1890-1891 School Circular

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1890

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The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

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CIRCULAR
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COMMITTEE ON INSTRUCTION.

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PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE
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Instructors.
THOMAS P. ANSHUTZ,

Painti1lg, Dmwing and Modeling.

Instruction,
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CHARGE OF THE SCHOOLS OF THE ACADEMY.

JAMES P. KELLY,

Painting, Drawillg alld JI·[ odelillg.
CHARLES H. STEPHENS,

Drawing alld Paillting.
F RANK L. KIRKPATRICK ,

Composition and Portrait Class.

JOHN H. PACKARD, M.D., Chairman,
WILLIAM S. BAKER,
CHARLES HENRY HART,
CHARLES HARE HUTCHINSON,
HENRY WHELEN, JR.

GEORGE McCLELLAN, M.D.,
Art Anatomy.
ALEXANDER STIRLING CALDER,
D emonstrator of Anatomy.
H. C. WHIPPLE,

Cttrator and Librarian.

*** All correspondence in regard to m atters connected witl! the
Schools should be addressed to Mr. H . C. Whippl e at the Academy.

fROM THE MCHIVES OF.
PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS
00 NOT REPRODUCE WITHOUT PERMISSION

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other, every student in the Life Classes has an opportunity
of modeling itt clay, as well as of painting, from the nude.
This combination is an essential feature of the course.
The Academy does not undertake to furnish detailed instruction, but rather facilities for study, supplemented by the
criticism of the teachers; and the classes are intended espe, dally for those who expect to be professional artists.

ON INSTRUCTION.

Admission of Students.

of the Schools of the Academy is to afford facili'of the highest order to those personswomen-who intend making painting or sculpture
: To extend, as far as possible, the same
a foundation, to engravers, die-sinkers, illustra'!Wood-carvers, stone-cutters, lithographers,
etc., who have always been largely repre'. the schools. No advantages but those of pure art
offered to them, they learning outside, with
the workshop or in technical schools, the meof their art or trade.
To let amateurs profit by the same facilities.
classes are crowded, preference in admission will
applicants in the order above indicated ..
of anatomical lectures is given, and also a series
Perspective and Composition. Lectures by weIland others on general subjects will be arranged
DmllIliittE~e during the year.
horse is used in the modeling room each season
six or eight weeks.
being arranged so as not to interfere with each

The Committee will act upon applications for admission on
the last Wednesday in every month, excepting May, June,
July and August. All applications should be on file the day
before the meeting.
Each applicant for admission to the Antique Classes must
submit a specimen of his or her work, signed with full name
and address. Drawings must represent the whole or part of
the human figure, and must be made from the solid object.
Tliey must be executed expressly for the purpose.
Students may be transferred from the Antique to the Life
Classes upon recommendation of the Instructors. They
must, at the same time, submit a drawing or drawings
executed by them in the Academy, and representing the
entire human figure. Such drawings must be upon paper
measuring at least 18 24 inches, and signed with full name.
The Life Classes cannot be entered in any other way, except
in the case of those who have previously belonged to them, or
those who can give satisfactory proof that they have been
members of Life Classes in other recognized Art Schools, and
who at the same time submit a specimen of previous work.
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.

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Calendar.

Students are provided with closets or boxes, drawing-boards
.and modeling stands.
Each student, on taking out his ticket, will be required to
deposit one dollar, which will be paid back to' him when he
gives up his keys and returns the property of the Academy
which he has been using. The Academy will not be responsible for money, watches, jewelry or other valuables which may
be lost from the closets or boxes.
At the expiration of the time for which his ticket was
issued, the student must, unless it is renewed, remove all his
personal property from the Academy, and give up the keys
which he has received from the Academy.
A student's ticket entitles the holder to visit the galleries.
Sketching, drawing or painting in the galleries is allowed
only when special permission has first been obtained.
Any student well advanced in painting who desires to make
a study copy of a picture or piece of statuary belonging to
the Academy, may receive from the President permission to
do so, on presenting a written application approved by the
C6=ittee on Instruction, and specifying the work to be
copied.

Year will begin on Monday, September 29, 1890,
Saturday, May 30, 1891.
on Art Anatomy will begin on the roth of
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on Perspective will begin on February 14,1891.
Class will meet on Friday, the 28th of
and on the last Friday of each succeeding month.
schools will be closed on Sundays, ThanksChristmas and New Year's Days, a:iJ.d Washing-

Charges.
of eight months, including all priviPortrait Class. . . . . . . .
",,,.,-, __'__ , same privileges . . . . . .
"LU.UllLll. Antique Class, day and night
Night Life Class . . . . . .
of eight months in the Antique Class,
or in the Night Life Class
Class, each month.
To students in the Academy
0, To former students of the Academy
to be madt!' in advance.

$48.00
8.00
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24.00
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Regulations for Class Rooms.

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Antique Rooms.-No cast shall be moved except 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.
Life Classes.-Each new pose shall be determined by a committee of three of the class, taken in regular order from the
alphabetical roll.
The committee for the first pose shall consist of the first
three on the roll who are present at the commencement of that
pose; for the second pose the next three; and so on to the end
of the roll.
Any member of the class not present when, by the above
regulations, he would be placed upon the committee, will forfeit his turn.
The decision of the committee as to the pose shall be final.
Each painting pose shall consist of six sittings, and each
sculpture pose of twelve or eighteen, unless the "Instructors
should order otherwise.
Only students at work will be admitted into the Life Class
Rooms during the regular hours.
Disseding Room.-The Demonstrator of Anatomy has
charge of the Dissecting Room, and superintends, under the
Instructors, the dissecting, casting and drawing.
The Assistant Demonstrators (selected from among the
students) make the dissections; they also give demonstrations
to the Life Class students admitted to the Dissecting Room,
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 A pri!. No dissections
shall be made in the Academy except such as are authorized
by the Instructors.

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Lectures.
Class will meet on the last Friday of each
.drawings illustrative of the subject previously
be sUbmitted, and a lecture or informal critieight or more lessons in Perspective will be
February.
d!c(:lenan will begin his course of lectures on
Monday., November 10th, at 4~ o'clock.
will be given regularly every Thursday evenand 'Monday afternoon at 4~ o'clock
winter. They will be illustrated by diagrams,
_i',' ....",...e.",. photographs and extempore drawings
Dissections of the muscles will be shown
such demonstrations on the cadaver will be
ble and important to art students. Special
be given to the mechllnism of the joints, to
and the natural postures of the body in repose;
IJW'UlI.Ilt:IlC'1::> of the skeleton as affecting the outtn1cer·-acuclU of the muscles, on which in life deof the· body, and the fine surface-marking
a.i8pOl~lt1on of fatty tissue and the relative elastica study so essential to the artist in order to
the human form in drawing, painting or
of expression will receive careful considera'ilA::tic,ns of the muscles will be frequently illusliving model.
also be made to the suggestions of comparathis point of view.
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be practicable, the system of teaching emAnatomy being believed by the lecturer

to be the best for conveying practical information and awakening the interest of the student in the relation of facts to
theories.
In addition to the lectures, demonstrations to advanced
students will be given on the living mode~ in the Life Classes
by Dr. McClellan.
For students and others, not members of the classes of the
Academy, the fee will be Ten Dollars.
Other lectures will be given by well-known artists and
competent teachers, as may be arranged by the Committee
during the year.
The lectures on Art Anatomy, Perspective and Composition,
and such others as may be arranged by the Committee, are
open to all students in the several classes, and a general
attendance is expected.
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The Charles Toppan Prizes.
These prizes, established in 1881, by the gift of Mrs. Charles
Toppan, Miss Harriette R. Toppan and Mr_ Robert N. Toppan,
were awarded, for the first time, at the autumn exhibition of
the Academy, in October, 1882. The conditions are as follows:
At each Annual 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, for the best two pictures by students of the Academy who have worked regularly in its
schools for at least two years, one of them being the school
.year preceding the exhibition.at which the prize is awarded;
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.

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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.
Instructions for students intending to exhibit will be furnished in a circular to be hereafter issued.

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