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PE NNS YLVAN I A ACADEMY OF T H E FINE ART S
News
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: November 11,1994
CONTACT: Marion McParland or Anna Welch
(215) 972-7642
MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART OFFERS THE
SYMPOSIUM. IIAMERICAN VOICES:
NEW APPROACHES TO THE PERMANENT COLLECTION II
PHILADELPHIA -- The Museum of American Art of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
has scheduled a symposium, "American Voices: New Approaches to the Permanent Collection,"
which will be held Saturday, December 3, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Museum at 118 North
Broad Street in Philadelphia.
Sylvia Yount, Curator of Collections, will introduce the event, which brings together noted scholars
in the history of art and culture to reconsider works in the permanent collection from a variety of
critical perspectives. The event will also feature a special preview of the Museum's reinstallation-inprogress of "Two Centuries of Collecting at the Museum of American Art," which will open to the
public on December 10.
The morning session will begin with Paul Staiti, Assistant Professor in the Department of Art at
Mount Holyoke College speaking on "Fashion, Flowers, and Fat: Reinterpreting the EighteenthCentury Portrait." Joy Kasson, Professor in the Department of American Studies at the University
of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, will then discuss" Adam and Eve in the Dining Room: Contexts for
Viewing Nineteenth-Century Sculpture." Finally, the subject of "African-American Representation
in the Nineteenth Century" will be examined by Floyd Coleman, Professor and Chair in the
Department of Art at Howard University.
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Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Am, America', Firsl Art Mllsellm and School of Fine Am.
-2At 1 p.m., Susan Sidlauskas, Assistant Professor in the History of Art Department at the University
of Pennsylvania, will open the afternoon session with the paper, "Infiltrations: Response and Revision in Turn-of-the-Century Painting." Beryl Wright, an independent curator and scholar, will
follow with "The Evolution of Modernist Regionalism in America." David McCarthy, Assistant
Professor in the Department of Art at Rhodes College will close the session with an examination of
the twentieth-century figurative tradition, "Circa 1962." A discussion period will follow.
The registration fees, which include a boxed lunch, are $25 for the general public, $15 for Museum
members, $10 for students with I.D., and free with Museum admission for seniors. Registration for
the event is available at the door on a space availability basis. Refunds can only be made up until
November 15. For more information, please call Museum Education at (215) 972-7608.
The Museum of American Art has been closed since May for renovations and will reopen to the
general public December 10. Visitors will enjoy an expanded Museum Shop, a new Museum Cafe,
electronically assisted self-guided tours and an orientation film. Changes taking place behind-thescenes include an improved security system, up-to-date fire detection and suppression systems, and
renovated administrative offices.
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, founded in 1805, is America's first art museum and
school of fine arts. The Museum of American Art collects and exhibits the work of American artists.
The School offers a four-year Certificate program and a two-year Master of Fine Arts degree
program in painting, printmaking, and sculpture. Notable alumni include Thomas Eakins, Mary
Cassatt, Robert Henri, John Sloan, George Luks, William Merritt Chase, and David Lynch. For
information call (215) 972-7642.
Located at the intersection of Philadelphia's two grand concourses - Benjamin Franklin Parkway and
Broad Street's Avenue of the Arts, the Museum of American Art of the Pennsylvania Academy of
the Fine Arts symbolizes the city's historic and artistic heritage and its forward-looking multicultural
dynamic. As an internationally recognized visual arts institution, the Academy brilliantly
complements the Avenue's performing arts community.
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PEN NS YLVA N I A A CA D E MY O F THE FI NE A RTS
News
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: November 28,1994
CONTACT: Marion McParland or Anna Welch
(215) 972-7642
MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART WILL OFFER
FREE ADMISSION DURING
GRAND REOPENING WEEKEND
PHILADELPHIA--The Museum of American Art of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts will
offer FREE ADMISSION DURING ITS GRAND OPENING WEEKEND, SATURDAY,
DECEMBER 10, FROM 10 A.M. TO 5 P.M. AND SUNDAY, DECEMBER 11 FROM 11 A.M.
TO 5 P.M. There will be special in-gallery experiences all weekend, including films, a gallery talk,
and chances for children to explore new resource areas and meet William Penn and mime Laura
Hinson.
The Museum has been closed since May for renovations to its home, the 1876 National Historic
Landmark designed by Frank Furness and George W. Hewitt. The Museum will now offer an
orientation video , self-guided audio tours , resource centers, an expanded gift shop and a new
Museum Cafe. The permanent collection has been reinstalled in a comprehensive, thematic format
with new interpretive components.
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, founded in 1805, is America's first art museum and
school of fine arts. The Museum of American Art collects and exhibits the work of American artists.
The school offers a four-year Certificate program and a two-year Master of Fine Arts degree
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program in painting, printmaking, and sculpture. Notable alumni include Thomas Eakins, Mary
Cassatt, Robert Henri, John Sloan, George Luks, William Merritt Chase, and David Lynch. For
information call (215) 972-7600.
Located at the intersection of Philadelphia's two grand cultural concourses - Benjamin Franklin
Parkway and Broad Street's Avenue of the Arts, - the Museum of American Art of the Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Arts symbolizes the city's historic and artistic heritage and its forward-looking
multicultural dynamic. As an internationally recognized visual arts institution, the Academy brilliantly
complements the Avenue's performing arts community.
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Press Preview and Luncheon, Thursday, December 8, 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Call (215) 9727642 to R.S.V.P.
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FOOD. AND ART. FOR THOUGHT:
MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART FEATURES
NEW SUNDAY MORNING JAZZ BRUNCH
PHILADELPHIA--The Museum of American Art of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts at
Broad and Cherry Streets now offers a Sunday Morning Jazz Brunch every Sunday from 11:30 a.m.
to 1 p.m. in the new Museum Cafe. Each week a leading area jazz band will perform.
"The new Jazz Brunches are an important and exciting way for the Museum to emphasize our
community awareness," says Linda Bantel, Edna S. Tuttleman Director of the Museum. "One of our
goals is to increase our visibility in the Philadelphia area as a lively, friendly place for everyone. "
The Museum Catering Company, which manages the new Museum Cafe, has created a menu for the
Sunday Morning Jazz Brunch, which includes muffins, bagels, croissants, quiche or fritata, and a
variety of fresh-baked goods.
The Brunch costs $16.95 for adults, $15.95 for senior citizens and students with 1.0., and $11.95
for members. Reservations are preferred. Call (215) 972-7608 for information or to make a
reservation.
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(2 15) 972-7600
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FAX
-2The Museum of American Art reopened December 10 after a six-month, $3.5 million renovation.
Along with the new, free INFORM self-guided audio tours, an orientation video and expanded
Museum Shop, the Museum also offers a new Museum Cafe, which is open during Museum hours
and serves breakfast, lunch, and afternoon tea.
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, founded in 1805, is America's first art museum and
school of fine arts. The Museum of American Art collects and exhibits the work of American artists.
The School offers a four-year Certificate program, a coordinated B.F.A. degree program with the
University of Pennsylvania, a two-year Master of Fine Arts program, and a Post-Baccalaureate
program in painting, printmaking, and sculpture. Notable alumni include Thomas Eakins, Mary
Cassatt, Robert Henri, John Sloan, George Luks, William Merritt Chase, and David Lynch. For
information call (215) 972-7600.
Located at the intersection of Philadelphia's two grand cultural concourses - Benjamin Franklin
Parkway and Broad Street's Avenue of the Arts, - the Museum of American Art of the Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Arts symbolizes the city's historic and artistic heritage and its forward-looking,
multicultural dynamic. As an internationally recognized visual arts institution, the Academy brilliantly
complements the Avenue's performing arts community.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Marion McParland
Anna Welch
(215) 972-7642
FOOD. AND ART. FOR THOUGHT:
MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART FEATURES
NEW SUNDAY MORNING JAZZ BRUNCH
PHILADELPHIA--The Museum of American Art of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts at
Broad and Cherry Streets now offers a Sunday Morning Jazz Brunch every Sunday from 11:30 a.m.
to 1 p.m. in the new Museum Cafe. Each week a leading area jazz band will perform.
"The new Jazz Brunches are an important and exciting way for the Museum to emphasize our
community awareness," says Linda Bantel, Edna S. Tuttleman Director of the Museum. "One of our
goals is to increase our visibility in the Philadelphia area as a lively , friendly place for everyone. "
The Museum Catering Company, the exclusive caterers of the Museum, have created a special buffet
menu for the Sunday Morning Jazz Brunch, which includes homemade waffles, quiche, herbed
scrambled eggs, hash browns, Lancaster County link sausages, and a variety of fresh-baked goods.
The Brunch costs $16.95 for adults, $15.95 for senior citizens and students with I.D., $11.95 for
members, $9.95 for children 6 to 12, and $5.95 for children five and under. Reservations are
preferred. Call (215) 972-7608 for information or to make a reservation.
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BROA D STREET
PHILADELPH IA, PA
19102
(215) 972-7600 T EL
(215) 972-5564
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FAX
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The Museum of American Art reopened December 10 after a six-month, $3.5 million renovation.
Along with the new, free INFORM self-guided audio tours, an orientation video and expanded
Museum Shop, the Museum also offers a new Museum Cafe, which is open during Museum hours
and serves breakfast, lunch, and afternoon tea.
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, founded in 1805, is America's first art museum and
school of [me arts. The Museum of American Art collects and exhibits the work of American artists.
The School offers a four-year Certificate program and a two-year Master of Fine Arts program in
painting, printmaking, and sculpture. Notable alumni include Thomas Eakins, Mary Cassatt, Robert
Henri, John Sloan, George Luks, William Merritt Chase, and David Lynch. For information call
(215) 972-7600.
Located at the intersection of Philadelphia's two grand cultural concourses - Benjamin Franklin
Parkway and Broad Street's Avenue of the Arts, - the Museum of American Art of the Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Arts symbolizes the city's historic and artistic heritage and its forward-looking,
multicultural dynamic. As an internationally recognized visual arts institution, the Academy brilliantly
complements the Avenue's performing arts community.
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PENNS YLVAN I A ACADE MY O F TH E FI N E A RT S
News
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Marion McParland
Anna Welch
(215) 972-7642
FOOD. AND ART. FOR THOUGHT:
MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART FEATURES
NEW SUNDAY MORNING JAZZ BRUNCH
PHILADELPHIA--The Museum of American Art of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts at
Broad and Cherry Streets now offers a Sunday Morning Jazz Brunch every Sunday from 11:30 a.m.
to 1 p.m. in the new Museum Cafe. Each week a leading area jazz band will perform.
"The new Jazz Brunches are an important and exciting way for the Museum to emphasize our
community awareness , " says Linda Bantel, Edna S. Tuttleman Director of the Museum. "One of our
goals is to increase our visibility in the Philadelphia area as a lively, friendly place for everyone. "
The Museum Catering Company, which manages the new Museum Cafe, has created a menu for the
Sunday Morning Jazz Brunch, which includes muffins, bagels, croissants, quiche or fritata, and a
variety of fresh-baked goods.
The Brunch costs $16.95 for adults, $15.95 for senior citizens and students with I.D., and $11.95
for members . Reservations are preferred. Call (215) 972-7608 for information or to make a
reservation.
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BROAD STREET
PH ILADELPH IA, PA
19102
(215) 972- 7600
TEL
(2 15) 972-5 564 FAX
PellllS ylvania Academy of the Fille Arts, America', First An Museum and School of Fine Arts .
-2The Museum of American Art reopened December 10 after a six-month, $3.5 million renovation.
Along with the new, free INFORM self-guided audio tours, an orientation video and expanded
Museum Shop, the Museum also offers a new Museum Cafe, which is open during Museum hours
and serves breakfast, lunch, and afternoon tea.
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, founded in 1805, is America's first art museum and
school of fine arts. The Museum of American Art collects and exhibits the work of American artists.
The School offers a four-year Certificate program, a coordinated B.F.A. degree program with the
University of Pennsylvania, a two-year Master of Fine Arts program, and a Post-Baccalaureate
program in painting, printmaking, and sculpture. Notable alumni include Thomas Eakins, Mary
Cassatt, Robert Henri, John Sloan, George Luks, William Merritt Chase, and David Lynch. For
information call (215) 972-7600.
Located at the intersection of Philadelphia's two grand cultural concourses - Benjamin Franklin
Parkway and Broad Street's Avenue of the Arts, - the Museum of American Art of the Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Arts symbolizes the city's historic and artistic heritage and its forward-looking,
multicultural dynamic. As an internationally recognized visual arts institution, the Academy brilliantly
complements the Avenue's performing arts community.
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FINE ARTS
MUSEUM
& SCHOOL
118 N. Broad Street
Philadelphia. PA
19102
"Jill BonovitzlBhakti Ziek: Recent Work"
Morris Gallery
Museum of American Art
of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
November 2, 1993 through January 23, 1994
(215) 972-7642
Jill Bonovitz Checklist
Wall Installation
53 vases ranging in size from 3 - 10" high; 1993; porcelain clay thrown on wheel with added
elements
Vessels
Seven vessels, all 25" in diameter, 4 112" high; 1993; hand-built earthenware with terra sigillata
Bhakti Ziek Checklist
"Pathways"
57-1I2"h x 23"w; 1993
mixed fibers, raffia and dye; woven
"Common Destiny"
29-1I2"h x 47-1I2"w (diptych); 1993
mixed fibers, raffia and dye; woven
"Dharma"
41"h x 47"w (diptych); 1993
mixed fibers, raffia and dye; woven
"Columns"
6O"h (approx.) x 37"w; 1993
mixed fibers and reed; woven
"Parents"
6O"h (approx.) x 37"w; 1993
mixed fibers and reed; woven
"Raffia"
19"h x 6O"w (triptych); 1992;
mixed fibers, raffia and dye; woven
PENNSYLVANIA
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FINE ARTS
MUSEUM
& SCHOOL
118 N . Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA
19102
"Jill BonovitzlBhakti Ziek: Recent Work"
Morris Gallery
Museum of American Art
of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
November 2, 1993 through January 23, 1994
(215) 972-7642
Jill Bonovitz Checklist
Wall Installation
53 vases ranging in size from 3 - 10" high; 1993; porcelain clay thrown on wheel with added
elements
Vessels
Seven vessels, all 25" in diameter, 4 112" high; 1993 ; hand-built earthenware with terra sigillata
Bhakti Ziek Checklist
"Pathways"
57-1I2"h x 23"w; 1993
mixed fibers, raffia and dye; woven
"Common Destiny"
29-1I2"h x 47-1I2"w (diptych); 1993
mixed fibers, raffia and dye; woven
"Dharma"
41 "h x 47"w (diptych) ; 1993
mixed fibers, raffia and dye; woven
"Columns"
6O"h (approx.) x 37"w; 1993
mixed fibers and reed; woven
"Parents"
6O"h (approx.) x 37"w; 1993
mixed fibers and reed; woven
"Raffia"
19"h x 6O"w (triptych); 1992;
mixed fibers, raffia and dye; woven
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FINE ARTS
MUSEUM
SCHOOL
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 4, 1994
CONTACT: Marion McParland (215) 972-7642
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NANNE1TE CURX/SC01T BOTHSTEIN:
RECENT WORK
FEBRUARY 4 TriRQUGH APRiL 24 AT MUSEUM Qf AMERICAN ART'S
MQRRIS GALLERY
PHILADELPHIA - The Morris Gallery of the Museum of American Art of the Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Am is currently fearurini an exhibit entitled Nann~n~ Ciark./Scon Rothstein:
R~ctnr
Wort, which will open February 4 and remain up through April 24, 1994.
Nannette Clark, who is schcdu&ed
to
live an informal gallery talk on Friday, April 8, at
ooon, will show work from her onaOln& series entit&ed
Transmin~rs
and Informal Alrars. These
pieces - constructed of materials ranai", from wood and fabric to paper, gold leaf and feathers often take shapes that refer to
I
world of ccremonw or totemic objects. The play of strong colors
and African-influenced geometric panems across
me
surfaces of these objects gives them their
;njormaJiry and a witty vivacity .
Clark graduated from
me school of me Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine
before going on to her Masten _
me
Am as a sculptor
Philadelphia College of Art. She has exhibited recently at
Lawrence Gallery of Rosemont Colqe, Rosemont. PA; An in City Hall, Philadelphia. PA; and the
Eighth Annual Black Artisu' Exhibition. _ the J .B. Speed An Museum in Louisville, KY.
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Scott Rothstein, whose informal gallery talk is scheduled for Friday, February 4, at noon,
is showing his small, carefully wrought construction of silk thread on silk ground. Each construction
accomplishes its aim through careful deployment of strong color and the interplay between its varied ,
hand-stitched texture and its linear clarity . The effect is one of mellow luminescence.
Rothstein, who graduated from Philadelphia College of Art and received a Pennsylvania
Council of the Arts Fellowship(l986). has work at the American Craft Museum, New York;
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; and Montreal Museum of Decorative Arts, Montreal.
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts,
museum and art school.
founded in 1805,
is America's first art
The Museum of American Art collects and exhibits historic and
contemporary works by American artists. The school offers a certificate and master of fine arts in
painting, sculpture, and printmaking. For the duration of I Tell My Hean: The An of Horace Pippin
(until April 18) , special admission to the museum will be $7 for adults and $5 for seniors, college
students with ID. and children 5 to 18 years old (children under five are free) . During this time,
the museum will be open Monday through Saturday. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5
p.m.
After April 18, the museum will be closed on Mondays and admission will return to $5 for
adults and $3 for seniors. college students with 10. and children . The museum is always half-price
to all on Saturdays , 10 a.m. to 1 p.m . Call 972-7«1J for information .
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MUSEUM
SCHOOL
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE : February 4, 1994
CONTACT: Marion McParland (215) 972-7642
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NANNE1TE CURX/SCQIT BOmSTEIN: RECENT WORK
FEBRUARY 4 DfROUGH APRIL 14 AT MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART'S
MORRIS GALLERY
PHILADELPHIA - The Morris Gallery of the Museum of American An of the Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Am is currently
R~c~nr
fc&uin& an exhibit entitled
Nann~ne
Clark/Scon Rorhstein:
Wort, which will open February 4 and remain up through April 24, 1994.
Nannette Clark, who is sc:heduacd 10 IIYC an informal gallery talk on Friday, April 8, at
noon , will show work from her onaoinJ senes entitled Trcuumirurs and Informal AiJars. These
pieces - constructed of materials ranainJ from wood and fabric to paper, gold leaf and feathers often take shapes thal refer to a work! of ceremonial or totemic objects. The play of strong colors
and African-influenced geomeuic paaems acrou the surfaces of these objects gives them their
in/ormaJiry and a witty vivacity .
Clark graduated from the school of the Pb.-..sylvania Academy of the Fine Am as a sculptor
before going on to her Masten _ the PbilaSclphia Collele of An. She has exhibited recently at
Lawrence Gallery of Rosemom Colqe. Rosemona.
PA ~
An in City Hall, Philadelphia, PA ; and the
Eighth Annual Black Anisu' Exhibition. _ the J .B Speed An Museum in Louisville, KY .
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-2Scott Rothstein, whose informal gallery talk is scheduled for Friday, February 4, at noon,
is showing his small, carefully wrought construction of silk thread on silk ground. Each construction
accomplishes its aim through careful deployment of strong color and the interplay between its varied,
hand-stitched texture and its linear clarity . The effect is one of mellow luminescence.
Rothstein, who graduated from Philadelphia College of An and received a Pennsylvania
Council of the Ans Fellowship(1986). has work at the American Craft Museum, New York;
Metropolitan Museum of An, New York; and Montreal Museum of Decorative Ans, Montreal.
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Ans,
museum and an school.
founded in 1805,
is America's first an
The Museum of American An collects and exhibits historic and
contemporary works by American anists . The school offers a certificate and master of fine ans in
painting, sculpture. and printmaking. For the duration of I Tell My Hean: The An of Horace Pippin
(until April 18), special admission to the museum will be $7 for adults and $5 for seniors, college
students with 10, and children 5 to 18 years old (children under five are free) . During this time,
the museum will be open Monday through Saturday. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. , and Sunday. 11 a.m. to 5
p.m.
After April 18, the museum will be closed on Mondays and admission will return to $5 for
adults and $3 for seniors. college students with ID . and children . The museum is always half-price
to all on Saturdays. 10 a.m. to 1 p.m . Call 972 -7fiX) for information .
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FINE ARTS
MUSEUM
& SCHOOL
118 N . Broad Sneer
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: APRIL 5, 1994
Contact: Marion McParland (215) 972-7642
PhiladelphIa. PA
19102
(215) 972-7642
A FIRST FOR THE FELLOWSHIP; PRIZEWINNERS TO EXHIBIT WORK
IN MORRIS GALLERY
PHILADELPHIA -- The award and prize winners of the 96th Annual luried Exhibition of the
Fellowship of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Ans will be on exhibit in the Morris Gallery
of the Museum of American An, May 6 through 27. This is the first of what will be an annual
event for the Fellowship, and will open with a free public reception on May 6 from 5 to 9 p.m.
Founded in 1897 as an alumni association of America's first art school and museum, the Fellowship
is rooted in the belief of "artists helping artists. "
Bruce M. Samuelson's untitled work, a pastel and charcoal on paper, is this year's winner of the
Percy M. Owen Memorial Award for a Distinguished Pennsylvania Artist. In addition, this piece
has been selected by Linda Bantel, director, for the Museum of American An and the Fellowship
Purchase Prize.
Born in Folsom, Pennsylvania, Samuelson began his work at the Academy with a marked imaginative
bent. He was a scholarship student who spent many hours as part of a clean-up crew.
He was
greatly influenced by Hobson Pittman, Julian Levi and Walter Steumpfig.
Among Samuelson'S other awards are the 1. Henry Scheidt Memorial Travel Scholarship and the
William Emlen Cresson Memorial Travel Scholarship. ' He has had many one person and group
exhibitions and is in the collections of many museums.
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Samuelson is currently instru'eting in the certificate program at the Pennsylvania Academy.
The nineteen other prizewinners on exhibit include: Patricia B. Ingersoll, Stuan Shils, Elizabeth
Wilson, Joy Smith, Nancy Hull, Diana Kingman, Barbara Schaff, Nabuaki Nakashima, Linda
Higgins, Bill Scott, Kenneth Herlihy, Gary Weisman, Alfonzo Hudson, Miriam Orloff, Linda Bean,
Sonya Pollock, Jan Baltzel, Leslie Fenton, and Terry J. Frid.
This year's exhibition was juried by two internationally known anists -- Wolf Kahn and Emily
Mason. Although they are husband and wife and have developed their distinct individual anistic
styles, this was their first time for jurying an exhibition together.
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, founded in 1805, is America's first an museum and
art school. The Museum of American Art collects and exhibits historic and contemporary works by
American anists. The school offers a certificate and a master of fine arts in painting, sculpture, and
printmaking. The Museum is located at 118 North Broad Street at Cherry Street, Philadelphia, two
blocks north of City Hall.
Museum admission is $5. Seniors 65 and older, full time college and an students with ID, and
children 5 to 18 are admitted for $3. The museum is half-price to all on Saturdays from 10 a.m. to
1 p.m. Admission is free to members and children under 5. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday,
10 a.m. to 5 p.m. , Sunday 11 a.m . to 5 p.m.
Discount parking is available at nearby Parkway
Corporation lots (with validated tickets) . For information, call (215) 972-7600.
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Awards and Prize Winners of the
96th Annual Juried Members' Exhibition
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MUSEUM
& SCHOOL
11 8 N. Broad 5rreer
Fellowship of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Alumni of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Philadel phia. PA
19102
(2 15) 972-7642
Morris Gallery
Museum of American Art
May 6 through May 27, 1994
Checklist
Awards and Prizes
Name, Title, Medium, Dimensions, Price
PAFA Fellowship Purchase Prize
BRUCE SAMUELSON
"untitled"
Pastel, charcoal on paper
40 x 32"
Courtesy of Collection of PAFA
Mary Butler Memorial Award (any medium)
PATRICIA B. INGERSOLL
"Toppling"
Charcoal, Pastel
43 x 49"
Price: $1000
Lucy Glick Memorial
Award for Excellence (any medium)
STUART SHILS
"Winter Fields, Sunset"
Oil on Paper, Mounted
13 114 x 9 1/4"
Price: $1200
Courtesy of Mangel Gallery
Percy M. Owens Memorial
Award for a Distinguished
Pennsylvania Artist
BRUCE SAMUELSON
"untitled"
Pastel , charcoal on paper
40 x 32"
Catherine Gibbons Granger
Award (painting)
ELIZABETH WILSON
"1-95 Ramp from Callowhill
Street"
26 x 40"
Price: $1500
Courtesy of F.A.N. Gallery
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Awards and Prizes
Name, Title, Medium, Dimensions, Price
Leona Karp Braverman
Memorial Award (Sculpture)
JOY SMITH
"Permian Stone"
Sculpture: hand-made paper
25 x 18 x 19"
Price $1500
Courtesy of Fellowship Trust
Collection
May Audubon Post Prize
(Painting or sculpture)
NANCY HULL
"I Ching"
Watercolor
22 x 30"
Sold
Courtesy of 5 Points Gallery
East, Chatham, N. Y.
Berthe M. Goldberg Memorial Award
(any medium)
DIANE KINGMAN
"Hovering"
Mixed Paper
40
x 32"
Price $1800
Courtesy of Axis Gallery
BARBARA SCHAFF
"Duet"
Oil on canvas
Mabel Wilson Woodrow Memorial
Award (to current students)
(3 awards)
48 x 53 114"
Not for sale
Courtesy of Judith Caldwell
NOBUAKI NAKASHIMA
"Let's Begin"
Oil and charcoal
Mabel Wilson Woodrow Memorial
Award (to current students)
(3 awards)
68 x 62"
Price $1700
LINDA HIGGINS
Tulips"
Pastel
Mabel Wilson Woodrow Memorial
Award (to current students)
(3 awards)
45 x 32"
Not for sale
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Name, Title, Medium, Dimensions, Price
Jack Bookbinder Memorial
Awards (painting)
BILL SCOTT
"Garden Fireflies"
Acrylic on paper
40 x 32"
Courtesy of Woodmere Art
Museum
Adolph Dioda
Memorial Awards (sculpture)
KENNETH HERLIHY
"Dorymen"
Alabaster-walnut
7 x 23 x 17"
Courtesy of Dr. & Mrs. Joseph
Pizzano
James Rosier Memorial
Award (sculpture)
GARY WEISSMAN
"Icarus"
Bronze
10 x 6"
Price $1150
Courtesy of Sande Webster
Gallery
Merion Art and Repro Center
Two gift certificates of
$50 each (painting)
ALFONZO HUDSON
"Richard"
Charcoal
22 x 22"
Price $300
Breadsmith Award
(Gift certificate)
LINDA BEAN
"South Philly Window #7"
Oil, glass wood and linen
26 x 30"
Price $450
Fellowship of PAFA
Honorable Mention
SONYA POLLACK
"Spirit Head"
Oil on paper
10 112 x 9 112"
Price $400
Fellowship of PAFA
Honorable Mention
LESLIE FENTON
"Overwintering"
Acrylic
30 x 22"
Price $600
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Name, Title, Medium, Dimensions, Price
Fellowship of PAFA
Honorable Mention
TERRY J. FRID
"untitled"
Ink, charcoal on paper
18 x 24"
Price $1000
The following will not appear in the Members' Exhibition
Merion Art and Repro Center
Two gift certificates of
$50 each (painting)
MIRIAM ORLOFF
"Eroica"
Black Walnut Torso
27112x17"
Fellowship of PAFA
Honorable Mention
JAN BALTZEL
"Vertigo"
Oil on canvas
46 x 50"
Mangel Gallery
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FACT SHEET: PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF TIlE FINE ARTS
FOUNDING:
Founded in 1805, chartered in 1806 at Independence Hall
George Clymer, signer of the Declaration of Independence, served a.s
Academy's first president
HISTORIC BUll..DING:
Located at 118 North Broad Street
Gothic Victorian architecture designed in 1876 by architects Frank
Furness and George Hewitt
Received National Historic Landmark status in 1975
Renovated and restored to its original splendor in 1976 by the
architectural firm of Haverstick-Borthwick Company
Houses the Museum of American Art, its renowned collections, and
historic school studios
ADDITIONAL FACILITIES:
Administrative and School building located at 1301 Cherry Street
Master of Fine Arts Program located at 12th and Vine Streets
COLLECTION STRENGTIlS:
19th century American genre and narrative paintings, 18th and 19th
century portraiture, 18th and 19th century history painting, 19th century
landscape painting, American impressionists, neoclassical sculpture, works
by The Eight
ARTISTS REPRESENTED
IN COLLECTIONS:
Benjamin West, John Singleton Copley, Charles Willson Peale, Cecilia
Beaux, William Merritt Chase, Thomas Sully, Gilbert Stuart, Thomas
Eakins, Mary Cassatt, Winslow Homer, Robert Henri, Horace Pippin,
Charles Grafly, Arthur B. Carles, Alexander Calder, Milton Avery,
Fairfield Porter, Louise Nevel son , Richard Diebenkorn, Robert
Motherwell, Andrew Wyeth, Red Grooms, Moe Brooker, Sidney
Goodman
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RETROSPECTIVES:
I Tell My Heart: The Art of Horace Pippin
Thomas Eakins Rediscovered: At Home, At School, At Work
Frank Lloyd Wright: Preserving an Architectural Heritage
Sculptures by Duane Hanson
Paris 1889: American Artists at the Universal Exhibition
Raphaelle Peale Still Lifes
Red Grooms: A Retrospective 1956-1984
NOTABLE FACULTY I
ACADEMY DIRECTORS:
George Clymer, Benjamin West, Thomas Sully, William Rush, Charles
Willson Peale, Gilbert Stuart, Thomas Birch, John Singleton Copley,
Thomas Eakins, Thomas Anshutz, William Merritt Chase, Cecilia Beaux,
Arthur B. Carles
NOTABLE ALUMNI:
Rembrandt Peale, Thomas Anshutz, Thomas Eakins, Cecilia Beaux,
Henry O. Tanner, Alexander Calder, Mary Cassatt, Charles Demuth,
John Sloan, Arthur B. Carles, John Marin, Edwin Austin Abbey, William
Glackens, Robert Henri, Louis Kahn, Violet Oakley, Maxfield Parrish,
Bo Bartlett, Edna Andrade, Wharton Esherick, David Lynch
THE FELLOWSHIP:
Organized in 1897, this alumni body of the Pennsylvania Academy
School remains active today, with more than 1500 current
members
CURRENT APPOINTED
FACULTY:
Jan Baltzell, Linda Brenner, Moe Brooker, Murray Dessner, Sidney
Goodman, Oliver Grimley, Alex Hromych, Homer Johnson, Daniel
D. Miller, Edith Neff, Steve Nocella, Elizabeth Osborne, Peter Paone, Jody
Pinto, Seymour Remenick, Robert Roesch, Tony Rosati, Glenn Rudderow,
Jill Rupinski, Bruce Samuelson, David Slivka, Louis B. Sloan, Pat Traub,
Anthony Visco, Roswell Weidner, Steve Weiss, Ron Wyffels
DEGREES OFFERED:
4-year Certificate Program
2-year Master of Fine Arts Program, established in 1991
Affiliated Bachelor of Fine Arts degree programs with the University
of Pennsylvania and the University of the Arts
ANNUAL STUDENT
EXHffiITIONS:
Annual juried competition and sale of student art, dating back to 1902,
for third and fourth-year certificate students. Students receive
proceeds from the sales and compete for awards and scholarships
worth in excess of $100,000, including prestigious Cresson, Ware,
and Schiedt scholarships for travel. Exhibition of M.F.A. degree
candidates established in 1993.
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CLASSES OFFERED:
Cast drawing, figure drawing, animal drawing, introduction to anatomy,
basic color, still life painting, figure painting, portrait painting, landscape
painting, watercolor, media on paper, etching, lithography, woodcut,
printmaking, figure modeling, principles of form and structure,
construction and fabrication, foundry, carving, materials and techniques,
perspective, art history, business seminar
CURRENT ENROLLMENT:
Certificate students
Evening and weekend students
M .F .A. students
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GRESHAM RILEY ELECTED PRESIDENT
OF THE PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS
PHILADELPHIA - Charles L. Andes, chairman of the board of trustees at the Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Am, has announced the election of Gresham Riley, Ph. D., of Silverthorne,
Colorado, as president of the Pennsylvania Academy. Mr. Riley served as the president of Colorado
College for eleven years, and most recently has been a senior research fellow for the Education
Commission of the States. Mr. Riley will officially begin his tenure on January 28, 1994.
Mr. Riley will replace Dr. Dorothy Brown, who has served as interim president since January
1, 1993 at the Pennsylvania Academy.
"We are looking forward to the opportunity to work with Mr. Riley, .. says Charles L. Andes.
"We believe that his experience and successful record of achievement as an educator, administrator
and fund-raiser nicely fit the needs of the Academy now and for the future ...
Mr. Riley, 55, served as president of Colorado College from 1981 to 1992, during which
time he initiated a college-wide constituency campaign and raised $52 million, with $32 million going
into the endowment. During his tenure, he also heightened the college's visibility by putting fonnal
coast to coast alumni efforts in place, obtained major support from numerous national and Coloradobased foundations, and increased the ethnic and economic diversity of the student population. Today,
Colorado College ranks nationally with Pomona, Haverford, and Amherst.
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Since he stepped down from Colorado College in 1992, Mr. Riley has served as a senior
research fellow for both the Colorado Commission of Higher Education and the Education
Commission of the States. The Colorado Commission is the coordinating agency for all post
secondary education in the state. The Education Commission of the States is an interstate planning
commission that functions country-wide.
Prior to his tenure at Colorado College, Mr. Riley was dean of faculty of arts and sciences
and a professor of philosophy at the University of Richmond in Richmond, Virginia.
Mr. Riley received his B.A. degree in 1960 from Baylor University in Waco, Texas and his
M.A. degree in 1963 and doctorate in 1965 both from Yale University.
Currently, Mr. Riley is involved as a member of the board of directors of the National Merit
Scholarship Corporation and Keystone Center on Science and Public Policy. Previously he served
on either the boards or committees of the National Association of Independent Colleges and
Universities, the American Council on Education; the National Endowment for the Humanities; the
Association of American Colleges, the Charles S. Peirce Society; the Danforth Foundation Graduate
Fellowship Program; the Associated Colleges of the Midwest; and the North Central Association of
Colleges and Schools. Mr. Riley has also held positions on various boards for the State of Colorado,
State of Virginia and State of Florida.
Among Mr. Riley's awards and honors are an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from both
Colorado College and Regis University.
Mr. Riley, who will be relocating to Philadelphia from Silverthorne, Colorado, is married
and has two grown children.
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and art school. The Museum exhibits and collects historic and contemporary work by American
artists. The School offers a certificate and master of fine arts degree in painting, sculpture and
printmaking. Among its notable alumni are Thomas Eakins, Mary Cassatt and David Lynch. For
more information, call (215) 972-7600.
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Gresham Riley is President of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine
Arts, beginning his tenure in January 1994.
Prior to accepting
this position, Dr. Riley served as a Senior Research Fellow for the
Education Commission of the states and the -Colorado Commission of
Higher Education.
From 1981 to 1992 he served as President of
Colorado College. He was the Dean of Faculty of Arts and Sciences
at the University of Richmond (Virginia) from 1975-1981 and Provost
of New College (Florida) from 1972-1975. He brings to the Academy
extensive experience in institutional administration, strategic
planning, and fundraising.
Dr. Riley is a magna cum laude graduate of Baylor University with
a B.A. in Philosophy. He received the degrees of M.A. and Ph.D. in
Philosophy from Yale University. Among his academic honors are a
Fulbright Scholarship, a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, and a Danforth
Fellowship. In 1968-1969 Dr. Riley served as a research fellow at
the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at
Stanford University. He was a Professor of Philosophy at Colorado
College, the University of Richmond, and New College. Dr. Riley is
a member of the American Philosophical Association, the C.S. Peirce
Society, and the Society for Values in Higher Education.
He
currently serves on the Boards of the National Merit Scholarship
Corporation and the Keystone Center on Science and Public Policy.
Past Board apointments include the Rhodes Scholarship Select i on
Committee, the National Association of Independent Colleges and
Universities, the American Council on Education, the Charles S.
Peirce Society and President of the Board of Trustees of the Pikes
Peak united Way (Colorado Springs).
Dr. Riley is a published scholar in the fields of philosophy and
higher education. In addition, his guest editorials have appeared
in local, regional, and national press.
He has testified on
matters related to higher education before state legislative bodies
and the U.s. Senate.
Dr. Riley and his wife, Pamela, reside in the Center City of
Philadelphia where he serves on the Board of the Old City civic
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RENOVATIONS TO TAKE PLACE AT MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART:
DOORS TEMPORARILY CLOSE TO THE PUBLIC
MAY 28 THROUGH NOVEMBER 11, 1994
PHILADELPHIA -- Renovations, funded in part by major grants from the National Endowment for
the Arts, the William Penn Foundation, and the Third-Century Fund Campaign, will begin on May
28 at the Museum of American Art of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
Primary renovations will take place behind-the-scenes at this National Historic Landmark at 118
North Broad Street which houses the Museum of American Art. The architectural firm of Tony Atkin
& Associates in Philadelphia has been chosen to make the changes in the 1871 building.
Renovation plans include installing an improved security system with closed circuit televisions and
motion detectors, as well as a state-of-the-art fire suppression and fire detection system. Outdated
halon systems in the collection storage vaults will be replaced with safer, more effective sprinkler
systems. Plans also include renovating administrative office spaces for more effective use, and
studios will benefit from increased heating capabilities.
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the Museum will be closed to the public. All artwork will be removed from the galleries and vaults
and stored safely elsewhere in the building. Some School and Museum Education programs that are
normally held in the Museum will be relocated to the School building at 1301 Cherry Street.
When the Museum of American Art reopens in November of this year, visitors and members will
enjoy a new Museum cafe and a newly designed entrance lobby, as well as an expanded Museum
shop. A grand re-opening will take place on November 11, when the Museum of American Art
unveils new gallery installations composed of over 300 works of art from the permanent collection.
Displayed in chronological and thematic frameworks, the collection will showcase the Academy's
local and national significance in the history of American art. Newly designed acoustiguides, signage,
illustrated brochures and other interpretative materials will add to the experience. Temporary loan
exhibitions will compliment the permanent collection by addressing additional historical and
contemporary issues. The Morris Gallery will continue to showcase contemporary art by local and
national artists.
"These renovations and repositioning of the Museum are fundamental stepping stones to the
Museum's vision for the future," says Linda Bantel, Edna S. Tuttleman Director of the Museum.
"As the Academy moves closer to its third century of service it is taking seriously its educational and
cultural role in the community," she adds. Through the introduction of new electronically assisted
self-guided tours and an orientation film, the Museum of American Art will offer visitors of all ages
a fresh and exciting approach to art education. Plans for the next few years include the addition of
interactive video exhibits and other "hands-on" interactive education programs.
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, founded in 1805, is America's first art museum and
art school. The Museum of American Art collects and exhibits the work of American artists. The
school offers a four-year Certificate program and a two-year Master of Fine Arts degree program
in painting, printmaking, and sculpture. Notable alumni include Thomas Eakins, Mary Cassatt,
Robert Henri, John Sloan, George Luks, William Merritt Chase, and David Lynch.
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REINSTALLING PERMANENT COLLECTION
PHILADELPHIA -- When doors reopen at the Museum of American Art of the Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Arts on December 10, new gallery installations composed of over 300 works
of art from the permanent collection will be unveiled. In addition, the introduction of an orientation
video and electronically assisted self-guided tours will offer visitors of all ages a variety of
educational experiences.
New gallery installations arranged in chronological and thematic frameworks will highlight the
Academy's local and national significance in the history of American art. The collection represents
a broad range of regional and national styles from 1720 to the present. Within the overall chronology
of American art, the uniqueness of the Academy's collections documents taste in Philadelphia, a
distinctive and distinguished part of the broader story of the development of American art history.
The collection will provide visitors with the means for a stronger understanding and appreciation not
only of American art but of our nation's historical, social, economic, and cultural development.
"The Museum of American Art is taking seriously its educational and cultural role in the
community," explains Linda Bantel, Edna S. Tuttleman Director of the Museum.
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The reinstallation of the Academy's collection will include art from the 1800-1840 period which is
pre-eminent in America in scope. Included in this period are history paintings, early American
landscapes, early genre paintings, still lifes and miniatures.
The mid-century 1840 to 1875 period encompasses the Civil War. William Sidney Mount's
"Painter's Triumph," a focal point of this period, is complemented by regional landscapes and
seascapes. The Hudson River School, then a modest expression, is also represented.
Between 1875 and 1910 (American Impressionism/European Figurative Work and Portraits) the
Academy was in the forefront in collecting and exhibiting American art and in educating artists.
Annual exhibitions were among the most prestigious in the country, drawing upon artist from across
the nation and abroad, including Frank Duveneck, Winslow Homer, John Singer Sargent, Thomas
Eakins, William Merrit Chase, Cecilia Beaux and Henry Ossawa Tanner.
While the American art scene shifted from Philadelphia to New York between 1910 and 1940, the
Academy focused on the Ash Can School, southwestern artists, regional impressionistic landscapes,
French'-derived styles such as fauvism and cubism, which were translated by such Pennsylvania
artists as' Arthur B:Carles, figurative sculpture and American regional expressions. The eclectic
styles of the post-World War II era are represented by local as well as other artists from New York
and California.
Over 300 paintings and sculptures will be combined in 'the galleries to provide visual interest and a
larger framework. Within the history of American art and culture, the role of the Pennsylvania
Academy as educator, art collector and promoter will be highlighted. The Morris Gallery will
continue to display the best work of emerging Philadelphia and American artists.
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art school. The Museum of American Art collects and exhibits the work of American artists . The
school offers a four-year Certificate program and a two-year Master of Fine Arts degree program
in painting, printmaking, and sculpture. Notable alumni include Thomas Eakins, Mary Cassatt,
Robert Henri, John Sloan, George Luks, William Merritt Chase, and David Lynch.
For information call (215) 972-7600.
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THE PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS
WILL HOLD FIRST ANNUAL SCHOOL CONVOCATION
PHILADELPHIA -- The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts will hold its First Annual School
Convocation Tuesday, October 4, at the Pennsylvania Convention Center. The event, which is free
and open to the public, begins at 4 p.m., with a reception to follow. Professor Cornel West, the
keynote speaker, will receive the first Honorary Degree, Doctor of Humane Letters, ever conferred
by the Academy.
Professor West is a highly respected lecturer, activist, and philosopher who has spoken out on
Afrocentrism, Christian activism, and notably on the relations between African Americans and Jews.
Formerly a Professor of Religion and Director of Afro-American Studies at Princeton University,
he is currently a Professor of Afro-American Studies and Philosophy of Religion at the Divinity
School at Harvard University.
Last year, West contributed the essay "Horace Pippin's Challenge to Art Criticism" to the
Pennsylvania Academy's exhibition catalogue I Tell My Hean: The An of Horace Pippin. He has
also written nine books, including Prophesy Deliverance: An Afro-American Revolutionary
Christianity, and the acclaimed best-seller Race Matters.
"We are both very pleased and honored to present Cornel West with the first Honorary Degree the
Academy has ever conferred. Professor West will begin a new and prestigious tradition for this
institution," said Frederick S. Osborne, Dean and Director of the School.
The first Convocation will also continue the tradition of conferring the Dean's Award for
Distinguished Service to the School to those who have served the school with distinction. This Award
will be presented to seven former faculty members. The Honorees are Will Barnet, 1967 to 1992;
Arthur DeCosta, 1963 to 1988; John Hanlen, 1953 to 1986; Henry Pearson, 1972 to 1988; David
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Lueders, 1957 to 1994.
The past recipients ofille Dean's Award are Daniel Miller, John W. Merriam, Walker Hancock, and
the Women's Committee of the Pennsylvania Academy.
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, founded in 1805, is America's first art museum and
art school. The Museum of American Art collects and exhibits the work of American artists. The
school offers a four-year Certificate program and a two-year Master of Fine Arts degree program
in painting, printmaking, and sculpture. Notable alumni include Thomas Eakins, Mary Cassatt,
Robert Henri, John Sloan, George Luks, William Merritt Chase, and David Lynch.
For information call (215) 972-7600.
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NOTE TO EDITORS: The following information is current as of December 8, 1994. Please
discard all previous schedules. All information listed is subject to change. Please confirm dates and
titles with Marion McParland or Anna Welch in the Public Relations Office at (215) 972-7642.
EXIDBITION SCHEDULE 1994 - 1995
December 10, 1994 through April 16, 1995
Main Gallery Exhibition: "TWO CENTURIES OF COLLECTING AT THE MUSEUM OF
AMERICAN ART." This exhibition offers a comprehensive survey of the 18th-to 2Oth- century
collections of the Museum of American Art of the Pennsylvania Academy . The presentation
combines a chronological and thematic display of paintings and sculpture with exciting, new
interpretive components.
December 10, 1994 through February 19, 1995
Main Gallery Exhibition: "ROBERT MOTHERWELL'S GRAPHICS." This exhibition showcases
the Museum' s recent acquisition of important works by Motherwell--drawings, collages, and prints-from the artist's personal collection.
February 24 through April 16, 1995
Main Gallery Exhibition: "EAKINS AND THE PHOTOGRAPH." This exhibition is planned to
coincide with the Smithsonian publication of the catalogue of photographs by Eakins and his circle
in the Museum's collection.
May 10 - Preview Party for the 1995 Annual Student Exhibition and Graduate Thesis
Exhibition
May 12, 5 to 9 p.m. Public Opening. Free.
May 12 through June 4, 1995
Main Gallery Exhibition: "94th ANNUAL STUDENT EXIDBITION." Nearly 100 students
compete for travelling scholarships in this annual exhibition. Art work is for sale.
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Morris Gallery Exhibition: "CHANCE ENCOUNTERS." A presentation of culturally diverse local
artists.
November 1, 1995 through January 15, 1996
Main Gallery Exhibition: "ELECI'RONIC SUPER mGHWAY: NAM JUNE PAIK IN THE
90'S." This newly created installation deals with the contemporary technological revolution--and the
implications, both positive and negative, that this technology will have on every aspect of American .
society. The Museum of American Art of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts will be
the only Northeast venue for this show.
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, founded in 1805, is America's first art museum
and art school. The Museum of American Art collects and exhibits historic and contemporary works
by American artists. The school offers a certificate and master-of-fine-arts degree in painting
sculpture and printmaking. Museum hours are Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and
Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is $5.95; $4.95 seniors, art and college students with ID and
$3.95 children under 12 years old. Free admission to members and children under five. Guided tours
are free with admission and are available on weekends. Group tours (15 or more) are available by
reservation. For information and fees, call (215) 972-7600.
SCHOOL GALLERY
The school gallery is located at 1301 Cherry Street, Philadelphia. Hours are Monday through
Thursday, 9 a.m. to 7 p.m., and Friday and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., or by appointment.
Admission is free. The school gallery exhibits the works of alumni, faculty, and students of the
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Some of the works are for sale, affordably priced starting
at $50.00.
EXHIBITION SCHEDULE
December 9, 1994 through January 21, 1995
School Gallery Exhibition: "M.F.A. 2ND YEAR EXHIBITION."
January 27 through February 24, 1995
School Gallery Exhibition: "CERTIFICATE PROGRAM JURIED STUDENT EXHIBITION."
March 2 through March 25, 1995
School Gallery Exhibition: "CERTIFICATE PROGRAM PAINTING DEPARTMENT
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Location: 1301 Cherry Street, Philadelphia.
Hours: Monday through Thursday, 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.,
and Friday and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., or by
appointment. Admission is free.
EXHIBITIONS AT THE SCHOOL GALLERY
September 23 through
October 29, 1994
Full Faculty Exhibition
Opening Reception: Wednesday, Sept. 28, 5 - 7 p.m.
November 4 through .
December 3, 1994
Certificate Program Juried Student Exhibition
Oudged by the faculty)
Opening Reception: Thursday, Nov. 10, 5 - 7 p.m.
December 9 through
January 21, 1995
M.F .A. Program Student Exhibition
Opening Reception: Wednesday, Dec. 14, 5 - 7 p.m.
January 27 through
February 24, 1995
Certificate Program Juried Student Exhibition
Oudged by the Academy Fellowship)
Opening Reception: Thursday, Feb. 2, 5 - 7 p.m.
March 2 through
March 25, 1995
Certificate Program Painting Dept. "Curated" Student
Exhibition
Opening Reception: Thursday, March 2, 5 - 7 p.m.
March 31 through
April 22, 1995
A Life in the Arts: The Medallic Work of Gilroy Roberts
Opening Reception: Wednesday, April 5, 5 - 7 p.m.
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June 10, 1995
Evening and Summer Programs Juried Student Exhibition
Oudged by the Faculty)
Opening Reception: Thursday, May 4, 5 - 7 p.m.
June 16 through
August 5, 1995
M.F .A. Program Student Exhibition
August 11 through
Mid-September
Summer Program Exhibition
SCHOOL GALLERY
The School Gallery exhibits the works of alumni, faculty, and students of the Pennsylvania Academy
of the Fine Arts. Some of the works are for sale, affordably priced starting at $50.00.
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(215) 972-7600
NOTE TO EDITORS: The following information is current as of August 18, 1994. Please discard
all previous schedules. All information listed is subject to change. Please confirm dates and titles
with Marion McParland or Anna Welch in the Public Relations Office at (215) 972-7642.
EXHIBITION SCHEDULE 1994 - 1995
November 3, 1994
USArtists '94 Preview Gala. This preview party celebrates the opening of the third annual USArtists
exposition and sale. With the purchase of a ticket, benefactors, sponsors, or patrons are the first to
see the art and receive tickets for the run of the show. A raffle will be held to benefit the
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, with the prize being a portrait of a person, dog, or horse
by internationally renowned artist Pedro Menocal. For more information, call (215) 972-0550.
November 4, 5 and 6, 1994
US Artists '94. Featuring the finest works from galleries around the country, this exposition and sale
presents a variety of American art, ranging from contemporary to traditional. The event, held at the
33rd Street Armory from 11 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday and from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
on Sunday, benefits the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Admission is $8. For more
information, call (215) 972-0550.
December 10, 1994 through April 16, 1995
Main Gallery Exhibition: "THE COLLECfIONS OF THE MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART:
A LIVING TRADITION." This exhibition offers a comprehensive survey of the 18th-to 2Othcentury collections of the Museum of American Art of the Pennsylvania Academy. The presentation
combines a chronological and thematic display of American paintings and sculpture with exciting,
new interpretive components.
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-2December 10, 1994 through February 23, 1995
Main Gallery Exhibition: "ROBERT MOTIIERWELL'S GRAPIDCS." This exhibition showcases
the Museum's recent acquisition of important works by Motherwell--drawings, collages, and prints-from the artist's personal collection.
March 1 through April 16, 1995
Main Gallery Exhibition: "EAKINS AND THE PHOTOGRAPH." Providing the first complete
overview of the artist's work in the photographic field, this exhibition is planned to coincide with
the Smithsonian publication of the catalogue of photographs by Eakins and his circle in the
Academy's collection.
May 10 - Preview Party for the 1995 Annual Student Exhibition and Graduate Thesis
Exhibition
May 12, 5 to 9 p.m. Public Opening. Free.
May 12 through June 4, 1995
Main Gallery Exhibition: "94th ANNUAL STUDENT EXHIBITION." Nearly 100 students
compete for travelling scholarships in this annual exhibition. Art work is for sale.
June through August 1995
Morris Gallery Exhibition: "PLAY!" This exhibition presents a critical examination of culturally
diverse local artists.
November 1, 1995 through January 15, 1996
Main Gallery Exhibition: "ELECfRONIC SUPER HIGHWAY: NAM JUNE PAIK IN THE
90'S." This newly created installation deals with the contemporary technological revolution--and the
implications, both positive and negative, that this technology will have on every aspect of American
society. The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts will be the only east coast venue for this
show.
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, founded in 1805, is America's first art museum
and art school. The Museum of American Art collects and exhibits historic and contemporary works
by American artists. The school offers a certificate and master-of-fine-arts degree in painting
sculpture and printmaking. Museum hours are Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and
Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is $5.95; $4.95 seniors, art and college students with ID and
$3.95 children under 12 years old. Free admission to members and children under five. Guided tours
are free with admission and are available on weekends. Group tours (15 or more) are available by
reservation. For information and fees, call (215) 972-7600.
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SCHOOL GALLERY
The school gallery is located at 1301 Cherry Street, Philadelphia. Hours are Monday through
Thursday, 9 a.m. to 7 p.m., and Friday and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., or by appointment.
Admission is free. The school gallery exhibits the works of alumni, faculty, and students of the
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Some of the works are for sale, affordably priced starting
at $50.00.
EXHIBITION SCHEDULE
November 4 through December 3, 1994
School Gallery Exhibition: "CERTIFICATE PROGRAM JURIED EXHIBITION."
December 9, 1994 through January 21, 1995
School Gallery Exhibition: "M.F.A. 2ND YEAR EXHIBITION."
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: November 11,1994
CONTACT: Marion McParland or Anna Welch
(215) 972-7642
MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART OFFERS THE
SYMPOSIUM. "AMERICAN VOICES:
NEW APPROACHES TO THE PERMANENT COLLECTION"
PHILADELPHIA -- The Museum of American Art of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
has scheduled a symposium, "American Voices: New Approaches to the Permanent Collection,"
which will be held Saturday, December 3, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Museum at 118 North
Broad Street in Philadelphia.
Sylvia Yount, Curator of Collections, will introduce the event, which brings together noted scholars
in the history of art and culture to reconsider works in the permanent collection from a variety of
critical perspectives. The event will also feature a special preview of the Museum's reinstallation-inprogress of "Two Centuries of Collecting at the Museum of American Art," which will open to the
public on December 10.
The morning session will begin with Paul Staiti, Assistant Professor in the Department of Art at
Mount Holyoke College speaking on "Fashion, Flowers, and Fat: Reinterpreting the EighteenthCentury Portrait." Joy Kasson, Professor in the Department of American Studies at the University
of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, will then discuss "Adam and Eve in the Dining Room: Contexts for
Viewing Nineteenth-Century Sculpture." Finally, the subject of "African-American Representation
in the Nineteenth Century" will be examined by Floyd Coleman, Professor and Chair in the
Department of Art at Howard University.
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-2At 1 p.m., Susan Sidlauskas, Assistant Professor in the History of Art Department at the University
of Pennsylvania, will open the afternoon session with the paper, "Infiltrations: Response and Revision in Turn-of-the-Century Painting." Beryl Wright, an independent curator and scholar, will
follow with "The Evolution of Modernist Regionalism in America." David McCarthy, Assistant
Professor in the Department of Art at Rhodes College will close the session with an examination of
the twentieth-century figurative tradition, "Circa 1962." A discussion period will follow.
The registration fees, which include a boxed lunch, are $25 for the general public, $15 for Museum
members, $10 for students with 1.0., and free with Museum admission for seniors. Registration for
the event is available at the door on a space availability basis. Refunds can only be made up until
November 15. For more information, please call Museum Education at (215) 972-7608.
The Museum of American Art has been closed since May for renovations and will reopen to the
general public December 10. Visitors will enjoy an expanded Museum Shop, a new Museum Cafe,
electronically assisted self-guided tours and an orientation film. Changes taking place behind-thescenes include an improved security system, up-to-date fire detection and suppression systems, and
renovated administrative offices.
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, founded in 1805, is America's first art museum and
school of fine arts. The Museum of American Art collects and exhibits the work of American artists.
The School offers a four-year Certificate program and a two-year Master of Fine Arts degree
program in painting, printmaking, and sculpture. Notable alumni include Thomas Eakins, Mary
Cassatt, Robert Henri, John Sloan, George Luks, William Merritt Chase, and David Lynch. For
information call (215) 972-7642.
Located at the intersection of Philadelphia's two grand concourses - Benjamin Franklin Parkway and
Broad Street's Avenue of the Arts, the Museum of American Art of the Pennsylvania Academy of
the Fine Arts symbolizes the city's historic and artistic heritage and its forward-looking multicultural
dynamic. As an internationally recognized visual arts institution, the Academy brilliantly
complements the Avenue's performing arts community.
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News
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: November 11, 1994
CONTACT: Marion McParland or Anna Welch
(215) 972-7642
MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART OFFERS THE
SYMPOSIUM. "AMERICAN VOICES:
NEW APPROACHES TO THE PERMANENT COLLECTION"
PHILADELPHIA -- The Museum of American Art of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
has scheduled a symposium, "American Voices: New Approaches to the Permanent Collection,"
which will be held Saturday, December 3, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Museum at 118 North
Broad Street in Philadelphia.
Sylvia Yount, Curator of Collections, will introduce the event, which brings together noted scholars
in the history of art and culture to reconsider works in the permanent collection from a variety of
critical perspectives. The event will also feature a special preview of the Museum's reinstallation-inprogress of "Two Centuries of Collecting at the Museum of American Art," which will open to the
public on December 10.
The morning session will begin with Paul Staiti, Assistant Professor in the Department of Art at
Mount Holyoke College speaking on "Fashion, Flowers, and Fat: Reinterpreting the EighteenthCentury Portrait." Joy Kasson, Professor in the Department of American Studies at the University
of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, will then discuss "Adam and Eve in the Dining Room: Contexts for
Viewing Nineteenth-Century Sculpture." Finally , the subject of "African-American Representation
in the Nineteenth Century" will be examined by Floyd Coleman, Professor and Chair in the
Department of Art at Howard University.
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STREET
PH ILADELPH IA, PA
19102
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-2At 1 p.m., Susan Sidlauskas, Assistant Professor in the History of Art Department at the University
of Pennsylvania, will open the afternoon session with the paper, "Infiltrations: Response and Revision in Turn-of-the-Century Painting." Beryl Wright, an independent curator and scholar, will
follow with "The Evolution of Modernist Regionalism in America." David McCarthy, Assistant
Professor in the Department of Art at Rhodes College will close the session with an examination of
the twentieth-century figurative tradition, "Circa 1962." A discussion period will follow.
The registration fees, which include a boxed lunch, are $25 for the general public, $15 for Museum
members, $10 for students with I.D., and free with Museum admission for seniors. Registration for
the event is available at the door on a space availability basis. Refunds can only be made up until
November 15. For more information, please call Museum Education at (215) 972-7608 .
The Museum of American Art has been closed since May for renovations and will reopen to the
general public December 10. Visitors will enjoy an expanded Museum Shop, a new Museum Cafe,
electronically assisted self-guided tours and an orientation film. Changes taking place behind-thescenes include an improved security system, up-to-date fire detection and suppression systems, and
renovated administrative offices.
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, founded in 1805, is America's first
art
museum and
school of fine arts. The Museum of American Art collects and exhibits the work of American artists.
The School offers a four-year Certificate program and a two-year Master of Fine Arts degree
program in painting, printmaking, and sculpture. Notable alumni include Thomas Eakins, Mary
Cassatt, Robert Henri, John Sloan, George Luks, William Merritt Chase, and David Lynch. For
information call (215) 972-7642.
Located at the intersection of Philadelphia's two grand concourses - Benjamin Franklin Parkway and
Broad Street's Avenue of the Arts, the Museum of American Art of the Pennsylvania Academy of
the Fine Arts symbolizes the city's historic and artistic heritage and its forward-looking multicultural
dynamic. As an internationally recognized visual arts institution, the Academy brilliantly
complements the Avenue's performing arts community.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: November 30, 1994
CONTACI': Marion McParland or Anna Welch
(215) 972-7642
MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART REOPENS DECEMBER 10:
NEW FACILITIES RENTAL DEPARTMENT IN PLACE
PHILADELPHIA -
After a six-month renovation, the Museum of American Art of the
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts will reopen on December 10, 1994 with a new Facilities
Rental Department. The Museum will be available for corporate and community events, receptions
and dinners, small business meetings, and holiday parties.
The Museum, a National Historic Landmark, is a masterpiece of High Victorian Gothic architecture
designed by Frank Furness and George W. Hewitt. The building is the third in the Academy's
history, opened in 1876 to commemorate the 1DOth anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of
Independence.
In addition to stunning architectural features, the Museum houses one of the world's most
distinguished collections of American art, which spans three centuries and includes 1,700 paintings,
300 sculptures, and 14,000 works on paper. Many diverse artists are represented in the collection,
including Charles Willson Peale, Benjamin West, Stuart Davis, and Robert Motherwell.
The Museum offers four unique areas that are available to rent, either separately or in combinations,
including the Hamilton Auditorium, the Washington Foyer, the Antique Cast studio, and the Museum
Rotunda. These areas can be used to entertain parties from 90 to 900.
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When the Museum reopens, visitors will enjoy a new Museum Cafe, an expanded Museum Shop,
and new interpretative materials, including the INFORM system, signage, and illustrated brochures.
Other renovations include an up-to-date security system, state-of-the-art fire suppression and
detection systems, and improvements to studios and administrative offices.
The Museum Catering Company, a full-service catering company, is the Museum's exclusive caterer.
They provide services including floral arrangements, valet parking, audio visual needs, and music.
The Museum is conveniently located and easily accessible to public transportation. Situated in the
heart of Philadelphia, the Museum is two blocks north of City Hall and one block west of the
Pennsylvania Convention Center. Discounted parking is readily available at nearby lots.
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, founded in 1805, is America's first art museum and
art school. The Museum of American Art collects and exhibits the work of American artists. The
School offers a four-year Certificate program and a two-year Master of Fine Arts degree program
in painting, printmaking and sculpture. Notable alumni include Thomas Eakins, Mary Cassatt, Robert
Henri, John Sloan, George Luks, William Merritt Chase and David Lynch.
Located at the intersection of Philadelphia's two grand cultural concourses - Benjamin Franklin
Parkway and Broad Street's Avenue of the Arts, - the Museum of American Art of the Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Arts symbolizes the city's historic and artistic heritage and its forward-looking
dynamic. As an internationally recognized visual arts institution, the Academy brilliantly
complements the Avenue's performing arts community.
For information on facility rentals, call Maggi Lawler at (215) 972-7600, extension 4235.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: November 28,1994
CONTACT: Marion McParland or Anna Welch
(215) 972-7642
MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART WILL OFFER
FREE ADMISSION DURING
GRAND REOPENING WEEKEND
PHILADELPHIA--The Museum of American Art of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts will
offer FREE ADMISSION DURING ITS GRAND OPENING WEEKEND, SATURDAY,
DECEMBER 10, FROM 10 A.M. TO 5 P.M. AND SUNDAY, DECEMBER 11 FROM 11 A.M.
TO 5 P.M. There will be special in-gallery experiences all weekend, including films, a gallery talk,
and chances for children to explore new resource areas and meet William Penn and mime Laura
Hinson.
The Museum has been closed since May for renovations to its home, the 1876 National Historic
Landmark designed by Frank Furness and George W. Hewitt. The Museum will now offer an
orientation video, self-guided audio tours, resource centers, an expanded gift shop and a new
Museum Cafe. The permanent collection has been reinstalled in a comprehensive, thematic format
with new interpretive components.
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, founded in 1805, is America's first art museum and
school of fine arts. The Museum of American Art collects and exhibits the work of American artists .
The school offers a four-year Certificate program and a two-year Master of Fine Arts degree
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PHILADELPHIA, PA
19102
(215) 972-7600 TEL
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FAX
-2program in painting, printmaking, and sculpture. Notable alumni include Thomas Eakins, Mary
Cassatt, Robert Henri, John Sloan, George Luks, William Merritt Chase, and David Lynch. For
information call (215) 972-7600.
Located at the intersection of Philadelphia's two grand cultural concourses - Benjamin Franklin.
Parkway and Broad Street's Avenue of the Arts, - the Museum of American Art of the Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Arts symbolizes the city's historic and artistic heritage and its forward-looking
multicultural dynamic. As an internationally recognized visual arts institution, the Academy brilliantly
complements the Avenue's performing arts community.
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Press Preview and Luncheon, Thursday, December 8, 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Call (215) 9727642 to R.S.V.P.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: November 28,1994
CONTACT: Marion McParland or Anna Welch
(215) 972-7642
MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART WILL OFFER
FREE ADMISSION DURING
GRAND REOPENING WEEKEND
PHILADELPHIA--The Museum of American Art of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts will
offer FREE ADMISSION DURING ITS GRAND OPENING WEEKEND, SATURDAY,
DECEMBER 10, FROM 10 A.M. TO 5 P.M. AND SUNDAY, DECEMBER 11 FROM 11 A.M.
TO 5 P.M. There will be special in-gallery experiences all weekend, including films, a gallery talk,
and chances for children to ef plore new resource areas and meet William Penn and mime Laura
I
Hinson,
The Museum has been closed since May for renovations to its home, the 1876 National Historic
Landmark designed by Frank Furness and George W. Hewitt. The Museum will now offer an
orientation video, self-guided audio tours, resource centers, an expanded gift shop and a new
Museum Cafe. The permanent collection has been reinstalled in a comprehensive, thematic format
with new interpretive components.
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, founded in 1805, is America's first art museum and
school of fine arts. The Museum of American Art collects and exhibits the work of American artists.
The school offers a four-year Certificate program and a two-year Master of Fine Arts degree
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-2program in painting, printmaking, and sculpture. Notable alumni include Thomas Eakins, Mary
Cassatt, Robert Henri, John Sloan, George Luks , William Merritt Chase, and David Lynch. For
information call (215) 972-7600.
Located at the intersection of Philadelphia's two grand cultural concourses - Benjamin Franklin
Parkway and Broad Street's Avenue of the Arts, - the Museum of American Art of the Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Arts symbolizes the city's historic and artistic heritage and its forward-looking
multicultural dynamic. As an internationally recognized visual arts institution, the Academy brilliantly
complements the Avenue's performing arts community.
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Press Preview and Luncheon, Thursday, December 8, 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Call (215) 9727642 to R.S.V.P.
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News
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: November 28,1994
CONTACT: Marion McParland or Anna Welch
(215) 972-7642
MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART WILL OFFER
FREE ADMISSION DURING
GRAND REOPENING WEEKEND
PHILADELPHIA--The Museum of American Art of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts will
offer FREE ADMISSION DURING ITS GRAND OPENING WEEKEND, SATURDAY,
DECEMBER 10, FROM 10 A.M. TO 5 P.M. AND SUNDAY, DECEMBER 11 FROM 11 A.M.
TO 5 P.M. There will be special in-gallery experiences all weekend, including films, a gallery talk,
and chances for children to explore new resource areas and meet William Penn and mime Laura
Hinson.
The Museum has been closed since May for renovations to its home, the 1876 National Historic
Landmark designed by Frank Furness and George W. Hewitt. The Museum will now offer an
orientation video, self-guided audio tours, resource centers, an expanded gift shop and a new
Museum Cafe. The permanent collection has been reinstalled in a comprehensive, thematic format
with new interpretive components.
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, founded in 1805, is America's first art museum and
school of fine arts . The Museum of American Art collects and exhibits the work of American artists.
The school offers a four-year Certificate program and a two-year ·Master of Fine Arts degree
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program in painting, printmaking, and sculpture. Notable alumni include Thomas Eakins, Mary
Cassatt, Robert Henri, John Sloan, George Luks, William Merritt Chase, and David Lynch. For
information call (215) 972-7600.
Located at the intersection of Philadelphia' s two grand cultural concourses - Benjamin Franklin
Parkway and Broad Street' s Avenue of the Arts, - the Museum of American Art of the Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Arts symbolizes the city's historic and artistic heritage and its forward-looking
multicultural dynamic. As an internationally recognized visual arts institution, the Academy brilliantly
complements the Avenue's performing arts community.
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EVENTS AND EXHmmONS: December 1 - December 12, 1994
CONTACT: Marion McParland or Anna Welcil (215) 972-7642
MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART of the
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Location: 118 N. Broad St. at Cherry St., Philadelphia. Hours:
Monday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sunday, 11 a.m. -5 p.m.
Admission: $5.95, $4.95 seniors, full-time college and art students
with 10, $3.95 children under 12. Free to members and children
under 5. ~: General tOurs are available at 12:30 and 2 p.m. on
weekends and are free with admission; group tours (15 or more) are
available daily by reservation. Information: (215) 972-76f.XJ.
EVENTS AT
TIlE MUSEUM
December 1, 11 a. m.
OF AMERICAN ART
Day Without Art. Artist Virgil Marti will speak on the strategies of
creative expression in the age of AIDS.
Symposium. "American Voices: New Approaches to the Permanent
December 3, 10 a.m. to
3 p.m. (10 a.m. to 12 p.m., Collection." This symposium brings together noted scholars in the
history of art and culture to reconsider works in the permanent
and 1:30 to 3 p.m.)
collection from a variety of critical perspectives.
December 6, 3:30
to 5:15 p.m.
Art Arter School. "The Greatest Story Ever." Students create
puppets, masks , murals, and paintings that tell stories.
December 10, 10 a.m.
to 5 p.m.
Grand Reopening. Admission is free.
December 10, 11 a.m.
to 12:30 p.m.
Family Workshop. "Mask-Making." Artist Leroy Johnson discusses
the cultural traditions of mask-making and explores the permanent
collection for mask-making ideas. Free with admission.
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-2December 10, 1 p.m.
to 2:30 p.m.
Family Workshop. "Musical Instruments. " Children discover music
and rhythm in the permanent collection and make their own
instruments. Free with admission.
December 10, 1 p.m.
Short Takes: Yalm Series. "Important Information Inside: John F.
Peto and the Idea of Stili-LiCe Painting." The art of American artist
John F. Peto is explored in the context of his native Philadelphia and
the Pennsylvania Academy. where he trained. Free with admission.
December 10, 2 p.m.
Short Takes: Yalm Series. "Imagine the Sound. " This film profiles
legendary figures associated with thejazz avant-garde of the '60s. Free
with admission.
December 11, 11 a. m.
to 5 p.m.
Grand Reopening. Admission is free.
December 11, 11:30 a.m.
to 1 p.m.
Jazz Brunch. Enjoy brunch in the Museum Cafe with the Alan Nelson
Trio. For reservations or information, call (215) 972-7608.
December 11, 1 p.m.
Short Takes: Film Series. "Wind Grass Song: The Voice of Our
Grandmothers." This film, by Jana Birchum and Tori Breitling,
presents a unique vision of U.S. regional culture based on interviews
with Oklahoma women who range in age from 85 to 101. Free with
admission.
December 11, 2 p.m.
Gallery Talk. "The Collections of the Museum of American Art:
A Critical Perspective." Sylvia Yount, Curator of Collections,
discusses the reinstallation of the permanent collection.
EXHIBITIONS AT THE MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART
December 10 through
April 16, 1995
"Two Centuries of Collecting at the Museum of American Art."
This exhibition is a comprehensive survey of the 18th to
20th century collections of the Museum of American Art of the
Pennsylvania Academy. This presentation combines a chronological
and thematic display of American painting and sculpture with exciting,
new interpretative components.
December 10 through
February 19, 1995
"Robert Motherwell's Graphics." This exhibition showcases works
from the recent acquisition of important paintings, drawings, collages,
and prints from the artist's personal collection.
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-3SCHOOL GALLERY
The School Gallery, located at 1301 Cherry St., Philadelphia, exhibits the works of alumni, faculty
and students of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts School. The gallery is open Monday
through Thursday, 9 a.m. to 7 p.m., and Friday and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., or by
appointment. Admission is free. For information, call (215) 972-7600.
EXHIBITIONS AT THE SCHOOL GALLERY
Through December 3
Certificate Program Juried Exhibition.
December 9 through
January 21
M.F.A. 2nd Year Exhibition.
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EVENTS AND EXHIBITIONS: Dec. 12 - Dec. 26, 1994
CONTACT: Marion McParland
Anna Welch
(215) 972-7642
MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART of the
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Location: 118 N. Broad St. at Cherry St., Philadelphia.
Hours: Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.,
Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesdays are free from
5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Admission: $5.95 adults, $4.95
seniors and students with ID, $3.95 children under 12,
and free to members and children under 5. Tours:
General tours are available at 12:30 and 2 p.m. on
weekends and are free with admission; group tours (15
or more) are available daily by reservation. Information:
(215) 972-7600.
EVENTS AT THE MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART
December 14, 6 p.m.
Book Signing. Charlayne Hunter Gault, writer and anchorperson,
reads from In My Place, her autobiography about coming of age in
the South, the civil rights movement, and her career in journalism.
December 17, 11 a.m.
to 12:30 p.m.
Family Workshop. "A Rock, a River, a Tree." Explore the
holiday traditions of Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, and Christmas. Free
with admission.
December 17, 1 p.m.
Short Takes: Film Series. "In Open Air: A Portrait of the
American Impressionists." This film explores the growth of
impressionist painting in the United States in the late nineteenth
century. Free with admission.
December 18, 11:30 a.m.
Sunday Morning Jazz Brunch. Kusangala, a jazz trio led by
Tyrone Brown and featuring a harp, bass, and piano, will perform.
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December 18, 1 p.m.
Gallery Talk. "Conserving American Art." Mark Bockrath,
Chief Conservator, examines the portrait of "The Gordon Family"
by Henry Benbridge.
December 18, 2 p.m.
Gallery Talk. "The Collections of the Museum of American
Art: A Critical Perspective." Sylvia Yount, Curator of
Collections, discusses the permanent collection reinstallation.
December 21, 6 p.m.
Gallery Talk. "Motherwell at the Academy." Sylvia Yount,
Curator of Collections, examines the special exhibition, "Robert
Motherwell's Graphics."
EXHIBITIONS AT THE MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART
December 10 through
April 16
"Two Centuries of Collecting at the Museum of American Art."
This exhibition is a comprehensive survey of the 18th- to 2OthCentury collections of the Museum of American Art of the
Pennsylvania Academy. This presentation combines a chronological
and thematic display of American painting and sculpture with
exciting, new interpretative components.
December 10 through
April 16
"Robert Motherwell's Graphics." This exhibition showcases
works from the recent acquisition of important paintings,
drawings, collages, and prints from the artist's personal collection.
SCHOOL GALLERY
The School Gallery, located at 1301 Cherry Street, Philadelphia, exhibits the works of alumni,
faculty, and students of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts School. The gallery is open
Monday through Thursday, 9 a.m. to 7 p.m., and Friday and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., or by
appointment. Admission is free. For information, call (215) 972-7600.
EXHIBITIONS AT THE SCHOOL GALLERY
Through January 21
M.F.A. Program Student Exhibition.
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EVENTS AND EXHffiITIONS: Dec. 26, 1994 - Jan. 9, 1995
CONTACT: Marion McParland
Anna Welch
(215) 972-7642
MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART of the
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Location: 118 N. Broad St. at Cherry St., Philadelphia.
Hours: Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sunday,
11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesdays are free from 5 to 7:30 p.m.
Admission: $5.95 adults, $4.95 seniors and students with ID,
$3.95 children under 12, and free to members and children
under 5. Tours: General tours are available at 12:30 and 2 p.m.
on weekends and are free with admission; group tours (15 or
more) are available daily by reservation. Information:
(215) 972-7600.
EVENTS AT THE MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART
December 28,
5 to 7:30 p.m.
Make It a Night. Free admission.
January 4,
5 to 7:30 p.m.
Make It a Night. Free admission.
January 5, 12: 15 p.m.
Art-at-Lunch. "The Figurative Tradition." Al Gury,
instructor of painting and drawing at the Pennsylvania
Academy, discusses the history of the figurative tradition at
the Academy.
January 7,2 p.m.
Video. "Robert Motherwell and the New York School:
Storming the Citadel." This film explores the Abstract
Expressionist movement and presents a portrait of one of its
most important artists, Robert Motherwell.
January 8, 11 :30 a.m.
to 1 p.m.
Sunday Morning Jazz Brunch. The Michael Cochrane Trio
will perform.
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EXHIBITIONS AT THE MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART
Through April 16
"Two Centuries of Collecting at the Museum of American
Art." This exhibition is a comprehensive survey of the 18thto 2Oth- century collections of the Museum of American Art
of the Pennsylvania Academy. This presentation combines a
chronological and thematic display of American painting and
sculpture with exciting interpretative components.
Through February 19
"Robert Motherwell's Graphics." This exhibition showcases
works from the recent acquisition of important paintings,
drawings, collages, and prints from the artist's personal
collection.
SCHOOL GALLERY
The School Gallery, located at 1301 Cherry Street, Philadelphia, exhibits the works of alumni,
faculty, and students of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts School. The gallery is open
Monday through Thursday, 9 a.m. to 7 p.m., and Friday and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., or by
appointment. Admission is free. For information, call (215) 972-7600.
EXHIBITIONS AT THE SCHOOL GALLERY
Through January 21
M.F.A. Program Student Exhibition.
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EVENTS AND EXHmITIONS: December 1 - December 12, 1994
CONTACT: Marion McParland or Anna Welch (215) 972-7642
MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART of the
Pennsy lvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Location: 118 N. Broad St. at Cherry St., Philadelphia. Hours:
Monday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sunday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.
Admission: $5 .95, $4.95 seniors, full-time college and art students
with ID, $3.95 children under 12. Free to members and children
under 5. Tours: Guided tours are free with admission and available
on weekends; group tours (15 or more) are available by reservation.
Information: (215) 972-7600.
EVENTS AT THE MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART
Day Without Art. Artist Virgil Marti will speak on the strategies of
creative expression in the age of AIDS.
December 1, 11:00 a.m.
Symposium. II American Voices: New Approaches to the Permanent
December 3, 10 a.m. to
3 p.m. (10 a.m. to 12 p.m., Collection." This symposium brings together noted scholars in the
and 1:30 to 3 p.m.)
history of art and culture to reconsider works in the permanent
collection from a variety of critical perspectives. Held in conjunction
with the major reinstallation of the Museum's collections, the event
will include a special preview of the reinstallation-in-progress. For
more information, contact the Education Department at 972-7608 and
the November/December Education Calendar.
December 10,
Film. "Important Information Inside: John F. Peto and the Idea
of Still-Life Paintings. II The art of American artist John F. Peto is
explored in the context of his native Philadelphia and the
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where he trained.
December 11, 12:30 p.m.
Film. "Wind Grass Song: The Voice of Our Grandmothers." This
film, by Jana Birchum and Tori Breitling, presents a unique vision of
U.S. regional culture based on interviews with Oklahoma women who
range in age from 85 to 101. Free with admission.
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December 10 through
April 16, 1995
"The Collections of the Museum of American Art: A Living
Tradition." This exhibition is a comprehensive survey of the 18th to
20th century collections of the Museum of American Art of the
Pennsylvania Academy. This presentation combines a chronological
and thematic display of American painting and sculpture with exciting,
new interpretative components . .
December 10 through
February 19, 1995
"Robert Motherwell's Graphics." This exhibition showcases works
from the recent acquisition of important paintings, drawings, collages,
and prints from the artist's personal collection.
SCHOOL GALLERY
The School Gallery, located at 1301 Cherry St., Philadelphia, exhibits the works of alumni, faculty
and students of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts School. The gallery is open Monday
through Thursday, 9 a.m. to 7 p.m., and Friday and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., or by
appointment. Admission is free. For information, call (215) 972-7600.
EXHIBITIONS AT THE SCHOOL GALLERY
Through December 3
Certificate Program Juried Exhibition.
December 9 through
January 21
M.F.A. 2nd Year Exhibition.
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News
EVENTS AND EXHmITIONS: December 1 - December 12, 1994
CONTACT: Marion McParland or Anna Welch (215) 972-7642
MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART of the
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Location: 118 N. Broad St. at Cherry St., Philadelphia. Hours:
Monday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sunday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.
Admission: $5.95, $4.95 seniors, full-time college and art students
with ID, $3.95 children under 12. Free to members and children
under 5. Tours: Guided tours are free with admission and available
on weekends; group tours (15 or more) are available by reservation.
Information: (215) 972-7600.
EVENTS AT THE MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART
December 1, 11:00 a.m.
Day Without Art. Artist Virgil Marti will speak on the strategies of
creative expression in the age of AIDS.
Symposium. "American Voices: New Approaches to the Permanent
December 3, 10 a.m. to
3 p.m. (10 a.m. to 12 p.m., Collection." This symposium brings together noted scholars in the
and 1:30 to 3 p.m.)
history of art and culture to reconsider works in the permanent
collection from a variety of critical perspectives. Held in conjunction
with the major reinstallation of the Museum's collections, the event
will include a special preview of the reinstallation-in-progress. For
more information, contact the Education Department at 972-7608 and
the November/December Education Calendar.
December 10,
Film. "Important Information Inside: John F. Peto and the Idea
of Still-Life Paintings." The art of American artist John F. Peto is
explored in the context of his native Philadelphia and the
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where he trained.
December 11, 12:30 p.m.
Film. "Wind Grass Song: The Voice of Our Grandmothers." This
film, by Jana Birchum and Tori Breitling, presents a unique vision of
u. S. regional culture based on interviews with Oklahoma women who
range in age from 85 to 101. Free with admission.
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-2EXHIBITIONS AT THE MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART
December 10 through
April 16, 1995
"The Collections of the Museum of American Art: A Living
Tradition." This exhibition is a comprehensive survey of the 18th to
20th century collections of the Museum of American Art of the
Pennsylvania Academy. This presentation combines a chronological
and thematic display of American painting and sculpture with exciting,
new interpretative components.
December 10 through
February 19, 1995
"Robert Motherwell's Graphics." This exhibition showcases works
from the recent acquisition of important paintings, drawings, collages,
and prints from the artist's personal collection.
SCHOOL GALLERY
The School Gallery, located at 1301 Cherry St., Philadelphia, exhibits the works of alumni, faculty
and students of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts School. The gallery is open Monday
through Thursday, 9 a.m. to 7 p.m., and Friday and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., or by
appointment. Admission is free. For information, call (215) 972-7600.
EXHIBITIONS AT THE SCHOOL GALLERY
Through December 3
Certificate Program Juried Exhibition.
December 9 through
January 21
M.F.A. 2nd Year Exhibition.
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News
EVENTS AND EXHmITIONS: December 1 - December 12, 1994
CONTACT: Marion McParland or Anna Welch (215) 972-7642
MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART of the
Pennsy lvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Location: 118 N. Broad St. at Cherry St., Philadelphia. Hours:
Monday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sunday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.
Admission: $5.95, $4.95 seniors, full-time college and art students
with ID, $3.95 children under 12. Free to members and children
under 5. Tours: Guided tours are free with admission and available
on weekends; group tours (15 or more) are available by reservation.
Information: (215) 972-7600.
EVENTS AT THE MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART
December 1, 11:00 a.m.
Day Without Art. Artist Virgil Marti will speak on the strategies of
creative expression in the age of AIDS.
December 3, 10 a.m. to
Symposium. "American Voices: New Approaches to the Permanent
3 p.m. (10 a.m. to 12 p.m., Collection." This symposium brings together noted scholars in the
and 1:30 to 3 p.m.)
history of art and culture to reconsider works in the permanent
collection from a variety of critical perspectives. Held in conjunction
with the major reinstallation of the Museum's collections, the event
will include a special preview of the reinstallation-in-progress. For
more information, contact the Education Department at 972-7608 and
the November/December Education Calendar.
December 10,
Film. "Important Information Inside: John F. Peto and the Idea
of Still-Life Paintings." The art of American artist John F. Peto is
explored in the context of his native Philadelphia and the
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where he trained.
December 11, 12:30 p.m.
Film. "Wind Grass Song: The Voice of Our Grandmothers." This
film, by Jana Birchum and Tori Breitling, presents a unique vision of
U.S . regional culture based on interviews with Oklahoma women who
range in age from 85 to 101. Free with admission.
- over -
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BROAD STREET
PHILADELPHI A, PA
191 02
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(215) 972-5564
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-2EXHIBITIONS AT THE MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART
December 10 through
April 16, 1995
"The Collections of the Museum of American Art: A Living
Tradition." This exhibition is a comprehensive survey of the 18th to
20th century collections of the Museum of American Art of the
Pennsylvania Academy. This presentation combines a chronological
and thematic display of American painting and sculpture with exciting,
new interpretative components.
December 10 through
February 19, 1995
"Robert Motherwell's Graphics." This exhibition showcases works
from the recent acquisition of important paintings, drawings, collages,
and prints from the artist's personal collection.
SCHOOL GALLERY
The School Gallery, located at 1301 Cherry St., Philadelphia, exhibits the works of alumni, faculty
and students of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts School. The gallery is open Monday
through Thursday, 9 a.m. to 7 p.m., and Friday and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., or by
appointment. Admission is free. For information, call (215) 972-7600.
EXHIBITIONS AT THE SCHOOL GALLERY
Through December 3
Certificate Program Juried Exhibition.
December 9 through
January 21
M.F.A. 2nd Year Exhibition.
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EVENTS AND EXHIBITIONS: Dec. 12 - Dec. 26, 1994
CONTACT: Marion McParland
Anna Welch
(215) 972-7642
MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART of the
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Location: 118 N. Broad St. at Cherry St., Philadelphia.
Hours: Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.,
Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesdays are free from
5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Admission: $5.95 adults, $4.95
seniors and students with ID, $3.95 children under 12,
and free to members and children under 5. Tours:
General tours are available at 12:30 and 2 p.m. on
weekends and are free with admission; group tours (15
or more) are available daily by reservation. Information:
(215) 972-7600.
EVENTS AT THE MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART
December 14, 6 p.m.
Book Signing. Charlayne Hunter Gault, writer and anchorperson,
reads from In My Place, her autobiography about coming of age in
the South, the civil rights movement, and her career in journalism.
December 17, 11 a.m.
to 12:30 p.m.
Family Workshop. "A Rock, a River, a Tree." Explore the
holiday traditions of Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, and Christmas. Free .
with admission.
December 17, 1 p.m.
Short Takes: Film Series. "In Open Air: A Portrait of the
American Impressionists." This film explores the growth of
impressionist painting in the United States in the late nineteenth
century. Free with admission.
December 18, 11:30 a.m.
Sunday Morning Jazz Brunch. Kusangala, a jazz trio led by
Tyrone Brown and featuring a harp, bass, and piano, will perform.
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Gallery Talk. "Conserving American Art." Mark Bockrath,
Chief Conservator, examines the portrait of "The Gordon Family"
by Henry Benbridge.
December 18, 2 p.m.
Gallery Talk. liThe Collections of the Museum of American
Art: A Critical Perspective. II Sylvia Yount, Curator of
Collections, discusses the permanent collection reinstallation.
December 21, 6 p.m.
Gallery Talk. "Motherwell at the Academy." Sylvia Yount,
Curator of Collections, examines the special exhibition, "Robert
Motherwell's Graphics."
EXHIBITIONS AT THE MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART
December 10 through
April 16
"Two Centuries of Collecting at the Museum of American Art. II
This exhibition is a comprehensive survey of the 18th- to 20thCentury collections of the Museum of American Art of the
Pennsylvania Academy. This presentation combines a chronological
and thematic display of American painting and sculpture with
exciting, new interpretative components.
December 10 through
April 16
"Robert Motherwell's Graphics." This exhibition showcases
works from the recent acquisition of important paintings,
drawings, collages, and prints from the artist's personal collection.
SCHOOL GALLERY
The School Gallery, located at 1301 Cherry Street, Philadelphia, exhibits the works of alumni,
faculty, and students of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts School. The gallery is open
Monday through Thursday, 9 a.m. to 7 p.m., and Friday and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., or by
appointment. Admission is free. For information, call (215) 972-7600.
EXHIBITIONS AT THE SCHOOL GALLERY
Through January 21
M.F.A. Program Student Exhibition.
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EVENTS AND EXHIBITIONS: Dec. 12 - Dec. 26, 1994
CONTACT: Marion McParland
Anna Welch
(215) 972-7642
MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART of the
Pennsy lvania Academy of the Fine Arts
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Location: 118 N. Broad St. at Cherry St., Philadelphia.
Hours: Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.,
Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesdays are free from
5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Admission: $5.95 adults, $4.95
seniors and students with ID, $3.95 children under 12,
and free to members and children under 5. Tours:
General tours are available at 12:30 and 2 p.m. on
weekends and are free with admission; group tours (15
or more) are available daily by reservation. Information:
(215) 972-7600.
EVENTS AT THE MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART
December 14, 6 p.m.
Book Signing. Char layne Hunter Gault, writer and anchorperson,
reads from In My Place, her autobiography about coming of age in
the South, the civil rights movement, and her career in journalism.
December 17, 11 a.m.
Family Workshop. II A Rock, a River, a Tree. II Explore the
holiday traditions of Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, and Christmas. Free
with admission.
to 12:30 p.m.
December 17, 1 p.m.
Short Takes: Film Series. "In Open Air: A Portrait of the
American Impressionists. II This film explores the growth of
impressionist painting in the United States in the late riineteenth
century. Free with admission.
December 18, 11: 30 a. m.
Sunday Morning Jazz Brunch. Kusangala, a jazz trio led by
Tyrone Brown and featuring a harp, bass, and piano, will perform.
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-2December 18, 1 p.m.
Gallery Talk. "Conserving American Art." Mark Bockrath,
Chief Conservator, examines the portrait of "The Gordon Family"
by Henry Benbridge.
December 18, 2 p.m.
Gallery Talk. liThe Collections of the Museum of American
Art: A Critical Perspective. II Sylvia Yount, Curator of
Collections, discusses the permanent collection reinstallation.
December 21, 6 p.m.
Gallery Talk. "Motherwell at the Academy." Sylvia Yount,
Curator of Collections, examines the special exhibition, "Robert
Motherwell's Graphics."
EXHIBITIONS AT THE MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART
December 10 through
April 16
"Two Centuries of Collecting at the Museum of American Art. II
This exhibition is a comprehensive survey of the 18th- to 20thCentury collections of the Museum of American Art of the
Pennsylvania Academy. This presentation combines a chronological
and thematic display of American painting and sculpture with
exciting, new interpretative components.
December 10 through
April 16
"Robert Motherwell's Graphics. II This exhibition showcases
works from the recent acquisition of important paintings,
drawings, collages, and prints from the artist's personal collection.
SCHOOL GALLERY
The School Gallery, located at 1301 Cherry Street, Philadelphia, exhibits the works of alumni,
faculty, and students of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts School. The gallery is open
Monday through Thursday, 9 a.m. to 7 p.m., and Friday and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. , or by
appointment. Admission is free. For information, call (215) 972-7600.
EXHIBITIONS AT THE SCHOOL GALLERY
Through January 21
M.F.A. Program Student Exhibition.
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AMERICA'S FIRST ART MUSEUM SET TO REVEAL A NEW LOOK
WITH OPENING OF FULLY REINSTALLED GALLERIES ON DECE..\1BER 10
Paintings and Sculptures Representing Two Centuries of Collecting
to be Presented in Newlf. Restored National Landmark in Philadelphia
PHILADELPIDA -- Founded in 1805, when Thomas Jefferson was President and the
Revolutionary War was still a part of living memory, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine
Arts has trained America's artists and collected their works throughout almost the entire
history of the Republic. Now the Academy's Museum of American Art, located in the heart
of historic Philadelphia, is scheduled to open a new installation of its unparalleled
collections, tracing as only they can the course of two centuries of American art and life.
Two Centuries of Collecting at the Museum of American Art will open on December 10,
following six months of reinstallation work and architectural renovation of the Academy's
landmark building.
More than 300 works of art from the permanent collection will be on view in the new
installation, telling the story of American art and of the uniquP. role played in its development
by the Academy and the city of Philadelphia. A variety of educational materials, ranging
from an orientation video to electronically assisted self-guided tours for children and adults,
will help bring this history to life for visitors of all ages. This experience is being made
possible in part by a multi-year renovation and upgrade, at a cost of more than $3.5 million.
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"The great challenge before us," notes Gresham Riley, President of the Pennsylvania
Academy, "has been to remain true to the spirit of America's fIrst art museum, while fmding
a way to make that legacy vivid for today's visitors. That's why, as the Academy and the
Museum of American Art approach their third century of service, we have rededicated
ourselves to our engagement with the community, an engagement that has always been key to
this institution's educational and cultural success. "
"For us, the test of this reinstallation and renovation will be whether it gives people
the feeling that their past is something ongoing and alive," according to. Linda Bantel, Edna
S. Tuttleman Director of the Museum. "We want our visitors to see and understand how
artists helped to create the image of America and its national character. We also hope people
will feel a thrill of recognition, realizing that much of that nation-building happened right
here, in Philadelphia and in the Academy. "
Among the Museum's most striking links with the past is the Academy building itself,
designed by Frank Furness and George W. Hewitt and inaugurated in 1876, in conjunction
with the centennial celebration of the United States of America. Now recognized as a
masterpiece of heady, Victorian Gothic architecture--its eclectic facade, though "prodigiously
detailed," has been "orchestrated with tremendous authority," notes critic G. E. Kidder
Smith, "while the interior is almost phosphorescent with ... richness"--the building as a whole
was restored to its original splendor from 1973 through 1976 under the direction of Hyman
Myers and the firm of Day & Zimmermann.
The present renovation, undertaken by the Philadelphia-based architectural firm of
Tony Atkin & Associates, will bring the renovated building up to the latest museum
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standards, configure several new public spaces and continue the demanding and ongoing task
of maintaining systems and surfaces. The architects have redesigned the entrance lobby to
accommodate an new orientation gallery, where visitors can obtain two versions of a se1fguided tour, one of which is especially designed for children, and interpretive materials that
are being introduced in conjunction with the re-installation. According to Linda Bante1,
"These educational materials take into account the fact that different people approach art in
different ways. Our goal is to bring this collection to life for everyone, from children to the
most sophisticated museumgoers." Visitors will also benefit from a new cafe, an expanded
Museum shop, and increased access to the collections of prints and drawings. Behind the
scenes, the architects have installed state-of-the-art systems for fire suppression and fire
detection, circulation and ventilation, and security. Archival facilities have been upgraded,
and work areas--including those for conservation--have been improved.
The benefits of these improvements will be felt in the galleries, where the Museum's
staff has created an entirely new installation, working with the Boulder, Colorado-based
design firm of Quenroe Associates. Visitors to the Museum will follow the story of
American art chronologically, going from Benjamin West's Penn's Treaty with the Indians
(1771-72) and Gilbert Stuart's George Washington (The Lansdowne Portrait) (1796) to
contemporary works such as Jacob Lawrence's Dream Series #5: The Library (1967), Alex
Katz's Night (1976), and a selection of recently acquired works by the Abstract Expressionist
Robert Motherwell. Within this chronology, groups of works will bring out themes in the
history of American art and society: the importance of artists such as Academy founder
Charles Willson Peale in defining the identity of the United States; changes in patronage,
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from figures such as Philadelphia publisher Edward L. Carey to governmental agencies such
as the Works Progress Administration; the training of artists, and the influence of Academy
instructors such as the great Thomas Eakins; and the ongoing vitality of the humanist and
realist traditions, up to the present day.
Through these thematic clusters within the chronology, visitors will gain an enriched
sense of the interplay between art and politics, economics, and social change; they also will
learn about the special role played by the Academy since its founding in 1805. Here,
standards were set and tastes were formed, both in the studios of the School and in the
Museum's exhibitions. The events that have transformed America over the years have swept
through and disappeared; but it is still possible to stand in the physical presence of that
history, embodied in the collections and galleries of the Museum of American Art.
The renovation of the Museum of American Art has been funded in part by major
grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the William Penn Foundation, the
Foundation for New Era Philanthropy, and the Academy's Third Century Fund Campaign.
The reinstallation of the galleries has been directed by Linda Bantel, Edna S. Tuttleman
Director of the Museum, in collaboration with the Museum's curatorial, education and
archival departments, and Elroy Quenroe, owner and principal designer, Quenroe Associates.
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For further information, please contact:
Marion McParland
Museum of American Art
118 N. Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA 19102
(215) 972-7642
Anne Edgar
The Kreisberg Group
1926 Broadway
New York, NY 10023
(212) 799-5515
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AMERICA'S FIRST ART MUSEUM SET TO REVEAL A NEW WOK
WITH OPENING OF FULLY REINSTALLED GALLERIES ON DECEMBER 10
Paintin~s
and Sculptures Representing'Two Centuries of Co!lectin~
to be Presented4n,Newly Restored,Naiional Landmark in Philadelphia
PHILADELPHIA -- Founded in 1805., when Thomas Jefferson was President and the
Revolutionary War was still a part
of living memory~ · the ,Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine
Arts has trained America's artists and collected their works throughout almost the entire
history of the Republic. Now the Academy's Museum of American Art, located in the heart
of historic Philadelphia, is scheduled to open a new installation of its unparalleled
collections, tracing as only they can the course of two centuries of American art and life.
Two Centuries of Collecting at the Museum of American Art will open on December 10,
following six months of reinstallation work and architectural renovation of the Academy's
landmark building.
More than 300 works of art from the permanent collection will be on view in the new
installation, telling the story of American art and of the unique role played in its development
by the Academy and the city of Philadelphia. A variety of educational materials, ranging
from an orientation video to electronically assisted self-guided tours for children and adults,
will help bring this history to life for visitors of all ages. This experience is being made
possible in part by a multi-year renovation-and upgrade; at a cost of more than $3.5 million;
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"The great challenge before us," notes Gresham Riley, President of the Pennsylvania
Academy, "has been to remain true to the spirit of America's fIrst art museum, while fInding
a way to make that legacy vivid for today's visitors. That's why, as the Academy and the
Museum of American Art approach their third century of service, we have rededicated
ourselves to our engagement with the community, an engagement that has always been key to
this institution's educational and cultural success. "
"For us, the test of this reinstallation and renovation will be whether it gives people
the feeling that their past is something ongoing and alive," according to Linda Bantel, Edna
S. Tuttleman Director of the Museum. "We want our visitors to see and understand how
artists helped to create the image of America and its national character. We also hope people
will feel a thrill of recognition, realizing that much of that nation-building happened right
here, in Philadelphia and in the Academy. "
Among the Museum's most striking links with the past is the Academy building itself,
designed by Frank Furness and George W. Hewitt and inaugurated in 1876, in conjunction
with the centennial celebration of the United States of America. Now recognized as a
masterpiece of heady, Victorian Gothic architecture--its eclectic facade, though "prodigiously
detailed," has been "orchestrated with tremendous authority," notes critic G. E. Kidder
Smith, "while the interior is almost phosphorescent with ... richness"--the building as a whole
was restored to its original splendor from 1973 through 1976 under the direction of Hyman
Myers and the fIrm of Day & Zimmermann.
The present renovation, undertaken by the Philadelphia-based architectural fIrm of
Tony Atkin & Associates, will bring the renovated building up to the latest museum
3
standards, configure several new public spaces and continue the demanding and ongoing task
of maintaining systems and surfaces. The architects have redesigned the entrance lobby to
accommodate an new orientation gallery, where visitors can obtain two versions of a selfguided tour, one of which is especially designed for children, and interpretive materials that
are being introduced in conjunction with the re-installation. According to Linda Bantel,
"These educational materials take into account the fact that different people approach art in
different ways. Our goal is to bring this collection to life for everyone, from children to the
most sophisticated museumgoers." Visitors will also benefit from a new cafe, an expanded
Museum shop, and increased access to the collections of prints and drawings. Behind the
scenes, the architects have installed state-of-the-art systems for fire suppression and fire
detection, circulation and ventilation, and security. Archival facilities have been upgraded,
and work areas--including those for conservation--have been improVed.
The benefits of these improvements will be felt in the galleries, where the Museum's
staff has created an entirely new installation, working with the Boulder, Colorado-based
design firm of Quenroe Associates. Visitors to the Museum will follow the story of
American art chronologically, going from Benjamin West's Penn's Treaty with the Indians
(1771-72) and Gilbert Stuart's George Washington (The Lansdowne Portrait) (1796) to
contemporary works such as Jacob Lawrence's Dream Series #5: The Library (1967), Alex
Katz's Night (1976), and a selection of recently acquired works by the Abstract Expressionist
Robert Motherwell. Within this chronology, groups of works will bring out themes in the
history of American art and society: the importance of artists such as Academy founder
Charles Willson Peale in defining the identity of the United States; changes in patronage,
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from figures such as Philadelphia publisher Edward L. Carey to governmental agencies such
as the Works Progress Administration; the training of artists, and the influence of Academy
instructors such as the great Thomas Eakins; and the ongoing vitality of the humanist and
realist traditions, up to the present day.
Through these thematic clusters within the chronology, visitors will gain an enriched
sense of the interplay between art and politics, economics, and social change; they also will
learn about the special role played by the Academy since its founding in 1805. Here,
standards were set and tastes were formed, both in the studios of the School and in the
Museum's exhibitions. The events that have transformed America over the years have swept
through and disappeared; but it is still possible to stand in the physical presence of that
history, embodied in the collections and galleries of the Museum of American Art.
The renovation of the Museum of American Art has been funded in part by major
grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the William Penn Foundation, the
Foundation for New Era Philanthropy, and the Academy's Third Century Fund Campaign.
The reinstallation of the galleries has been directed by Linda Bantel, Edna S. Tuttleman
Director of the Museum, in collaboration with the Museum's curatorial, education and
archival departments, and Elroy Quenroe, owner and principal designer, Quenroe Associates.
#
For further information, please contact:
Marion McParland
Museum of American Art
118 N. Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA 19102
(215) 972-7642
Anne Edgar
The Kreisberg Group
1926 Broadway
New York, NY 10023
(212) 799-5515
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MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART OFFERS A TOUR OF
THE NATION'S HISTORY WITH THE NEW
INSTALLATION, "TWO CENTURIES OF COLLECTING"
When it re-opens in renovated quarters on December 10, 1994, the Museum of American Art
will present more than 300 works in .a ;newly designed installation titled "Two Centuries of
Collecting at the Museum of American Art." Accompanied by two self-guided tours,
including one designed especially for ·children ~ and a variety of interpretive materials, the
installation will allow visitors to discover; how artiSG helped to create identities for
Amel~ica
and forge its national character. The installation also will focus on how that process of
nation-building took place, to a large degree, in Philadelphia and its historic Pennsylvania
Academy of the Arts.
The installation will begin in the Museum's grand stair hall, where visitors will be
greeted by some of the most celebrated paintings in the institution's collection--works that
exemplify the tradition known as the Grand Manner. When American artists began to
celebrate the new nation's heroes, they imported this imposing, prestigious style from
Europe, as did Benjamin West in Penn's Treaty with the Indians (1771-72) and Gilbert Stuart
in George Washington IThe Lansdowne Portrait) (1796). American pride in striving after
humanist ideals is particularly evident in the famous self-portrait of a founder of the
Pennsylvania Academy, Charles Willson Peale: The Artist in His Museum (1822).
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Earlier, during the Colonial period, American artists had found a market almost
exclusively for portraits, as did John Singleton Copley, represented with his painting of
Robert
"Kin~"
Hooper (1767). With the onset of the Federal period, American artists began
to expand their ambitions and opportunities. By popularizing the Grand Manner in America,
the Pennsylvania Academy played a key role in encouraging artists and the public alike to
envision a grand new body of myths for their emerging nation.
The election of Andrew Jackson as President in 1828, which ushered in the "Age of
the Common Man," also signaled an era of change for American artists, who increasingly
moved away from the elite Anglo-American traditions of portraiture and the Grand Manner
in favor of subjects drawn from contemporary life. In the next part of the installation, the
visitor can see genre scenes such as Interior of a Smithy by Bass Otis (painted before 1815)
and The Painter's Triumph (1838) by William Sidney Mount. Also on view are examples of
newly popular genres (such as a still life by James Peale) and paintings that typify the taste
of an emerging class of merchant patrons (such as Daniel Huntington's allegory of Mercy's
Dream, 1841, from the collection of Philadelphia publisher Edward L. Carey).
In the years leading up to the Civil War, artists tended more and more to offer the
public paintings of "ideal" settings, which envisioned different aspects of America's national
character. Pictures about the unspoiled splendor of the New World could offer hope and
comfort during difficult times, as in Edmund Darch Lewis's view of Lake Willoughby (1867)
or Martin Johnson Heade's Sunset Harbor at Rio (1864). Artists also memorialized the
nation's internal struggle, as in Xanthus Smith's Final Assault upon Fort Fisher. North
Carolina (1872-73).
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A new era for America and its artists--and for the Pennsylvania Academy--began in
1876, when the extraordinary Furness & Hewitt building for the Academy opened in
conjunction with the Centennial International Exhibition. In the decade between the Civil
War and that landmark year, American artists had increasingly gone to Europe to study,
especially in Munich and Paris. One such artist--the great Thomas Eakins--joined the faculty
of the Academy in 1876 and by introducing French academic practices helped to change the
course of art in America. A gallery devoted to artistic training at home and abroad will
include Eakins's relief sculptures
Spinnin~
and
Knittin~
(modeled 1882-83, cast c. 1886),
William Morris Hunt's Priscilla (c. 1873), Frank Duveneck's The Turkish Page (1876), and
William Trost Richards's February (1887).
In the Rotunda gallery, four large-scale, popular works from the Gilded Age will
exemplify the taste that many affluent Americans had come to share with their counterparts
in Europe, who regularly attended the grand Salons. On view will be Daniel Ridgway
Knight's rustically nostalgic
Hailin~
the Fen:y (1888); Edwin Lord Weeks's foray into
exoticism, The Three Beggars of Cordova (c. 1891); William Morris Hunt's mythological
vision, Study for "The
F1i~ht
of Night" (c. 1885); and Alexander Harrison's moody
evocation of the grandeur of nature, The Wave (c. 1885).
But even while these Salon fantasies remained popular in America, new forces were
at work. In 1892, Harrison Morris became managing director of the Academy and began to
champion the American Impressionists (one of the most distinguished of whom, Mary
Cassatt, had trained at the Academy). In a large gallery where the works will be hung so as
to recall the installations for the Academy's annual juried exhibitions, viewers will be able to
4
see Impressionist paintings of the 1890s such as New
En~land
Woman (1895) by Academy
instructor Cecilia Beaux. These will be shown alongside works from the realist school of
Eakins (such as The Cello Player, 1896) and works by the emerging" Ashcan School," such
as Academy alumnus Robert Henri. Also on view in this rich, turn-of-the-century mixture
will be examples of works by illustrators who trained at the Academy (such as Violet
Oakley, represented by her cover for Everybody's Magazine of June 1902) and by artists
who began their careers under Academy instructors such as Eakins and then sought directions
of their own, such as the African-American painter Henry O. Tanner (whose 1899 biblical
painting Nicodemus will be shown).
By the early years of the 20th century, modernism was taking hold in America (again,
thanks in large part to the efforts of the Academy). But a split was coming, as viewers may
discover in the next gallery on the tour. The modem movement was dividing into rival
camps. On one side were the abstractionists (such as the Academy-trained Stuart Davis,
represented here by Table with Pipe, 1922). On the other side were the realists (such as
Edward Hopper, Apartment Houses, 1923) and the regionalists (Thomas Hart Benton, Aaron,
1941). In the years between the two World Wars, the Academy and its Museum remained
committed to the latter group, who (with the patronage of the federal government) were
continuing to fulfIll a function of art that the abstractionists seemed to have abandoned--its
social and political role.
But after World War II, when the United States emerged as the dominant force in the
world, it was the abstractionists who turned out to express the dynamism and power of
America. One of the artists associated with the postwar movement of Abstract
5
Expressionism, or "action painting," the late Robert Motherwell, is newly represented in the
collection of the Museum of American Art with a body of work acquired through the partial
gift of the Dedalus Foundation. The next gallery on the tour will be devoted to a selection
of Motherwell's collages, prints, and drawings chosen from the artist's estate.
Motherwell's painting Black in
Hidin~
(1976) will be among the works exhibited in
the last gallery on the tour: "Diverse Expressions: Postwar Representation and Abstraction. "
For over a decade following World War IT, abstraction remained the dominant force in
American art (as seen in works such as lsamu Noguchi's Torso and Katherine Porter's
Shipwreck in the Stars). But at the same time, many artists held fast to the concerns that had
remained pre-eminent in the Academy's teaching, collecting, and exhibiting--humanistic
values, the centrality of the figure, and the public function of art. These concerns are
evident in the ongoing importance of the regionalist tradition (Andrew Wyeth, Young
America, 1950); of social and political art (Jacob Lawrence, Dream Series #5: The Library,
1967); and of portraiture and narrative, which would re-emerge in the work of a number of
artists (Alex Katz, Night, 1976).
"By the time our visitors come to the end of this installation," says Linda Bantel,
Edna S. Tuttleman Director of the Museum, "they will have felt how each new change in the
world can be reflected in art, and how--just as important--art itself can change the world.
Nowhere else, in fact, can you get that feeling with more concentrated power than here, in
the Museum of American Art of the Pennsylvania Academy. We want people to emerge
from the installation knowing that within these halls, surrounded by these works of art, they
are truly in the presence of America."
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MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART OFFERS A TOUR OF
THE NATION'S HISTORY WITH THE NEW
INSTALLATION, "TWO CENTURIES OF COLLECTING"
When it re-opens in renovated quarters on December 10, 1994, the Museum of American Art
will present more than 300 works in a newly designed installation titlt".d "Two Centuries of
Collecting at the Museum of American Art." Accompanied by two self-guided tours,
including one designed especially for children, and a variety of interpretive materials, the
installation will allow visitors to discover how artists helped to create i.dentities for America
and forge its national character. The installation also will focus on how that process of
nation-building took place, to a large degree, ·in Philadelphia and its historic Pennsylvania
Academy of the Arts.
The installation will begin in the Museum's grand stair hall, where visitors will be
greeted by some of the most celebrated paintings in the institution's collection--works that
exemplify the tradition known as the Grand Manner. When American artists began to
celebrate the new nation's heroes, they imported this imposing, prestigious style from
Europe, as did Benjamin West in Penn's Treaty with the Indians (1771-72) and Gilbert Stuart
in George Washington (The Lansdowne Portrait) (1796). American pride in striving after
humanist ideals is particularly evident in the famous self-portrait of a founder of the
'"
Pennsylvania Academy, Charles Willson Peale: The Artist in His Museum (1822).
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2
Earlier, during the Colonial period, AmericaIl artists had found a market almost
exclusively for portraits, as did John Singleton Copley, represented with his painting of
Robert
"Kin~"
Hooper (1767). With the onset of the Federal period, American artists began
to expand their ambitions and opportunities. By popularizing the Grand Manner in America,
the Pennsylvania Academy played a key role in encouraging artists and the public alike to
envision a grand new body of myths for their emerging nation.
The election of Andrew Jackson as President in 1828, which ushered in the "Age of
the Common Man, also signaled an era of change for American artists, who increasingly
II
moved away from the elite Anglo-American traditions of portraiture and the Grand Manner
in favor of subjects drawn from contemporary life. In the next part of the installation, the
visitor can see genre scenes such as Interior of a Smithy by Bass Otis (painted before 1815)
and The Painter's Triumph (1838) by William Sidney Mount. Also on view are examples of
newly popular genres (such as a still life by James Peale) and paintings that typify the taste
of an emerging class of merchant patrons (such as Daniel Huntington's allegory of Mercy's
Dream, 1841, from the collection of Philadelphia publisher Edward L. Carey) .
In the years leading up to the Civil War, artists tended more and more to offer the
public paintings of "ideal" settings, which envisioned different aspects of America's national
character. Pictures about the unspoiled splendor of the New World could offer hope and
comfort during difficult times, as in Edmund Darch Lewis's view of Lake Willoughby (1867)
or Martin Johnson Heade's Sunset Harbor at Rio (1864). Artists also memorialized the
nation's internal struggle, as in Xanthus Smith's Final Assault upon Fort Fisher. North
Carolina (1872-73).
3
A new era for America and its artists--and for the Pennsylvania Academy--began in
1876, when the extraordinary Furness & Hewitt building for the Academy opened in
conjunction with the Centennial International Exhibition. In the decade between the Civil
War and that landmark year, American artists had increasingly gone to Europe to study,
especially in Munich and Paris. One such artist--the great Thomas Eakins--joined the faculty
of the Academy in 1876 and by introducing French academic practices helped to change the
course of art in America. A gallery devoted to artistic training at home and abroad will
include Eakins's relief sculptures Spinning and Knitting (modeled 1882-83, cast c. 1886),
William Morris Hunt's Priscilla (c. 1873), Frank Duveneck's The Turkish Page (1876), and
William Trost Richards's February (1887).
In the Rotunda gallery, four large-scale, popular works from the Gilded Age will
exemplify the taste that many affluent Americans had come to share with their counterparts
in Europe, who regularly attended the grand Salons. On view will be Daniel Ridgway
Knight's rustically nostalgic Hailing the Ferry (1888); Edwin Lord Weeks's foray into
exoticism, The Three Beggars of Cordova (c. 1891); William Morris Hunt's mythological
vision, Study for "The Flight of Night" (c. 1885); and Alexander Harrison's moody
evocation of the grandeur of nature, The Wave (c. 1885).
But even while these Salon fantasies remained popular in America, new forces were
at work. In 1892, Harrison Morris became managing director of the Academy and began to
champion the American Impressionists (one of the most distinguished of whom, Mary
Cassatt, had trained at the Academy). In a large gallery where the works will be hung so as
to recall the installations for the Academy's annual juried exhibitions, viewers will be able to
4
see Impressionist paintings of the 1890s such as New
En~land
Woman (1895) by Academy
instructor Cecilia Beaux. These will be shown alongside works from the realist school of
Eakins (such as The Cello Player, 1896) and works by the emerging" Ashcan School," such
as Academy alumnus Robert Henri. Also on view in this rich, turn-of-the-century mixture
will be examples of works by illustrators who trained at the Academy (such as Violet
Oakley, represented by her cover for Everybody's Magazine of June 1902) and by artists
who began their careers under Academy instructors such as Eakins and then sought directions
of their own, such as the African-American painter Henry O. Tanner (whose 1899 biblical
painting Nicodemus will be shown).
By the early years of the 20th century, modernism was taking hold in America (again,
thanks in large part to the efforts of the Academy). But a split was coming, as viewers may
discover in the next gallery on the tour. The modem movement was dividing into rival
camps. On one side were the abstractionists (such as the Academy-trained Stuart Davis,
represented here by Table with Pipe, 1922). On the other side were the realists (such as
Edward Hopper, Apartment Houses, 1923) and the regionalists (Thomas Hart Benton, Aaron,
1941). In the years between the two World Wars, the Academy and its Museum remained
committed to the latter group, who (with the patronage of the federal government) were
continuing to fulfill a function of art that the abstractionists seemed to have abandoned--its
social and political role.
But after World War II, when the United States emerged as the dominant force in the
world, it was the abstractionists who turned out to express the dynamism and power of
America. One of the artists associated with the postwar movement of Abstract
5
Expressionism, or "action painting," the late Robert Motherwell, is newly represented in the
collection of the Museum of American Art with a body of work acquired through the partial
gift of the Dedalus Foundation. The next gallery on the tour will be devoted to a selection
of Motherwell's collages, prints, and drawings chosen from the artist's estate.
Motherwell's painting Black in
Hidin~
(1976) will be among the works exhibited in
the last gallery on the tour: "Diverse Expressions: Postwar Representation and Abstraction."
For over a decade following World War II, abstraction remained the dominant force in
American art (as seen in works such as lsamu Noguchi's Torso and Katherine Porter's
Shipwreck in the Stars). But at the same time, many artists held fast to the concerns that had
remained pre-eminent in the Academy's teaching, collecting, and exhibiting--humanistic
values, the centrality of the figure, and the public function of art. These concerns are
evident in the ongoing importance of the regionalist tradition (Andrew Wyeth, Young
America, 1950); of social and political art (Jacob Lawrence, Dream Series #5: The Library,
1967); and of portraiture and narrative, which would re-emerge in the work of a number of
artists (Alex Katz, Night, 1976).
"By the time our visitors come to the end of this installation," says Linda Bantel,
Edna S. Tuttleman Director of the Museum, "they will have felt how each new change in the
world can be reflected in art, and how--just as important--art itself can change the world.
Nowhere else, in fact, can you get that feeling with more concentrated power than here, in
the Museum of American Art of the Pennsylvania Academy. We want people to emerge
from the installation knowing that within these halls, surrounded by these works of art, they
are truly in the presence of America."
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PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS RENOVATES
AN AMERICAN MASTERPIECE - ITS BUILDING
"Preposterously wonderful"--those are the words of a present-day critic, G. E. Kidder Smith,
describing the architecture of Frank Furness and his masterpiece, the Pennsylvania Academy
of the Fine
Arts ~
Writing
in The Architecture of the United States·, Smith notes that
' . Furness ""was probably the gutsiest architect who ever walked the North American
continent," a man known to his contemporaries as "fearless Frank" ("with reason," adds
Smith). · Drawing .on sources as diverse as Victorian Gothic, Queen Anne style, and
Richardsonian Romanesque, with inspiration from the writings of Ruskin and Viollet-Ie-Duc
thrown in for good measure, "Furness manipulated and sublimated these fashionable facets
with the force of a pile driver, achieving an intensity and 'compaction' rarely seen."
According to Smith, his "greatest surviving building"--designed in collaboration with George
w. Hewitt--is the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
Celebrated at the time of its inauguration in 1876 but neglected over the ensuing
decades and subjected to disfiguring alterations, the Academy building was restored to its
original splendor from 1973 through 1976. (The great architect Louis 1. Kahn, himself an
alumnus of the Academy, said the restoration had brought "renewed life to this lifegiving and
inspired building.") Now a further multi-year renovation project--undertaken by the
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Philadelphia-based firm of Tony Atkin & Associates Architects at a cost of more than $3.5
million--has improved services for visitors to the Academy's Museum of American Art,
while bringing the Museum's behind-the-scenes facilities up to the highest current standards.
In effect, these projects are two phases of an ongoing effort to maintain the integrity
and spirit of America's oldest art museum and school. The results of this latest phase will be
concluded when the Museum of American Art re-opens on December 10, 1994. The process
might seem long for most institutions; but it represents a mere blink of the eye in the
Academy's 189-year history.
The Furness & Hewitt building, though more than a century old, is the Academy's
third. The first, designed by John Dorsey, was put up in 1806, one year after the Academy
was founded. After a fire gutted the Academy in 1845, Richard A. Gilpin restored and
enlarged the remains of the original structure; but within twenty-five years, that building,
too, was in need of replacement. The increasingly dense urban texture of Philadelphia had
almost hidden the Academy from view, and a storm had damaged many of the skylights. In
1871, the Academy's Trustees resolved to relocate from Chestnut Street to Broad Street and
to commission a new two-story, fireproof building.
Frank Furness (1839-1912) and his partner George W. Hewitt (1841-1916) won the
commission, and in 1876 they opened their $400,000 masterpiece, at the moment when
Philadelphia was hosting the Centennial International Exhibition--America's first World's
Fair, and the centerpiece of the commemoration of American independence. Colorful,
exuberant, and richly ornate, the building was immediately acclaimed as a marvel, becoming
one of the major attractions in the city during the Centennial Exhibition. (The great stair
3
hall, notes Hyman Myers, was considered to be particularly inspiring and patriotic, with its
color scheme of red, white, and blue, embellished with gold and silver.) Unfortunately, as
often happens when tastes in architecture change, the building was gradually altered. The
brightly colored, ornamental cast-iron columns were encased in plain piers; skylights and the
stair hall were painted over; floor tiles were replaced; rooms were blocked off.
In 1973, with the Bicentennial celebration approaching, the Academy's Board of
Trustees resolved that the Furness & Hewitt building was as much of a masterwork as any of
the paintings or sculptures in the Museum's collection and should be restored, so it could
once again speak eloquently about the era in which it was made. The restoration project,
undertaken by Hyman Myers and the firm of Day & Zimmermann, brought the building back
to its original glory in time for the Bicentennial celebration in 1976.
On the building'S outside, workers removed the grime from the facade and
refabricated the limestone entrance archways and their iron and brass gates (lost in a
modernization in the 1950s). They renewed the roof and reconstructed the skylights, slate
shingles, and copper gutters in conformity with the original design. Surviving plans by
Furness and Hewitt, preserved in the Academy's vast archives, also served as the basis for
reconstructing the entrance foyer in solid oak. By stripping the foyer's arched ceiling of its
layers of paint, the workers revealed the original white brick arches and iron beams. They
repainted the walls, matching the original salmon color.
According to Hyman Myers, "the grand stair hall underwent the most extensive
restoration of any single part of the building":
All of the stonework was carefully cleaned and the decorative plaster walls,
with their diamond and floral motifs, were repainted and regilded. Under the
4
stairway on the fIrst floor a small section of the original encaustic tile floor
was uncovered and restored. These English Minton tiles once created a
colorful mosaic resembling an Oriental carpet .... [In 1985, reproductions of
these tiles were relaid in the flIst-floor stair hall.] Finally, the stair hall was
once again crowned with a blue painted sky sprinkled with silver-leaf stars,
and the renovated skylight once again floods it with abundant natural light.
The architects took special pride in restoring the ornate gilded and polychrome iron
columns of the rotunda, since these are not only visually striking but historically signifIcant.
Because they reveal the structure, they qualify the Furness & Hewitt building as a forerunner
of Modernism, as well as a masterpiece of eclectic, late-Victorian Gothic. Doorways were
reopened; woodwork was restored; even the brass doorknobs, locks, and hinges were
stripped of paint and polished.
Once more, the Furness & Hewitt building--designated a National Historic Landmark
in 1975--stood as a monument to the artistic, architectural, and cultural legacy of
Philadelphia and the nation. But landmark buildings become worn again with daily use; their
mechanical systems fallout of date. Also, just as important, their facilities must be revised
and upgraded--assuming that the institution, like the Academy's Museum of American Art, is
expanding its activities and its public.
In 1988, the Board of Trustees invited the fIrm of Tony Atkin & Associates to
undertake a feasibility study and master plan for a major expansion of the Museum offIce and
storage facilities. Out of that plan grew the determination to conduct a Third Century Fund
campaign. With the additional commitment of funds from the William Penn Foundation and
with a major grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, Tony Atkin & Associates
were able to begin the renovation of the Museum of American Art on May 28, 1994.
The architects have redesigned the entrance lobby and improved accessibility to the
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Museum for visitors with handicaps. Certain areas that used to be relatively out-of-the-way
will now be more accessible, too, for all visitors--notably the Museum's collection of prints
and drawings. The architects have also built a new Museum cafe and expanded the Museum
shop.
Equally important, the architects have installed state-of-the-art equipment for security,
fire detection and suppression, circulation and ventilation, and maintenance and housekeeping. All of the Museum's mechanical equipment will now meet the best current
standards. In addition, the renovation will make it easier for the Museum's staff to present
works of art to the public. Archival areas and conservation facilities have been improved,
offices redesigned for greater efficiency, and support areas upgraded for docents, staff, and
visitors.
Central to the renovation effort is the need to provide Museum visitors with a greater
range of services, principally educational. Curatorial and education staff members,
envisioning a complete reinstallation of the galleries, have worked with the exhibition design
team of Quenroe Associates to incorporate plans for a video orientation and two self-guided
tours, one designed especially for children, and interpretive materials.
According to Linda Bantel, Edna S. TuttIeman Director of the Museum of American
Art, "This project of renovation and reinstallation announces a renewed commitment to our
audience, both in Philadelphia and throughout the United States. With it, we are redefining
the Museum of American Art on the eve of its third century, demonstrating that this is an
active institution that can reach out to today's audiences, and tomorrow's. In fact, we are
once again offering the public a jewelbox. "
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"Preposterously wonderful"--those are the words of a present-day critic, G. E. Kidder Smith,
describing the architecture of Frank Furness and his masterpiece, the Pennsylvania Academy
of the Fine Arts.
Writing in The Architecture of the United States·, Smith notes that
Furness "was probably the gutsiest architect who ever walked the North American
continent," a man known to his contemporaries as "fearless Frank" ("with reason," adds
Smith). Drawing on sources as diverse as Victorian Gothic, Queen Anne style, and
Richardsonian Romanesque, with inspiration from the writings of Ruskin and Viollet-Ie-Duc
thrown in for good measure, "Furness manipulated and sublimated these fashionable facets
with the force of a pile driver, achieving an intensity and 'compaction' rarely seen."
According to Smith, his "greatest surviving building"--designed in collaboration with George
W. Hewitt--is the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
Celebrated at the ·time Of its inauguration in 1876 but neglected over the ensuing
decades- and
s~bjected · to
disfiguring alterations, the Academy building was restored to its
original splendor from 1973 through 1976. (The great architect Louis 1. Kahn, himself an
alumnus of the Academy, said the restoration had brought "renewed life to this lifegiving and
inspired building.") Now a further multi-year renovation project--undertaken by the
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Philadelphia-based firm of Tony Atkin & Associates Architects at a cost of more than $3.5
million--has improved services for visitors to the Academy's Museum of American Art,
while bringing the Museum's behind-the-scenes facilities up to the highest current standards.
In effect, these projects are two phases of an ongoing effort to maintain the integrity
and spirit of America's oldest art museum and school. The results of this latest phase will be
concluded when the Museum of American Art re-opens on December 10, 1994. The process
might seem long for most institutions; but it represents a mere blink of the eye in the
Academy's 189-year history.
The Furness & Hewitt building, though more than a century old, is the Academy's
third. The first, designed by John Dorsey, was put up in 1806, one year after the Academy
was founded. After a fire gutted the Academy in 1845, Richard A. Gilpin restored and
enlarged the remains of the original structure; but within twenty-five years, that building,
too, was in need of replacement. The increasingly dense urban texture of Philadelphia had
almost hidden the Academy from view, and a storm had damaged many of the skylights. In
1871, the Academy's Trustees resolved to relocate from Chestnut Street to Broad Street and
to commission a new two-story, fireproof building.
Frank Furness (1839-1912) and his partner George W. Hewitt (1841-1916) won the
commission, and in 1876 they opened their $400,000 masterpiece, at the moment when
Philadelphia was hosting the Centennial International Exhibition--America's first World's
Fair, and the centerpiece of the commemoration of American independence. Colorful,
exuberant, and richly ornate, the building was immediately acclaimed as a marvel, becoming
one of the major attractions in the city during the Centennial Exhibition. (The great stair
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hall, notes Hyman Myers, was considered to be particularly inspiring and patriotic, with its
color scheme of red, white, and blue, embellished with gold and silver.) Unfortunately, as
often happens when tastes in architecture change, the building was gradually altered. The
brightly colored, ornamental cast-iron columns were encased in plain piers; skylights and the
stair hall were painted over; floor tiles were replaced; rooms were blocked off.
In 1973, with the Bicentennial celebration approaching, the Academy's Board of
Trustees resolved that the Furness & Hewitt building was as much of a masterwork as any of
the paintings or sculptures in the Museum's collection and should be restored, so it could
once again speak eloquently about the era in which it was made. The restoration project,
undertaken by Hyman Myers and the firm of Day & Zimmermann, brought the building back
to its original glory in time for the Bicentennial celebration in 1976.
On the building'S outside, workers removed the grime from the facade and
refabricated the limestone entrance archways and their iron and brass gates (lost in a
modernization in the 1950s). They renewed the roof and reconstructed the skylights, slate
shingles, and copper gutters in conformity with the original design. Surviving plans by
Furness and Hewitt, preserved in the Academy's vast archives, also served as the basis for
reconstructing the entrance foyer in solid oak. By stripping the foyer's arched ceiling of its
layers of paint, the workers revealed the original white brick arches and iron beams. They
repainted the walls, matching the original salmon color.
According to Hyman Myers, "the grand stair hall underwent the most extensive
restoration of any single part of the building":
All of the stonework was carefully cleaned and the decorative plaster walls,
with their diamond and floral motifs, were repainted and regilded. Under the
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stairway on the first floor a small section of the original encaustic tile floor
was uncovered and restored. These English Minton tiles once created a
colorful mosaic resembling an Oriental carpet. ... [In 1985, reproductions of
these tiles were relaid in the first-floor stair hall.] Finally, the stair hall was
once again crowned with a blue painted sky sprinkled with silver-leaf stars,
and the renovated skylight once again floods it with abundant natural light.
The architects took special pride in restoring the ornate gilded and polychrome iron
columns of the rotunda, since these are not only visually striking but historically significant.
Because they reveal the structure, they qualify the Furness & Hewitt building as a forerunner
of Modernism, as well as a masterpiece of eclectic, late-Victorian Gothic. Doorways were
reopened; woodwork was restored; even the brass doorknobs, locks, and hinges were
stripped of paint and polished.
Once more, the Furness & Hewitt building--designated a National Historic Landmark
in 1975--stood as a monument to the artistic, architectural, and cultural legacy of
Philadelphia and the nation. But landmark buildings become worn again with daily use; their
mechanical systems fallout of date. Also, just as important, their facilities must be revised
and upgraded--assuming that the institution, like the Academy's Museum of American Art, is
expanding its activities and its public.
In 1988, the Board of Trustees invited the firm of Tony Atkin & Associates to
undertake a feasibility study and master plan for a major expansion of the Museum office and
storage facilities. Out of that plan grew the determination to conduct a Third Century Fund
campaign. With the additional commitment of funds from the William Penn Foundation and
with a major grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, Tony Atkin & Associates
were able to begin the renovation of the Museum of American Art on May 28, 19?4.
The architects have redesigned the entrance lobby and improved accessibility to the
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Museum for visitors with handicaps. Certain areas that used to be relatively out-of-the-way
will now be more accessible, too, for all visitors--notably the Museum's collection of prints
and drawings. The architects have also built a new Museum
cafe and expanded the Museum
shop.
Equally important, the architects have installed state-of-the-art equipment for security,
fire detection and suppression, circulation and ventilation, and maintenance and housekeeping. All of the Museum's mechanical equipment will now meet the best current
standards. In addition, the renovation will make it easier for the Museum's staff to present
works of art to the public. Archival areas and conservation facilities have been improved,
offices redesigned for greater efficiency, and support areas upgraded for docents, staff, and
visitors.
Central to the renovation effort is the need to provide Museum visitors with a greater
range of services, principally educational. Curatorial and education staff members,
envisioning a complete reinstallation of the galleries, have worked with the exhibition design
team of Quenroe Associates to incorporate plans for a video orientation and two self-guided
tours, one designed especially for children, and interpretive materials.
According to Linda Bantel, Edna S. Tuttleman Director of the Museum of American
Art, "This project of renovation and reinstallation announces a renewed commitment to our
audience, both in Philadelphia and throughout the United States. With it, we are redefining
the Museum of American Art on the eve of its third century, demonstrating that this is an
active institution that can reach out to today's audiences, and tomorrow's. In fact, we are
once again offering the public a jewelbox. "
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AN INTERVIEW WITH LINDA BANTEL
Edna S. Tuttleman Director of the Museum of American Art
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The Museum of American Art has just undergone the biggest changes since you became
the director, in 1985. What are they going to mea.'l for the public?
Q:
LB: This is really just a phase in the evolution of a very lCiig-livoo institution--but it's an
important phase. I believe this project of renovation and reillstaliation announces a renewed
commitment to our audience, both in Philadelphia and throughout the United States. It's our
attempt to reclaim, in present-day America, something of the public role that the Academy
played in its heyday. In that sense, these are perhaps the biggest changes for us in nearly a
century.
Q:
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Can you summarize them for us?
LB: There are three parts to the project--a face lift for the building, a set of capital
improvements, and a reinstallation of the permanent collection. They all work together to help
redefine the Museum of American Art as an active institution, which can reach out to today's
audiences.
Q:
Why do you have to give the building a face lift? Wasn't there a major renovation from
1973 to 1976?
LB:
Yes. But that renovation was twenty years ago, and if you don't maintain and upgrade
an historic building periodically, it begins to deteriorate, which is what had begun to happen to
the Museum. The floors looked bad, the carpets were worn, the wall fabric was fading, and the
skylights had started to leak, which creates problems with the walls. Fortunately, the
Academy's board has recognized the need to reinvest in the Museum, so we can operate under
appropriate conditions and give the public the facilities they expect. In fact, we will once again
be offering them a jewelbox.
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Q:
You also mentioned capital improvements.
LB:
Yes. Our systems for security and fire protection and climate control were all twenty
years old. In technological terms, that's more than a generation--they were virtually prehistoric.
Now, thanks to the renovation project, we will bring ourselves back up to commonly accepted
standards. I realize that isn't exciting news for the public; but if we didn't-take care of such
behind-the-scenes business, we couldn't provide the excitement of our galleries or preserve
important collections.
Q:
You're re-opening with an exhibition titled "Two Centuries of Collecting," which is
devoted entirely to the Museum's permanent collection. For most museums, that would seem
like a meat-and-potatoes show. Why is it exciting for the Museum of American Art?
The issue is one of continuity. This is the oldest art museum in the United States; it has
LB:
played a role in American art from 1805 right through today. And yet, decades have gone by
since the Museum exhibited a full survey of its permanent collection, with no temporary
exhibitions taking away gallery space. Instead, we have put up masterpiece installations--the
Pennsylvania Academy's Greatest Hits--which means the visitors lose a sense of continuity. One
of our ambitions with "Two Centuries of Collecting" is to restore the chronology, so that we can
tell a coherent story about art, about America, and about ourselves, from the early days of the
Republic till now.
Of course, in order to make the experience meaningful, we have to present something
more than just a chronology. We will also be offering the public new interpretations.
Q:
What does that mean--"new interpretations"?
LB:
In the past, we have tended to put up thematic shows from our collection, focusing on
Impressionism, say, or portraiture. We have laid out the works according to a general
chronology, and then each piece has been interpreted in and of itself. In "Two Centuries of
Collecting," we will still use a chronological layout, and we will still interpret individual works.
But we're also trying to create a storyline, a thread that holds the whole thing together. Looking
at these works, you can get a sense of change over time, a sense of how art can be integral to
the politics, the emotions, the history of a nation.
I don't think the idea behind the installation is particularly novel--if anything, it's plain
common sense--and yet, judging from what I see in other museums, "Two Centuries of
Collecting" really will be out of the ordinary. Most installations seem to focus on style as such,
rather than on how style is part of a greater historical complex. This installation will show you
that works of art are themselves pieces of history. That doesn't mean they're more truthful than
anything else in history. They're points of view. You agree with them or you disagree--but you
have to understand they're parts of a culture that's been ongoing to the present day.
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Q:
Will the installation in fact come up to the present moment?
LB:
That's one of the most important facets of the installation--it will juxtapose the old and
the new. We have always collected the art of our time; but because our collections are so rich
in works of the 19th century, people tend to forget that the Museum has continually evolved with
its times. So, as you walk through the galleries, you will keep discovering vistas where you
look across from where you are and see 1760 confronted by 1960, or 1880 confronted by 1980.
Q:
Looking at the plan of the installation, it seems that your recent acquisitions will help to
reinforce the sense of continuity you're talking about. I'm thinking in particular of your new
collection of Motherwells.
LB:
We will in fact devote one whole gallery to our new collection of works on paper by
Robert Motherwell, and we will have a major painting by him in an adjacent gallery.
Because we were conservative in our collecting in the 1950s, we have many fine works,
but they are by less recognized artists, many of whom did figurative work. We have relatively
few paintings from the vanguard movement of the period, Abstract Expressionism. As a symbol
of our interest in collecting the art of our time, the Robert Motherwell collection is very
important to us--all the more so because he was among the more experimental of the Abstract
Expressionists in terms of his works on paper. With this acquisition, we hope to demonstrate
that we are committed to collecting with a pluralistic vision--the tradition of Motherwell as well
as the tradition of Eakins.
Q:
How did you acquire this group of Motherwells?
LB:
Motherwell used to exhibit in the annuals here; he also served on the School's scholarship
committee in the 1980s. In 1983, the Museum presented a retrospective of his prints. He told
me they looked more beautiful here than they had in New York at The Museum of Modem Art.
Also, the Academy gave him its gold medal, which has been awarded over the years to artists
such as Whistler. So, over time, Motherwell developed a close relationship with both the
Museum and the School.
After Motherwell's death, the Dedalus Foundation, which was established by his estate,
very graciously invited us to select a group of works that we might like. We have now chosen
about 35 objects. Our goal was to have as thorough a representation of his work as possible,
from his early Surrealist paintings of the 1940s through his late works on paper. We hope to
become a study center in this region for Motherwell, an ambition that the Dedalus Foundation
has encouraged.
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We acquired the works, by the way, by partial purchase and partial gift. The point is
important, because the funds we paid Dedalus will go to support their educational programs. In
this way, the purchase helps to further the mission that Motherwell had in mind.
Q:
That brings up the subject of your own educational mission. How do you plan to get
your new interpretations across to the public?
LB:
As part of the renovation and reinstallation project, we have developed a variety of
educational materials and activities, which will give visitors different options about how they
approach the collection--even the sequence in which they view it. Some of these approaches are
experimental for us, and perhaps even for the majority of art museums. But I think we have to
keep experimenting with educational methods to find new ways to energize people. Otherwise,
the objects in this collection will seem like nothing more than remnants of a bygone era.
Q:
Can you give us an example of your new approaches to education?
LB:
I'm especially excited about our project of creating Acoustiguides for children. The
initiative developed out of our recognition of a simple fact: children do not read wall labels.
Perhaps parents read labels to them; but even then, the signage tends to be written for experts.
So the general public reads labels on a selective basis, and children don't read them at all. By
making available an Acoustiguide for children, we're giving them, and their families, an
opportunity to get involved in looking at the collection and getting excited about art.
Q:
What about the activities you mentioned?
LB:
In the family areas, we're going to provide places where children can sit and engage in
hands-on games and activities. We have an advantage in developing that part of the program,
since many of the members of our staff are artists. They're helping us to make a visit to the
Museum a participatory experience for children. At the very least, these activities will get kids
to spend some time in front of a work of art. They'll also make children feel that the Museum
is something other than an off-putting, remote place their parents have dragged them to on a
weekend morning. If young people have ten minutes of fun in the Museum, when they're not
thinking of leaving, then I believe we'll be successful. Then we'll have begun to break down
some barriers, and maybe even develop an audience for the future.
Q:
Do you have any plans to install computer systems in the galleries?
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LB: We would like to get computers into the galleries eventually. Whether we do so in the
immediate future is a function not only of finances but also of planning.
I'm enthusiastic about computer technology; but you have to think about it very carefully.
The idea should be to get people into the galleries to look at the art, not to sit in front of a
screen like couch potatoes. Children in particular tend to do that; and if we let it happen, then
we've lost them. Then the museum becomes just a video arcade.
For now, we are struggling to find away to introduce computers into the galleries. In
the meantime, our methods and activities will remain low-tech.
Q:
And you believe you can reach people, including children, with a low-tech approach?
LB:
Well, we have a regular program with the Philadelphia schools. Four years ago, it
brought about 1,200 children into the Museum each year. This year, in just the first six months,
we had 15,000! The program has become so successful that we are now expanding it in the only
way we can, by keeping the Museum open a full seven days a week. Under our old schedule,
which was four days a week, we had reached the limit of our capacity.
Q:
Still, school children make no decision about coming to the Museum--they're simply
brought here. How well have you done with adult audiences, who have a choice?
LB:
We expanded our audience fourfold in a decade, so I feel we've done a fairly good job.
Where we've done an extraordinary job, though, is in transforming ourselves internally during
that period. The reason we're able to offer people a new view of our collection, installed in a
newly resplendent building, is because of the research, the cataloguing, the conservation, the
writing and publishing we've done, just in the years since I've been here. It's important for
people to understand--the Museum of American Art is a changed institution, inside and out.
Q:
You referred to that before. To put the changes into context, why don't you review for
us the way the Museum has evolved over the years?
LB: The Museum began as a collecting institution for the School; it assembled works for
artists to copy, for their training. Almost immediately, though, the Museum became a
marketplace as well. It was all very well for artists to train to make paintings and sculptures;
but if they had no place to sell their work, they could not survive. So the first real struggle was
to get an annual exhibition of professional artists' work into the Academy, and that happened
very quickly. At the same time, the Museum began collecting out of those exhibitions, as a way
of participating in the marketplace and supporting the artists' work.
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Q:
When did the next transformation occur?
LB:
When the Academy put up its new building in 1876--the same building we're in today--it
announced the role of the Museum as a major promoter and collector of art, and a major
showplace for the art of its time. At the same moment, Thomas Eakins instituted a structured
curriculum in the School, so that artistic training became codified much more thoroughly than
before. By that time, of course, Philadelphia and the Academy had become central to the
development of American art. In my estimation, it was the heyday of this institution.
The Museum was extraordinarily willing to take risks back then; it promoted things that
other institutions were still just starting to think about, such as photography. By the 1880s, the
Museum was holding annual photography exhibitions. Later on, it brought in Stieglitz and
Steichen. It showed the Barnes Collection; it showed the American modernists; it exhibited
architectural drawings as works of fine art, at a time when that was almost unheard of.
Q:
off.
You spoke of a heyday for the Museum. In that case, there must also have been a falling
LB:
Unfortunately, yes. Over the middle decades of this century, the Academy became more
of an art school and less of a museum. Student shows and alumni shows became the big annual
events; our public proflle was lowered. The nadir, probably, was 1969, when we discontinued
the annual exhibitions, recognizing that they had become irrelevant. Up through the 1930s,
artists and galleries were eager to submit their very best work to the Museum's annuals. But ·
after World War n, the New York art scene became absolutely dominant; the galleries did not
want to send their best work here. Institutions such as the Whitney Museum of American Art in
New York had taken over the job of surveying contemporary art, and were doing it much more
successfully than we could. So the annuals were discontinued.
Q:
When did the situation begin to change again for the better?
LB:
Tom Armstrong took over as director of the Academy in 1971 for a brief period, before
he went on to the Whitney Museum. At that time there was a movement to tear this building
down and move the Academy to the area of Independence Hall, which had been its original
neighborhood. The reason it didn't happen, basically, was Tom Armstrong. He saved this
building. He recognized its quality and importance, and so he went to architects, including
Louis Kahn and Robert Venturi, to support a restoration effort. The board then decided to make
a commitment to this building. It had been Bauhaused in the 1950s; but, having been boxed in,
it was opened up again and revealed as the beauty it is.
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Q:
The commitment to the building would seem to imply a renewed commitment to the
Museum as well.
LB:
Yes. During those same years when Tom Armstrong was leading the Academy, from
1971 to 1973, there was a movement to get a curator for the Museum for the first time, to
conserve the collection, to hire a registrar. The Academy began to recognize that it had an
audience and that the collection was of value and interest. For years, the Academy's audience
had primarily been itself. Finally, though, it began to reach out.
Since then, we have steadily gone on professionalizing the Museum--cataloguing,
conserving, launching educational programs, building an audience. I believe the renovation and
reinstallation program is a landmark in that process. It says to people, "Look how far we've
come."
Q:
But you haven't abandoned the activities you used to carry out?
LB: No. The annual student show still goes on. In the summer of 1995, we will present an
exhibition of artists from Philadelphia; so we're not neglecting that tradition, either. We also
have a regular series of exhibitions of artists from the Delaware Valley region, which we used to
hold in the Morris Gallery. That series had to be moved, because the Morris Gallery was the
best location for the new orientation video we've produced; but the program will continue.
Those exhibitions will now be seen upstairs, in the main galleries, so the old will butt into the
very new.
The most important facet of these temporary exhibitions, to me, is not the identity of the
artists, whether they're students or Philadelphians or people from the region. What's important
is that the work is part of today's art production. We will continue to emphasize the
contemporary in our temporary exhibitions and to survey as much as possible of the current
field.
Q:
Why are those temporary exhibitions so important to the Museum, and the Academy?
LB:
They're important because of the diversity they bring into the Museum. There are a
great many trends in American art today. Our holdings being what they are, we should not try
to collect them all; but it is our responsibility to show as wide a spectrum as possible. So, for
example, we do not intend to begin collecting video art; that would be inappropriate, given our
identity. But we are very proud to be presenting a temporary exhibition of the work of Nam
June Paik.
That's how we can serve the public and the artistic community.
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LINDA BANTEL
Edna S. Tu1ttleman Director of the Museum of American Art
Linda Bante1 has served as Director of the Museum of American Art and Vice President of
the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts since 1985. She joined the Academy in 1980 as
an assistant curator of the Museum's collection and was named chief curator in 1984.
After receiving a bachelor's degree from New York University and a master's degree from
NYU's Institute of Fine Arts, Ms. Bantel worked as an independent curator and research
consultant for individuals and institutions, including the Alice M. Kaplan Collection (197480), The Amon Carter Museum of Western Art (1974-75), The New-York Historical Society
(1975-76), and The Art Museum of South Texas in Corpus Christi (1977-79). In 1978, she
joined the staff of the Department of American Painting and Sculpture at the Metropolitan
Museum of Art in New York, where for three years she served as a research associate
during the creation of the American Wing.
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During her years at the Museum of American Art, Ms. Bantel initiated and oversaw the
Academy's first major efforts at cataloguing and conserving its historic collection. She has
also introduced an educational program at the Museum, revitalized the publications program,
and expanded attendance fourfold. Among the major exhibitions to have opened at the
Museum under Ms. Bantel's direction are "Drawing Toward Building: Philadelphia
Architectural Graphics, 1732-1986" (1986/87); "Figurative Fifties: New York Figurative
Expressionism" (1988); "Making Their Mark: Women Artists Move into the Mainsqeam"
(1989); "Paris 1889: American Artists at the Universal Exposition" (1990); "Light, Air and
Color: American Impressionist Paintings from the Collection of the Pennsylvania Academy"
(1990); "Frank Lloyd Wright: Preserving an Architectural Heritage: (1991); "Telling Tales:
19th Century Narrative Art from the Collection of the Pennsylvania Academy" (1991);
"Thomas Eakins Rediscovered: At Home, at School, at Work" (1991); "Cassatt, Degas &
Pissarro: A State of Revolution" (1992); and "I Tell My Heart: The Art of Horace Pippin"
(1994).
In addition to her service at the Museum of American Art, Ms. Bantel is active in
Philadelphia as a member of the Mayor' s Cultural Advisory Council and the Art in City Hall
committee. She is also an advisor to the city's multi-million dollar project to create an
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Edna'S. Tuttleman Director of the Museum of American Art
Linda Bantel has served as Director of the Museum of American Art and Vice President of
the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts since 1985. She joined the Academy in 1~80 as
an assistant curator of the Museum's collection and was named chief curator in 1984.
After receiving a bachelor's degree from New York University and a master's degree from
NYU's Institute of Fine Arts, Ms. Bantel worked as an independent curator and research
consultant for individuals and institutions, including the Alice M. Kaplan Collection (1974- .
80), The Amon Carter Museum of Westem Art (1974-75), The New-York Historical Society
(1975-76), and The Art Museum of South Texas in Corpus Christi (1977-79). In 1978, she
joined the staff of the Department of American Painting and Sculpture at the Metropolitan
Museum of Art in New York, where for three years she served as a research associate
during the creation of the American Wing.
During her years at the Museum of American Art, Ms. Bantel initiated and oversaw the
Academy's first major efforts at cataloguing and conserving its historic collection. She has
also introduced an educational program at the Museum, revitalized the publications program,
and expanded attendance fourfold. Among the major exhibitions to have opened at the
Museum under Ms. Bantel's direction are "Drawing Toward Building: Philadelphia -"
Architectural Graphics, 1732-1986" (1986/87); "Figurative Fifties: New York Figurative
Expressionism" (1988); "Making Their Mark: Women Artists Move into the Mainstream"
(1989); "Paris 1889: American Artists at the Universal Exposition" (1990); "Light, Air and
Color: American Impressionist Paintings from the Collection of the Pennsylvania Academy"
(1990); "Frank Lloyd Wright: Preserving an Architectural Heritage: (1991); "Telling Tales:
19th Century Narrative Art from the Collection of the Pennsylvania Academy" (1991);
"Thomas Eakins Rediscovered: At Home, at School, at Work" (1991); "Cassatt, Degas &
Pissarro: A State of Revolution" (1992); and "I Tell My Heart: The Art of Horace Pippin"
(1994).
In addition to ..her service at the Museum of American Art, Ms. Bantel is active in
Philadelphia asa member of the Mayor's Cultural Advisory Council and the Art in City Hall
committee. She is also an advisor to the city's multi-million dollar project to create an
Avenue of the Arts.
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GRESHAM RILEY
President, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Gresham Riley has served as President of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts since
January 1994, bringing to that position an extensive background in institutional
administration, strategic planning, and fundraising.
A published scholar in the fields of philosophy and higher education, Dr. Riley holds a
bachelor's degree from Baylor University and a doctorate in philosophy from Yale
University. Among his academic honors are a Fulbright Scholarship, a Woodrow Wilson
Fellowship, and a Danforth Fellowship.
From 1968 to 1969, Dr. Riley was a research fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the
Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. From 1972 to 1975, he was Provost of New
College in Florida; from 1975 to 1981 he was Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at
the University of Richmond in Virginia; and from 1981 to 1992 he served as President of
Colorado College. Prior to accepting the presidency of the Pennsylvania Academy, Dr.
Riley was a Senior Research Fellow for the Education Commission of the States and the
Colorado Commission of Higher Education.
Dr. Riley is a member of the American Philosophical Association, the Charles S. Pierce
Society, and the Society for Values in Higher Education. He currently serves on the boards
of the National Merit Scholarship Corporation and the Keystone Center on Science and
Public Policy.
Dr. Riley and his wife Pamela reside in the Center City of Philadelphia, where he serves on
the board of the Old City Civic Association.
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GRESHAM RILEY
President, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Gresham Riley has served as President of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts since
January 1994, bringing to that position an extensive background in institutional
administration, strategic planning, and fundraising.
A published scholar in the fields of philosophy and higher education, Dr. Riley holds a
bachelor's degree from Baylor University and a doctorate in philosophy from Yale
University. Among his academic honors are a Fulbright Scholarship, a Woodrow Wilson
Fellowship, and a Danforth Fellowship.
From 1968 to 1969, Dr. Riley was a research fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the
Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. From 1972 to 1975, he was Provost of New
College in Florida; from 1975 to 1981 he was Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at
the University of Richmond in Virginia; and from 1981 to 1992 he served as President of
Colorado College. Prior to accepting the presidency of the Pennsylvania Academy, Dr.
Riley was a Senior Research Fellow for the Education Commission of the States and the
Colorado Commission of Higher Education.
Dr. Riley is a member of the American Philosophical Association, the Charles S. Pierce
Society, and the Society for Values in Higher Education. He currently serves on the boards
of the National Merit Scholarship Corporation and the Keystone Center on Science and
Public Policy.
Dr. Riley and his wife Pamela reside in the Center City of Philadelphia, where he serves on
the board of the Old City Civic Association.
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PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS -
America's first an museum and an school
1805
Charles Willson Peale and 70 Philadelphia citizens gather at
Independence Hall to sign a charter establishing the Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Arts.
1807
First Annual Exhibition held at the Academy.
1812
First body of "Pennsylvania Academicians" nominated, among them
artists Charles Willson Peale, William Rush, Gilbert Stuart, Thomas
Sully, and Benjamin West. This group acts as an advisory body for the
school for the next half-century.
1812-13
Drawing from the live male model is introduced at the Academy, a
practice common to European Academies since the 16th century but
unprecedented in the United States.
1816
First purchase of a major painting, The Dead Man Restored to Life by
Touching the Bones of the Prophet Elisha by Washington Allston.
1845-47
A fire partially destroys the Academy's building. A new building is
reconstructed on same site.
1856
The female model is introduced in life classes. Curriculum also
includes lectures on anatomy and perspective and the copying of
paintings and antique casts.
1871-76
Architects Frank Furness and George Hewitt design new building for
site at Broad and Cherry streets that combines museum galleries with
school studios illuminated by natura1light. -The structure also includes
a special entrance for students, a library, and a large lecture hall.
1876
Receipt of John S. Phillips bequest of European prints and drawings.
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1878
Donation of Joseph and Sarah Harrison Collection of paintings,
including The Artist in His Museum by Charles Willson Peale and
Christ RC(jected and Penn's Treaty with the Indians by Benjamin West.
1879
Donation of Edward L. Carey Collection of American Art.
1880
Initiation of Joseph E. Temple Fund for the purchase of contemporary
art.
1881
The Academy organizes the first important exhibition of paintings by
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American expatriates.
1882
Philadelphia artist Thomas Eakins becomes director of the school, and
reorients curriculum to focus on the study of the live human model.
He insists that women as well as men draw from the nude model early
in their schooling, and includes studies of the human cadaver as part of
anatomy training.
1886
Eakins is fired for his controversial practices.
1891
Receipt of the largest bequest to date, the Henry C. Gibson Collection
of European paintings and American sculpture.
The first awards are given to Academy students for travel in Europe.
(More than 1,000 traveling scholarship have been awarded since this
time.)
1892
62nd Annual Exhibition presents the Ameriaan Impressionists to the
public with a major showing of their work.
1893
Artwork to be exhibited at the World's Columbian Exposition in
Chicago is first presented to the public at the Academy.
The Academy Gold Medal for achievement in the arts is awarded for
the first time.
1894
The Museum's managing director, Harrison S. Morris, who made
shrewd purchases for the collection, including excellent examples of
American Impressionism, acquires Winslow Homer's "Fox Hunt."
1897
The Academy purchases The Cello Player by Thomas Eakins.
1898-1901
Important early exhibitions of photography, known as the Photo Salons,
are held.
-31908
The Academy exhibition The Ei2ht introduces Philadelphia to this
group of young painters of urban subjects.
1920
The Academy holds the first of three landmark exhibitions of modem
art organized by Arthur B. Carles.
1923
An exhibition of contemporary European painting in the collection of
Dr. Albert C. Barnes (only recently have his paintings again left their
Merion home).
1976
In conjunction with the Bicentennial, the culmination of a major
restoration' project to modernize and restore the landmark building
designed by Furness and Hewitt.
Since 1980
The Museum has organized major retrospectives of the work of Horace
Pippin, Frank Lloyd Wright, Red Grooms, Franz Kline, William Rush,
Mary Frank and others, and reexamined the life of Thomas Eakins in
an exhibition entitled Thomas Eakins Rediscovered: At Home. At
School. At Work.
Among the thematic exhibitions of works from the collection travelled
nation-wide by the Museum of American Art are two organized and
circulated in collaboration with the American Federation of Arts:
Telling Tales: Nineteenth-Century Narrative Painting from the
Collection of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and Light.
Air. and Color: American Impressionist Paintings from the Collection
of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
1994
Culmination of a project to refurbish, restore, and modernize the
Museum's landmark building.
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PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS-
America's first art musewn and art school
1805
Charles Willson Peale and 70 Philadelphia citizens gather at
Independence Hall to sign a charter establishing the Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Arts.
1807
First Annual Exhibition held at the Academy.
1812
First body of "Pennsylvania Academicians" nominated, among them
artists Charles Willson Peale, William Rush, Gilbert Stuart, Thomas
Sully, and Benjamin West. This group acts as an advisory body for the
school for the next half-century.
1812-13
Drawing from the live male model is introduced at the Academy, a
practice common to European Academies since the 16th century but
unprecedented in the United States.
1816
First purchase of a major painting, The Dead Man Restored to Life by
Touching the Bones of the Prophet Elisha by Washington Allston.
1845-47
A fire partially destroys the Academy' s building. A new building is
reconstructed on same site.
1856
The female model is introduced in life classes. Curriculum also
includes lectures on anatomy and perspective and the copying of
paintings and antique casts.
1871-76
Architects Frank Furness and George Hewitt design new building for
site at Broad and Cherry streets that combines museum galleries with
school studios illuminated by natural light. The structure also incll1des
a special entrance for students, a library, and a large lecture hall.
1876
Receipt of John S. Phillips bequest of European prints and drawings.
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1878
Donation of Joseph and Sarah Harrison Collection of paintings,
including The Artist in His Museum by Charles Willson Peale and
Christ Rejected and Penn's Treaty with the Indians by Benjamin West.
1879
Donation of Edward L. Carey Collection of American Art.
1880
Initiation of Joseph E. Temple Fund for the purchase of contemporary
art.
1881
The Academy organizes the fIrst important exhibition of paintings by
American expatriates.
1882
Philadelphia artist Thomas Eakins becomes director of the school, and
reorients curriculum to focus on the study of the live human model.
He insists that women as well as men draw from the nude model early
in their schooling, and includes studies of the human cadaver as part of
anatomy training.
1886
Eakins is fIred for his controversial practices.
1891
Receipt of the largest bequest to date, the Henry C. Gibson Collection
of European paintings and American sculpture.
The fIrst awards are given to Academy students for travel in Europe.
(More than 1,000 traveling scholarship have been awarded since this
time.)
1892
62nd Annual Exhibition presents the American Impressionists to the
public with a major showing of their work.
1893
Artwork to be exhibited at the World's Columbian Exposition in
Chicago is fIrst presented to the public at the Academy.
The Academy Gold Medal for achievement in the arts is awarded for
the fIrst time.
1894
The Museum's managing director, Harrison S. Morris, who made
shrewd purchases for the collection, including excellent examples of
American Impressionism, acquires Winslow Homer's "Fox Hunt."
1897
The Academy purchases The Cello Player by Thomas Eakins.
1898-1901
Important early exhibitions of photography, known as the Photo Salons,
are held.
-31908
The Academy exhibition The Ei~ht introduces Philadelphia to this
group of young painters of urban subjects.
1920
The Academy holds the fIrst of three landmark exhibitions of modem
art organized by Arthur B. Carles.
1923
An exhibition of contemporary European painting in the collection of
Dr. Albert C. Barnes (only recently have his paintings again left their
Merion home).
1976
In conjunction with the Bicentennial, the culmination of a major
restoration project to modernize and restore the landmark building
designed by Furness and Hewitt.
Since 1980
The Museum has organized major retrospectives of the work of Horace
Pippin, Frank Lloyd Wright, Red Grooms, Franz Kline, William Rush,
Mary Frank and others, and reexamined the life of Thomas Eakins in
an exhibition entitled Thomas Eakins Rediscovered: At Home. At
School. At Work.
Among the thematic exhibitions of works from the collection travelled
nation-wide by the Museum of American Art are two organized and
circulated in collaboration with the American Federation of Arts:
Telling Tales: Nineteenth-Century Narrative Painting from the
Collection of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and Light.
Air, and Color: American Impressionist Paintings from the Collection
of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
1994
Culmination of a project to refurbish, restore, and modernize the
Museum's landmark building.
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PHILADELPHIA: A CULTURAL PROFILE
The Museum of American Art of the .:ennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts occupies a
central position in Philadelphia. Located two blocks north of City Hall, it is surrounded by
the cultural treasures of America's founding city. Like Philadelphia itself, the Academy is a
part of American history; and like Philadelphia, it remains a vital part of today's national
scene.
In conjunction with a roster of other major cultural institutions in the Central City
area, the Museum of American Art is a part of the Avenue of the Arts, a district that will be
developed at a cost of $260 million in public and private funds between 1994 and 1997.
Already, more than 8 million people a-year visit Philadelphia's cultural and historic
attractions. With the creation of the Avenue of the Arts--a project that includes a $15
million streetscape improvement, plus the development of a n{';w, $3 million shuttie service-Philadelphia's rich mix of cultural institutions will be more than ever a source of strength
and pride to the city.
Among the leading institutions in the city are:
The largest art museum in the city, and one of the most important
Art Museums:
encyclopedic museums in America, is tthe Philadelphia Museum of Art, which currently
welcomes approximately 600,000 visitors a year. Among its branches are the nearby Rodin
Museum; the Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial; and Thomas Eakins House. Other
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significant collections in the fme arts may be found at the La Salle University Art Museum;
The Woodmere Art Museum; The Norman Rockwell Museum; the University Museum of
Archaeolo~y and Anthf(wolo~y, University of Pennsylvania; and (just outside Philadelphia)
the Barnes Foundation. The Institute of Contemporary Art - University of Pennsylvania and
the Goldie Paley Gallery at Moore Colle~e of Art and Desi~n provide exhibition facilities for
contemporary art.
History Museums:
As the city where the Declaration of Independence was signed, where
the Continental Congress convened, the Constitution was drafted, and the United States first
had its capital (from 1790 to 1800), Philadelphia is exceptionally rich in historic sites.
Independence National Historical Park oversees Inde.pendence Hall, the Liberty Bell Pavilion,
Congress Hall, the Army-Navy Museum, the Marine Corps Memorial Museum, and other
sites and collections. Among the other history museums in the city: The Athenaeum of
Philadelphia, with collections relating to 19th and 20th century social and cultural history;
the Atwater Kent Museum - The History Museum of Philadelphia; The Civil War Library
and Museum; Fort Mifflin; the Germantown Historical Society; the Grand Army of the
Republic Civil War Museum; Historical Society of Pennsylvania; the Museum of the
Philadelphia Civic Center and Port of History Museum; the mid-Atlantic region branch of the
National Archives; the Philadelphia Society of the Preservation of Landmarks; and The
Victorian Society in America.
Historic Houses:
Visitors to Philadelphia may attend a wealth of museums created out of
historic houses, including Bartram's Garden in Bartram House (c. 1700); Cliveden (176367); The Ebenezer Maxwell Mansion (1859); Edgar Allan Poe National Historic Site (c.
1843); Lemon Hill Mansion (c. 1800); Loudoun Mansion (1801); Man Full of Trouble
Tavern (1759); the Naomi Wood Collection at Woodford Mansion (1756); and Wyck (two
buildings, c. 1736 and 1771). Independence National Historical Park oversees the Bishop
White House (1787-1836), Todd House (1775-83), Kosciuszko House (1797-98), Graff
House (1777), Deshler-Morris House (1772-94), and the City Tavern (1775-1805). The
Philadelphia Museum of Art oversees Cedar Grove (1721) and Mount Pleasant (1761).
Ethnic Museums:
Although it's easy in Philadelphia to become preoccupied with an
Anglo-American story about Independence and the founding of the Republic, the city is rich
in the stories of other cultures and traditions. Visitors may discover the Afro-American
Historical and Cultural Museum; the American Catholic Historical Society; the American
Swedish Historical Foundation and Museum; The Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies; the
National Museum of American Jewish History and the Philadelphia Museum of
JudaicaJCongregation Rodeph Shalom; the Presbyterian Historical Society; and the Polish
American Cultural Center.
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Colle~es.
Universities. and Libraries:
The Library Company of Philadelphia dates back
to 1731. The school that would become the University of Pennsylvania was founded in 1740
by Benjamin Franklin. Today, Philadelphia has 25 degree-granting institutions within the
city limits and a total of 88 in the metropolitan area, including such prestigious schools as
Bryn Mawr, Haverford, Swarthmore, Temple, Villanova, and the Wharton School of
Business. Other significant educational resources and research institutions include The
Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia; Franklin Institute; The Genealogical Society of
Pennsylvania; Mutter Museum of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia; the Philadelphia
Zoological Garden; The Rosenbach Museum and Library; The Schuylkill Center for
Environmental Education; the Society of Architectural Historians; the Wagner Free Institute
of Science;-and the Free Library of ~~lad~ln~a. _~
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The Performing Arts:
Among the most enduring institutions in the city is The
Philadelphia Orchestra, the world-renowned ensemble that has its base in the Aca~e~y' of . ,, '.
Music. The Academy of Music is also home to Peter Nero and the Philly Pops and the
Opera Company of Philadelphia. The city may .also boast of a second opera organizatioI1, ~e " ".'
Pennsylvania Opera Theater, and of the Philadelphia Singers and the Concerto Soloists. In
the field of dance, Philadelphia offers The Pennsylvania Ballet, Phildanco, and the Zero
Moving Dancing Company. In the field of theater, the city is home to the American Music
. Theater Festival and the Philadelphia Festival Theater for New Plays. The jazz world holds
Philadelphia in reverence as the city of John Coltrane. Fans of rock 'n' roll know
Philadelphia as the home of American Bandstand and Frankie Valli. Philadelphia's greatest
contribution to the field of television entertainment has no doubt been its native son and
Temple University graduate, Bill Cosby. Using the term "performiIlg arts" in a broader
sense, it's also possible to note the influence of the Philadelphia Phillies and Philadelphia
Eagles, which play at Veterans Stad~and of the Flyers ·and 76ers, which play at the
Spectrum.
Specialty Museums: Some of the more notable institutions that address special constituencies
are The Fabric Workshop; Fireman's Hall; The Horticulture Center; The Masonic Library
and Museum of Pennsylvania; Paley Design Center of the Philadelphia College of Textiles
and Science; the Philadelphia Maritime Museum; the Philadelphia Mummers Museum; the
Please Touch Museum (a popular attraction for children); and The Stephen Girard Collection
at Girard College.
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