146th Annual Report for the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
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THE PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE
FINE ARTS
BROAD AND CHERRY 5T5.
146th
ANNUAL
1951
•
REPORT
PHILADELPHIA
Cover : Rachmaninoff by Jose de Creeft.
Acquired by purchase in
February, 1951
The One-Hundred and Forty-Sixth
Annual Report
of .
THE PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY of the FINE ARTS
- FOR THE YEAR
1951
Presented to the Meeting of the Stockholders
of the Academy on February
4, 1952
OFFICERS
President
Vice-President
Treasurer
Secretary
John F. Lewis, Jr.
Henry S. Drinker .
C. Newbold Taylor
Joseph T. Fraser, Jr.
BOARD
Mrs. Leonard T. Beale
Henry S. Drinker
Henry C. Gibson
R. Sturgis Ingersoll
James P. Magill
OF
Sydney
William
George
Howard
George
DIRECTORS
E. Martin
Clarke Mason
P. Orr
c. .Petersen
Brooke Roberts
STAND~NG
C. Alison Scully
John Stewart
Robert Strausz-Hupe
C. Newbold Taylor
Sydney L. Wright
COMMITTEES
COMMITTEE
ON
EXHIBITION
George B. Roberts, Chairman
Henry S. Drinker
George P. Orr
Sydney E. Martin
Sydney L. Wright
COMMITTEE
ON
FINANCE
C. Newbold Taylor, Chairman
James P. Magill
John Stewart
COMMITTEE
ON
INSTRUCYION
William Clarke Mason, Chairman
Mrs. Leonard T. Beale
C. Newbold Taylor
COMMITTEE
ON
CHESTER
SPRiNGS
William Clarke Mason, Chairman
George B. Roberts
Sydney E. Martin
COMMITTEE
ON
COLLECTIONS
George P. Orr, Chairman
R. Sturgis Ingersoll
George B. Roberts
Sydney E. Martin
Robert Strausz-Hupe
SOLICITOR
Maurice B. Saul
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WOMEN'S
COMMITTEE
Mrs. Leonard T. Beale, Chairman
Mrs.
Mrs.
Mrs.
Mrs.
Mrs.
Mrs.
Mrs.
S. Laurence Bodine
Francis T. Chambers
Emlen P. Etting
David M. Gwinn
Horace Binney Hare
Arthur C. Kaufmann
John F. Lewis, Jr.
Mrs.
Mrs.
Mrs.
Mrs.
Mrs.
Graeme Lorimer
Morton McMichael
George B. Roberts
Julius Rosenwald, II
Lawrence M. C. Smith
Mrs.
Mrs.
Mrs.
Mrs.
Mrs.
Mrs.
Mrs.
Alfred G. B. Steel
John F. Steinman
Boudinot Stimson
Robert Strausz-Hupe
Franklin C. Watkins
John P. Wheeler
Sydney l. Wright
STAFF ·
GENERAL
. Director and Secretary
Assistant Secretary and Comptroller
Assistant to the Secretary
Secretary to the Director
. Registrar and Research
Exhibition and Membership Clerk
Director of Public Relations and
Membership
Joseph T. Fraser, Jr.
Robert L. Wood
Cha rles J. Marsh .
Marian N. Little .
Barbara S. Roberts
Frances M. Vanderpool
Elizabeth Z. Swenson .
SCHOOLS
(day and evening)
. Curator
Secretary to the Curator
. Librarian and Sales
Vernon M. Dodge
Catherine R. Newbold
Martha K. Schick .
FACULTY
Daniel Garber
George Harding
Roy C. Nuse
Francis Speight
Walker Hancock
Roswell Weidner
Harry Rosin
* Edward Shenton
* * Oliver Grimley
Franklin Chenault Watkins
John W. McCoy
Julius Bloch
Walter Stuempflg
Hobson Pittman
John F. Harbeson
William M. Campbell
Philip Aliano
Edmond J. Farris
Jack Bookbinder
t Joseph Schindler
'leave-of-absence 1951-52
" Season 1951-52 only
tDeceosed
(Summer)
Roy C. N~se
Francis Speight
Roswell Weidner
Morris Blackburn
BUILDING
Mayland T. McAvoy, Superintendent
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R E PORT
Of
BOAR.D
THE
OFFICERS
OF
DIRECTORS
AND
This report lists the activities of the calendar year but actually our program is always planned for a fiscal year which runs from September 1st
through August 31st. The plans which carried through the spring of 1951
continued to maintain that great activity which we reported last year.
The 146th Annual Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture proved to be one
of the most interesting we have staged . I~s opening night brought forth
one of the largest crowds the Academy has had in its building in many
years. As a part of the celebration of the 75th Anniversary at The Philadelphia Museum of Art, that institution made a $10,000 purchase fun"d
available for artists whose work was in the exhibition. This fund, combined with the $20,000 which the Academy could offer for the s"imilar
purpose of buying contemporary American art, made one of the largest
purses available in any exhibition in the country in recent years. The excellent additions to our permanent collection made possible through these
purchases are listed elsewhere in this report. The general professional
activity was maintained at a high level and demonstrates again the eminent position of the Academy in the field of American art.
Again, because of the Philadelphia Museum's celebration year, the American Association of Museums, the Association of Art Museum Directors,
and the American Federation of Arts, all held their annual meetings in
Philadelphia. The Academy was honored in that our building was used for
certain of the meetings of these important groups. The Academy staff made
particular effort to hang our galleries through the period of the conventions with the finest examples in our permanent collection, and thus put
our best foot forward. We enjoyed the most discriminating audience in
those few days which could be gathered together in the United States.
We are happy to report that our collection, which has had comparatively
little acclaim locally, was so lavishly praised by these groups of experts.
During the summer, the Director was on vacation in Europe through a generous grant from the Board of Directors.
The fall activities had been planned with considerable curtailment due to
the very much smaller enrollment in our schools. However, as this report
will record, the year has proved as active as any in the past, even though
costs were a major consideration and handicap. The small, all-invited
Water Color Exhibition held in Gallery F and again in collaboration with
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and chiefly financed by The Philadelphia Water Color Club, brought together a splendid collection of contemporary papers, and while no actual
substitute for the major international show which has been staged for so
many years, it did give Philadelphia a room of distinguished work. We
hope that the Water Color Club and the Academy, working together, will
soon find methods whereby this exhibition can be continued on a scale
similar to that of the past.
The Miniatures Exhibition of the fall, always staged jointly with The Philadelphia Water Color Club, proved to be of very major importance. The
Pennsylvania Society of Miniatur~ Painters celebrated its 50th Anniversary, and in addition to the exhibition of contemporary miniatures which
was staged on the usual scale, an exhibition of antique miniatures was
organized, and made possible through many generous loans by gracious
owners of distinguished miniatures. The exhibition, which opened with a
private view and tea on the afternoon of October 26th, was the most important in that category ever held in the United States. Special mention
should be made of the elaborate accompanying catalog realized through
the generosity of one of the chief lenders, Mr. A. J. Fink of Baltimore.
This occasion also afforded excellent opportunity to pay tribute to Mrs. J.
Madison Taylor, eminent miniaturist who was President throughout the
complete span of the fifty years of the Society's life, and whose vitality
was chiefly responsible for its success. Grateful acknowledgment must also
be recorded of the ideal collaboration of Mr. Arthur J. Sussel, who furnished Gallery N, the connecting gallery between the two rooms of miniatures, with a collection of rare early American and English antiques.
The period between the closing of the Water Color and Miniatures Exhibitions and the end of the calendar year is generally a quiet one, although
there have been those winters when we staged special exhibitions.
Through many of our seasons, however, this period has given us opportunity to hang the galleries with our permanent collection. Our Women's
Committee, neawly formed last year, realizing that all too few Philadelphians know and appreciate this collection, was fired with the idea that
it would be an appropriate time to stage a dinner and reception for the
permanent collection. This affair was held on December 7th and was a
great success. Mr. Edgar P. Richardson, Director of The Detroit Institute
of Arts, was the speaker of the evening and he again drew the guests'
attention to the fact that this collection represents the most important
aggregation of American painting and sculpture in the United States.
Following the dinner, the guests were invited to Gallery l where the great
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picture titled Christ Rejected by Benjamin West was unveiled in its new
location, after the thorough conservation it had undergone in the summer
through the work of Theodor Siegl, the Academy's conservator. Two of
the great paintings by Benjamin West - Christ Rejected and Death on a
Pale Horse - were hung for many years far too high on our walls to be
seen and appreciated. In addition, due to their unfortunate location, they
could not receive the care and attention which must be given pictures as
large and old as these if they are not to deteriorate. Taking down both of
these paintings from their former locations, and the cleaning and conservation of Christ Rejected, was a major activity this year. During the coming year its companion picture will be similarly cleaned, conserved and
hung on the wall of Gallery B, the position opposite the one now installed.
In the meeting of April 9, 1951, and by unanimous vote, Mr. James P.
Magill was elected a mem.ber of the Board of Directors for the term expiring in February 1952. In the meeting of November 19, 1951, and again
by unanimous vote, Mr. Howard C. Petersen was elected a member of the
Board of Directors for a term expiring in February 1953.
Among the following reports is a list of works of American art given to the
Academy during the year. However, to maintain our leadership in this
field, the Academy needs to receive from time to time gifts of works of
art by distinguished American painters and sculptors, and particularly the
work of artists, both of the past and present, who are not now represented
in its collection. Frankly, and giving all due credit to the donors represented this year, the gifts currently being received are somewhat inadequate to fulfill the entire purpose of the Academy, which is to maintain
its eminent position. Accordingly, stockholders, members and friends of the
Academy could do nothing better to serve the interest of this institution
than to present or bequeath works of art of museum quality in the Amer- ·
ican field. Such gifts, of course, are legitimate deductions at their full value
from personal income taxes.
The Academy maintains the oldest, and, we believe, the best school of the
fine arts in the United States. This has been proven, not only by the record,
through the history of American art, of the professional achievements of
its former students, but currently, by prizes won and honors received by
its former students, or those still enrolled in the school, further detailed
under "Schools" in this report.
Following World War II, we were not in a position to encourage many
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students from other ranks to come to us because of the large number of
veterans studying here. Now this group is completing its work and the
Academy is once again in a position to serve those young people from
other groups whose talent promises a career in the fine arts: painling,
mural decoration, illustration, and sculpture. This is another place where
members, stockholders and friends of the Academy can assist. It may be
through their advice and encouragement that students whose talent is
sufficiently promising can be directed to the Academy where they will find
training of the highest calibre.
In calling your attention to the detailed report which follows, it is gratifying to realize that the year, both in the schools and in the galleries, has
been not only a busy but a rewarding one.
JOSEPH T. FRASER, JR., Director
JOHN F. LEWIS, JR., President
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EXHIBITIONS
THE 146th ANNUAL EXHIBITION OF OIL PAINTING AND SCULPTURE
The 146th Annual Exhibition of Oil Painting and Sculpture was held in the
Galleries from January 21st through February 25th, with a Private View
on Saturday, January 20th, from 9 to 11 P. M.
PAINTING JURY
SCULPTURE
Harry Rosin, Chairman
Lee Lawrie
Henry Rox
Abraham Rattner, Chairman
Leon Karp
Yasuo Kuniyoshi
PRIZES
JURY
AND
AWARDS
The Painting Jury awarded the following:
Memorial Citation - Max Beckman (1884-1950) by direction of the
Jury of Award in memory of this artist and in recognition of his distinguished achievements in his profession.
Temple Gold Medal - William Congdon for his oil Venice #2 as
the best painting regardless of subject.
Jennie Sesnan Gold Medal as the best landscape.
Sidney Laufman for his oil The Path
Carol H. Beck Gold Meda/- Henry Varnum Poor for his oil Artist
in Summer as the best portrait in oil.
1. Henry Schiedt Memorial Prize Lottery as of special importance.
Samuel M. Adler fo t his oil The
The Sculpture Jury awarded the following:
George D. Widener Memorial Gold Meda/- Oronzio Maldarelli f<;>r
his sculpture Bianca #2 as the most meritorious work in sculpture.
Alfred G. B. Steel Memorial Prize - Rita Ruben for her sculpture
Ceres as most deserving of professional recognition for its distinction.
Garden Sculpture Prize - Berta Margoulies for her sculpture Displaced, as the best work suitable for a small garden.
The Committee on Exhibition awarded the following:
Walter Lippincott Prize - Marion Greenwood for her oil Invocation
as the best figure in oil.
Mary Smith Prize - Rita Wolpe Barnett for her oil To The Earth as
the best work by a Philadelphia woman.
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A Special Jury appointed by the President of the Academy's Fellowship
awarded:
The FefJowship Prize -
Raphael Sabatini for his oil Harlequin.
Gallery Talks, sponsored by the Fellowship, were held at 2:30 P. M. as
follows: January 27th, Dorothy Grafly; 31 st, Morris Blackburn; February
8th, Hobson Pittman; 13th, Harry Rosin; 22nd, Walter Emerson Baum.
Two of a series of four free chamber music concerts were presented by
the Academy as a feature of this Exhibition on February 2nd and 16th at
8:30 P. M., sponsored by the Music Performance Trust Fund of the American Phonograp·h Industry in cooperation with local 77, of the American
Federation of Musicians.
The exhibition consisted of 283 paintings and 119 pieces of sculpture; 402
artists were represented. The Academy purchased 1 sculpture through
the Ware Fund, 4 paintings through the Temple Fund, 2 paintings and 1
sculpture through the Gilpin Fund, and 11 paintings through the lambert
Fund. Six paintings and 2 sculptures were sold to the public. A total of
27 items were purchased from the exhibition representing a sales value
of $27A79.75. (In addition to this sum, several major transactions were
carried out by The Philadelphia Museum of Art after the Exhibition closed.)
The total attendance was 10,384.
REGIONAL EXHIBITION OF OIL PAINTING AND SCULPTURE
PHILADELPHIA AND VICINITY
An exhibition of the work of Philadelphia artists was presented jointly by
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Fellowship of the Academy,
and the Philadelphia Chapter of Artists' Equity Association in the galleries
of the Academy March 10th through April 8th, opening with a Private View
March 9th from 9 to 11 P. M.
JURY
Antoinette Kraushaar
OF
AWARD
Peppino Mangravite
Henri Marceau
PRIZES
Prize For Painting -
Prize for Sculpture -
Arthur Flory for Fence Movements.
Wharton Esherick for Sad Sap.
Board of Directors' Prize for Painting -
William Barnett for The Mantle.
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PRIZES
AVAILABLE
TO
Fellowship Gold Medal Award -
FELLOWSHIP
MEMBERS
ONLY
Harry Rosin for his sculpture Small Nude.
Mary Butler Special Memorial Prize gomery County.
Margaret Gest for her oil Mont-
Mary Butler Special Memorial Prize Pasture.
Jean Watson for her oil Hillside
Harrison S. Morris Memorial Prize Scene.
May Audubon Post Prize Student.
Morris Blackburn for his oil Street
Walter Emerson Baum for his oil The Art
Caroline Gibbons Granger Memorial Prize of Catch.
William Penn Charter School Prize the Window .
Leon Karp for his oil Game
Marcella Klein for her oil Man at
The last two of the series of four cham ber music concerts were presented
on March 16th and 30th in the Rotunda.
Two of the three programs celebrating the Twenty-third Annual Festival
of the American Society of Ancient Instruments were held in the Rotunda
April 4th and 5th at 8:30 P. M.
Mr. and Mrs. John F. Lewis, Jr., were host and hostess at a receptio n in
honor of the exhibiting artists in the Regional Exhibition on Friday, April
6th, from 4:30 to 6:30 P. M.
Two-hundred seventy-nine artists were represented in the exhibition by
one painting or sculpture each - the personal choice of each artist. One
painting and one sculpture, representing a sales value of $80.00 were
liold. The total attendance was 6604.
THE
STUDENT
EXHIBITION
rhe Student Exhibition held in conjunction with the Competition for the
William Emlen Cresson Memorial European Traveling Scholarships was on
view in Galleries C, D, E, F, J and the Rotunda from May 17th through
24th, opening with exercises for the students and their friends on May
16th at 4 P. M.
An address was made in Gallery F by Miss Emily Genauer, Art Critic for
the New York Herald-Tribune, before the awarding of Cresson Scholarships and other prizes.
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The Board of Directors, on recommendation of the faculty, awarded the
following:
William Emlen Cresson Memorial European Traveling Scholarships
($1250 each):
Charles E. Hewins
Mary Potter Love
Donald W. Luft
Frank Mancuso
Thomas E. Yerxa, 3rd
Homer W. Johnson
Ben Kamihira
isami Kashiwagi
Honorable Mentions with Free Tuition, 1957 -52:
Raymond Spiller
Atha Lee Tehon
Lawrence Van Haren
Philip R. Wonson, Jr.
Philip Fowler
Napoleon V. Gorski, Jr.
Sam Ladenson
Clarence F. Sherdon
Honorable Mentions:
P. Allen Harris
Henry W. Peacock
Lewis S. Ware Memorial European Traveling Scholarship ($1250):
Kathryn Fligg
J. Henry Schiedt Memorial Scholarship ($7200):
James C. Lueders
Thomas Eakins Memorial Prize ($700):
Paul Kramer
Honorable Mentions -
James C. Lueders
Frank Mancuso
Packard Prizes:
First Prize ($30) - Emily Hitch
Second Prize ($20) - Harry R. Thomas
Thouron Prizes:
Awarded
Awarded
Awarded
Awarded
by
by
by
by
the
the
the
the
Faculty ($50) - Philip R. Wonson, Jr.
Students ($25) - Paul Kramer
Instructor ($50) - Walter Hood
Instructor ($25) - Charles Vinson
Perspective Class Prize:
Awarded by Instructors John F. Harbeson and William M.
Campbell ($20) - Lawrence Van Haren
Honor able Mentions -
Susan Cbrse
John B. Sutton
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Anatomy Closs Prize:
First Prize ($5) -
Miriam Montague Wallace Braune
Honorable Mention --,.- Clara Shoemaker
Lila Agnes Kennedy Hill Memorial Prize ($50):
Charles C. Parks
Ramborger Prize ($25):
Miriam Aley
Toppan Prizes:
First Prize ($300) - James C. Lueders
Second Prize ($200) - Seymour Titone
Honorable Mention ($1 OO)- Joan Knight
Class Prizes:
Construction ($50) -
Carlo Travaglia
Croquis ($50) -Anthony Cioffi
Antique Cast Drawing ($50) - James Ryan
Honorable Mentions - Leo Franey
Ben Kamihira
Composition in Sculpture Class ($50) - P. Allen Harris
Night School Prizes:
Drawing in Any Medium ($25) - Beatrice Crawford
Portrait in Any Medium ($25) - Beatrice Crawford
The Stewardson Prize ($100) awarded on March 16th, by a Jury consisting oJ Joseph E. Renier, Charles Rudy, and HeleneSardeau - Mary Potter
Love.
The Stimson Prize ($100) awarded on November 9th, by a Jury consisting
of Gladys Edgerly Bates, Vincent Glinsky, and Jean de Marco - John
Gardner.
First Honorable Mention - Matthew O. Gordon
Second Honorable Mention -
Philip E.
Fowler
The University of Pennsylvania, in conjunction with the Academy, through
the Co-Ord inated Courses, awarded Bachelor of Fine Arts degrees to the
following:
Marianthe Brown
Dorothy Buffaloe
Kyle Bunch
Chase Decker
Irving Drummond
Jean Evans
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Caroline Flaherty
Roslyn Ehrenhalt
Helen Holmstine
Charles Jernstedt
Laurette Keast
Barbara McKoy
Richar:! Manganaro
Eleanor Marshall
Seymour Titone
Richard Toole
Helene Woltman
Marjorie Wiley
and the Master of Fine Arts degree to:
John C. Schneider
Total attendance at the Exhibition was 929.
During the summer, the finest works f rom the Academy's permanent collection were exhibited in the galleries.
GOLDEN JUBILEE FIFTIETH ANNUAL EXHIBITION OF MINIATURES
The Golden Jubilee Fiftieth Annual Exhibition of Miniatures, Antique and
Contemporary, held in collaboration with The Pennsylvania Society of
Miniature Painters, was hung in Galleries A, M and N from October 27th
through " December 2nd, opening with a Private View on Friday, October
26th, from 4 to 6 P. M.
Mrs. J. Madison Taylor, President of The Pennsylvania Society of Miniature Painters for fifty years, was especially honored.
LENDERS TO THE ANTBQUE EXHiBITION
j~
Mr. and Mrs . Joseph Carson
Mr. Stanley Cowman
Miss Ida Edelson
Mr. A. J. Fink
The Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Mrs. Daniel J. McCarthy
The Pennsylvania Academy of
the Fine Arts
The Philadelphia Museum of Art
Mrs. Alfred Coxe Prime
Mrs. David B. Robb
Miss Lydia S. Moncure Robinson
Mrs. George A. Saportas
Mrs. C. Frederick C. Stout
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur J. Sussel
Mrs. J. Madison Taylor
Mr. Ruel Pardee Tolman
Mr. Charles Willing
CONTEMPORARY MINIATURES EXHIBITION
J U RY
OF
SELEC Ti ON
Katharine K. Borda
Angelica King
Sarah Eakin Cowan
Robert Cheston Smith
Matilda Hutchinson Turner
P R IZ ES
AND
AWARDS
A Jury composed of Katharine K. Borda, Edna Heustis Simpson, and Emily
Drayton Taylor, awarded the following:
D. J. McCarthy Prize - Mary Page Blair for Self Portrait as the best
portrait.
Miniature Society Prize - Betsy Flagg Melcher for Sandra as of outstanding worth.
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Miniature Society Prize best still life.
Florence Sims for Study
In
Blues as the
The Jury of Selection awarded the following:
Miniature Painters' Medal of Honor - Edna Huestis Simpson for
portrait of The Right Reverend Horace W. B. Donegon, D.O., for high
achievement, to a miniature painter whose work is in the Exhibition.
The Antique Exhibition consisted of 272 miniatures, representing 135
artists; the Contemporary Exhibition consisted of 97 miniatures by 51 artists.
One miniature was sold, representing a sales value of $40.00. The total
attendance was 5135.
49th ANNUAL WATER COLOR EXHISBTaON
The 49th Annual Water Color Exhibition, held in collaboration with The
Philadelphia Water Color Club, was hung in Gallery F, from October 27th
through December 2nd, with a Reception and Tea Thursday, November
1st, from 4 to 6 P. M. Due to unavoidable circumstances, a small invited
group of water colors was shown instead of the usual comprehensive international water color and print exhibition.
COMMITTEE
ON
SELECTION
Morris Blackburn
Charles Burchfield
W. Emerton Heitland
Joseph T. Fraser,
Henry C. Pitz
Ogden M. Speissner
Thornton Oakley
Jr.
The Directors of the Water Color Club awarded the following:
Dana Water Color Medal - John Foster for Nocturne, as the best
work in water color.
Pennell Memorial Medal - Henry C. Pitz for Middle Aged Juggler
and Apprentices, for achievement in illustration or in the graphic arts.
Three of a series of six free" chamber music concerts were presented by
the Academy on November 2nd, 9th and 16th at 8:30 P. M., sponsored
by the Music Performance Trust Fund of the American Phonograph Industry
in cooperation with local 77, of the American Federation of Musicians.
A total of 4 water colors were sold, representing a sales value of $510.00.
The Exhibition consisted of 77 items; 48 artists were represented. The total
attendance was 5135.
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PHILAD ELPHIA
ARTISTS'
GALLE RY
GALLERY ,
M
Water Colors by Vera White - April 17th through 29th
Pastels by Thelia Conrad de Behar - May 1 st through 13th
Gouache and Oil Paintings by Paul Darrow, October 2nd through 14th
Paintings by Rita Wolpe Barnett and William Barnett - December 7th
through 30th
LITTLE
GALLERY
MA I N
FLOOR
Prints from Life Magazine Series -
Egypt -
January 7 th through 14th
Prints from Life Magazine Series ruary 4th
Kyoto -
January 28th through
Paintings, Water Colors and Drawings by Henry W. Peacock 12th through 25th
Drawings by Oliver Grimley -
Fe b ~
March
April 9th through 28th
Drawings from The Philadelphia Museum of Art in exhi bition titled Lines
That Live - September 18th through October 7th
Paintings by Phillip Merrill -
October 22nd through November 4th
Prints from Life Magazine Series . Student Work -
Venice -
November 12th through 18th
December 14th through January 3rd, 1952
In addition to the sales for special exhibitions indicated in the foregoi ng
report, 7 works representing a sales value of $775.00 have been sol d
during the year from other exhibitions.
TOTAL ATTENDANCE IN THE GALLERIES during 1951: 38,980.
ACQUISITIONS
Purcha ses
Through the Temple Fund, from the 146th Annual Exhibition:
Eliphaz by Karl Knaths (painting)
Figure in Space by Sigmund Menkes (painting)
* Prodigal Son by Russell Cowles (painting)
*Young America by Andrew Wyeth (painting)
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Through the Gilpin fund, from the 146th Annual Exhibition:
Summer Scene by Franklin C. Watkins (painting)
Darling by Wharton Esherick (sculptured wood)
* Possendorf by Lyonel Feininger (painting)
Through .t he Lambert Fund, from the 146th Annual Exhibition:
Cool Flowers by William Barnett (painting)
Composition - Odober by Robert Knipschild (painting)
The Yellow Cup by Humbert Howard (painting)
The Branch by Charles T. Coiner (painting)
Summer EvenIng by Richard Zoellner (painting)
. City Patterns by Joseph P. Gualtieri (painting)
Hot Cat by Milton Levey (painting)
Terminal Market by Abraham Hankins (painting)
Last Supper by Mark Tobey (painting)
Cathedral Architect by William T. Snaith (painting1
Cafe - Rue d' Alesia by Hugh Weiss (painting)
Through the Ware Fund, from the 146th Annual Exhibition:
*Rachmaninoff by Jose de Creeft (beat~nlead sculpturef,
Through the Committee on Collections:
Noah's Ark by Charles Willson Peale (painting)
The House Wren by John James Audubon (painting)
My Father by Maurice Molarsky (painting)
• Artist represented in the Exhibition, but this work was not i neluded.
Gif t $
Summer Storm by Zsissley {paintingL and carved wood bust of Gentlemen,
Unknown by John Rush, from Nr. John F. Lewis, Jr.
Scene in Sheboygan by William SchNartz (paintingL from an anonymous
donor
God's Day by C. F. McCall (painting), gift of the artist
David Wilson Jordan by Samuel Murray (plaster), from Miss Helen W.
Henderson
Seascape (painting) by Rockwell Kent from Erhard Weyhe.
to change)
(title subject
Livia's House by William Thon (water color), through the Childe Hassam
Bequest of The American Academy of Arts and Letters
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I,
Deserted House and Village Road by Robert Frederick Blum (water colors),
from Mrs. James Mapes Dodge.
Ephraim Wilson by Julius Bloch (painting), from Mr. R. Sturgis Ingersoll
A case for exhibiting small works of art from Mrs. Alexander Portnoff
A Remington "Super-riter~' (large type) machine for typing exhibition
labels, from Mr. John F. Lewis, Jr.
LOANS
American Institute of Architects, on indefinite loan for use in the drawing
ro om of its Washington, D. c., headquarters (The Octagon), the Academy's
copy of the painting Washington and His Family by Edward Savage.
Wilmington Society of the Fine Arts, Wilmington, Delaware, for a Wyeth
family exhibition in January, Craige's Meadows by John W. McCoy.
Associated American Artists, New York City, fora retrospective exhibition
of twenty-five years ·of work by Luigi Lucioni, January 2nd to 20th, Rose
Hobart by Luigi Lucioni.
The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan, .for exhibition American
Artists in Italy, 7830-7875, January 12th through February 18th, Cupid
Begging His Arrows by Henry P. Gray, Matilda Washington Dawson by
John Neagle, Young Merchants by William Page, Bust of Washington Allston, by Shobal V. Clevenger, and Bust of John Frazee by John Frazee.
Woodmere Gallery, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, for exhibition of work by
Mary Townsend Mason and Alice Kent Stoddard, February 11 th through
March 4th, Splendor Falls and Still Life With Fruit by Mrs. Mason.
Denver Art Museum, Denver; Colorado, for exhibition Life in America,
March 4th through April 30th, Fourth of July in Centre Square · by John L.
Krimmel, Carved Wood Eagle by William Rush, James Peale and His
Family by James Peale, and Charles Willson Peale by Charles VYillson
Peale.
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, for exhibition of master works
from the time of Jacques Louis David through the Post Impressionists,
March 7th through May 6th, The Cello Player by Thomas Eakins.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, for Diamond Jubilee Anniversary Exhibition of the Art Students' League of New York, March 15th
through May 13th, The Twin Birches by Willard Metcalf, and The Shooting
Gallery by Louis Bouche'.
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California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, California, for
retrospective exhibition of the work of Mark Tobey, March 31 st through
May 6th, Last Supper by Mark Tobey.
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D. c., for 22nd Biennial Exhibition
of American Oil Painting, April 1st through May 13th, Summer Scene by
Franklin C. Watkins.
The Hill School, Pottstown, Pennsylvania, for exhibition during its Centennial Celebration, April 4th to 25th, Upper House by William Gropper,
North River by George Bellows, Clown With Folded Arms by Walt Kuhn,
End of Day by Charles Burchfield, Girl with White Cap by William Morris
Hunt, Cat Boqts, Newport, by Childe Hassam, Fisherman by N. C. Wyeth,
Walt Whitman, by Thomas Eakins, Jefferson Market by John Sloan, Isle of
Destiny by Arthur B. Davies, Elizabeth Sparhawk Jones by Alice Kent Stoddard, Peggy's Cove by Ernest Lawson, The Little Hotel by Joseph R. De
Camp, The Wall by Walter Stuempfig, Disorder by Raphael Soyer, Place
of Echoes by Martin Jackson, Acorn Squash by William McFee, Clapboards
by Charles Sheeler, Osier's Cove by Paul Wescott, Late Afternoon by
Francis Speight, The Spinster by Hobson Pittman.
M. Knoedler and Company, Inc., New York City, on be~ alf of Colonial
Williamsburg and the College of William and Mary, for an exhibition in
Colonial Williamsburg titled They Gave Us Freedom, May 15th through
July 4th, Portrait of Robert Morris by Charles Willson Peale, and Patrick
Henry Before the House of Burgesses by Peter F. Rothermel.
University of Pennsylvania, for Franklin-Churchill Exhibition, celebrating
thebi-centennial of the founding of the University of Pennsylvania Library,
May 6th through 25th, portrait of Benjamin Franklin by David Martin.
Stapler Fabrics, Inc., Philadelphia, for an exhibition of the paintings of
Jack Bookbinder, May 11 th through 24th, Twilight by Jack Bookbinder.
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Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, for painting class exhibition, one
month beginning May 24th, John Marshall by Henry Inman, and Along
the River by Sarah Blakeslee.
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The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan, for exhibition The French
in America, 1500-1875, July 8th through September 16th, Portrait of Jean
Antoine Houdon by Rembrandt Peale, Joel Barlow by Jean Antoine
Houdon, and Constantine Francois Volney by Gilbert Stuart.
Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire, and the William A.
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Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine, for retrospective exhibitions of
the work of Andrew Wyeth, July at the Currier Gallery and August at the
Farnsworth Museum, Young America by Andrew Wyeth.
Chicago Historical Society, Chicago, Illinois, for an exhibition of Childe
Hassam's American Views in Oil and Water Color, October 15th through
December 15th, Cat Boats, Newport by Childe Hassam.
The Fidelity-Philadelphia Trust Company, Philadelphia, exhibiting one picture each month from September through April, 1952, in its lobby: Port
Ben by Theodore Robinson, Major Thomas Biddle by Thomas Sully, Still
Life - Fruit by James Peale, Pine Trees by Byron Thomas, Benjamin Franklin by Joseph Wright, George Washington by Charles Willson Peale,
Fairmount Water Works by Thomas Birch, Walt Whitman by Thomas Eakins.
The Moore Institute of Art, Science and Industry, Philadelphia, for exhibition in student gallery, September 14th to October 14th, Coal Mine by
Henry McCarter, Central Park in Winter by Eric Isenburger, and Apart. ment Houses by Edward Hopper.
The Hacker Gallery, New York City, for one-man exhibition of the work of
Hugh Weiss during October, his painting Cafe Rue d'Alesia.
Bowdoin College Museum of Fine Arts, Brunswick, Maine, for one-man exhibition of work of Stephen Etnier during August, his painting Cafe Tables.
Joslyn Memorial Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, for a retrospective exhibition of the work of Thomas Hart Benton, November 13th to December
31 st, Aaron by Thomas Hart Benton.
The Hill School, Pottstown, Pennsylvania, for Audubon Exhibition, November 7th to December 16th, The House Wren by John J. Audubon.
Milch Galleries, New York City, for comprehensive exhibition of the work
of John Sharp, at Des Moines Art Institute, Des Moines, Iowa, December
4th to 30th, Spring Snow by John Sharp.
Watkins Gallery of the American University, Washington, D. c., for oneman exhibition of the work of Robert Knipschild, for three weeks beginning November 18th, Composition, October 1950 by Robert Knipschild.
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Woodmere Gallery, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, for an exhibition of the
work of Margarette S. Hinchman, opening December 2nd, Lark in Latimer
Street by Margaretta S. Hinchman.
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National Academy of Design, New York City, for exhibition The American
Tradition, held in December, The Turkish Page by Frank Duveneck.
Ellen Donovan Galleries, Philadelphia, for an exhibition of the work of
Kathryn Rank, November 26th to January 1, 1952, Applebutter Time by
Kathryn Rank.
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SCHOOLS
The report of the faculty on the calibre of work performed in the winter
school was very satisfactory, and the school itself successfully conducted.
While the enrollment in the day school for the 1951-52 season was lower
than in the preceding year, that for the evening school increased slightly.
The decrease was due to the withdrawal of a large number of veterans
whose entitlement for study under the G. I. Bill of Rights had expired, and
the uncertainty of the draft, status of prospective male students.
The enrollment of the schools were as follows :
Winter School: January 1951 through May 195 1 .
September 1951 through January 1952
Summer School: June 18th through July 28th
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Mr. Edward Shenton, instructor in illustration, was granted a leave-ofabsence for the school year 1951-52 and Mr. Oliver Grimley substituted
for him.
The school at Chester Springs was not opened during the summer of 1951
due to negotiations for its sale, but a six-weeks' summer session was held
at the Philadelphia school which was convenient for those who could not
go far from home to study, as well as for those wanting credits for
degrees .
Again this year, we have been very fortunate where honors are concerned
for those either still enrolled in the school or who had completed their
work here but a few months earlier. In March, James A. Hanes (painter)
was awarded a Rome Prize Fellowship estimated at approximately $3000.
In October word was received that, from over 400 contestants from all
parts of the country, Allen Harris (sculptor) had been awarded a louis
Comfort Tiffany First Prize of $2000, and Atha Tehon (painter) a Second
Prize of $1000. Toward the close of December, John Hanlen won the
$2000 Edwin Austin Abbey Memorial Scholarship for Mural Painting.
Travel Scholarships, honorable mentions with tuition, and cash prizes
amounting to $16,300 were awarded to its students by the Academy in
May (see details in the Director's report). This was exclusive of scholarships given for study here, except those which the Honorable Mentions in
the Cresson Competition carried.
The sudden death of Joseph Schindler last Fall interrupted the classes in
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the preparation of grounds, chemistry of color, et cetera, which he had
conducted so successfully for the past few years. We note his passing
with deep regret as he always gave his time and great knowledge without
reservation to all students needing his help. We plan to institute a new
series of lectures in the coming year.
During the year, the Library purchased 83 new books; received gifts, including catalogues, of 36 items. Thirteen items were transferred from the
Director's Office to the Library. There were 957 withdrawals of books and
clippings. At the end of the year 5 books were unaccounted for.
PUBLIC
RELATIONS
It is not our purpose to give a repititious account, year after year, of this
department's activities. But we do want to keep Academy members and
stockholders informed of some of the means directed toward maintaining
an increasingly better informed public where our activities are concerned;
toward building a larger membership; and arrrcmging worthwhile events
in the galleries.
Every television and radio station in, and a few outside, the city have lent
generous cooperation to our efforts to bring word of our events to people
in all walks of life. National art and local magazines, the local and national press, community newspapers within and suburban to Philadelphia,
and employees' publications of many banks and business hou~es have
done the same. To all we record our appreciation .
Again, in our plan of bringing fine music and art together, we have presented distinguished programs of chamber music, arranged by the able
pianist and musician, Vladimir Sokoloff, in our galleries during special exhibitions. These Friday evening recitals, allowing time before, during intermission, and after the programs, to see the exhibitions, have met with a .
gratifying response. To make them possible financially, the Music Performance Trust Fund of the American Phonograph Industry paid the
musicians' fees, the Steinway Piano came through the courtesy of N.
Stetson and Company, and tne costs of transporting it each time were
met by two friends of the Academy. The remaining costs were borne by
the institution. Radio Station WCAU responded to our request and taperecorded the programs of November 2nd and 9th, broadcasting them at .
11 :30 the same evenings. We are exceedingly grateful to those who made
these worthwhile events possible.
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During the year we added 157 new members and $2819 in new funds.
In addition, one member was elected a Fellow (in perpetuity) in appreciation of his generous contributions to the Academy. Seven members increased their classification and four sent contributions toward general
expenses along with their dues. We report with regret the loss of 93 -members through death, resignation and delinquency. Perhaps this is an appropriate time to remind our members and stockholders that in 1955 the
Academy will celebrate its 150th anniversary. Will not each one help us
achieve our goal of not less than 2000 members by that time?
The year's enrollment is:
1098
Annual Members .
(147 new during year)
Sustaining Members .
(7 new during year)
Contributing Members
(1 new during year)
4
life Members
. (2 new during year)
165
1314
Total Annual and life Members
815
Stockholders
BUILDINGS
MAIN
BUILDING,
BROAD
AND
CHERRY
STREETS
and
ANNEX,
1834
ARCH
STREET
No major alteration or improvement was accomplished through the year.
The usual re-painting and furbishing was carried on by our own maintenance crew through the summer months. The only single item representing a considerable outlay of money had to do with replacing the boilers
in the Arch Street building.
WOMEN1S
COMMITTEE
This committee, under the chairmanship of Mrs. Leonard T. Beale, is lending able support to the Board of Directors.
On February 9th, during the 146th Annual Exhibition, it arranged an
afterno.on reception.
On December 7th, it staged a brilliant dinner party for 195 guests, each
member of the committee entertaining her own group of friends. The pur-
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pose of the occasion was to re-introduce the Academy's permanent collection of American art to their friends, and witness the unveiling of the
large and recently-restored Benjamin West canvas Christ Rejected. Edgar
Preston Richardson, Director of The Detroit Institute of Arts, and an authority on" American art who had received his art education here, spoke on
the Academy's permanent collection.
The committee also plans to give a Tea in honor of each artist exhibiting
in the Philadelphia Artists' Gallery during the 1951-52 season, except
where the artist plans his own party. Rita Wolpe Barnett and William
Barnett were the first to. be so honored on Friday afternoon, December
14th. Others will follow in 1952.
"Mrs. S. laurence .Bodine was elected a new member of the committee in
December.
Generally, it also has been the custom of the committee members, since
inception of the group, to entertain friends at dinner before Academy
Private Views and bring their guests here afterwards.
THE
FEl.LOWSHIP
The Fellowship (organized in 1897) is the Academy's alumni association~
It conducts an annual program of lectures, motion pictures, demonstrations, and twice weekly during the winter season, a Croquis Class for its
members and Academy students. It also sponsors a Students' Committee
whose members are chosen from the student body with one of the group
serving on the Fellowship's Board of ~anagers, for the purpose of keeping
the Board informed concerning the welfare of students, recommending
them for teaching positions, or directing them to other opportunities or
sources of income.
In 1951 it gave up its Annual Exhibition in order that it could co-sponsor
the Philadelphia Regional Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture with the
Academy and the Philadelphia Chapter of Artists' Equity Association. The
customary Fellowship Exhibition prizes were available but only to those
exhibitors who were Fellowship members.
The Fellowship sponsors the Gallery Talks for the Academy's annual exhibitions, provides the Fellowship Prize of $1 00 in each of the Academy's
Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibitions, and when staging its own
exhibitions, gives the Academy $350 for the use of the galleries with
attending services.
This year it printed a report of its activities, finances, and a list of mem-
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bers, for the period from April 1946 to June 1951. It indicates a membership of over 600 and an annual income of over $1500.
Mr. Charles W. Bentz is President.
THE
COMMITTEE
ON
FELLOWSHIP
The Committee on Fellowship administers the Henry J. Thouron Memorial
Fund, the Special Fund, the Picture Purchase Fund, and the Mary Butler
Memorial Fund (total not yet complete), all for the benefit of Fellowship
members, and present or former students, and seeks to be useful to both
the Fellowship and the Academy when needed.
It (1) purchases pictures or sculpture to encourage or assist artists, or improve the Loan Collection from which works are currently on exhibition in
some forty schools, settlement houses, hospitals and other organizations
or institutions; (21 provides art classes, generally in settlement houses, to
give study opportunities for the youth of those neighborhoods, as well as
teaching experience and income for present and/or former Academy students; (3) gives a type of financial assistance not permissible from the
regular Fellowship treasury, to current and former students; (4) assists
needy current Academy students with tuition, artists' materials, or living
expenses; (5) provides the Annual Gold Medal Award in the Annual Fellowship Exhibitions.
It has organized an Emergency Committee of Students to work in Association with the Committee on Fellowship in meeting illness and accident
emergency needs in the student body.
Mrs. A. Bruce Gill is Chairman and Treasurer.
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CONSOLIDATED TREASURER'S REPORT
September 7, 7950 to August 37, 7957
INCOME
Art Gallery and Exhibitions
Philadelphia School
Chester Springs
Trust Funds
Memoership -Dues _
Contributions
$ 26,820.96
79,602.94
926.19
69,599.59
10,815.00
Total Income
$190,006.78
2,242.10
EXPENSES
Art Gallery and Exhibitions
Philadelphia School
Chester Springs
$115,557.41
61,667.15
8,537.88
Total Expenses
Net Operating Surplus
$185,762.44
4,244.34
BEQUEST
Received from the Estate of Agnes T. Myers $500.00 to care for the portrait of her grandmother, Mrs. Margaret Myers by William Keesey Hewitt.
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CONTRIBUTIONS
FOR
SPECIFIC
PURPOSES
February 7951 to January 1952, inclusive
Clifford P. Allen, Jr., for general expense
$
5.00
American Society of Ancient Instruments, for concerts
76.00
Mrs. Clarence Brinton, for general purposes
25.00
A. J. Fink, Miniatures Exhibition
David M. Gwinn, for Eakins Prize
Mrs. Albert Jackson, for general purposes
John F. lewis, Jr., for
for
for
for
for
Regional Exhibition Prize
British Exhibition .
Miniatures Exhibition catalog
new typewriter
Annual Exhibition
Mrs. Graeme Lorimer, for entertainment fund of Women's Committee
4,000.00
100.00
2.00
75.00
845.00
300.00
152.00
100.00
100.00
Edward S. lower, for purchase of used auto
200.00
Sydney E. Martin, for general purposes
300.00
William Clarke Mason, for student prizes
for Garden Sculpture prize
for dues and subscriptions
150.00
250.00
152.00
George P. Orr, for concert-piano rental
113.20
The Pennsylvania Society of Miniature Painters, for Miniatures Exhibition
Geo rge B. Roberts, for Annual Exhibition
W. S. Schwartz, for picture frame
Mrs. Alfred G. B. Steel, for Flower Show Prizes
John Stewart, for Print Club Prize
Walter Stuempfig, Jr., for Student Prize
George
D. Widener, for sch.o larships
Joseph J. Woodburn, for general purposes
Total
.
1,024.00
10.00
25.00
150.00
25.00
50.00
2,000.00
2.00
$ 10,231.20
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MEMBERS
Enrolled in the Life and Annual Classes
during 1951
Life Members
Pancoast, Dr. Charles S.
Fromuth, Mrs. E. K.
Contributing Member
lowe, Joe
Sustaining Members
Benoleil, Mrs. L. Osmond
Ellis, Mrs. Annie B.
Hayward, Mrs. Nathan, Jr.
Keasby, Miss Marguerite
Steinman, Mrs. John F.
Satinsky, Morris W.
Squier, Mrs. Arthur
Annual Members
Aaron, Mrs. Carrie B.
Abronski, Raymond W.
Addison, Dr. W. H. F.
Ahern, H. A.
Aikens, Miss Jane A.
Albrecht, G. P.
Bach, Charles T.
Balderston, Miss Stella M.
Barwig, G. A.
Bell, John C., Jr.
Bell, Maurice
Bigar, Mrs. Lawrence J.
Bloch, Arthur, Jr.
Bloch, Mrs. Ephraim F.
Bodine, Miss Margaret L.
Borer, Edward W. G.
Brewster, C. Barton
Browne, Rev. Benjamin P.
Brunner, Mrs. A. A.
Burtis, Mrs. Gillette H.
Burtis, P. B.
Choate, Mrs. Arthur O.
Clark, Sydney P.
Cooke, Miss Caroline B.
Coverly·Smith, Dr. W. J.
Crews, Mrs. Maurice A.
Crozer, Mrs. Samuel A.
Dain, Mrs. E. J.
Denckla, Mrs. Nelsine
Devereux, Mrs. Antelo
deVadetzsky, Walter
Dewey, Mrs. John
Dixon, F. Eugene, Jr.
Dorrance, Mrs. John T., Jr.
Dorsey, Lewis M.
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Eichmuller, Ferd.
Ellis, Miss Sara
Ellison, H. Howard
Elsom, Dr. Katherine O.
Farrell, Joseph
Freeman, Mrs. S. Macllvaine
Frick, Charles John
Friedenberg, Mrs. A. M.
Genel, Samuel A.
Gilbert, F. l.
Gillies, Joseph H.
Gold, Joseph E.
Goldman, Robert D.
Goodman, Mrs. leon
Gray, J. Maurice
Gray, Mrs. J. Maurice
Greer, Mrs. R. l.
Haldeman, Miss Martha B.
Harriman, Miss Jerrylene
Harris, Miss Ella F.
Harrop, Miller H.
Haviland, Mrs. W. D.
Heine, Mrs. William A.
Heitman, Edwin
Hoepfner, Miss Ruth
Holding, Mrs. Archibald M.
Homer, Mrs. Charles le B., Jr.
IIloway, Mrs. Bernard A.
Irish, Mrs. Thomas
Iverson, Dr. Preston C.
Jack, Mrs. Meredith M.
Jambor, Madame Agi
Jensen, John H.
Jesanker, Miss Florence E.
Jewett, David M.
Johnson, Mrs. Alba B., Jr.
Jonsson, Mrs. Axel
Kalcheim, Norman J.
Kaufmann, J>t>rs. Arthur C.
Kent, Mrs. Donald W~
Kercher, James l.
Kitzmille~, Miss Carol A.
Kline, C. Mahlon
Kreier, George J., Jr.
Kuser, Mrs. John lo, Jr.
lea, Mrs. Sydney lo W.
lewis, Mrs. Robert B.
lieberman, Richard
lingelbach, Mrs. Wm. E., Jr.
loesche, Mrs. William H.
loos, William F.
lunkenheimer, Mrs. Paul W.
McCall, Mrs. Joseph B., Jr.
McCredy, Mrs. R. Wilson '
McElroy, N. Crenshaw
McKinney, Mrs. Walter B.
McMullan, Mrs. James
Manning, Mrs. Halsey
Martin, Crozer Fox
Martin, David C.
Martin, Sydney E., Jr.
Mortling, Harvey B.
Mathewson, Captain R. W.
Mathewson, Robert J.
Maxwell, Mrs. John R., Jr.
Morris, Samuel Wheeler
Munoz, Mrs. Gonzalo
Myers, Mrs. William Kurtz
Newbold, Mrs. Arthur E., Jr.
Newman, Mrs. Philip F.
Norton, Mrs. M. Montgomery
Orr, Miss E. Virginia
Page, Edward C.
Pagon, Mrs. Garrett Dunn
Patterson, Mrs. George Stuort
Phelps, Mrs. Charles M.
Phillips, Mrs. Wm. Wightman
Portnoff, Mrs. Alexander
Pura, Miss Josephine M.
Putnam, Mrs. Alfred W.
Ritter, Adolph
Robbins, Dr. Edward W.
Roosevelt, Mrs. W. Morrow
Rosenfeld, Emanuel
Roth, Dr. George J.
Rothman, Jacob K.
Rutz, Dr. W. W.
Sargent, Mrs. Ignatius
Sat insky, Philip
Scalella, Jules A.
Scarlett, Mrs. Hunter W.
Schwoerer, Frank, Jr.
Scott, Mrs. Frazier
Sha rp , Mrs. Henry E.
Sherrerd, Mrs. William D.
Sinkler, Dr. Wharton, Jr.
Sley, I.
Smith, Mrs. E. W.
Snodgrass, Dr. L. E.
Stern, Dr. David S.
Stuber, Walter J.
. Trumpe lman, George
Voo rhees, Mrs. Theodore C.
Wagner, Mrs. Gladys R.
Warren, J. Henry
West, W. Nelson L.
Wildman, Mrs. Edward E.
Wi lliams, Mrs. Horace J.
. Wolff, Miss Ruth M.
Wood, George B.
Woolston, W . Jenks
Wurm an, Richard
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MEMBERSHIP
Yearly Members:
CLASSES
Annual $10.00
Sustaining $25.00
{
Contributing $100.00
Life Member
$300
Fellow
$1000 to $5000
. Patron
$5000 to $25,000
Benefactor
$25,000 or ' more
(Fellows, Patrons and Benefactors are enrolled in perpetuity.)
Members receive notices of all activities, invitations to private views, admission tickets to annual exhibitions and special lectures, catalogues for
exhibitions and schools; have access to the print collection and use of
the art reference library, subject to the regulations of the institutions.
The Academy is maintained entirely by private funds. Through their subscriptions,· members share in the support of the Institution, and in its encouragement of American art and the American artist.
FORM
OF
BEQUEST
give, devise and bequeath to The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine
Arts
Dollars, in trust, to invest and keep
invested and apply the income to the maintenance of the said Academy.
The Academy is open weekdays (except Mondays) from lOA. M. to5 P. M.;
Sundays and Holidays from 1 to 5 P. M. Closed Mondays, New Year's Day,
Fourth of July, Thanksgiving and Christmas.
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FINE ARTS
BROAD AND CHERRY 5T5.
146th
ANNUAL
1951
•
REPORT
PHILADELPHIA
Cover : Rachmaninoff by Jose de Creeft.
Acquired by purchase in
February, 1951
The One-Hundred and Forty-Sixth
Annual Report
of .
THE PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY of the FINE ARTS
- FOR THE YEAR
1951
Presented to the Meeting of the Stockholders
of the Academy on February
4, 1952
OFFICERS
President
Vice-President
Treasurer
Secretary
John F. Lewis, Jr.
Henry S. Drinker .
C. Newbold Taylor
Joseph T. Fraser, Jr.
BOARD
Mrs. Leonard T. Beale
Henry S. Drinker
Henry C. Gibson
R. Sturgis Ingersoll
James P. Magill
OF
Sydney
William
George
Howard
George
DIRECTORS
E. Martin
Clarke Mason
P. Orr
c. .Petersen
Brooke Roberts
STAND~NG
C. Alison Scully
John Stewart
Robert Strausz-Hupe
C. Newbold Taylor
Sydney L. Wright
COMMITTEES
COMMITTEE
ON
EXHIBITION
George B. Roberts, Chairman
Henry S. Drinker
George P. Orr
Sydney E. Martin
Sydney L. Wright
COMMITTEE
ON
FINANCE
C. Newbold Taylor, Chairman
James P. Magill
John Stewart
COMMITTEE
ON
INSTRUCYION
William Clarke Mason, Chairman
Mrs. Leonard T. Beale
C. Newbold Taylor
COMMITTEE
ON
CHESTER
SPRiNGS
William Clarke Mason, Chairman
George B. Roberts
Sydney E. Martin
COMMITTEE
ON
COLLECTIONS
George P. Orr, Chairman
R. Sturgis Ingersoll
George B. Roberts
Sydney E. Martin
Robert Strausz-Hupe
SOLICITOR
Maurice B. Saul
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WOMEN'S
COMMITTEE
Mrs. Leonard T. Beale, Chairman
Mrs.
Mrs.
Mrs.
Mrs.
Mrs.
Mrs.
Mrs.
S. Laurence Bodine
Francis T. Chambers
Emlen P. Etting
David M. Gwinn
Horace Binney Hare
Arthur C. Kaufmann
John F. Lewis, Jr.
Mrs.
Mrs.
Mrs.
Mrs.
Mrs.
Graeme Lorimer
Morton McMichael
George B. Roberts
Julius Rosenwald, II
Lawrence M. C. Smith
Mrs.
Mrs.
Mrs.
Mrs.
Mrs.
Mrs.
Mrs.
Alfred G. B. Steel
John F. Steinman
Boudinot Stimson
Robert Strausz-Hupe
Franklin C. Watkins
John P. Wheeler
Sydney l. Wright
STAFF ·
GENERAL
. Director and Secretary
Assistant Secretary and Comptroller
Assistant to the Secretary
Secretary to the Director
. Registrar and Research
Exhibition and Membership Clerk
Director of Public Relations and
Membership
Joseph T. Fraser, Jr.
Robert L. Wood
Cha rles J. Marsh .
Marian N. Little .
Barbara S. Roberts
Frances M. Vanderpool
Elizabeth Z. Swenson .
SCHOOLS
(day and evening)
. Curator
Secretary to the Curator
. Librarian and Sales
Vernon M. Dodge
Catherine R. Newbold
Martha K. Schick .
FACULTY
Daniel Garber
George Harding
Roy C. Nuse
Francis Speight
Walker Hancock
Roswell Weidner
Harry Rosin
* Edward Shenton
* * Oliver Grimley
Franklin Chenault Watkins
John W. McCoy
Julius Bloch
Walter Stuempflg
Hobson Pittman
John F. Harbeson
William M. Campbell
Philip Aliano
Edmond J. Farris
Jack Bookbinder
t Joseph Schindler
'leave-of-absence 1951-52
" Season 1951-52 only
tDeceosed
(Summer)
Roy C. N~se
Francis Speight
Roswell Weidner
Morris Blackburn
BUILDING
Mayland T. McAvoy, Superintendent
3
R E PORT
Of
BOAR.D
THE
OFFICERS
OF
DIRECTORS
AND
This report lists the activities of the calendar year but actually our program is always planned for a fiscal year which runs from September 1st
through August 31st. The plans which carried through the spring of 1951
continued to maintain that great activity which we reported last year.
The 146th Annual Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture proved to be one
of the most interesting we have staged . I~s opening night brought forth
one of the largest crowds the Academy has had in its building in many
years. As a part of the celebration of the 75th Anniversary at The Philadelphia Museum of Art, that institution made a $10,000 purchase fun"d
available for artists whose work was in the exhibition. This fund, combined with the $20,000 which the Academy could offer for the s"imilar
purpose of buying contemporary American art, made one of the largest
purses available in any exhibition in the country in recent years. The excellent additions to our permanent collection made possible through these
purchases are listed elsewhere in this report. The general professional
activity was maintained at a high level and demonstrates again the eminent position of the Academy in the field of American art.
Again, because of the Philadelphia Museum's celebration year, the American Association of Museums, the Association of Art Museum Directors,
and the American Federation of Arts, all held their annual meetings in
Philadelphia. The Academy was honored in that our building was used for
certain of the meetings of these important groups. The Academy staff made
particular effort to hang our galleries through the period of the conventions with the finest examples in our permanent collection, and thus put
our best foot forward. We enjoyed the most discriminating audience in
those few days which could be gathered together in the United States.
We are happy to report that our collection, which has had comparatively
little acclaim locally, was so lavishly praised by these groups of experts.
During the summer, the Director was on vacation in Europe through a generous grant from the Board of Directors.
The fall activities had been planned with considerable curtailment due to
the very much smaller enrollment in our schools. However, as this report
will record, the year has proved as active as any in the past, even though
costs were a major consideration and handicap. The small, all-invited
Water Color Exhibition held in Gallery F and again in collaboration with
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and chiefly financed by The Philadelphia Water Color Club, brought together a splendid collection of contemporary papers, and while no actual
substitute for the major international show which has been staged for so
many years, it did give Philadelphia a room of distinguished work. We
hope that the Water Color Club and the Academy, working together, will
soon find methods whereby this exhibition can be continued on a scale
similar to that of the past.
The Miniatures Exhibition of the fall, always staged jointly with The Philadelphia Water Color Club, proved to be of very major importance. The
Pennsylvania Society of Miniatur~ Painters celebrated its 50th Anniversary, and in addition to the exhibition of contemporary miniatures which
was staged on the usual scale, an exhibition of antique miniatures was
organized, and made possible through many generous loans by gracious
owners of distinguished miniatures. The exhibition, which opened with a
private view and tea on the afternoon of October 26th, was the most important in that category ever held in the United States. Special mention
should be made of the elaborate accompanying catalog realized through
the generosity of one of the chief lenders, Mr. A. J. Fink of Baltimore.
This occasion also afforded excellent opportunity to pay tribute to Mrs. J.
Madison Taylor, eminent miniaturist who was President throughout the
complete span of the fifty years of the Society's life, and whose vitality
was chiefly responsible for its success. Grateful acknowledgment must also
be recorded of the ideal collaboration of Mr. Arthur J. Sussel, who furnished Gallery N, the connecting gallery between the two rooms of miniatures, with a collection of rare early American and English antiques.
The period between the closing of the Water Color and Miniatures Exhibitions and the end of the calendar year is generally a quiet one, although
there have been those winters when we staged special exhibitions.
Through many of our seasons, however, this period has given us opportunity to hang the galleries with our permanent collection. Our Women's
Committee, neawly formed last year, realizing that all too few Philadelphians know and appreciate this collection, was fired with the idea that
it would be an appropriate time to stage a dinner and reception for the
permanent collection. This affair was held on December 7th and was a
great success. Mr. Edgar P. Richardson, Director of The Detroit Institute
of Arts, was the speaker of the evening and he again drew the guests'
attention to the fact that this collection represents the most important
aggregation of American painting and sculpture in the United States.
Following the dinner, the guests were invited to Gallery l where the great
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picture titled Christ Rejected by Benjamin West was unveiled in its new
location, after the thorough conservation it had undergone in the summer
through the work of Theodor Siegl, the Academy's conservator. Two of
the great paintings by Benjamin West - Christ Rejected and Death on a
Pale Horse - were hung for many years far too high on our walls to be
seen and appreciated. In addition, due to their unfortunate location, they
could not receive the care and attention which must be given pictures as
large and old as these if they are not to deteriorate. Taking down both of
these paintings from their former locations, and the cleaning and conservation of Christ Rejected, was a major activity this year. During the coming year its companion picture will be similarly cleaned, conserved and
hung on the wall of Gallery B, the position opposite the one now installed.
In the meeting of April 9, 1951, and by unanimous vote, Mr. James P.
Magill was elected a mem.ber of the Board of Directors for the term expiring in February 1952. In the meeting of November 19, 1951, and again
by unanimous vote, Mr. Howard C. Petersen was elected a member of the
Board of Directors for a term expiring in February 1953.
Among the following reports is a list of works of American art given to the
Academy during the year. However, to maintain our leadership in this
field, the Academy needs to receive from time to time gifts of works of
art by distinguished American painters and sculptors, and particularly the
work of artists, both of the past and present, who are not now represented
in its collection. Frankly, and giving all due credit to the donors represented this year, the gifts currently being received are somewhat inadequate to fulfill the entire purpose of the Academy, which is to maintain
its eminent position. Accordingly, stockholders, members and friends of the
Academy could do nothing better to serve the interest of this institution
than to present or bequeath works of art of museum quality in the Amer- ·
ican field. Such gifts, of course, are legitimate deductions at their full value
from personal income taxes.
The Academy maintains the oldest, and, we believe, the best school of the
fine arts in the United States. This has been proven, not only by the record,
through the history of American art, of the professional achievements of
its former students, but currently, by prizes won and honors received by
its former students, or those still enrolled in the school, further detailed
under "Schools" in this report.
Following World War II, we were not in a position to encourage many
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students from other ranks to come to us because of the large number of
veterans studying here. Now this group is completing its work and the
Academy is once again in a position to serve those young people from
other groups whose talent promises a career in the fine arts: painling,
mural decoration, illustration, and sculpture. This is another place where
members, stockholders and friends of the Academy can assist. It may be
through their advice and encouragement that students whose talent is
sufficiently promising can be directed to the Academy where they will find
training of the highest calibre.
In calling your attention to the detailed report which follows, it is gratifying to realize that the year, both in the schools and in the galleries, has
been not only a busy but a rewarding one.
JOSEPH T. FRASER, JR., Director
JOHN F. LEWIS, JR., President
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EXHIBITIONS
THE 146th ANNUAL EXHIBITION OF OIL PAINTING AND SCULPTURE
The 146th Annual Exhibition of Oil Painting and Sculpture was held in the
Galleries from January 21st through February 25th, with a Private View
on Saturday, January 20th, from 9 to 11 P. M.
PAINTING JURY
SCULPTURE
Harry Rosin, Chairman
Lee Lawrie
Henry Rox
Abraham Rattner, Chairman
Leon Karp
Yasuo Kuniyoshi
PRIZES
JURY
AND
AWARDS
The Painting Jury awarded the following:
Memorial Citation - Max Beckman (1884-1950) by direction of the
Jury of Award in memory of this artist and in recognition of his distinguished achievements in his profession.
Temple Gold Medal - William Congdon for his oil Venice #2 as
the best painting regardless of subject.
Jennie Sesnan Gold Medal as the best landscape.
Sidney Laufman for his oil The Path
Carol H. Beck Gold Meda/- Henry Varnum Poor for his oil Artist
in Summer as the best portrait in oil.
1. Henry Schiedt Memorial Prize Lottery as of special importance.
Samuel M. Adler fo t his oil The
The Sculpture Jury awarded the following:
George D. Widener Memorial Gold Meda/- Oronzio Maldarelli f<;>r
his sculpture Bianca #2 as the most meritorious work in sculpture.
Alfred G. B. Steel Memorial Prize - Rita Ruben for her sculpture
Ceres as most deserving of professional recognition for its distinction.
Garden Sculpture Prize - Berta Margoulies for her sculpture Displaced, as the best work suitable for a small garden.
The Committee on Exhibition awarded the following:
Walter Lippincott Prize - Marion Greenwood for her oil Invocation
as the best figure in oil.
Mary Smith Prize - Rita Wolpe Barnett for her oil To The Earth as
the best work by a Philadelphia woman.
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A Special Jury appointed by the President of the Academy's Fellowship
awarded:
The FefJowship Prize -
Raphael Sabatini for his oil Harlequin.
Gallery Talks, sponsored by the Fellowship, were held at 2:30 P. M. as
follows: January 27th, Dorothy Grafly; 31 st, Morris Blackburn; February
8th, Hobson Pittman; 13th, Harry Rosin; 22nd, Walter Emerson Baum.
Two of a series of four free chamber music concerts were presented by
the Academy as a feature of this Exhibition on February 2nd and 16th at
8:30 P. M., sponsored by the Music Performance Trust Fund of the American Phonograp·h Industry in cooperation with local 77, of the American
Federation of Musicians.
The exhibition consisted of 283 paintings and 119 pieces of sculpture; 402
artists were represented. The Academy purchased 1 sculpture through
the Ware Fund, 4 paintings through the Temple Fund, 2 paintings and 1
sculpture through the Gilpin Fund, and 11 paintings through the lambert
Fund. Six paintings and 2 sculptures were sold to the public. A total of
27 items were purchased from the exhibition representing a sales value
of $27A79.75. (In addition to this sum, several major transactions were
carried out by The Philadelphia Museum of Art after the Exhibition closed.)
The total attendance was 10,384.
REGIONAL EXHIBITION OF OIL PAINTING AND SCULPTURE
PHILADELPHIA AND VICINITY
An exhibition of the work of Philadelphia artists was presented jointly by
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Fellowship of the Academy,
and the Philadelphia Chapter of Artists' Equity Association in the galleries
of the Academy March 10th through April 8th, opening with a Private View
March 9th from 9 to 11 P. M.
JURY
Antoinette Kraushaar
OF
AWARD
Peppino Mangravite
Henri Marceau
PRIZES
Prize For Painting -
Prize for Sculpture -
Arthur Flory for Fence Movements.
Wharton Esherick for Sad Sap.
Board of Directors' Prize for Painting -
William Barnett for The Mantle.
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PRIZES
AVAILABLE
TO
Fellowship Gold Medal Award -
FELLOWSHIP
MEMBERS
ONLY
Harry Rosin for his sculpture Small Nude.
Mary Butler Special Memorial Prize gomery County.
Margaret Gest for her oil Mont-
Mary Butler Special Memorial Prize Pasture.
Jean Watson for her oil Hillside
Harrison S. Morris Memorial Prize Scene.
May Audubon Post Prize Student.
Morris Blackburn for his oil Street
Walter Emerson Baum for his oil The Art
Caroline Gibbons Granger Memorial Prize of Catch.
William Penn Charter School Prize the Window .
Leon Karp for his oil Game
Marcella Klein for her oil Man at
The last two of the series of four cham ber music concerts were presented
on March 16th and 30th in the Rotunda.
Two of the three programs celebrating the Twenty-third Annual Festival
of the American Society of Ancient Instruments were held in the Rotunda
April 4th and 5th at 8:30 P. M.
Mr. and Mrs. John F. Lewis, Jr., were host and hostess at a receptio n in
honor of the exhibiting artists in the Regional Exhibition on Friday, April
6th, from 4:30 to 6:30 P. M.
Two-hundred seventy-nine artists were represented in the exhibition by
one painting or sculpture each - the personal choice of each artist. One
painting and one sculpture, representing a sales value of $80.00 were
liold. The total attendance was 6604.
THE
STUDENT
EXHIBITION
rhe Student Exhibition held in conjunction with the Competition for the
William Emlen Cresson Memorial European Traveling Scholarships was on
view in Galleries C, D, E, F, J and the Rotunda from May 17th through
24th, opening with exercises for the students and their friends on May
16th at 4 P. M.
An address was made in Gallery F by Miss Emily Genauer, Art Critic for
the New York Herald-Tribune, before the awarding of Cresson Scholarships and other prizes.
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The Board of Directors, on recommendation of the faculty, awarded the
following:
William Emlen Cresson Memorial European Traveling Scholarships
($1250 each):
Charles E. Hewins
Mary Potter Love
Donald W. Luft
Frank Mancuso
Thomas E. Yerxa, 3rd
Homer W. Johnson
Ben Kamihira
isami Kashiwagi
Honorable Mentions with Free Tuition, 1957 -52:
Raymond Spiller
Atha Lee Tehon
Lawrence Van Haren
Philip R. Wonson, Jr.
Philip Fowler
Napoleon V. Gorski, Jr.
Sam Ladenson
Clarence F. Sherdon
Honorable Mentions:
P. Allen Harris
Henry W. Peacock
Lewis S. Ware Memorial European Traveling Scholarship ($1250):
Kathryn Fligg
J. Henry Schiedt Memorial Scholarship ($7200):
James C. Lueders
Thomas Eakins Memorial Prize ($700):
Paul Kramer
Honorable Mentions -
James C. Lueders
Frank Mancuso
Packard Prizes:
First Prize ($30) - Emily Hitch
Second Prize ($20) - Harry R. Thomas
Thouron Prizes:
Awarded
Awarded
Awarded
Awarded
by
by
by
by
the
the
the
the
Faculty ($50) - Philip R. Wonson, Jr.
Students ($25) - Paul Kramer
Instructor ($50) - Walter Hood
Instructor ($25) - Charles Vinson
Perspective Class Prize:
Awarded by Instructors John F. Harbeson and William M.
Campbell ($20) - Lawrence Van Haren
Honor able Mentions -
Susan Cbrse
John B. Sutton
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Anatomy Closs Prize:
First Prize ($5) -
Miriam Montague Wallace Braune
Honorable Mention --,.- Clara Shoemaker
Lila Agnes Kennedy Hill Memorial Prize ($50):
Charles C. Parks
Ramborger Prize ($25):
Miriam Aley
Toppan Prizes:
First Prize ($300) - James C. Lueders
Second Prize ($200) - Seymour Titone
Honorable Mention ($1 OO)- Joan Knight
Class Prizes:
Construction ($50) -
Carlo Travaglia
Croquis ($50) -Anthony Cioffi
Antique Cast Drawing ($50) - James Ryan
Honorable Mentions - Leo Franey
Ben Kamihira
Composition in Sculpture Class ($50) - P. Allen Harris
Night School Prizes:
Drawing in Any Medium ($25) - Beatrice Crawford
Portrait in Any Medium ($25) - Beatrice Crawford
The Stewardson Prize ($100) awarded on March 16th, by a Jury consisting oJ Joseph E. Renier, Charles Rudy, and HeleneSardeau - Mary Potter
Love.
The Stimson Prize ($100) awarded on November 9th, by a Jury consisting
of Gladys Edgerly Bates, Vincent Glinsky, and Jean de Marco - John
Gardner.
First Honorable Mention - Matthew O. Gordon
Second Honorable Mention -
Philip E.
Fowler
The University of Pennsylvania, in conjunction with the Academy, through
the Co-Ord inated Courses, awarded Bachelor of Fine Arts degrees to the
following:
Marianthe Brown
Dorothy Buffaloe
Kyle Bunch
Chase Decker
Irving Drummond
Jean Evans
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Caroline Flaherty
Roslyn Ehrenhalt
Helen Holmstine
Charles Jernstedt
Laurette Keast
Barbara McKoy
Richar:! Manganaro
Eleanor Marshall
Seymour Titone
Richard Toole
Helene Woltman
Marjorie Wiley
and the Master of Fine Arts degree to:
John C. Schneider
Total attendance at the Exhibition was 929.
During the summer, the finest works f rom the Academy's permanent collection were exhibited in the galleries.
GOLDEN JUBILEE FIFTIETH ANNUAL EXHIBITION OF MINIATURES
The Golden Jubilee Fiftieth Annual Exhibition of Miniatures, Antique and
Contemporary, held in collaboration with The Pennsylvania Society of
Miniature Painters, was hung in Galleries A, M and N from October 27th
through " December 2nd, opening with a Private View on Friday, October
26th, from 4 to 6 P. M.
Mrs. J. Madison Taylor, President of The Pennsylvania Society of Miniature Painters for fifty years, was especially honored.
LENDERS TO THE ANTBQUE EXHiBITION
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Mr. and Mrs . Joseph Carson
Mr. Stanley Cowman
Miss Ida Edelson
Mr. A. J. Fink
The Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Mrs. Daniel J. McCarthy
The Pennsylvania Academy of
the Fine Arts
The Philadelphia Museum of Art
Mrs. Alfred Coxe Prime
Mrs. David B. Robb
Miss Lydia S. Moncure Robinson
Mrs. George A. Saportas
Mrs. C. Frederick C. Stout
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur J. Sussel
Mrs. J. Madison Taylor
Mr. Ruel Pardee Tolman
Mr. Charles Willing
CONTEMPORARY MINIATURES EXHIBITION
J U RY
OF
SELEC Ti ON
Katharine K. Borda
Angelica King
Sarah Eakin Cowan
Robert Cheston Smith
Matilda Hutchinson Turner
P R IZ ES
AND
AWARDS
A Jury composed of Katharine K. Borda, Edna Heustis Simpson, and Emily
Drayton Taylor, awarded the following:
D. J. McCarthy Prize - Mary Page Blair for Self Portrait as the best
portrait.
Miniature Society Prize - Betsy Flagg Melcher for Sandra as of outstanding worth.
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Miniature Society Prize best still life.
Florence Sims for Study
In
Blues as the
The Jury of Selection awarded the following:
Miniature Painters' Medal of Honor - Edna Huestis Simpson for
portrait of The Right Reverend Horace W. B. Donegon, D.O., for high
achievement, to a miniature painter whose work is in the Exhibition.
The Antique Exhibition consisted of 272 miniatures, representing 135
artists; the Contemporary Exhibition consisted of 97 miniatures by 51 artists.
One miniature was sold, representing a sales value of $40.00. The total
attendance was 5135.
49th ANNUAL WATER COLOR EXHISBTaON
The 49th Annual Water Color Exhibition, held in collaboration with The
Philadelphia Water Color Club, was hung in Gallery F, from October 27th
through December 2nd, with a Reception and Tea Thursday, November
1st, from 4 to 6 P. M. Due to unavoidable circumstances, a small invited
group of water colors was shown instead of the usual comprehensive international water color and print exhibition.
COMMITTEE
ON
SELECTION
Morris Blackburn
Charles Burchfield
W. Emerton Heitland
Joseph T. Fraser,
Henry C. Pitz
Ogden M. Speissner
Thornton Oakley
Jr.
The Directors of the Water Color Club awarded the following:
Dana Water Color Medal - John Foster for Nocturne, as the best
work in water color.
Pennell Memorial Medal - Henry C. Pitz for Middle Aged Juggler
and Apprentices, for achievement in illustration or in the graphic arts.
Three of a series of six free" chamber music concerts were presented by
the Academy on November 2nd, 9th and 16th at 8:30 P. M., sponsored
by the Music Performance Trust Fund of the American Phonograph Industry
in cooperation with local 77, of the American Federation of Musicians.
A total of 4 water colors were sold, representing a sales value of $510.00.
The Exhibition consisted of 77 items; 48 artists were represented. The total
attendance was 5135.
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PHILAD ELPHIA
ARTISTS'
GALLE RY
GALLERY ,
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Water Colors by Vera White - April 17th through 29th
Pastels by Thelia Conrad de Behar - May 1 st through 13th
Gouache and Oil Paintings by Paul Darrow, October 2nd through 14th
Paintings by Rita Wolpe Barnett and William Barnett - December 7th
through 30th
LITTLE
GALLERY
MA I N
FLOOR
Prints from Life Magazine Series -
Egypt -
January 7 th through 14th
Prints from Life Magazine Series ruary 4th
Kyoto -
January 28th through
Paintings, Water Colors and Drawings by Henry W. Peacock 12th through 25th
Drawings by Oliver Grimley -
Fe b ~
March
April 9th through 28th
Drawings from The Philadelphia Museum of Art in exhi bition titled Lines
That Live - September 18th through October 7th
Paintings by Phillip Merrill -
October 22nd through November 4th
Prints from Life Magazine Series . Student Work -
Venice -
November 12th through 18th
December 14th through January 3rd, 1952
In addition to the sales for special exhibitions indicated in the foregoi ng
report, 7 works representing a sales value of $775.00 have been sol d
during the year from other exhibitions.
TOTAL ATTENDANCE IN THE GALLERIES during 1951: 38,980.
ACQUISITIONS
Purcha ses
Through the Temple Fund, from the 146th Annual Exhibition:
Eliphaz by Karl Knaths (painting)
Figure in Space by Sigmund Menkes (painting)
* Prodigal Son by Russell Cowles (painting)
*Young America by Andrew Wyeth (painting)
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Through the Gilpin fund, from the 146th Annual Exhibition:
Summer Scene by Franklin C. Watkins (painting)
Darling by Wharton Esherick (sculptured wood)
* Possendorf by Lyonel Feininger (painting)
Through .t he Lambert Fund, from the 146th Annual Exhibition:
Cool Flowers by William Barnett (painting)
Composition - Odober by Robert Knipschild (painting)
The Yellow Cup by Humbert Howard (painting)
The Branch by Charles T. Coiner (painting)
Summer EvenIng by Richard Zoellner (painting)
. City Patterns by Joseph P. Gualtieri (painting)
Hot Cat by Milton Levey (painting)
Terminal Market by Abraham Hankins (painting)
Last Supper by Mark Tobey (painting)
Cathedral Architect by William T. Snaith (painting1
Cafe - Rue d' Alesia by Hugh Weiss (painting)
Through the Ware Fund, from the 146th Annual Exhibition:
*Rachmaninoff by Jose de Creeft (beat~nlead sculpturef,
Through the Committee on Collections:
Noah's Ark by Charles Willson Peale (painting)
The House Wren by John James Audubon (painting)
My Father by Maurice Molarsky (painting)
• Artist represented in the Exhibition, but this work was not i neluded.
Gif t $
Summer Storm by Zsissley {paintingL and carved wood bust of Gentlemen,
Unknown by John Rush, from Nr. John F. Lewis, Jr.
Scene in Sheboygan by William SchNartz (paintingL from an anonymous
donor
God's Day by C. F. McCall (painting), gift of the artist
David Wilson Jordan by Samuel Murray (plaster), from Miss Helen W.
Henderson
Seascape (painting) by Rockwell Kent from Erhard Weyhe.
to change)
(title subject
Livia's House by William Thon (water color), through the Childe Hassam
Bequest of The American Academy of Arts and Letters
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Deserted House and Village Road by Robert Frederick Blum (water colors),
from Mrs. James Mapes Dodge.
Ephraim Wilson by Julius Bloch (painting), from Mr. R. Sturgis Ingersoll
A case for exhibiting small works of art from Mrs. Alexander Portnoff
A Remington "Super-riter~' (large type) machine for typing exhibition
labels, from Mr. John F. Lewis, Jr.
LOANS
American Institute of Architects, on indefinite loan for use in the drawing
ro om of its Washington, D. c., headquarters (The Octagon), the Academy's
copy of the painting Washington and His Family by Edward Savage.
Wilmington Society of the Fine Arts, Wilmington, Delaware, for a Wyeth
family exhibition in January, Craige's Meadows by John W. McCoy.
Associated American Artists, New York City, fora retrospective exhibition
of twenty-five years ·of work by Luigi Lucioni, January 2nd to 20th, Rose
Hobart by Luigi Lucioni.
The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan, .for exhibition American
Artists in Italy, 7830-7875, January 12th through February 18th, Cupid
Begging His Arrows by Henry P. Gray, Matilda Washington Dawson by
John Neagle, Young Merchants by William Page, Bust of Washington Allston, by Shobal V. Clevenger, and Bust of John Frazee by John Frazee.
Woodmere Gallery, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, for exhibition of work by
Mary Townsend Mason and Alice Kent Stoddard, February 11 th through
March 4th, Splendor Falls and Still Life With Fruit by Mrs. Mason.
Denver Art Museum, Denver; Colorado, for exhibition Life in America,
March 4th through April 30th, Fourth of July in Centre Square · by John L.
Krimmel, Carved Wood Eagle by William Rush, James Peale and His
Family by James Peale, and Charles Willson Peale by Charles VYillson
Peale.
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, for exhibition of master works
from the time of Jacques Louis David through the Post Impressionists,
March 7th through May 6th, The Cello Player by Thomas Eakins.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, for Diamond Jubilee Anniversary Exhibition of the Art Students' League of New York, March 15th
through May 13th, The Twin Birches by Willard Metcalf, and The Shooting
Gallery by Louis Bouche'.
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California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, California, for
retrospective exhibition of the work of Mark Tobey, March 31 st through
May 6th, Last Supper by Mark Tobey.
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D. c., for 22nd Biennial Exhibition
of American Oil Painting, April 1st through May 13th, Summer Scene by
Franklin C. Watkins.
The Hill School, Pottstown, Pennsylvania, for exhibition during its Centennial Celebration, April 4th to 25th, Upper House by William Gropper,
North River by George Bellows, Clown With Folded Arms by Walt Kuhn,
End of Day by Charles Burchfield, Girl with White Cap by William Morris
Hunt, Cat Boqts, Newport, by Childe Hassam, Fisherman by N. C. Wyeth,
Walt Whitman, by Thomas Eakins, Jefferson Market by John Sloan, Isle of
Destiny by Arthur B. Davies, Elizabeth Sparhawk Jones by Alice Kent Stoddard, Peggy's Cove by Ernest Lawson, The Little Hotel by Joseph R. De
Camp, The Wall by Walter Stuempfig, Disorder by Raphael Soyer, Place
of Echoes by Martin Jackson, Acorn Squash by William McFee, Clapboards
by Charles Sheeler, Osier's Cove by Paul Wescott, Late Afternoon by
Francis Speight, The Spinster by Hobson Pittman.
M. Knoedler and Company, Inc., New York City, on be~ alf of Colonial
Williamsburg and the College of William and Mary, for an exhibition in
Colonial Williamsburg titled They Gave Us Freedom, May 15th through
July 4th, Portrait of Robert Morris by Charles Willson Peale, and Patrick
Henry Before the House of Burgesses by Peter F. Rothermel.
University of Pennsylvania, for Franklin-Churchill Exhibition, celebrating
thebi-centennial of the founding of the University of Pennsylvania Library,
May 6th through 25th, portrait of Benjamin Franklin by David Martin.
Stapler Fabrics, Inc., Philadelphia, for an exhibition of the paintings of
Jack Bookbinder, May 11 th through 24th, Twilight by Jack Bookbinder.
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Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, for painting class exhibition, one
month beginning May 24th, John Marshall by Henry Inman, and Along
the River by Sarah Blakeslee.
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The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan, for exhibition The French
in America, 1500-1875, July 8th through September 16th, Portrait of Jean
Antoine Houdon by Rembrandt Peale, Joel Barlow by Jean Antoine
Houdon, and Constantine Francois Volney by Gilbert Stuart.
Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire, and the William A.
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Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine, for retrospective exhibitions of
the work of Andrew Wyeth, July at the Currier Gallery and August at the
Farnsworth Museum, Young America by Andrew Wyeth.
Chicago Historical Society, Chicago, Illinois, for an exhibition of Childe
Hassam's American Views in Oil and Water Color, October 15th through
December 15th, Cat Boats, Newport by Childe Hassam.
The Fidelity-Philadelphia Trust Company, Philadelphia, exhibiting one picture each month from September through April, 1952, in its lobby: Port
Ben by Theodore Robinson, Major Thomas Biddle by Thomas Sully, Still
Life - Fruit by James Peale, Pine Trees by Byron Thomas, Benjamin Franklin by Joseph Wright, George Washington by Charles Willson Peale,
Fairmount Water Works by Thomas Birch, Walt Whitman by Thomas Eakins.
The Moore Institute of Art, Science and Industry, Philadelphia, for exhibition in student gallery, September 14th to October 14th, Coal Mine by
Henry McCarter, Central Park in Winter by Eric Isenburger, and Apart. ment Houses by Edward Hopper.
The Hacker Gallery, New York City, for one-man exhibition of the work of
Hugh Weiss during October, his painting Cafe Rue d'Alesia.
Bowdoin College Museum of Fine Arts, Brunswick, Maine, for one-man exhibition of work of Stephen Etnier during August, his painting Cafe Tables.
Joslyn Memorial Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, for a retrospective exhibition of the work of Thomas Hart Benton, November 13th to December
31 st, Aaron by Thomas Hart Benton.
The Hill School, Pottstown, Pennsylvania, for Audubon Exhibition, November 7th to December 16th, The House Wren by John J. Audubon.
Milch Galleries, New York City, for comprehensive exhibition of the work
of John Sharp, at Des Moines Art Institute, Des Moines, Iowa, December
4th to 30th, Spring Snow by John Sharp.
Watkins Gallery of the American University, Washington, D. c., for oneman exhibition of the work of Robert Knipschild, for three weeks beginning November 18th, Composition, October 1950 by Robert Knipschild.
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Woodmere Gallery, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, for an exhibition of the
work of Margarette S. Hinchman, opening December 2nd, Lark in Latimer
Street by Margaretta S. Hinchman.
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National Academy of Design, New York City, for exhibition The American
Tradition, held in December, The Turkish Page by Frank Duveneck.
Ellen Donovan Galleries, Philadelphia, for an exhibition of the work of
Kathryn Rank, November 26th to January 1, 1952, Applebutter Time by
Kathryn Rank.
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SCHOOLS
The report of the faculty on the calibre of work performed in the winter
school was very satisfactory, and the school itself successfully conducted.
While the enrollment in the day school for the 1951-52 season was lower
than in the preceding year, that for the evening school increased slightly.
The decrease was due to the withdrawal of a large number of veterans
whose entitlement for study under the G. I. Bill of Rights had expired, and
the uncertainty of the draft, status of prospective male students.
The enrollment of the schools were as follows :
Winter School: January 1951 through May 195 1 .
September 1951 through January 1952
Summer School: June 18th through July 28th
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Mr. Edward Shenton, instructor in illustration, was granted a leave-ofabsence for the school year 1951-52 and Mr. Oliver Grimley substituted
for him.
The school at Chester Springs was not opened during the summer of 1951
due to negotiations for its sale, but a six-weeks' summer session was held
at the Philadelphia school which was convenient for those who could not
go far from home to study, as well as for those wanting credits for
degrees .
Again this year, we have been very fortunate where honors are concerned
for those either still enrolled in the school or who had completed their
work here but a few months earlier. In March, James A. Hanes (painter)
was awarded a Rome Prize Fellowship estimated at approximately $3000.
In October word was received that, from over 400 contestants from all
parts of the country, Allen Harris (sculptor) had been awarded a louis
Comfort Tiffany First Prize of $2000, and Atha Tehon (painter) a Second
Prize of $1000. Toward the close of December, John Hanlen won the
$2000 Edwin Austin Abbey Memorial Scholarship for Mural Painting.
Travel Scholarships, honorable mentions with tuition, and cash prizes
amounting to $16,300 were awarded to its students by the Academy in
May (see details in the Director's report). This was exclusive of scholarships given for study here, except those which the Honorable Mentions in
the Cresson Competition carried.
The sudden death of Joseph Schindler last Fall interrupted the classes in
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the preparation of grounds, chemistry of color, et cetera, which he had
conducted so successfully for the past few years. We note his passing
with deep regret as he always gave his time and great knowledge without
reservation to all students needing his help. We plan to institute a new
series of lectures in the coming year.
During the year, the Library purchased 83 new books; received gifts, including catalogues, of 36 items. Thirteen items were transferred from the
Director's Office to the Library. There were 957 withdrawals of books and
clippings. At the end of the year 5 books were unaccounted for.
PUBLIC
RELATIONS
It is not our purpose to give a repititious account, year after year, of this
department's activities. But we do want to keep Academy members and
stockholders informed of some of the means directed toward maintaining
an increasingly better informed public where our activities are concerned;
toward building a larger membership; and arrrcmging worthwhile events
in the galleries.
Every television and radio station in, and a few outside, the city have lent
generous cooperation to our efforts to bring word of our events to people
in all walks of life. National art and local magazines, the local and national press, community newspapers within and suburban to Philadelphia,
and employees' publications of many banks and business hou~es have
done the same. To all we record our appreciation .
Again, in our plan of bringing fine music and art together, we have presented distinguished programs of chamber music, arranged by the able
pianist and musician, Vladimir Sokoloff, in our galleries during special exhibitions. These Friday evening recitals, allowing time before, during intermission, and after the programs, to see the exhibitions, have met with a .
gratifying response. To make them possible financially, the Music Performance Trust Fund of the American Phonograph Industry paid the
musicians' fees, the Steinway Piano came through the courtesy of N.
Stetson and Company, and tne costs of transporting it each time were
met by two friends of the Academy. The remaining costs were borne by
the institution. Radio Station WCAU responded to our request and taperecorded the programs of November 2nd and 9th, broadcasting them at .
11 :30 the same evenings. We are exceedingly grateful to those who made
these worthwhile events possible.
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During the year we added 157 new members and $2819 in new funds.
In addition, one member was elected a Fellow (in perpetuity) in appreciation of his generous contributions to the Academy. Seven members increased their classification and four sent contributions toward general
expenses along with their dues. We report with regret the loss of 93 -members through death, resignation and delinquency. Perhaps this is an appropriate time to remind our members and stockholders that in 1955 the
Academy will celebrate its 150th anniversary. Will not each one help us
achieve our goal of not less than 2000 members by that time?
The year's enrollment is:
1098
Annual Members .
(147 new during year)
Sustaining Members .
(7 new during year)
Contributing Members
(1 new during year)
4
life Members
. (2 new during year)
165
1314
Total Annual and life Members
815
Stockholders
BUILDINGS
MAIN
BUILDING,
BROAD
AND
CHERRY
STREETS
and
ANNEX,
1834
ARCH
STREET
No major alteration or improvement was accomplished through the year.
The usual re-painting and furbishing was carried on by our own maintenance crew through the summer months. The only single item representing a considerable outlay of money had to do with replacing the boilers
in the Arch Street building.
WOMEN1S
COMMITTEE
This committee, under the chairmanship of Mrs. Leonard T. Beale, is lending able support to the Board of Directors.
On February 9th, during the 146th Annual Exhibition, it arranged an
afterno.on reception.
On December 7th, it staged a brilliant dinner party for 195 guests, each
member of the committee entertaining her own group of friends. The pur-
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pose of the occasion was to re-introduce the Academy's permanent collection of American art to their friends, and witness the unveiling of the
large and recently-restored Benjamin West canvas Christ Rejected. Edgar
Preston Richardson, Director of The Detroit Institute of Arts, and an authority on" American art who had received his art education here, spoke on
the Academy's permanent collection.
The committee also plans to give a Tea in honor of each artist exhibiting
in the Philadelphia Artists' Gallery during the 1951-52 season, except
where the artist plans his own party. Rita Wolpe Barnett and William
Barnett were the first to. be so honored on Friday afternoon, December
14th. Others will follow in 1952.
"Mrs. S. laurence .Bodine was elected a new member of the committee in
December.
Generally, it also has been the custom of the committee members, since
inception of the group, to entertain friends at dinner before Academy
Private Views and bring their guests here afterwards.
THE
FEl.LOWSHIP
The Fellowship (organized in 1897) is the Academy's alumni association~
It conducts an annual program of lectures, motion pictures, demonstrations, and twice weekly during the winter season, a Croquis Class for its
members and Academy students. It also sponsors a Students' Committee
whose members are chosen from the student body with one of the group
serving on the Fellowship's Board of ~anagers, for the purpose of keeping
the Board informed concerning the welfare of students, recommending
them for teaching positions, or directing them to other opportunities or
sources of income.
In 1951 it gave up its Annual Exhibition in order that it could co-sponsor
the Philadelphia Regional Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture with the
Academy and the Philadelphia Chapter of Artists' Equity Association. The
customary Fellowship Exhibition prizes were available but only to those
exhibitors who were Fellowship members.
The Fellowship sponsors the Gallery Talks for the Academy's annual exhibitions, provides the Fellowship Prize of $1 00 in each of the Academy's
Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibitions, and when staging its own
exhibitions, gives the Academy $350 for the use of the galleries with
attending services.
This year it printed a report of its activities, finances, and a list of mem-
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bers, for the period from April 1946 to June 1951. It indicates a membership of over 600 and an annual income of over $1500.
Mr. Charles W. Bentz is President.
THE
COMMITTEE
ON
FELLOWSHIP
The Committee on Fellowship administers the Henry J. Thouron Memorial
Fund, the Special Fund, the Picture Purchase Fund, and the Mary Butler
Memorial Fund (total not yet complete), all for the benefit of Fellowship
members, and present or former students, and seeks to be useful to both
the Fellowship and the Academy when needed.
It (1) purchases pictures or sculpture to encourage or assist artists, or improve the Loan Collection from which works are currently on exhibition in
some forty schools, settlement houses, hospitals and other organizations
or institutions; (21 provides art classes, generally in settlement houses, to
give study opportunities for the youth of those neighborhoods, as well as
teaching experience and income for present and/or former Academy students; (3) gives a type of financial assistance not permissible from the
regular Fellowship treasury, to current and former students; (4) assists
needy current Academy students with tuition, artists' materials, or living
expenses; (5) provides the Annual Gold Medal Award in the Annual Fellowship Exhibitions.
It has organized an Emergency Committee of Students to work in Association with the Committee on Fellowship in meeting illness and accident
emergency needs in the student body.
Mrs. A. Bruce Gill is Chairman and Treasurer.
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CONSOLIDATED TREASURER'S REPORT
September 7, 7950 to August 37, 7957
INCOME
Art Gallery and Exhibitions
Philadelphia School
Chester Springs
Trust Funds
Memoership -Dues _
Contributions
$ 26,820.96
79,602.94
926.19
69,599.59
10,815.00
Total Income
$190,006.78
2,242.10
EXPENSES
Art Gallery and Exhibitions
Philadelphia School
Chester Springs
$115,557.41
61,667.15
8,537.88
Total Expenses
Net Operating Surplus
$185,762.44
4,244.34
BEQUEST
Received from the Estate of Agnes T. Myers $500.00 to care for the portrait of her grandmother, Mrs. Margaret Myers by William Keesey Hewitt.
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CONTRIBUTIONS
FOR
SPECIFIC
PURPOSES
February 7951 to January 1952, inclusive
Clifford P. Allen, Jr., for general expense
$
5.00
American Society of Ancient Instruments, for concerts
76.00
Mrs. Clarence Brinton, for general purposes
25.00
A. J. Fink, Miniatures Exhibition
David M. Gwinn, for Eakins Prize
Mrs. Albert Jackson, for general purposes
John F. lewis, Jr., for
for
for
for
for
Regional Exhibition Prize
British Exhibition .
Miniatures Exhibition catalog
new typewriter
Annual Exhibition
Mrs. Graeme Lorimer, for entertainment fund of Women's Committee
4,000.00
100.00
2.00
75.00
845.00
300.00
152.00
100.00
100.00
Edward S. lower, for purchase of used auto
200.00
Sydney E. Martin, for general purposes
300.00
William Clarke Mason, for student prizes
for Garden Sculpture prize
for dues and subscriptions
150.00
250.00
152.00
George P. Orr, for concert-piano rental
113.20
The Pennsylvania Society of Miniature Painters, for Miniatures Exhibition
Geo rge B. Roberts, for Annual Exhibition
W. S. Schwartz, for picture frame
Mrs. Alfred G. B. Steel, for Flower Show Prizes
John Stewart, for Print Club Prize
Walter Stuempfig, Jr., for Student Prize
George
D. Widener, for sch.o larships
Joseph J. Woodburn, for general purposes
Total
.
1,024.00
10.00
25.00
150.00
25.00
50.00
2,000.00
2.00
$ 10,231.20
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MEMBERS
Enrolled in the Life and Annual Classes
during 1951
Life Members
Pancoast, Dr. Charles S.
Fromuth, Mrs. E. K.
Contributing Member
lowe, Joe
Sustaining Members
Benoleil, Mrs. L. Osmond
Ellis, Mrs. Annie B.
Hayward, Mrs. Nathan, Jr.
Keasby, Miss Marguerite
Steinman, Mrs. John F.
Satinsky, Morris W.
Squier, Mrs. Arthur
Annual Members
Aaron, Mrs. Carrie B.
Abronski, Raymond W.
Addison, Dr. W. H. F.
Ahern, H. A.
Aikens, Miss Jane A.
Albrecht, G. P.
Bach, Charles T.
Balderston, Miss Stella M.
Barwig, G. A.
Bell, John C., Jr.
Bell, Maurice
Bigar, Mrs. Lawrence J.
Bloch, Arthur, Jr.
Bloch, Mrs. Ephraim F.
Bodine, Miss Margaret L.
Borer, Edward W. G.
Brewster, C. Barton
Browne, Rev. Benjamin P.
Brunner, Mrs. A. A.
Burtis, Mrs. Gillette H.
Burtis, P. B.
Choate, Mrs. Arthur O.
Clark, Sydney P.
Cooke, Miss Caroline B.
Coverly·Smith, Dr. W. J.
Crews, Mrs. Maurice A.
Crozer, Mrs. Samuel A.
Dain, Mrs. E. J.
Denckla, Mrs. Nelsine
Devereux, Mrs. Antelo
deVadetzsky, Walter
Dewey, Mrs. John
Dixon, F. Eugene, Jr.
Dorrance, Mrs. John T., Jr.
Dorsey, Lewis M.
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Eichmuller, Ferd.
Ellis, Miss Sara
Ellison, H. Howard
Elsom, Dr. Katherine O.
Farrell, Joseph
Freeman, Mrs. S. Macllvaine
Frick, Charles John
Friedenberg, Mrs. A. M.
Genel, Samuel A.
Gilbert, F. l.
Gillies, Joseph H.
Gold, Joseph E.
Goldman, Robert D.
Goodman, Mrs. leon
Gray, J. Maurice
Gray, Mrs. J. Maurice
Greer, Mrs. R. l.
Haldeman, Miss Martha B.
Harriman, Miss Jerrylene
Harris, Miss Ella F.
Harrop, Miller H.
Haviland, Mrs. W. D.
Heine, Mrs. William A.
Heitman, Edwin
Hoepfner, Miss Ruth
Holding, Mrs. Archibald M.
Homer, Mrs. Charles le B., Jr.
IIloway, Mrs. Bernard A.
Irish, Mrs. Thomas
Iverson, Dr. Preston C.
Jack, Mrs. Meredith M.
Jambor, Madame Agi
Jensen, John H.
Jesanker, Miss Florence E.
Jewett, David M.
Johnson, Mrs. Alba B., Jr.
Jonsson, Mrs. Axel
Kalcheim, Norman J.
Kaufmann, J>t>rs. Arthur C.
Kent, Mrs. Donald W~
Kercher, James l.
Kitzmille~, Miss Carol A.
Kline, C. Mahlon
Kreier, George J., Jr.
Kuser, Mrs. John lo, Jr.
lea, Mrs. Sydney lo W.
lewis, Mrs. Robert B.
lieberman, Richard
lingelbach, Mrs. Wm. E., Jr.
loesche, Mrs. William H.
loos, William F.
lunkenheimer, Mrs. Paul W.
McCall, Mrs. Joseph B., Jr.
McCredy, Mrs. R. Wilson '
McElroy, N. Crenshaw
McKinney, Mrs. Walter B.
McMullan, Mrs. James
Manning, Mrs. Halsey
Martin, Crozer Fox
Martin, David C.
Martin, Sydney E., Jr.
Mortling, Harvey B.
Mathewson, Captain R. W.
Mathewson, Robert J.
Maxwell, Mrs. John R., Jr.
Morris, Samuel Wheeler
Munoz, Mrs. Gonzalo
Myers, Mrs. William Kurtz
Newbold, Mrs. Arthur E., Jr.
Newman, Mrs. Philip F.
Norton, Mrs. M. Montgomery
Orr, Miss E. Virginia
Page, Edward C.
Pagon, Mrs. Garrett Dunn
Patterson, Mrs. George Stuort
Phelps, Mrs. Charles M.
Phillips, Mrs. Wm. Wightman
Portnoff, Mrs. Alexander
Pura, Miss Josephine M.
Putnam, Mrs. Alfred W.
Ritter, Adolph
Robbins, Dr. Edward W.
Roosevelt, Mrs. W. Morrow
Rosenfeld, Emanuel
Roth, Dr. George J.
Rothman, Jacob K.
Rutz, Dr. W. W.
Sargent, Mrs. Ignatius
Sat insky, Philip
Scalella, Jules A.
Scarlett, Mrs. Hunter W.
Schwoerer, Frank, Jr.
Scott, Mrs. Frazier
Sha rp , Mrs. Henry E.
Sherrerd, Mrs. William D.
Sinkler, Dr. Wharton, Jr.
Sley, I.
Smith, Mrs. E. W.
Snodgrass, Dr. L. E.
Stern, Dr. David S.
Stuber, Walter J.
. Trumpe lman, George
Voo rhees, Mrs. Theodore C.
Wagner, Mrs. Gladys R.
Warren, J. Henry
West, W. Nelson L.
Wildman, Mrs. Edward E.
Wi lliams, Mrs. Horace J.
. Wolff, Miss Ruth M.
Wood, George B.
Woolston, W . Jenks
Wurm an, Richard
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MEMBERSHIP
Yearly Members:
CLASSES
Annual $10.00
Sustaining $25.00
{
Contributing $100.00
Life Member
$300
Fellow
$1000 to $5000
. Patron
$5000 to $25,000
Benefactor
$25,000 or ' more
(Fellows, Patrons and Benefactors are enrolled in perpetuity.)
Members receive notices of all activities, invitations to private views, admission tickets to annual exhibitions and special lectures, catalogues for
exhibitions and schools; have access to the print collection and use of
the art reference library, subject to the regulations of the institutions.
The Academy is maintained entirely by private funds. Through their subscriptions,· members share in the support of the Institution, and in its encouragement of American art and the American artist.
FORM
OF
BEQUEST
give, devise and bequeath to The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine
Arts
Dollars, in trust, to invest and keep
invested and apply the income to the maintenance of the said Academy.
The Academy is open weekdays (except Mondays) from lOA. M. to5 P. M.;
Sundays and Holidays from 1 to 5 P. M. Closed Mondays, New Year's Day,
Fourth of July, Thanksgiving and Christmas.
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