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1884-1885 School Circular
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1884
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The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
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. PENNSY.LVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS.
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CIRCULAR
OJ<' THE
COMMITTEE ON INSTRUCTION,
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OFFICERS OF THE ACADEMY.
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CIRCULAR
PRESIDENT.
OF THE
JAMES L. CLAGHORN.
COMMITTEE ON INSTRUCTION.
DIRECTORS .
GEO. S. PEPPER,
HENRY C. GIBSON,
CLARENCE H. CLARK,
WM. B. BEMENT,
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JOSEPH WILLIAM BATES,
EDWARD H. COATES,
ATHERTON BLIGHT,
WILLIAM S. BAKER,
JOSEPH E. TEMPLE.
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JAMES S. MARTIN,
E. BURGESS WARREN,
CHARLES HENRY HART,
Treasurer
EDWARD H . COATES.
Secretary
GEORGE CORLISS.
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Curator of the ScllOOI and L ibrarian
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COMMITTEE ON INSTRUCTION.
WILLIAM S. BAKER,
JOSEFH WILLIAM BATES,
HENRY C. <;IBSON,
CHARLES HENRY HART.
Djr~ctor
of S chool
Professor of Artistic Anatomy
Assistant Professor of Painti1:g and D raw i1:g
Demonstrator of Anatomy
THOMAS EAKINS.
W. W. KEEN, M.D.
THOMAS ANSHUTZ.
WM. L. MACLEAN.
C?rrespondence on matters connected with the school should be addressed
to Mr. H. C. WHIPPLE, Curator.
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THE object of the School is to afford facilities and instruction of the highest order to those persons-m en and women
-who intend making pa intin g or sculpture their p~ofession .
Secondarily: To extend, as far as possible, the same
benefits, as a foundation, to engravers, die · sinkers, ill ustrators, decorators, wood-carvers, ston e-cutters, lithographers ,
photographers, etc., who have always been largely represented in the school. No advantages but those of pure art
education are offered to them, they learning ' outside, with
masters, in the workshop or in technical schools, the mechanical parts of their art or trade.
Lastly: To let amateurs profit by th e same facilities.
When the classes are crowded, preference in admission will
be given to applicants in the order above indicated.
The course of study is believed to be more thorough than
that of any other existing school. Its basis is the nude
human figure.
In the anatomical department, the advanced students dissect i and the demonstrators use largely. in the dissecting
room, the nude living model for comparison.
A course of thirty-five anatomical lectures is given, and
also a series of lessons in perspective and composition.
Animals are also dissected from time to time, and a living
horse is used in the modeling room each season for a pose
of six or eight weeks.
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hours l>eing arranged so as not to interfere with each
every student has an opportunity of modeling in clay,
as of painting, from the nude. This combination is
fessentiaI feature of the course.
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FORM OF APPLICATION FOR ADMISSION TO
THE SCHOOL OF THE PENNSYLVANIA
ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS.
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CHARGES.
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.or the season of eight months, including all
.•.. privileges,
one month, same privileges, .
one month, Antique Class, day and night,
one month, Night Life Class,
the season of eight months in the Antique
Class, day or night, or in the Night Life
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ADMISSION OF STUDENTS.
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plications for admission on the fourth Wednesday in
every month, excepting May, June, July, and August.
All applications should be filed the day before the
meeting.
.. CONDITIONS OF ADMISSION.-Students are admitted to the
Antique Class without being required to submit any
drawing for examination, but each applicant must fill
up the following form, copies of which can be had at
the office of the Academy.
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Occupation
Object in studying Art ..........................._...
I desire to take out a ticket for ......................_..............................:....~
Address .......................................................................................... .
are payable in advance. A full season Ticket may
. paid for in six monthly instalments of eight dollars, or
one payment of $48. A partial season ticket may be
for in six instalments of four dollars, or in one payof $24
:,....,I_"'" OF ADMISSION.-The committee will act upon ap-
My age ."............ .
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person of good character, of either sex, and over
years o,f age, giving satisfactory evidence of ability to profit by the course of study laid down in these
rules, will be admitted, on application made in compliance with the following directions:
I desire to enter the Antique Class of the Academy. I
have read the rules embodied in the,circular of the Academy,
and agree to abide by them .
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Students will be transferred from the Antique to the Life
Class as soon as they have demonstrated, by their work in
the Antique, their ability to profit by the Life Class work.
For such transfer to the Life Class when the Student is a
minor, the written permission of parent or guardian must be
obtained
The Life Class cannOD be entered in any other way. except in the case of those who have previously belonged to
it, or those who can give satisfactory proof that they have
been members of Life Classes in other recognized Art
Schools.
Every person admitted to study in the Academy will be
furnished with a ticket, which must be shown on entering,
until the holder is known to the door-keeper.
Life Class students only will be admitted to the dissecting
room; and the same restriction applies to the modeling room
at the hours assigned for modeling from the living figure.
* In the space before the asterisk abo"e, the length of time for which a
ticket is asked, should be Hated.
Weekly
Sch~dule
of Classes.MONDAY.
Men's Life (drawing and painting) .
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1-4 P.M.
Women's Life (drawing and painting)
9--12 A.M.
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WEDNESDAY.
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FRIDAY.
THURSDAY.
9--12 A.M.
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At arranged hours.
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Lectures on Art Anatomy .
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Lectures on Perspective and Composition
Dissecting Room Study.
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AND DUTIES OF STUDENTS.
REGULATIONS FOR ANTIQUE ROOMS .
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are provided with closets or boxes, drawingt
and modeling stands.
student, on taking out his ticket, will be required
deposit one dollar, which will be paid back to him when ,.
up his keys and returns the. property of the
.....1....,.." which he has been using.
'iI:\.~IDC expiration of the time for which his ticket was
the .student must remove all his personal property
the Academy, and give up the keys which he has refrom the Academy.
student. well advanced in painting who desires to
a study copy of a picture ~longing to the Academy,
receive from the President permission to do so, on
=-enting a written application approved by the Committee
instruction, and specifying the picture to be copied.
student's ticket entitles the holder to visit the galleries.
TIONS FOR THE LIFE CLASS ROOMS.
THE MODEL.-Each new pose shall be determined
a committee of five of the class, taken in regular order
the alphabetical roll.
The committee for the first pose shall consist of the
five on the roll who are present at the commenceof that pose; for the second pose the next five; and
on to the end of the rolL
'Any member of the class not present when, by the
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regulations, he would be placed upon the commit- .
will forfeit his tum.
The decision of the committee as to the pose shall be
paihting pose shall consist of six sittings, and each
pose of twelve or eighteen, unless the Director
order otherwise.
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No cast shall be moved ex;cept by order of the teacher, or
Curator, who shall decide how long it may remain away
from its place.
Students will be held responsible for breakage of casts resulting from their own carelessness.
REGULATIONS FOR THE DISSECTING ROOM.
The Demonstrator of Anatomy has charge of the Dissecting .Room, and superintends, under the Director, the dissecting, casting, and drawing.
The Assistant Demonstrators (who are selected from the
students) make the dissections; and make daily demonstrations for the Life Class students, who are are admitted
. to the Dissecting Room, and who may then, if they desire, make drawings of the dissections.
The period for dissection is included between the first of
November and the first of the following April. No dissection shall be made in the Academy except those
authorized by the Director, or the Professor of Anatomy.
The work in the dissecting room involves much practical
study of comparative anatomy, and is therefore of direct
use to animal painters as well as to painters of the· human
figure.
LECTURES ON ARTISTIC ANATOMY.
Prof W. W. Keen will begin his course of lectures on
Artistic Anatomy, free to all Academy students, on the
13th of October.
Season tickets for these lectures, for persons not Academy
students, Five Dollars.
The course will consist of about thirty-five lectures, to be
given on Monday and Wednesday evenings, at six o'clock.
The lectures will be illustrated by diagrams, casts, anatomical models and preparations, skeletons of man and the
lower animals, dissections, and the living model.
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the occasional criticism o(the teachers; and the classes are
intended' especially for those who expect to be professional
artists.
following subjects will be treated, although not necesin precisely the following order or number of lec:-
'~:; The introductory lecture will treat of the relations and
THE CHARLES TOPPAN PRIZE.
-portance of anatomy to art, and of the proper methods of
study.
Ten lectures will be given to the study of the bones and,
,joints of the human skeleton and the comparative anatomy
the skeleton.
Fourteen ,lectures to the muscles, especially to those
directly influence external form. Two of these will
devoted to the muscles of the face and the anatomy of
~pression, both in man and the lower animals.
Four lectures to the eye, nose, mouth, chin, and ear.
Two lectures to the skin, with its various wrinkles (espey those of the face), and the subcutaneous layer of fat
and the bloodvessels in the superficial fascia.
One lecture to the hair and beard, and postural expression.
One lecture to proportions.
This prize, estabiished in 188 I, by the gift of Mrs. Charles
Toppan, Miss Harriette R. Toppan, and Mr. Robert N.
Toppan, was awarded, for the first time, at the autumn exhibition of the Academy in October, 1882. The conditions
are as follows:At each A~nual Exhibition of the Pennsylvania Academy
of the Fine Arts, two prizes, one of Two Hundred dollars,
and one of One Hundred dollars, shall be awarded by the
Committee on Instruction, or such other Committee as
may be appointed by the Board, for the two best pictures
by students of the Academy who have worked regularly in
its schools for at least two years; provided, however, that
there shall be no obligation to award a prize to any work
which is not, in the opinion of the Committee, of sufficient
merit.
The pictures submitted may be either in oil or water color,
and must be entered in the usual way for the, Annual Exhibition.
They may be either figure pieces, landscapes, cattle
pieces, or marines.
The competition is not extended to sculpture.
According to the positively expressed terms of the gift,
the drawing of the pictures will receive the first attention of
the examiners, that work which shows the most accurate
drawing receiving the preference.
In any case of uncertainty as to the right of a competitor
to be considered a student, the decision of the Board of
Directors upon a report from the Committee on Instruction
shall be final.
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LECTURES ON PERSPECTIVE AND COMPOSITION.
A course of eight or more lectures on perspective and
. (!omposition will be given by the Director during the m~nths
of March and April.
Season ticket for this course to persons, not Academy stu'dents, Three Dollars.
GENERAL STATEMENT OF OBLIGATIONS.
Every person admitted to study in the Academy is held
; bound by all the foregoing regulations; and is also expected
,. to be orderly and proper in conduct. '
SPECIAL NOTICE TO APPLICANTS.
The Academy does not undertake to furnish detailed
instruction, but rather facilities for study, supplemented by
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