104th Annual Report for the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
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The 104th Annual Report of The P ennsyl vania Academy
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In p resen ting to the Stoclmol ders of , the P ennsyl vania Academy
of the F'ine Arts their 104tg annual report the Pres ident and Board of
Directors have the hono!' to report that during , the past year the work
of the Academy has continued to progress in all of its branches.
The
physical condi tioD of the Academy buHlding has, during the past year,
been greatly improved until it is now better adapted to its purposes
than it ever before was.
.
t~1v_ch ";-vork has been done in minimizing the :rine risk to tIl.e
building, the entire basement has been divided into units each sepa ....
Y'ated from the others by automatic fire doors, exposed girders and
beams whereever practical have been fire proofed, the electric wiring
of the building has been entirely moderfulj),zed a.."ld all wooden locl{ers
in the School aepartment 'have been removed and replaced wi th ex ...
paneled me tal, fire-pro~f lockers of the most modern type.
The School of' the Academy is a most important part of the
institutional work,i t is the oldest school in America devoted entirely to the study of the fine arts and should be better known to
the stockhol ders.
In it have been trained many of the painters
and scu~ptors whose names have illumed the history of American Art
and the influence upon American Art to-day exercised by men and women
here trained is vital.
The School is under the immediate care of a
Curator and a Commi ttee on Instruction appointed by the President
and Directors of' the Academy toge ther wi th a Facul ty composed of
representative artists.
The Chairman of the , Comniittee ' on Ins t ruction, Herbert M.
Howe, M. D., is Chairman of the , Faculty, ex-officio, and the other
members ~r;e Thomas P. Anshutz, Drawing and. P'ainting; George McClellan,
lVI o .D., Anatomy; Charles Grafly, Sculpture; Hugh B. Brecl{enridge,
Drawing arid ~ ainting;
Oecilia Beaux, Drawing and. Painting, . Frank
Miles Day, Per::''Pectiv6; Henry McCarter, Illustration; Josepb T.
Pearson, Jr., Composi tion, Drawing and Painting and Daniel Garber,
Drawin g and painting.
An exhibi tion of work by the students was held in May and
Jv..ne \vhich included pictUres offered in competitioI1 for the Charles
Topp an Prizes which were awarded by the Commi tteeon Instruction as
follows:
'
.
l~ir s t Pri~e, ' r~o
to David E. Kornhauser
Second P rlze, ~! 200
to Nancy M. Ferguson
Honorable Mention, carrying with it an award of
$100
to Annie T. Lang
Second Honorable Mention, carrying with it an
award of
. $100
to Nathaniel J'.Fousette
The prizes established through the generous action of Henry
.
For the bept group of compositions on subjects given to the
Class during the current s.eason.
Prize of $ EO awarded by
t he Facul ty, to
.
Henry L. Wolfe
.
For a group of compositions on .subjects given to the Class
during the season. , P rize of $25 awarded by vote of the
students in the Schools to
.
Vincenzo P alrni sano
J. Thouron were awarded as follows:
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For general progress in Composition Class work during the current
season. Prize of $50, awarded by the Instructor of the Class, to
Milton V. Breitmayer
For , the work showing in its treatment of subjects the most poetic or best
abstract or idealistic point df' view. Prize of $25, . awarded by the Instructor
of the Class, to
.
Nancy M. Ferguson
The Tenth Award of the Edmund Stewardson Prize of $100, in Sculpture, was
made by the Jury consisting of ;I'homas Eakins, ... Herm~ A. MacNeil and Hans
Schuler, to whom acknowledgements are due, to
Helen E. Dobbins
Honorable Mention, carrying with it an award of $;50 to
Emily C. Bishop
Prizes for work at the Zoological Gardens from the Dr. John H. Packard
Fund was awarded to
First Prize, $30, to
Earl Lo Poole
Second Prize, $20, to
Elizabeth F. G. Forbes
The prizes in the Anatomy Class, donated by Dr. McClellan, the Instructor,
were awarded as follows: ...
First Prize of $15 to
Emma C. Forster
Se cond Prize of $10 to
Oraig Johns
It having been decided by the Board of Directors to award all of the
William Errilen Cresson Memorial Scholarships for a term of four months study
abroad, the following students recei,red scholarships of $500 each from the fUnd
received under the wills of Einlen and Priscil.la P. Oresson:
Annie T. Lang
C. Leslie Thrasher
Samuel Go Phillips
Beatrice Fenton
Adolph W. Blondheim
Joseph Filemyr
Juliet . M. White
Mrs. Ivie McGuire
Millard McGee
Cornelia Baxter Barns
Gertrude Monaghan
Leopold G. Seyffert
Edward O. Trego
Helen A. Fleck
Jl1ary E. Hopkins
Baruch M. Feldman
Edgar L. Pearce
Howard F. Whisler
Nathaniel J. Pousette
Clyde C. Bathurst
Robert N. Lienhard
Alice B. Doughten
Rosamond R. Junkin
.
The free scholarships which tr:-e Academy tenders to the City of' Philadelphia
under an annual appropriation of' $5000, received jointly f'rom Oity Councils and
the Board of' Education were maintained through the year with favorable results.
The thanks of' the Academy are returned f'or this assistance in an educat ional
venture which is· of mutual value, as the students tbusequipped . f'or the teaching
of' art in many cases return as teachers to public and other schools.
(3 )
Through the continued gen.erosi ty of Mrs. George D .. Widener the
Academy has been enabled to grant 'llilliam L. Elkins Memorial Scholarships for study in its schools to the following students selected as
the most worthy from among those competing for the scholarships.
Alexander Portnoff
Laura Humphrey s
Loui se B. Onwig
Elizabeth F. G. Forbes
Samuel Otis
Ethel A. Wallace
Joseph Sacks .
Edward Ulrich
Graig Johns
Vincenzo ' Palmi sane
Burton Keeler
Mrs. Sarah Pope Le sshaefft
.
.\
A vel~ sat1sfactory evidence of the training given in the Academy
Schools was had in competions held by the American Academy in Rome in the
Spring of 1910.
These were held to enable the Ame rican Academy to ~elect a student
in painting and a stu.dent in sculpture to whom should be granted three
years scholarships to study in Rome.From most of the leading schools in
the coun.try students were entered.
The winner of the pairtt i ng scholarship was HenryL. Wolfe and the winner of the s,cjiolarshir>in sculpture
was Albin Polasek.
Both of the successful carffdates were students in your
own. Academy and both are now succe ssfully carrying on their work in Rome.
. Free scholarships in t~e Academy ts School shave, a.s heretofore, b-een
extended to a selected student from each af tae following organizations:
New' Orleans Art Association, Artists Association of New Orleans, Maryland
Insti tute of Baltimore, Randolph-Macon Woman t s College of Lynchburg,
Virginia; The Art College of Richmond, Virginia, and in Philadelphia from
The School ' of Design for Women, The Roman Catholic High School, The st.
James Guild and the Graphic Sketch Club.
.
In May, 1910, a new school prize was established Mr. William
K. Remborger pre senting to the Academy $500. toenClow an annual prize
of $25. for the best drawing in black and white of a head from life,
as a memorial to his sister Miss Aspasia Eckert Ramborger.
The Exhibition Galleries were visited during 1910 by
1'75,360 people, a number which indicates the educational influence
1he Academy is exertingo The Galleries were opened to the · public
daily, Sl.mday included, and besides the exhibition of the permanent
collection, including the Gallery of Natural Portraiture; the Temple
Oollection of modern American paintings; and the Gibson collection,
composed largely of works of the Oontinental Schools.
During the year . the following exll"ibi tions \vere held:
From January 23, 1910 to March 20, lelo, the 105th Annual
Exhibition occup!i!ed the entire range of galleries except the Gibson
Galleries. It was composed of 495 paintings and 112 exhibits of
sculpture and represented the work of 370 artists. The attendance
at this Exhibition alone was 61,420 people. This is the :Largest
attendance recorded at anyone of the Academy's Annual EXhibitfuonsq
From the Exhibition there were sold 17 works.
From April 9t.hto May 8th an exhibition of architecture by
the T""Sqllare Olub of Phlladelphia and the Philadelphia Ohapter of the
"American Institute of Architects composed of 381 items representing
100 architects. This Exhibition was composed entirely of works per ....
taining to domestic architecture~ and as far a.s is known, was the
"first exhibition of its kind in this c01.mtry.
"
From April 9th to May 8th Gallery F was devoted to an exhi ...
bition of paintings byOharles W. Hawthorne and Hermann Dudley Murphy.
From November · 14th to December 11th, there was held in Gallery
1 and the adjacent corridor the Ninth A~nual Exhibiti on of Miniature
Painters. Installed with consummate taste this exhibition evoked
both interest "and prai,se and set a new esthetic standard for the ex ....
hibition of miniatures.
.
From November 14th to December 18th, Galleries, E,F,G and H
and the adjoining corridors were devoted to the Eighth "Arnual Phila~
delphia Water Oolor Exhibition held under the "joint mana.gement of the
Philadelphia Water Oolor Olub and your "Academy. This exhibition was
composed of 679 examplos representing 199 artists " and from it 56 works
were sold. A feature of the eXhibition was the work of European ar~
tists sent to this country espeCially for exhibition in the Academy.
The 106th Annual Exhibition opened but yesterday.
On
Satur~
d.ay evening, February 4th a private view of it was given 8,ttended by
about 2,000 invited guests and the tha,nks of the Academy are due
the following ladies who graciously performed the arduous dutie!3 of
hostesses.
Mrs. Oaspar W. Morris
Mrs. George Wharton Pepper
Harold Aymar San4s
Mrs. William J. Taylor
Mrs. Frank H. Bach man
Mrs. Robert O. H. Brock
Mrs. Hampton L. Carson
£.iII'S 9 Arthur' H. Lea
.
Mrs. Willard L. Me tcalf
Mrs.
The EXhibition entirely fills the Academy"'s Galleries except
Galleries 0, D and E and contains 375 paintings and 148 exhibits of
sculpture representing 303 different artists.
The Exhibition is a notable one and maintaj_ns the Academy's
leadership in exhibition work.
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Especial thanks, for the thorougp and conscientious per ...
formance of their arduous duties, are due the Jury and Hanging Oommittee composed of the follow~ng artists:
Willaid L. Metcalf, Ohairman
De Witt Parshall
. George Bellows
Daniel Ge:rber
.Adolphe Borie
'Walter MacEwen
Henry Jo Thouron
J. Alden Weir
Joseph De Camp
Oarl NeWTllaU
' George L. l\l'oyes
Sculpture
Hermon Ao 1iacNeil Bela L. Pratt
John Mo Bateman
Hal'lging OOImni t tee
Willard L. Metce,lf Charles Grafly
Adplphe Borie
From the 106th Annual EYJ'libi t-ion the following honors were
awarded by the Painters' Jury:
The Temple Gold l/.ledal to Richard E l~iller for l1.i s painting
"The Ohinese Statuette" No .. 306 in the Exhibition.
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The Jennie Sesnan Gold Medal to Joseph T. Pearson~ Jr., for
his painting entitled "I,andscape" 1~ 0. 316 in the Exhibi tiono
The Carol Ho Beck Gold Medal to Edmund Co Tarbell for his
painting entitled "Portrait of Timothy Dwight, .DD,L .. LD Noo 310'1
.
The Exhibition Corr~ittee of your Board of Directors awarded
the Walter Lippincott Prize of $000. to De,niel Garber for his painting
entitled IIRiverbank" No. ,3 06 in the Exhibition.
The fiIary Smith Prize of $100. to Alice Kent Stoddard for her
painting entitled "Portrait of Miss Elizabeth Sparhawk'- Jones No 479
in the Ey~ibition.
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The Beck Prize of $100. was · awarded from the Eighth Annual
Philadelpl1:la Water Oolor Ex...l1.ibi tion to 11. C Wyeth for his picture
entitled "Winter".
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In April last the Academy's permanent collection was enriched by
the gift from Miss Rebecca Gibson; Mr$. William Gros$holtz and Mrs. Edward
A. Sibley of thirteen paintings as a memorial to their sister Mrs. Oaroline
Gibson Taitt from whose collection the pictures were selected. This va1u...
able group which admirably ' supplements the Gibson 00llection is composed .
of the following pictures:
18 Tired Horses
2~ Before the Palace
3~ Cattle in the Meadow
4~ Lady with a Letter
5"", Sailing Vessels
6~ The Bearer of Dispatches
7~ Woman and Child
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88 . Marine
98 Head
108 The Last Sigh of the Moor
1'1... Venice
12- Woman's Head
13.... Boyis Head
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Schreyer
Pasini
Van Marcke _
Van Moucha
Clays
Roybet
M eye~ Von Bremen
Aschenbach
Rothermel
Rothermel
Rico
Swire
Johnston
The Academy added to the Tmmp1e Collection the painting "Miss
Phyllis" by Walter l1acEwen purchased from the l05th Annua.l Exhibition.
The thanks of .the Academy are also due to the estate of William
Do Lewis deceased, :Mrs. E. L. Reakirt and Mr. Francis Rawle for having
deposited portraits by Gilbert stuart which are hung with the Academy's
ovm ve,luable col.leetion of Stuart's.
Loans of important paintings from the Academy's collection were
made during the year for exhibition in Munich, Berlin, st. Louis, Buffalo,
Worcester, New York, Buenos Aires, Santiago and Rome and the Acad~my is
indebted for rE;lciprocal favors to the Oity Museum of .st. Louis,- The Wore
cester Art Museum, The Buffalo Academy of the Fine Arts, The Ohifago .Art
Institute and the Corcoran Gallery of . Art ..
The thanks of the Academy are also due to Mr. Edward Ho Coates,
Mr. Geo. H. McFadden and the J. B. Lippincott 00., for donations to the
Academy Liprary and to those sister institutions with whom the Academy
exchanges catalogues~ pamphlets, etc.
1'he Academy has re-ceived during the last year contributions of
$100.00 each from twenty life members, and of $10.00 each of 382 Annual
Members. These figures show e, slight increase over the preceding year
and representing as they do the active interest of the community in the
work and purposes ef the Institution are of especial service, but it is
hoped that the number -of such contributions may be. materially increasedo
FUrther income from these sources will enable the Academy to increase its
~fficiency in various directions.
.
. From the Fidelity Mutual Life Insurance Oompany there was received
a donation of $100.00 to assist in defraying the cost of ~ome of the fire~
proofing work on the Academy Building.
B·Y the death of Mr . John H. Oonverse on JiIay 3, 1910, the ACE!-demy
suffered loss, Mr. Oonverse having been in turn a <::-va1ued member of the
Beard of Directors, Vice-President and Henorary Vice-President of the
Academy. His Period of service extended from l886 -until his death.
The Academy owes and would express especial obligation and thanks
to the PUblic Press of Philadelphia and of the whole country for the valu~
able assistance and services rendered by a full and continued understanding
of the work and purp0ses of the management, and a clear setting forth . of
the lnsti tution 1 s efforts and requirements. "
The General Ste,tement of the Treasurer is submitted herewith •
. Te the :Mayor of the Oi ty of Phila. and to the City Oouncils are
due the appreciation and thanks for their continued co~operation in the
work of the Academy.
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Respectfully mubmitted on behalf of the Board of Direetorso
JohnFo Lewis, President",
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The 104th Annual Report of The P ennsyl vania Academy
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In p resen ting to the Stoclmol ders of , the P ennsyl vania Academy
of the F'ine Arts their 104tg annual report the Pres ident and Board of
Directors have the hono!' to report that during , the past year the work
of the Academy has continued to progress in all of its branches.
The
physical condi tioD of the Academy buHlding has, during the past year,
been greatly improved until it is now better adapted to its purposes
than it ever before was.
.
t~1v_ch ";-vork has been done in minimizing the :rine risk to tIl.e
building, the entire basement has been divided into units each sepa ....
Y'ated from the others by automatic fire doors, exposed girders and
beams whereever practical have been fire proofed, the electric wiring
of the building has been entirely moderfulj),zed a.."ld all wooden locl{ers
in the School aepartment 'have been removed and replaced wi th ex ...
paneled me tal, fire-pro~f lockers of the most modern type.
The School of' the Academy is a most important part of the
institutional work,i t is the oldest school in America devoted entirely to the study of the fine arts and should be better known to
the stockhol ders.
In it have been trained many of the painters
and scu~ptors whose names have illumed the history of American Art
and the influence upon American Art to-day exercised by men and women
here trained is vital.
The School is under the immediate care of a
Curator and a Commi ttee on Instruction appointed by the President
and Directors of' the Academy toge ther wi th a Facul ty composed of
representative artists.
The Chairman of the , Comniittee ' on Ins t ruction, Herbert M.
Howe, M. D., is Chairman of the , Faculty, ex-officio, and the other
members ~r;e Thomas P. Anshutz, Drawing and. P'ainting; George McClellan,
lVI o .D., Anatomy; Charles Grafly, Sculpture; Hugh B. Brecl{enridge,
Drawing arid ~ ainting;
Oecilia Beaux, Drawing and. Painting, . Frank
Miles Day, Per::''Pectiv6; Henry McCarter, Illustration; Josepb T.
Pearson, Jr., Composi tion, Drawing and Painting and Daniel Garber,
Drawin g and painting.
An exhibi tion of work by the students was held in May and
Jv..ne \vhich included pictUres offered in competitioI1 for the Charles
Topp an Prizes which were awarded by the Commi tteeon Instruction as
follows:
'
.
l~ir s t Pri~e, ' r~o
to David E. Kornhauser
Second P rlze, ~! 200
to Nancy M. Ferguson
Honorable Mention, carrying with it an award of
$100
to Annie T. Lang
Second Honorable Mention, carrying with it an
award of
. $100
to Nathaniel J'.Fousette
The prizes established through the generous action of Henry
.
For the bept group of compositions on subjects given to the
Class during the current s.eason.
Prize of $ EO awarded by
t he Facul ty, to
.
Henry L. Wolfe
.
For a group of compositions on .subjects given to the Class
during the season. , P rize of $25 awarded by vote of the
students in the Schools to
.
Vincenzo P alrni sano
J. Thouron were awarded as follows:
+u
For general progress in Composition Class work during the current
season. Prize of $50, awarded by the Instructor of the Class, to
Milton V. Breitmayer
For , the work showing in its treatment of subjects the most poetic or best
abstract or idealistic point df' view. Prize of $25, . awarded by the Instructor
of the Class, to
.
Nancy M. Ferguson
The Tenth Award of the Edmund Stewardson Prize of $100, in Sculpture, was
made by the Jury consisting of ;I'homas Eakins, ... Herm~ A. MacNeil and Hans
Schuler, to whom acknowledgements are due, to
Helen E. Dobbins
Honorable Mention, carrying with it an award of $;50 to
Emily C. Bishop
Prizes for work at the Zoological Gardens from the Dr. John H. Packard
Fund was awarded to
First Prize, $30, to
Earl Lo Poole
Second Prize, $20, to
Elizabeth F. G. Forbes
The prizes in the Anatomy Class, donated by Dr. McClellan, the Instructor,
were awarded as follows: ...
First Prize of $15 to
Emma C. Forster
Se cond Prize of $10 to
Oraig Johns
It having been decided by the Board of Directors to award all of the
William Errilen Cresson Memorial Scholarships for a term of four months study
abroad, the following students recei,red scholarships of $500 each from the fUnd
received under the wills of Einlen and Priscil.la P. Oresson:
Annie T. Lang
C. Leslie Thrasher
Samuel Go Phillips
Beatrice Fenton
Adolph W. Blondheim
Joseph Filemyr
Juliet . M. White
Mrs. Ivie McGuire
Millard McGee
Cornelia Baxter Barns
Gertrude Monaghan
Leopold G. Seyffert
Edward O. Trego
Helen A. Fleck
Jl1ary E. Hopkins
Baruch M. Feldman
Edgar L. Pearce
Howard F. Whisler
Nathaniel J. Pousette
Clyde C. Bathurst
Robert N. Lienhard
Alice B. Doughten
Rosamond R. Junkin
.
The free scholarships which tr:-e Academy tenders to the City of' Philadelphia
under an annual appropriation of' $5000, received jointly f'rom Oity Councils and
the Board of' Education were maintained through the year with favorable results.
The thanks of' the Academy are returned f'or this assistance in an educat ional
venture which is· of mutual value, as the students tbusequipped . f'or the teaching
of' art in many cases return as teachers to public and other schools.
(3 )
Through the continued gen.erosi ty of Mrs. George D .. Widener the
Academy has been enabled to grant 'llilliam L. Elkins Memorial Scholarships for study in its schools to the following students selected as
the most worthy from among those competing for the scholarships.
Alexander Portnoff
Laura Humphrey s
Loui se B. Onwig
Elizabeth F. G. Forbes
Samuel Otis
Ethel A. Wallace
Joseph Sacks .
Edward Ulrich
Graig Johns
Vincenzo ' Palmi sane
Burton Keeler
Mrs. Sarah Pope Le sshaefft
.
.\
A vel~ sat1sfactory evidence of the training given in the Academy
Schools was had in competions held by the American Academy in Rome in the
Spring of 1910.
These were held to enable the Ame rican Academy to ~elect a student
in painting and a stu.dent in sculpture to whom should be granted three
years scholarships to study in Rome.From most of the leading schools in
the coun.try students were entered.
The winner of the pairtt i ng scholarship was HenryL. Wolfe and the winner of the s,cjiolarshir>in sculpture
was Albin Polasek.
Both of the successful carffdates were students in your
own. Academy and both are now succe ssfully carrying on their work in Rome.
. Free scholarships in t~e Academy ts School shave, a.s heretofore, b-een
extended to a selected student from each af tae following organizations:
New' Orleans Art Association, Artists Association of New Orleans, Maryland
Insti tute of Baltimore, Randolph-Macon Woman t s College of Lynchburg,
Virginia; The Art College of Richmond, Virginia, and in Philadelphia from
The School ' of Design for Women, The Roman Catholic High School, The st.
James Guild and the Graphic Sketch Club.
.
In May, 1910, a new school prize was established Mr. William
K. Remborger pre senting to the Academy $500. toenClow an annual prize
of $25. for the best drawing in black and white of a head from life,
as a memorial to his sister Miss Aspasia Eckert Ramborger.
The Exhibition Galleries were visited during 1910 by
1'75,360 people, a number which indicates the educational influence
1he Academy is exertingo The Galleries were opened to the · public
daily, Sl.mday included, and besides the exhibition of the permanent
collection, including the Gallery of Natural Portraiture; the Temple
Oollection of modern American paintings; and the Gibson collection,
composed largely of works of the Oontinental Schools.
During the year . the following exll"ibi tions \vere held:
From January 23, 1910 to March 20, lelo, the 105th Annual
Exhibition occup!i!ed the entire range of galleries except the Gibson
Galleries. It was composed of 495 paintings and 112 exhibits of
sculpture and represented the work of 370 artists. The attendance
at this Exhibition alone was 61,420 people. This is the :Largest
attendance recorded at anyone of the Academy's Annual EXhibitfuonsq
From the Exhibition there were sold 17 works.
From April 9t.hto May 8th an exhibition of architecture by
the T""Sqllare Olub of Phlladelphia and the Philadelphia Ohapter of the
"American Institute of Architects composed of 381 items representing
100 architects. This Exhibition was composed entirely of works per ....
taining to domestic architecture~ and as far a.s is known, was the
"first exhibition of its kind in this c01.mtry.
"
From April 9th to May 8th Gallery F was devoted to an exhi ...
bition of paintings byOharles W. Hawthorne and Hermann Dudley Murphy.
From November · 14th to December 11th, there was held in Gallery
1 and the adjacent corridor the Ninth A~nual Exhibiti on of Miniature
Painters. Installed with consummate taste this exhibition evoked
both interest "and prai,se and set a new esthetic standard for the ex ....
hibition of miniatures.
.
From November 14th to December 18th, Galleries, E,F,G and H
and the adjoining corridors were devoted to the Eighth "Arnual Phila~
delphia Water Oolor Exhibition held under the "joint mana.gement of the
Philadelphia Water Oolor Olub and your "Academy. This exhibition was
composed of 679 examplos representing 199 artists " and from it 56 works
were sold. A feature of the eXhibition was the work of European ar~
tists sent to this country espeCially for exhibition in the Academy.
The 106th Annual Exhibition opened but yesterday.
On
Satur~
d.ay evening, February 4th a private view of it was given 8,ttended by
about 2,000 invited guests and the tha,nks of the Academy are due
the following ladies who graciously performed the arduous dutie!3 of
hostesses.
Mrs. Oaspar W. Morris
Mrs. George Wharton Pepper
Harold Aymar San4s
Mrs. William J. Taylor
Mrs. Frank H. Bach man
Mrs. Robert O. H. Brock
Mrs. Hampton L. Carson
£.iII'S 9 Arthur' H. Lea
.
Mrs. Willard L. Me tcalf
Mrs.
The EXhibition entirely fills the Academy"'s Galleries except
Galleries 0, D and E and contains 375 paintings and 148 exhibits of
sculpture representing 303 different artists.
The Exhibition is a notable one and maintaj_ns the Academy's
leadership in exhibition work.
>"
,
.
Especial thanks, for the thorougp and conscientious per ...
formance of their arduous duties, are due the Jury and Hanging Oommittee composed of the follow~ng artists:
Willaid L. Metcalf, Ohairman
De Witt Parshall
. George Bellows
Daniel Ge:rber
.Adolphe Borie
'Walter MacEwen
Henry Jo Thouron
J. Alden Weir
Joseph De Camp
Oarl NeWTllaU
' George L. l\l'oyes
Sculpture
Hermon Ao 1iacNeil Bela L. Pratt
John Mo Bateman
Hal'lging OOImni t tee
Willard L. Metce,lf Charles Grafly
Adplphe Borie
From the 106th Annual EYJ'libi t-ion the following honors were
awarded by the Painters' Jury:
The Temple Gold l/.ledal to Richard E l~iller for l1.i s painting
"The Ohinese Statuette" No .. 306 in the Exhibition.
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The Jennie Sesnan Gold Medal to Joseph T. Pearson~ Jr., for
his painting entitled "I,andscape" 1~ 0. 316 in the Exhibi tiono
The Carol Ho Beck Gold Medal to Edmund Co Tarbell for his
painting entitled "Portrait of Timothy Dwight, .DD,L .. LD Noo 310'1
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The Exhibition Corr~ittee of your Board of Directors awarded
the Walter Lippincott Prize of $000. to De,niel Garber for his painting
entitled IIRiverbank" No. ,3 06 in the Exhibition.
The fiIary Smith Prize of $100. to Alice Kent Stoddard for her
painting entitled "Portrait of Miss Elizabeth Sparhawk'- Jones No 479
in the Ey~ibition.
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The Beck Prize of $100. was · awarded from the Eighth Annual
Philadelpl1:la Water Oolor Ex...l1.ibi tion to 11. C Wyeth for his picture
entitled "Winter".
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In April last the Academy's permanent collection was enriched by
the gift from Miss Rebecca Gibson; Mr$. William Gros$holtz and Mrs. Edward
A. Sibley of thirteen paintings as a memorial to their sister Mrs. Oaroline
Gibson Taitt from whose collection the pictures were selected. This va1u...
able group which admirably ' supplements the Gibson 00llection is composed .
of the following pictures:
18 Tired Horses
2~ Before the Palace
3~ Cattle in the Meadow
4~ Lady with a Letter
5"", Sailing Vessels
6~ The Bearer of Dispatches
7~ Woman and Child
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88 . Marine
98 Head
108 The Last Sigh of the Moor
1'1... Venice
12- Woman's Head
13.... Boyis Head
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Van Marcke _
Van Moucha
Clays
Roybet
M eye~ Von Bremen
Aschenbach
Rothermel
Rothermel
Rico
Swire
Johnston
The Academy added to the Tmmp1e Collection the painting "Miss
Phyllis" by Walter l1acEwen purchased from the l05th Annua.l Exhibition.
The thanks of .the Academy are also due to the estate of William
Do Lewis deceased, :Mrs. E. L. Reakirt and Mr. Francis Rawle for having
deposited portraits by Gilbert stuart which are hung with the Academy's
ovm ve,luable col.leetion of Stuart's.
Loans of important paintings from the Academy's collection were
made during the year for exhibition in Munich, Berlin, st. Louis, Buffalo,
Worcester, New York, Buenos Aires, Santiago and Rome and the Acad~my is
indebted for rE;lciprocal favors to the Oity Museum of .st. Louis,- The Wore
cester Art Museum, The Buffalo Academy of the Fine Arts, The Ohifago .Art
Institute and the Corcoran Gallery of . Art ..
The thanks of the Academy are also due to Mr. Edward Ho Coates,
Mr. Geo. H. McFadden and the J. B. Lippincott 00., for donations to the
Academy Liprary and to those sister institutions with whom the Academy
exchanges catalogues~ pamphlets, etc.
1'he Academy has re-ceived during the last year contributions of
$100.00 each from twenty life members, and of $10.00 each of 382 Annual
Members. These figures show e, slight increase over the preceding year
and representing as they do the active interest of the community in the
work and purposes ef the Institution are of especial service, but it is
hoped that the number -of such contributions may be. materially increasedo
FUrther income from these sources will enable the Academy to increase its
~fficiency in various directions.
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. From the Fidelity Mutual Life Insurance Oompany there was received
a donation of $100.00 to assist in defraying the cost of ~ome of the fire~
proofing work on the Academy Building.
B·Y the death of Mr . John H. Oonverse on JiIay 3, 1910, the ACE!-demy
suffered loss, Mr. Oonverse having been in turn a <::-va1ued member of the
Beard of Directors, Vice-President and Henorary Vice-President of the
Academy. His Period of service extended from l886 -until his death.
The Academy owes and would express especial obligation and thanks
to the PUblic Press of Philadelphia and of the whole country for the valu~
able assistance and services rendered by a full and continued understanding
of the work and purp0ses of the management, and a clear setting forth . of
the lnsti tution 1 s efforts and requirements. "
The General Ste,tement of the Treasurer is submitted herewith •
. Te the :Mayor of the Oi ty of Phila. and to the City Oouncils are
due the appreciation and thanks for their continued co~operation in the
work of the Academy.
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Respectfully mubmitted on behalf of the Board of Direetorso
JohnFo Lewis, President",