100th Annual Report for the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
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100th Annual Report for the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
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THE ONE HUNDREDTH ANNUAL REPORT, THE PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE/
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FINE ARTS, FEBRUARY 5, 1906 TO FEBRUARY 4, 1907.
In presenting this, their One HUndredth Annual Report, to
the Stockholders of th.8 Pennsylvania Academy of th e Fine Arts, the
Board of Directors are gratified by the improved physical condition
of the Academy and by its constantly widening influence in the
communi ty.
Much has been · done in the past year in better,ment of our
building but at best the present plant is inadequate to the work
att-empted and the need of a new building, or additions to- the pre ....
sent building is again emphasized.
Much of t he increased interest in the ef:fforts of the Academy
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is owing to it s Life and Annual Members and to all subscriber s who
are thus help ing in t he forward work of the Inst i tu t ion cordial
thank s are 9:ue.
In this connection it is, peF'bap s, interesting
to quot e from a circular re que st for such sibs cr ipti ons lssue d in
Novemb er last in response to whic h the n1il.mbeF' of Life and Annual
Members has shown ,a gratifying increase:"Only with t he support and generous co-operation of the community can high artistic aims be encouraged and achieved and t
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perman Ebt colle ctions enlarg ed and impro ved to a standard worthy of
the civic position of Ph:iladelphia.
eO. in otrer cities.
Such support is liberally of:f:e:-
New York, with a population of 3,437,000, gi;-es
to the Metropolitan Museum over twenty-three hundred members, contributing in 1905, $23,390.
The population .of 'Chicago is
1,698,000, and the Chicago Art Institute had that same year an
income of $25,250" derived from its 2219 Annual Members alone.
The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, t:re population being 560,000,
had. 1292 contributing members giving it $16,485; ' while for the
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past year, the population of Philadelphia beingl,293,000, more \
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than twice that of Boston, thi s Academy has receiv 'e d $2,800
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from 280 Annual Menber s ,
The Start, however, has been made; and all who are interested
in the advance of culture and art are asked to join in the work and
in the larger undertak ing s of the. Academy 9"
As evidencing th e last ing beneri t of such subscript ions it is
worthy of note that from t.he funds contributed by Annual Manber's,
the Acad.emy has purchased portraits 'of Presi dent and Mrs
Ii
Madi son,
of Alexander Jam es Dallas and. of Dr 9 John Fothergill, all by Gilbert
stuart, of Henrietta Van Haaven by Schalcken, of Francis Scott Key
by CharI es Willson Peale and of Dr. Horace Howard Furness by
Jo seph DeCamp.
Many of t
re se
ill us tr;i.ous work S have been add.ed to the Gallery
of National Portraiture t formally opened November 18, 1905.
In t h is Gallery, in which beside other important works there
is already the best existing collection of works by Gilbert Stuart,
the Academy aims to include portrai t s of the founder s an d maker s of
the Republic, . of t he State of Penn sy Iv ania and of t he Cit y of'
Philadelphia, and of men and women notable in American literature,
science, the arts and social life.
It is hoped that many of the portraits of distinguished raan
and women now in private houses will find a resting-place in this
Gallery, which will be come of far-reaching . and Ve1!.'y real interest,
In special cases an arrangene-nt may tre made with the Comnittee on
'Exhi b it ion for the loan and deposit, either for a specified
time or indefini tely, of family portrai ts of esp ecial int erest or
di stinction.
Acceptance ancl confirmation by the Board of Directors
of a portrait given and transferlf"ed to the Acadeny will pr.ovide
for its care and. exhibit ion
in perpetui ty
in the presen t rooms
of the Institution or in the galleries which :tr.ay hereafter be
erect EXi.
In connection with t
re
Gallery of National Portraiture
th ere is e sp eci al need of an en do wmen t fund) t he income from
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whi ch should be tlse'd only fo r the purchase of exi st ing notable
portraits or for tre granting of conmissions for portraits in....
tended to be added to the collection.
The One Hund.red, and First Annual. Exhibition was in progress.
when t he last Annual Report was presented.
It closed on March 3,
and the at1ter.dance o.uring the six weeks of the exhibition was
55035.
Th e sa les of works of art from it numb' ered 41, at a tot aJ.
value of $14,7l4.00~
The Gold.- Medal of t re Temple Fund was awarded by t he Jury . of
Painters to Eugene Paul Ullman for his painting entitledc"Portrait
of Madame Fish er. U
The Walt e1" Lipp incott- Prize of $300.00 was awarded for this
exhibi ti on to Childe Hassam fo
Morning, Isle of Shoals."
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hi s painting en ti tIed "Sumrr@T
The Mary Smith Prize of $100.00 was
awarded by the Committe€.e on Exhibit ion to Alice Mumf'ord for her
'painting entitled "Two Vaudeville Stars."
The Jennie Sesnan Gold
Medal was awarded by t he Jury of Painters to AlbeF't L. Groll for
his painting entitled "Arizona."
The Academy Gold Medal of Honor was awarded by t
re
Board
of 'Directors to Horatio Walker' , whose gro'up of five pictures was
a dist iB:guished feature of t he exhibit ion.
Another feature worthy of more than passing notice was the
group of works loaned by Charles L. Freer, Esq., of Detroit, including three notable canvasses by Whistler.
In acknowledgemmt
of his servi,ces to this Institution and to t h e Nation at large,
Mr. Freter was in May e1 ect ai by the Bo ard of Di rectors an honorary
member of the Academy.
From March 12th to April 8th, Galleries A, K, and I were
oc(cupied by an Exhibition of paintings representing the recent
work of "The Glasgow Scheol~"
Frem March 24th to April 2J.st the Third. Annual Phi:).adelphia
Wat er Color Exhibi t ion, under the j
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int auspices of the Aca demy
and the Philadelphia Water Color Club, was held in t he Galleries
on the north side.
The exhibition, judged by newspaper
co~ents,
by the attendance and. by the sales, · was the most successful of its
kind ever held in t-m Academy, 65 works being sold at a to tal
value of $3,944.00.
The attendance was 16,886.
During the month
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of Ma y, Galleries A, K, and I were devoted to an exhibit ion of
pictorial pho tographs arranged by the Photo-Secess ion, Which
attracted wide and favorable comnent and drew to t
[e;
Academy an
~ endance of 8,248.
In conne ction with t re Franklin Bi-Cen temial Celebration,
held April 17, 18, and 19, the Academy was fortunately able to
have an exhibition portraits of Dr. ]':ranklin by Duplessis and
Greuze and the portrai t by Richard Willson, taken o.uring the
Ameri can Revolution from Dr 9 Franklin's home in Philadelphia by
Major Andre, carri ed to England by General Sir Charles Grey and
returned at thi st :ime by his descendant, Earl Grey as a gift to
the people of t
re
Uni ted Stat es.
From June 11th to 25th an exhibit ion was he ld
in Gall r;r.y A
of architectm-al drawings made for the St. Thomas's Church Competition and the National Theatre Competition.
This was arranged
by the T Square Club of Philadelphia.
Dur ing July, Augu st an d sept emb er it the re were shown in
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Gallery A, a group of pain ting s from t h3 co llection of Dr .. Geo l'ge
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Woodward and in
Gall~y
K a group of' paintings from tte collee-
tion of Pet er Scheum, Esq.
OtlX
These two groups happ ily supplimented
own Permanent Collection and. drew to the Academy during the
summer an attendance ·of 27,519.
Thanks are dUe Dr. Woodward
and Mr. Schemmf'or the it"' generous co-operation in the Acad.anyt s
work.
From Novanb er 6th to November 24th, 1906, the Fellowship
of the Academy presented in Galleries A, K, and I its Seventh
Annual Exhibition intended to make its strongest appeal to a
professional audience but of' enticing inte:l'est to the lay public
as well.
At the same time there was shown in Gallery G a collection
of the works of Jules Guerin, "The) Chateaux of the Loire, and.
other subjects," and in Gallery H, a colleotion of' oontemporary
miniatures arranged by t be Pennsylvania Society of Mini ature
Paint er_s..
For this Exhibi t ion . Gallery H was arranged as a part ...
ialllT furnished living-room and its charming appearance attracted
much favorable oonment
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The attendance during these exhibitions was 8,376.
The Annual Architectural Exhibit ion under the joint auspices
and control of tre T Square Club and the AcademY, was opened with
a recep tion on December 1st and was closed Dec erpber' 30th.
To it
were devot ed all of t:re Galleries except the Gilpin and Gibson
Galleries.
Galler'Y F was entirely given up to the department of
mural painting arranged through the co-operat ion of the National
Society of Mural Painter s and an unusual and inspiri ng colI ecti on
of Architectural Sculpture was shown through the co-operation of
the National Sculpture Societyo
To these Societies as well as to
the T Square Club, are due the thanks of the Academy and of the
comnunit y:
Anot her fea tu re of thi s splendid exhibit ion was the g~'oup of
· works shown in Galler'y G, representing leading French architects.
All of the drawings made in America for trie Hague Oeace Palace
Competit ion were also shown and the works illUstrative of civic
impro vern ants were of e sp ec:ial int ere st to Philadelphian s at
this time.
Indeed, the whole exhibition made a vital appeal to
a City apparently at the beginning of a great forward mOVEment
in archi tee tUl' e •
The One Hundred and Second Annual Exhibition of paintings and!
sculpture was inaugurated with a private view and reception on
Saturday evening, January 19th, and the Aomemy is undeF' obligation to the following ladies who acted as hostesses:
Mrs.
Mrs.
Mrs.
Mrs.
Mrs. James M. Willcox
Charles Wheeler
Mrs.
George D. Widener
Edward H. coates
Mrs. Gari Melcher"s
Robert Coleman Drayton
Mrs. Craig Biddle
Thorn as Learning
Miss Frances B 0 St ot e sbury •
The exhibit ion was opened to the public on Sun d.ay , January
20th and will be continued until February 24th.
The entire circuit
of the galleri es is occupied with the exception of the Gibson
Galleries and the Gallery of National Portraiture.
Somewhat
small e1" in the number of exhibits than previous anillual exhibit ions, the effo rt has been made to ke ep th e s tendard high::r thin
ever before and to present tho se works shown to the ir best possible
advant agee.
That thi s effort has been in t he main successful is
evi denced by the flattering
criti~isms
of the Exhibit ion which
ha ve appe ared in many of t he paper s th roughout th e co unt ry.
An
in teresting and inspiringnfeature 'of the Exhibition is the number?'
of important works shown by artists who have never . before exhibited at the AcademY, these new exhibitors comprising 22-1/2
per cent of the whole number.
The works included in the cata-
logue number 478, representing 249 exhibitors.
Espec :i8ol apprec:ia tion and. thanks are due to the members of
the Jury and. t he Hanging COl'lmi ttee from Philadelphia, New York
and Bo ston, all of whom have been most faithful and untiring in
their efforts toward the success of this Exhibit ion.
The Painter s Jury was compos ed of the following:
Edward W. Redfi eld, Cha irman
Frank W. Ben son
CharI es · Francis Brown(e
Joseph DeCamp
Carroll S9 Tyson,
Will iam J. Glackens
C.hilde Hassam
W. Sergeant Ken dall
Julian Story
Jr.
The Sculpturs Jury was composed of the following:
Charl es Grafly, Chairman
Adolph Weinman.
Karl Bitt er
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Th e Golo. Medal of t he Temple Fund was awar ded by the JurY
of Paint ers to Willard L. Metcalf for hi s painting entitled The}
Golden Screen.
The Jennie Sesnan Gold. Med.al was awarded by the Jury of.
Painters to Ernest W. Lawson for his painting entit led The River
in Wint er.
The Mary Smit h Prize of $100. was awarded by the Commi ttee
on Exhibit ion to Mary Smyth Perkins for her painting ent itled "Cows"
The Walter Lippincott Prize of $300. was awar ded for this
exhibit ion to Marion PoweJrs for her painting entitled A TeaParty.
The attendance dill'ing the year 1906-1907 at exhibitions,
lectu~c es,
etc., was 161,682.
The Perman En t ColI ections of t:re Acad.emy have re eei ved the
f 0110 wing add. i t ion s : Henry Pratt of Lemon Hill by Henry Innan.
Pre sented to the
Academy by Mrs. J. Dundas Lipp inca tt •
Portrait of Francis Scott Key by Charles Willson Peale,
Purchased by the Academy fr om the.. Annual Menbership Fund
Becky Sharp by rrhomas P. Anshutz.
Purchased from the Third
Annual Philadelphia Wat er Color Exhibit ion for the Temple Colle·cticn
Road to Nice by William L. Picknell.
Bequeathed to the Academy
by GertrUde Flagg
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Boy wi th the Violin by Elizabeth Wentworth Roberts.
Presented
to the Academy by the Artist.
Dr. Horace Howard Fu.rness by Joseph DeCamp.
Comnissioned by the
AcademY, and paid foX' from the Annual Memb er ship Fund.
Beatri ce by W. Sergeant Ken dall •
Purc he.se d from the One Hundred
and Second Annual Exhibi t ion for the Temple Colle cti on.
Mrs. Joseph Harrison, Jr., by
whose g.e nerosity our collections
have previously been enriched, .d ied July 21st and by her will de\
vised to the Academy her collection of paintings and sculpture
including many notable examples.
Her est at e ha~, · :qoweyer ,.not yet qeen se-ttle d. .,
-8The schools of the Academy continue in a flourishing condi t ion in all departmen ts and. t he number of former · students who
are year by year taking their places in t he ranks of the leading
artists of the country continues to grow.
T~e
engag em En t
in Octob e1' of W. Sergean t Kendall 1\M.ad!e an
important adeli tion to the teaching Faculty .which now cons1ist s of
the following Instructors:
Charles Grafly
Henry McCarter
Hen 1Y R. Poore
George. McClellan t M. D.
Frarik Miles Day .
Paul Phl1lippe Cret
John H. Pack ard, M. D., Chairman
Thomas P. Anshutz
William M. Chase
Cecili a Beaux
Hugh .H. Breckenridge
W. Sergeant Ken o.all
The usual exhibit ion of work by the stud.ents was held as
announced in the spring.
Included in this exhibit was the work
offered in competition for the Toppan Prizes, the subjects being
Travel and Home Life.
These prizes were awarded by the Corrrnittee
on Instruction as follows:
First Prize, $400, to Elizab eth H. Jones
Second Prize, $300, to Lasar Raditz
Honorable Mention to Rhea Watson.
Attention is again called to the growing importance of the
Will iam Emlen Cresson Memorial Scholar ships gan er'ous ly endowed ·
under the wills of Emlen and Priscilla P. Cresson and to the
results accomplished as evid.enced by the works of the holders
of Cresson Scholarships included in the current Annual Exhibit ion o
The Cresson Fund.s
be~n.c;r
entirely
of as many stud.en ts as the Academy is
adequate for the support
li~ely
to sent to Eur'Ope for
stUdy, the need becomes more and more apparent for an endowment
Which will make possible the assi stance of worthy student s whose
purposes would. best be served by continued. study in this country.
The sixty free scholarships which the Acadany t endel?-s to the ·
City of Philadelphia und.er an annual appropriation of $5000,
received jointly from City Councils and the Board of
Ed.uc_~tion,
-9were maintain.8d through the year with favorable results.
The
thanks of the Academy aIle returned for this assistance in an
educational venture Which is of mutual value, as the students thus
equipp ~d
fo r the teaching of art in many cases return as te a chers
to pub lic and. other schools.
The advantage of the Acadany as an Institution of public
instruction are further made evident by the attend.ance of a large:
number of pupi,ls and. teachers from the Public Schools upon the
Anmual Exhibitions.
During the past year the lecture courses of the Academy
have assumed real importance as will be seen by a recapitulation;
March 23rd, Lecture by Harvey M. Watt, s, Esq.
Illustration
from. the Editors View Point . . M~rch 30th, and following Fridays",
a course of five lectures by Charl es H. Gaffin,
The Art
Motives in Painting during the 19th Century.
December· 7 and. following Fridays, a course of Twelve
Lectures by Charles H. Caffin on t
re
History of Painting.
In
addi t ion to those already gi ven, arrangement shave b ren made
for other lectures during the present season by Miss Anna J ,.
Caulfield, by Lorado Taft, the author of
a .ttHistory of Aroet:'ican
Sculpture" and by Jo:b..n F. Lewis, Esq., our' Honor ary Curator
of Prints.
During the past y ear the Academy has lost two earnest
supp,orters whose services to it · were many and varied.
Clarence H. Clark, Esq"
A Director for thirty-five years
and "lice-President fqr fourtee n years, d.ied March 12th.
Col • . Rob.ert C .. H. Brook, a Director for two and one half
.
years, died August 8th.
Resolutions, of regret Which appear in full upon its Minutes
were adopt ed by the Boa:c d of Directors and copies of the se were
forwarded to the far-ailies of Mr, . C1 ark and. Colonel Brock.
Mr. Edward Horner Coates, after a continuous service of
nearly thirty
year_.~=-
in beb,alf of
~he
Penn sylv a.nia Aca deny of the
Fine Arts, sent to the Board of Directol"s the following letterl"Phiiadelphia, April 2nd, 1906.
To the Board of Directors
Of t he Penn sylvania Academy of t ha Fine Art s.
Dear Sirs:After a fifth re-Glection, and. a.t the end of sixtee;n
years of 'service, I beg leave to tender my resignation as Presi ....
dent an d ex-off ieio a memb er of t he Board of Dire ct ors.
As is kn01;Vh to menbel's of t he Board, it was my desire to
withdraw . from office when the Centenary should have been reached
in 1905 and the Academy should hav .8 entered. upon its second
cent\ll'Y; but at that time, owing to im.po r tant lJlatters pending,
the action was deferred.
With the close of. the . Annual Exhibi-
t ion and at the AAd. of ~~ t he pre sent Schoo 1 Year, the, moment
seems favo rable ·for the f1.1lfilment of my inten tion, ani I now
ask to relinquish all official duties after June 1st, next.
' In doing so aftara connection with the Academy, whic.h is
already longer than that of any Director, save only tha t of the
Hon. Joseph Hopkinoon, one of its founders, and its second. President, and with a due regard for all that the In stitut ion has
accomplished, I am most impressed with the opportmities which .
lie in front of t he Manag Em En t, and th e work which is to be dOne.
The prog·ress and inf'luence of the Pennsylvania Academy in tl1e
next decades, must be larger and mol' e important than in any which
have preceded.
To have been associated with the work of the Institu\
tion, and to have had any part in t he vigorous and fine movement
in American art Which has taken place dllring the last twenty-five
years and which cont inue s with increasing strides, has bee;n a
high privilege and honor.
Most of all I -desire to express my
grateful Obligation for unfailing suppor t and co-oper ati on,
without which any individual action or endeavor would have been
futile, and Which have always baen loyally and most generously
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given by every member of the Board of Directors.
Very faithfully yours,
(Sgd)
Edward u ,;
~o ate S ~tI
Aft er ever y eff ort by t 1'l3 Bo ard colI ect iva ly, and by its
metnbers. individually, to · induce Mr. Coates to withdraw this
resignaGion, a special meeting was held Thursday, ¥ ay 31, 1906,
an d the following Minute unanimously adopt ed:RESOL'trED, that the :2 oai'd of Director s of the Penns~lvania
Academy of the Fine Art s regretfully accede to t he request of the
,President, that he be reI ieved from further work and responsibility, and therefore accept his resignation, but in taking this
action they · express the ardent hope that his interest in the
Academy: will never gro w 1 6 $s 'a nd that he will continue to give
it his advic e and encouragement.
He was elect a d a Dire ctor October 8, 1877, and at
once earnestly devoted himself to its work.
Ha was elected
Tre asurer Febrllary 11, 1878, and. fait hfull y and accurately peJrformed the arduous duties of that office until February 9,
1885.
During much of this period he willingly ass1.1.m.ed other
duties.
He served as a menba- of the Comnittee on Instruction
from 1881 to 1884 and thereafter acted as its Chairman until
1890.
Upon May 12th of that year he was un an imously
electe d
President, and the Stockholders of the Academy at each succee!ding
annual meeting, have not failed to return him as ·their choice for
its Execut.ive, and the successfUl performance of his duties
abdndantly justified their choice.
During Mr. Coate s' s service as a Director and as
Presi dent this . int erest in the Academy never flagged, and its
work has gradually developed until it has taken its place
in the first rank among the art institut ions of the country.
His unfailing patience, his ' singular tact, his uniform courtesy,
his sound judgment, and his unselfish devotion to the work he
loved, won countless friends for the Academy, and contributed
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largely to awaken and
maintai~
public interest in its affairs,
while his wise selection of his assistants aYld subordinates so
organized'its executive department that its schools and exbibitions developed to their present acknowledged excellenc e •
. He retires from his office with the affection and admiration of the Board. of Directors and with the well merited
gratitude of all lovers of Art.
RESOLVED that these Resolutions be sent to Mr. Coates
an d published to the Stockholder s in t he Annual Report.
To fi 11 th e vacanc y thus eaus ed, the Board. of Dir ector s
at its regular , Meeting held October
8th~
elected to the
PresidencY of the AcademY Mr. Henry Whelen, Jr
and at the
o,
s~Meeting-el.ect e(l as Treasurer Mr. George ~ . McFadden, the
offi cs of Treasurer having been held by Mr. Whelen since February 8, 1.886 •.
~s
regUlar
~eeting
held December 10th, the Board
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el®cted as Directors to fill existing vacancies Messrs. Alfred
c.
Harr 1son and "laren ce " . Zant zinger
't
The Statement of the Treasurer shows receipts of
$31866.44 and expenses of $38701.84, resulting in a debit
balanc 9
fo Y'
the year ending December 31st, 1906, of $6835.40.
The AcademY, however ', has been fortunate in re"ceiving during
1906 legacies amounting to $6700 • . from the estates of Benjamin
Johnoon and Alfx'ed Bauferger.
To the Mayor
~1d
City Oouncils are due appreciation
and t bank s for their co .... opera tion in t be -w crk of the Academy
during the tear 1906.
On lJebalf of the
Board of Directors
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THE ONE HUNDREDTH ANNUAL REPORT, THE PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE/
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FINE ARTS, FEBRUARY 5, 1906 TO FEBRUARY 4, 1907.
In presenting this, their One HUndredth Annual Report, to
the Stockholders of th.8 Pennsylvania Academy of th e Fine Arts, the
Board of Directors are gratified by the improved physical condition
of the Academy and by its constantly widening influence in the
communi ty.
Much has been · done in the past year in better,ment of our
building but at best the present plant is inadequate to the work
att-empted and the need of a new building, or additions to- the pre ....
sent building is again emphasized.
Much of t he increased interest in the ef:fforts of the Academy
f".........
is owing to it s Life and Annual Members and to all subscriber s who
are thus help ing in t he forward work of the Inst i tu t ion cordial
thank s are 9:ue.
In this connection it is, peF'bap s, interesting
to quot e from a circular re que st for such sibs cr ipti ons lssue d in
Novemb er last in response to whic h the n1il.mbeF' of Life and Annual
Members has shown ,a gratifying increase:"Only with t he support and generous co-operation of the community can high artistic aims be encouraged and achieved and t
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perman Ebt colle ctions enlarg ed and impro ved to a standard worthy of
the civic position of Ph:iladelphia.
eO. in otrer cities.
Such support is liberally of:f:e:-
New York, with a population of 3,437,000, gi;-es
to the Metropolitan Museum over twenty-three hundred members, contributing in 1905, $23,390.
The population .of 'Chicago is
1,698,000, and the Chicago Art Institute had that same year an
income of $25,250" derived from its 2219 Annual Members alone.
The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, t:re population being 560,000,
had. 1292 contributing members giving it $16,485; ' while for the
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past year, the population of Philadelphia beingl,293,000, more \
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than twice that of Boston, thi s Academy has receiv 'e d $2,800
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from 280 Annual Menber s ,
The Start, however, has been made; and all who are interested
in the advance of culture and art are asked to join in the work and
in the larger undertak ing s of the. Academy 9"
As evidencing th e last ing beneri t of such subscript ions it is
worthy of note that from t.he funds contributed by Annual Manber's,
the Acad.emy has purchased portraits 'of Presi dent and Mrs
Ii
Madi son,
of Alexander Jam es Dallas and. of Dr 9 John Fothergill, all by Gilbert
stuart, of Henrietta Van Haaven by Schalcken, of Francis Scott Key
by CharI es Willson Peale and of Dr. Horace Howard Furness by
Jo seph DeCamp.
Many of t
re se
ill us tr;i.ous work S have been add.ed to the Gallery
of National Portraiture t formally opened November 18, 1905.
In t h is Gallery, in which beside other important works there
is already the best existing collection of works by Gilbert Stuart,
the Academy aims to include portrai t s of the founder s an d maker s of
the Republic, . of t he State of Penn sy Iv ania and of t he Cit y of'
Philadelphia, and of men and women notable in American literature,
science, the arts and social life.
It is hoped that many of the portraits of distinguished raan
and women now in private houses will find a resting-place in this
Gallery, which will be come of far-reaching . and Ve1!.'y real interest,
In special cases an arrangene-nt may tre made with the Comnittee on
'Exhi b it ion for the loan and deposit, either for a specified
time or indefini tely, of family portrai ts of esp ecial int erest or
di stinction.
Acceptance ancl confirmation by the Board of Directors
of a portrait given and transferlf"ed to the Acadeny will pr.ovide
for its care and. exhibit ion
in perpetui ty
in the presen t rooms
of the Institution or in the galleries which :tr.ay hereafter be
erect EXi.
In connection with t
re
Gallery of National Portraiture
th ere is e sp eci al need of an en do wmen t fund) t he income from
_3-
whi ch should be tlse'd only fo r the purchase of exi st ing notable
portraits or for tre granting of conmissions for portraits in....
tended to be added to the collection.
The One Hund.red, and First Annual. Exhibition was in progress.
when t he last Annual Report was presented.
It closed on March 3,
and the at1ter.dance o.uring the six weeks of the exhibition was
55035.
Th e sa les of works of art from it numb' ered 41, at a tot aJ.
value of $14,7l4.00~
The Gold.- Medal of t re Temple Fund was awarded by t he Jury . of
Painters to Eugene Paul Ullman for his painting entitledc"Portrait
of Madame Fish er. U
The Walt e1" Lipp incott- Prize of $300.00 was awarded for this
exhibi ti on to Childe Hassam fo
Morning, Isle of Shoals."
I'
hi s painting en ti tIed "Sumrr@T
The Mary Smith Prize of $100.00 was
awarded by the Committe€.e on Exhibit ion to Alice Mumf'ord for her
'painting entitled "Two Vaudeville Stars."
The Jennie Sesnan Gold
Medal was awarded by t he Jury of Painters to AlbeF't L. Groll for
his painting entitled "Arizona."
The Academy Gold Medal of Honor was awarded by t
re
Board
of 'Directors to Horatio Walker' , whose gro'up of five pictures was
a dist iB:guished feature of t he exhibit ion.
Another feature worthy of more than passing notice was the
group of works loaned by Charles L. Freer, Esq., of Detroit, including three notable canvasses by Whistler.
In acknowledgemmt
of his servi,ces to this Institution and to t h e Nation at large,
Mr. Freter was in May e1 ect ai by the Bo ard of Di rectors an honorary
member of the Academy.
From March 12th to April 8th, Galleries A, K, and I were
oc(cupied by an Exhibition of paintings representing the recent
work of "The Glasgow Scheol~"
Frem March 24th to April 2J.st the Third. Annual Phi:).adelphia
Wat er Color Exhibi t ion, under the j
0.
int auspices of the Aca demy
and the Philadelphia Water Color Club, was held in t he Galleries
on the north side.
The exhibition, judged by newspaper
co~ents,
by the attendance and. by the sales, · was the most successful of its
kind ever held in t-m Academy, 65 works being sold at a to tal
value of $3,944.00.
The attendance was 16,886.
During the month
,.
of Ma y, Galleries A, K, and I were devoted to an exhibit ion of
pictorial pho tographs arranged by the Photo-Secess ion, Which
attracted wide and favorable comnent and drew to t
[e;
Academy an
~ endance of 8,248.
In conne ction with t re Franklin Bi-Cen temial Celebration,
held April 17, 18, and 19, the Academy was fortunately able to
have an exhibition portraits of Dr. ]':ranklin by Duplessis and
Greuze and the portrai t by Richard Willson, taken o.uring the
Ameri can Revolution from Dr 9 Franklin's home in Philadelphia by
Major Andre, carri ed to England by General Sir Charles Grey and
returned at thi st :ime by his descendant, Earl Grey as a gift to
the people of t
re
Uni ted Stat es.
From June 11th to 25th an exhibit ion was he ld
in Gall r;r.y A
of architectm-al drawings made for the St. Thomas's Church Competition and the National Theatre Competition.
This was arranged
by the T Square Club of Philadelphia.
Dur ing July, Augu st an d sept emb er it the re were shown in
"'
Gallery A, a group of pain ting s from t h3 co llection of Dr .. Geo l'ge
.
Woodward and in
Gall~y
K a group of' paintings from tte collee-
tion of Pet er Scheum, Esq.
OtlX
These two groups happ ily supplimented
own Permanent Collection and. drew to the Academy during the
summer an attendance ·of 27,519.
Thanks are dUe Dr. Woodward
and Mr. Schemmf'or the it"' generous co-operation in the Acad.anyt s
work.
From Novanb er 6th to November 24th, 1906, the Fellowship
of the Academy presented in Galleries A, K, and I its Seventh
Annual Exhibition intended to make its strongest appeal to a
professional audience but of' enticing inte:l'est to the lay public
as well.
At the same time there was shown in Gallery G a collection
of the works of Jules Guerin, "The) Chateaux of the Loire, and.
other subjects," and in Gallery H, a colleotion of' oontemporary
miniatures arranged by t be Pennsylvania Society of Mini ature
Paint er_s..
For this Exhibi t ion . Gallery H was arranged as a part ...
ialllT furnished living-room and its charming appearance attracted
much favorable oonment
0
The attendance during these exhibitions was 8,376.
The Annual Architectural Exhibit ion under the joint auspices
and control of tre T Square Club and the AcademY, was opened with
a recep tion on December 1st and was closed Dec erpber' 30th.
To it
were devot ed all of t:re Galleries except the Gilpin and Gibson
Galleries.
Galler'Y F was entirely given up to the department of
mural painting arranged through the co-operat ion of the National
Society of Mural Painter s and an unusual and inspiri ng colI ecti on
of Architectural Sculpture was shown through the co-operation of
the National Sculpture Societyo
To these Societies as well as to
the T Square Club, are due the thanks of the Academy and of the
comnunit y:
Anot her fea tu re of thi s splendid exhibit ion was the g~'oup of
· works shown in Galler'y G, representing leading French architects.
All of the drawings made in America for trie Hague Oeace Palace
Competit ion were also shown and the works illUstrative of civic
impro vern ants were of e sp ec:ial int ere st to Philadelphian s at
this time.
Indeed, the whole exhibition made a vital appeal to
a City apparently at the beginning of a great forward mOVEment
in archi tee tUl' e •
The One Hundred and Second Annual Exhibition of paintings and!
sculpture was inaugurated with a private view and reception on
Saturday evening, January 19th, and the Aomemy is undeF' obligation to the following ladies who acted as hostesses:
Mrs.
Mrs.
Mrs.
Mrs.
Mrs. James M. Willcox
Charles Wheeler
Mrs.
George D. Widener
Edward H. coates
Mrs. Gari Melcher"s
Robert Coleman Drayton
Mrs. Craig Biddle
Thorn as Learning
Miss Frances B 0 St ot e sbury •
The exhibit ion was opened to the public on Sun d.ay , January
20th and will be continued until February 24th.
The entire circuit
of the galleri es is occupied with the exception of the Gibson
Galleries and the Gallery of National Portraiture.
Somewhat
small e1" in the number of exhibits than previous anillual exhibit ions, the effo rt has been made to ke ep th e s tendard high::r thin
ever before and to present tho se works shown to the ir best possible
advant agee.
That thi s effort has been in t he main successful is
evi denced by the flattering
criti~isms
of the Exhibit ion which
ha ve appe ared in many of t he paper s th roughout th e co unt ry.
An
in teresting and inspiringnfeature 'of the Exhibition is the number?'
of important works shown by artists who have never . before exhibited at the AcademY, these new exhibitors comprising 22-1/2
per cent of the whole number.
The works included in the cata-
logue number 478, representing 249 exhibitors.
Espec :i8ol apprec:ia tion and. thanks are due to the members of
the Jury and. t he Hanging COl'lmi ttee from Philadelphia, New York
and Bo ston, all of whom have been most faithful and untiring in
their efforts toward the success of this Exhibit ion.
The Painter s Jury was compos ed of the following:
Edward W. Redfi eld, Cha irman
Frank W. Ben son
CharI es · Francis Brown(e
Joseph DeCamp
Carroll S9 Tyson,
Will iam J. Glackens
C.hilde Hassam
W. Sergeant Ken dall
Julian Story
Jr.
The Sculpturs Jury was composed of the following:
Charl es Grafly, Chairman
Adolph Weinman.
Karl Bitt er
-'1 .....
.r
Th e Golo. Medal of t he Temple Fund was awar ded by the JurY
of Paint ers to Willard L. Metcalf for hi s painting entitled The}
Golden Screen.
The Jennie Sesnan Gold. Med.al was awarded by the Jury of.
Painters to Ernest W. Lawson for his painting entit led The River
in Wint er.
The Mary Smit h Prize of $100. was awarded by the Commi ttee
on Exhibit ion to Mary Smyth Perkins for her painting ent itled "Cows"
The Walter Lippincott Prize of $300. was awar ded for this
exhibit ion to Marion PoweJrs for her painting entitled A TeaParty.
The attendance dill'ing the year 1906-1907 at exhibitions,
lectu~c es,
etc., was 161,682.
The Perman En t ColI ections of t:re Acad.emy have re eei ved the
f 0110 wing add. i t ion s : Henry Pratt of Lemon Hill by Henry Innan.
Pre sented to the
Academy by Mrs. J. Dundas Lipp inca tt •
Portrait of Francis Scott Key by Charles Willson Peale,
Purchased by the Academy fr om the.. Annual Menbership Fund
Becky Sharp by rrhomas P. Anshutz.
Purchased from the Third
Annual Philadelphia Wat er Color Exhibit ion for the Temple Colle·cticn
Road to Nice by William L. Picknell.
Bequeathed to the Academy
by GertrUde Flagg
"'
Boy wi th the Violin by Elizabeth Wentworth Roberts.
Presented
to the Academy by the Artist.
Dr. Horace Howard Fu.rness by Joseph DeCamp.
Comnissioned by the
AcademY, and paid foX' from the Annual Memb er ship Fund.
Beatri ce by W. Sergeant Ken dall •
Purc he.se d from the One Hundred
and Second Annual Exhibi t ion for the Temple Colle cti on.
Mrs. Joseph Harrison, Jr., by
whose g.e nerosity our collections
have previously been enriched, .d ied July 21st and by her will de\
vised to the Academy her collection of paintings and sculpture
including many notable examples.
Her est at e ha~, · :qoweyer ,.not yet qeen se-ttle d. .,
-8The schools of the Academy continue in a flourishing condi t ion in all departmen ts and. t he number of former · students who
are year by year taking their places in t he ranks of the leading
artists of the country continues to grow.
T~e
engag em En t
in Octob e1' of W. Sergean t Kendall 1\M.ad!e an
important adeli tion to the teaching Faculty .which now cons1ist s of
the following Instructors:
Charles Grafly
Henry McCarter
Hen 1Y R. Poore
George. McClellan t M. D.
Frarik Miles Day .
Paul Phl1lippe Cret
John H. Pack ard, M. D., Chairman
Thomas P. Anshutz
William M. Chase
Cecili a Beaux
Hugh .H. Breckenridge
W. Sergeant Ken o.all
The usual exhibit ion of work by the stud.ents was held as
announced in the spring.
Included in this exhibit was the work
offered in competition for the Toppan Prizes, the subjects being
Travel and Home Life.
These prizes were awarded by the Corrrnittee
on Instruction as follows:
First Prize, $400, to Elizab eth H. Jones
Second Prize, $300, to Lasar Raditz
Honorable Mention to Rhea Watson.
Attention is again called to the growing importance of the
Will iam Emlen Cresson Memorial Scholar ships gan er'ous ly endowed ·
under the wills of Emlen and Priscilla P. Cresson and to the
results accomplished as evid.enced by the works of the holders
of Cresson Scholarships included in the current Annual Exhibit ion o
The Cresson Fund.s
be~n.c;r
entirely
of as many stud.en ts as the Academy is
adequate for the support
li~ely
to sent to Eur'Ope for
stUdy, the need becomes more and more apparent for an endowment
Which will make possible the assi stance of worthy student s whose
purposes would. best be served by continued. study in this country.
The sixty free scholarships which the Acadany t endel?-s to the ·
City of Philadelphia und.er an annual appropriation of $5000,
received jointly from City Councils and the Board of
Ed.uc_~tion,
-9were maintain.8d through the year with favorable results.
The
thanks of the Academy aIle returned for this assistance in an
educational venture Which is of mutual value, as the students thus
equipp ~d
fo r the teaching of art in many cases return as te a chers
to pub lic and. other schools.
The advantage of the Acadany as an Institution of public
instruction are further made evident by the attend.ance of a large:
number of pupi,ls and. teachers from the Public Schools upon the
Anmual Exhibitions.
During the past year the lecture courses of the Academy
have assumed real importance as will be seen by a recapitulation;
March 23rd, Lecture by Harvey M. Watt, s, Esq.
Illustration
from. the Editors View Point . . M~rch 30th, and following Fridays",
a course of five lectures by Charl es H. Gaffin,
The Art
Motives in Painting during the 19th Century.
December· 7 and. following Fridays, a course of Twelve
Lectures by Charles H. Caffin on t
re
History of Painting.
In
addi t ion to those already gi ven, arrangement shave b ren made
for other lectures during the present season by Miss Anna J ,.
Caulfield, by Lorado Taft, the author of
a .ttHistory of Aroet:'ican
Sculpture" and by Jo:b..n F. Lewis, Esq., our' Honor ary Curator
of Prints.
During the past y ear the Academy has lost two earnest
supp,orters whose services to it · were many and varied.
Clarence H. Clark, Esq"
A Director for thirty-five years
and "lice-President fqr fourtee n years, d.ied March 12th.
Col • . Rob.ert C .. H. Brook, a Director for two and one half
.
years, died August 8th.
Resolutions, of regret Which appear in full upon its Minutes
were adopt ed by the Boa:c d of Directors and copies of the se were
forwarded to the far-ailies of Mr, . C1 ark and. Colonel Brock.
Mr. Edward Horner Coates, after a continuous service of
nearly thirty
year_.~=-
in beb,alf of
~he
Penn sylv a.nia Aca deny of the
Fine Arts, sent to the Board of Directol"s the following letterl"Phiiadelphia, April 2nd, 1906.
To the Board of Directors
Of t he Penn sylvania Academy of t ha Fine Art s.
Dear Sirs:After a fifth re-Glection, and. a.t the end of sixtee;n
years of 'service, I beg leave to tender my resignation as Presi ....
dent an d ex-off ieio a memb er of t he Board of Dire ct ors.
As is kn01;Vh to menbel's of t he Board, it was my desire to
withdraw . from office when the Centenary should have been reached
in 1905 and the Academy should hav .8 entered. upon its second
cent\ll'Y; but at that time, owing to im.po r tant lJlatters pending,
the action was deferred.
With the close of. the . Annual Exhibi-
t ion and at the AAd. of ~~ t he pre sent Schoo 1 Year, the, moment
seems favo rable ·for the f1.1lfilment of my inten tion, ani I now
ask to relinquish all official duties after June 1st, next.
' In doing so aftara connection with the Academy, whic.h is
already longer than that of any Director, save only tha t of the
Hon. Joseph Hopkinoon, one of its founders, and its second. President, and with a due regard for all that the In stitut ion has
accomplished, I am most impressed with the opportmities which .
lie in front of t he Manag Em En t, and th e work which is to be dOne.
The prog·ress and inf'luence of the Pennsylvania Academy in tl1e
next decades, must be larger and mol' e important than in any which
have preceded.
To have been associated with the work of the Institu\
tion, and to have had any part in t he vigorous and fine movement
in American art Which has taken place dllring the last twenty-five
years and which cont inue s with increasing strides, has bee;n a
high privilege and honor.
Most of all I -desire to express my
grateful Obligation for unfailing suppor t and co-oper ati on,
without which any individual action or endeavor would have been
futile, and Which have always baen loyally and most generously
· :;:'-i '"
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given by every member of the Board of Directors.
Very faithfully yours,
(Sgd)
Edward u ,;
~o ate S ~tI
Aft er ever y eff ort by t 1'l3 Bo ard colI ect iva ly, and by its
metnbers. individually, to · induce Mr. Coates to withdraw this
resignaGion, a special meeting was held Thursday, ¥ ay 31, 1906,
an d the following Minute unanimously adopt ed:RESOL'trED, that the :2 oai'd of Director s of the Penns~lvania
Academy of the Fine Art s regretfully accede to t he request of the
,President, that he be reI ieved from further work and responsibility, and therefore accept his resignation, but in taking this
action they · express the ardent hope that his interest in the
Academy: will never gro w 1 6 $s 'a nd that he will continue to give
it his advic e and encouragement.
He was elect a d a Dire ctor October 8, 1877, and at
once earnestly devoted himself to its work.
Ha was elected
Tre asurer Febrllary 11, 1878, and. fait hfull y and accurately peJrformed the arduous duties of that office until February 9,
1885.
During much of this period he willingly ass1.1.m.ed other
duties.
He served as a menba- of the Comnittee on Instruction
from 1881 to 1884 and thereafter acted as its Chairman until
1890.
Upon May 12th of that year he was un an imously
electe d
President, and the Stockholders of the Academy at each succee!ding
annual meeting, have not failed to return him as ·their choice for
its Execut.ive, and the successfUl performance of his duties
abdndantly justified their choice.
During Mr. Coate s' s service as a Director and as
Presi dent this . int erest in the Academy never flagged, and its
work has gradually developed until it has taken its place
in the first rank among the art institut ions of the country.
His unfailing patience, his ' singular tact, his uniform courtesy,
his sound judgment, and his unselfish devotion to the work he
loved, won countless friends for the Academy, and contributed
~.
largely to awaken and
maintai~
public interest in its affairs,
while his wise selection of his assistants aYld subordinates so
organized'its executive department that its schools and exbibitions developed to their present acknowledged excellenc e •
. He retires from his office with the affection and admiration of the Board. of Directors and with the well merited
gratitude of all lovers of Art.
RESOLVED that these Resolutions be sent to Mr. Coates
an d published to the Stockholder s in t he Annual Report.
To fi 11 th e vacanc y thus eaus ed, the Board. of Dir ector s
at its regular , Meeting held October
8th~
elected to the
PresidencY of the AcademY Mr. Henry Whelen, Jr
and at the
o,
s~Meeting-el.ect e(l as Treasurer Mr. George ~ . McFadden, the
offi cs of Treasurer having been held by Mr. Whelen since February 8, 1.886 •.
~s
regUlar
~eeting
held December 10th, the Board
~--..;:y-
el®cted as Directors to fill existing vacancies Messrs. Alfred
c.
Harr 1son and "laren ce " . Zant zinger
't
The Statement of the Treasurer shows receipts of
$31866.44 and expenses of $38701.84, resulting in a debit
balanc 9
fo Y'
the year ending December 31st, 1906, of $6835.40.
The AcademY, however ', has been fortunate in re"ceiving during
1906 legacies amounting to $6700 • . from the estates of Benjamin
Johnoon and Alfx'ed Bauferger.
To the Mayor
~1d
City Oouncils are due appreciation
and t bank s for their co .... opera tion in t be -w crk of the Academy
during the tear 1906.
On lJebalf of the
Board of Directors
. Pre si d en t •