given Tuesday through Friday at 11:00 a.m. and 2:00
p.m., Wednesday evenings at 5:30 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday at 2:00 p.m.
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For further information, contact:
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732-0721 (Home)
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
THE 85th ANNUAL STUDENT EXHIBITION OF THE PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE
FINE ARTS OPENS TO THE PUBLIC ON MAY 8 AND CONTINUES THROUGH JUNE 8, 1986
(Philadelphia, PA., April 18, 1986) - The 85th Annual Student Exhibition of the
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts will be on display in the Academy's main galleries
at Broad and Cherry Streets from May 8 through June 8, 1986.
This year 78 students
representing thirty states and eighteen countries, are participating in the show and
approximately 600 works of art in all media (painting, sculpture, water color, graphics,
drawing, and mixed media) will be on display.
"The Annual Student Exhibition is one of the oldest of its kind in the country,"
commented Frederick S. Osborne, director of the schools of the Academy.
"It is unique
because each student participating in it is a candidate for one of the Academy's endowed
traveling scholarships.
For over eighty years, students have had this opportunity to
have their work judged in competition for travel grants that total nearly $50,000.
year, approximately 16 scholarships are awarded.
Each
This competition is a focus for
upperclassmen and its prestige elevates the work to an exceptionally high level of
achievement.
Once the scholarship recipients have been determined by the faculty, the
total exhibition is opened to the public and hundreds of works are sold."
The Annual Student Exhibition in its current form dates from 1902, when the first
William Emlen Cresson Traveling Scholarships were awarded.
Subsequently, the Lewis S.
Ware, and J. Henry Schiedt Memorial Traveling Scholarships were established and, along
with the Cresson, are the most prestigious of the student prizes awarded each year.
The
Cresson is a generously endowed scholarship established by Emlen and Priscilla Cresson
in memory of their son, who had been an accomplished Academy student and later a member
of the Committee on Instruction.
Five Cressons were awarded last year and over one
thousand have been awarded since 1902.
Cresson winners travel in Europe and also
receive full tuition scholarship for the following year.
The Ware Scholarship was
established in 1938 for European travel and three were awarded last year.
scholarship, established in 1949, is for unrestricted travel.
last year.
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Six Schiedts were awarded
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Annual Student Exhibition (cont'd.)
In order to be eligible for participation in the Annual Student Exhibition, one
must have completed at least three years at the Academy as a full-time student.
Those
students who qualify are assigned to hang their works on a wall of approximately 8' x
12' in the main galleries at Broad and Cherry Streets.
Those student with free-standing
sculpture are assigned a comparable amount of floor space in the galleries.
Students
hang whatever they feel best represents their achievement within the last school year.
Little or no censorship is imposed and a wide variety of fresh, personal images and
methods results; students who have chosen to preserve traditional modes display their
work side by side with radically experimental pieces.
This show frequently offers
students their first chance to assemble a body of work in a major exhibition, and to
present that work in the company of peers.
"The fundamental goal of the Pennsylvania Academy - the promotion of excellence in
the fine arts - is exemplified by the Annual Student Exhibition," observed Frank H.
Goodyear, Jr., president of the Academy.
"This show is of great importance to the
Academy, because of the spirit and vigor that is imparted by the students.
Perhaps more
than any other single event that takes place here, the Annual Student Exhibition brings
the Academy's museum and school together in an expression of institutional
togetherness.
Furthermore, the exhibition itself specifically underscores the Academy's
commitment to a structured fine arts educational program.
I'm sure that this year's
exhibition will be as exemplary as those of previous years - full of energy and
commitment of many student artists."
In conjunction with the Annual Student Exhibition, three gallery talks have been
scheduled.
The talks will be held on Wednesdays at noon and are free with museum
admission.
May 14:
Dan Miller, instructor in painting and art history, asst. dean of facultyMiller will discuss his experience as a student and instructor at the
Academy, the organization of the Annual Student Exhibition, and the
awarding of prizes. He will also make remarks concerning the work in
the show.
May 21:
Tony DiRienzi, president of the Academy's alumni associationDiRienzi will recount his personal experiences as a student at the
Academy. He will also comment on the awards and the current works and
trends of the Academy students.
May 28:
Arthur DeCosta, chairman of the drawing and painting departmentDeCosta will offer remarks about the students, how their work has
progressed over the years, and make some observations about their style
and technique.
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Another aspect of the Annual Student Exhibition is on display in at the Academy's
Peale House Galleries at 1820 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, from May 8 through June 8m
1986.
The winners of the Student Spring Prizes will be on view.
All full-time Academy students are eligible to compete for these prizes, unlike
the Cresson, Schiedt, and Ware Traveling Scholarships, which are open only to third and
fourth year full-time students.
The Academy faculty judges work in all media; painting,
sculpture, water color, drawing, graphics, and mixed media.
A total of seventy-one cash
prizes, amounting to $15,000, as well as numerous special notices, will be presented.
Most of the works on display will be available for purchase.
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts is located at Broad and Cherry Streets
in Philadelphia, just two short blocks north of City Hall.
transportation and parking.
It is convenient to public
It is open to the public from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on
Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday; 10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday; and 11:00
a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Sunday.
$1.00 for students.
appreciated.
General admission is $2.00, $1.50 for senior citizens, and
The public is admitted free of charge on Tuesdays; donations are
Regularly scheduled museum tours are given Tuesday through Friday at 11:00
a.m. and 2:00 p.m., Wednesday evenings at 5:30 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday at 2:00 p.m.
The Academy, founded in 1805, is the oldest art museum and art school in North
America.
Its collection of over 7,300 works of American art is housed in its third
building, a National Historic Landmark, designed by Frank Furness in 1876, and restored
to its original Victorian splendor in 1976.
The Peale House Galleries, located at 1820 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, display
a rotating series of stimulating exhibitions in all media.
In addition to Academy
students, the shows in the Peale House Galleries feature artists who have not recently
exhibited in the Philadelphia area.
These shows are organized for the benefit and
education of Academy art school students.
the museum.
* Please note that hours are different from
Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Sunday from 12
noon to 4 p.m.
No admission charge.
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PAINTINGS AND DRAWINGS BY DAVID HANNAH TO BE DISPLAYED IN THE MORRIS GALLERY
OF THE PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS FROM MAY 2 THROUGH JUNE 15
(Philadelphia, PA - April 23, 1986) - An exhibition of approximately 9 paintings
and 3 drawings by artist David Hannah will be on display in the Morris Gallery of the
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts from May 2 through June 15, 1986.
An opening reception, to which the public is invited, will be held on Thursday,
May 1, from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Since moving to New York five years ago, David Hannah has explored painterly
abstraction while incorporating figurative presences.
This recent work, the product of
change and new questions, has garnered strong praise.
Critic and poet John Yau has
commented that "Hannah's (new) gritty paintings represent a major accomplishment in
contemporary abstraction."
Six of the artist's large expressionist paintings will be on
view, as well as recent smaller canvases and black and white drawings.
Judith Stein, associate curator of the Pennsylvania Academy and coordinator of the
Morris Gallery, offered these comments on Hannah:
In David Hannah's recent work he plays his hunches, propelled by a
witty and historical taste for painterly issues. He speculates out
loud about space, speaking here in a cubist accent, and there
sounding like Matisse. Darkman Doppelganger explores the edge
between positive and negative. Taking off from a classically
French interior/exterior setup, It Happens stars a goofy blue shape
that both penetrates the window plane and butts a crinkled stump
against a wall of green.
The way Hannah titles his work is telling. The words never imply a
literal content and often come in phrase sets separated by
punctuation. Smart-aleck and poetic, Hannah's titles of paired
elements comprise an allusive analogue to the process of painting:
WallFlowers prosaicly addresses surface flatness; Rupture/Rapture
juxtaposes morphological lookalikes; and Vegetable Dictatorship
puts an oxymoron through its paces.
Hannah's expressive abstractions often incorporate figural
presences. Among his favorite configurations are a lounging oval,
a lozenge, and an organic, segmented vertical. While many of these
have been part of his formal vocabulary for a decade, tall, stepped
forms have only recently appeared, a seeming response to his
relocation from San Francisco to New York City. His visual humor
is both dark and wacky: In Vegetable Dictatorship a rampant green
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Hannah cont'd.
nearly chokes out the foreground as orange and mauve glint through an
occasional fissure. Hannah gifts his viewers with an eyeful:
Color-rich, whimsical scenarios provide a vehicle for intense
meditations on the nature of both art and life.
David Hannah is currently professor of art and chairman of the department of
painting, drawing, and sculpture at the Tyler School of Art, Temple University.
Born in
Sherman, Texas, in 1937, Hannah studied at Rice Institute, Houston, and the University
of Oklahoma School of Architecture; he was awarded an M.F.A. in 1967 from the San
Francisco Art Institute.
Recent exhibitions include a one-man show at Fabian Carlsson
Gallery, London (1985), and inclusion in the following group shows: Mor Than Meets the
Eye, Galleria Corini, Florence (1968); Three Painters, Edward Thorp Gallery, N.Y.
(1984); Luxe, Calme et Volupte - Nine Abstract Artists and Their Use of Colors, One Penn
Plaza, N.Y. (1984).
The Morris Gallery, located in the Academy museum at Broad and Cherry Streets,
displays the work of outstanding contemporary artists with a connection to Philadelphia,
determined by birth, schooling, or residence.
Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from
10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.; Sunday from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.; Wednesday evenings until
7:00 p.m.
Admission: $2.00 general; $1.50 senior citizens; and $1.00 students.
Free
Tuesdays; donations appreciated.
Morris Gallery exhibitions are chosen by a committee composed of area artists,
museum personnel and collectors, and the curatorial staff of the Academy.
Currently
serving on the Morris Gallery Exhibition Committee are: Cynthia Carlson, Bill Freeland,
Dr. Helen Herrick, Jay Richardson Massey, Cheryl McClenney, John Moore, Elizabeth
Osborne, Eileen Rosenau, Mark Rosenthal; and Academy staff: Judith Stein - Morris
Gallery Coordinator, Frank H. Goodyear, Jr., Linda Bantel, Kathleen A. Foster, Elizabeth
Romanella; and Academy students Ed Lewis and Anna Yates.
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OF FRANZ KLINE, A PENNSYLVANIA NATIVE, TO OPEN IN JUNE AT
PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS IN PHILADELPHIA ... ONLY SHOWING ON EAST COAST
TO: City and assignment desks, arts writers
CONTACT: Kirby F. Smith of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 215/972-7642
Philadelphia, Pa.--For the second summer in a row, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine
Arts will have a "can't miss" exhibition in its galleries.
Last summer the
highly-acclaimed Red Grooms retrospective attracted standing room only crowds, and this
year promises to be no different, since the Academy will present the only East Coast
showing of the first major Franz Kline retrospective exhibition since 1968.
It is most fitting that the Academy is the third and last stop for this show,
which opened in Cincinnati last November and is about to go on display in San Francisco,
for this important abstract expressionist painter was a Pennsylvania native and had
significant associations with Philadelphia.
raised in nearby Lehighton.
Kline was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., and
He attended school in Philadelphia for 6 years, and taught
at the Philadelphia Museum School for one year.
Franz Kline was a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement in the
1950s.
After his artistic debut in 1950, Kline met with escalating success until his
untimely death in 1962.
He was part of the avant-garde group of abstract expressionist
artists Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko, and others, known as "The New
York School."
Kline developed his own distinctive style using sweep-slashes of thick
black and white strokes across large canvases but color never completely left his work.
The works in this exhibition range from the artist's early figurative pieces to late
examples of his expansive, gestural paintings.
Those who are interested in Kline's work should note that this exhibition will
only be seen in Philadelphia, and nowhere else on the East Coast, a point not lost on
art critics Robert Hughes of Time magazine and Michael Brenson of The New York Times.
In his review of the exhibition, Hughes noted that the Kline retrospective "is one of a
lengthening list of distinguished exhibitions that will not be seen in New York City,"
while Brenson observed in his review that "precisely because Kline's work was determined
largely by inner necessity, however, this is exactly the kind of show New York now
needs."
The exhibition, entitled Franz Kline in Retrospect, consists of approximately 75
paintings and 25 works on paper, and will be at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine
Arts from June 27 through September 28.
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THE PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS ANNOUNCES
STUDENT AWARD WINNERS
(Philadelphia, Pa., May 12, 1986) - The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts has
announced the names of the student award winners, who were selected on the basis of the
work they submitted for the 85th Annual Student Exhibition, which is on display in the
main galleries at Broad and Cherry Streets through June 8, 1986.
This year 78 students
participated in the show, and approximately 600 works of art are on display.
The Annual Student Exhibition in its current form dates from 1902, when the first
William Emlen Cresson Traveling Scholarships were awarded.
Subsequently, the Lewis S.
Ware and J. Henry Schiedt Memorial Traveling Scholarships were established and, along
with the Cresson, are the most prestigious of the student prizes awarded each year.
The Cresson is a generously endowed scholarship established by Emlen and Priscilla
Cresson in memory of their son, who had been an accomplished Academy student and later,
a member of the Academy's Committee on Instruction.
and over 1,000 have been awarded since 1902.
Six Cressons were awarded this year
Cresson winners travel in Europe and also
receive a full tuition scholarship for the followi ng year.
The Ware Scholarship was
established in 1938 for European travel and two were award ed this year.
Scholarship, established in 1949, is for unrestricted travel.
The Schiedt
Six Schiedts were awarded
this year.
The 1986 winners of these awards are listed below:
Cresson:
Nicholas James Harris, Philadelphia, PA; Irena Kononova, Philadelphia,
PA; Jackie Lovenworth, Philadelphia,PA; Jon F. Manteau, Philadelphia, PA; Laura Ramos,
Philadelphia, PA; and Mehri Yazdani Reid, Bethlehem, PA.
Ware:
Lesley Jeanne Mitchell, Philadelphia, PA; and Dorothy Curran Stephenson,
Lansdowne, PA.
Schiedt:
Barbara M. Grant, Malvern, PA; Elizabeth Stuart Lacey, Jackson, MS;
Kevin P. Lewellen, Glenolden, PA;
Tony Sacksteder, Philadelphia, PA;
Sanders, Philadelphia, PA; and Wade Schuman, Ann Arbor, MI.
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In addition to the awards cited above, since the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine
Arts was established in Philadelphia in 1805 in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, it
~as
t hought appropriate that the offices of the governor of Pennsylvania and of the mayor of
Philadelphia be honored by the Academy with an award recognizing the contribution of the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to the arts and the importance of the city of Philadelphi a
as a cultural center.
Two awards, of $1,000 each, were established to be given to two graduating
Pennsylvania Academy students who have shown outstanding accomplishment in the fine arts.
The winner of the 1986 Governor's Award is Les Bacsujlaky of Browns Mill, New
Jersey.
The winner of this year's Mayor's Award is Charles David Kaufmann, of
Sugarloaf, Florida.
Two other prizes awarded this year were the Watkins Grant and the Hobson Pittman
Memorial Prize.
Established in 1973 by Mrs. Watkins, the Franklin C. Watkins Memorial
Gran t consists of three $800 cash prizes that are to aid talented students of painting
to meet expenses other than tuition.
The recipients of this year's award were David A.
Brown, Patterson, NJ; Nicholas James Harris, Philadelphia, PA; and Katherine M. Moran,
Cambridge, MA.
The Hobson Pittman Memorial Prize was endowed by the late Mr. Pittman, a former
Academy faculty member and recognized artist.
This cash prize of $1,000 is awarded to a
talented student for high achievement in experimental painting.
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This year's winner is
of Grosse Pointe, MI.
Both the Watkins Grant and Pittman Memorial Prize were first awarded in 1973.
Unlike thf Cresson , Schiedt, and Ware competitions , which allow students to submit
artwork for only one of the traveling scholarships, the Watkins Grants and Pittman
Memorial Prize are open to all students competing in the Annual Student Exhibition.
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts is located at Broad and Cherry Streets
in Philadelphia, just two short blocks north of City Hall.
transportation and parking.
It is convenient to public
It is open to the public from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on
Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday; 10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday; and 11:00
a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Sunday.
$1.00 for students.
appreciated.
General admission is $2.00, $1.50 for senior citizens, and
The public is admitted free of charge on Tuesdays; donations are
Regularly scheduled museum tours are given Tuesday through Friday at 11:00
a.m. and 2:00 p.m., Wednesday evenings at 5:30 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday at 2:00 p.m.
After the Annual Student Exhibition closes on June 8 at Broad and Cherry Streets,
prize-winning work will be on display until September 14, 1986 at the Academy's Peale
House Galleries at 1820 Chestnut Street.
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THE PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS
CHANGES FREE DAY TO SATURDAY AND ANNOUNCES NEW RATES
(Philadelphia, PA - June 12, 1986) - The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
announced today that it will change its free day and the admission prices of the
Academy's museum, effective June 27, 1986, when the exhibition The Vital Gesture: Franz
Kline in Retrospect opens to the public.
Beginning on June 28, the Academy's museum will admit visitors free on Saturdays
from 10 a.m. until 1 p.m.
The Saturday free day will replace the Academy's previous
policy of admitting visitors free on Tuesdays.
In citing reasons for the change, officials at the Academy said that more families
and working individuals will be able to take advantage of the free day on a weekend,
rather than on a weekday.
Also beginning on Friday, June 27, the museum's rates are changing.
admission will be $3; up from $2.
$2.
General
Senior citizens and students will be admitted for
Previously, senior citizens paid $1.50 and students $1.
From June 27 through September 28, 1986, The Vital Gesture: Franz Kline in
Retrospect will be making its sole East Coast appearance at the Pennsylvania Academy.
Kline, pioneer of the abstract expressionist movement and important twentieth century
painter, will be well represented in this exhibition, which contains 75 paintings and 25
works on paper.
Please note - Hours for the Academy's museum will remain as follows: Tuesday
through Saturday from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m.; Wednesday evenings until 7 p.m.; and Sunday
from 11 a.m. until 5 p.m.
Hours for the Peale House Galleries, located at 1820 Chestnut
Street, will remain as follows: Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m.; and
Sundays from 12 noon until 4 p.m.
There is no admission charge for the Peale House
Galleries.
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts is located at Broad and Cherry Streets
in Philadelphia, just two short blocks north of City Hall.
transportation and parking.
It is convenient to public
Regularly scheduled museum tours are given Tuesday through
Friday at 11:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m., Wednesday evenings at 5:30 p.m., and Saturday and
Sunday at 2:00 p.m.
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THE PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS ANNOUNCES THE PURCHASE OF THE LAST
CACHE OF THOMAS EAKINS MATERIAL: CHARLES BREGLER'S THOMAS EAKINS COLLECTION
(Philadelphia, Pa., - June 17, 1986) - The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
announced today that it has purchased the Charles Bregler's Thomas Eakins Collection the last, largely unexplored cache of Thomas Eakins's art objects and documentary
materials, from Mary Bregler, its owner.
This purchase has been made possible by a
grant from The Mabel Pew Myrin Trust, and contributions from the Academy's Henry S.
McNeil Acquisitions Fund, the John S. Phillips Bequest, the John F. Lewis Fund, and the
John T. Morris Fund.
In addition, the Academy has received grants from the National
Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities for the
conservation of the Bregler/Eakins collection.
As part of the agreement between the
Pennsylvania Academy and Mrs. Bregler, the purchase price was not disclosed.
The acquisition of this collection is one of the most exciting events in American
art scholarship and collecting to have occurred in decades; art historians who are
familiar with the life and works of Thomas Eakins have awaited the release of this
material for almost 30 years.
The Academy's purchase encompasses Bregler's entire
Eakins Collection, and consists of over 1,000 items - paintings, sculptures, drawings,
photographs, and manuscripts - by Thomas Eakins and his circle.
That circle included the artist's father Benjamin Eakins; his wife Susan Macdowell
Eakins; his sister-in-law Elizabeth Macdowell Kenton; and friends, students, and
admirers Charles Fussell, F. Gutekunst, David Wilson Jordan, Henri Marceau, Samuel
Murray, William O'Donovan, Amelia Van Buren, Eva Watson (Schutze), Carl Van Vechten,
Friedrich Von Rapp, and Bryan Wall.
The collection also includes many paintings,
pastels, drawings, and sculptures, by Charles Bregler (1868-1958), a student and friend
of Eakins in his later years.
Thomas Eakins was born in Philadelphia and, except for a period of study in Europe
from 1866 to 1870, lived in the city his entire life.
Upon graduating from Central High
School in 1861, he entered the Pennsylvania Academy where he produced cast drawings and
attended lectures in anatomy and perspective.
He was admitted to life classes in
February 1863, and left for Paris the following year.
1874 at the Philadelphia Sketch Club.
He began his teaching career in
Two years later he began teaching at the Academy
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negatives, stored in cardboard boxes marked with Eakins's handwriting, are also a part
of the collection.
Preliminary study of the glass plates indicate that they are Eakins's own
negatives, used to print photographs held in the Bregler/Eakins Collection and
elsewhere.
"The plates and photographs make up one of the most exciting components of
the collection," said Dr. Kathleen A. Foster, curator of the Academy and director of
research and publications.
"Eakins's personal collection of prints and negatives will
establish a basic corpus of work by which all of Eakins's photographs can be judged.
Since he evidently traded prints and collaborated with others, the scrapbook assemblages
rescued by Bregler present a jumble of unattributed work that will be a delightful
challenge to untangle."
"The importance of the collection to the Academy is that so many of the objects
relate directly to Eakins's tenure at the school," said Linda Bantel, director of the
museum.
"The acquisition of this material not only dramatically reinforces the
Academy's existing Eakins collection but it also establishes the Academy as a major
center for the study of Eakins and his circle, along with The Metropolitan Museum of
Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Yale University Art Gallery, and the Hirshhorn
Museum and Sculpture Garden.
were known.
For example, until now, less than 100 drawings by Eakins
The Bregler/Eakins Collection alone contains 261.
The sheer quantity of
unpublished material will lead the publi c, and particularly scholars, to a new
understanding and appreciation of the life and work of Thomas Eakins."
'~ithout doubt, this collection is the most important 'discovery' in American art
history in years," stated Frank H. Goodyear, Jr., president of the Pennsylvania
Academy_
"It is difficult to imagine the existence of a comparable unknown collection
relating to an artist of Eakins's stature, anywhere in America.
On behalf of the
trustees and staff of the Academy, I express my enormous thanks to The Mabel Pew Myrin
Trust, whose generous grant has helped make this purchase possible.
Equally important
contributions t oward this purchase also came from the Henry S. McNeil Acquisitions Fund,
the John S. Phillips Bequest, the John F. Lewis Fund, and the John T. Morris Fund."
An exhibition and publication of the highlights from the Bregler/Eakins Collection
are already in the planning stages.
Objects from the collection will be available for
study following cataloguing and conservation, perhaps as early as 1988.
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts is located at Broad and Cherr y Streets
in Philadelphia, just two short blocks north of City Hall.
transportation and parking.
It is convenient to public
It is open to the public from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on
Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday; 10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday; and 11:00
a.m. to 5:00 p . m. on Sunday .
and students.
General admission is $3.00, and $2.00 for senior citizens
The public is admitted free of charge on Saturdays, from 10:00 a.m. to
1:00 p.m . ; donati ons ar e appreciated.
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he was promoted to professor of painting
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curriculum to conform to his experiences in France, by including drawing and painting
from the nude, as well as dissecting and modeling.
He modified the Academy's
Eakins's insistence on teaching from
the nude model led to his dismissal by the Academy in 1886.
Philadelphia and to exhibit in the Academy Annuals.
is buried in Woodland Cemetery in West Philadelphia.
He continued to teach in
Eakins died on June 25, 1916, and
A memorial exhibition was held for
him at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in late 1917, and immediately thereafter at the
Pennsylvania Academy.
Following the death of Susan Macdowell Eakins in 1938, Charles Bregler received
authorization from the bank executors and Mrs. Eakins's relatives to visit Thomas
Eakins's home at 1729 Mount Vernon Street in Philadelphia and to rescue whatever had
been left in the house.
He came away with a sizable collection of paintings, drawings,
sketches, sculptures , photographs, and personal memorabilia, which he added to his
collection of Eakins material acquired during the lifetimes of Thomas and Susan Eakins.
Some, but not all, of this material had been seen by the eminent Eakins scholar, Lloyd
Goodrich, when he prepared his monograph on Eakins in 1933, but little of this material
was actually published.
Once in Bregler's hands, this collection was closely guarded.
After his death in 1958, the material became virtually inaccessible.
Works by Thomas Eakins in the Collection include 29 paintings, primarily small oil
sketches, such as studies for The Fairman Rogers' Four-in-Hand, 1879-80, Philadelphia
Museum of Art; Fifty Years Ago: Young Girl Meditating, 1877, The Metropolitan Museum of
Art; Mending the Nets, 1881, Philadelphia Museum of Art; and Taking the Count, 1898,
Yale University Art Gallery; 12 sculptures; 261 drawings, including sketches for the
illustrations to the unpublished manuscript textbook on perspective; and miscellaneous
anatomical studies, landscape sketches, and life drawings. There are also 361
documents, notably Eakins's letters to his family from Europe, 1866-70, a
sketchbook-diary of 1870, the artist's exhibition record (c. 1874-1916/17), and
correspondence relating to Eakins's resignation from the Pennsylvania Academy in 1886.
In addition, there are 16 items of miscellaneous memorabilia, such as Eakins's
watercolor box, drafting instruments, brushes and other equipment, and Eakins's school
bell.
The collection also contains some 535 vintage photographs, including portraits,
landscape studies, and studies of the male and female nude.
Twenty-seven of these
prints are signed or ascribed to specific photographers (e.g., Gutekunst).
The
remaining photographs, some 508 in number, cannot be attributed securely although many
can be assigned to Eakins and his circle.
Included in this latter sub-collection are
many motion studies and nudes, including 5 studies for The Swimming Hole, 1883, Fort
Worth Art Museum, that can be assigned to Eakins himself.
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PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS TO DISPLAY
FRANZ KLINE'S NIJINSKY AS PETROUCHKA IN EXHIBITION
(Philadelphia, PA - June 20, 1986) - The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine
Arts will be the only museum to display Franz Kline's oil painting, Nijinsky as
Petrouchka (c. 1948), in the three-city tour of The Vital Gesture: Franz Kline in
Retrospect.
The Kline exhibition will make its only East Coast appearance at the
Academy from June 27 through September 28, 1986.
The painting, which did not appear at the Cincinnati or San Francisco
showings of The Vital Gesture, comes from the private collection of I. David Orr.
A close friend and patron of the artist, Orr commissioned the work from Kline, a
major figure in the abstract expressionist movement in the 1950's.
"Nijinsky as Petrouchka is Kline's last major figurative painting, executed
at the express request of David Orr.
The Academy is delighted that Mr. Orr has
generously agreed to lend this rarely exhibited work to the Philadelphia showing of
the Kline retrospective.
It will be seen here in the full context of Kline's
oeuvre, where it occupies a key pivotal position," said Judith Stein, associate
curator of the Academy's museum, and curator-in-charge of the exhibition in
Philadelphia.
Kline painted Nijinsky as Petrouchka just before his mature abstract
expressionist period began in the early 1950's.
Nijinsky was the image that Kline
worked on more than any other; he painted and sketched the head of the dancer at
least six times in the period between 1936 and 1949.
The 1948 Nijinsky painting opened new stylistic directions for Kline; with
it, he achieved a new flexibility of style that he would continue to use in future
works, while dealing with a subject that he had repeated a number of times in the
past.
In this way, Nijinsky as Petrouchka became a catalyst between Kline's
figurative and abstract periods.
Kline was part of the avant-garde group of abstract expressionist artists
(which included Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko, and others) known
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as "The New York School."
Kline developed his own distinctive style using
sweep-slashes of thick black and white strokes across large canvases, but color
never completely left his work.
The works in this exhibition range from the
artist's early figurative pieces to late examples of his expansive, gestural
paintings.
The Vital Gesture: Franz Kline in Retrospect contains approximately 75
paintings and 25 works on paper, and is the first major Kline retrospective since
1968.
The show was organized by the Cincinnati Art Museum, and Dr. Harry F. Gaugh,
authority on post World War II art and associate professor of art history at
Skidmore College, is the show's guest curator and author of the accompanying
catalogue.
It is most fitting that the Academy is the third and last stop for this show,
for Franz Kline was a Pennsylvania native and had significant associations with
Philadelphia.
Lehighton.
He was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, and raised in nearby
He attended Girard College in Philadelphia for six years, and taught at
the Philadelphia Museum School for one year.
Kline studied art in Boston and in England, and hoped to become an
illustrator.
His excellent training in draftsmanship is apparent in even the most
abstract of his works.
The dramatic paintings in black and white, with their
powerful, sweeping strokes, established Kline's reputation with his first one-man
show in 1950.
Color was returning as a strong element in many of his late works.
His death, at the age of 51, came at the height of his career.
Early figurative works, paintings in which color is vibrantly employed, and
the large black and white abstractions for which he is best known all contribute to
the breadth of the exhibition.
The Tate Gallery in London, Washington D.C. 's
National Gallery of Art, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and other
outstanding public collections have loaned key works, as have a number of private
collectors.
A variety of programs, including a play, three film series (avant-garde,
classic animated, and movie sirens), and a family program featuring mime, music,
and storytelling, will be offered throughout the run of the show.
The fully-illustrated exhibition catalogue includes an essay on Franz Kline,
his life and time.
It also features a detailed chronology and bibliography as well
as 120 plates with 75 in color.
museum shop for $22.95.
The catalogue may be purchased in the Academy's
A gallery handout and checklist will also be available.
This exhibition has been supported in part by a grant from the Provident
National Bank.
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For Release: Friday, June 27, 1986
Kill Date:
Monday, September 29, 1986
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UNTIL SEPTEMBER 28. THIS IS THE ONLY EAST COAST STOP FOR THIS IMPORTANT
SHOW. MORE THAN 100 PAINTINGS AND DRAWINGS SPANNING KLINE'S CAREER ARE ON
VIEW. 3 FILM SERIES, A PLAY, AND A FAMILY PROGRAM ACCOMPANY THE EXHIBITION.
DON'T MISS THIS CHANCE TO SEE VIBRANT WORKS BY A MAJOR AMERICAN ARTIST. CALL
THE PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY AT 972-7600 FOR FURTHER INFORMATION.
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PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS PRESENTS
CLASSIC ANIMATED FILM FESTIVAL
(Philadelphia, PA -- Jul y 2, 1986) -- The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine
Arts, in conjunction with the exhibition The Vital Gesture: Franz Kline in
Retrospect, is presenting a Classic Animated Film Festival.
The Vital Gesture will
be on view at the Academy from June 27 to September 28, 1986.
Franz Kline's interest in art began at an early age with a fascination for
cartoons and animation.
The Academy is offering classic Walt Disney full-length
features on alternate Sunday afternoons.
These animated films will be shown twice,
at 12 noon and at 3:00 p.m., in the Academy's air-conditioned auditorium.
Seating
will be unreserved and free with museum admission; members are admitted free.
The schedule of films began with Alice in Wonderland on June 29, and
continues on July 13, when the Academy will show The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T, a
musical-comedy-fantasy with screenplay and songs by Dr. Seuss.
A nine-year-old boy
dreams he is held prisoner by his piano teacher, who attempts to force him and 499
other captives to playa concerto for 5,000 fingers on a mammoth piano.
Fun and Fancy Free, scheduled for July 27, is an animated surprise package
with t he escapades of Bongo, a little circus bear; "Mickey and the Beanstalk"
starring Mickey, Donald, and Goofy; and the ventriloquist team of Edgar Bergen and
Charlie McCarthy.
The movie on August 10 will be Pinocchio, Disney's famous tale of the
adventures of the little wooden boy who wanted to be real.
Finally, on August 24, the Academy will present The Sword and the Stone,
Disney's exciting adaption of the King Arthur legend.
The Penns yl vania Academy of t he Fine Ar ts is located at Broad and Che r ry
Streets, and is open to the public from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday,
Thursday, Friday, and Saturday; 10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday; and 11:00
a.m . to 5:00 p.m. on Sunday.
and students .
General admission is $3.00; $2.00 for senior citizens
The public is admitted free of charge on Saturdays from 10:00 a.m.
until 1:00 p.m.; donations are appreciated.
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STUDENTS AND FACULTY OF THE
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DISPLAY WORK AT THE PRINT CLUB THIS SUMMER
(Philadelphia, PA -- July 2, 1986) -- Works by students and faculty of the
Penns ylvania Academy of the Fine Arts graphics department will be exhibited at
The Print Club galler y from July 3 until July 31 , 1986.
An opening reception,
which is open to the public, is being held on Friday, July 11, from 5 p.m.
until 7 p.m.
The exhibition will be divided into two sections, one featuring student
works and the other, faculty works.
Forty-nine students will display 71
pieces, including two portfolio projects completed by 15 graphics majors at
the Pennsylvania Academy.
Five faculty members of the graphics department -- Chairman Peter Paone,
Daniel Miller, Edward O'Brien, Tony Rosati, and Ron Wyffels - - will show 15
pieces as well.
Chairman Paone was instrumental in arranging this exhibition
with The Print Club.
Most works at the exhibition will be available for purchase.
The Print Club is located at 1614 Latimer Street in Philadelphia.
The
special summer gallery hours during the exhibition are: Monday through Friday
from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m.
The Print Club galleries are free to the public.
The Print Club is a non-profit educational organization, celebrating 71
years of service to artists and the public.
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, founded in 1805, is the oldest
art museum and art school in North America.
Its collection of over 7,300
works of American art is housed in its third building, a National Historic
Landmark, designed by Frank Furness in 1876, and restored to its original
Victor i an splendor in 1976 .
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PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS TO PRESENT
A HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN AVANT-GARDE CINEMA
(Philadelphia, PA -- July 2, 1986)
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Pennsylvania Academy of the
Fine Arts, in conjunction with the exhibition The Vital Gesture: Franz Kline
in Retrospect, is presenting the film series "A History of the American
Avant-.Garde Cinema."
The Vital Gesture is making its sole East Coast
appearance at the Academy from June 27 until September 28.
Since Franz Kline was a major figure in the abstract expressionist
movement of the 1950's, it is appropriate that the Academy presents a
retrospective of another avant-garde form of the visual arts -- film.
Unlike
modern music, dance, architecture, and painting, avant-garde film has remained
almost invisible to the American public.
It is hoped that series like "A
History of the American Avant-Garde Cinema" will usher in a new visiblity for
avant-garde film.
This series, organized and circulated by the American Federation of Arts
Film Department, surveys independent filmmaking in this country from the
surrealistic works of the 1940's to the recent structural films of the
1970's.
The program is composed of 38 independently produced works by 28
filmmaker s •
"A History of the American Avant-Garde Cinema" will be prf,:!sented in a
sequence of seven screenings on alternate Wednesday evenings at 5;30 p.m.,
beginning July 2, in the Academy's auditorium at Broad and Cherry Streets.
There will be a brief introduction before each screening by a museum
staffperson.
The films in the series represent a critical selection by John G.
Hanhardt, associate curator of film at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Although the program is presented as a series, designed to be viewed in its
entirety, those who are unable to attend to entire series will find that it is
possible to gain an appreciation of the American avant-garde film by attending
only a few of the screenings.
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Tickets for the entire series are $25 for the general public and $20 for
members.
Tickets for individual screenings are $4 for the general public and
$3 for members; ticket price does not include admission to the museum.
The screenings are presented in chronological order.
The first program,
showing on July 2, contains six avant-garde films from 1943 to 1948.
Included
will be Maya Deren's and Alexander Hammid's Meshes of the Afternoon; Willard
Maas's Geography of the Body; Harry Smith's Early Abstractions (#1 - #5, #7,
and #10); Kenneth Anger's Fireworks; Maya Deren's A Study in Choreography for
Camera; and James Broughton's Mother's Day.
The total running time for this
screening will be 86 minutes.
The second program, showing on July 16, contains seven films from 1949
to 1958 .
Included will be Sidney Peterson's The Lead Shoes; Ian Hugo's Bells
of Atlantis; Stan Brakhage's The Wonder Ring; Shirley Clarke's
Bridges-Go-Round; Bruce Conner's A Movie; Robert Breer's Recreation; and Stan
Brakhage's Anticipation of the Night.
The total running time for this
screening will be 94 minutes.
The next program, showing on July 30, contains five films from 1959 to
1963.
Included will be Stan Vanderbeek's Science Friction; Stan Brakhage's
Prelude, Dog Star Man; Marie Menken's Notebook; Ken Jacobs's Little Stabs of
Happiness; and Bruce Baillie's Mass for the Dakota Sioux.
The total running
time of this screening will be 86 minutes.
The fourth program, showing on August 13, contains four films from 1963
to 1966.
Included will be Kenneth Anger's Scorpio Rising; Stan Brakhage's
Fire of Waters; Ken Jacobs's Window; and Tony Conrad's The Flicker.
The total
running time of this program will be 78 minutes.
The next program, showing on August 27, contains six films from 1966 to
1967.
Included will be Jordan Belson's Samadhi; George Landow's Film in Which
There Appear Sprocket Holes, Edge Lettering, Dirt Particles, Etc.; Bruce
Baillie's Castro Street; Jonas Mekas's Notes on the Circus; James Whitney's
Lapis; and Michael Snow's Wavelength. The total running time for this
screening will be 87 minutes.
The sixth program, showing on September 10, contains six films from 1967
to 1970.
Included will be Paul Sharits's T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G; Spanish D. Lawder's
Runaway; Robert Breer's 69; George Landow's Diploteratology; Larry Jordan's
Our Lady of the Sphere; and Robert Nelson's Bleu Shut.
of this screening will be 74 minutes.
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ACADEMY PRESENTS AVANT-GARDE FILM SERIES (CONT'D)
The final program, showing on September 24, contains four films from
1970 to 1972.
Included will be Ernie Gehr's Serence Velocity; Stan Br akhage's
The Riddle of Lumen; Barry Gerson's Endurance/Remembrance/Metamorphosis; and
Hollis Frampton's Nostalgia.
The total running time for this screening will
be 85 minutes.
This film series is made possible' by public funds from the National
Endowment for the Arts.
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts is located at Broad and Cherry
Streets in Philadelphia, just two short blocks north of City Hal l .
convenient to public transportation and parking.
It i s
It is open to the public
from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday; 10:00
a.m. to 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday; and 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Sunday .
General admission is $3.00; $2.00 for senior citizens and students.
The
public is admitted free of charge on Saturdays from 10:00 a.m. until 1: 00
p.m.; donations are appreciated.
Regularly scheduled museum tours are given
Tuesday through Friday at 11:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m., Wednesday evenings at 5:30
p.m., and Saturday and Sunday at 2:00 p.m.
The Academy, founded in 1805, is the oldest art museum and art school in
North America.
Its collection of over 7,300 works of American art is housed
in its third building, a National Historic Landmark, designed by Frank Furness
in 1876, and restored to its original splendor in 1976.
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PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS SCHEDULES SPECIAL EVENTS
FOR FRANZ KLINE EXHIBITON
(Philadelphia, PA - Jul y 2, 1986) - The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
has planned a variety of special events to accompany its upcoming exhibition, The
Vital Gesture: Franz Kline in Retrospect, which is making its sole East Coast
appearance at the Academy from June 27 to September 28, 1986.
Performances of the play, Museum; three film series; and a family program
featuring mime, music, and storytelling will be offered throughout the run of the
Kline exhibition.
The Academy and Hedgerow Theatre will present three performances of the
off-Broadway hit play Museum, written by Tina Howe, the winner of an Obie award in
1983 for best off-Broadway play.
June Prager, Hedgerow's artistic director, will
direct the comedy, which will be performed in the Academy's auditorium.
Museum is a madcap farce that aims it arrows at the world of modern art ... an
ironically appropriate program to run alongside a Franz Kline retrospective.
The
setting of the play is the final day of a group show in which three fictitious
contemporary American artists are being exhibited at a major museum of modern art.
An oddball group of some 40 people view the show while the audience views them,
resulting in an uninterrupted evening of hilarity.
Performances of Museum are being held on Wednesday and Thursday, July 9 and
10 at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday, July 12 at 2:00 p.m.
There will be a panel
discussion after Wednesday evening's performance with director Prager, museum
director Linda Bantel, assistant curator Judith Stein, and Academy painter and
faculty member Murray Dessner.
Before the performance on Thursda y, there will be a
fixed-price supper at the Peale Club at 1819 Chestnut Street; the public is
welcome .
The dinner price i s $16 . 95 , which includes tax and gratuities.
Ticket prices for the play are $9 for the general public and $7 for members
on July 9th and 10th, and $8 for the general public and $5 for members on July
12th; ticket price includes admission to the museum.
For further information or
for reservations, call the Academy's membership office at (215) 972 -7627 /30.
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Three film series will also be offered in conjunction with the Kline
retrospective .
Kline's interest in art began at an early a ge with a fascination
for cartoons and animation, and so the Academy is presenting a Classic Animated
Film Festival .
Five full - length Walt Disney films will be shown in the Acad emy's
auditorium during alternat ing Sunday afternoons beginning on June 29 .
Seating for the Cl assic Animated Film series will be unreserved and f r ee with
museum admission; members a r e admitted free.
Each movie will be shown twice on its
respective Sunday, at 12 noon and at 3:00 p.m.
The schedule will be as f ol lows: on June 29, Alice in Wonderland; on July 13,
The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T; on J uly 27, Fun and Fancy Free; on August 10,
Pinocchio; and on August 24, Sword in the Stone.
The second fi l m series will be Avant-Garde American Films, a film exhibition
organized and circulated by the American Federation of Arts Film Department.
The Franz Kline exhibition will display many of the artist's abstract
expressionist paintings.
To augment this exhibition, the Academy is presenting a
retrospective of another avant-garde form of the visual arts -- film.
The series
surveys independent filmmaking in this country from the surrealistic works of the
1940's to the recent structural works of the 1970's.
The pr og ram is composed of 38
films by 28 filmmakers.
The Avant-Garde American Film series will be presented in a sequence of seven
screenings on alternate Wednesday evenings, beginning on July 2.
will begin at 5:30, and will last approximately 90 minutes.
Each screening
A member of the museum
staff will make a brief introduction before each screening.
Tickets for the entire series are $25 for the general public and $20 for
members.
Tickets for indivi dual screenings are $4 for the general public and $3
for members.
Ticket price does not include museum admission .
For a list of the
movies being shown, call the Academy's education department at (2 15) 972 - 7608.
The Avant-Garde American Film series is made possible by public funds from
the National Endowment for the Arts.
Movie Sirens will be the third and final film series presented.
was very much aware of, and a dmired, the movie sirens of the 1940's.
Franz Kline
Four classic
movies will be shown on alternate Wednesday evenings at 5:30 p.m., beginning on
August 6 .
The schedule will be as f ollows: on August 6, Hanky Tonk, starring Lana
Turner; on August 20, Gilda, starring Rita Hayworth; on September 3, You Were Never
Lovelier, a lso starring Rita Hayworth; and on September 17, Pin Up Girl, starring
Betty Grable.
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ACADEMY'S SPECIAL EVENTS (CONT'D)
Seating for the Movie Sirens series is unreserved and free with museum
admission; members are admitted free.
Finally, the Academy will present a family performance on Saturday, September
6, at 2:00 p.m., in the Main Galleries where the Kline exhibition is hanging.
The
performance artists, who are from Moonstone, an interdisciplinary education
program, will bring t he art of Franz Kline to life by focusing on his early
interest in cartoons, his paintings of clowns, and his acclaimed black and white
abstractions.
With its use of mime, music and storytelling, this performance is especially
suited for families, and the program is open to all those eight years of age and
older.
Tickets for the family performance are $7 per person for the general public
and $6 per person for members; ticket price includes admission to the museum.
Reservations for the family performance can be made by calling the museum education
department at (215) 972-7608.
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts is located at Broad and Cherry
Streets in Philadelphia, just two short blocks north of City Hall.
convenient to public transportation and parking.
It is
It is open to the public from
10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday; 10:00 a.m. to
7:00 p.m. on Wednesday; and 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Sunday.
is $3.00; $2.00 for senior citizens and students.
General admission
The public is admitted free of
charge on Saturdays from 10:00 a.m. until 1:00 p.m.; donations are appreciated.
Regularly scheduled museum tours are given Tuesday through Friday at 11:00 a.m. and
2:00 p.m., Wednesday evenings at 5:30 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday at 2:00 p.m.
The Academy, founded in 1805, is the oldest art museum and art school in
North America.
Its collection of over 7,300 works of American art is housed in its
third building, a National Historic Landmark, designed by Frank Furness in 1876,
and restored to its original Victorian splendor in 1976.
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PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS
AND HEDGEROW THEATRE
PRESENT THE PLAY MUSEUM
(Philadelphia, PA -- July 3, 1986) -- The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine
Arts, along with Hedgerow Theatre, is presenting three performances of the
off-Broadway hit play Museum in conjunction with the exhibition The Vital Gesture:
Franz Kline in Retrospect.
The Kline retrospective is making its sole East Coast
appearance at the Academy until September 28, 1986.
Since Museum is a madcap farce that aims its arrows at the world of modern art,
it is a fitting program to run alongside a Franz Kline retrospective.
Museum was written by Tina Howe, winner of an Obie award in 1983 for best
off-Broadway play, and is being directed by June Prager, Hedgerow's artistic
director.
The setting of the play is the final day of a group show in which three
fictitious contemporary American artists are being exhibited at a major museum of
modern art.
An oddball group of lost souls, art lovers, skeptics, foreigners, and
students view the show while the audience views them, resulting in an uninterrupted
evening of hilarity.
Performances of Museum will be held in the Academy's auditorium, Broad and
Che rry Streets, on Wednesday, July 9 and Thursday, July 10 at 7:30 p.m., and on
Saturday, July 12 at 2:00 p.m.
An added attraction to the Wednesday, July 9,
performance will be a panel discussion after the show with director Prager, museum
director Linda Bantel, assistant curator Judith Stein, and Academy painter and
faculty member Murray Dessner.
Before the performance on Thursday, July 10, there will be a fixed-price supper
at the Peale Club, 1819 Chestnut Street, beginning at 5:30 p.m .; the public is
welcome.
The dinner price is $16.95, which includes tax and gratuities.
Ticket prices for the play are $9 for the general public and $7 for members on
July 9 and 10, and $8 for the general public and $5 for members on July 12; ticket
price includes admission to the museum.
For further information or for reservations, call the Academy's membership
office at (215) 972-7627 /30 .
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JOYCE FILLIP'S EXHIBITION, NATURAL PHENOMENA AND ATMOSPHERIC EFFECTS,
TO BE DISPLAYED AT THE MORRIS GALLERY
OF THE PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS FROM JULY 17 TO AUGUST 24
(Philadelphia, PA --July 14, 1986) -- Joyce Fillip, a 1986 fellow of the
National Endowment for the Arts, will display her work in the exhibition, Natural
Phenomena and Atmospheric Effects, at the Morris Gallery of the Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Arts from July 17 through August 24.
An opening reception, to which the public is invited, will be held on
Thursday, July 17, in the Morris Gallery from 5:00 p.m. until 7:00 p.m.
Also, the
artist will give an informal gallery talk on Friday, July 18, at 12 noon.
Natural Phenomena and Atmospheric Effects, consisting of approximately 12
objects, will concentrate on images of water.
Storms, waterfalls, icebergs, and
waterspouts will unfold across 9' x 8' sheets of paper, and will be depicted in
smaller-scale works as well.
Fillip works primarily in black and white, and
grisaille, and uses a variety of media -- charcoal drawings, monotypes, oil paint
on paper, and pastel -- to create her images.
Initially intrigued by the visual power and energy of such natural disasters
as Mount St. Helens or a Midwest tornado, Fillip has shifted her attention to the
sublimity of water in motion and its disparate states in the atmosphere.
Three years ago, Fillip switched media, relinquishing sculpture for work on
paper.
Judith Stein, Morris Gallery coordinator and associate curator of the
Academy museum, writes that "Fillip's backgound as a sculptor is brought to mind as
one looks at the thick, energetic volumes, and the dense atmospheric spaces that
have
b~en
deftly created on a flat surface."
Fillip was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 195.3, and has a B.F.A. degree from
the University of Illinois and an M.F.A. from the University of California.
As
well as the National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, Fillip has also been
awarded a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship in 1982 and 1985, and was a
Yaddo Fellow in 1984.
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Her recent exhibitions include a solo show at Marian Locks Gallery in
Philadelphia in 1984, and group shows at Frumkin Struve Gallery in Chicago and New
York City's The Drawing Center in 1985, and the Brooklyn Museum of Art in 1986.
Morris Gallery exhibitions are partially and generously funded by a grant
from the Philadelphia Foundation.
The Morris Gallery, located in the Academy museum at Broad and Cherry
Streets, displays the work of outstanding contemporary artists with a connection to
Philadelphia, determined by birth, schooling, or residence.
Hours are Tuesday
through Saturday from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.; Sunday from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.;
Wednesday evenings until 7:00 p.m.
and students.
Admission: $3.00 general; $2.00 senior citizens
Free Saturdays from 10:00 a.m. until 1:00 p.m.; donations are
appreciated.
Morris Gallery exhibitions are chosen by a committee composed of area
artists, museum personnel and collectors, and the curatorial staff of the Academy.
Currently serving on the Morris Gallery Exhibition Committee are: Cynthia Carlson,
Bill Freeland, Dr. Helen Herrick, Jay Richardson Massey, Cheryl McClenney, John
Moore, Elizabeth Osborne, Eileen Rosenau, Mark Rosenthal, and Academy staff: Judith
Stein, Morris Gallery coordinator; Frank H. Goodyear, Jr.; Linda Bantel; Kathleen
A. Foster; Elizabeth Romanella; and Academy students Ed Lewis and Anna Yates.
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PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS
(Philadelphia, PA -- August 1, 1986) -- The Pennsylvania Academy of the
Fine Arts, in conjunction with the exhibition The Vital Gesture: Franz Kline
in Retrospect, is presenting a Movie Sirens film series on alternate Wednesday
evenings at 5:30 p.m., beginning on August 6.
The Vital Gesture, the first major retrospective of Kline's work since
1968, is making its sale East Coast appearance at the Academy through
September 28, 1986.
Franz Kline, an important twentieth century painter and a major figure
in the abstract expressionist movement, was very much aware of, and admired,
the movie sirens of the 1940's.
This admiration is evident in the way Kline
depicted women in many of his early figurative paintings, such as Hot Jazz,
currently on display at the Academy as part of the Kline retrospective.
Dr. Harry Gaugh, guest curator of the exhibition and author of the
accompanying catalogue, writes that in his art, Kline's preference "for an
extroverted woman who flaunts her physicality corresponded to a growing taste
for this female type in films."
This "female type" will be on view in the Academy's auditorium beginning
on August 6 with Lana Turner in Hanky Tonk.
In this comedy/melodrama, a
western can man (Clark Gable) meets his match in the daughter (Turner) of a
judge who turns out to be an imposter.
Gilda will be shown on August 20.
This 1946 thriller, set in South
America, features Rita Hayworth as a sultry torch singer who becomes involved
with her former lover while married to a dangerous, warped, power-hungry
casino owner.
Miss Hayworth will return with You Were Never Lovelier, on September 3.
In this captivating 1942 musical, Hayworth plays the the daughter of a hotel
magnate who sets her sights on Fred Astaire.
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Finally, the series wraps up on September 17 with Pin Up Girl, a
timeless musical comedy featuring Betty Grable, the girl of every sevicemen's
dreams.
Seating for the Movie Sirens film series is unreserved and free with
museum admission.
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts is located at Broad and Cherry
Streets in Philadelphia, just two short blocks north of City Hall.
convenient to public transportation and parking.
It is
It is open to the public
from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday; 10:00
a.m. to 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday; and 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Sunday.
General admission is $3.00; $2.00 for senior citizens and students.
The
public is admitted free of charge on Saturdays from 10:00 a.m. until 1:00
p.m.; donations are appreciated.
Regularly scheduled museum tours are given
Tuesday through Friday at 11:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m., Wednesday evenings at 5:30
p.m., and Saturday and Sunday at 2:00 p.m.
The Academy, founded in 1805, is the oldest art museum and art school in
North America.
Its collection of over 7,300 works of American art is housed
in its third building, a National Historic Landmark, designed by Frank Furness
in 1876, and restored to its original Victorian splendor in 1976.
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THE PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS SCHEDULES
A PERFORMANCE ESPECIALLY SUITED FOR FAMILIES ON SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6,
TO ACCOMPANY KLINE EXHIBITION
(Philadelphia, PA -- August 20, 1986) - - The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine
Arts, in conjunct i on with the exhibition The Vi t al Gest ure: Franz Kline in
Retrospect, is pr e senting a performance, especially su i t ed for families, that will
use mime, music, and storytelling to bring the art of Franz Kline to life.
Two
rehearsals of the performance will also be open to t he public.
The Vital Gesture, the first major retrospective of Kline's work since 1968,
is making its sole East Coast appearance at the Academy through September 28, 1986.
The performance, which will concentrate on four a spects of Kline's life and
work, will be held on Saturday, September 6 , in the mai n galleries where the Kline
show is hanging.
The show will begin at 2 :00 p .m . and will run approximately one
hour.
The performance artists are from MooQstone, an int erdisciplinary education
program based in Philadelphia.
The Moonstone per f ormer s will bring Kl ine's work t o
life by focusing on his childhood interests in cartoons and trains , his painting s
of clowns, and his acclaimed black and white abstractions.
During the performance,
the Moonstone artists will inte rpret Kline's art by creating human representations
of some of his paintings.
Moonstone's di rector, Sandy Robin, a Pennsylvani a Academy alumna, says that
the performance i s designed so t hat both kids and adul t s will enjoy it.
"And the
children will be Encouraged to parti cipat e ," said Ms. Robin, "To play with the
trains and to become some of the charact ers tha t Moons to ne will create."
The first a s pect of the performance will concent r ate on Kline's use of black
and white, on his early interest in the Krazy Kat ca r toon character and in trains,
and on his childhood.
grew up.
This performance will be "set" in Lehighton, where Kline
Kline's painting Diamond will be recreate d in this segment.
Kline's interest in clowns and dancers in general, and his interest in the
great dancer Nijinsky as the clown character Petrouchka in particular, will be
highlighted in the next segment.
Nijinsky as Petrouchka is the figure that Kline
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painted more than any other.
Kline's wife Elizabeth, a dancer, will also be
referred to in this segment.
This performance will be "set" in Kline's studios in
New York City, where Kline painted many of these figures. His Dancer at Islip, a
1949 painting that alludes to Elizabeth, will be recreated by the Moonstone
performers.
In the third segment, the Moonstone performers will create a New York barroom
scene in which Kline will be talking with Krazy Kat and Nijinsky.
Kline saw these
two characters as different sides of his personality, and this "conversation" will
reveal much about Kline and how he used his interests and facinations in his art.
Early in his career, Kline was commissioned to paint many murals in New York City
taverns, much l i ke the barroom of this performance.
The final aspect of the performance will be an accumulation of the previous
parts and a final look at the life and work of this important twentieth century
abstract expressionist painter.
The family performance is open to anyone eight years of age or older.
Tickets are $7 per person for the general public and $6 per person for members of
the Pennsylvania Academy.
The Moonstone artists will rehearse the second and third segments of the
performance on August 24 and 31, respectively, at 2:00 p.m. in the Pennsylvania
Academy museum .
These 20 minute rehearsals will be open to the public and free
with museum admission.
For further information on the family performance or for reservations, please
call (215) 972-7600 and ask for the museum education department.
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts is located at Broad and Cherry
Streets in Philadelphia, just two short blocks north of City Hall.
convenient to public transportation and parking.
It is
It is open to the public from
10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday; 10:00 a.m. to
7:00 p . m. on Wednesday; and 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Sunday.
is $3.00; $2 . 00 for senior citizens and students.
General admission
The public is admitted free of
charge on Saturdays from 10:00 a.m. until 1:00 p.m.; donations are appreciated.
Regularly scheduled museum tours are given Tuesday through Friday at 11:00 a.m. and
2:00 p.m., Wednesday evenings at 5:30 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday at 2:00 p.m.
The Pennsylvania Academy, founded in 1805, is the oldest art museum and art
school in North America.
Its collection of over 7,300 works of American art is
housed in its third building, a National Historic Landmark, designed by Frank
Furness in 1876, and restored to its original Victorian splendor in 1976.
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ENVIRONMENTAL ARTIST HARRIET FEIGENBAUM TO DISPLAY WORK
AT THE MORRIS GALLERY OF THE PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS
FROM SEPTEMBER 12 UNTIL NOVEMBER 2, 1986
(Philadelphia, PA -- August 25, 1896) -- Environmen t al ar tist Harriet
Feigenbaum, who has been reclaiming barren strip mine sites in central
Pennsylvania, will display her work in the exhibition Reclamation Art: Strip Mine
Projects in the Anthracite Region of Pennsylvania , on view at the Morris Gallery of
the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts from September 12 until November 2, 1986.
An opening reception, to which the public is invited, will be held on
Thursday, September 11, in the Morris Gallery from 5:00 p.m. until 7:00 p.m.
Also,
the artist will give an informal gallery talk on Friday, October 10, at 12 noon.
Displaying sculpture, drawings , maps, and photographs, Feigenbaum's show will
demonstrate the magnificent potential for reclamation and beautification of
formerly scarred and abandoned land.
Her work addre sses both ecological and
aesthetic issues .
"Harriet Feigenbaum's reclamation projects in the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre area
of Pennsylvania are some of the most exciting and practical examples of
environmental art of which I'm aware," says Judith E. Stein, Morris Gallery
coordinator and Pennsylvania Academy's associate curator.
"Through the forum of
this Morris Gallery exhibition, I would hope that other artists and landowners will
be encouraged to initiate similar efforts to reclaim useless and hazardous land."
Feigenbaum's strip mine projects began in 1982 with a grant from the
Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and the Lackawanna County Commission for Cultural
Affairs.
Since then,she has been combining environmenal art with experimental
agriculture on approximately 50 acres of former strip mine sites, transforming them
into fruitful vineyards and gracious fo rests.
The artist, who did site work in
Italy and France in the early 1970's, says, "Reclamation art involves making the
land itself life supporting as well as structurally safe."
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Feigenbaum strives to meet these two goals in a variety of ways.
She has
developed a system of planting, using serpentine rows running diagonally across the
sloping hills.
This design prevents soil erosion while at the same time it creates
an illusion of rolling terrain.
vines in this configuration.
terrain.
The artist has worked with pine trees and grape
Grapes grow best on poor or acid soil and on hilly
Her project for the Greenwood Colliery in Scranton used willows in
circular plantings as a specific control to the problem of land erosion in a silt
pond.
Feigenbaum was born in New York City in 1939.
She studied at the Art Students
League (1957-1959), the National Academy of Design (1959-1961), and Columbia
University (1967-1971).
She has been awarded grants from the National Endowment
for the Arts, the America the Beautiful Fund, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts,
and the Scranton Area Foundation.
Her reclamation projects have been facilitated
by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Environmental Resources, which
provided maps and technical assistence.
Her solo shows include those at New York City's Ruth White Gallery (1969),
Warren Benedek Gallery (1972 and 1974), and City University Graduate Center Mall
(1976), and Philadelphia's Marian Locks Gallery (1981).
Group shows include Art on
the Beach, Creative Time Inc., New York City (1977); Dwellings, Institute of
Contemporary Art, Philadelphia (1978); Architectural Sculpture, Los Angeles
Institute of Contemporary Art (1980), and Sites and Solutions: Recent Public Art,
Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading, PA (1984).
Morris Gallery exhibitions are partially and generously funded by a grant from
the Philadelphia Foundation.
The Morris Gallery, located in the Pennsylvania Academy museum at Broad and
Cherry Streets, displays the work of outstanding contemporary artists with a
connection to Philadelphia, determined by birth, schooling, or residence.
Hours
are Tuesday through Saturday from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.; Sunday from 11:00 a.m.
to 5:00 p.m.; Wednesday evenings until 7:00 p.m.
senior citizens and students.
Admission: $3.00 general; $2.00
Free Saturdays from 10:00 a.m. until 1:00 p.m.;
donations are appreciated.
Morris Gallery exhibitions are chosen by a committee composed of area artists,
museum personnel and collectors, and the curatorial staff of the Pennsylvania
Academy.
Currently serving on the Morris Gallery Exhibition
Committ~e
are: Cynthia
Carlson, Paolo Colombo, Bill Freeland, Faith Ginsburg, Dr. Helen Herrick, Cheryl
McClenney, Carrie Rickie, Eileen Rosenau, Judith Tannenbaum, and Academy staff:
Judith Stein, Morris Gallery coordinator; Frank H. Goodyear, Jr.; Linda Bantel;
Kathleen A. Foster; and Elizabeth Romanella.
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SCULPTURE AT THE PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS,
ON VIEW FROM OCTOBER 31, 1986 TO JANUARY 11, 1987,
DISPLAYS THE ACADEMY'S PERMANENT COLLECTION
(Philadelphia, PA -- August 28, 1986) -- The first survey of the
Pennsylvania Academy's extensive collection of American sculpture will be
shown from October 31, 1986 until J a nuary II, 1987 in the spacious Victorian
galleries of the museum.
Approximate ly 200 objects wi ll be displayed,
spanning the early nineteenth century to the present, including works by
William Rush, Thomas Eakins, Alexander Stirling Ca ld e r, Isamu Noguchi, and
Louise Nevelson.
Over the past two years the Pennsylvania Aca demy has been committed to
sharing a greater breadth of its permanen t c ol l ect ion with the public.
This
survey of sculpture follows upon the surv e y of graphi c arts that was shown at
the Pennsylvania Academy last winter a nd s pr i ng.
The Penn s ylvania Academy's museum director, Li nda Bant e l, is the curator
of the exhibition, which will be arr a nged chronologi cally.
Sculpture at the
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts will begi n wi t h the native wood-carving
tradition of William Rush and continue with t he neocolas sical style
represented by the marble busts and figur es by Ameri can sculptors working in
Italy in the early nineteenth century.
During the late nineteenth century,
Paris and the famed Ecole des Beaux-Arts attracted nume rous artists, including
Thomas Eakins , who later instituted s imi lar t ea c hi ng methods at th e
Pe nnsylvania Academy's school.
A sec t ion of t he ex hibition will focus on the
training of sculptors at the Pe nns yl vania Academy, and wi ll inc lude reli ef s
and anatomical casts by Eakins and bronze
bu ~ts
and allegorical groups by his
follower, Charles Gr3fly.
Sculpture of the 1930's and 1940' s wi ll i nc l ude direct carvings of
animals and huma n figures in wood and ston e.
Th e mor e re cent trends in
sculpture will tie represented by works in a varie ty of media bv Alexander
Calder, David Smith, George Segal, Mary Fr a nk , De nnis Oppenheim, and Siah
Armajani.
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In preparation for this exhibition all of the objects have been conserved
under the direction of Virginia Norton Naude: the Pennsylvania Academy's
sculptor conservator.
She has been assisted over a period of seven years by
guest conservators and technicians, many of whom are graduates of the
Academy's school.
Conservation of the collection has been funded by the Pew
Memorial Trust, the National Endowment for the Arts, and Bertram O'Neill.
Occurring simultaneously with the conservation has been the research for
the first catalogue of the entire sculpture collection, to be published in
1987.
Linda Bantel is overseeing the project and the principal writers are
Pennsylvania Academy staff members: Susan James-Gadzinski, research associate,
and Mary Mullen Cunningham, research assistant.
The exhibition and catalogue have been generously supported by grants
from the Pew Memorial Trust and the National Endowment for the Arts.
As part of the exhibition, four films on videotape will be shown that
demonstrate different sculpture media.
Talks by Pennsylvania Academy faculty,
and a symposium on public sculpture are planned, as well as a family workshop
on sculpture and movement.
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts is located at Broad and Cherry
Streets in Philadelphia, just two short blocks north of City Hall.
convenient to public transportation and parking.
It is
It is open to the public
from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday; 10:00
a.m. to 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday; and 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Sunday.
General admission is $3.00; $2.00 for senior citizens and students.
The
public is admitted free of charge on Saturdays from 10:00 a.m. until 1:00
p.m.; donations are appreciated.
Regularly scheduled museum tours are given
Tuesday through Friday at 11:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m., Wednesday evenings at 5:30
p.m., and Saturday and Sunday at 2:00 p.m.
The Pennsylvania Academy, founded in 1805, is the oldest art museum and
art school in North America.
Its collection of over 7,300 works of American
art is housed in its third building, a National Historic Landmark, designed by
Frank Furness in 1876, and restored to its original Victorian splendor in 1976.
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DANCETELLER TO PREMIERE HOMAGE
AT THE PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS
ON SEPTEMBER 20 AND 21, 1986
(Philadelphia, PA -- August 29, 1986) -- The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine
Arts has scheduled a special premiere performance by the modern dance-theatre
company Danceteller, to accompany the exhibition The Vital Gesture: Franz Kline in
Retrospect, on Saturday and Sunday, September 20 and 21, at 4:00 in the main
galleries of the museum.
Both performances will be free with museum admission.
Danceteller will premiere Homage, which was choreographed by the company's
artistic director, Trina A. Collins.
The work was inspired by the art of Franz
Kline, a major figure in the abstract impressionist movement of the 1950's.
Homage will highlight and focus on specific works by Kline, including Requiem,
Slate Cross, Harley Red, and Four Square.
The dancers will move throughout the
main galleries of the museum while the audience moves with them.
Collins was inspired to choreograph Homage after viewing The Vital Gesture at
the Pennsylvania Academy.
retrospective in july.
"Kline's work has haunted me since I visited the
The power and the movement of the pictures, as well as the
space they are in, cry for a dance performance.
I feel that the pictures touched
my soul and I, as a dancer and artist, must respond ... I wish to pay homage to the
genius that is Franz Kline."
Homage will be performed beside the paintings that inspired its creation,
presenting a special, one-of-a-kind opportunity.
"This piece will never be seen in
the same way again," explains Danceteller's company manager, David Collins.
"Kline's paintings are an intrinsic part of the performance.
Although Danceteller
will probably include Homage in our repertoire, any future performances will lack
the power and depth lent by the paintings."
Formerly the resident professional company at Wilson College in central
Pennsylvania, Danceteller relocated to Philadelphia in 1985 to seek interaction
with other artists.
The creation of Homage and the performance at the Pennsylvania
Academy is their first opportunity for this unique interaction.
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Danceteller, a six-member company, is now in its 12th concert season.
Formed
in 1975 by Trina Collins, Danceteller is one of the most actively performing modern
dance companies in the U.S.
Danceteller has performed some 600 mainstage concerts
for audiences of more than a half-million people on such stages as: The Civic
Theatre (Chicago), the Riverside Dance Festival (NYC), the Zellerbach Theatre
(Philadelphia), Wolf Trap, (Vienna, Virginia), and The Walnut Street Theatre
(Philadelphia).
The choreography of Trina Collins has been honored with numerous
I
grants from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the
Arts.
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts is located at Broad and Cherry
Streets in Philadelphia, just two short blocks north of City Hall.
convenient to public transportation and parking.
It is
It is open to the public from
10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday; 10:00 a.m. to
7:00 p.m. on Wednesday; and 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Sunday.
is $3.00; $2.00 for senior citizens and students.
General admission
The public is admitted free of
charge on Saturdays from 10:00 a.m. until 1:00 p.m.; donations are appreciated.
Regularly scheduled museum tours are given Tuesday through Friday at 11:00 a.m. and
2:00 p.m., Wednesday evenings at 5:30 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday at 2:00 p.m.
The Pennsylvania Academy, founded In 1805, is the oldest art museum and art
school in North America.
Its collection of over 7,300 works of American art is
housed in its third building, a National Historic Landmark, designed by Frank
Furness in 1876, and restored to its original Victorian splendor in 1976.
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EDITOR'S NOTE:
Ms. Collins is still in the process of creating this special
tribute performance to Franz Kline, and she has been practicing and
working on Homage at the Pennsylvania Academy alongside the Kline
paintings. This situation presents an excellent photo and story
opportunity, and the Pennsylvania Academy welcomes all requests.
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A MAJOR ARCHITECTURAL EXHIBITION, DRAWING TOWARD BUILDING: PHILADELPHIA
ARCHITECTURAL GRAPHICS 1732-1986, TO BE ON DISPLAY AT THE PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY
OF THE FINE ARTS FROM OCTOBER 10, 1986, THROUGH JANUARY 4, 1987
(Philadelphia, PA - July 2, 1986) - From October 10, 1986, through
January 4, 1987, the exhibition Drawing Toward Building: Philadelphia
Architectural Graphics 1732-1986 will be on display at the Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Arts.
The exhibition is organized jointly by the
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Philadelphia Chapter of the
American Institute of Architects, and the Foundation for Architecture.
The rich architectural tradition of Philadelphia will be seen through
three centuries of drawings, starting with the original presentation drawing
of Independence Hall and ending with a computer drawing showing the city with
a completed Liberty Place.
The drawings vary from fine ink line drawings to
brilliantly colored and rendered perspectives and elevations, from tiny pencil
sketches to immense renderings in the Beaux-Arts style.
The exhibition will encompass approximately 250 of the most important
Philadelphia architectural drawings ever assembled.
These include well-known
works, those which have long been out of Philadelphia or held in private
collections inaccessible to the public, as well as many drawings never
previously exhibited by talented, but generally unknown, architects.
Approximately 40 of the works were drawn by contemporary Philadelphia
architects, selected from a competition held on June 29 and 30, 1984.
Through
the drawings, this exhibition will explore the development of architecture as
a profession and fine arts discipline.
It will demonstrate that architectural
drawing maintains its own technical and aesthetic integrity but it also
relates to the fluctuations of taste and fashion that have shaped the other
fine arts.
The coordinating curator of this exhibition is the Pennsylvania
Academy's museum director, Linda Bantel, who is assisted by Elizabeth
Romanella, also of the Academy.
Guest curators are Jeffrey A. Cohen,
architectural historian, and assistant editor of the Benjamin Henry Latrobe
Papers; G. Holmes Perkins, university professor of architecture and urbanism,
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University of Pennsylvania; and George E. Thomas, architectural historian and
lecturer, University of Pennsylvania.
Accompanying the exhibition is a fully-illustrated catalogue, with a
historical overview contributed by James F. O'Gorman, Grace Slack McNeil
Professor of American Art, Wellesley College, and coordinating guest curator
of the show.
All of the guest curators contributed essays and detailed
descriptions of each object in the exhibition.
The catalogue is being
published for the Pennsylvania Academy by the University of Pennsylvania
Press.
Its publication is fully supported by funds provided by The William B.
Dietrich Foundation.
The catalogue will be available in a soft-cover edition
for $29.95.
Approximately half of the works in this show are by eighteenth and
nineteenth-century architects such as Benjamin Henry Latrobe, William
Strickland, Frederick Graff, John Haviland, Thomas U. Walter, John MacArthur,
Jr., Stephen Button, Samuel Sloan, Napoleon LeBrun, Frank Furness, John
Notman, Addison Hutton, and James Windrim, most of whom are familiar to
informed students of architectural history.
About one-fourth of the
exhibition will include works by late nineteenth-century and early
twentieth-century architects, such as Paul Cret, Wilson Eyre, Jr., Edmund
Gilchrist, George Howe, Horace Trumbauer, Wilson Brothers, Cope and
Stewardson, William Price, and Frank Miles Day.
The period 1930 to the present will include drawings by Louis I. Kahn,
Robert Venturi, Mitchell/Giurgola, and Mario Romanach, among others.
The
twentieth century drawings clarify the connection between city planning and
design that marked Philadelphia as a showplace of post-World War II modern
urbanism.
Together these drawings document the Philadelphia achievement.
The principal sponsors of this exhibition are Mellon Bank, the
Philadelphia Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, and the
Foundation for Architecture.
The exhibition celebrates the sesquicentennial
of the beginnings of Mellon Bank.
Contributors to the show include: Atkin,
Voith Associates; Blank Rome Comisky & McCauley; Bower Lewis
Thrower/Architects; Clio Group, Inc.; Geddes Brecher Qualls Cunningham;
Historic Landmarks for Living; H2L2 Architects/Planners; John Milner
Associates; Mitchell/Giurgola Architects; Rohm and Haas; Mr. & Mrs. John F.
Sherrerd; Stockton, Rush, Bartol Foundation; Venturi, Rauch and Scott-Brown,
Inc.; and ZSL Real Estate Corporation.
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Philadelphia, PA -- The rich architectural tradition of Philadelphia will be
displayed through the exhibition Drawing Toward Building: Philadelphia Architectural
Graphics 1732-1986, on view at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts from October
10, 1986 through January 4, 1987.
Three centuries of drawings, starting with the original presentation drawing of
Independence Hall and ending with a computer drawing showing the city with a completed
Liberty Place, will be represented in this show.
These drawings vary from fine ink line
drawings to brilliantly colored and rendered perspectives and elevations, from tiny
pencil sketches to immense renderings in the Beaux-Arts style.
Drawing Toward Building will explore the development of architecture as a profession
and fine arts discipline; the exhibition will demonstrate that architectural drawing
maintains its own technical and aesthetic integrity but also relates to the fluctuations
of taste and fashion that have shaped the other fine arts.
The exhibition will encompass approximately 250 of the most important Philadelphia
architectural drawings ever assembled.
These include well-known works, those which have
been long out of Philadelphia or held in private collections inaccessible to the public,
as well as many drawings never previously exhibited by talented, but generally unknown,
architects.
Approximately 40 works were drawn by contemporary Philadelphia architects,
selected from a competition held in 1984.
Approximately half of the works in this show are by eighteenth and nineteenth
century architects, while the other half contains work by twentieth century architects.
The twentieth-century drawings in the show clarify the connection between city planning
and design that marked Philadelphia as a showplace of post-World War II modern
urbanism.
Together these drawings document the Philadelphia achievement.
A fully-illustrated catalogue accompanies the exhibition, and will be available in a
soft-cover edition for $29.95.
The exhibition is organized jointly by the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts ,
the Philadelphia Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, and the Foundation for
Architecture.
The principal sponsors of this exhibition are Mellon Bank, the
Philadelphia Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, and the Foundation for
Architecture.
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VISITING ARTISTS PROGRAM BRINGS DISTINGUISHED PROFESSIONALS
TO THE PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS
(Philadelphia, PA -- September 11, 1986) -- The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine
Arts has announced the roster for its Visiting Artists Program for the 1986-1987
academic year.
Eight distinguished artists, including Italo Scanga, Natalie Charkow,
and Irving Petlin, will participate in this year's program.
The Pennsylvania Academy's Visiting Artists Program brings nationally and
internationally renowned artists to its school and museum for one day for the benefit
of the Pennsylvania Academy students.
Each of the artists will give a one-hour lecture that is open to the public on
the day of their visit.
These lectures will begin at 12 noon in the Academy's
auditorium at Broad and Cherry Streets and are free; admission to the museum is extra.
The roster of artists scheduled to visit the Pennsylvania Academy is as follows:
William Beckman, regarded as one of America's foremost realist painters, will
visit the Pennsylvania Academy on Friday, September 26, 1986.
Jane Piper, a Philadelphia-based abstract painter, is scheduled for Thursday,
October 23.
Piper's visit will coincide with her retrospective exhibition at the
Peale House Galleries of the Pennsylvania Academy, on view from October 9 through
November 2.
Scheduled for Monday, November 3, is Natalie Charkow, a sculptor who works in a
traditional, realistic manner, and who is a master technician.
Italo Scanga, a mixed-media sculptor regarded as one of America's most personal
and innovative artists , will visit the Pennsylvania Academy on Friday, December 12.
Scanga's visit will coincide with his exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary
Art, University of Pennsylvania campus, 34th and Walnut Streets.
Irving Petlin will visit on Tuesday, January 27, 1987.
Petlin is recognized
internationally for his modern-surrealist, figurative landscapes.
Steven Hawley, a
young realist painter with a growing national reputation who works in oil, wax
encaustic, and clear
alkyd~
will visit on Wednesday, February 11.
Scheduled on Thursday, February 26, is Charles Cajori, an abstract painter and
longtime teacher.
Finally, Louisa Chase, an abstract painter who has twice received
grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, is scheduled to visit the
Pennsylvania Academy in the spring;
~he
date has yet to be announced.
For more information on the Pennsylvania Academy's Visiting Artists Program, call
the public relations department at (215) 972-7642.
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ANNUAL FACULTY EXHIBITION: "THEN AND NOW,"
ON VIEW AT THE PEALE HOUSE GALLERIES OF
THE PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS
FROM SEPTEMBER 18 - OCTOBER 5, 1986
(Philadelphia, PA -- September 11, 1986) --
"Then and Now" is the theme
of this year's Annual Faculty Exhibition at the Peale House Galleries of the
Schools of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where faculty members
will display recent work along with works from their student days or major
transitional pieces.
The show, on view from September 18 until October 5,
1986, will also unveil the recent renovations of the Peale House Galleries.
There will be an opening reception, to which the public is invited, on
Wednesday, September 17, in the Peale House Galleries, from 5 to 7 p.m.
The Annual Faculty Exhibition will display these "then and now"
paintings, drawings, prints, and sculpture by 35 Pennsylvania Academy faculty
members in both the front and student galleries at the Peale House.
Among the
artists represented will be Will Barnet, Arthur de Costa, Murray Dessner,
Sidney Goodman, Homer Johnson, Karl Karhumaa, Jimmy C. Leuders, Daniel D.
Miller, Edward O'Brien, Eo Omwake, Elizabeth Osborne, Peter Paone, Henry
Pearson, Jody Pinto, Seymour Remenick, Bruce Samuelson, Louis B. Sloan,
Anthony Visco, and Roswell Weidner.
Most of the works will be available for
purchase.
The Annual Faculty Exhibition traditionally opens the season at the
Peale House Galleries and serves to welcome the
academic year.
stu~ts
back for another
The Pennsylvania Academy curriculum is founded in the belief
that master fine artists teach apprentice students in a studio environment.
On that basis a very important aspect of the education of the students is the
exhibition of work of these master teachers in a professional setting.
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Recent renovations to the Peale House Galleries will also be formally
unveiled at the faculty show's opening.
A generous grant from the Samuel S.
Fels Fund made possible the expansion and improvement of hanging space in the
galleries.
Designed by the firm of David Slovic, Architect and Urban Design,
the galleries feature moveable partitions that can be adapted for each new
show.
The Peale House is also displaying a new "face" on Chestnut Street that
invites passers-by to visit the galleries and view the student and
professional work.
The Peale House Galleries, located at 1820 Chestnut Street,
Philadelphia, display a rotating series of stimulating exhibitions in all
media throughout the year.
In addition to Pennsylvania Academy students and
faculty, the shows in the Peale House Galleries feature works of prominent
artists both from the Philadelphia area and the East Coast.
These shows are
organized for the benefit and education of Pennsylvania Academy art school
students as well as the public.
Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10
a.m. to 4 p.m., Sunday from 12 noon to 4 p.m.
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PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS ANNOUNCES
$1.6 MILLION CAMPAIGN FOR SCHOLARSHIP ENDOWMENT ...
$447,000 ALREADY PLEDGED
(Philadelphia, PA -- September 24, 1986) -- The Pennsylvania Academy of
the Fine Arts announced today that it is inaugurating a $1.6 million campaign
for scholarship endowment.
Bearing the title "Talent is a Rare Gift," the
drive, which will end December 31, 1987, has already received $447,000 in
pledges.
The purpose of the scholarship campaign is to double an existing endowed
scholarship fund of $1.6 million to $3.2 million.
The Pennsylvania Academy is
currently able to assist only a third of its student population, and the
average scholarship award provides only a portion of the total cost of
attending the Pennsylvania Academy.
In addition, the majority of Pennsylvania
Academy students have previously attended college.
Many of these students
have already earned a college degree and thus are ineligible for federal and
state financial aid.
Therefore, they must rely solely on the Pennsylvania
Academy as a resource for tuition and art supplies.
All contributions to the campaign will be placed in an endowment fund, the
interest from which will provide scholarships for future Pennsylvania Academy
student; in perpetuity.
"A campaign to raise $1.6 million in order to double existing scholarship
support for students is essential to the well-being of the school," said
Charles E. Mather III, chairman of the steering committee for the campaign,
and a member of the Academy's board of trustees.
"The Pennsylvania Academy
must have adequate financial resources to meet the increasing needs of
students."
Frank H. Goodyear, Jr., president of the Pennsylvania Academy, underscored
the essence of the endowment campaign.
"Nothing that we do today is as
important as to continue to provide the highest quality fine arts education,
building on a tradition begun 181 years ago.
The ability to provide financial
aid for talented students who want to study here is critical."
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Founded in 1805, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts is the oldest
art school in America.
Accredited by the National Association of Schools of
Art and Design, the Pennsylvania Academy is one of the few art schools in
America dedicated exclusively to educating fine artists.
More than 200
full-time and 600 part-time students from America and abroad participate in
the Pennsylvania Academy's four-year curriculum that combines the proven
teaching traditions of the great European art academies, and the dynamic
innovations of contemporary art.
Such a program requires courses in the
fundamentals of art for beginning students and independent study for advanced
students.
Frederick S. Osborne, Jr., director of the schools of the Pennsylvania
Academy, notes that "the contribution of a scholarship carries special
meaning.
The donor is giving directly to an aspiring artist, providing an
individual, young or old, with the opportunity to become professionally
educated as a fine artist.
This obviously is also an investment in the future
of art, for today's students are tomorrow's artists."
Planning is underway for several special fundraising events in conjunction
with this campaign.
One of the most important of these events is a gala
masked ball, which is being sponsored by The Women's Committee of the
Pennsylvania Academy.
The organizing of this gala is aided by a generous
grant from Provident National Bank.
The masked ball will be held in the
Academy's Furness building at Broad and Cherry Streets on Saturday, March 14,
1987.
The Pennsylvania Academy's Alumni Association is also lending its support
to the scholarship endowment drive by organizing two fundraising events.
The
first is the Alumni Artists Ball and Casino, which will be held on October 18,
1986.
The themes for this event are "Through the Looking Glass" and the "Mad
Hatter's Tea Party."
businesses.
Prizes for the casino have been donated by local
The second event is the Annual Holiday Party and Art Raffle,
which will be held on December 14, 1986.
Pennsylvania Academy alumni are
donating works for the raffle.
Other fundraising events in the planning stages are: receptions and
exhibitions in New York, Washington, and Philadelphia, in which Pennsylvania
Academy faculty, alumni, and artists who are friends of the Academy will
participate.
The schools of the Pennsylvania Academy foster a community of artists in
which faculty and students work and exhibit together.
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distinguished faculty includes Will Barnet, Sidney Goodman, Elizabeth Osborne,
Peter Paone, and Jody Pinto.
The Pennsylvania Academy has produced alumni of
international stature, including Mary Cassatt (1861), Thomas Eakins ('63),
Henry O. Tanner ('81), Robert Henri ('94), John Sloan ('94), John Marin
(1901), Daniel Garber ('05), Charles Sheeler ('06), Charles Demuth ('10),
Louis Kahn ('20), Ray Saunders ('57), David Lynch ('65), and James Havard
( '67).
The scholarship endowment campaign steering committee is made up of
Pennsylvania Academy trustees, distinguished artists, and patrons of the
arts.
Honorary Co-Chairpersons are Robert Motherwell and Mrs. John
Wintersteen (in memoriam).
The committee is comprised of Charles E. Mather
III, Frank Goodyear, and Fred Osborne, as well as Will Barnet, John B.
Bartlett, Bruce G. Birkholz, Elaine Breslow, Anthony DiRienzi, Mrs. Richard J.
Fox, Samuel M.V. Hamilton, Mrs. Henry F. Harris, Catherine Kimock, B. Herbert
Lee, Stanley Merves, Helen Mirkil, Mrs. Lathrop B. Nelson Jr., Elizabeth
Osborne, Peter Paone, Sidney Simon, Mr. and Mrs. Harold E. Sussman, and Mrs.
Jerome B. Weinstein.
The campaign advisory committee is composed of prominent American artists,
including William Bailey, Sam Gilliam Jr., Red Grooms, Grace Hartigan, Alfred
Leslie, Louise Nevelson, Philip Pearlstein, George Rickey, James Rosati,
Judith Rothschild, Helen Farr Sloan, Neil Welliver, and Andrew Wyeth.
The gifts received thus far for this campaign have come from a variety of
sources, including the Women's Committee of the Pennsylvania Academy,
individuals, corporations, banks, foundations, and alumni.
Anyone who desires
additional information or wishes to contribute to the Pennsylvania Academy's
endowment scholarship fund campaign should call Mrs. Ruth Oliver at (215)
569-2797.
The schools of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts are located in
the Broad and Cherry Streets museum building, a National Historic Landm9rk,
designed by Frank Furness in 1876, and in the Peale House of the Pennsylvania
Academy, 1820 Chestnut Street.
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RETROSPECTIVE EXHIBITION OF PHILADELPHIA ARTIST JANE PIPER
TO BE DISPLAYED AT THE PEALE HOUSE GALLERIES
OF THE PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS
OCTOBER 9 - NOVEMBER 2, 1986
(Philadelphia, PA -- September 29, 1986) -- Philadelphia artist Jane Piper's
work will be displayed at the Peale House Galleries of the Pennsylvania Academy of
the Fine Arts in the exhibition Jane Piper: Paintings 1940-1985, on view from
October 9 through November 2, 1986.
An opening reception, to which the public is invited, will be held in the Peale
House on Wednesday, October 8, from 5 p.m. until 7 p.m.
Jane Piper's Peale House retrospective of more than 30 paintings is the first
exhibition to show her development from a student to one of Philadelphia's most
important artists.
Working primarily in oils, Piper usually paints flowers, vases, fruits -- "The
studio still life is most often her starting point, with the real subject not the
objects themselves but their shapes, colors, and spatial relationships," writes Dr.
Barbara A. Wolanin, guest curator of the show and author of the accompanying
catalogue.
White is the most important color in Piper's paintings.
She utilizes beams and
dapples of white played against flashes of carefully adjusted hues to create the
moving light and air surrounding her still-life forms.
Her other colors tend to be
warm and natural -- greens, blues, yellows, oranges.
The distinct mood created in each canvas is achieved through the unique balance
of space, movement, and color that has become Piper's staple.
Jane Piper: Paintings 1940-1985 originated at the Sawhill Art Gallery in
Harrisonburg, Virginia, and will travel to the Tyler Art Gallery of the State
University of New York at Oswego in January.
Jane Piper was born in Philadelphia in 1916.
She attended the Pennsylvania
Academy's school from 1935 to 1936,and .studied under Earle Horter the following
year.
Piper was a student of Arthur B. Carles from 1939 until 1941, then attended
the Hans Hofmann School in Provincetown, Massachusetts, for one year.
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Piper taught at the Philadelphia College of Art from 1956 until 1985 before
moving to the New York Studio School.
She will be a visiting artist at the
Pennsylvania Academy on Thursday, October 23.
On that day, she will give a
lecture, which is open to the public, in the Pennsylvania Academy's auditorium at
12 noon.
The lecture is free.
Piper has had frequent solo shows in Philadelphia, as well as at the Kornbluth
Gallery, Fairlawn, NJ (1986); Kendall Gallery, Wellfleet, MA (1984); Provincetown
Gallery Group, Provincetown, MA (1982); and many others.
Her group shows include
Group Exhibition, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, TX (1986); Pertaining to
Philadelphia II, Philadelphia Museum of Art (1986); 161st Annual Exhibition,
National Academy of Design, NYC, (1986); Paintings With a Spring Theme, PAFA
(1986); Survival of the Fittest II, Ingber Gallery, NYC (1985); Mother & Daughters,
Blair Art Extension, Hollidaysburg, PA (1984); American Paintings, Allentown Art
Museum, Allentown, PA (1983); Drawing (1982) and 5 Artists (1978), Landmark
Gallery, NYC; and many others.
Piper is represented in the collections of many museums, including the
Pennsylvania Academy, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Carnegie Institute's
Museum of Art, the Allentown Art Museum, and the Corcoran Gallery of Art.
The Peale House Galleries, located at 1820 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia,
display a rotating series of stimulating exhibitions in all media throughout the
year.
In addition to Pennsylvania Academy students and faculty, the shows in the
Peale House Galleries feature works of prominent artists from both the Philadelphia
area and the East Coast.
These shows are organized for the benefit and education
of Pennsylvania Academy art school students as well as the public.
Hours are
Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Sunday from 12 noon to 4 p.m.
admission charge.
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PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS ANNOUNCES THE APPOINTMENT OF LAINIE
LOMENZO AS DIRECTOR OF MARKETING AND TERI L. CERASO AS ASSISTANT DEAN - BOTH
ARE NEWLY CREATED POSITIONS
(Philadelphia, Pa. - October 1, 1986) - The Pennsylvania Academy of the
Fine Arts announced today that Lainie Lomenzo has been appointed to the
position of director of marketing for the Academy and that Teri L. Ceraso has
been appointed assistant dean of the schools of the Pennsylvania Academy.
These are newly created positions, and are evidence of the Pennsylvania
Academy's ongoing commitment to ensure that the exhibitions and programs of
its museum and the educational goals of its schools are clearly and
emphatically .presented to those who live in or visit the Philadelphia area.
"I felt that the time was right for the Pennsylvania Academy to
establish a marketing department," said Frank H. Goodyear, Jr., president of
the Pennsylvani Academy.
"In Lainie Lomenzo, we have someone who brings with
her an impressive background in marketing and public relations, and a dose of
brio, for good measure.
Under this new arrangement the public relations
office will become part of the marketing department.
The primary objective of
this new department will be to develop and implement a comprehensive and
focused marketing and public relations plan that will serve the goals of our
museum and schools," Goodyear concluded.
Lainie Lomenzo comes to the Pennsylvania Academy from Toronto, Canada,
where she held the positions of director of press and public relations at the
Stratford Festival (Ontario) and the Shaw Festival, Niagara on the Lake
(Ontario).
Ms. Lomenzo, who was granted an honors degree in mathematics from
Marymount College and an honors degree in political science and music from
Indiana University, has held a variety of marketing and public relations
positions in Canada, in addition to the Stratford and Shaw posts.
Among
others, these positions and responsibilities included: organizing
international publicity for Toronto's New Media Festival: Video Culture;
publicity for the 1984-85 season opening of the Canadian Electronic Ensemble;
the conception, scriptwriting, and production of the program "Media
Manipulation" for the series Speaking Out for TV Ontario; the preparation of a
position paper in support of a National Cultural Awareness Campaign for the
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Canadian Conference of the Arts; founding member and head of public relations
for Lunches with Leaders, a forum of accountability of the political
candidates in the 1984 Canadian federal election; the handling of publicity
and marketing for the Music Theatre Ensemble International Audition Tour of
the Banff School of Fine Arts in Alberta; the organizing of publicity and
marketing of the PDQ Bach fundraising concert for the Comus Music Theatre in
Toronto; the director of publicity and marketing for Toronto's Young People's
Theatre; and the coordinator of performing arts for the Harbourfront
Corporation in Toronto.
Ms. Lomenzo was in based in Rome, Italy, in 1983,
where she handled publicity for the Italian engagements of noted European
conductors, and was a free lance music correspondent for CBC-Radio, for which
she covered the Spoleto Festival, La Scala, and the Prague Spring Festival.
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"It was my good fortune to work with Teri Ceraso when we were both at
the Philadelphia College of Art," commented Frederick S. Osborne, Jr.,
director of the schools of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
"We
established this new position of assistant dean after a year of careful
analysis, and I can't think of anyone who is more qualified for it than Ms.
Ceraso.
Ms. Ceraso's office will be located in the Peale House at 1820 Chestnut
Street, and she will have primary responsibility for academic counseling.
In
addition, she will serve as chief liaison between faculty, staff, students,
and the director of the schools.
Ms. Ceraso holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English literature and
business administration from Skidmore College, and a Master of Arts degree in
communications from Temple University.
Prior to her appointment at the
Academy she has held similar positions at Philadelphia College of Art, and
Temple University.
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the oldest art museum and art
school in North America (founded in 1805), is located at Broad and Cherry
Streets in Philadelphia, just two short blocks north of City Hall.
It is open
to the public from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and
Saturday; 10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday; and 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on
Sunday.
General admission is $3.00; $2.00 for senior citizens and students.
The public is admitted free of charge on Saturdays from 10:00 a.m. until 1:00
p.m.; donations are appreciated.
Regularly scheduled museum tours are given
Tuesday through Friday at 11:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m., Wednesday evenings at 5:30
p.m., and Saturday and Sunday at 2:00 p.m.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
THE FIRST MAJOR RETROSPECTIVE EXHIBITION OF JACK TWORKOV,
ORGANIZED BY THE PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS,
TO BE ON DISPLAY JANUARY 30 THROUGH APRIL 5, 1987
(Philadelphia, PA -- October 3, 1986) -- The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine
Arts has organized the first full retrospective exhibition of the work of the
abstract expressionist painter Jack Tworkov (1900- 1982) .
Jack Tworkov: Paintings
1928--1982, will be on view at the Pennsylvania Academy from January 30, 1987 until
April 5, 1987.
The impact of this exhibition will be felt with the publication of the
accompanying catalogue.
Scholars and the general public alike will have access,
for the first time, to unpublished materiais, including Tworkov's journals,
diaries, essays and lectures.
This exhibition of approximately 60 works will bring
togethe~
for the first
time the salient paintings of the two previous Tworkov surveys -- the Whitney
Museum (1964) and the Guggenheim Museum (1981).
The show includes early work from
1928; his representational paintings from the 1940's; abstract exressionist
paintings of the 1950's; and the late period of geometric abstraction, a style he
favored until his death in 1982.
A member of the New York School of artists, Jack Tworkov is one of the most
important American painters whose work has yet to be thoroughly explored, studied,
and displayed in a museum context.
Seen as a whole, Tworkov's body of work is an
unusual chronicle of the maturation of American painting.
His work, like that of
other New York School artists, evolved from academic, figurative origins to
abstract expressionism, ripening into more cerebral, minimalist abstraction.
His
career as an important artist and influential teacher spanned half of a century,
and can be seen as an encapsulated history of the major styles of American art
since the 1940's.
By age and training, Tworkov was one of the first generation abstract
expressionists.
But his achievement in that style and his subsequent adoption of a
more measured, geometri c mode allie s him with its second generat i on.
He was an
estimable figure in both groups, but central to neither.
His early works in the late 1920' s and earl y 1930's were mostly portraits,
figures, still lifes, and landscapes.
In t he early 1950's, he shifted from a
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cubist-derived figurative idiom into more and more abstract explorations of his
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subjects.
During that time, he completed an important group of paintings, the House
of the Sun series, that established him as a notable member of the New York School.
In the late 1950's Tworkov began to experiment with a different kind of color and
brushing, and achieved a masterly balance which expressed itself in terms of the
elements of his painting -- feathered, blurred strokes to suggest ambiguity; strong
diagonals for decisive movement; dense surfaces parting to reveal the su bstruct ure
myst eriously.
Here his characteristic touch -- delicate and firm at the same time
brought into relief one of Tworkov's most singular qualities: his ability to evoke
light.
The geometric emphasis in Tworkov's work emerged in the mid-1960's.
These
pictures seemed to contradict everything that had gone before in his work with th e
emergence of dark grays and subdued pastels.
These paintings represent the most
completely non-figurative works of Tworkov's career.
In the 1970's the artist became immersed in the idea of "dynamic symmetry," of
dividing a rectangle with diagonal lines, and applied the concept to his painting as
a way of dividing his canvas.
"The important thing to me," said Tworkov in an
int e rview in 1979, "was that whereas (these divisions) were all intend e d to be
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guide to figurative composition, I became interes ted in the linear divisions
themselves."
After that initial exploration, Tworkov found endless variations on his
theme of relationships in geometry.
This period encompassed the fusion of gestural
expression and geometric structure which occupied him to the end of his life.
Born in Poland i n 1900, Tworkov came to America in 1913, and attended Col umb ia
College in New York, where he majored in English.
He received his M.F.A. in Pr ivatum
from Yale University, and from 1963 until 1969, Tworkov was chairman of Yale's
depart ment.
Elrc
He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1970 , and Ivent on to be t he
visiting artist and artist in residence at several universities, i ncluding the
Ame r ican Aca demy in Rome, the Royal College of Art in London, the New York Studio
School, and the University of California.
Dr . Judith E. Stein, associate curator of the Pennsylvania
A~ademy,
will
coordinate the Tworkov retrospective, and Richard Armstrong, adjunct cura to r at the
Whitney Museum of American Art, will be the guest curator.
The catalogue
acco mpanying the exhibition will include essays by Armstrong and Ken Baker, art
critic for the San Francisco Chronicle, as well as unpublished writings by the artist.
Jack Tworkov: Paintings 1928-1982 has been generously funded by the National
End owment for the Arts and The Ma bel Pew Myrin Trust.
Tbc Pennsylvania Academy of t he Fine Arts is located at Broad and Cherry Streets
in Phi la delphia.
It is open to t he public from 10:00 a. m. to 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday ,
Thu r sday, Friday, and Sa tur d8Y ; 10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m . 8n Wednesday; and 11:00 a.m.
to
S:OO p.m. on Sunday.
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CHARLES W. MOORE, MICHAEL GRAVES, AND PAUL C. HARBESON
WILL PARTICIPATE IN THREE MAJOR LECTURE SERIES ACCOMPANYING
DRAWING TOWARD BUILDING: PHILADELPHIA ARCHITECTURAL GRAPHICS 1732-1986
(Philadelphia, PA -- October 3, 1986) -- The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
has planned three major lecture series during the exhibition Drawing Toward Building:
Philadelphia Architectural Graphics 1732-1986.
Charles. W. Moore, Michael Graves, and
Paul C. Harbeson will be among the architects and historians making presentations.
Drawing Toward Building will be on view at the Pennsylvania Academy from October 10,
1986 through January 4, 1987.
This exhibition will encompass approximately 200 of the
most important Philadelphia architectural drawings ever assembled.
GREAT PHILADELPHIA ARCHITECTS LECTURE SERIES
This series will focus on the lives, work, and accomplishments of six prominent
architects, each of whom established a unique legacy in Philadelphia. Most of the
lectures will take place in a building that has been designed by the architect to be
discussed. In some cases, a walking tour of the area to see other buildings designed by
the particular architect will be included. For information and/or reservations, call
Jennifer Anderson, Foundation for Architecture's program director, at (215) 569-3187.
LECTURES
Tuesdays, from 5-7 p.m. Tickets for the series are $60 for members
of the Pennsylvania Academy, the Foundation for Architecture, and the
American Institute of Architects; $70 for nonmembers. Individual
tickets are $12 for members and $15 for nonmembers.
September 30
THOMAS U. WALTER (1804-1887), presented by Robert B. Ennis,
architectural historian, at the Society Hill Synagogue, 418 Spruce
Street.
October 7
WILSON EYRE (1858-1944), presented by Edward Teitelman, student of
Eyre, at Trinity Memorial Church, 220 Spruce Street.
October 14
FRANK FURNESS (1839-1912) (the designer of the Pennsylvania Academy's
renowned third building in 1876), presented by Craig Morrison,
restoration architect, at the museum on Broad and Cherry Streets.
October 21
HORACE TRUMBAUER, presented by Mather Lippincott, architect, at the
Union League, 140 S. Broad Street.
October 28
PAUL PHILLIP CRET (1876-1945), presented by Paul C. Harbeson,
architect, at the Foundation for Architecture, Suite 1560, One Penn
Center, 1617 J.F. Kennedy Blvd.
November 4
LOUIS I. KAHN (1901-1974), presented by Marshall Myers, architect, at
the Furness Library, University of Pennsylvania, 34th Street between
Walnut and Spruce Streets.
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PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY ARCHITECTURE LECTURE SERIES
LECTURES
5:45 p.m., Pennsylvania Academy's auditorium. Series tickets
for members of the Pennsylvania Academy, the Foundation for
Architecture, and the American Institute of Architects are $65;
$75 for nonmembers. Individual tickets for members are $12, and
$15 for nonmembers.
Friday, October 10
"Current Trends in Architectural Drawing," presented by Charles
W. Moore, FAIA, head of the architecture program at UCLA,
principal of the Urban Innovation Group, and winner of numerous
design awards.
Thursday, October 16
"Drawing Toward Building in Philadelphia," presented by
James F. O'Gorman, Grace Slack McNeil Professor of American Art
at Wellesley College.
Wednesday, November 5
"Lines of Intention: Motives, Makers and Mysteries," presented
by Jeffrey A. Cohen, associate editor of the Papers of Benjamin
Henry Latrobe.
Wednesday, November 12
"Architects and Illustrators: Popular Origins for Architectural
Renderings after the Civil War," presented by George E. Thomas,
architectural historian and president of Clio Group, Inc.
Thursday, November 20
"Innovation and Tradition," presented by G. Holmes Perkins,
University of Pennsylvania professor of Architecture and
Urbanism.
Wednesday, December 3
"Figurative Architecture," presented by Michael Graves, FAIA,
Princeton University professor of Architecture, winner of Prix
de Rome, drawings are exhibited widely in the U.S. and abroad.
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BROWN BAG LUNCH SERIES: ARCHITECTURAL DRAWING TECHNIQUES
Sponsored by the Foundation for Architecture. For information and/or reservations,
call Jennifer Anderson, Foundation for Architecture's program director, at (215)
569-3187.
LECTURES
Wednesdays, 12 noon until 1:30 p.m., Pennsylvania Academy.
Series tickets are $15 for members of the Pennsylvania
Academy, the Foundation for Architecture, and the American
Institute of Architects; $20 for nonmembers. Individual
tickets are $7 for members and $9 for nonmembers.
October 15
"Computer Aided Designs," presented by architects from Ewing
Cole Cherry Parsky.
November 12
"Multi-Media Drawings," presented by architects from Venturi,
Rauch and Scott Brown.
December 10
"Free Hand, Soft Pencil Drawings," presented by architects from
Mitchell/Giurgola.
For further information, call the public relations office at (215) 972-7642.
reservations, call the museum education department at 972-7608.
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SPECIAL EVENTS, INCLUDING A SYMPOSIUM, FILMS,
AND A FAMILY WORKSHOP, TO ACCOMPANY
DRAWING TOWARD BUILDING: PHILADELPHIA ARCHITECTURAL GRAPHICS 1732-1986
(Philadelphia, PA -- October 3, 1986)-- The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine
Arts has planned several special events to supplement the exhibition Drawing Toward
Building: Philadelphia Architectural Graphics 1732-1986.
The special events
include an international symposium, two films with an architecture theme, and a
family workshop on creating architecutral designs.
Drawing Toward Building will be on view at the Pennsylvania Academy from
October 10, 1986 through January 4, 1987.
This exhibition will encompass
approximately 200 of the most important Philadelphia archtectural drawings ever
assembled.
Three centuries of drawings, displaying the rich architectural
tradition of Philadelphia, will be exhibited.
THE BRITISH CONNECTION -- Saturday, October 11, 1986
This day-long symposium, organized by Preservation Techniques, Inc., under the
patronage of the Duke of Gloucester, will comprise a transatlantic exchange of
ideas between leading British architects and their Philadelphia counterparts. The
emphasis will be on installing modern mechanical and electrical systems into the
original fabric of a building, while keeping the architectural integrity of the
structure.
REGISTRATION
9:00 a.m., Saturday, October 11, in the Pennsylvania Academy's
auditorium.
TICKETS
$40 for Pennsylvania Academy members, $50 for nonmembers. For
further information and/or for reservations, call Ms. Gersil
Kay at Preservation Techniques, Inc., at (215) 567-0547.
MODERATOR
David DeLong, Chairman of the Graduate School of Fine Arts'
Historic Preservation Program of the University of
Pennsylvania.
SPEAKERS
Alfred A. Wood, FRIBA, Chief Architect Planner of the Historic
Buildings and Monuments Commission and advisor to the Council
of Europe; Ian Grant, FRIBA, notable architect commissioned to
work on the Wallace Collection, Buckingham Palace, and Windsor
Castle; and Donald W. Insall, OBE, FRIBA, whose commissions
include the Houses of Parliament.
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FILMS
2:00 p.m., Pennsylvania Academy's auditorium.
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Free with museum admission.
November 1
Saturday
Leon Battista Alberti (84 minutes/color). The last part of
Roberto Rossellini's film trilogy, "The Age of D'Medici,"
Alberti documents the work of the great architecture theorist
during the Renais sance in Florence, Italy.
November 2
Sunday
Leon Battista Alberti
November 8
Saturday
Be ond Uto ia: Chan in Attitudes in American Architecture
(53 minutes color). Director Michael Blackwood's film focuses
on current trends through the work and theories of Venturi,
Rauch and Scott Brown; Peter Eisenman; Michael Graves; and Frank
Gehry.
November 9
Sunday
Beyond Utopia: Changing Attitudes in American Architecture
DRAWING TOWARD BUILDING FAMILY WORKSHOP -- Saturday, November 15, 1986
Sponsored by the Pennsylvania Academy's education department and organized in
conjunction with the Foundation for Architecture.
TIME
1:00 p.m. until 3:30 p.m., Saturday, November 15
TICKETS
$6 for members of the Pennsylvania Academy, the Foundation for
Architecture, and the American Institute of Architects; $7 for
nonmembers. Registration is limited to 35 people and is open to
anyone over the age of eight.
INCLUDES
A brief gallery tour of the Drawing Toward Building exhibition,
a demonstration and discussion by a Philadelphia architect on
how such drawings are create d, and the works hop session , where
the children will work with their parents to create their own
architectural drawing utilizing architects' materials and
techniques. At the conclusion of the workshop a br ief optional
walking tour of the nearby area will be offered.
For further information on these programs, call the public information offi ce
at (215) 972-7642. For reservations, call the museum education department at
972-7608.
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Re:
Philadelphia Architectural Graphics Exhibition
For Release: Friday, October 10, 1986
Kill Date:
Monday, January 5, 1987
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ARCHITECTURAL DRAWINGS ... OLD & NEW ... JUST FOR YOU ... ARE NOW ON VIEW ... AT THE
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PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS RECEIVES $265,000 GRANT FROM
THE MABEL PEW MYRIN TRUST
(Philadelphia - October 10, 1986) - The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
announced today that it has received a $265,000 grant from The Mabel Pew Myrin
Trust.
The grant is for the support of publicity costs associated with the
exhibitions The Vital Gesture: Franz Kline in Retrospect and Drawing Toward
Building: Philadelphia Architectural Graphics 1732-1986, which are part of the
Pennsylvania Academy's 1986 exhibitions program.
The grant is also for the support
of the following exhibitions, which will be on display at the Academy in 1987: Jack
Tworkov: Paintings 1928-1982, Hidden Heritage: Afro-American Art 1800-1950, and
Monotypes by Maurice Prendergast.
"The Pennsylvania Academy has committed itself over the next few years to
present an extremely important group of historical and contemporary exhibitions
that cover a wide range of themes on American Art," commented Frank H. Goodyear,
Jr., president of the Pennsylvania Academy.
The support of The Mabel Pew Myrin
Trust is of inestimable value in making these exhibitions possible.
On behalf of
the officers, trustees, and staff, I express the Pennsylvania Academy's gratitude
for this grant."
Linda Bantel, director of the Pennsylvania Academy's museum, reinforced this
commitment.
"These exhibitions of recent work, unexplored subjects, and new
discoveries will emphasize the rich creative tradition in American art," said
Bantel.
"Our responsibilities to the education of our public, in part, can be
accomplished through promotion of our rich roster of events and exhibitions."
The Pennsylvania Academy's recent exhibition, The Vital Gesture: Franz Kline in
Retrospect, brought together for the first time since 1968 the immensely important
work of one of the acknowledged giants of the New York School.
Kline (1910-1962)
is the last of the great major abstract expressionists (a group that includes
Jackson Pollock, David Smith, Mark Rothko, Clyfford Still, Willem de Kooning, and
Robert Motherwell) to be the subject of a full-scale retrospective review.
The
Pennsylvania Academy venue was the only East-Coast stop for this exhibition, which
was be on display in Philadelphia from June 27, 1986, through September 28, 1986.
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Drawing Toward Building: Philadelphia Architectural Graphics 1732-1986, will go
on display in the Pennsylvania Academy museum on October 10.
Through the medium of
architect's drawings, the creativity of three centuries of architects practicing in
Philadelphia and establishing a core of a regional school of architecture, will be
studied and celebrated.
Like the Philadelphia Museum of Art's great bicentennial
catalogue of the arts in Philadelphia, the catalogue of the exhibi tion Drawing
Toward Building, written by some of the most eminent architectural historians in
the profession, should become the standard scholarly reference in the field of
Philadelphia architecture.
In 1987 the Pennsylvania Academy will present Jack Tworkov:
Pai n tin g ~
1928-1982, the first comprehensive retrospective of the work of Jack Twor kov
(1900-1982), an artist whose career spanned more that a half century, and whose
work evolved from a figurative tradition to minimalism, of which he was an
acknowledged leader.
During his career Tworkov, as a professor of fine arts at
Yale University, was highly influential in the education of a younger generation of
American artists.
In 1987 the Pennsylvania Academy will also present the first comprehensive
historical survey of the work of Black American artists to be seen in
Philadelphia.
Entitled Hidden Heritage: Afro-American Art 1800-1950, and
supplemented by more recent expressions of the Black artistic genius, this
exhibition surveys the history of a much-overlooked traditj.on.
The Pennsylvania
Academy has chosen this exhibition as its principal contribution to "We The People
200," the bicentennial celebration of the signing of the Constitution of the United
States that will take place in Philadelphia in 1987.
In the fall of 1987 the Pennsylvania Academy will present the exhibition
entitled Monotypes by Maurice Prendergast, a collection of exquisite artworks, made
by the Boston postimpressionist who achieved greater success in the monotype medium
than any American artist before or since.
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts is located at Broad and Cherry
Streets in Philadelphia, just two short blocks north of City Hall.
convenient to public transportation and parking.
It is
The Parkway Corporation offers
those who visit the Pennsylvania Academy a $1 discount from its posted rates at the
parking lots at the following locations: northeast corner of 15th and Cherry
Streets, northeast corner of Broad and Cherry Streets, southwest corner of Broad
and Race Streets (opens in December 1986).
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THE PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS CELEBRATES
THE 110TH ANNIVERSARY OF ITS FURNESS BUILDING WITH A SPECIAL EXHIBITION
(Philadelphia, PA -- October 10, 1986) -- The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine
Arts is mounting a special exhibition to commemorate the 110th anniversary of the
opening of its Furness building at Broad and Cherry Streets.
The show is currently
on display in the museum's History Gallery, and will close on Decemb er 31, 1986.
This special show will coincide with the exhibition Drawing Toward Building :
Philadelphia Architectural Graphics 1732-1986, which is on view in the Pennsylvania
Academy's main galleries from October 10, 1986 until January 4, 1987.
The Pennsylvania Academy's building was designed by the firm of Furness and
Hewitt, and remains their masterpiece of Victorian Gothic architecture.
opened to the public amid great fanfare on April 22, 1876.
It was
With its exuberant
decoration and unusual architectural elements, the building was one of the
sensations of the country's Centennial celebration, and attracted thousands of
visitors.
Designated a National Historic Landmark and completely restored to its
original and colorful splendor in 1976, the building is one of the best surviving
examples of this flamboyant architectural style.
The exhibition celebrating the anniversary of the building's opening was
organized by Cheryl Leibold, the Pennsylvania Academy's archivist.
Three Furness
drawings are on display in the History Gallery, as well as photographs,
illustrations, engravings, and fragments from the building's exteriors and
interiors.
In addition, four other Furness drawings can be seen in the Drawing
Toward Building exhibition, two of which relate to the Pennsylvania Academy project.
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts is located at Broad and Cherry
Streets in Philadelphia, just two short blocks north of City Hall.
It is open to
the public from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday;
10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday; and 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Sunday.
General admission is $3.00; $2.00 for senior citizens and students.
The public is
admitted free of charge on Saturdays from 10:00 a.m. until 1:00 p.m.; donations are
appreciated.
Regularly scheduled museum tours are given Tuesday through Friday at
11:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m., Wednesday evenings at 5:30 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday
at 2:00 p.m.
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THE GRACE SEWELL FUND FOR AQUISITION OF WORK
BY LIVING AMERICAN WOMEN ARTISTS
ESTABLISHED BY THE PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS
(Philadelphia, PA -- October 13, 1986) -- The Pennsylvania Academy of the
Fine Arts is pleased to announce the recent establishment of the "Grace Sewell
Fund" for the acquisition of work by living women artists.
The fund was initiated
with a gift from Pennsylvania Academy graduate Helen Sewell Johnson in honor of her
mother, Grace Sewell.
This fund will be used to purchase of works by women graduates of the
Pennsylvania Academy's school who have been working professionally for at least
five years, and whose work is not yet represented in the Pennsylvania Academy's
collection.
It will also encourage the purchase of works by women artists who live
and work in Pennsylvania.
The Pennsylvania Academy has one of the richest collections of works by women
artists in the country.
Recent purchases and gifts include works by: Violet
Oakley, Jody Pinto, Martha ZeIt, Diane Burko, Judy Moonelis, Mary Frank, Louise
Nevelson, Judy Chicago, Sonia Sekula, and Katherine Porter.
This is the first fund established exclusively for American women artists and
builds on the Pennsylvania Academy's long tradition of supporting these artists.
Catherine Drinker Janvier was the first woman to lecture at the Pennsylvania
Academy in 1878, and Cecilia Beaux and Violet Oakley were both important members of
the teaching faculty in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
In 1879
the Mary Smith Prize was founded in honor of Pennsylvania Academy student Mary
Smith by her father, "for the best picture in oil or watercolors exhibited [in the
Annual] and printed by a resident lady artist of Philadelphia."
Recipients of this
award include Susan MacDowell Eakins, Mary Sartain, Cecilia Beaux, Jessie Willcox
Smith, and Elizabeth Shippen Green.
The final award, made at the Annual Exhibition
of 1969, was to Edna Andrade for a painting purchased by the Pennsylvania Academy
in that year.
"The impact of Helen Sewell Johnson's vision is important, for the
establishment of this and other funds gives museums the way to expand their
collections," commented Linda Bantel, director of the musuem.
The Pennsylvania Academy, founded in 1805, is the oldest art museum and art
school in North America, and has a collection of over 7,300 works of American art.
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THE PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS ANNOUNCES THE ELECTION OF MILTON
GINSBURG, MRS. ALBERT M. GREENFIELD, JR., AND FREDERICK S. HAMMER TO ITS BOARD
OF TRUSTEES
(Philadelphia, Pa.' - October 14, 1986) - The Pennsylvania Academy of the
Fine Arts announced today that Milton Ginsburg, Mrs. Albert M. Greenfield,
Jr., and Frederick S. Hammer were elected to the Pennsylvania Academy's board
of trustees.
"We are pleased to have these three new members of the board, all of
whom are leaders in their respective professions," said Samuel M.V. Hamilton,
chairman of the board of trustees of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine
Arts.
"We will benefit greatly as they apply their knowledge to further the
growth of the Pennsylvania Academy."
Milton Ginsburg is the founder and president of Econ-Equip, Inc., which
is a supplier of transportation parts.
Previously he was president of Gindy
Manufacturing Corp., a producer of containers and highway vans.
Mr. Ginsburg
left Gindy in 1969, to found Econ-Equip, Inc ..
He is on the board of the Cancer Institute of Hahnemann University
Hospital, the Museum of American Jewish History, and Boys Town Jerusalem.
Mr.
Ginsburg and his wife, Faith, have a collection of modern art, including works
by Pablo Picasso, Henry Moore, Frank Stella, Barbara Hepworth, Jacques
Lipchitz, and Alexander Archipenko.
Works by members of the faculty of the
Pennsylvania Academy are also an important part of the collection.
A graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Mr. Ginsburg
holds an M.B.A. degree from the Harvard Business School.
He also studied art
for two years at the Barnes Foundation.
Mrs. Albert M. Greenfield, Jr., an honors graduate of the University of
Pennsylvania, and formerly an actress, is a real estate broker for
Helmsley-Greenfield, Inc.
Voted the top residential broker in Philadelphia in
1983, 1984, and 1985, she is the head of Helmsley-Greenfield's residential
department.
Mrs. Greenfield has served on many boards of trustees and has had many
leadership roles in civic affairs.
She accomplished much on behalf of the
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United Nations International Chi ldren's Emergency Fund (UNICEF ) .
She was
chairman of the Greater Philadelphia Area Committe e for UNICEF; a member of
the board of the U.S. Committee for UNICEF; founder of UNICEF Mother's Day ,
and chairman of the UNICEF Trick or Treat Program, which introduced UNICEF to
the Philadelphia area schools, and which later became a national program.
Mrs. Greenfield was a founding member of the Philadelphia Council for
International Visitors, and served on its board and advisory council.
Mrs.
Greenfield's commitment to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts began in
1963.
She was president of the Women's Committee of the Pennsylvania Academy
from 1967 to 1970; chairman of special events from 1970 to 1985; and organi zer
and chairman of the Pennsylvania Academy Art Safaris program from 1970 to 1982.
Frederick S. Hammer is chairman and chief executive offi cer of Merit or
Financial Group, the nationwide financial services organization that has its
headquarters in Philadelphia.
In 1985 Mr. Hammer joined PSFS, the predecessor of the Meritor Financial
Group, as president and chief operating officer.
Presiously he was executive
vice president of Chase Manhattan Bank, where he directed global consumer
activities.
Before joining Chase in 1977, he had been vice president of
Bankers Trust Company, director of research of the Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation, and executive vice president of Associates Corporation of Nor th
America, a multinational financial and insurance services company.
Mr. Hammer is a director of VISA USA, VISA International, ALCO Standard
Corporation and United Student Aid Funds.
He is also a director and past
chairman of the Consumer Bankers Association and, in Philadelphia, serves on
the boards of the World Affairs Council, the Urban Affairs Partnership, the
YMCA, and the Colleges of the Arts.
He has written two books and has
contributed numerous articles to professional and trade publi ca tio ns.
A magna cum laude graduate of Colgate University, Mr. Hammer holds both
M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in mathematical economics from Carnegie-Mellon
University.
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THE PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS
"ADOPTS" THE GOMPERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
(Philadelphia, PA -- October 14, 1986) - - The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine
Arts has "adopted" the Gompers Elementary School as part of the Philadelphia School
District's Adopt-A-School program.
A kickoff celebration will be held for the
Gompers staff and school district administrators at the Pennsylvania Academy on
Tuesday, October 14, 1986.
Regina Neu, curator of education at the Pennsylvania Academy, explained that
the goal of the program is the development of art appreciation and art enrichment
among the school's students.
The Pennsylvania Academy will conduct periodic class
sessions on art at Gompers Elementary and at the museum, give slide presentations,
produce a videotape with the school, and init i ate a host of other activities.
Neu expressed her enthusiam for the program with Gompers School, saying, "The
Pennsylvania Academy is very excited about becoming involved with the Philadelphia
School District's Adopt-A-School program , especially with such a dynamic school as
Gompers Elementary.
The staff and principal , Warren L. Pross, are enthusiastic and
ready to move ahead in this endeavor.
I see the 'adoption' as a way to expose
children and adults to art and its many interdisciplinary uses in education today."
A variety of institutions and organizations are involved in the Adopt-A-School
program, each providing its own special services for the adopted school's benefit.
Under this program, the School District of Philadelphia is seeking to
systematically develop a mutually beneficial relationship between the business,
cultural, and industrial community and the Philadelphia public schools.
The Pennsylvania Academy, founded in 1805, is the oldest art museum and art
school in North America.
Its collection of over 7,300 works of American art is
housed in its third building, a National Hi storic Landmark, designed by Frank
Furness in 1876, and restored to its origi na l Victorian splendor in 1976.
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FIRST ELECTED BOARD OF ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
ANNOUNCED BY PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS
(Philadelphia, PA -- October 14, 1986) -- The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine
Arts' alumni association has announced the members of its first elected board of
directors.
The association's first board in 1985-86 was appointed by a steering
committee, making the 1986-87 board the first one elected.
The twelve members of the
new board were elected for one-, two-, and three-year terms.
President of the board, Richard Ranck is a painter and the former school
registrar and director of student affairs at the Pennsylvania Academy.
Peter
Fingesten, vice president, is the founder and chairman of the art department at Pace
University.
Fingesten is a sculptor and painter.
Rebecca Dvorin Strong, secretary,
was the student affairs coordinator while a student at the Pennsylvania Academy.
painter and printmaker, Strong freelances for publishing houses.
A
Edward Clay, the
board's treasurer, is a painter and restorer of oil paintings.
The board concludes: Nancy Adler, a painter, and vice president of the 1985-86
appointed board.
John Ceder strom is the chairman of Friends Central art department
and teaches at the Art Institute of Philadelphia.
coordinator of the Art in City Hall program.
Katherine Stiles Cogan is the
Tony DiRienzi, on the Executive
Committee of the board, is a painter, three-dimensional artist, and jeweler.
DiRienzi was president of the 1985-86 board.
Tish Ingersoll is a painter represented
in galleries in Philadelphia and Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Also on the Executive
Committee of the board are Sandy Lerner, a painter and the director of Vanguard
Gallery and founding member of Nexus Gallery; and Dorothy Pere, a former president of
the Pennsylvania Academy Fellowship, and a portrait painter and faculty member of
various art centers in the Delaware Valley.
Bill Scott, painter and freelance
writer, is the assistant curator of the CIGNA museum in Philadelphia.
The members of the board will be joined by selected Pennsylvania Academy student,
faculty, and Fellowship representatives.
The Pennsylvania Academy, founded in 1805, is the oldest art museum and art
school in North America.
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THE PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS
"ADOPTS" THE GOMPERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
(Philadelphia, PA -- October 14, 1986) -- The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine
Arts has "adopted" the Gompers Elementary School as part of the Philadelphia School
District's Adopt-A-Schoo1 program.
A kickoff celebration will be held for the
Gompers staff and school district administrators at the Pennsylvania Academy on
Tuesday, October 14, 1986.
Regina Neu, curator of education at the Pennsylvania Academy, explained that
the goal of the program is the development of art appreciation and art enrichment
among the school's students.
The Pennsylvania Academy will conduct periodic class
sessions on art at Gompers Elementary and at the museum, give slide presentations,
produce a videotape with the school, and initiate a host of other activities.
Neu expressed her enthusiam for the program with Gompers School, saying, "The
Pennsylvania Academy is very excited about becoming involved with the Philadelphia
School District's Adopt-A-Schoo1 program, especially with such a dynamic school as
Gompers Elementary.
The staff and principal, Warren L. Pross, are enthusiastic and
ready to move ahead in this endeavor.
I see the 'adoption' as a way to expose
children and adults to art and its many interdisciplinary uses in education today."
A variety of institutions and organizations are involved in the Adopt-A-Schoo1
program, each providing its own special services for the adopted school's benefit.
Under this program, the School District of Philadelphia is seeking to
systematically develop a mutually beneficial relationship between the business,
cultural, and industrial community and the Philadelphia public schools.
The Pennsylvania Academy, founded in 1805, is the oldest art museum and art
school in North America.
Its collection of over 7,300 works of American art is
housed in its third building, a National Historic Landmark, designed by Frank
Furness in 1876, and restored to its original Victorian splendor in 1976.
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FIRST ELECTED BOARD OF ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
ANNOUNCED BY PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS
(Philadelphia, PA -- October 14, 1986) -- The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine
Arts' alumni association has announced the members of its first elected board of
directors.
The association's first board in 1985-86 was appointed by a steering
committee, making the 1986-87 board the first one elected.
The twelve members of the
new board were elected for one-, two-, and three-year terms.
President of the board, Richard Ranck is a painter and the former school
registrar and director of student affairs at the Pennsylvania Academy.
Peter
Fingesten, vice president, is the founder and chairman of the art department at Pace
University.
Fingesten is a sculptor and painter.
Rebecca Dvorin Strong, secretary,
was the student affairs coordinator while a student at the Pennsylvania Academy.
painter and printmaker, Strong freelances for publishing houses.
A
Edward Clay, the
board's treasurer, is a painter and restorer of oil paintings.
The board concludes: Nancy Adler, a painter, and vice president of the 1985-86
appointed board.
John Ceder strom is the chairman of Friends Central art department
and teaches at the Art Institute of Philadelphia.
coordinator of the Art in City Hall program.
Katherine Stiles Cogan is the
Tony DiRienzi, on the Executive
Committee of the board, is a painter, three-dimensional artist, and jeweler.
DiRienzi was president of the 1985-86 board.
Tish Ingersoll is a painter represented
in galleries in Philadelphia and Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Also on the Executive
Committee of the board are Sandy Lerner, a painter and the director of Vanguard
Gallery and founding member of Nexus Gallery; and Dorothy Pere, a former president of
the Pennsylvania Academy Fellowship, and a portrait painter and faculty member of
various art centers in the Delaware Valley.
Bill Scott, painter and freelance
writer, is the assistant curator of the CIGNA museum in Philadelphia.
The members of the board will be joined by selected Pennsylvania Academy student,
faculty, and Fellowship representatives.
The Pennsylvania Academy, founded in 1805, is the oldest art museum and art
school in North America.
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SYMPOSIUM ON PUBLIC ART IN CELEBRATION OF NATIONAL ARTS WEEK
AT PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS
(Philadelphia, PA -- October 17, 1986) -- The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine
Arts will celebrate National Arts Week '86 with "State of the Art: Public Projects
in Pennsylvania," a symposium on public art.
participate.
Claes Oldenberg, among others, will
Art institutions and agencies across the country will be observing
National Arts Week '86 from November 17 through 23.
This celebration was created
last year to coincide with the twentieth anniversary of the establishment of the
National Endowment for the Arts.
"State of the Art" will complement the exhibition Sculpture at the Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Arts, on view from October 31, 1986 until January 11, 1987.
The symposium will address the major issues of how, why, and where to incorporate
art into the public domain.
Several artists, art historians, and administrators
will participate in the symposium, including: artist Claes Oldenburg; Coosje van
Bruggen, an art
his~orian,
who also works with Oldenburg on large-scal e pro ject s ;
artist Harriet Feigenbaum; Richard J. Boyle, art historian and writer; Penny Balkin
Bach, executive director of the Fairmount Park Art Association; and Mary Kilroy,
director of the Fine Arts Program/Advisory Board of Design, Redevelopment Authority
of the City of Philadelphia.
The symposium will take place on Saturday, November 22, 1986, from 9:30 a.m.
until 1:00 p.m . , in the Pennsylvania Academy museum at Broad and Cherry Streets.
Tickets are $12 for Pennsylvania Academy members and $15 for nonmembers.
Reservations can be made by calling the museum education department at (215)
972-7608.
Sculpture at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts is the first survey of
the museum's extensive collection of American sculpture.
Approximately 200 objects
will be displayed, spanning the early nineteenth century to the present.
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts is located at Broad and Cherry
Streets in Philadelphia, just two short blocks north of City Hall.
It is open to
the public from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday;
10:00 a.m . to 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday; and 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Sunday.
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PHOEBE TOLAND: RECENT WORKS AT THE MORRIS GALLERY OF THE
PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS
FROM NOVEMBER 14 TO DECEMBER 31, 1986
(Philadelphia, PA -- October 24, 1986) -- Artist Phoebe Toland will display her
paintings in Phoebe Toland: Recent Works, at the Morris Gallery of the Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Arts from November 14 unt i l December 31, 1986.
The show will
consist of approximately eight large pieces as well as some smaller works.
An opening reception, to which the public is invited, will be held at the
Morris Gallery, Broad and Cherry Streets, on Thursday, November 13, from 5:00 to
7:00 p.m.
In addition, Phoebe Toland will give an informal gallery talk on Friday,
December 5, at 12 noon.
In Toland's large, unstretched canvases, figuration and abstraction pass
gracefully back and forth across each others' boundaries.
Undulant folds and crisp
ledges shift easily into suggestions of limbs, torsos, and arms.
The colors are
dark and moody in her recent oil on muslin paintings.
Phoebe Toland was born in 1952 in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.
She earned her
M.F.A. from Montana State University in Bozeman in 1983 and her B.F.A from
Rochester Institute of Technology in 1975.
She is currently a technician in the
Conservation Department of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
She has had a solo
exhibition at the More Gallery, Philadelphia, in 1985, and has designed the sets
and backdrops for several theatrical productions in Montana.
Toland is the
recipient of an Artist in Residence fellowship from Ucross Foundation, Ucross,
Wyoming.
The Morris Galler y , located in the Pennsylvania Academy museum at Broad and
Cherry Streets, displays the work of outstanding contemporary artists with a
connection to Philadelphia, determined by birth, schooling, or residence.
Morris
Gallery exhibitions are chosen by a committee composed of area artists, museum
personnel and collectors, and the curatorial staff of the Pennsylvania Academy.
Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.; Sunday from
11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.; Wednesday evenings until 7:00 p.m.
general; $2.00 senior citizens and students.
1:00 p.m.; donations are appreciated.
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PHILADELPHIA ARTIST MASANOBU NIHEI TO BE DISPLAYED AT THE
PEALE HOUSE GALLERIES OF THE PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS
NOVEMBER 6 - 30, 1986
(Philadelphia, PA -- October 24, 1986) -- Philadelphia artist Masanobu Nihei
will display his paintings in the Peale House Galleries of the Pennsylvania Academy
of the Fine Arts from November 6 through· 30, 1986.
An opening reception, to which the public is invited, will be held on
Wednesday, November 5, from 5 p.m. until 7 p.m., in the Peale House Galleries, 1820
Chesntut Street.
The Japanese-born Nihei paints his portraits and nudes strictly from life, and
often juxtaposes Asian and American emblems with his subjects, creating an
interesting contrast between Eastern and Western art within his paintings.
Nihei attended the Schools of the Pennsylvania Academy from 1972 through 1977.
"When Masanobu Nihei arrived at the academy as a student, he already seemed certain
of his direction," says Daniel Miller, chairman of the painting department.
"The
controlled investigative and intensely realistic works of those years have matured
into the current expansive and personal statements.
A perfectionist whose images
are long in arriving, Nihei adds richness, depth, and imagination to contemporary
figurative tradition."
Nihei is represented in several public collections.
Mayor Fank Rizzo hangs in Philadelphia's City Hall.
His portrait of former
His solo shows include those
at Marian Locks Gallery, Philadelphia; Doshi Gallery, Harrisburg; Allan Stone
Gallery, NYC; and Sindian Gallery, NYC.
Group shows include:
National Academy of
Design, NYC; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Fellowship Show, Camden, NJ; New
Talent Show, Marian Locks Gallery, Philadelphia; and Realist Show, West Chester, PA.
The Peale House Galleries, located at 1820 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia,
display a rotating series of stimulating exhibitions in all media throughout the
year.
In addition to Pennsylvania Academy students and faculty, the shows in the
Peale House Galleries feature works of prominent artists from both the Philadelphia
area and the East Coast.
These shows are organized for the benefit and education
of Pennsylvania Academy art school students as well as the public.
Hours are
Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Sunday from 12 noon to 4 p.m.
admission charge.
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FILMS, TOURS, AND SYMPOSIUM TO ACCOMPANY
SCULPTURE AT THE PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS
(Philadelphia, PA -- October 29, 1986) -- The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine
Arts has scheduled several special events to accompany the exhibition Sculpture at
the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, including two films, a walking tour, a
symposium on public art, and a family program.
Sculpture at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts is the first survey of
the museum's extensive collection of American sculpture.
Approximately 190 objects
will be displayed, spanning the early nineteenth century to the present.
SCULPTURE FILMS
Pennsylvania Academy auditorium, Broad and Cherry
Streets. Free with museum admission.
Saturday, November 1
3:30 p.m.
The Stone Carvers (1985/28 minutes), an Academy
Award-winning documentary which depicts a thriving
community of contemporary Washington artisans and their
work.
Sunday, November 2
3:30 p.m.
George Segal (1979/58 minutes), a film narrated by Segal
which examines the artist at the height of his career, and
follows the progress of Segal's controversial commission
In Memory of May 4, 1970, Kent State: Abrahma and Isaac.
Saturday, November 8
3:00 p.m.
3:00 p.m.
The Stone Carvers
George Segal
Sunday, November 9
3:00 p.m.
George Segal
Saturday, December 6
2:00 p.m.
3:00 p.m.
The Stone Carvers
George Segal
Sunday, December 7
2:00 p.m.
The Stone Carvers
Saturday, December 27
2:00 p.m.
3:00 p.m.
The Stone Carvers
George Segal
Sunday, December 28
2:00 p.m.
3:00 p.m.
The Stone Carvers
George Segal
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SPECIAL EVENTS (CONT'D)
PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY FACULTY GALLERY TALKS
12 noon. Main galleries, Broad and
Cherry Sts. Free with museum
admission.
Thursday, November 13
"It's No Illusion," Frederick S. Osborne, Jr.
Tuesday, November 18
"RollOver Beethoven: Contemporary Sculpture,"
Jody Pinto
Tuesday, December 2
"The Muse Around the Corner," Anthony Visco
Tuesday, December 9
"Wood: Its History and Application," Daniel D. Miller
4:00 p.m. Pennsylvania Academy
auditorium, Broad and Cherry Sts.
Free with museum admission.
"Maquette to Monument: Sculptural Process and the Evolution of Two Colossal
Bronzes by Ivan Mestrovic for Chicago," a presentation by Phoebe Dent Weil, a
leader in outdoor sculpture preservation, will include a 1927 archival film made by
sculptor Malvina Hoffman that records the entire production of Ivan Mestrovic's two
colossal Equestrian Indians for Chicago's Grant Park. Afterwards, Ms. Weil, who
led the 1983 conservation effort of the bronzes, will give a slide talk about that
project.
SCULPTURE FILM AND TALK -- PHOEBE DENT WElL
Thursday, November 6
1:00 - 3:00 p.m.
Tickets: $6 Pennsylvania Academy
members; $7 nonmembers.
Reservations: (215) 972-7608.
Pat Stuart, art historian, critic, and teacher, will lead this walking tour of
center-city public sculpture. The tour will concentrate on sculpture at City Hall
and its immediate environs and will begin and end at the Broad and Cherry Streets
building. Following the tour, the group will return to the Pennsylvania Academy
for refreshments and a chance to look at the Sculpture show.
WALKING TOUR: SCULPTURE MONUMENTS -- ON SITE
Sunday, November 16
Rain date: Saturday, November 22
SYMPOSIUM
"STATE OF THE ART:
PUBLIC PROJECTS IN PENNSYLVANIA"
Saturday, November 22
9:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Pennsylvania Academy, Broad and
Cherry Sts.
Tickets: $12
Pennsylvania Academy members; $15
nonmembers. Reservations: (215)
972-7608.
This symposium will address the major issues of how, why, and where to incorporate
art into the public domain. Several artists, art historians, and administrators
will partic i pate, including: Claes Oldenberg, Coosje van Bruggen, Harriet
Feigenbaum, Richard J. Boyle, Penny Balkin Bach, and Mary Kilroy.
FAMILY PROGRAM:
UNDERSTANDING SCULPTURE THROUGH MOVEMENT
Sunday, November 13
1:00 p.m.
Main galleries, Broad and Cherry
Sts. Tickets: $4 Pennsylvania
Academy members; $5 nonmembers.
Reservations: (215) 972-7608.
Rosemary Harms, who has extensive modern-dance performance and management
experience, will lead this family program. Sculpture will be explored through
one's kinesthetic sense to discover the art of movement and the movement of art.
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THE PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS ANNOUNCES THE ACQUISITION OF A
CECILIA BEAUX PAINTING, GERTRUDE AND ELIZABETH HENRY
(Philadelphia, PA -- October 29, 1986) - The Pennsylvania Academy of the
Fine Arts announced today that it has acquired a major painting, Gertrude and
Elizabeth Henry (1898-99, oil on canvas, 64 x 37 1/4 inches), by Cecilia Beaux
(1855 - 1942).
This acquisition was made possible with funds provided by
twenty-two members of the family of Gertrude and Elizabeth Henry, which
enabled the Pennsylvania Academy to purchase this painting.
"At the turn of the century, Cecilia Beaux was among America's most
gifted portraitists," commented Linda Bantel, the Pennsylvania Academy's
museum director.
"And the Pennsylvania Academy has championed her career
during her lifetime and thereafter.
Gertrude and Elizabeth Henry is
characterized by the fluid brush strokes typical of her portrait art at the
end of the nineteenth century.
With this portrait, the Pennsylvania Academy
boasts a stunning trio of Beaux' 'white' paintings."
Fanny Travis Cochran (1887), and New England Woman (1895), complete this
trio.
According to Frank H. Goodyear, Jr., president of the Pennsylvania
Academy, who organized a retrospective exhibition of Beaux' works in 1974,
Fanny Travis Cochran is one of the artist's finest paintings, and the first to
handle the subtleties of the color white to any great extent.
In New England
Woman, Goodyear observed that "Beaux has created a shimmering curtain of
color, keyed to white.
It is color used for its pure sensuous qualities, and
to delight the eye."
According to the Henry family, it was the wish of Elizabeth Henry
Chatfield that the painting Gertrude and Elizabeth Henry should go to the
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, if it did not remain in the family.
Cecilia Beaux was born in Philadelphia.
At seventeen, she entered an
art school conducted by Adolf Van der Whelan, and later worked under William
Sartain.
After having one painting displayed in a Pennsylvania Academy
exhibition, Beaux left for Paris.
There, for two years, she studied and
worked under the leading artists of the day, visiting Italy, France, and
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England.
Returning to America with her new experiences and skill, she became
immediately successful.
For many years she criticized in the portrait classes
of the Pennsylvania Academy.
Her figure painting and portraits of the
dis t inguished men and women of the period, both in America and Europe, brought
her almost every honor in American art, and many from Europe.
In 1899 she had
become the first and only woman ever to win a first prize in a Carnegie
International Exhibition.
She was also a member of the National Academy of
Design and an associate of the Beaux Arts in Paris.
Among her awards from the
Pennsylvania Academy were the Temple Gold Medal (1900); Pennsylvania Academy
Gold Medal of Honor (1898); and the Mary Smith Prize (1885, 1887, 1891, and
1892).
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts is located at Broad and Cherry
Streets in Philadelphia, just two short blocks north of City Hall.
It is open
to the public from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and
Saturday; 10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday; and 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on
Sunday.
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PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS ACQUIRES MARBLE RELIEF BY
LOUIS G. MILIONE, SR •... GIFT OF MR. & MRS. WILLIAM L. GRALA
(Philadelphia, PA -- October 30, 1986) -- The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine
Arts announced today that it has acquired Memorial to William Wallace Gilchrist
(ca. 1921, marble relief, 47 5/8 x 29 x 3 in.), by Louis G. Milione, Sr.
acquisition is a gift of Mr. & Mrs. William L. Grala.
Pennsylvania Academy's board of trustees.
This
Mr. Grala is a member of the
Memorial to William Wallace Gilchrist
will be seen at the Pennsylvania Academy for the first time when the exhibition
Sculpture at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts opens on Friday, October
31.
This show is the first survey of the Pennsylvania Academy's extensive
collection of American sculpture, and will continue through January 11, 1987, in
the spacious Victorian galleries of the museum.
Approximately 190 objects will be
displayed, spanning the early nineteenth century to the present, including works by
William Rush, Thomas Eakins, Alexander Stirling Calder, Isamu Noguchi, and Louise
Nevelson.
Louis G. Milione, Sr. (1884-1955), was born in Padua, Italy, and came to
America in 1895.
He studied sculpture at the Spring Garden Institute, the
Philadelphia School of Industrial Art, and from 1903 to 1910 with Charles Grafly at
the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
Milione was awarded the Pennsylvania
Academy's prestigious William Emlen Cresson European Traveling Scholarship in 1908,
and exhibited regularly at the Pennsylvania Academy's annual exhibitions from 1909
to 1951.
Art.
Beginning in 1922 he taught at the Philadelphia School of Industrial
In 1937 he removed the "Ceres" statue, which had deteriorated, from the
facade of the Pennsylvania Academy's Furness building at Broad
& Cherry Streets.
Memorial to William Wallace Gilchrist was commissioned by the William Wallace
Gilchrist Memorial Committee of the Academy of Music to honor the Philadelphia
composer and conductor who lived from 1846 to 1916.
Gilchrist studied at the
University of Pennsylvania, taught at the Philadelphia Music Academy, and founded
the Philadelphia Symphony Society and the Philadelphia Mendelssohn Club.
known as a prominent Philadelphia organist and composer.
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The marble relief shows Gilchrist in the act of composing music.
It was
unveiled on April 29, 1921, during a memorial concert that included a composition
by Gilchrist.
The relief was installed for about thirty years in the corridor of
the lobby of the Academy of Music.
It was probably removed during the 1950's when
other works from the Academy of Music's collection were sold.
Milione is primarily known for his marble portrait busts and his memorial
sculpture, including a World War I memorial to two soldiers killed in action, that
was installed for a time at the Houston estate in the Chestnut Hill section of
Philadelphia.
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts is located at Broad and Cherry
Streets in Philadelphia, just two short blocks north of City Hall.
It is open to
the public from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday;
10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday; and 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Sunday.
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PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS ACQUIRES SCULPTURE BY FRANK STELLA FIRST RECIPIENT OF THE AWARD OF AMERICAN ART
(Philadelphia, PA -- October 30, 1986) - The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine
Arts announced today that it has acquired Frank Stella's The Press Gang Sailor
(1986, mixed media on anodized aluminum, 62 7/8 x 48 1/4 x 12 7/8 in.) and that the
sculpture will go on public view for the first time when the exhibition Sculpture
at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts opens on October 31.
The Press Gang Sailor is a work based on a series of ceramic pieces exhibited
in London in 1985.
To preserve the pieces in a permanent material, Stella in 1985
cast a set of six objects of dark anodized aluminum, which has not been seen
publicly in the United States.
The artist cast a similar set this year, made of
light colored aluminum, with each piece individually painted.
The Pennsylvania
Academy's acquisition is one of the works in this series; the other five works are
still in Frank Stella's studio.
Therefore, this is the first time any of the
versions of The Press Gang Sailor will be seen by the public in the United States.
The Pennsylvania Academy's acquisition is the first work of all those created in
these series to be a part of an American art collection.
The title The Press Gang Sailor derives from an American folk song from New
Hampshire, which in turn had its origins in an English folk song.
Frank Stella was the first recipient of The Award of American Art, which was
established in August 1985 by the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
The Award
is to be made biennially to a living American of national stature, by a
distinguished national committee of museum professionals, as well as Academy
trustees, and staff, and is intended to recognize the individual creative
contributions of artists to modern life.
As part of the Award, the Pennsylvania
Academy stated that it would purchase a major new work by Stella for the permanent
collection.
The Press Gang Sailor is that major new work.
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Frank Stella accepted his award at a ceremony and dinner that was held at the
Pennsylvania Academy on the evening of Friday, October 25, 1985.
In addition to
participating in the ceremony and dinner, Stella gave studio critiques to Academy
school students.
The selection of Frank Stella as the first recipient was especially appropriate
since it was in 1984 that the Pennsylvania displayed a major retrospective
exhibition of his work, entitled Frank Stella: Prints 1967-1982.
Sculpture at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts is the first survey of
the Pennsylvania Academy's extensive collection of American sculpture and will
continue in the spacious Victorian galleries of the museum through January 11,
1987.
Approximately 190 objects will be displayed, spanning the early nineteenth
century to the present, including works by William Rush, Thomas Eaking, Alexander
Stirling Calder, Isamu Noguchi, and Louise Nevelson.
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts is located at Broad and Cherry
Streets in Philadelphia, just two short blocks north of City Hall.
It is open to
the public from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday;
10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday; and 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Sunday.
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PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS BRINGS BACK, BY POPULAR DEMAND,
"SPEND A BUCK - SPEND AN HOUR."
TO: City and assigment desks, arts writers
CONTACT: Lainie Lomenzo of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 215/972-7600
Philadelphia, PA - The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts is once again
opening its doors to the museum and Morris Gallery between 12:00 noon and 1:00
p.m., Tuesday through Friday, for $1.00
Brought back by popular demand, this "Spend a Buck - Spend an Hour" offer was
first used by the Pennsylvania Academy during the Franz Kline . exhibition, which was
on view until September 28.
"Spend a Buck - Spend an Hour" will be in effect
immediately, so that the public can see the current two main gallery shows, Drawing
Toward Building: Philadelphia Architectural Graphics 1732-1986, and Sculpture at
the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts during the lunch hour.
In addition, a
new exhibition will be on display in the Morris Gallery, beginning Friday, November
14, - Phoebe Toland: Recent Works.
The purpose of this program is to encourage informal and spontaneous attendance
during the lunch hour, from those who work or study in center city.
This reduced
fee of $1.00 is part of a continuing effort to make the Pennsylvania Academy as
accessible and affordable to as many people as possible.
"There was no question that our attendance increased between 12:00 noon and
1:00 p.m. when 'Spend a Buck' was in effect during the Kline show," commented Linda
Bantel on the return of the program.
"In fact, the attendance continued to be
higher for this period, even though 'Spend a Buck' had ended.
Many people told us
they really liked this opportunity, and it only makes sense for us to bring it
back."
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts is conveniently located at the corner
of Broad and Cherry Streets, just two blocks north of City Hall and three blocks
west of Reading Terminal Market and The Abbott Cafe.
The Pennsylvania Academy is
easily accessible by public transportation, and several parking lots are located
within a one block radius.
So, "Spend a Buck" is a golden opportunity to grab a sandwich and broaden one's
cultural horizons.
Whether one stays for twenty minutes or two hours, one is sure
to enjoy one's self enough to return for another "Spend a Buck" hour.
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PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS RECEIVES $30,000 CONTRIBUTION
FROM HUNT MANUFACTURING CO. FOUNDATION FOR CAMPAIGN FOR SCHOLARSHIP ENDOWMENT
(Philadelphia, Pa. - November 12, 1986) -
The Pennsylvania Academy of the
Fine Arts announced today that it has received a $30,000 contribution from the Hunt
Manufacturing Co. Foundation, toward the Pennsylvania Academy's campaign for
scholarship endowment.
The Hunt Manufacturing Co. Foundation contribution will be used to grant full
tuition to a student who has been outstanding in printmaking.
Hunt Manufacturing Co., based in Philadelphia, is a leading manufacturer and
distributor of a wide variety of office and art craft products for the business,
education, and consumer markets, that include Speedball art supplies (calligraphy
products, Xacto knives, blades, and craft items) and Boston pencil sharpeners.
The Pennsylvania Academy is the oldest art school in America, founded in
1805, and is one of the few American art schools dedicated exclusively to educating
fine artists.
The Pennsylvania Academy inaugurated this scholarship endowment
campaign in September.
The purpose of the campaign is to double an existing
endowed scholarship fund of $1.6 million to $3.2 million.
The Pennsylvania
Academy, from its own resources, currently assists only a third of its student
population, and the average scholarship award provides only a portion of the total
cost of attending the Pennsylvania Academy.
In addition, since the majority of
Pennsylvania Academy students (200 full-time and 600 part-time students from
America and abroad) have previously attended college, many of them have already
earned a college degree and are ineligible for federal and state financial aid.
Therefore, they must rely solely on the Pennsylvania Academy as a resource for
financial aid, tuition, and art supplies.
"The Pennsylvania Academy school is very grateful to the Hunt Manufacturing
Co. Foundation for its generosity, but perhaps even more, for its vision in
ensuring a student's education in perpetuity," said Frederick S. Osborne, Jr.,
director of the schools of the Pennsylvania Academy.
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that Hunt is the first corporation to contribute to this campaign, and therefore
assumes the leadership role in the
Phi1ade1p~ia
corporate community.
The
scholarship drive provides its donors with the opportunity to both guarantee the
education of future artists and permanently entitle the donor's endowment with its
name.
The Pennsylvania Academy school looks forward to other corporations and
organizations following the example set by Hunt Manufacturing Co."
"The Hunt Manufacturing Co. Foundation believes that art schools such as the
Pennsylvania Academy are the crucible from which tomorrow's artists are trained,"
said William E. Parshall, Secretary to the Hunt Manufacturing Co. Foundation.
"We
hope that our contribution will enable an outstanding student to continue his or
her studies.".
The campaign for scholarship endowment, which bears the title "Talent is a
Rare Gift," was inaugurated on September 24, 1986, and at that time it was
announced that 1/4 of the goal of $1.6 million had been reached.
$463,335 has been
pledged thus far, from sources such as corporations, foundations, alumni, and
individuals.
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Sculpture at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Exhibition
For Release: Immediate
Kill Date:
Monday, January 12, 1987
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SEE A MARBLE ... OUS SHOW OF SCULPTURE, FROM THE NINETEENTH CENTURY TO THE PRESENT,
AT THE PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS AT BROAD AND CHERRY STREETS IN
PHILADELPHIA, THROUGH JANUARY 4. CALL 972-7600 FOR FURTHER INFORMATION.
(20 seconds)
DON'T MISS THE EXCELLENT SHOW OF AMERICAN SCULPTURE NOW
ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS AT BROAD AND CHERRY STREETS IN
JANUARY 11. YOU'LL REALLY ENJOY THE VARIETY AND ENERGY
MARBLE ... OUS EXHIBITION. CALL 972-7600 FOR INFORMATION
SPECIAL PROGRAMS.
ON VIEW AT THE PENNSYLVANIA
PHILADELPHIA, THROUGH
TO BE FOUND IN THIS
ON HOURS, ADMISSION, AND
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TWO CENTURIES OF REMARKABLE SCULPTURE BY ARTISTS RANGING FROM WILLIAM RUSH THROUGH
THOMAS EAKINGS TO FRANK STELLA ARE NOW ON VIEW AT THE PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE
FINE ARTS AT BROAD AND CHERRY STREETS IN PHILADELPHIA, THROUGH JANUARY 11. THIS
EXHIBITION ENCOMPASSES MORE THAN 190 MARBLE ... OUS ARTWORKS. A SYMPOSIUM, GALLERY
TALKS, AND FILMS ACCOMPANY THE SHOW. DON'T MISS THIS IMPORTANT AND VERY SATISFYING
EXHIBITION. CALL THE PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY AT 972-7600 FOR FURTHER INFORMATION.
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PAINTINGS, GRAPHICS, DRAWINGS, AND SCULPTURE TO BE ON VIEW
IN THE PEALE HOUSE GALLERIES OF THE PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS
FROM DECEMBER 11, 1986 THROUGH JANUARY 11, 1987
TO: City and assignments desks, arts writers
CONTACT: Kirby F. Smith, Public Information Officer, (215) 972-7642
Philadelphia, PA -- Over 100 works of art by students at the Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Arts can be seen at the Peale House Galleries, 1820
Chestnut Street, when the Full Student Exhibition goes on display from
December 11, 1986 until January 11, 1987.
On view in both galleries of the Peale House, the annual year-end student
show includes paintings, graphics, drawings, and sculpture.
The pieces
exhibited are selected by a faculty jury and represent work from all four
years of the program.
Bruce Samuelson, faculty member and juror for the Full Student Exhibition,
says that the most important aspect of the show is that "students are able to
see other students' work alongside their own work."
This creates a unique
learning experience for the students, as well as for members of the public,
who would otherwise not be able to see these new pieces.
Most of the works in this show will be available for purchase and make
unusual seasonal gifts.
The Peale House Galleries, located at 1820 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia,
display a rotating series of stimulating exhibitions in all media throughout
the year.
In addition to Pennsylvania Academy students and faculty, the shows
in the Peale House Galleries feature works of prominent artists from both the
Philadelphia area and the East Coast.
These shows are organized for the
benefit and education of Pennsylvania Academy art school students as well as
the public.
Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Sunday
from 12 noon to 4 p.m.
No admission charge.
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PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS GIVES ANNUAL HOLIDAY PARTY
ON SUNDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1986
TO: City and assignment desks, arts writers
CONTACT: Kirby F. Smith, Public Information Officer, (215) 972-7642
Philadelphia, PA -- Come celebrate the holiday season with the Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Arts on Sunday, December 14, when the spacious Victorian
galleries will be festively decorated in a grand seasonal manner for the
Pennsylvania Academy's annual holiday party.
The Pennsylvania Academy's board of
trustees and the Alumni Association's executive board cordially invite you to join
us from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. in the museum at Broad and Cherry Streets.
Holiday
music, traditional fare, and an art raffle will be featured at this lively event.
The music will be provided by a brass quintet from the Curtis Institute of
Music, and by the Quaker Notes, an all-female a capella group from the University
of Pennsylvania.
The Pennsylvania Academy's Christmas tree, trimmed with colorful lights and
bows, will also be on display in the grand stairhall of the museum.
Another highlight of the party will be a raffle of five works of art, the
proceeds of which will go toward the Pennsylvania Academy's scholarship endowment
fund.
The artists represented, all Pennsylvania Academy alumni, are: Robert
Gwathmey; Edward Fenno Hoffman, III; Jack Bookbinder; Susan Headley Van Campen; and
James "Bo" Bartlett.
Raffle tickets will be sold at the party at $10 each, and the
winning tickets will be drawn at 4:00 p.m.
Tickets may also be purchased in
advance through the alumni office by calling (215) 972-8350.
This party is free to members and alumni of the Pennsylvania Academy and their
families, and is free with museum admission to the general public.
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts is located at Broad and Cherry
Streets in Philadelphia, just two short blocks north of City Hall.
It is open to
the public from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday;
10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday; and 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Sunday.
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NANCY GRAVES IS SECOND RECIPIENT
OF THE PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS' AWARD OF AMERICAN ART
(Philadelphia, Pa. - December 8, 1986) - The Award of American Art Committee of
the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, chaired by Harvey S. Shipley Miller,
announced today that Nancy Graves has been chosen to be the second recipient of The
Award of American Art.
This award is made biennially by the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts to a
living American artist of national stature, by a distinguished national committee
of museum professionals, as well as Pennsylvania Academy trustees, patrons of the
arts, and staff, and recognizes the individual creative contributions of artists to
modern life.
The members of this selection committee are: Mrs. Philip I. Berman;
Dr. Luther W. Brady; Linda Cathcart, director of the Contemporary Arts Museum,
Houston; Mrs. Henry F. Harris; Mrs. J. Welles Henderson; Dr. John R. Lane, director
of the Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh; Robert Lee; Mrs. Robert P.
Levy; John J. Medveckis; Dr. Charles W. Nichols; Mrs. Stewart Resnick; Mrs. George
M. Ross; Thurston Twigg-Smith; Mrs. Robert English, Milton Ginsburg, Mrs. Albert M.
Greenfield, Jr., Mrs. Morton M. Kligerman, Leonard I. Korman, B. Herbert Lee,
Harvey S. Shipley Miller, Allen J. Model, David N. Pincus, Mrs. Meyer P. Potamkin,
J .. Roffe Wike, trustees; and, from the Pennsylvania Academy, Frank H. Goodyear,
Jr., president; Linda Bantel, director of the museum; Frederick S. Osborne, Jr.,
director of the schools; Kathleen A. Foster, curator.
Frank Stella was the first recipient of this award, which was presented to him
at a ceremony and dinner at the Pennsylvania Academy in October 1985.
"I am thrilled with the choice of Nancy Graves as the second recipient of The
Award of American Art," said Linda Bantel.
"A prolific mid-career artist, she is
of exceptional intelligence and unusual versatility.
painter, and printmaker.
She excels as a sculptor,
For years, I have admired her breadth and ability to fuse
her interests in anatomy, botany, meteorology, anthropology, ethnology, and art
history into a large body of provocative artistic statements."
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"Part of the activity surrounding this award is the artist's willingness to
meet with students in the Pennsylvania Academy's school and to discuss their work.
I am confident that Nancy Graves, a consummate professional who is an innovator in
her art, will be an inspiration to these students," concluded Bantel.
Nancy Graves creates work in various media, from oil paintings and works on
paper, to unique bronze sculpture.
Writing in the November 1986 Artforum, John Yau
observed, "Graves' achievement is this: She has added a new chapter to the history
of modernist sculpture by conflating gravity and weightlessness by a sensual,
painterly use of color, and by the various ways she explores the relationship
between the work's context and its identity.
Her sculptures are celebratory and
mysterious, and in their awkwardness, grace, and idiosyncracy, they remind us of
how we inhabit the world."
Born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, in 1940, Graves received a B.A. from Vassar
College in 1961 and an M.F.A. from Yale in 1964.
The following year, on a
Fulbright-Hayes grant in painting, she studied in Paris; in 1966 she lived and
worked in Florence.
In 1980 a retrospective, assembled by the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo,
surveyed the artist's painting and sculpture from 1969-1980.
Graves' work will be
the subject of a major retrospective exhibition, organized by the Fort Worth Art
Museum, in 1987.
The exhibition opens on February 19, 1987, at the Hirshhorn
Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., and, after traveling to Fort
Worth and Santa Barbara, Ca. , comes to The Brooklyn Museum on December 10, 1987.
A
catalogue raisonne of the artist's sculptural work will accompany the retrospective.
Nancy Graves will accept her award at a ceremony and dinner to be held at the
Pennsylvania Academy in autumn 1987.
As part of the Award, the Pennsylvania
Academy will purchase a major new work by Graves for the permanent collection.
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts is located at Broad and Cherry
Streets in Philadelphia, just two short blocks north of City Hall.
It is open to
the public from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday;
10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday; and 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Sunday.
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GROUP SHOW A TELLING IMPULSE: CONTEMPORARY NARRATIVE ON VIEW AT THE
MORRIS GALLERY OF THE PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS
FROM JAUNUARY 9 UNTIL MARCH 1, 1987
(Philadelphia, PA -- December 15, 1986) -- Seven artists concerned with
narrative will display their work in the Morris Gallery of the Pennsylvania Academy
of the Fine Arts from January 9 until March 1, 1987, in the group show A Telling
Impulse: Contemporary Narrative.
Hollis Sigler, Paolo Colombo, Marilyn Keating,
Suzanne Horvitz, Susan Chrysler White, Anda Dubinskis, and Alexa Kleinbard will
exhibit their distinctive styles of narrative art in the Morris Gallery show.
"All art is about something.
The subject of a representational work of art may
refer to autobiographical episodes or involve made-up characters and scenarios.
The
content often brings into play larger issues of human experience," says Judith
Stein, Morris Gallery coordinator.
An opening reception, to which the public is invited, will be held in the Morris
Gallery, Broad and Cherry Streets, on Thursday, January 8, from 5:00 p.m. until 7:00
The artists will also give an informal gallery talk on Friday, January 30, at
p.m.
12 noon.
The public is reminded of the Pennsylvania Academy's lunchtime admission
fee of $1.00 from 12 noon until 1:00 p.m. Tuesday through Friday.
A Telling Impulse brings together a variety of approaches.
Sigler writes the
titles directly on her drawings and paintings of domestic interiors, giving the
viewer a clue toward the implied content.
Colombo uses his Italian visual heritage
for classical references that are combined with natural and human forms in a series
of delicately drawn works on paper.
Keating wittily presses ordinary household objects into the service of an
increased awareness of the horrors of domestic violence.
Horvitz uses her
pioneering work in xerography to help shape images with mysterious and erotic story
lines.
In a series of large black and white drawings, White plumbs her own
self-image for evocative shapes which are often juxtaposed to vessels, an archetypal
female form.
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Dubinskis creates small and finely worked paintings in which autobiographical
vignettes are set off against haunting details of her environment.
In her most
recent work, Kleinbard shares her concerns for nature and the environment.
Tigers,
bears, flamingos, and deer warily coexist with the destructive forces of modern
technology.
The Morris Gallery, located in the Pennsylvania Academy museum at Broad and
Cherry Streets, displays the work of outstanding contemporary artists with a
connection to Philadelphia, determined by birth, schooling, or residence.
Hours
are Tuesday through Saturday from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.; Sunday from 11:00 a.m.
to 5:00 p.m.; Wednesday evenings until 7:00 p.m.
senior citizens and students.
Admission: $3.00 general; $2.00
Special lunchtime admission fee Tuesdays through
Fridays: $1.00 from 12:00 noon until 1:00 p.m.
Free Saturdays from 10:00 a.m.
until 1:00 p.m.; donations are appreciated.
Morris Gallery exhibitions are chosen by a committee composed of area artists,
museum personnel and collectors, and the curatorial staff of the Pennsylvania
Academy.
Currently serving on the Morris Gallery Exhibition Committee are: Cheryl
McClenney Brooker, Cynthia Carlson, Paolo Colombo, Bill Freeland, Faith Ginsburg,
Dr. Helen Herrick, Carrie Rickey, Eileen Rosenau, Judith Tannenbaum, and
Pennsylvania Academy staff: Judith Stein, Morris Gallery coordinator; Frank H.
Goodyear, Jr.; Linda Bantel; and Kathleen A. Foster.
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HAROLD A. SORGENTI NAMED CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES
OF THE PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS
(Philadelphia, PA -- December 22, 1986) -- The Board of Trustees of the
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts has elected Harold A. Sorgenti as its
chairman, at a meeting which was held on December 17, 1986.
One of America's
most progressive institutions, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts is
the nation's oldest art school and museum.
Sorgenti succeeds Samuel M.V. Hamilton, who served as chairman for the
last two years.
Frank H. Goodyear, Jr., president of the Pennsylvania Academy, remarks:
"Hal Sorgenti is a strong effective leader.
His commitment to enhance the
quality of life in Philadelphia has been well documented.
The Pennsylvania
Aca demy is extremely fortunate to have as its new chairman a person of Hal's
enthusiasm and dedication to its goals."
Harold A. Sorgenti has been a member of the Pennsylvania Academy's Board
of Trustees since 1980, and its second vice chairman since 1985.
Sorgenti is
senior vice president of Atlantic Richfield Company, and president of ARCO
Chemical Company, a division of Atlantic Richfield Company.
Sorgenti, a
graduate of City College of New York, with a Master of Science degree from
Ohio State University, has also been awarded the American Jewish Committee
Humanitarian Award, an honorary Doctor of Science from St. Joseph's
University, and an honorary Doctor of Laws from Villanova University's College
of Commerce and Finance.
Sorgenti is a director of Provident Mutual Life
Insurance Company, Philadelphia National Bank, CoreStates Financial Corp., and
O'Brien Energy Products, as well as the Chemical Manufacturers Association
(chairman/Executive Committee), the Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce
(past chairman), and the Greater Philadelphia First Corporation.
He is a
member of the Pennsylvania Business Roundtable, and serves as a director of
the Philadelphia Orchestra, as well as the United Way of Southeastern
Pennsylvania.
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Commenting on the goals that he hopes to accomplish as chairman,
Sorgenti remarks that, "over the last ten years a very significant effort has
been made to restore and improve our museum and to provide new and expanded
facilities for our school.
As we look to the future our most important goals
will be to increase the public's awareness of our important collection of
American art and to improve the financial strength of the Pennsylvania
Academy.
We need to expand our facilities for existing programs to enable us
to exhibit a more significant portion of our magnificent collection of
American art."
Other officers elected at the December 17th Board meeting are Charles J.
Kenkelen as first vice chairman and treasurer, and J. Roffe Wike as second
vice chairman.
Kenkelen, chairman and president of The Anchor Packing
Company, has been on the Board of Trustees since 1976, and treasurer since
1981.
Wike, senior partner and director of Cooke and Bieler, Inc., has been a
trustee of the Pennsylvania Academy since 1984.
Wike is active on the boards
of WHYY, Inc., the Opera Company of Philadelphia, and the Curtis Institute of
Mrs. Nelson J. Leidner, a former chairman of the Pennsylvania
Music.
Academy's Women's Committee, and trustee since 1984, was elected as
secretary.
Bobette Leidner is a public relations consultant in the arts.
Mr. George A. Beach, chairman of Beach Advertising, was elected as a
trustee of the Pennsylvania Academy, to serve a five-year term.
graduate of the Philadelphia College of Art.
Beach is a
He has served as officer to many
of the city's cultural institutions, such as: Moore College of Art, The
Philadelphia College of Art, the Afro-American Historical and Cultural Museum,
and the Mayor's Small Business Advisory Council.
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts is located at Broad and Cherry
Streets in Philadelphia, just two short blocks north of Cit y Hall.
It is open
to the public from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and
Saturday; 10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday; and 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on
Sunday.
The Pennsylvania Academy, founded in 1805, is the oldest art museum and
art school in North America.
Its collection of over 7,300 works of American
art is housed in its third building, a National Historic Landmark, designed by
Frank Furness in 1876, and restored to its original Victorian splendor in 1976.
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