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FOR IHl'-lEDIATE RELEASE: Dec. 21, 1990
CONTACT: Anne Broussard (215) 972-7642
MUSEUM OF THE PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS
1991-1992 EXHIBITIONS
Please confirm exhibition dates and information with the
public relations department at (215) 972-7642. Photographs,
color transparencies and additional materials are available.
To April 14,
1991
Light, Air and Color: American Impressionist Paintings from
the Collection of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
Fifty-six of the museum's outstanding holdings of
Impressionist paintings, including works by Childe Hassam,
John Twachtman, Theodore Robinson, Robert Vonnoh and others,
demonstrate how American artists adapted elements of French
Impressionism to create what was heralded by the Pennsylvania
Academy in 1892 as lithe Da\VD of a New American Art. II The
exhibition has been made possible by the National Endowment
for the Arts, the William Penn Foundation and the American
Federation of Arts.
Feb. 9 April 14, 1991
Frank Lloyd Wright: Preserving an Architectural Heritage.
This survey of Frank Lloyd Wright's decorative designs will
consist of more than 70 pieces of furniture, art-glass
windows, textiles and other decorative elements. The
exhibition will explore the issue of preserving Wright
objects outside the buildings for which they were
specifically designed. The Smithsonian Institution Traveling
Exhibition Service organized the exhibition in cooperation
with the Domino's Center for Architecture and Design. The
national tour was made possible by a grant from Domino's
Pizza Inc. In Philadelphia th~ show has been supported by
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The Pew Charitable Trusts.
May 10 June 2, 1991
90th Annual Student Exhibition. More than 1000 paintings,
sculptures and works on paper by third- and fourth-year
students at the School of the Pennsylvania Academy of the
Fine Arts demonstrate the creative spirit and technical skill
that has been fostered at the school for 186 years.
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.June l3, 1991 April 5, 1992
Telling Tales: 19th-Century Narrative Art in the Collection
of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Fifty
paintings and sculptures from the museum's collection
constitute this examination of the history and evolution of
narrative paintings in 19th-century American art. Included
are works by Benjamin West, Edward Hicks, Gustavus Hesselius,
Thomas Eakins, Mary Cassatt, William Sidney Mount and others.
The exhibition has been made possible by the National
Endowment for the Arts, the William Penn Foundation and the
American Federation of Arts.
Sept. 27, 1991 April 5, 1992
Thomas Eakins Rediscovered. One of America's greatest
painters and art teachers will be "rediscovered" in this
exhibition of more than 250 sketches, letters, manuscripts,
photographs and paintings, most never exhibited before. This
interactive exhibition will trace Eakins' development as an
artist and examine him at home among family and friends, as a
student and teacher and at work in his studio. Most of the
objects will be drawn from the Charles Bregler Collection, a
major trove of Eakins materials acquired by the Pennsylvania
Academy in 1985. Organized by the Pennsylvania Academy, the
exhibition has been supported by The Pew Charitable Trusts.
May 15 JW1e 7, 1992
9lst Annual Student Exhibition.
June 1992 April 1993
Revealing Faces: 19th-Century Portraits from the Collection
of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. This exhibition
of more than 50 works will combine "fancy" portraits by
academically trained artists with the "plain" work of American
folk artists of the early 19th century. Included will be
works by Gilbert Stuart, Charles Willson Peale, Thomas
Sully, John Neagle, Jacob Eichholtz, Thomas Eakins, Mary
Cassatt and ~"illiam Merritt Chase.
January April 1993
The Art of Horace Pippin. Horace Pippin (1888 - 1946) is
arguably the best-known African-American painter of the 20th
century. Judith Stein, curator at the Pennsylvania Academy,
is organizing the first major traveling exhibition of his work
since 1976. This exhibition will feature 75 of the 125 known
works by this West Chester, Pa., artist, and will include
interiors, still lifes, war scenes, genre views of AfricanAmerican life, portraits, religious subjects, historical
subjects and landscapes.
The Museum of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the nation's oldest art
museum, is located at Broad and Cherry Sts., in Philadelphia. For more information,
please call (215) 972-9600.
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FOR INHEDIATE RELEASE: Dec. 21, 1990
CONTACT: Anne Broussard (215) 972-7642
EXHIBITION TO "REDISCOVER" THOMAS EAKINS
PHILADELPHIA -- "Thomas Eakins Rediscovered: At Home, At School, At
Work," an exhibition of more than 250 Eakins sketches, photographs, letters,
manuscripts, studies and paintings, will offer new insights into America's
foremost 19th-century painter.
Eakins (1844 - 1916) is considered one of the
nation's most important artists because of his extraordinary technical skill
and frank style of realism.
The exhibition will trace his development as an
artist and examine his life at horne among family and friends, as a student and
teacher at the School of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and
elsewhere, and at work in his studio.
On view at the Museum of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts from
Sept. 27, 1991 through April 5, 1992, the exhibition will highlight the
Charles Bregler Collection of Eakins materials acquired by the Pennsylvania
Academy in 1985 and never before exhibited to the public.
Acquisition, research and conservation of the Bregler Collection has been
supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Endowment
for the Arts, the Institute of Museum Services, the J. Paul Getty Trust and
The Pew Charitable Trusts.
Funds for the exhibition have been made possible
by The Pew Charitable Trusts.
Jeanette M. Toohey, assistant curator, and Inez S. Wolins, curator of
education, both at the Pennsylvania Academy, are co-curators of the
exhibition.
Kathleen A. Foster is guest curator.
Vincent Ciulla has designed the installation.
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"Thomas Eakins Rediscovered" Hill represent a two-fold rediscovery: the
return to light of many surprising and enlightening objects hidden for many
years and a fresh encounter with one of America's greatest painters.
Included
will be rare studies, works-in-progress and private moments of expression
shoHn alongside Eakins' final Hork in painting and sculpture to illustrate his
artistic process.
Of particular interest will be letters dealing with Eakins'
dismissal as director of the Pennsylvania Academy in 1886, never-before-seen
photographs of the artist and his family and the portrait of his close friend
\val t livhi tman.
"Thomas Eakins Rediscovered" 'viII also address several broad themes.
A
model of a Victorian room and accompanying wall texts will call attention to
middle-class life in 19th-century America.
The School of the Pennsylvania
Academy will hold life-drawing classes in the galleries to highlight
contemporary art education and shoH how Eakins' legacy continues at the
school.
Visitors will examine the historical use of figure drawing and the
Pennsylvania Academy's role in providing art education to women.
Activity stations throughout the exhibition will help visitors explore
artistic principles and techniques; for example, visitors will be able to
manipulate objects within a perspective grid to see the relationship of forms
within a picture plane.
Thomas Eakins and Charles Bregler
Born in Philadelphia, Eakins received early artistic training at the
School of the Pennsylvania Academy.
He continued his studies at the Ecole des
Beaux-Arts in Paris, where drawing from the live nude was the basis for
instruction.
Eakins returned to Philadelphia and began teaching at the
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Pennsylvania Academy, where he implemented a rigorous curriculum modeled on
the French academic system.
His methods emphasized the human figure: both his
men and women students painted from the live nude, dissected human cadavers
and analyzed photographs of the human form in action.
Eakins' insistence on
these practices led to his firing and to several controversial incidents
involving women students.
After Eakins left the Pennsylvania Academy, he continued to teach at the
Art Students' League, the National Academy of Design and elsewhere.
He
painted many portraits--mostly uncommissioned--of family, friends, physicians
and others he respected.
Though he never enjoyed widespread acclaim, toward
the end of his life his work met with greater recognition from critics and the
public, laying the foundation for the high regard in which he is held today.
Charles Bregler, who assembled the 1600-item Bregler Collection, was a
student of Eakins in the 1880s.
His devotion to his teacher was absolute, and
after Eakins died in 1916, Bregler befriended his widow, Susan.
Together they
defended and preserved Eakins' reputation, which throughout his lifetime was
marred by controversy or completely overlooked.
After Susan died in 1938, Bregler rescued Eakins' sketchbooks, letters,
photographs, manuscripts, sculpture and oil studies from the Eakins house in
Philadelphia prior to its sale.
Bregler sequestered these materials in his
own home, where they remained, unexamined, for the next 50 years.
Public Programs and Related Events
"Thomas Eakins Rediscovered" is serving as a focal point for
Philadelphia's citywide celebration of the 200th anniversary of the
ratification of the Bill of Rights.
As an artist who refused to compromise
his ideals for the sake of convention, Eakins remains a champion of artistic
freedom.
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More than 50 public programs (organized by the Pennsylvania Academy and
other Delaware Valley organizations) will further the understanding of Eakins
and his world.
Novel Stages, a Philadelphia-based theater company, will
premiere a play entitled "Marks on the Water" that illuminates the
relationship between Eakins and his wife and the traumatic events surrounding
his firing.
Royal Pickwickians Inc., a Philadelphia-based historic
interpretation company, '.vill offer readings of \valt Whitman's '.vorks with
costumed performers.
Also planned are conferences, walking tours, studio
classes, art history lectures, gallery talks and family programs.
Publications
Three publications will be devoted to the Bregler Collection.
The first,
Writing About Eakins: The Manuscripts in Charles Bregler's Thomas Eakins
Collection, was written by Kathleen A. Foster and Cheryl Leibold, archivist at
the Pennsylvania Academy.
Published in 1989, it serves as a guide to the
manuscripts in the collection.
A second book, Eakins Rediscovered, will
catalog the more than 200 drawings, 23 oil sketches and 10 plasters by Eakins
as well as works by his wife and other artists of Eakins' circle.
It will be
published in 1991 to coincide with the "Thomas Eakins Rediscovered"
exhibition.
A third volume, tentatively entitled Eakins and the Photograph
and set for a 1993 publication, will contain a catalog of the photographs by
Eakins or attributed to one of his many student- collaborators.
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The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, founded in 1805, is America's
oldest art museum and art school. The museum is located at Broad and Cherry
Sts., in Philadelphia. For more information, please call (215) 972-7600.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Oct. 24, 1990
CONTACT: Anne Broussard (215) 972-7642
"CALIFORNIA SCHOOL OF COOL" ART WORKSHOPS FOR FAMILIES
PHILADELPHIA -- The Museum of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
is holding four family art workshops in conjunction with "Bay Area Figurative
Art, 1950-1965," an exhibition featuring the work of 10 San Francisco artists
who, with bold brushwork and vibrant colors, began painting people, landscapes
and interiors, making a dramatic break from the leading American artists who
were working abstractly.
Each workshop, for families and children ages 5 to
12, includes gallery explorations and hands-on art projects.
The cost is $2 per person and includes materials.
Each workshop runs
from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. and will be held at the museum, located at Broad and
Cherry Sts., in Philadelphia.
Registration is not necessary.
For more information, call the education department at 972-7600.
Make a "poetic" portrait of someone
Nov. 3
"Poetic Portraits."
11 a.m. - 12 p.m.
in your family that captures their spirit and character
through words and pictures.
The workshop, led by art
teacher Sivia Katz, explores the influence of Beat poetry
(an American literary movement of the 1950s and 1960s
involving autobiographical, spontaneous writing) on
artists from the San Francisco Bay Area, whose works are
on view in the exhibition "Bay Area Figurative Art,
1950-1965."
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Nov. 10
"On Location: The Studio Tour."
Tour an artist's studio
11 a.m. - 12 p.m.
and see those of some famous artists as they painted them
in the exhibition "Bay Area Figurative Art, 1950-1965."
Then create art in the active style of the Bay Area
artists in the studios at the School of the
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
This workshop is
led by artist Maryann Matlock-Hinkle.
Nov. 17
"California School Cool."
"Hang ten" in the Museum of the
11 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where you will find
paintings of musicians and artists and even football
players on view in the exhibition
Art, 1950-1965."
'~ay
Area Figurative
Models will give up-and-coming artists
inspiration to put people into their works of art.
Artist
Ann Martin leads this workshop.
Nov. 24
"Rip, Wrap, Splash and Splat."
11 a.m. - 12 p.m.
was taking a bath.
Splish-splash, the bird
Learn how San Francisco Bay Area
artists made sculptures of birds and animals.
your own menagerie.
Then build
Artist Ann Martin leads this workshop.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Oct. 23, 1990
CONTACT: Anne Broussard (215) 972-7642
SUSAN MOORE'S DRAMATIC IMAGES
OF THE HUMAN FORM GO ON VIEW
PHILADELPHIA -- "Susan Moore: Works on Paper," an exhibition of seven
large-scale drawings of women's faces, will be featured at the Museum of the
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts' contemporary arts gallery, the Morris
Gallery, from Nov. 2 to Dec. 30, 1990.
Nov. 1 from 5 to 7 p.m.
There will be an opening reception
The reception is free and open to the public.
On
Nov. 16 at 12 p.m., Susan Moore will give a gallery talk about her work.
The
gallery talk is free with museum admission.
"Drawings are an intimate medium.
What's so compelling about Susan Moore
is that she combines the intimacy of drawing with a grand scale to create
arresting images of the human form," said Judith Stein, curator of the Morris
Gallery.
Moore personalizes her closely cropped portraits with intense color
and gestural marks.
Her drawings measure 70 x 80 inches.
Born in Panama in 1953, Moore is currently an associate professor of
painting and
draw~ng
at the Tyler School of Art, Temple University.
studied at Yale-Norfolk School of Art and Music in Connecticut.
She
In 1977, she
received her bachelor of fine arts degree from Indiana University in
Bloomington, Ind., and in 1979 she received a master of fine arts degree from
the University of California at Davis.
Her work has been exhibited at the
Kathryn Markel Gallery in New York City; University of Missouri in St. Louis;
Stockton State College in Pomona, N.J.; and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
For more information, please call (215) 972-7600.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Oct. 22, 1990
CONTACT: Anne Broussard (215) 972-7642
MUSICIAN'S BEAT ADDS NE~oJ DIMENSION
TO BOLD PAINTINGS OF THE BEAT GENERATION
PHILADELPHIA -- On Nov. 9 at 8 p.m., the Museum of the Pennsylvania Academy
of the Fine Arts and contemporary music ensemble Relache \ViII present the second
concert in the four-part series, "Imaginary Landscapes," \Vhich combines new
music with the visual arts to enhance the overall museum experience.
The
concert \ViII be held at the museum, located at Broad and Cherry Sts.,
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Philadelphia.
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The Nov. 9 performance \ViII feature original musical works by San Francisco
composer Chris Brown and will be held in conjunction \Vith the exhibition "Bay
Area Figurative Art, 1950-1965."
The exhibition comprises 86 figurative
paintings, sculptures and drawings by 10 artists working in San Francisco's Bay
Area during the 1950s and '60s.
These artists and composer Brown share common
San Francisco roots as well as exposure to the be-bop jazz and funk aesthetic
that the area was known for.
The museum will open at 7 p.m. so that guests can vie\v the exhibition prior
to the concert.
Tickets are $15.
A reception will follow the performance.
Like the Bay Area artists, Brown incorporates the human element into his
work, much of which is computer-modified.
One of his goals is to "make
computers more responsive to the human gesture."
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Relache at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fj.lli2 Arts
Since 1978 Brown has been creating his own instruments, such as a sheet
of metal with rods that are bowed to create tones and a computer that
automatically routes sounds through a system of generators to provide a sound
structure that supports his
impro~isations
on other instruments.
The program for the Nov. 9 concert will feature Brown performing solo and
wi th members of Relache in such \vorks as "Snakecharmer," "Duo One," "Duo Two,"
"Hall of Mirrors" and a new work to be announced.
Subsequent concerts will be held March 15 and May 17, 1991.
Each concert
will feature pieces that complement exhibitions on view at the time at the
museum.
"Imaginary Landscapes" has been funded in part by the Pennsylvania
Council on the Arts and the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.
The Museum of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, founded in 1805,
is dedicated to collecting and exhibiting the works of American artists.
Relache, founded in 1977, presents music of the late 20th century with an
emphasis on works employing innovative performance techniques and state-ofthe-art audio-acoustical technologies.
For ticket reservations, call the Innovation Arts Box Office at
(215) 963-0345.
For general information, call the museum's education
department at (215) 972-7608.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Nov. 30, 1990
CONTACT: Anne Broussard (215) 972-7642
FINEARTS
Broad and Cherry Streets
Philadelph ia
Pen nsylvania
SCHOOL OF THE PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS
HONORS JOHN W. MERRIAM AT SECOND ANNUAL SCHOOL DINNER
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PHILADELPHIA -- John W. Merriam, a developer, financier, philanthropist
and art collector, was presented with the Dean's Award for Distinguished
Service to the School of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts at the
Second Annual School Dinner on Nov. 30.
The dinner, attended by more than 150
people, was held at the school building at 1301 Cherry St., Philadelphia.
Merriam, who lives in Wynnewood, Pa., is the second recipient of the
Dean's Award, which recognizes outstanding service to the school.
Born in
1907, he graduated from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, in
1927.
He entered the real estate field and became involved in the development
of residential housing complexes, shopping malls and industrial properties.
Merriam served on the Pennsylvania Academy's board of trustees from 1959
to 1975 and as chair of the school's committee on instruction from 1960 to
1968 and in 1973.
Among other contributions, he was largely responsible for
the Pennsylvania Academy's acquisition of the Belgravia Hotel at 1811 Chestnut
St. in the early 1960s.
This building provided needed studio and office space
at a critical time for the institution and sparked a significant increase in
the school's enrollment.
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Second Annual School Dinner
"John Merriam's long-standing devotion to the school extended to his
interest in the welfare of each of its students," said Frank H. Goodyear Jr.,
president of the Pennsylvania Academy.
'~e
knew many of them personally,
regularly bought their works, and with his wife, Ruth, often opened their
magnificent home to entertainment students and faculty.
hospitality is still legendary.
Their warm
Jack's commitment to make the School of the
Pennsylvania Academy 'the best it can be' has earned him a place among its
greatest leaders."
"Presenting John Merriam with the Dean's Award, recognizing all his
contributions to this institution, has particular meaning for me," said
Frederick S. Osborne, dean of the school.
"Over the past five years, Jack has
been enormously generous with his time, sharing with me his knowledge and
vision of the institution."
Merriam is a member or former member of many educational, cultural,
civic and business organizations.
Her currently serves as trustee emeritus of
the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
Two Sophie Victor Greene Scholarship Awards were also presented at the
dinner.
Second-year students Leda G. Ramos and Julia M. Stratton, both of
Philadelphia, were the first recipients of these full-tuition scholarships
established this year by Stephen Greene in memory of his late wife Sophie, who
had attended the School of the Pennsylvania Academy in the 1920s.
The dinner was held in the 1301 Cherry St. building, purchased in 1988
and renovated to provide Pennsylvania Academy students with state-of-the-art
equipment and studios.
Mr. and Mrs. Harold A. Sorgenti and Mr. and Mrs.
Frederick S. Osborne served as the dinner's chairpersons.
chairman of the Pennsylvania Academy's board of trustees.)
(Mr. Sorgenti is
Serving on the
Dinner Committee were: Mr. and Mrs. John B. Bartlett, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas
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Dolan IV, Daniel D. Miller, Judith Rothschild, Archbold D. van Beuren and Mr.
and Mrs. Jerome B. Weinstein.
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Second Annual School Dinner
Serving on the Honorary Dinner Committee were: Sally M. Avery, Constance
E. Clayton, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Cosby, Richard Diebenkorn, Roger Gilmore, Nancy
Graves, Vartan Gregorian, Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Hall, Mercedes Carles Matter,
Mr. and Mrs. Martin Meyerson, Robert Motherwell, Mr. and Mrs. Chaim Potok,
John Russell and Rosamond Bernier, Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Rutenberg, Helen
Farr Sloan and Dr. Leo Steinberg.
The School of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, founded in
1805, is America's oldest art school.
It offers four-year certificate
programs in painting, sculpture and printmaking.
Current enrollment numbers
more than 300, with students coming from as far away as China, Japan,
Venezuela, South Africa and Barbados.
Among the school's notable alumni are
Thomas Eakins, Mary Cassatt and David Lynch.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Oct. 15, 1990
CONTACT: Anne Broussard (215) 972-7642
Broad and Cherry Streets
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
SANFORD FOUNDATION DONATES $5000 TO ENABLE 100
DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN TO ATTEND SUMMER ART CAMP
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PHILADELPHIA
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts has received a
$5000 grant from The Sanford Foundation to provide 100 scholarships for 100
disadvantaged children, enabling them to attend the Pennsylvania Academy's
summer art camps.
The Sanford Foundation, based in Exton, Pa., was
established by Mr. and Mrs. Richard Sanford to benefit disadvantaged children
in the Delaware Valley.
Mr. Sanford is the founder, chairman and chief
executive officer of Intelligent Electronics, the country's largest network of
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personal computer dealers.
The art camps, each one-week long, involve field trips, lessons in
looking at art, drawing, painting and construction, culminating in a final
project to which parents are invited.
"It has always been part of the Pennsylvania Academy's mission to educate
young people about the visual arts," said Inez Wolins, curator of education at
the Pennsylvania Academy.
"Our summer camps offer youngsters the chance to
see original works of art, explore studio concepts and work towards shared
visions through group and individual projects."
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"Artistic talent crosses all lines of race, income and age," said Richard
Sanford.
"We are delighted to help the Academy give so many children this
opportunity to explore their artistic potential."
Since 1987, the Pennsylvania Academy's art camps have offered children
ages 3 to 15 the opportunity to learn about art and participate in hands-on
art projects.
Support from The Sanford Foundation will provide scholarships
to students who might not otherwise be able to attend.
The Pennsylvania Academy and The Sanford Foundation will work with
regional youth organizations and agencies to identify potential scholarship
children for the 1991 art camps.
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, located at Broad and Cherry
Sts., in Philadelphia, is the nation's oldest art museum and art school.
The
museum houses one of the premier collections of American art in the country
and offers changing exhibitions and complementary education programs
throughout the year.
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CONTACT: Anne Broussard (215) 972-7642
SATIRIST PAUL ZALOOM BRINGS HIS
ZANY ONE-MAN SHOW TO PHILADELPHIA
PHILADELPHIA
Called "one of the most original and talented political
satirists to work in the theater" [Stephen Holden, New York Times], Paul
Zaloom will bring his zany, comic world to Philadelphia on Dec. 2 at
3 p.m. when he presents the hilarious political satire "My Civilization."
The performance will be held at the Museum of the Pennsylvania Academy of
:he Fine Arts, Broad and Cherry Sts., in Philadelphia.
It is free with museum
admission of $5; $3 seniors; $2 students.
Zaloom plays a gregarious food technologist talking about amusing and
unpleasant secrets of industrial cooking at an annual convention of fellow
food technologists.
He then moves into a multi-media satirical performance
where he expounds on such hotly discussed issues as nuclear power, the savings
and loan fiasco and the current war on art.
Zaloom, a 1990 National Endowment for the Arts Solo Mime and Performance
Art fellowship recipient, has performed in numerous festivals throughout the
world, including the Serious Fun festival at Lincoln Center and the Edinburgh
Fringe festival in Scotland.
His comic film, "Eating in America," was part of
Bette Midler's film "Mondo Beyondo" on H.B.O. in 1988.
This program is made possible by grants from the Pennsylvania Historical
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Museum Commission and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.
For more information, please call (215) 972-7600.
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Evening and Saturday classes
Classes are held in the historic Pennsylvania Academy building at Broad
and Cherry Sts., and at the school building at 1301 Cherry St.
Both buildings
are convenient to public transporation; reduced parking rates are available at
commercial lots located nearby.
All courses can be taken on a credit or non-credit basis and are taught
by Pennsylvania Academy faculty members.
Enrollment is open; no portfolios
are necessary for admission.
Registration by mail is possible prior to Jan. 7, 1991.
Walk-in
registration will take place Jan. 9, 10 and 11 from 4 to 6:30 p.m. at 1301
Cherry St., in Philadelphia.
To obtain a catalog and registration form,
please call the Evening Programs Office at (215) 972-7632.
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CONTACT: Anne Broussard (215) 972-7642
FINEARTS
Broad and Cherry Streets
Philadelphia
Pen nsylvania
BAY AREA ARTIST NATHAN OLIVEIRA TO TALK AT MUSEUM
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(21S)972-764PHILADELPHIA -- On Oct. 20 at 1 p.m., Nathan Oliveira, one of the
10 artists represented in the exhibition "Bay Area Figurative Art, 1950-1965,"
will speak about his involvement with the Bay Area movement at the Museum of
the Penns ylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Broad and Cherry Sts., in
Philadelphia.
The talk, "Focus: Nathan Oliveira," is free with museum
admission of $5; $3 seniors; and $2 students.
Currently a professor at Stanford University, Oliveira rose to
:; prominence in the late 1950s with his unique style that combined elements of
Abstract Expressionism and traditional figure painting, often portraying human
figures in isolation.
In describing Oliveira's work, Caroline A. Jones,
curator of the exhibition, explained, "his openness to emotion--particularly
dark emotion--was his most salient gift to his fellow artists."
Women, in
particular, have been an enduring theme in Oliveira's work, perhaps, as Jones
suggests, because he was surrounded by women as a young child .
Oliveira was born to Portuguese parents in Oakland, Calif., in 1928.
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received bachelor of fine arts and master of fine arts degrees from the
California College of Arts and Crafts.
He has been the recipient of a Louis
Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant, a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship and
various teaching fellowships.
He has been at Stanford University since 1964 .
"Bay Area Figurative Art, 1950-1965," an exhibition of 86 paintings,
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and graphics by 10 artists who worked in San Francisco's Bay Area
in the 1950s and '60s , will be on view through Dec. 30, 1990.
For more
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"THE BEAT MOVEMENT" FILM SERIES TO BE SCREENED AT
MUSEUM OF THE PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS
PHILADELPHIA -- They were restless rebels, reckless poets and musicians
of dizzying virtuosity.
They were also captured forever in films such as "The
Wild One," "What Happened to Kerouac?" and "Bird."
These and six other films
are included in "The Beat Movement" film series this fall at the Museum of the
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
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Organized by the museum's education deparJ ment, the series explores the
wild spirit and rebelliousness of the 1950s and 1'60s.
It is being held in
conjunction with "Bay Area Figurative Art, 1950f 965,,, a major exhibition
featuring paintings and sculpture of the 1950s and '60s by 10 San Francisco
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Bay Area artists on view at the museum through Dec. 30, 1990.
The series will be held on four subsequent Sundays at 3 p.m. beginning
Oct. 21.
The films are free with museum admission of $5; $3 for seniors and
$2 for full-ttme students.
Philadelphia.
The museum is located at Broad and Cherry Sts., in
For more information, please call (215) 972-7600.
Included in "The Beat Movement" will be:
Oct. 21
3 p.m.
"The Wild One" (1954, b/w, 79 mins., directed by Laslo Benedek)
stars Marlon Brando as the moody and deliquent leader of a
motorcycle gang and Lee Marvin as his psychotic rival. Also
stars Mary Murphy; and "Scorpio Rising" (1963, color, 29 mins.,
directed by Kenneth Anger) a homage to the American motorcyclist
and his black leather, chains, roaring engines and passion for
rock-n-roll. Stars Bruce Byron, Johnny Sapienza, Frank Cariff
and John Palone.
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3 p.m.
"Bird" (1988, color, 160 mins., directed by Clint Eastwood),
starring Forest Whitaker as Charlie "Bird" Parker, generally
acknowledged as the greatest saxophonist of all time. Set in the
1930s, '40s and '50s, this film traces Parker's jazz career, drug
problem, legal difficulties and stabilizing relationships.
"Blinkity Blank" (1955, 5 mins., directed by Norman McLaren), an
experiment in intermittent animation that features synthetic
.sounds scratched directly onto the film; and "Neighbors" (1952, 8
mins., directed by Norman McLaren), an Oscar-winning animated
live-action fable in which real characters move about 24 times
per second.
Nov. 4
3 p.m.
"What Happened to Kerouac?" (1987, color, 96 mins., directed
by Richard Lerner and Lewis MacAdams), a reminiscence of Jack
Kerouac by friends and colleagues including footage of Kerouac
reading his prose accompanied by Steve Allen on piano; and
"Begone Dull Care" (1950, b/w, 8 mins., directed by Norman
McLaren with Evelyn Lambert), an abstract film that features
lines contorting to the jazz tunes of the Oscar Peterson Trio.
Nov. 11
3 p.m.
"Dizzy Gillespie" (1964, 20 mins., directed by Les Blank),
featuring jazz great Dizzy Gillespie talking about his beginnings
and his theories on music during a club date in Los Angeles; and
"Pull My Daisy" (1959, b/w, 29 mins., directed by Robert Frank
and Alfred Leslie, music by David Amram, voice parts by Jack
Kerouac), an adaptation of the third act of Jack Kerouac's
unpublished play, "The Beat Generation," featuring Allen
Ginsberg, Larry Rivers, Alice Neel, Gregory Corso and Richard
Bellamy.
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WEAR A BERET, GOATEE OR TURTLENECK ON BAY DAY
Museum celebrates San Francisco Bay Area
exhibition and the "Beat" spirit
PHILADELPHIA -- Be hip.
Sport a black turtleneck, goatee or beret when
you visit the Museum of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts on Oct. 21
and you will receive half-off regular museum admission to see "Bay Area
Figurative Art, 1950-1965," an exhibition exploring art from San Francisco
during the heyday of the Beat generation.
"Bay Day" kicks off "The Beat Movement" film series, which explores the
wild spirit and rebelliousness of the 1950s and '60s.
At 3 p.m. that day, the
museum will screen "The Wild One" (1954, b/w, 79 mins., directed by Laslo
Benedek), a film starring Marlon Brando as the rebellious leader of a
motorcycle gang.
The film is free with museum admission.
Bay Day and the film series are being held in conjunction with "Bay Area
Figurative ·Art, 1950-1965," an exhibition featuring 86 paintings, sculptures
and graphics by 10 San Francisco Bay Area artists.
The exhibition recaptures
the creative mood of San Francisco three decades ago when artists influenced
each other as colleagues and drew inspiration from poets, musicians and the
light-filled landscape around them.
The exhibition runs through Dec. 30, 1990.
The Museum of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts is located at
Broad and Cherry Sts., in Philadelphia.
Hours are Tuesday through Saturday,
10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
seniors; $2 students; free to children under five.
please call (215) 972-7600.
Regular admission is $5; $3
For more information,
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SHE KNEH MATISEE, PICASSO AND MOORE
Rosamond Bernier chats about her
friends, the giants of 20th-century art
PHILADELPHIA -- Mixing anecdotes, history, gossip, wit and art,
acclaimed Metropolitan Museum of Art lecturer Rosamond Bernier will bring her
world of artists, their friends and their work to Philadelphia during a
special appearance sponsored by Mrs. Samuel M.V. Hamilton and the Women's
Committee of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
"Great Artists in Close-Up: A Visit to Matisse, Picasso and Henry Moore"
will be held Nov. 8 at 4 p.m. at the Arch Street United Methodist Church,
located at Broad and Arch St., in Philadelphia.
The cost is $35 per person (a
tax-deductible contribution) and includes a reception one block away at the
museum following the lecture.
Bernier, who has been lecturing for the past 20 years, delights
standing-room-only crowds when she lectures at the Metropolitan Museum of Art,
the National Gallery of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the
Grand Palais in Paris.
and Avenue.
She has been profiled in The New Yorker, 60 Minutes
According to Calvin Tompkins in The New Yorker, "She is
simultaneously ethereal and earthy, colloquial and scholarly, droll and
serious."
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Bernier is the daughter of Samuel Rosenbaum, a former vice president of
the Philadelphia Orchestra.
She grew up in the Germantown section of
Philadelphia and began her career in Paris in 1946 as the first European
features editor for Vogue.
She became close friends with the artistic titans
of the day, including Picasso, Matisse, Miro, Braque and Leger.
married Georges Bernier.
In
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In the mid-19s0s the couple founded the arts
magazine L'Oeil, which they edited together for the next 15 years.
After her
divorce from Bernier, Rosamond returned to America, where she first began to
lecture.
She was an instant success.
Times art critic John Russell.
In the mid-1970s, she married New York
She and Russell currently reside in New York
City.
For more information about the Bernier lecture, please call the Women's
Committee at (215) 972-7639.
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DECORATIVE DESIGNS OF FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT TO GO ON VIEW NEXT
SPRING AT MUSEUM OF THE PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS
PHILADELPHIA -- A comprehensive exhibition of Frank Lloyd Wright's
decorative designs, the first major showing of the architect's work ever in
Philadelphia, will be mounted at the Museum of the Pennsylvania Academy of the
Fine Arts from Feb. 10 through April 14, 1991.
Entitled "Frank Lloyd Wright :
Preserving an Architectural Heritage," the exhibition consists of more than 70
decorative works including furniture, art-glass windows, textiles and drawings .
In addition to surveying the designs of Wright's 60-year career, the
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exhibition explores the complex issue of preserving Wright objects outside the
buildings for which he designed them.
"It is expecially appropriate that the Pennsylvania Academy host the
work of this imaginative and prolific architect.
Wright studied with Louis
Sullivan, who was a disciple of Frank Furness, the architect of the
Pennsylvania Academy's landmark museum building," said Linda Bantel, the Edna
S. Tuttleman Director of the Museum.
"We are pleased to present the first
major exhibition of Wright's work ever in Philadelphia, a city known for the
quality of its architecture and its architects."
The exhibition was organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling
Exhibition Service in cooperation with the Domino's Center for Architecture
and Design in Ann Arbor, Mich.
The national tour has been made possible by a
generous grant from Domino's Pizza Inc.
In Philadelphia the exhibition has
been partially funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts.
guest curator.
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Frank Lloyd Wright
Wright, considered by many to be America's greatest architect, was born
in Wisconsin in 1867.
His mother was determined to make him into the greatest
architect in the world and taught him early on how to draw with geometric
shapes and grid forms.
Wright studied civil engineering for two years at the
University of Wisconsin before going to Chicago to work with the pioneering
modern architect Louis Sullivan.
Seven years later, in 1893, he started his
own firm.
Throughout his career, Wright's designs expressed his philosophy of
"organic architecture," in which a building, its contents and its natural
setting worked together as a harmonious unit.
In his words "it is quite
impossible to consider the building as one thing, its furnishings another and
its setting and environment still another.
The Spirit in which these
buildings are conceived sees all these together at work as one thing."
On view in the exhibition will be furniture, textiles, wall sconces,
gates, windows and other elements that Wright considered integral to his
architectural projects.
All the objects are drawn from the Domino's Pizza
Collection, the most comprehensive private collection of Wright's decorative
designs in the· world.
Among the important pieces on view will be a dining
table and eight side chairs from the Joseph W. Husser House, Chicago (c.
1899); leaded-glass windows from the Avery Coonley Playhouse, Riverside, Ill.
(c. 1912); Usonian-style tables and chairs; a Prairie-style chest of drawers
(c. 1903); and a side table from Fallingwater, Bear Run, Pa. (c. 1936).
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The exhibition also addresses questions concerning the preservation of
Wright's works.
Unlike painting or sculpture, architecture serves a
functional purpose.
Hence, many of Wright's buildings have been adapted for
contemporary needs; some have been razed entirely.
Wright's furniture and
other decorative elements have been sold to museums and private collectors,
and occasionally the original owners have taken favorite pieces with them when
they've moved.
Through wall texts and a special videotape, the exhibition
explores how Wright's designs have been and can be preserved for contemporary
audiences.
Complementary programs at the museum will include a film series, gallery
talks, art history courses and guided tours.
The exhibition is accompanied by
a fully illustrated 156-page catalog written by curator David A. Hanks and
available for $22.50.
Hanks has been the consulting curator for the Domino's
Pizza Collection and is the author of the 1979 volume The Decorative Designs
of Frank Lloyd Wright.
"Frank Lloyd Wright: Preserving an Architectural Heritage" opened in
December 1989 at the Seattle Art Museum before traveling to the Chicago
Historical Society, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, N.Y., and the
Denver Art Museum.
After leaving the Museum of the Pennsylvania Academy of
the Fine Arts" it will be on view at the Dallas Museum of Art from May 26 to
July 21, 1991.
For more information on "Frank Lloyd Wright: Preserving an Architectural
Heritage," please call (215) 972-7600.
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---,i in Philadelphia.
Hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and
Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is $5; $3 for senior citizens; $2 for
full-time students. Free to children under five. Admission is free on
Saturday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
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DOES CONTEMPORARY ART HAVE MEANING? Art critic
Suzi Gablik to speak on need for holistic approach
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PHILADELPHIA
On Oct. 10 at 6 p.m., art critic and painter Suzi
Gablik, author of Has Modernism Failed?, will give a talk entitled "The
Reenchantment of Art" at the Museum of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine
Arts, Broad and Cherry Sts., in Philadelphia .
Gablik will speak on how contemporary artists express their social and
political concerns through their art.
The talk begins at 6 p.m.; the museum
opens at 5 p.m. to a110\., viewing of "Bruce Pollock: Thresholds," an exhibition
of 13 paintings reflecting the artist's spiritual interests.
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Admission for
the talk is $5; $3 for seniors; $2 for students.
Gablik will discuss the spiritual impoverishment of contemporary Western
society.
As she describes it, "The psychic and social structures in which we
live have become too profoundly anti-ecological, unhealthy and destructive."
She believes that artists must work with a renewed sense of community and a
greater sensitivity to the ecological and mythic underpinnings of spiritual
life in order to make meaningful art.
Gablik cites several artists as
promising examples, among them Fern Shaffer, who performs empowerment rituals
to mark the seasonal equinoxes, and the visionary landscape painter Gilah
Yelin Hirsch.
For more information, please call the museum at (215) 972-7600.
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DISTINGUISHED SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA
ART HISTORIAN TO GIVE PUBLIC TALK OCT. 6
PHILADELPHIA -- Caroline A. Jones, curator of the exhibition "Bay Area
Figurative Art, 1950-1965" and a noted Bay Area art historian, will give a
slide/lecture presentation on Oct. 6 at 11 a.m. at the Museum of the
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, located at Broad and Cherry Sts., in
Philadelphia.
The talk is free.
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will be on view at the Pennsylvania Academy through Dec. 30, 1990.
The exhibition draws attention to a time and place -- the Bay Area in the
1950s and '60s -- when artists influenced each other as colleagues and friends
and drew inspiration from poets, musicians and the light-filled landscape
aroung them.
On view will be 86 paintings, sculptures and graphics
characterized by vibrant colors and bold brushstrokes.
Artists in the show
include David Park, Richard Diebenkorn, Elmer Bischoff, James Weeks,
Theophilus Brown, Paul Wanner, Nathan Oliveira, Manuel Neri, Bruce McGaw and
Joan Brown.
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Jones, 35, a Ph.D. candidate in modern and contemporary art history at
Stanford University, received a
bachel~r's
degree magna cum laude from Harvard
University in 1977 and then pursued graduate studies in art history at New
York University's Institute of Fine Arts.
As associate coordinator of
exhibitions at The Museum of Modern Art in New York, Jones oversaw the
planning for exhibitions of work by Pablo Picasso, Louise Bourgeois and Marcel
Breuer.
In addition to Bay Area Figurative Art, 1950-1965, her published works
include the catalogs Manuel Neri: Plasters, Richard Diebenkorn, Twentieth
Century Drawings in the Anderson Collection and Modern Art at Harvard.
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SUPERIOR ARTISTRY: High spirited music ensemble
Relache kicks off four-part concert series at Museum of
the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts on Sept . . 14
PHILADELPHIA -- Giving new meaning to the term "audio-visual," the
~~seum
of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the nation's oldest art
museum, and contemporary music ensemble Relache are collaborating on a
four-part concert series, "Imaginary Landscapes, ,,~~ designed to take the museum
experience in a new direction by combining the visual arts with new music.
The series kicks off on Sept. 14 with a performance featuring the work
of guest composers and musicians Nicolas Collins and Joseph Kasinskas.
performance begins at 8 p.m.
The
It is being held in conjunction with "Sculptures
by Duane Hanson," an exhibition of 14 lifelike sculptures celebrating the
common man.
The museum will open at 7 p.m. so that guests can view the
exhibition prior to the concert.
Tickets are $15.
A reception will follow
the performance.
Collins, who will perform on his computer-outfitted trombone, is known
for his use of microcomputers in live performance and inclusion of "found"
sound materials such as radio clips, pre-recorded music and recorded street
sounds.
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title of a 1939 composition by John Cage that pioneered the use of electronics
in live performance.
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In-addition to the works by Collins·r·· ·Relache will perform Joseph
Kasinskas' "Echoes in Palindromes."
Kasinskas, who has worked with Relache
for the past 13 years, has been a faculty member at the University of Colorado
and has composed award-winning scores for films and documentaries.
"He'd like to show our visitors how the artistic concepts in our
exhibitions cross over into other disciplines," said Inez Wolins, curator of
education at the museum.
"One of the themes shared by sculptor Duane Hanson
and composer Nicolas Collins is a focus on the commonplace
Hanson with his
ordinary figures and Collins with his inclusion of 'found' or ordinary sounds
into his compositions."
Subsequent concerts will be held Nov. 9, March 15 and Hay 17.
Each
concert will feature pieces that complement current exhibitions at the
museum.
"Imaginary Landscapes" has been funded in part by the Pennsylvania
Council on the Arts and the Pennsylvania Historical and Huseum Commission.
The Museum of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, founded in
1805, is dedicated to collecting and exhibiting the works of American
artists.
Relache, founded in 1977, presents music of the late 20th century
with an emphasis on works employing innovative performance techniques and
state-of-the-art audio-acoustical technologies.
For ticket reservations, call the museum's education department at
(215) 972-7608.
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PAINTINGS BY BRUCE POLLOCK TO GO ON VIBv
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PHILADELPHIA -- Thirteen large painted panels by Bruce Pollock will be
displayed in the exhibition "Bruce Pollock: Thresholds" from Sept. 7 to Oct.
21 in the Museum of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts' contemporary
art gallery, the Morris Gallery.
6 from 5 to 7 p.m.
to 1 p.m.
A free opening reception will be held Sept.
A gallery talk by the artist will be held Sept. 21 from 12
The talk is free with museum admission.
Pollock's works reflect the artist's fascination with metaphysics and his
sense of the artist's visionary role.
He begins with many layers of acrylic,
often hues of blue, purple and rust, and then sands down and removes portions
to achieve his visual effects.
He sets spirals, nets and honeycombs in
repetitious patterns against these subtle and abraded backgrounds.
By
painting and removing, thinking and unthinking, he allows the image to "create
itself."
Judith Stein, curator of the Morris Gallery, describes Pollock's recent
work as "paintings [that] relate to both the environment and to interior
states of consciousness."
She describes, for example, how Pollock worked
during the extreme heat wave of 1988 as a way of exorcising the debilitating
"fever;"<which he considered a sign of the earth's sickness.
Currently a resident of the city's Northern Liberties section, Pollock
receiv~d
a bachelor of fine arts degree in painting from the Cleveland
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Institute of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, in 1976, and a master of fine arts degree ·
from Temple University's Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia in 1978.
In the
12 years since then, he has moved from enamel painted sculpture to subtle,
textured acrylic paintings.
His works have been exhibited locally at the Philadelphia Museum of Art,
the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Janet Fleisher Gallery and Jeffery
Fuller Fine Art, in addition to galleries in New York City, Los Angeles and
Chicago.
The Morris Gallery displays the work of outstanding contemporary
artists.
The gallery is located on the first floor of the Museum of the
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts at Broad and Cherry Sts., in
Philadelphia.
Hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and
Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Admission is $5; $3 for seniors; $2 for students;
\..:§) free to children under five.
For more information, please call (215) 972-7600.
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GRANDPARENTS' DAY GIVES FAMILES
A REASON. TO CAST ABOUT AT MUSEUM
PHILADELPHIA -- Did you ever want to make a sculpture cast of your
grandmother's foot?
Or grandpa's ears?
Find out how when the Museum of the
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts celebrates Grandparents' Day on Sept. 9
with "How'd He Do It?," a family program examining how sculptor Duane Hanson
creates his lifelike works of art.
From 1 to 3 p.m., grandparents, parents and children, ages 5 to 12, are
invited to tour through the exhibition "Sculptures by Duane Hanson," examine
sculptures in the museum's collection, watch a video of the artist at work in
his studio and then create their own plaster casts back in the studios of the
School of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
The program is free with
museum admission of $5; $3; $2 students; free to children under five.
Hanson casts from live models, forming vinyl and hard plastic figures
that he paints with flesh tones, sometimes using crayons to form freckles,
bruises and blemishes.
His world is populated by tourists, cleaning ladies,
carpenters, children and the elderly.
"Sculptures by Duane Hanson," an
exhibition of 14 works, will be on view at the museum through Sept. 23.
The Museum of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts is located at
Broad and Cherry Sts., in Philadelphia.
For more information, please call
(215) 972-7600.
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CAMPERS TO MAKE PLASTER CASTS OF THEIR FACES,
HANDS, ARMS, SHOULDERS, FEET ON AUG. 16.
-- Art camp puts them head and shoulders above the rest
PHILADELPHIA -- Plaster of Paris descends on Philadelphia.
Armed with
plaster and cloth, 20 youngsters from the Delaware Valley area participating
in the Museum of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts' summer art camp
will make plaster casts of their faces, hands, arms, shoulders and feet on
Aug. 16 from 10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m .
The campers, 9 to 15 years old, are spending a week learning about art
and the art of making casts from live models.
During the first three days
(Aug. 13-15), the youngsters looked at people and sculptures at the Rodin
Museum, Logan Circle and the Reading Terminal in preparation for making their
casts.
The children will assemble their casts into sculptures of people on
Aug. 17.
The program is being held in conjunction with the museum's current
exhibition, "Sculptures by Duane Hanson," on view at the museum through Sept.
23.
Hanson creates lifelike sculptures by making plastic casts of live
models, embellishing the sculptures with paint, hair, clothes and props.
The Museum of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts is located at
Broad and Cherry Sts., in Philadelphia.
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WEST COAST MEETS EAST COAST: WORKS BY SAN FRANCISCO
ARTISTS GO ON VIEW IN PHILADELPHIA THIS FALL
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"It was a vital, unique and spirited time. There was a good deal of
partying. We drew together, regularly visited each other's studios,
exchanged ideas, critiqued each other's work, we were all open to
responses."
-- artist Elmer Bischoff
PHILADELPHIA -- From Oct. 6 through Dec. 30, 1990 the Museum of the
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts will feature "Bay Area Figurative Art ,
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1950-1965," an exhibition examining 10 artists who painted representationally
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-- people, landscapes, interiors -- during a period when the abstract style
seemed to dominate the art world.
Working in the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1950s and '60s , these 10
artists broke with the school of New York abstraction to paint images in the
real world rather than those drawn from their imagination.
Their work,
characterized by loose brushwork and vibrant colors, evokes a time and a place
-- San Francisco of four decades ago, when artists influenced each other as
colleagues and friends and drew inspiration from poets, musicians and the
light-filled landscape around them.
On view will be 86 paintings, sculptures and drawings by David Park,
Richard Diebenkorn, Elmer Bischoff, James Weeks, Joan Brown, Theophilus Brown,
Bruce
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Manuel Neri, Nathan Oliveira and Paul Wanner.
("Bay Area
Figurative Art" includes 10 Diebenkorn paintings -- the largest showing ever
of this major American painter's work in Philadelphia.)
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Most of the artists knew each other either professionally or personally
through their connections to the California School of Fine Arts (now the San
Francisco Art Institute), the California College of Arts and Crafts and the
University of California, Berkeley, as faculty or students.
This academic
network spawned friendships, drawing sessions and an atmosphere of creative
exchange and cross-fertilization.
Organized by guest curator Caroline A. Jones for the San Francisco Museum
of Modern Art (where it opened last fall), the exhibition is the first
in-depth exploration into this significant development in postwar American
painting.
The exhibition has been supported by The Henry Luce Foundation Inc.,
Peter and Kirsten Bedford, The Roberts Foundation, the Modern Arts Council of
the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the National Endowment for the
Arts.
In Philadelphia, the exhibition has been supported by The Pew
Charitable Trusts and the National Endowment for the Arts.
"The Museum of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts has long been
committed to figurative painting," said Linda Bantel, director of th:= museum.
"The reassessment of the importance of the Bay Area figurative movement is
part of a revived interest in the art of the 1950s.
We are particularly
pleased to have the opportuni.ty to show such fine examples of the work of
these artists, which are rarely seen in the Philadelphia area."
The movement was "born" in 1949 when David Park, an instructor at the
California School of Fine Arts, gathered together his abstract expressionist
canvases and, in an act that has gone down in local legend, drove to the city
dump and destroyed them.
Two years later, Park submitted a clearly
representational work, "Kids on Bikes," to a competitive show -- and won, to
the astonishment of the local art community.
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Park, along with Richard Diebenkorn, Elmer Bischoff and James Weeks, were
the first of the Bay Area artists to begin to stage personal, yet dramatic
breaks from the non-objective abstract mode of the day.
These artists wanted
the challenges that occurred from working with representational images.
Curator Caroline Jones has grouped these four as the Bay Area movement's
"first generation."
The figurative style spread rapidly during the mid-1950s, due in part to
the first generation's influence as teachers and friends on who the curator
calls "the bridge generation" -- Nathan Oliveira, Paul Honner and Theophilus
Brown.
These three artists joined the fold and expanded the style by
incorporating autobiographical references and symbolism into their paintings.
The final three artists -- Bruce McGaw, Manuel Neri and Joan Brown
represent the "second generation" of the Bay Area figurative movement.
artists had studied with the movement's pioneers.
These
In the early 1960s, they
infused their art with a raw energy and personal subject matter, often by
working with such diverse materials as fur, wood and cloth.
The greater
idiosyncratic quality of the second generation's work attested to the
influence of Beat poetry and the emerging Funk aesthetics of the so-called San
Francisco underground.
The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated 231-page catalog,
co-published by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the University of
California Press.
It is available for $27.50.
Complementary programs at the museum include a film series on the Beat
Movement, art history lectures, family workshops and guided tours.
The Museum of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts is located at
Broad and Cherry Sts., in Philadelphia.
Hours are Tuesday through Saturday,
10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
$2 students; free to children under five.
(215) 972-7600.
Admission is $5; $3 seniors;
For more information, please call
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PHILADELPHIA -- Evening and Saturday classes are now forming for the
Sept. 6 through Dec. 21 semester at the School of the Pennsylvania Academy of
the Fine Arts, one of the nation's premier art schools.
Over 30 different
studio art and art history classes are being offered for both beginning and
advanced students.
Classes include fundamentals of drawing, elementary figure drawing and
painting, portrait painting, pastels, watercolors , etching, lithography,
collage, metal sculpture, stone carving and color concepts .
Art history
lectures include "American Impressionism," "Two Centuries of American Art,"
"The Beat Aesthetic" and "The San Francisco Underground Film."
All studio art
classes are taught by faculty at the School of the Pennsylvania Academy of the
Fine Arts.
Evening sessions run from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.; Saturday class times
vary depending on the course.
Classes range in price from
$4~
to $150.
All
classes are offered to the general public and samples of artwork are not
required for enrollment.
Walk-in registration will be held Aug. 20 through
Aug. 23 from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the Evening School office, located in the
main school building at 1301 Cherry St., Philadelphia.
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Classes can be taken on a credit or non-credit basis.
They are offered
as an extension of the full-time program of the School of the Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Arts and are held in the historic studios at Broad and
Cherry Sts., and in the school facility at 1301 Cherry St.
For a catalog and application, please call the Evening School at
(215) 972-7632.
The School of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, founded in 1805,
is America's oldest art school.
Notable alumni include painters George Caleb
Bingham, Thomas Eakins and Mary Cassatt, sculptor A. Milne Calder and
filmmaker David Lynch.
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PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY'S SUMl'1ER ART CAMPS
SIZZLE WITH EXCITB'1ENT
PHILADELPHIA--This summer children five to 12 years old will sketch
warthogs, create puppet plays, explore the city's sites during the "Summer
FUNdamentals Art Camps for Children" at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine
Arts.
Pennsylvania Academy educators will lead three sessions: "A Clue to
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7 to 11; and "Painting the Town!" from Aug. 14 to 18.
a.m. to 3 p.m.
Each camp is $65; $55 for members.
three camps is $180; $150 for members.
Sessions run from 10
The reduced rate for all
Space is limited.
For registration
information, call the Education Department at (215) 972-7608.
"Each camp combines gallery explorations with an array of studio art
projects," said Pennsylvania Academy Camp Coordinator Judy Ringold. "Kids get
the chance to use their imaginations, make friends, learn about art and have
fun."
During the first session, "A Clue to Who?," campers will use paintings
and sculptures in the museum's collection for inspiration to fashion props,
stage sets and skits.
Professional puppeteers will be on-hand to share trade
secrets, and campers will enjoy a full-scale puppet production.
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ART CAMP SCHEDULE:
SESSION I
Aug. 6 - 10
Artstart (aees 3 to 5): Young campers \1ill explore the
museum's art-filled galleries and then head for the
studios to create their own art. The class will be
taught by Suzy Curcio, director of the University City
Montessori School, Philadelphia.
Aug. 6 - 10
Playing with Plaster (ages 6 to 12): With drawing
supplies and cameras in hand, children will record the
daily activities of ordinary people at work and play in
the city. Back at the studios, they will make plaster
casts of themselves and create realistic sculptures in
the style of Duane Hanson, whose sculptures are on view
in the museum's main galleries. Judy Ringold, museum
education program coordinator, is the instructor.
Aug. 6 - 10
Send Your Parents to Camp: Parents can drop their
children off at the museum's art camps and then head for
their own art camp, where they will learn how to make and
look at art. Jill Rupinski, a teacher at the School of
the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, is the
instructor.
SESSION II
Aug. 13 - 17
Philadelphia Sketchbook (ages 5 to 12): This class is a
great way to "get to know" Philadelphia. Each day
children will travel to a different location, including
Fairmount Park and Penn!s Landing, to gain inspiration
for landscape paintings they will create in the studios.
Taught by artist Ann r~rtin, campers will learn about
different techniques such as painting, drawing and
printmaking.
Aug. 13 - 17
Playing with Plaster II (ages 9 to 15): With drawing
supplies and cameras in hand, children will record the
daily activities of ordinary people at work and play in
the city. Back at the studios, children will make
plaster casts of themselves and create realistic
sculptures in the style of Duane Hanson, whose sculptures
are on view in the museum's main galleries. Artist
Barbara Fox is the instructor.
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Aug. 13 - 17
A Clue to Who! (ages 5 to 10): With a dash of
imagination, the people and animals in paintings can come
to life. Children will create plays based on paintings
in the galleries and then make props, sets and
costumes. The week culimnates in an original production
by the campers for family and friends. Judy Ringold,
museum education program coordinator, is the instructor.
Aug. 13 - 17
Send Your Parents to Camp: Parents can drop their
children off at the museum's art camps and then head for
their own art camp, where they will learn how to make and
look at art. Jill Rupinski, a teacher at the School of
the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, is the
instructor.
SESSION III
Aug. 20 - 24
Impressions of a City (ages 5 to 12): After touring
Philadelphia and its parks, participants will return to
the studios to build large-scale landscapes from their
sketches. The class will be taught by art teacher Sivia
Katz.
Aug. 20 - 24
Ordinary People (ages 5 to 12): Children will work with
plaster casts, papier-mache and clay to make sculptures
of "ordinary people" inspired by people they see during
trips to different parts of the city, as well as Duane
Hanson's life-like sculptures. Ann Martin, artist
and art teacher, is the instructor.
Aug. 20 - 24
Send Your Parents to Camp: Parents can drop their
children off at the museum's art camps and then head for
their own art camp, where they will learn how to make and
look at art. Jill Rupinski, a teacher at the School of
the Pennsylvania A~ademy of the Fine Arts, is the
instructor.
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FOR FALL EDUCATION SUPPLEMENTS
PENN SYLVANIA ACADEMY EXTENSION PROGRAM CLASSES BEGIN SEPT. 6.
PHILADELPHIA -- This fall the School of the Penns yl vania Academ y of the
Fine Arts is offering 30 different studio art and art lecture courses for both
be ginning and advanced students.
Administered through the extension programs office, the courses will be
offered in the evenings and on Saturdays from Sept. 6 through Dec. 21 , 1990.
(Classes will not meet on Nov. 22 or 23.)
Evening sessions run from 6:30 to
9:30 p.m.; Saturday class times vary depending on the course.
Classes can be taken on a credit or non-credit basis.
They are offered
as an extension of the full-time program of the School of the Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Arts and are held in the historic studios at Broad and
Cherr y Sts., and in the school facility at 1301 Cherry St.
All classes are
offered to the general public and samples of artwork are not required for
enrollment.
Studio class offerings include: fundamentals of drawing, pastel,
anatomy, watercolor, portrait painting, landscape, wood carving and
construction, stone carving, lithography, woodcut, collage, media on paper and
color concepts, among others.
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Lecture course offerings include: "Two Centuries of American Art,
Section I," a survey of American art from 1750 to 1876; "American
Impressionism," an examination of Impressionism in the United States; "The
Beat Aesthetic," an analysis of the Beat movement and its influence on the San
Francisco Bay Area artists of the 1950s and '60s; and "The San Francisco
Underground Film," an exploration into the San Francisco experimental film
renaissance of the 1950s and '60s.
The latter two courses are being held in
conjunction with the exhibition "Bay Area Figurative Art, 1950 - 1965," which
looks at the principal artists in the San Francisco Bay Area who worked in
figurative styles during the peak years of Abstract Expressionism.
exhibition will be on view in the museum from Oct. 6 through
Dec~
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The School of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, founded in
1805, is America's oldest art school.
Notable alumni include George Caleb
Bingham, Thomas Eakins, Mary Cassatt, Maxfield Parrish and David Lynch.
To obtain a catalog and application for fall extension program classes,
please call the extension programs office at (215) 972-7632.
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$325 , 000 GRANT AWARDED TO MUSEUM OF THE
PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS
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PHILADELPHIA -- The Museum of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
has been awarded a two-year grant from The Pew Charitable Trusts for $325,000
to support four upcoming exhibitions:
"Bay Area Figurative Art, 1950-1965"
(Oct. 6 - Dec. 30, 1990), "Frank Lloyd Wright: Preserving an Architectural
Heritage" (Feb. 10 - April 14, 1991) , "Thomas Eakins Rediscovered" (Sept. 26,
1991 - April 5, 1992) and "The Art of Horace Pippin" (January - April 1993).
Funds will be used for installation of the exhibitions, complementary
education programs for adults and children, publicity, exhibition catalogs,
and insurance for the art works.
"We are indebted to The Pew Charitable Trusts for their support," said
Linda Bantel, director of the museum.
"This grant will ensure the stability
and quality of the museum program over the next two years and enable the
museum to achieve its goals of presenting historic and, contemporary
exhibitions that reflect the rich diversity of American art."
The Museum of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts houses one of the
premier collections of American art in the country.
The museum, located at
Broad and Cherry Sts. in Philadelphia, features changing exhibitions and
complementary education programs.
For more information, please call (215) 972-7600.
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CLASS ON REALIST ART OFFERED AT MUSEUM OF THE
PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS
(215) 972-7642
PHILADELPHIA -- A four-part course examining realism in 20th-century art
will be offered at the Museum of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
this summer.
"Real, Really Real, Super Real" is scheduled for July 9, 16, 23
and 30 from 5:30 to 7 p.m.
Classes will be held at the museum , located at
Broad and Cherry Sts., in Philadelphia.
The cost is $45.
Arthur DeCosta, formerly a teacher at the School of the Pennsylvania
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Academy of the Fine Arts, opens the course by introducing American Realism as
an art movement.
Other classes will be taught by Abraham Davidson, an art
history professor at Temple University, who will talk about the history of
realism; Anthony Visco, chair of the sculpture department at the School of the
Pennsylvania Academy, who will explore realism in sculpture; and Jean Henry,
director of the Drexel University Art Museum, who will examine contemporary
artist Duane Hanson's sculpture from an art historical perspective.
Featured prominently in the lectures and slides will be the work of
Hanson, whose life-like sculptures of real people are on view in the museum
through Sept. 23.
Also on view (through Sept. 16) is "20th-Century Realism,"
which provides an overview of important 20th-century realist artists.
Visits
to the museum galleries will provide a first-hand look at the type of art
discussed in the lectures.
To register or for more information, call the extension programs office
at (215) 972-7632
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PHILADELPHIA -- "Lives of Quiet Desperation," a summer film series at the
Museum of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, explores the hardships of
everyday life.
The series is scheduled for six consecutive Sundays from July
15 to Aug. 19 and is being held in conjunction with the exhibition "Sculptures
by Duane Hanson."
The title for the series comes from Duane Hanson's own
words about the lives of ordinary Americans and their feelings of despair or
boredom.
All films begin at 3 p.m. in the museum's Hamilton Auditorium.
They are
free with museum admission of $5; $3 for seniors; $2 for students; free to
children under five.
The Museum of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
is located at Broad and Cherry Sts., in Philadelphia.
For more information,
please call (215) 972-7600.
July 15
3 p.m.
"Come Back Little Sheba" (1952, black & white, 99 mins.,
directed by Daniel Mann). The appearance of a young boarder
drastically changes the lives of a bored, middle-aged couple.
Burt Lancaster is the alcoholic chiropractor and Academy
Award-winner Shirley Booth, in her screen debut, is his
irritating wife. Also stars Richard Jaeckel.
July 22
3 p.m.
"Marty" (1955, black & white, 89 mins., directed by Delbert
Mann). Ernest Borgnine, Betsy Blair and Karen Steele star in
this story of a homely Bronx butcher who lives with his
mother, resigned to a life of bachelorhood until he falls in
love with a plain woman he meets at a'dance. This film won
Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Actor and Best
Director.
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July 29
3 p.m.
"The Rose Tattoo" (1955, black & white, 117 mins., directed
by Daniel Mann). Anna Magnani, Burt Lancaster, Marisa Pavan,
Virginia Grey, Ben Cooper and Jo Van Fleet star in this
adaptation of Tennessee I-lilliams' play. In an Academy
Award-winning performance, Magnani plays the proud widow of a
philandering truck driver who builds a shrine to her dead
husband. A man who falls in love with her makes her examine
her late husband's true character.
Aug. 5
3 p.m.
"A Raisin in the Sun" (1961, black & white,
directed by Daniel Petrie). Sidney Poitier,
Ruby Dee, Diana Sands and Ivan Dixon star in
of Lorraine Hansberry's acclaimed play about
family's dreams and how they hope to realize
receive a $10,000 insurance bequest.
Aug. 12
3 p.m.
"Diary of a Mad Housewife" (1970, color, 94 mins., directed
by Frank Perry). Carrie Snodgress, Richard Benjamin and Frank
Langella star in this comedy-drama based on Sue Kaufman's
best-selling novel in which a dissatisfied housewife contends
with two spoiled children, a narcissistic lover and an oafish
husband.
Aug. 19
3 p.m.
"Tender Mercies" (1983, color, 93 mins., directed by Bruce
Beresford). Robert Duvall, Tess Harper and Betty Buckley star
in this film about a coun.t ry-western singer/songwriter who
lets alcohol destroy his career, marriage and almost himself.
I-lhen he gives up alcohol, he severs his ties to his past and
his ability to express himself through music.
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a black Chicago
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ART CAMPS: 10 HAYS TO HAVE HOT SUMrlER FUN!
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PHILADELPHIA -- Calling all casts of characters between the ages of 3 and
IS!
The Museum of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts is offering a
series of summer art camps for children -- and special camps for parents
filled with art adventures and activities.
Session I, which includes
"Artstart" and "Playing with Plaster I," runs from Aug. 6 to 10; Session II,
which features "Philadelphia Sketchbook," "Playing with Plaster" and "A Clue
to Hho!," runs from Aug. 13 to 17; Session III, which includes of "Impressions
of a City" and "Ordinary People," runs from Aug. 20 to 24.
The five-day camps are scheduled from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. daily.
The cost
is $65 per week ($185 for all three weeks); snacks and materials are
included.
Campers should bring a brown-bag lunch.
While campers are occupied, parents can learn how to make and look at art
during "Send Your Parents to Camp."
Held concurrently with the art camps for
children, this program will be taught by Pennsylvania Academy faculty member
Jill Rupinski who will present tours of the museum's galleries and
behind-the-scenes facilities, as well as lessons in painting and drawing.
The
cost for parents of campers is $10; for other adults, $65.
All camps will be held at the museum, located at Broad and Cherry Sts.,
in Philadelphia.
For more information, call the education department at
(215) 972-7608.
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TUTTLEMANS DONATE $1 MILLION TO
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Edna S. and Stanley C. Tuttleman have donated $1 million
to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, America's oldest art museum and
art school, announced Pennsylvania Academy President Frank H. Goodyear Jr. on
June 21.
The gift will be used to establish the Edna S. Tuttleman Director of the
Museum chair.
It is a major contribution to the Pennsylvania Academy's "Third
Century Fund," which was also announced on June 21 by Harold A. Sorgenti,
chairman of the Pennsylvania Academy's board of trustees.
The chair will be
held by the current museum director, Linda Bantel.
With the Tuttlemans' gift, contributions to the "Third Century Fund"
campaign currently total $8 million toward a goal of $15.2 million.
"We owe the Tuttlemans an enormous debt of thanks, and hope that their
generous example will lead others to follow in their footsteps," Goodyear
said.
"On a personal note, I might add that Edna and Stan are important
collectors.
No one is more involved in museum matters than Edna, who so
diligently chairs the Committee for the Museum.
Her vision has helped shape
museum programs -- exhibitions, acquisitions and publications -- of national
importance."
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Noted ' Sorgenti, "The Tuttleman gift is a major step forward for the
campaign.
Edna and Stan are deeply committed to the arts, and their
reputation as generous and dedicated individuals is richly deserved."
Mrs. Tuttleman also serves on the campaign steering committee.
Other
committee members include: Harold A. Sorgenti (chair), Mrs. Thomas Dolan IV,
Caleb L. Fowler, Dr. Henry A. Jordan, Stephen B. Klein, Leonard I. Korman,
Allen J. Model, Archbold D. van Beuren, J. Roffe Wike, Samuel M.V. Hamilton
(honorary vice chairman) and Charles E. Mather III (honorary vice chairman).
The goals of the ca'mpaign include the purchase and renovation of the
school facility at 1301 Cherry St., the increase of scholarship funds, the
renovation of museum facilities and the acquisition of land for the eventual
expansion of the museum.
The campaign also offers numerous opportunities to
establish endowments for chairs including those of president, curators and
chairs of departments.
Taken on a broader scale, the campaign seeks to prepare the Pennsylvania
Academy for its bicentennial in the year 2005, when, with a new museum wing,
the institution will be able to exhibit a major portion of its nationally
important collection of American art.
For more information about the campaign, please call the development
office at (215) 972-7643.
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ARCO CHEMICAL COMPANY DONATES $1 MILLION TO
PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS
PHILADELPHIA -- ARCO Chemical Company has donated $1 million to the
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, America's oldest art museum and art
school, announced Pennsylvania Academy President Frank H. Goodyear Jr. on
June 21.
The $1 million is the largest gift ever given to an institution by ARCO
Chemical Company .
It represents a major step forward for the Pennsylvania
Academy's "Third Century Fund," which was also announced on June 21 by Harold
A. Sorgenti, chairman of the Pennsylvania Academy's board of trustees.
With the ARCO gift, contributions to the "Third Century Fund" campaign
currently total $8 million toward a goal of $15.2 million.
Said Goodyear, "On behalf of the Pennsylvania Academy, I extend my
enormous gratitude for this generous gift and for the able leadership of
chairman Harold A. Sorgenti.
Academy is very important.
Hal's commitment to strengthen the Pennsylvania
As a representative of Philadelphia's cultural
community, I wish to extend my heartfelt appreciation to the ARCO Chemical
Company, whose commitment to philanthropy is making a tangible difference in
the city."
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Members of the campaign's steering committee include: Harold A. Sorgenti
(chairman), Mrs. Thomas Dolan IV, Caleb L. Fowler, Dr. Henry A. Jordan,
Stephen B. Klein, Leonard I. Korman, Allen J. Model, Edna S. Tuttleman,
Archbold D. van Beuren, J. Roffe Wike, Samuel M.V. Hamilton (honorary vice
chairman) and Charles E. Mather III (honorary vice chairman).
The $1 million will be used toward fulfilling the goals of the campaign,
which include the purchase and renovation of the school facility at 1301
Cherry St., the increase of scholarship funds, the renovation of museum
facilities and the acquisition of land for the eventual expansion of the
museum.
Taken on a broader scale, the campaign seeks to prepare the
Pennsylvania Academy for its bicentennial in the year 2005, when, with a new
museum wing, the institution will be able to exhibit a major portion of its
nationally important collection of American art.
For more information about the campaign, please call the development
office at (215) 972-7643.
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TWO ARTISTS SHARE THEIR STORIES
-- Narrative paintings go on view
PHILADELPHIA -- The work of Susan Lowry and Sarah McEneaney, two Philadelphia artists, will be featured in the Morris Gallery at the Museum of the
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts from June 29 through Aug. 26, 1990.
"Susan Lowry/Sarah McEneaney: Recent Work," comprising approximately 20
paintings, presents tivO artists who take different approaches to the process
of storytelling.
Lowry's images have art historical overtones and narrate a
broad spectrum of human emotion, while McEneaney's tableaus depict warm
personal scenes of daily life.
A free meet-the-artists reception will be held June 28 from 5 to 7 p.m. at
the museum, located at Broad and Cherry Sts., in Philadelphia.
Additionally,
each artist will give a gallery talk about her works: Sarah McEneaney on July
13 from noon to 12:45 p.m.; Susan Lowry on Aug. 3 from noon to 12:45 p.m.
Both talks are free with museum admission.
Lowry's low-relief wall hangings, usually four by five feet in size, are a
combination of tin, carved wood, enamel and oil paint.
She explores spiritual
themes and her works reflect the influence of Giotto and Fra Angelico,
14th-century Italian painters, as well as Russian and Byzantine icon painting.
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McEneaney's canvases offer a warm record of her own life.
At various
times playful, political and psychological, her stories cover such subjects as
picnics with friends and animals, the planting of a garden, work with the sick
and involvement in political movements.
The folk-like simplicity of
McEneaney's style is akin to that of American narrative painting of the 1930s
and 1940s.
Lowry was born in Philadelphia in 1953 and currently resides in
Germantown.
She earned her bachelor of fine arts degree at the University of
the Arts in 1977.
Her work has been exhibited at the Philadelphia Museum of
Art, the Marian Locks Gallery and the Janet Fleisher Gallery, all in
Philadelphia.
In 1977, she received the Western Savings Fund Award for
Painting, and in 1982, the Philadelphia Craft Show Award for Excellence.
McEneaney, born in Munich, Germany, in 1955, has lived in Philadelphia
since 1973.
A 1979 graduate of the School of the Pennsylvania Academy of the
Fine Arts, she has exhibited at Philadelphia's City Hall, the Painted Bride
Art Center and at venues in Chongging and Tianjin, China.
The Museum of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts is located at
Broad and Cherry Sts., in Philadelphia.
Hours are Tuesday through Saturday,
10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Admission is $5; $3 for
seniors: $2 for students; free to members and children under five.
information, please call (215) 972-7600.
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
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THIRD CENTURY FUND ANNOUNCED
BY PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS
Goals are to complete purchase and renovation of new school
building, build scholarship endowment fund, renovate museum
facilities, purchase land
PHILADELPHIA -- The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts has launched a
campaign to improve public services, renovate facilities and provide greater
financial security for the institution.
The campaign's immediate goal is to
raise $15.2 million by 1993; $8 million has been raised to date .
The announcement was made on June 21 by Harold A. Sorgenti, chairman of
the Pennsylvania Academy's board of trustees, and Frank H. Goodyear Jr.,
president of the Pennsylvania Academy.
"The campaign will enable the Pennsylvania Academy to achieve many of its
short- and long-term goals, which include the purchase and renovation of the
school building; the expansion of museum services to better serve the public
and the establishment of a strong scholarship endowment for the school,"
Sorgenti said.
"We are looking to meet the needs of an expanding art
collection and a growing student body, and at the same time retain the
intimate atmosphere of this institution."
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Highlights of the plan call for:
$8,600,000 -- to purchase and renovate the school building at
1301 Cherry St.
The main school building (formerly located at 1820 Chestnut St.) is now
located one block east of the museum galleries and historic studios at
Broad and Cherry Sts. The new facility meets a long-time need to
consolidate museum and school facilities and increase studio space for an
expanding student body (student population has increased 50 percent since
1987). The state-of-the art school facility features 87,500 square feet
of space in a nine-story structure.
$1,600,000 -- to increase scholarship endowment funds available to
students at the school.
This ongoing component of the campaign seeks to increase funds available
to the school's student population, which includes artists from around
the world. Currently, 60 percent of full-time students receive financial
aid.
$3,500,000 -- to renovate museum facilities for archival holdings,
collections storage, paper conservation, staff offices; redesign entrance
foyer; develop museum cafe; expand museum shop.
In recent years, the museum's programs, staff and collections have grown
at such a rapid pace that current facilities (built in 1876) have become
inadequate. Space will be renovated for a growing archival collection;
an oversize paintings vault will be constructed; and a conservation lab
will be developed to care for the museum's works on paper. Space will
also be made available for visiting scholars in the print room;
additional space will be renovated for storage and art preparation
facilities, as well as for staff offices.
Additionally, the entrance foyer will be modified to accommodate larger
crowds; a cafe will be constructed on the first floor; and the museum
shop will be expanded.
$1,500,000 -- to purchase land across from the museum for eventual
expansion of exhibition space.
The Pennsylvania Academy will purchase a piece of land located on the
north side of Cherry St., between Broad and 15th Sts., for eventual
expansion. Currently, the museum can only exhibit 15 percent of its
nationally important collection of American art each year. Before the
year 2005, the Pennsylvania Academy's 200th anniversary, the institution
plans to construct an 80,000-square-foot addition to the present museum
on this land.
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The "Third Century Fund" is a long-range expansion plan designed to
strengthen the Pennsylvania Academy.
Successful completion of the campaign
\o/ill position the institution for the final project of the "Third Century
Fund," which will focus on the development of a new museum wing.
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts was founded in 1805 as an art
school and art museum and is the nation's oldest art institution.
The
Pennsylvania Academy employs approximately 125 full-time and 75 part-time
staff and faculty and maintains an annual budget of $6 million.
Over the years, many important artists have studied, taught or exhibited
their work at the school and the museum, including Charles Willson Peale, Mary
Cassatt, Thomas Eakins, Andrew Wyeth, Red Grooms, Franz Kline and David
Lynch.
Included in the museum's collection of more than 14,000 paintings,
sculptures and works on paper by American artists are Benjamin West's
'~eath
on the Pale Horse," Winslow Homer's "Fox Hunt," Thomas Eakins' "Walt Whitman"
and Richard Diebenkorn's "Interior with Doorway."
The 1876 museum building,
designed by Frank Furness and George Hewitt, is recognized nationally as one
of the finest examples of Victorian architecture.
It was designated as a
National Historic Landmark in 1975.
For more information about the campaign, please call the Pennsylvania
Academy's development office at (215) 972-7643.
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PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS TO
HOLD PRESS CONFERENCE JUNE 21 AT 2:15 P.M.
President and Chairman to make major announcement
about future plans of institution
PHILADELPHIA -- On June 21 at 2:15 p.m., Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine
Arts' President Frank H. Goodyear Jr. and Chairman of the Board Harold A.
Sorgenti will announce the "Third Century Fund," the first phase of a major
campaign to improve public services, renovate and complete facilities and
provide financial security for the institution into the 21st century.
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Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts is America's oldest art museum and art
school.
The press conference will run approximately 15 minutes.
After the plans
have been outlined, Goodyear and Sorgenti will be available for interviews.
The announcement will be repeated that evening at the Founders' Day
Dinner to be held at the Four Seasons Hotel in Philadelphia.
More than 250
people are expected to attend this event, which celebrates the Pennsylvania
Academy's 185th birthday and honors artist Red Grooms.
The press conference will be held at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine
Arts, Broad and Cherry Sts., Philadelphia.
(215) 972-7642.
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HOW MUCH IS THAT ARTIST IN THE WINDOI>J?
Pennsylvania Academy artist makes a pretty
picture while kicking off "Free For All Week."
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PHILADELPHIA -- The kick-off event for the Pennsylvania Academy of the
Fine Arts' "Free For All Week" will be held June 15 from noon to 1 p.m., when
Pennsylvania Academy artist HyunSoo Han will paint the town while perched in a
display window (located at Juniper and Market Sts.) in John Wanamaker's
department store in Philadelphia .
Han, a 1990 graduate of the School of the Pennsylvania Academy of the
Fine Arts, will create an oil painting of City Hall, the Masonic Temple and
passersby.
This event officially launches "Free For All Week," when the
museum will not charge admission on June 16, 17, 19, 20 and 21.
"Free For All
Week" is being held to celebrate the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts'
185th birthday.
Highlights of the week include:
June 16
Sculptures by Duane Hanson, an exhibition of 14 life-like
sculptures of ordinary people, opens to the public.
June 16 & 17
12 to 2 p.m.
The Thomas Eakins Dixie Three jazz band will play
all-American dixieland music in the museum galleries.
June 17
11 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Papa Peale Father's Day, a day to honor your papa and a
chance to meet Charles Willson Peale, founder of the
Pennsylvania Academy and a "father of American art," who
will be on hand to autograph his self-portrait.
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June 19
11 a.m. - 2 p.m.
Character Caricature Day, a chance to put your best face
forward for a caricaturist, who will sketch your portrait
for free.
June 20
11: 30 a.m.1:30 p.m.
Birthday or Business Suit Power Lunch, a snack for the
business suit set over the noon hour.
On all five days, visitors are invited to enjoy a museum full of art
free of charge!
The Museum of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts is
located at Broad and Cherry Sts., in Philadelphia.
Hours are Tuesday through
Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
For more information about "Free For All \veek," call the museum at
(215) 972-7600.
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"FREE FOR ALL WEEK" SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES
CELEBRATES 185TH BIRTHDAY OF PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS
PHILADELPHIA -- Spend some "free" time at the Museum of the Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Arts during "Free For All Week," June 16, 17, 19, 20 and
21, when the museum will be open free of charge in celebration of the
Pennsylvania Academy's 185th birthday.
(The museum is closed June 18.)
Highlights of the week include:
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June 16
Sculptures by Duane Hanson, an exhibition of 14 life-like
sculptures of ordinary people, opens to the public.
June 16 & 17
12 - 2 p.m.
Thomas Eakins Dixie Three jazz band will play
all-American dixieland music in the museum galleries.
June 17
11 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Papa Peale Father's Day, a day to honor your papa and a
chance to meet Charles Willson Peale, founder of the
Pennsylvania Academy and a "father of American art," who
will be on hand to autograph his self-portrait.
June 19
11 a.m. - 2 p.m.
Character Caricature Day, a chance to put your best face
forward for a caricaturist, who will sketch your portrait
for free.
June 20
11: 30 a.m. 1:30 p.m.
Birthday or Business Suit Power Lunch, a snack for the
business suit set over the noon hour.
Museum hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Sunday,
11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Philadelphia.
The museum is located at Broad and Cherry Sts., in
For more information about "Free For All Week," call the
museum at (215) 972-7600.
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FINEAATS
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
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ARTIST RED GROOMS TO BE HONORED AT 185TH BIRTHDAY
CELEBRATION OF pm;NSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ArTS
(2 15)972-7642
PHILADELPHIA -- On June 21, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
will honor artist Red Grooms by presenting him with a specially minted silver
medal in recognition of his continuing contribGtions to American art.
Grooms
will receive the Founders' Day medal at a gala event celebrating the founding
of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts 185 years ago.
The ceremony will
be held at 8 p.m. at the Four Seasons Hotel, located at One Logan Square, in
Philadelphia.
Grooms , 52 years old, has an international reputation as a painter,
sculptor, filmmaker, performer and humorist.
fIe is an artist who is as highly
regarded in the art world as he is adored by the public.
In 1985, the
Pennsylvania Academy organized a majcr traveling exhibition of his work that
broke attendance records at the museum.
"Red Grooms is a quintessentially American artist," said Frank H.
Goodyear Jr., president of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
"His
work, which ranges over a multitude of subjects and media, expresses the many
looks and moods of modern America.
His generous, warm and supportive
commitments to the Pennsylvania Academy make him a most worthy recipient of
this award, the first Founders' Day medal given to persons of distinction in
AmErican art."
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Pa ge 2 -- Red Gr ooms honored at Founders' Day celebration
The Founders' Day medal was commissioned and donated by The Franklin Mint
and its owners, Stewart and Lynd8 Resnick.
Mrs. Resnick is a trustee of the
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, founded in
nation's oldest art school and art museum.
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is the
The museum houses one of the
premier collections of American art and the school has educated some of
America's finest artists, including painter Thomas Eakins, architect Paul Cret
and filmmaker David Lynch.
For addltional information about the Founders' Day celebration, please
call (215) 972-7643.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 21,1990
CONTACT: Anne Broussard (215) 972-7642
Broad and C herry Streets
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
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THE MUSEUM OF THE PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS
EXHIBITIONS AND EVENTS: JULY THROUGH SEPTEMBER 1990
Please confirm all information with the Public Relations Office
at (215) 972-7642.
Location:
Broad and Cherry Streets, Philadelphia, Pa.
Hours:
Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Admission:
$5 individuals; $3 seniors; $2 full-time students;
free to children under five.
Free on Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Group rates available.
Tours:
Museum guides conduct one-hour general tours that include a
brief history of the museum, its collection and an introduction
to the special exhibition: Tuesday through Friday at 11 a . m. and
2 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday at 2 p.m.
Information:
(215) 972-7600.
EXHIBITIONS ................................. . .................. page 2 - 3
LECTURES/GALLERY TALKS ............................... . ......... page 4
FILMS .......................................................... page 5
EDUCATION . .................................................... . page 6 - 7
FAMILY ............................ . ............................ pa ge 8 - 11
MUSIC ...........•........... • ............................ . ..... page 12
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Museum of the Pennsylvania Academy of -the Fine Arts: July - September
Main Galleries.
SPECIAL EXHIBITIONS
June 16 Sept. 23
Sculptures by Duane Hanson. Twelve works by
super-realist sculptor Duane Hanson have been brought
together for this internationally traveling retrospective.
Hanson's hard plastic and vinyl sculptures of ordinary
American people are often taken for actual human beings
because of their convincing illusionism. Included are
"Tourists II," "Traveler," "Tiananmen Square, June 1989,"
"Self-Portrai t with Model," "Beagle in Basket," "The
Cowboy" and others. The exhibition, organized by the Edwin
A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Kansas,
is Hanson's first solo show in Philadelphia.
June 8, 1990 April 14, 1991
Light, Air and Color: American Impressionist Paintings.
This major traveling exhibition brings together for the
first time 54 of the museum's outstanding holdings of
Impressionist paintings. Masterworks by Childe Hassam,
John Twachtman, Theodore Robinson and Robert Vonnoh and 39
others demonstrate how American artists adapted elements of
French Impressionism to create a uniquely American style.
PERMANENT COLLECTION
June 11 Sept. 9
The Afternoon of a Middle-Aged Faun: The Art of Alfred
Bendiner. Alfred Bendiner, a well-known Philadelphia
architect, artist and author, was a major figure in the
city's cultural life until his death in 1964. This
exhibition of 23 works drawn from the museum's collection
features a diverse and colorful overview of Bendiner's
subjects and techniques: from his clever and witty pen and
ink caricatures of art patrons and musicians to his lush
renditions of exotic people and places.
June 16 Sept. 16
20th-Century Realism. This exhibition of more than 35
paintings and sculptures from the museum's collection
incorporates examples of 20th-century realist schools -Ash Can, Precisionist, Regionalist, Social Realist -- as
well as varied examples of contemporary realism. Included
are works by Milton Avery, Thomas Hart Benton, Guy Pene du
Bois, Red Grooms, Robert Henri, Edward Hopper, Alex Katz,
Reginald Marsh, Philip Pearlstein, John Sloan, Neil
Welliver and others.
June 22 Sept. 16
19th-Century Landscape Paintings. This selection of 25
landscape paintings from the museum's collectiori features
views of Pennsylvania, the East Coast and Europe executed
by Thomas Doughty, Martin Johnson Heade, Sanford Gifford,
William Trost Richards, George Inness, among others.
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Museum of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts: July
September
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MORRIS GALLERY
The Morris Gallery exhibits the works of contemporary
artists.
June 29 Aug. 26
Susan Lowry/Sarah McEneaney: Recent Work. Philadelphia
artists Susan Lowry and Sarah McEneaney take different
approaches to the process of storytelling. Lowry's
three-dimensional constructions of tin, wood, enamel and
paint incorporate images with religious overtones that
narrate a broad spectrum of human emotion. McEneaney works
in tempera, using flattened space and simplified volumes to
depict warm personal scenes of daily life.
Sept. 7 Oct. 21
Bruce Pollock Thresholds: Recent Paintings. Approximately
10 large enameled panels by Philadelphian Bruce Pollock
reflect the artist's fascination with metaphysics and his
sense of the artist's visionary role. He begins with many
layers of enamel, often in hues of blue, purple and rust,
and then sands down and removes portions to achieve his
visual effects. He sets spirals, nets and honeycombs in
repetitious patterns against these subtle and abraded
backgrounds.
FUTURE EXHIBITIONS
~Iain
Galleries.
Oct. 6 Dec. 30, 1990
Bay Area Figurative Art: 1950-1965. In the 1950s, at
the height of Abstract Expressionism's popularity, a
group of Bay Area artists radically departed from this
style and embraced figurative subject matter. This
exhibition of 90 paintings, sculptures and drawings
will focus on 10 of these artistic pioneers: Richard
Diebenkorn, David Park, Joan Brown, Elmer Bischoff,
Theophilus Brown, Bruce McGaw, Manuel Neri, Nathan
Oliveira, James Weeks and Paul Wonner.
Feb. 10 April 16, 1991
Frank Lloyd Wright: Preserving an Architectural
Spanning his 60-year career, this
exhibition will survey Frank Lloyd Wright's decorative
designs with a comprehensive showing of more than 70
pieces of furniture, art-glass windows and other decorative
elements. It will also explore the irony in collecting
furnishings outside of the buildings for which they were so
specifically designed. Among the important pieces on view
will be a dining set designed for the Joseph W. Husser
house (1899) and a major group of windows on display from
the Avery Coonley Playhouse (1912).
Summer 1992 Winter 1993
Thomas Eakins Rediscovered. Organized by the
Museum of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where
Thomas Eakins studied and taught, this exhibition will
trace the development of one of America's most ~steemed
19th-century artists. It will be thematically divided into
three areas: "The Education of the Artist"; "Eakins as a
Teacher"; and "At Work: Selected Projects 1870-1907." It
will include approximately 215 drawings, photographs, clay
models and paintings such as "The Cello Player" and "Walt
Whitman."
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Museum of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts: July - September
LECTURES/GALLERY TALKS
July 11
Art-at-Lunch Lecture: "The Life and Work of Horace Pippin."
Thomas Wollbrinck, graduate student in the Winterthur Program at
the University of Delaware, discusses Horace Pippin (1888-1946),
arguably the best known African-American painter of the 20th
century. An unschooled artist, Pippin lived in nearby West
Chester, Pa. Coffee, tea and cookies are provided.
Brown-baggers welcome. $1.50. July 11, 12:15 to 12:45 p.m.
Museum of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Broad and
Cherry Sts., Philadelphia. (215) 972-7600.
July 13
Morris Gallery Talk: "Sarah McEneaney." Sarah McEneaney talks
about her work--a series of warm, personal narratives based on
daily life--on view in the Morris Gallery of the Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Arts through Aug. 26. Free with museum
admission. July 13, noon to 1 p.m. Museum of the
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Broad and Cherry Sts.,
Philadelphia. (215) 972-7600.
Aug. 1
Art-at-Lunch Lecture: "Afternoon of a Middle-Aged Faun."
Jeanette Toohey, assistant curator of prints and drawings at
the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, speaks about the
caricatures and watercolors of Philadelphia artist Alfred
Bendiner on view in the exhibition "The Afternoon of a
Middle-Aged Faun: The Art of Alfred Bendiner." Coffee, tea
and cookies are provided. Brown-baggers welcome. $1.50.
Aug. 1, 12:15 to 12:45 p.m. Museum of the Pennsylvania Academy
of the Fine Arts, Broad and Cherry Sts., Philadelphia.
(215) 972-7600.
Aug. 3
Morris Gallery Talk: "The Narrative." Susan Lowry talks about
her work--mixed-media constructions that depict a biblical world
of poetry and melancholy-~on view in the Morris Gallery of the
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts through Aug. 26. Free
with museum admission. Aug. 3, noon to 1 p.m. Museum of the
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Broad and Cherry Sts.,
Philadelphia. (215) 972-7600.
Sept. 5
Art-at-Lunch Lecture: "A Love of the Land." Susan Danly,
curator at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, looks at
America's romantic attachment to landscape painting. Coffee,
tea and cookies are provided. Brown-baggers welcome. $1.50.
Sept. 5, 12:15 to 12:45 p.m. Museum of the Pennsylvania Academy
of the Fine Arts, Broad and Cherry Sts., Philadelphia.
(215) 972-7600.
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Museum of the Pennsylvania Academ y of the Fine Arts: July - September
FILM SERIES: "Lives of Quiet Desperation." Held in conjunctio-n - with the
exhibition "Sculptures by Duane Hanson." All films at 3 p.m.
Free with museum admission.
July 15
Film: "Corne Back Little Sheba" (Daniel Mann, dir. 1952, b/w, 99
mins.) A young boarder drastically changes the lives of a
middle-aged couple. Burt Lancaster is the alcoholic
chiropractor and Academy Award-winner Shirley Booth is his
irritating wife . Also stars Richard Jaeckel.
Free with museum
admission. July 15, 3 p.m. Museum of the Pennsylvania Academy
of the Fine Arts, Broad and Cherry Sts., Philadelphia .
(215) 972-7600.
July 22
Film: "Marty" (Delbert Mann, dir . 1955, b/w, 89 mins . ) Ernest
Borgnine, Betsy Blair and Karen Steele star in this story of a
homely Bronx butcher who lives with his mother, resigned to
bachelorhood until he falls in love with a plain woman he meets
at a dance. This film won Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best
Actor and Best Director. Free with museum admission. Jul y 22 ,
3 p.m. Museum of the Penns ylvania Academy of the Fine Arts,
Broad and Cherry Sts., Philadelphia. (215) 972- 7600.
July 29
Film: "The Rose Tattoo" (Daniel Mann, dir. 1955, b/w, 117
mins.) Anna Magnani, Burt Lancaster, Marisa Pavan, Virginia
Grey, Ben Cooper and Jo Van Fleet star in this adaptation of
Tennessee Williams' play. In an Academy Award-winning
performance, Magnani plays the proud widow of a philandering
truck driver who builds a shrine to her dead husband. A man
who falls in love with her makes her examine her late
husband's true character. Free with museum admission. Jul y
29, 3 p.m. Museum of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine
Arts, Broad and Cherry Sts., Philadelphia. (215) 972-7600.
Aug. 5
Film: "A Raisin in the Sun" (Daniel Petrie, dir. 1961, b/w, 128
mins.) Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeil, Ruby Dee, Diana Sands
and Ivan Dixon star in this adaptation of Lorraine Hansberry's
acclaimed play about a black Chicago family's dreams and how
they hope to realize them when they receive a $10,000
insurance bequest . . Free with museum admission. Aug. 5,
3 p.m. Museum of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts,
Broad and Cherry Sts., Philadelphia. (215) 972-7600.
Aug. 12
Film "Diary of a Mad Housewife" (Frank Perry, dir. 1970, color,
94 mins.) Carrie Snodgrass, Richard Benjamin and Frank
Langella star in this comedy-drama based on Sue Kaufman's
best-selling novel in which a dissatisfied housewife contends
with two spoiled children, a narcissistic lover and an oafish
husband. Free ''lith museum admission. Aug. 12, 3 p.m. Museum
of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Broad and Cherry
Sts., Philadelphia. (215) 972-7600.
Aug. 19
Film "Tender Mercies" (Bruce Beresford, 1983, -color, 93
mins.) Robert Duvall, Tess Harper and Betty Buckley star in
this story about a country-western singer/songwriter who lets
alcohol destroy his career, marriage and almost himself. When
he gives up alcohol, he severs ties to his past and his
ability to express himself - through music. Free with museum
admission. Aug. 19, 3 p.m. Museum of the Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Arts, Broad and Cherry Sts.,
Philadelphia. (215) 972-7600.
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Museum of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts: July - - September
EDUCATION
Beginning
Sept. 7
Studio Art Courses. Evening and Saturday studio art classes
are offered through the extension programs office at the
School of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Course
offerings this fall include painting, drawing, pastel,
printmaking and other subjects. Fees and course times vary.
Call the extension programs office at (215) 972-7632 for a
brochure. Registration begins Aug. 1.
July 9 - 30
Art History Course: "Real, Really Real, Super Real." This
four-part course explores the work of important 20th-century
realist artists. Arthur DeCosta, formerly a faculty member at
the School of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, will
introduce American realism as an art movement; Abraham
Davidson, art history professor at Temple University, will
talk about the history of realism and its position in
20th-century American art; Tony Visco, chair of the sculpture
department at the School of the Pennsylvania Academy of the
Fine Arts, will explore realism in sculpture; and Jean Henry,
director of the Drexel University Art Museum, will examine
Hanson's sculpture from an art historical perspective.
Lectures are complemented by slides and visits to the
exhibitions "Sculptures by Duane Hanson" and "20th-Century
Realism." Meeting Dates: July 9, 16, 23 and 30; 5:30 to
7 p.m. $45. To register, send a check, payable to the
Pennsylvania Academy, to the extension programs office.
Please mark your check "Real, Really Real, Super Real." You
can also register using VISA or MasterCard by calling
(215) 972-7632.
Sept. 12 Oct. 3
Art History Course: "American Impressionism." This four-part
course offered in conjunction with the exhibition "Light, Air
and Color: American Impressionist Paintings" investigates the
relationship between French and American Impressionist
painters; the growing taste for Impressionist pictures among
American museums and collectors; the introduction of
Impressionist techniques into the curriculum of the
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; and the fostering of a
local Impressionist school in the New Hope area of
Pennsylvania. The work of Robert Vonnoh, Childe Hassam, Mary
Cassatt and Daniel Garber, among others, will be examined.
Susan Danly, curator at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine
Arts, leads the course. Meeting Dates: Sept. 12, 19,
26 and Oct. 3; 5:30 to 7 p.m. $45. To register, send a
check, payable to the Pennsylvania Academy, to the extension
programs office. Please mark your check "American
Impressionism." You can also register using VISA or
MasterCard by calling (215) 972-7632.
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EDUCATION--continued
Sept. 17
Oct. 29
Art History Course: "Two Centuries of American Art, Part I
(1750-1876)." This course, the first of two surveying the
history of American art, examines the period from 1750 to
1876, focusing on the important artists, their work, the
institutions and major trends that shaped the history of
American art. Jeanette Toohey, assistant curator of prints
and drawings at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts,
leads the course. Meeting Dates: Sept. 17, 24, Oct. 1, 15, 22
and 29; 1:30 to 3 p.m. $45. To register, send a check,
payable to the Pennsylvania Academy, to the extension programs
office. Please mark your check "Two Centuries of American
Art." You can also register using VISA or MasterCard by
calling (215) 972-7632.
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Museum of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts: July - September
FAMILY
Aug. 6 - 10
Summer FUNdamentals Art Workshop for Children: "Artstart."
Preschoolers (ages 3 to 5) explore works in the galleries of
the Museum of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
the
sculptures of Duane Hanson, landscapes, Impressionist
paintings and Alfred Bendiner cartoons -- and then head to the
studios to create artworks of their own. Suzy Curcio, a
Montessori school director, is the instructor. $65 per week;
snacks and materials included. Bring a brown-bag lunch. Aug.
6, 7, 8, 9, 10; 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. daily. Museum of the
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Broad and Cherry Sts.,
Philadelphia. (215) 972-7600.
Aug. 6 - 10
Summer FUNdamentals Art Workshop for Children: "Playing with
Plaster 1." Children ages 6 to 12 venture to various parts of
Philadelphia to observe, sketch and draw inspiration from the
daily activities of people at work and play. Back in the
studios, they'll cast their observations in plaster, much
like sculptor Duane Hanson, whose work is on view at the
Museum of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Judy
Ringold, education staff member, Pennsylvania Academy of the
Fine Arts, is the instructor. $65 per week; snacks and
materials included. Bring a brown-bag lunch. Aug. 6, 7, 8,
9, 10; 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. daily. Museum of the Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Arts, Broad and Cherry Sts.,
Philadelphia. (215) 972-7600.
Aug. 6 - 10
Summer FUNdamentals Art Workshop for Children: "Crazy
Cartoons, Caricatures and Comics Camp I." Children ages 5 to
12 look at the cartoon images of Alfred Bendiner, on view in
the Museum of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, then
become budding cartoonists as they create comic strips and
simple animation. Beth McHenry, cartoonist, illustrator and
artist, is the instructor. $65 per week; snacks and materials
included. Bring a brown-bag lunch. Aug. 6, 7, 8, 9, 10; 10
a.m. to 3 p.m. daily. Museum of the Pennsylvania Academy of
the Fine Arts, Broad and Cherry Sts., Philadelphia.
(215) 972-7600.
Aug. 6 - 10
Art Workshop for Adults: "Send Your Parents to Camp." While
children are off at their art workshops, parents can enjoy the
summer exhibitions at the Museum of the Pennsylvania Academy
of the Fine Arts, experiment with a variety of studio
techniques and tour the museum behind-the-scenes. Jill
Rupinski, faculty member at the School of the Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Arts, is the instructor. Fee: $10 for
parents of children in workshops; $65 for other adults. Bring
a brown-bag lunch. Aug. 6, 7, 8, 9, 10; 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
daily. Museum of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts,
Broad and Cherry Sts., Philadelphia. (215) 972-7600.
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FAMILY--contitiued
Aug. 13 - 17
Summer FUNdamentals Art Workshop for Children: "Philadelphia
Sketchbook." Children ages 5 to 12 become landseers as they
survey landscapes on view at the Museum of the Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Arts and then venture to different
landscape locations to exercise their own talents. They'll
bind their finished artworks together into a Philadelphia
sketchbook. Ann Martin, artist and art teacher, is the
instructor. $65 per week; snacks and materials included.
Bring a brown-bag lunch. Aug. 13, 14, 15, 16, 17; 10 a.m. to
3 p.m. daily. Museum of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine
Arts, Broad and Cherry Sts., Philadelphia. (215) 972-7600.
Aug. 13 - 17
Summer FUNdamentals Art Workshop for Children: "Playing with
Plaster II." Children ages 9 to 15 venture to various parts
of Philadelphia to observe, sketch and draw inspiration from
the daily activities of people at work and play. Back in the
studios, ' they'll cast their observations in plaster, much like
sculptor Duane Hanson, whose work is on view at the Museum of
the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Judy Ringold,
education staff member, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts,
is the instructor. $65 per week; snacks and materials
included. Bring a brown-bag lunch. Aug. 13, 14, 15, 16, 17;
10 a.m. to 3 p.m. daily. Museum of the Pennsylvania Academy
of the Fine Arts, Broad and Cherry Sts., Philadelphia.
(215) 972-7600.
Aug. 13 - 17
Summer FUNdamentals Art Workshop for Children: "A Clue to
Who!" Children ages 5 to 10, with a dash of imagination, make
the people and animals in paintings come to life. They'll
write stories based on selected paintings in the Museum of the
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and then head to the
studios to create props, backdrops, sets and costumes and
perform skits for family and friends. Judy Ringold, education
staff member, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, is the
instructor. $65 per week; snacks and materials included.
Bring a brown-bag lunch. Aug. 13, 14, 15, 16, 17; 10 a.m. to
3 p.m. daily. Museum of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine
Arts, Broad and Cherry Sts., Philadelphia. (215) 972-7600.
Aug. 13 - 17
Art Workshop for Adults: "Send Your Parents to Camp." While
children are off at their art workshops, parents can enjoy the
summer exhibitions at the Museum of the Pennsylvania Academy
of the Fine Arts, experiment with a variety of studio
techniques and tour the museum behind-the-scenes. Jill
Rupinski, faculty member at the School of the Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Arts, is the instructor. Fee: $10 for
parents of children in workshops; $65 for other adults. Bring
a brown-bag lunch. Aug. 13, 14, 15, 16, 17; 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
daily. Museum of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts,
Broad and Cherry Sts., Philadelphia. (215) 972-7600.
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FAMILY--continued
Aug. 20 - 24
Summer FUNdamentals Art Workshop for Children: "Impressions of
a City." Children ages 5 to 12 look at the Impressionist
paintings on view in the exhibition "Light, Air and Color:
American Impressionist Paintings" and then journey to sites
around Philadelphia gathering impressions of landscapes,
cityscapes and seascapes. Back in the studios they'll build
large-scale landscapes from their sketches. Judy Ringold,
education staff member, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts,
is the instructor. $65 per week; snacks and materials
included. Bring a brown-bag lunch. Aug. 20, 21, 22, 23, 24;
10 a.m. to 3 p.m. daily. Museum of the Pennsylvania Academy
of the Fine Arts, Broad and Cherry Sts., Philadelphia.
(215) 972-7600.
Aug. 20 - 24
Summer FUNdamentals Art Workshop for Children: "Ordinary
People." Children ages 5 to 12 discover Duane Hanson's
super-real sculptures of ordinary people in the exhibition
"Sculptures by Duane Hanson," then venture to various parts of
the city to observe, record and draw inspiration from the
everyday activities of people living, working and playing in
Philadelphia. Back in the studios, they'll create realistic
sculptures of their own. Ann Martin, artist and art teacher,
is the instructor. $65 per week; snacks and materials
included. Bring a brown-bag lunch. Aug. 20, 21, 22, 23, 24;
10 a.m. to 3 p.m. daily. Museum of the Pennsylvania Academy
of the Fine Arts, Broad and Cherry £ts., Philadelphia.
(215) 972-7600.
Aug. 20 - 24
Summer FUNdamentals Art Workshop for Children: "Crazy
Cartoons, Caricatures and Comics Camp II."
Children ages 5
to 12 look at the cartoon images of Alfred Bendiner, on view
in the Museum of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts,
then become budding cartoonists as they create comic strips
and simple animation. Beth McHenry, cartoonist, illustrator
and artist, is the instructor. $65 per week; snacks and
materials included. Bring a brown-bag lunch. Aug. 20, 21, 22
23, 24; 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. daily. Museum of the Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Arts, Broad and Cherry Sts., Philadelphia.
(215) 972-7600.
Aug. 20 - 24
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children are off at their art workshops, parents can enjoy the
summer exhibitions at the Museum of the Pennsylvania Academy
of the Fine Arts, experiment with a variety of studio
techniques and tour the museum behind-the-scenes. Jill
Rupinski, faculty member at the School of the Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Arts, is the instructor. Fee: $10 for
parents of ~hildren in workshops; $65 for other adults. Bring
a brown-bag lunch. Aug. 20, - 21, 22, 23, 24; 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
daily. Museum of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts,
Broad and Ch~rry Sts., Philadelphia. (215) 972-7600.
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FAMILY--continued
Sept. 9
Family Program for Grandparents' Day: "How'd He Do It?"
Celebrate Grandparents' Day during this family program by
watching a video of super-realist Duane Hanson at work in his
studio creating one of his amazingly life-like sculptures.
Participate in a demonstration of Hanson's casting techniques
and take a tour of "Sculptures by Duane Hanson" and other
sculptures in the Museum of the Pennsylvania Academy of the
Fine Arts. Free with museum admission. Sept. 9, 1 to 3 p.m.
Museum of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Broad and
Cherry Sts., Philadelphia. (215) 972-7600.
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Museum of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts: July - September
MUSIC
Sept. 14
"Music in Museums" Weekend Prelude.
At 8 p.m., the
contemporary music ensemble Relache will open a four-part
concert series at the Museum of the Pennsylvania Academy of
the Fine Arts entitled "Imaginary Landscapes."
Composer/performer Nicolas Collins has arranged the series,
which features four different composer/performers working with
Relache in concerts that combine instrumentation and computer
technology. Tonight's concert, a prelude to the citywide
"Music in Museums" celebration in honor of Benjamin Franklin,
showcases Collins playing a device of his own design, made by
wiring sophisticated computer circuitry to the frame of an old
trombone. Subsequent concerts will be held Nov. 9, March 15
and May 17. Tickets for the Sept. 14 concert are $15; send a
check, payable to the Pennsylvania Academy, to the education
department. Please mark "Concert" on your check. Sept. 14,
8 p.m. (Galleries will open at 7 p.m. to allow guests
to see museum exhibitions prior to the concert.) Museum of
the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Broad and Cherry
Sts., Philadelphia. (215) 972-7600.
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PHILADELPHIA -- On June 16, 17, 19, 20 and 21, the Museum of the
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, America's oldest art museum, will be
truly priceless.
In honor of its 185th birthday, art lovers are invited to
help celebrate by spending some "free" time at the Pennsylvania Academy's
"Free For All Week," ",hen the museum will not charge admission.
Highlights will include a "Character Caricature Day," "Birthday-orBusiness-Suit Power Lunch" and music by a toe-tapping, all-American di xieland
band.
American artworks spanning two centuries will also be on view in the
exhibitions "Sculptures by Duane Hanson," "American Impressionism,"
"20th~Century
Realism," "19th-Century Landscape Painting" and "The Art of
Alfred Bendiner."
public.
"Free For All Week" festivities are free and open to the
Please join us!
The Museum of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, founded in 1805,
houses one of the country's premier collections of American art; the
Pennsylvania Academy's school has educated some of America's most outstanding
artists, including painters Mary Cassatt and Thomas Eakins, architect Paul
Cret and filmmaker David Lynch.
The Museum of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts is located at
Broad and Cherry Sts., in Philadelphia.
Hours are Tuesday through Saturday,
10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
call (215) 972-7600.
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PHILADELPHIA
CHARLES ANDES , LYNDA RESNICK, EILEEN ROSENAU ELECTED TO
PENNSYLVANIA ACADEHY OF THE FINE ARTS' BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Charles L. Andes, Lynda Rae Resnick and Eileen Y. Rosenau
have been elected to the board of trustees of the Penns ylvania
Acade~ y
of the
Fine Arts, announced Pennsylvania Academy President Frank H. Good year Jr.
"The appointments of Charles Andes, Lynda Resnick and Eileen Rosenau to
the Penns yl vania Academ y 's board of trustees are enormously important as we
work to strengthen the Pennsylvania Academy's role in the cultural c ommunit y , "
said Harold A. Sorgenti, chairman of the Pennsylvania Academy's board.
"Each
brings experience in business, in not-for-profit organizations and a keen
interest in the arts and education fields.
We are thrilled to have them."
Andes, of Villanova, Pa., is chairman and chief executive officer of The
Franklin Institute.
He is the former president, chairman and chief executive
officer of The Franklin Mint.
He currently ser ves on the boards of the
National Conference of Christians and Jews, the Honor American Committee,
Fidelity Bank and O'Brien Energy Systems Inc.
Philadelphia President's Organization.
He is a member of the
He has previously served on the boards
of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the
Pennsylvania Ballet and the United Nations Association.
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Resnick, of Newtown Square, Pa., and Beverly Hills, Calif., is co-owner
and executive vice president of The Franklin Mint in Franklin Center, Pa.
An
avid art lover, she collects 17th- and 18th-century European paintings and
sculpture and contemporary art.
She currently serves as a trustee of the
Philadelphia Museum of Art and the World Affairs Council in Philadelphia.
She
is a member of the Acquisition Committee of the National Gallery of Art in
Washington, D.C., and serves on the Mayor of Philadelphia's Cultural Advisory
Council.
Resnick will serve on the Pennsylvania Academy's board through
December 1994.
Rosenau, of Bryn Mawr, Pa., is president and founder of Eileen Rosenau
Associates, a public relations/marketing firm specializing in clients involved
in the arts.
She is the former director of public affairs for the
Philadelphia College of the Arts (now the University of the Arts).
also an avid art collector.
She is
Rosenau is a member of the Philadelphia Museum of
Arts' Selection Committee for 20th-Century Art, the Institute of Contemporary
Art's Membership Committee, the University of Pennsylvania's Creative Walls
Committee and the President's Advisory Committee of the America-Italy Society
of Philadelphia.
Rosenau has been elected to serve through December 1993.
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, founded in 1805, is the
nation's oldest art school and art museum.
The institution and its programs
are supported by contributions from members of the Pennsylvania Academy,
individuals, private foundations, corporations and government agencies.
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MAY 9 GRADUATION AT SCHOOL OF THE PENNSYLVANIA
ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS
PHILADELPHIA -- The 1990 commencement ceremonies for students at the
School of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts will be held May 9 from
3:30 to 4:30 p.m. in the main galleries of the Pennsylvania Academy's museum,
located at Broad and Cherry Sts., in Philadelphia.
Immediately following the announcement of prizewinners for the
Pennsylvania Governor's Award, the Philadelphia Mayor's Award, the William
Emlen Cresson Memorial Travel Scholarships, the Lewis S. Ware Memorial Travel
Scholarship and the J. Henry Schiedt Memorial Travel Scholarships, acclaimed
painter and sculptor Harmony Hammond will address the students.
abstract nature forms with images related to a female spirit.
Hammond mixes
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RECORD SALES! $90,000 WORTH OF ART SOLD AT PREVIEW OPENING
OF THE 89TH ANNUAL STUDENT EXHIBITION
(215) 972-7642
PHILADELPHIA -- Sales of student art work reached a record-breaking
$90,000 at the preview party held last night, May 8, for the "89th Annual
Student Exhibition" at the Museum of the Pennsylvania Academy of the. Fine
Arts , Broad and Cherry Sts., in Philadelphia.
Total sales this year were 29 percent higher than sales at last year's
preview party.
were sold.
More than 400 people attended the event.
A total of 195 works
The biggest buyer was the ARCO Chemical Company, ,.,hich purchased
14 works.
Said Jane Fortune Medveckis, co-chairman of the preview party, "It's
exhilarating to see how this event grows year by year.
It's a thrilling
experience for the student-artists, many of whom launch their careers with
this sale."
The "89th Annual Student Exhibition" features 1000 paintings,
sculptures, works on paper and works in mixed-media by third- and fourth-year
students at the School of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
exhibition opens to the public May 10 and runs through June 3.
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Preview Party / Graduation
On May 9, approximately 40 students will graduate from the School of the
Pennsylvania Academy during commencement ceremonies from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. at
the museum.
During the ceremonies, the Philadelphia Mayor's Award and the
Pennsylvania Governor's Award will be presented.
Acclaimed painter and
sculptor Harmony Hammond will be the commencement speaker .
The museum is open Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and
Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Admission is $5 for individuals; $3 for seniors; $2
for full-time students; free to members and children under five.
information, please call (215) 972-7600.
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PHILADELPHIA --On May 9,
com~encement
ceremonies for students at the
School of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts will be held from 3:30 to
4:30 p.m. at the museum of the Pennsylvania Academy, which is located at Broad
and Cherry Sts., in Philadelphia.
Approximately 40 students will receive their certificates in either
painting, sculpting or printmaking from America's oldest art school.
They
have successfully completed a four-year classical curriculum of fine arts
training that includes courses in figure drawing and painting, art history,
sculpture, etching, lithography, woodcut, anatomy and perspective.
Immediately following the annoupcement of prizewinners for the
Pennsylvania Governor's Award, the Philadelphia Mayor's Award and the school's
prestigious travel scholarships, acclaimed painter and sculptor Harmony
Hammond will address the students.
Graduation ceremonies will be followed by the members' opening reception
from 5 to 8 p.m. for the "89th Annual Student Exhibition," which features
approximately 1000 works of art in all media, many of which are for sale.
More than 1500 guests are expected to attend this gala reception.
The "89th Annual Student Exhibition"
through June 3.
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open~
to the public May 10 and runs
Exhibition hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to
5 p.m., and Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
For more information, please call (215)
972-7600
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PUSHING THE LIMITS OF MEDIA:
MORRIS GALLERY PANEL TO DISCUSS PHOTOGRAPHY
PHILADELPHIA -- On May 5, in conjunction with the 150th anniversary of
photography, the Museum of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts' Morris
Gallery (the museum's contemporary arts gallery) will present a panel
discussion called "Pushing the Limits of Media: Making Photographs, Not Just
Taking Photographs."
The program will begin at 2 p.m. at the museum at Broad
and Cherry Sts., in Philadelphia.
The event is free with museum admission of
$5 adults; $3 seniors; $2 children.
Judith Stein, Pennsylvania Academy curator and coordinator of the Morris
Gallery, will moderate a panel of photographers and critics who will discuss
still-life and tableaux photography.
discussion.
A slide show will accompany the
Panelists will include photography critic Shelley Rice and
photographers Alida Fish, Bruce Katsiff and Susan Fenton.
"Rather than finding their subjects, an increasing number of
photographers make and photograph images in their studios," Stein said.
Pennsylvania Academy is proud of its early support of the medium.
"The
With three
photography shows in 1886, 1889 and 1893, the museum became the first major
cultural institution in the nation to exhibit photographs as major works of
art."
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Shelley Rice has written for numerous publications, including Art in
America, Artforum, The Village Voice and Afterimage.
She is currently a
professor at New York University.
Alida Fish, who studied photography at Harvard University and New York's
Rochester Institute of Technology, has exhibited her photographs at the
Delaware Art Museum in Wilmington, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art in California.
Bruce Katsiff is the director of the James Michener Art Center in
Doylestown, Pa., and a professor of photography at Bucks County Community
College in Newtown, Pa.
Susan Fenton's work has been exhibited at Philadelphia's Institute of
Contemporary Art, in addition to solo exhibitions at the Cava Gallery in
Philadelphia and the Douglass College Art Gallery in New Brunswick, N.J .
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Photographs by both Katsiff and Fenton will be on view in the Morris
Gallery of the Museum of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts from May 4
to June 17.
"Pushing the Limits of Media" is sponsored by the Pennsylvania Historical
and Museum Commission.
Additional support is provided by the Photography
Sesquicentennial Project, a project funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts, the
Pennsylvania Humanities Council and Philadelphia National Bank.
For more information about the panel discussion, please call the museum
at (215) 972-7600.
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PHILADELPHIA -- When filmmaker David Lynch was studying painting at the
School of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, he experimented with
video and sculpture to create his first film.
He entered it in the "Annual
Student Exhibition" in 1965 and won the award for best experimental work.
Twenty five years later, Lynch is a nationally acclaimed director, owing to
his highly acclaimed television series, "Twin Peaks," and the films "Blue
Velvet," "Elephant Man" and "Eraserhead."
This tradition of artistic excellence continues.
From May 10 through June
3, the "Annual Student Exhibition," now in its 89th year, will feature over
1000 works of art by 80 3rd- and 4th-year students at the School of the
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
The exhibition will be on view in the
museum's main galleries located at Broad and Cherry Sts., in Philadelphia.
The exhibition has been supported in part by the CIGNA Foundation.
Considered the showcase event for Academy students, the "Annual Student
Exhibition" launches art careers, awards prestigious travel scholarships and
gives serious collectors the opportunity to see the best work Academy students
have to offer.
Works on view include sculptures, drawings, prints and pieces
in mixed-media.
Most of the works are for sale with prices ranging from $50
to several thousand dollars.
Profits from sales ~~irectly to the students.
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Students also compete against each other for travel scholarships and
prizes totaling more than $80,000.
Both the school and the museum were founded in 1805.
The school is
located in the historic studios at Broad and Cherry Sts., and in a nine-story
school facility located at 1301 Cherry St.
The school offers a four-year
program of study leading to a certificate in painting, sculpting and
printmaking.
Over 270 students representing 28 states and 10 foreign
countries are currently enrolled full time.
enrolled part time.
Approximately 600 students are
Among the school's notable alumni are painters Thomas
Eakins, Mary Cassatt, Henry O. Tanner, Robert Henri, John Sloan and John
Marin, architects Louis I. Kahn and Paul Cret and sculptors William Rush, A.
Milne Calder, A.S. Calder and Wharton Esherick.
The "89th Annual Student Exhibition" runs from May 10 through June 3 at
the Museum of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Broad and Cherry
Sts., in Philadelphia.
Hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.,
and Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Admission is $5; $3 for seniors; $2 for
students; free to children under five.
Admission is free on Saturday from
10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
For more information, please call the museum at (215) 972-7600.
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MYSTERY OF LIFE, MOMENTS TO PAUSE:
EXHIBITION DEVELOPED AROUND HORK OF THO PHOTOGRAPHERS
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PHILADELPHIA
"Recent Horks: Photographs by Susan Fenton and Bruce
Katsiff" will be on view May 4 through June 17 in the Morris Gallery of the
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, located at Broad and Cherry Sts., in
Philadelphia.
7 p.m.
A meet-the-artists reception will be held May 3 from 5 to
The reception is free and open to the public.
The exhibition of approximately 30 photographs includes Susan Fenton's
elegant photographs of female models wearing minimal caps and Bruce Katsiff's
fragile-looking arrangements of bleached bones and dried flowers.
Fenton
paints each photograph with subtle color while Katsiff prints in platinum, a
popular process in the early 20th century, to achieve visual results not
attainable with more modern techniques.
Both artists carefully organize their
images before photographing them.
Fenton, who resides in Philadelphia, attended Temple University's Tyler
School of Art and received her master of fine arts degree in 1980 from Rutgers
University's Mason Gross School of Art in New Jersey.
Her work has been
exhibited at Philadelphia's Institute of Contemporary Art, in addition to solo
exhibitions at the Cava Gallery in Philadelphia and the Douglass College Art
Gallery in New Bruns\.,ick, N. J.
In 1989, Fenton was awarded an Artist
Fellowship from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.
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Katsiff, who resides in Lumberville , Pa., recei ved his master of fine arts
degree in 1973 from Pratt Institute, New York.
He has been o-chosen as the new
director of the James Michener Art Center in Doylestown, Pa., and is currently
a professor of photography at Bucks County Community College.
He has
exhibited his work in numerous galleries and museums, including the
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the Allentown Art Museum in
Allentown, Pa.
"The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts is pleased to present this
exhibition of two outstanding Philadelphia photographers as our contribution
to the Photography Sesquicentennial Project, a series of events celebrating
photography's 150th birthday," said Judith Stein, curator at the Pennsylvania
'Academy and coordinator of the Morris Gallery.
On May 5, the museum will host the panel discussion "Pushing the Limits of
Media: Making Photographs, Not Just Taking Photographs."
Judith Stein will
moderate a panel of photographers and critics who will discuss the
manipulation of the photographic image .
Panelists include critic Shelley Rice
and photographers Alida Fish, Bruce Katsiff and Susan Fenton.
The discussion
is sponsored by the Photography Sesquicentennial Project, which is funded by
The Pew Charitable Trusts, the Pennsylvania Humanities Council and the
Philadelphia National Bank.
Additional support has been provided by the
Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.
The panel discussion will be
held at the museum, located at Broad and Cherry Sts and is free with museum
admission.
For more information about the exhibition or the panel discussion, please
call the museum at (215) 972-7600.
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The Museum of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts is located at
Broad and Cherry Sts . , in Philadelphia. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday ,
10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p ~ m. Admission is $5; $3 for
seniors; $2 for students; free to members and children under five. Free on
Saturday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
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FIRSTHAND LOOK AT FIRST-RATE ART -- Preview Party Set
For Pennsylvania Academy's Annual Student
Exhibition
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PHILADELPHIA -- It was dubbed "the hottest art sale in Philadelphia," by
one art critic last year, when 154 works, or one piece per minute, sold in one
night, with receipts totaling over $70,000.
What is it?
It's the Women's
Committee Preview Party for the Annual Student Exhibition at the Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Arts.
This year's Preview Party will be held on May 8
from 5 to 8:30 p.m. at the Museum of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine
; Arts, Broad and Cherry Sts., in Philadelphia.
Early admission to the galleries at 5 p.m. is $150 for sponsors ($300
per couple) and $75 for patrons ($150 per couple).
($100 per couple).
Admission at 6 p.m. is $50
All contributions benefit the Student
Scholarship Fund of
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Ninety percent of
profits from art sales go to the student artists.
The 89th Annual Student Exhibition, which opens to the public on May 10
and runs through June 3, will feature over 1000 works of art in all media by
America's next generation of artists--the third- and fourth-year students at
the School of the Pennsylvania Academy.
Most of the works are for sale during
the exhibition's three-week run, with prices ranging from $50 to several
thousand dollars.
Guests at the May 8 Preview Party, among them established
; " collectors and collectors-in-the-making, gallery owners, art consultants and
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art lovers, have the first opportunity , to survey and buy the paintings,
sculptures, drawings and prints on view.
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Preview Party
"All year the museum gets calls from people interested in huying art,"
said Jane Fortune Medveckis, who, along with Mrs. John Clark Keene, is
chairing the Preview Party.
"This is the ideal way to do it .
Faculty members
from the School of the Pennsylvania Academy will be on hand to answer any
questions.
The prices are reasonable and the atmosphere is relaxed and
fun--not the least bit intimidating."
Partygoers will enjoy hors d'oeuvres by
Culinary Concepts and livel y jazz music by the Reading Terminals.
Chairing this year's Preview Party are:
Mrs. John Clark Keene (Ana
Maria) of Ardmore and Jane Fortune Medveckis of Bryn Mawr.
Co-chairs are:
Mrs. Ernest L. Biddle Jr. (Ana) of Bryn Mawr and Mrs . Joseph J. Connolly
(Patty) of Haverford.
Other committee members include:
Mrs. Thomas Dolan IV
(Ibitz), Women's Committee president, of Chestnut Hill; Mrs. John Frazier Hunt
(Penny) and Mrs. Morton M. Kligerman (Barbara), both of Center City
Philadelphia; Mrs. G. Thompson Pew Jr. (Sandy) of Bryn Mawr; Mrs. Samuel R.
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Shipley III (Happy) of Strafford; Mrs. Richard M. Armstrong Jr. (Sue) and Mrs.
Herbert F. Schiffer (Margie), both of West Chester; Mrs. Albert M. Greenfield
Jr. (Barbara) of Glenmoore; and Mrs. E. Newbold Smith (Peggy) of Paoli.
During the Annual Student Exhibition, now in its 89th year, students
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compete for prestigious prizes and travel scholarship~~totaling more than
$80,000.
To participate in the show, students must have completed three years
of a classical curriculum that includes figure drawing, life painting,
sculpture, art history, still-life drawing, printmaking, anatomy and
perspective.
The School of the Pennsylvania Academy, founded in 1805, along
with the museum, is the oldest art school in America.
Over 270 students
representing 28 states and 10 foreign countries are currently enrolled full
time.
Among the school's notable alumni are painters Thomas Eakins, Mary
Cassatt and Robert Henri, architect Louis I. Kahn and filmmaker David Lynch .
For more information and reservations, call the Women's Committee at
(215) 972-7639.
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GO MUSEUM HOPPING ON EASTER -- Celebrate final day of "Paris
1889" exhibition with cafe au 1ait, chocolate bunnies
PHILADELPHIA -- Promenade through "Paris" this Easter.
April 15 is the
final day to see the exhibition "Paris 1889: American Artists at the Universal
Exposition at the Museum of the Pennsylv a nia Academy of the Fine Arts.
As a
special holiday bonus, cafe au 1ait and chocolate bunnies (for kids of course!)
will be served from 1 to 5 p.m., courtesy of the museum.
"Paris 1889," a major traveling exhibition organized by the Museum of the
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, reunites for the first time in a century
90 of the paintings exhibited in the American galleries of the 1889 World's
Fair.
The exhibition explores one of the brightest chapters in the long history
of artistic exchange between France and the United States.
It features works by
John Singer Sargent, Thomas Eakins, William Merritt Chase, James A. McNeill
Whistler, among others.
Also on view are a selection of works by leading French
artists of the period.
The museum is located at Broad and Cherry Sts., in Philadelphia .
Hours are
Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Sunday, 11 a.m to 5 p.m.
Admission is $5; $3 for seniors; $2 for students; free to children under five.
Admission is free on Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
please call (215) 972-7600.
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HE HELPED FRAME THE CONSTITUTION, NOH YOU CAN FRAME HIM
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PHILADELPHIA -- He's a perfect model.
Very important looking.
Twinkling eyes.
Robust figure.
On April 14, Benjamin Franklin (played by Ralph
Archbold) will be posing for the "Benjamin Franklin Portrait Contest!" at the
Museum of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
This free family
program, led by artist Elizabeth Meyer, runs from 10:30 a.m. to 12 noon .
The
event will be held in the museum's main galleries, located at Broad and Cherry
Sts., in Philadelphia.
Franklin, while serving as a model for children and adults to draw, will
share details of his life.
portrait.
The famed American will award a prize for the best
Participants will also see how other artists through history have
depicted him.
The museum will exhibit Charles Hillson Peale's 1785 portrait
of Franklin and a marble bust of Franklin attributed to Italian artist
Giuseppe Iardella, created during the early 1800s.
"Benjamin Franklin Portrait Contest!" is being held in conjunction with
Philadelphia's citywide celebration, "Franklin 1990," a year-long series of
events commemorating Franklin and his achievements.
For more information, please call the museum at (215) 972-7600.
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MUSEUM AWARDED $129,110 EDUCATION GRANT
PHILADELPHIA -- The Museum of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts has
been awarded a grant of $129,110 from the William Penn Foundation for a t\vo- year
program to expand the museum's education activities in the Philadelphia public
schools in conjunction with two exhibitions drawn from the museum's collection.
"The museum is indebted to the William Penn Foundation for their generous
support of this project," said Linda Bantel, museum director.
"This grant
enables the museum to work more closely with the Philadelphia public school
district, using the museum's renowned permanent collection of American art to
augment the schools' curricula.
In this way, the museum both expands its role
in the community and more actively fulfills its mission to interpret our
collection for a broad constituency."
Funds from the grant will be used to hire a museum educator and support
personnel; transport students from
inner ~ city
schools to the museum; create
advance materials for teachers to prepare their classes for a museum visit;
underwrite in-service workshops for teachers; and produce the museum's school
program calendars.
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William Penn Foundation Grant
According to Inez Wolins, education curator, "Museums are wonderful places
to teach children critical thinking and visual skills.
We know that a visit to
the Pennsylvania Academy can provide students with the motivation to make
connections between basic skills they are developing in school and the world
of art.
There's a tremendous need to reach people when they are young and to
excite them about learning.
But schools cannot do this alone.
We want to be
educational partners with the schools."
The grant will be used for education programs designed to complement two
long-term exhibitions of works from the museum's collection.
The first will be
"Light, Air and Color: American Impressionist Paintings from the Collection of
the Pennsylvania Academy," on view June 8, 1990 through April 14, 1991.
The
second will focus on 19th-century narrative art.
The Museum of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, founded in 1805
along with a school of fine arts, is the nation's oldest museum.
The mission of
the museum is to collect, preserve, display and interpret American art for the
benefit of the public.
Exhibitions are complemented by public programs and
publications that promote greater understanding and enjoyment of the visual arts
by the community.
The museum is located at Broad and Cherry Sts., in
Philadelphia.
For more information about the museum's education programs, please call
(215) 972-7608.
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One portion of the William Penn Foundation grant will be used to support an
innovative program for teachers called "Teaching at the Academy: American
Impressionism." This eight-week course is designed to develop the insight and
skills needed to teach children about art. The program runs from June 13
through Aug. 1., and will be taught by Inez Wolins, curator ofeducation~ The
course is offered for 1.5 academic credits. For more information about the art
history and studio course for educators, contact the education department at
(215) 972-7608.
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A TOUR DE FORCE -- SEE PHILADELPHIA'S FRENCH SIDE ON CITY TOUR
PHILADELPHIA -- Rather be in Paris in the springtime?
yet.
Don't pack your bags
On April 8, the Museum of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts will
offer a tour of Philadelphia
with a French twist.
In conjunction with the
museum's major exhibition "Paris 1889: American Artists at the Universal
Exposition," the museum and Philadelphia's Foundation for Architecture invite you
on a guided tour exploring. the French influence on Philadelphia architecture of the
late 19th century.
The event begins at 1 p.m. at the museum, located at Broad and Cherry Sts.
Participants will tour through "Paris 1889," an exhibition examining the close
connections between French and American artists in the late 1800s.
The exhibition
features 90 paintings by American artists that were exhibited at the 1889 World's
Fair in Paris.
After cafe au lait and croissants, guests will board a private bus
for a tour of the city's buildings and monuments built in the Beaux-Arts tradition,
a style that developed in Paris at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, the world's finest
architectural school at the turn of the century.
Highlights of the tour will include Paul Cret's Benjamin Franklin Parkway, the
Federal Reserve Bank and the Benjamin Franklin Bridge, in addition to the
Philadelphia Art Alliance, the Curtis Institute, the Rittenhouse Club, the
Bellevue-Stratford building, and the College of Physicians building, among others.
The bus will return to the museum by 4 p.m.
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The cost of the tour is $25.
Reservations are required.
please call the museum at (215) 972-7600.
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THREE FILMS ON ENVIRONMENTAL ARTIST CHRISTO TO BE SHmm
IN CONJUNCTION WITH EARTH WEEK '90
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PHILADELPHIA -- Three documentaries about environmental artist Christo
will be screened at the Museum of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts on
April 29 from 1 to 3:30 p.m.
The program will commemorate "Earth Week '90," a
Delaware Valley celebration to increase awareness of environmental
responsibility.
The films are free with museum admission of $5; $3 for senior
citizens; $2 for students; free to members and children under five.
The
museum is located at Broad and Cherry Sts., in Philadelphia.
Bulgarian-born artist Christo is most well-known for wrapping buildings,
islands, bridges and other monumental structures in fabric and cord.
His work
examines the relationship between art and the urban and natural environments,
encouraging passers-by to take a closer look at things they may pass everyday
but not really see.
In the words of one critic, "Wherever Christo turns he
succeeds in interrupting the predictability and pragmatism of the world."
The three scheduled films focus on Christo's interaction with nature.
They are:
1 p.m.
"Christo's Valley Curtain" (28 mins., color, 1974, Albert and
David Maysles, Ellen Hovde) demonstrates how Christo stretched
nine tons of orange fabric a quarter-mile across Rifle
Gap in Colorado.
1:30 p.m.
"Running Fence" (58 mins., 1978, color, Albert and David
Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin) depicts Christo's struggle to build a
24-mi1e fence of white nylon over the hills of California and
into the Pacific Ocean.
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2:30 p.m.
"Islands" (57 mins., 1986, color, Albert and David Maysles,
Charlotte Zwerin) shows Christo's fight for permission
to surround 11 Biscayne Bay islands with 6.5 million square feet
of bright pink fabric.
The films were produced by award-winning filmmakers Albert and David
Maysles.
The Maysles brothers are credited with inventing "Direct Cinema" in
their filming of real human dramas, without scripts, sets or narration.
For more information, please call (215) 972-7600.
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STUDIO ART COURSES AND STUDY IN HEXICO AVAILABLE
THROUGH SCHOOL OF THE PENNSYLVANIA ACADEHY THIS SUHHER
PHILADELPHIA--This summer the School of the Pennsylvania Academy of the
Fine Arts is offering day, evening and Saturday studio art and art history
courses, as well as a unique opportunity to study in Hexico.
In conjunction with the Instituto Allende in San Hiquel Allende , Hexico,
the school is offering a a three-credit course from July 16 to Au g . 10, which
will be taught by faculty members Jan Baltzell and Scott Rothstein.
Students
will focus on drawing and painting in this historic city in the mountains of
central Hexico.
Enrollment for the course is limited.
Here in Philadelphia, a variety of day and evening classes are scheduled
from June 13 through Aug . 1.
five-week sessions.
Saturday workshops for adults will be held in t wo
The first session, with classes in painting, drawing and
pastel will begin on June 2; the second session, which will include a
printmaking/collage class, will begin on July 7.
Other highlights of the summer session include a course designed
specifically for elementary and secondary school teachers called "Teaching at
the Academy: American Impressionism" (for 1.5 academic credits), and landscape
courses held at the Horticultural Center in Fairmount Park .
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Summer School
Summer school classes are offered to the general public and samples of
artwork are not required for admission.
Mail-in and phone-in applications will
be accepted until two weeks prior to the start of classes.
Applications can be
mailed to the Extension Programs Office, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts,
Broad and Cherry Sts., Philadelphia, Pa.
19102.
Individuals may also phone-in
registration using VISA or MasterCard to (215) 972-7632.
To obtain a Summer School brochure, please call the extension programs
office at (215) 972-7632.
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FOUR MEMBERS ELECTED TO PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY
OF THE FINE ARTS' BOARD OF TRUSTEES
PHILADELPHIA -- The Pennsyl vania Academy of the Fine Arts is pleased to
announce the election of four members to the board of trustees.
are:
The members
Mrs. Thomas (Elizabeth) Dolan IV, Herbert S. Riband Jr., Benjamin
Strauss and Robert G. Wilder.
Elizabeth Dolan, of Philadelphia, Pa., currently serves as President of
the Women's Committee of the Pennsylvania Academy.
She is involved in
numerous civic and cultural organizations in Philadelphia, including Recording
for the Blind, for which she serves as a trustee.
She is also a past trustee
of the Academy of Natural Sciences and the Abington Hospital.
Herbert Riband, of Ft. Washington, Pa., is a partner in the law firm of
Saul,Ewing, Remick & Saul.
As counsel to the Pennsylvania Academy of the
Fine Arts, he served an interim term as an ex-officio member of the board in
1989.
He is a member of the board of directors of Highlands Historical
Society in Ft. Washington, Pa. and the Carson Valley School, a nonprofit
residential institution for disadvantaged children in Flourtown, Pa.
Benjamin Strauss, of Haverford , Pa., is chairman and chief executive
officer of Pep Boys.
He is on the boards of the Federation of Jewish
Agencies, the Mann Music Center and the Institute of Contemporary Art.
serves as an associate trustee of the University of Pennsylvania.
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Robert Wilder, of Penn Valley, Pa., i~ chairman of the board of the
advertising agency Lewis, Gilman & Kynett, Inc.
He has been re-elected to the
board of trustees after having served an interim year on the advisory board.
He is a director of The Fidelity Mutual Life Insurance Company, the
Philadelphia Suburban Corporation, the Round Hill Development Co., Ltd. of
Montego Bay, Jamaica,
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Indies and The Rittenhouse Trust Company.
director of the Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce.
He is a
His other board
memberships include The United Way of Philadelphia, the Franklin Institute and
Lankanau Hospital.
The following officers were elected to three year terms:
Harold A.
Sorgenti, chairman; Charles J. Kenkelen, first vice chairman; Roffe J. Wike,
second vice chairman; Allen J. Model, Treasurer; and Lyn M. Ross, secretary.
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, founded in 1805, is the
nation's oldest art school and art museum.
The institution and its
p~ograms
are supported by contributions from members of the Pennsylvania Academy,
individuals, private foundations, corporations and government agencies.
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JUDITH STEIN NAMED CURATOR AT MUSEUM OF THE
PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS
PHILADELPHIA -- Judith Stein has been promoted from associate curator to
curator at the Museum of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, announced
Linda Bantel, director of the museum.
Stein joined the staff in 1981 as coordinator of the museum's Morris
Gallery, a space devoted to the contemporary arts.
Since 1981 she has
organized over 50 Morris Gallery exhibitions and continues to serve as its
coordinator.
In 1983 Stein was named assistant curator of the museum.
She was
promoted to associate curator two years later.
Among .the exhibitions Stein has organized for the museum are "Red Grooms :
A Retrospective 1956-1984" (1985), Betye Saar's "Sentimental Sojourn:
Strangers and Souvenirs" (1987) and "Family Traditions: Recent Works by
Elizabeth T. Scott and Joyce J. Scott" (1989).
In addition, she co-organized
the exhibition "The Figurative Fifties: New York Figurative Expressionism in
the 1950s" (1988).
Stein was the supervising curator for "Frank Stella:
Prints 1967-1982" (1984), "The Vital Gesture: Franz Kline in Retrospective"
(1986), "Jack Tworkov: Paintings 1928-1982" (1987) and "Making Their Mark:
Women Artists Move into the Mainstream 1970-85" (1989).
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Stein, a resident of Philadelphia, received her bachelor of arts degree
from Barnard College in 1965.
She was awarded her master of fine arts degree
in 1967 and her Ph.D. in art history in 1981 from the University of
Pennsylvania.
She attended the Courtauld Institute of Art in London from 1967
to 1968.
Stein has lectured, taught and written numerous articles on contemporary
American art.
She is a member of the American Association of Museums, the
College Art Association, the International Art Critics Association and Women's
Caucus for Art.
She is active in numerous cultural organizations and
currently serves on the boards of Philadelphia's Fabric Workshop and the
Philadelphia Art Alliance.
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LATE NIGHTERS FINALIZE PLANS FOR MARCH 3RD SOIREE
PHILADELPHIA -- On Feb. 13, Late Night Committee members of the Bal de
la Belle Epoque gathered at Cafe Borelli to finalize plans for an after-hours
dance party to be held at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts March 3
from 9:30 p.m. to 1 a . m.
The Late Night Party will follow Le Bal de la Belle
Epoque, a black/white tie gala fund-raiser which begins at 6:30 p.m.
Both the
Late Night Party and the ball are being held in conjunction with the major
exhibition, "Paris 1889: American Artists at the Universal Exposition."
The Late Night Party, hosted by Chairpersons William J. Harry and
Caroline E. Estey, both of Philadelphia, and Mr. and Mrs. Paul Rogers, of
Wayne, will gather late nighters and their friends for a festive French
evening.
Guests will dance to the music of Charlie, a rock-and-roll band from
Richmond, Va., in a setting reminiscent of the famous Parisian cabaret, the
Moulin Rouge.
In a recreated 19th-century artist's studio, dancers can swing
to the big band sound of the Bob Hardwick Orchestra.
The Late Night Party
includes hors d'oeuvres, open bar, dessert buffet and expresso cafe.
Tickets to the Late Night Party are $60 per person.
All funds raised
benefit the school and museum of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
For more information, call the Women's Committee at (215) 972-7639.
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DYNAMIC CANVASES OF RAYMOND SAUNDERS OFFER
COLLAGE OF IMAGES
PHILADELPHIA -- The work of Raymond Saunders, a nationally acclaimed
California-based artist, will be featured in the Morris Gallery at the Museum
of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts from Feb. 28 through April 22.
The exhibition "Raymond Saunders: Recent Work" comprises five large-scale
paintings and a series of 25 small drawings.
be held March 15 from 5 to 7 p.m.
public.
12 noon.
A meet-the-artist reception will
The reception is free and open to the
A gallery talk by the artist will be held at the museum March 16 at
The talk is free with museum admission.
Saunders is a master at combining representational images and passages of
abstract painting.
His collages of bold colors, often on a black background,
can be playful, political or improvisational.
His works are richly
referential, incorporating pop-culture icons, children's doodles, Chinese
fragments, exquisitely rendered fruits and flowers, graffiti and references to
African-American history.
In "Celeste at Age 5 Invited Me to Tea," for
example, the artist includes a hopscotch series of numbered squares, images of
a stenciled heart, a simple house, a face in profile and a quartered
multi-colored square.
Scrawled around and in-between these elements are
words, numbers and graffiti-like pictures.
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"For Saunders, 'process' connotes the workings of memory as well as the
creative act," said Judith Stein, curator at the museum.
"He is also a
consummate colorist who makes black an active participant in his spectrum.
his hands black is not an absence but a presence.
In
Undoubtedly, black is a
badge of pride as well for this African-American artist."
Saunders, born in Pittsburgh, Pa. in 1934, has exhibited his work in
numerous national and international exhibitions over the last 25 years.
He
was educated at the Carnegie Institute of Technology, the School of the
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Barnes Foundation and the
California College of Arts and Crafts.
He won a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1976
and was honored by the National Endowment for the Arts in 1977 and 1984.
In
1989, he received the prestigious Visual Arts Award from the South Eastern
Center for Contemporary Art.
He is currently a professor of painting and
drawing at California State College.
The Museum of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts is located at
Broad and Cherry Sts., in Philadelphia.
Hours are Tuesday through Saturday,
10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Admission is $5; $3 for
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HUNCHBACK AND PHANTOM HEADLINE AT PARIS FILM SERIES
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PHILADELPHIA -- "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" and "The Phantom of the
Opera" are two of the featured films in the series called "Paris Turning:
Visions of a Century" at the Museum of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine
Arts from Feb. 25 through March 25.
The five-part series, organized by the museum's education department ,
explores various filmmakers' visions of 19th-century Paris through films,
documentaries and newsreel footage.
The film series is being held in
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conjunction with the major exhibition "Paris 1889: American Artists at the
Universal Exposition," which reunites 90 of the paintings exhibited in the
American galleries at the 1889 World's Fair in Paris.
Films start at 3 p.m. and are free with museum admission of $5; $3 for
seniors; $2 for students; free to members and children under five.
is located at Broad and Cherry Sts., in Philadelphia.
The museum
For more information,
please call (215) 972-7600.
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"Screen Souvenirs" (n.d. black and white, 14 mins.). Newsreel
footage of the Chicago World's Fair of 1893, the Paris
Exposition of 1900, auto racing in 1906 and a short feature
titled "Brothers' Dastardly Deeds."
-- and -"Lumiere Years" (1976, black and white, 93 mins.). Rare film
footage shot under the direction of the legendary Lumiere
brothers during a round-the-wor1d trip in the 1890s. The film
records such historical milestones as the coronation of Czar
Nicholas II and President McKinley's preparation to invade Cuba.
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March 4
3 p.m.
"The Century Next Door" (1970, 25 mins.). Iv'hat was life like
on June 30, 1870? Find out through this unique film which
recreates this day in history through of works of art,
newspapers and books.
-- and -"So Long at the Fair" (1950, 90 mins.). Directed by Terence
Fisher and Anthony Darnborough. Starrs Dirk Bogarde and Jean
Simmons. This atmospheric drama, set in 1889, is the eerie
tale of a young British tourist visiting the Paris World's Fair
who panics when her brother mysteriously disappears.
March 11
3 p.m.
"Children of Paradise" (1943-45, 195 mins., French with English
subtitles, black and white). Directed by Marcel Carne.
Stars Jean-Louis Barrault, Pierre Brasseur, Marcel Herrand,
Maria Casares and Pierre Renoir. This romantic epic, set in
the theater district of 19th-century Paris, explores the
loves and ambitions of a group of actors who eventually achieve
fame and fortune, but never the happiness they so desperately
seek.
March 18
3 p.m.
"The Phantom of the Opera" (1943, 93 mins.). Directed by
Arthur Lubin. Stars Claude Rains, Nelson Eddy and Susanna
Foster. This is the famous story of a former violinist with
the Paris Opera Company who flees underground after strangling
a man who had tried to steal his musical compositions.
March 25
3 p.m.
"The Hunchback of Notre Dame" (1923, 90 mins., silent).
Directed by Wallace Worsley. Screenplay by Edward T. Lowe and
Percy Poore Sheehan. Stars Lon Chaney, Patsy Ruth Miller,
Norman Kerry and Ernest Torrence. This is the classic film of
Quasimodo, the deformed bell ringer in the Notre Dame Cathedral
of Paris, and his tragic love for the gypsy Esmeralda.
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Le Bal de la Belle Epoque to celebrate Paris and current
exhibition at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
PHILADELPHIA--On Jan. 30, the Women's Committee of the Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Arts announced Le Bal de la Belle Epoque, a gala
fund-raiser to be held March 3 that will benefit the Academy's school and
museum.
The announcement was made at a champagne reception for the Women's
Committee and supporters hosted by Pierre Deux at The Bellevue.
The reception
included a fashion show sponsored by Bloomingdale's.
Women's Committee President Mrs. Thomas Dolan IV (Ibitz) of Chestnut
Hill introduced the ball's co-chairpersons, Miss Julie Jensen and Mrs. Anthony
Stuempfig, both of Philadelphia, who thanked Terrance Cockran, manager of
Pierre Deux, and Chris Gentry, fashion coordinator at Bloomingdale's, for
their support.
Le Bal de la Belle Epoque draws its theme from the Academy's current
exhibition, "Paris 1889: American Artists at the Universal Exposition," a
recreation of the American galleries at the 1889 World's Fair in Paris.
The
exhbition will be on view until April 15, 1990.
This black/white tie or period costume ball will recreate the atmosphere
of late 19th-century Paris, using decorations that call up images of Paris
street scenes and artists' studios.
Hal McCracken, Omni International Design
Group Ltd., will handle the decorations.
Perrier-Jou~t is providing the
champagne and wine for the ball.
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The evening's festivities will include a silent auction (during which
guests will bid on a trip to Paris, paintings, prints, champagne and other
prizes), cocktails, dinner by Carolina's Catering and dancing to the music of
the Bob Hardwick Orchestra.
A Late Nighters Party with music by Charlie, a
contemporary rock-and-roll dance band from Richmond, Va., will begin at
9:30 p.m. and extend the ball to 1 a.m.
For further information and invitations, call the Women's Committee at
(215) 972-7639.
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FEB. 1 PREVIEW FOR "PARIS 1889" EXHIBITION CELEBRATES
AMERICANS IN PARIS -- Prize-winning paintings, high-kicking
cancan dancers, 23-foot tall Eiffel Tower
PHILADELPHIA -- Prize-winning paintings, 18 French and American flags, a
"towering" 23-foot replica of the Eiffel Tower, cancan dancers and a special
appearance by the cultural counselor to the French Embassy will highlight the
Feb. 1 press preview and opening reception of "Paris 1889: American Artists at
the Universal Exposition" at the Museum of the Pennsylvania Academy of the
Fine Arts, Broad and Cherry Sts.
Over 500 guests will be on hand to help
celebrate the opening of the museum's first traveling show since its Red
Grooms retrospective in 1985.
The exhibition opens to the press at 5 p.m.
Festivities begin at 6 p.m.
when a band will play the Marseillaise and The Star-Spangled Banner.
A
performance by high kicking, colorfully dressed cancan dancers will follow to
to open the exhibition in quick-stepping style.
The exhibition "Paris 1889" examines the coming of age of American Art in
the international arena.
Reunited for the first time in a century are 90 of
the paintings exhibited in the American galleries of the 1889 World's Fair in
Paris, which featured the largest showing of American art in Europe up to that
time.
The exhibition explores one of the brightest chapters in the long
history of artistic exchange between France and the United States.
It
features works by John Singer Sargent, William Merritt Chase, Thomas Eakins,
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James McNeill Whistler, among others.
Also are view are a selection of works
by leading French artists of the period, along with scores of original
photographs, posters, prints and fair memorabilia.
The exhibition opens to the public on Feb. 2 and will be on view through
April 15, 1990 at the museum of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Art,
Broad and Cherry Sts.
Hours are Tuesday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m, and
Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Admission is $5; $3 for seniors; $2 for students;
free to members and children under five.
(215) 972-7600.
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WITH FIRST FACULTY SCULPTURE SHmv IN SCHOOL'S HISTORY
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"Sculpture Faculty" is the first group exhibition of works by sculpture
instructors at the School of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in the
institution's history.
The exhibition opens Feb. 9 and runs through March 17
at the School Gallery at 1301 Cherry St., in Philadelphia.
A free opening
reception will be held on Feb. 8 from 5 to 7 p.m.
"Sculpture Faculty" presents approximately 40 recent sculptures and
preliminary drawings by Academy instructors Robert Roesch, Jody Pinto, Tony
Visco, Barbara Goodstein, Alex Hromych, David Slivka, Linda Brenner, Tony
Sacksteder, Gary Weisman, Stephen Nocella, Steve Weiss and Stuart Feldman.
Included are private studio works and public works, representing a broad range
of traditions, from figurative to modernist.
"It's a rare treat to see the work of an ·entire sculpture faculty in one
exhibition," explained Tony Visco, chairman of the sculpture department and
the exhibition's organizer.
"We also wanted to give people a sense of the
whole thinking process of making sculptures, from
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initial thought process
to the finished work."
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts was founded in 1805 as a
school and museum and is the nation's oldest art institution.
School Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Admission is free.
For more information, please call (215) 972-7600.
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THE FRENCH CONNECTION: PANEL EXPLORES THE ART AND CULTURE
OF LATE 19TH-CENTURY PARIS
PHILADELPHIA--The 1889 World's Fair in Paris was a watershed for
American artists.
Many of them, having studied in the Paris studios of the
great French masters, exhibited works painted in the French academic style.
The prizes they won and the critical success they enjoyed surprised nearly
everyone, and the fair signaled the coming-of-age of American art in the
international art world.
On Feb. 24, a panel of art scholars will gather to examine the 1889 Fair
and its repercussions for American art.
The program will complement the
exhibition "Paris 1889: American Artists at the Universal Exposition,'t a
~recreation
of the American galleries of the 1889 Fair on view at the
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts from Feb. 2 to April 15.
"The academic style promulgated in the French studios in the late 19th
century was the foundation for much of early 20th century modernism,
functioning as either a style to rebel against, or a style to be built upon,"
said Annette Blaugrund, curator of the exhibition and curator of prints,
drawings and sculpture at the New-York Historical Society.
19th century was long out of favor.
"Art of the late
Only now is it being re-examined and
re-evaluated as to its role in art history."
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Symposium
In addition to Blaugrund, panel participants will include:
H. Barbara
Weinberg, professor of art history at the Graduate Center, City University of
New York; Richard Guy Wilson, professor of architectural history at the
University of Virginia; and Maureen C. O'Brien, curator of prints, drawings
and photographs at the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design.
Blaugrund will provide an overview of the fair, covering how the event
was organized, the politics behind who was chosen to exhibit, among other
topics.
Using slides, she will highlight the works of specific artists to
show why they sent certain paintings and left others home.
Weinberg will cover the training of American artists in the Paris
studios in the late 19th century--why so many Americans felt compelled to
study there, the kinds of teaching they received and how the influence was
spread far beyond the borders of France.
Wilson will examine the innovative architecture of the fair and its
influence on subsequent building techniques.
In particular, he will talk
about the controversial Eiffel Tower, built specially for the 1889 Fair, and
the Palais des Machines, then the largest iron and glass building to date.
O'Brien will talk about the other European (non-French) artists
represented at the fair.
She will discuss the works of the German, Dutch,
English and Italian artists represented to provide a context for understanding
the works of the American artists.
The program runs from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Pennsylvania Academy of the
Fine Arts, Broad and Cherry Sts., in Philadelphia.
members and full-time students with I.D.
Admission is $20; $15 for
Museum admission and refreshments
are included.
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To order tickets, send a check, made payable to the Pennsylvania Academy
of the Fine Arts, to the Education Department, Pennsylvania Academy of the
Fine Arts, Broad and Cherry Sts., Philadelphia, Pa.
"Symposium, 2/24" on your check.
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For more information, call the Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Arts at (215) 972-7600.
The symposium is funded, in part, by the Lagakos-Turak Gallery,
Philadelphia.
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"Paris 1889: American Artists at the Universal Exposition" features 90
, paintings by American artists and 13 by their French mentors, along with
~original photographs, posters, prints and other fair memorabilia.
Included
are works by John Singer Sargent, James McNeill Whistler, Thomas Eakins,
Jean-Leon Gerome, Jules Lefebvre and others. The exhibition has been made
possible by generous grants from The Pew Charitable Trusts and the National
Endowment for the Arts, a Federal agency.
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EXHIBITIONS, GALLERY TALKS AT PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY
MUSEUM CELEBRATE VITALITY OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN ART
PHILADELPHIA -- The museum of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts is
proud of its long history of excellence in collecting and exhibiting the art of
African-Americans.
Included in the museum's holdings are works by such notable
artists as Henry O. Tanner (1859-1937), Horace Pippin (1888-1946) and Jacob
Lawrence (b. 1917).
To commemorate Black History Month this February, the museum
has scheduled two exhibitions, "Contemporary African-American Art" and "Ray
Saunders' Recent Work," as well as several lectures and gallery talks.
Exhibitions
Feb. 10 to
"Contemporary African-American Art."
April 22
approximately 20 paintings and works on paper drawn from the museum's
collection.
This exhibition features
Included are works by Betye Saar, Ray Saunders, and
Philadelphia artists Moe Brooker, Charles Burwell and John Dowell.
Also included are five prints recently given to the museum by the
Brandywine Workshop, a Philadelphia-based printmaking workshop: Benny
Andrews' "Amen Corner"; Willie Birch's "Promise Land"; James Dupree's
"Triangular Weez II"; Allan Edmunds' "Dr. J."; and,Keith Morrison's
"Dance in America: Folk Ritual."
Elizabeth Catlitt's "Malcolm X
Speaks For Us," a recent gift from the artist, will also be featured.
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Exhibitions--continued
Feb. 28 to
"Ray Saunders' Recent Work."
April 22
large-scale mixed-media collages by this nationally acclaimed
African-American artist.
This exhibition features six
Saunders' works embody a collage
aesthetic, incorporating pop-culture icons, children's doodles,
Chinese fragments, exquisitely rendered fruits and flowers,
graffiti and references to African-American art history.
A
poetic observer of the street, Saunders la yers images and
meanings using bold colors, often on a blac k background.
A 1957
graduate of the School of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine
Arts, Saunders received National Endowment for the Arts awards in
1977 and 1984, a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1976 , and ' the
prestigious Award for Visual Arts Award, South Eastern Center for
Contemporary Art, in 1989.
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15:
Free opening reception for "Ray Saunders' Recent
Work," 5 to 7 p.m.
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Black History Month
Talks
Art-at-Lunch Lecture: "Philadelphia's Brandywine Workshop."
Feb. 7
The Brandywine Workshop draws artists from across the country.
Phyllis Thompson, the workshop's artistic director, talks about
this printmaking operation, which operates off-site educational
programs around the city and provides specialized training and
opportunities for minorities.
Using the different plates
involved, she will also describe the production of a lithograph,
and will talk about the five prints recently given to the museum
by the workshop that are on view in "Contemporary
African-American Art."
Feb. 7, 12:15 to 12:45 p.m. $1.50.
Coffee, tea and cookies provided.
March 16
Brown-baggers welcome.
Informal Gallery Talk by Ray Saunders.
This nationally acclaimed
African-American artist talks about his large-scale mixed-media
collages on view in "Ray Saunders' Recent Work."
to 1 p.m.
March 16, noon
Free with museum admission.
The Museum of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts is located at
Broad and Cherry Sts., in Philadelphia.
Hours are Tuesday through Saturday,
10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
senior citizens; $2 for "students.
Admission is $5; $3 for
Free for members and children under five.
Free on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
For more information, call
(215) 972-7600.
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FAIR IN PARIS.
ON VIEW UNTIL APRIL 15TH AT THE MUSEUM OF THE PENNSYLVANIA
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