147th Annual Report for the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

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THE PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE
FINE ARTS

BROAD AND CHERRY SiS.

147th ANNUAL

1952

0

REPORT

PHILADELPHIA

Cover: Apple Blossom Time by George Inness.
Bequest of J. Mitchell Elliot.

The One-Hundred and Forty-Seventh
Annual Report

of
THE PENNSYLVANIA AC.ADEMY of the FINE ARTS
FOR THE YEAR

1952

Presented to the Meeting of the Stockholders
of the Academy on February 2, 1953

OFFICERS
John F. lewis, Jr.

President

Henry S. Drinker

Vice-President

C. Newbold Taylor

Treasurer

Joseph T. Fraser, Jr.

. Secretary

BOARD
Mrs. leonard T. Beale
Henry S. Drinker
Henry C. Gibson
David M. Gwinn
R. Sturgis Ingersoll
Arthur C. Kaufmann

OF

DIRECTORS

James P. Magill
Sydney E. Martin
,William Clarke Mason
George P. Orr
Howard C. Petersen
George B. Roberts

STANDING

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
Robert Strausz-Hupe
Sydney l. Wright
COMMITTEE ON FINANCE

C. Newbold Taylor, Chairman
James P. Magill
C. Alison Scully
Howard C. Petersen
John Stewart
'COMMITTEE ON

INSTRUCTION

William Clarke Mason, Chairman
Mrs. leonard T. Beale
C. Newbold Taylor
COMMITTEE ON

CHESTER SPRINGS

William Clarke Mason, Chairman
Sydney E. Martin
. George B. Roberts
COMMITTEE ON

COLLECTIONS

George P. Orr, Chairman
Mrs. leonard T. Beale
Sydney E. Martin
R. Sturgis Ingersoll
George B. Roberts
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 B. Hare
Arthur C. Kaufmann
John F. Lewis, Jr.

Mrs.
Mrs.
Mrs.
Mrs.
Mrs.

Graeme Lorimer
Morton McMichael
George B. Roberts
Julius Rosenwald, ((
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
Joseph T. Fraser, Jr.
Charles J. Marsh
August Viilu
Mabel L. Eiseley
Frances M. Vanderpool
Elizabeth Z. Swenson .

Director and Secretary
Assistant to the Secretary
. Bookkeeper
. Registrar and Research
Exhibition and Membership Clerk
Director of Public Relations and
Membership
· SCHOOLS
(day and evening)

Vernon M. Dodge.
Catherine R. Newbold
Martha K. Schick .

Curator
Secretary to the Curator
Librarian and Sales
FACULTY

George Harding
Roy C. Nuse
Francis Speight
Walker Hancock
Roswell Weidner
*Harry Rosin
* *Charles Rudy

Edward Shenton
*Franklin C. Watkins
John W. McCoy
Julius Bloch
- . Walter Stuempfig
Hobson Pittman
Morris Blackburn

John F. Harbeson
William M. Campbell
Philip Aliano
Edmond J. Farris
Jack Bookbinder
Theodor Siegl

• Leave-of-absence 1952-53
•• Season 1952-53 only

(Summer)

RoyC. Nuse
Francis Speight

Roswell Weidner
Martin Jackson

BUILDING
Mayland T. McAvoy, Superintendent

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REPORT OF ' THE OFFICERS AND
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Weare pleased to report that the year 1952 was again a very active one,
marked by changes and achievements which have great bearing on the
present health of the institution and on its opportunities for the future.
The records of the Academy make clear that over the many years of its
existence, its progress has not always been smooth. The fire :which destroyed our first building in 1845, the difficulties of financing before this
conflagration, and then the tremendous undertaking of erecting our present
building, and many more episodes, have presented grave proble~s. This
yeqr must be recorded as another time when finances have been uppermost in our minds.
The Academy's endowment has received few major contributions duri~g
the last fifty years. Income from investments is lower, while every current
expense has increased as the purchasing power of the dollar has decreased. These factors,combining with the smaller enrollment in our
schools; which in turn was chiefly brought about through the expiration of
many of the scholarships available through the G. I. Bill of Rights, all have
presented us with serious problems. On the other hand, we feel that the
Academy has surmounted this current series of problems with distinguished
success, due to very generous financial backing of our work from a . number of new sources.
In 1951 the 49th Annual Exhibition of Water Colors; Prints and Drawings
was held, but on a very much curtailed scale. In' 1952 this exhibition, celebrating its 50th anniversary, once more returned to its former national
and international scope and was held on the ' scale of previous years. This
was made possible through a generous contribution of $3500 from the
Catherwood Foundation. Mr. Thornton Oakley, President of the Philadelphia Water Color Club (co-sponsor ~ith the Academy for these exhibiHons)
made this grant possible through his enthusiastic and successful effort in
support of the exhibition.
A full report will record details of the 147th Annual Exhibition of Oil
Painting and Sculpture, whieh each year is the major exhibition, and which
opened our 1952 program. The mounting costs of holding this exhibition

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foreshadowed its curtailment or suspension, but we are proud to · report
that, through the generous gift of Mrs. Harrison S. Morris of the sum of
$10,000 for each year, this venerable and distinguished annual exhibition
will be held in traditional fashion during the next succeeding three years.
Another major transaction is the sale of our property at Chester Springs,
where we maintained a summer school from 1916 through 19~0. The sale
was motivated by the fact that during the thirty-four years of operation of
the school, the style and fashion of summer schools of art completely
changed, in that the most successful and desirable of such schools were
either summer sessions of the fine arts departments of major universities,
or were studio classes given by leading teachers of art at their own summer
homes, and that no institution endeavored to maintain a summer school
on the style of a complete residential and recreational installation. From
the sale we received $100,000, half of which was secured on a purchase
money mortgage. Some of this money was spent on major repairs to the
roof of our building.
The greatest effort should be placed on increasing our student enrollment,
but this task is made easier by the fact that our school is the best institution
for training in the fine arts in the United States. As one very real evidence
of the excellent training oui' students receive and the unique scholarship
and prize opportunities they enjoy, we have compiled information and included it with special emphasis in the ,s chool catalogue issued for the current season. This record of prizes won and scholarships received by our
students will be found repeated in this report under the heading of School.
The second great painting by Benjamin West, this one titled Death on
the Pale Horse, which had hung high over the stairs since 1894, has been
handsomely conserved and installed upon the wall of Gallery B. Its setting,
with draperies to cover it during transient exhibitions, and its lighting, now
match its companion piece, Christ Reiected, which was similarly treated
and installed last year. These improvements have been of vast importance
to our building. The general richness of this front area of the Academy
galleries has been further enhanced by the installation of a group of very
beautiful pieces of antique furniture in Gallery N, as an indefinite loan
from Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Bendiner.
The large canvas Pat Lyon at the Forge by John Neagle also' had conservation attention and is now in splendid condition.

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We want particularly to record the gratitude of the President and the
Board concerning the many gifts which again are listed in this report. The
permanent collection has been greatly enriched and once again certain
important gaps in that collection have been filled.
Mr. Arthur

c._Kaufmann

was elected on March 10, 1952, by unanimous

vote, as a member of the Board of Directors; Mr. David M. Gwinn, also
by unanimous vote, was elected to the Board at the meeting held on
December 8, 1952.

JOSEPH T. FRASER, JR., Director
JOHN F. LEWIS, JR., President

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EXHIBITIONS
THE 147th ANNUAL EXHIBITION OF OIL PAINTING AND SCULPTURE
The 147th Annual Exhibition of Oil Painting and Sculpture was held in the
Galleries from January 20th through February 24th, with a Private View
on Saturday, January 19th, from 9 to 11 P. M .
P A INT IN G

J U RY

SCU LP T URE JURY

leon , Kroll, Chairman

Charles Rudy, Chairman

Stuart Davis

Koren der Harootian

Arthur Osver

Dorothea Greenbaum
PRI ZES

A ND

AWAR D S

The Painting Jury awarded the following:

Temple Gold Medal-louis Guglielmi for New York 21 (painting)
Jennie Sesnan Gold Medal-Joseph De Martini for Aqueduct (painting)
Ca ~ol H.

Beck Gold Medal-Gladys Rockmore Davis for Study of an

Old Woman (painting)

J. Henry Schiedt Memorial Prize-Ben Benn for Sea Gulls (painting)
The Sculpture Jury awarded the following:
George D. Widener Memorial Gold Medal-Jacques lipchitz for

Prometheus Strangling the Vulture (sculpture)
Alfred G. B. Steel Memorial Prize-Saul Baizerman for Ugesie
(sculpture)

Garden Sculpture Prize-George Cerny for Sleeping Beauty (sculpture)
Honorable Mention-Frank Vee for The Philosopher (sculpture)
The Committee on Exhibition awarded the following:

Walter Lippincott Prize-Andrew Wyeth for Man from Maine (painting)
Mary Smith Prize-Alice T. Roberts for Ipswich Sand Dunes #2
(painting)
A special Jury appointed by the President of the Academy's Fellowship
a warded:

The Fellowship Prize-Julian ' Levi fo r Promised Land (painting)
Gallery Talks, sponsored by the Fellowship, were held at 2:30 P.M. as
f ollows: January 24th, Dorothy Grafly; January 31 st, Hobson Pittman;
February 7th, Jack Bookbinder; Febr uary 14th, Walker Hancock; February
21st, Walter E. Bourn.

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Three in the 1951-52 seri~s of six free chamber music concerts were presented by the Academy as a feature of this Exhibition on Janl!ary 25th;
February 1st and 8th at 8 :30 P. M.
The exhibition co'n~isted of 442 works-344 paintings and 98 sculptures,
The Academy purchased 1 sculpture through its Gilpin Fund" 1 painting
each from its Temple and Collections' Committee Funds, and 5 paintings
through its lambert Fund. The Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial purchased
5 paintings, the Philadelphia Museum of Art 1 sculpture, the Allentown
(Pennsylvania) Art Museum 1 mobile. Eleven works were sold to private
collectors. The entire 26 works represented the sum of $31,260. The total
attendance was 11,129.
EXHIBITION OF PORTRAITS OF PHILADELPHIA LAWYERS
An exhibition of portraits of Philadelphia lawyers from the Academy's
permanent collection, was held in Gallery A from March 4th through 31 st,
in honor of the 150th anniversary of the Philadelphia Bar Association. The
total attendance was 3212.
THE FELLOWSHIP ANNUAL EXHIBITION
The Fellowship Annual Exhibition of Oil Painting, Sculpture, Water Colors,
and Graphics, and the Fellowship-Sponsored Exhibition of Student Work,
were held in Galleries C, K, and the East Corridor from March 7th through
April 6th, with a Privcite View on Thursday, March 6th, from 4 to 6 P. M.
JURIES

William Barnett

FOR

FELLOWSHIP EXHIBITION
OIL PAINTING

John Haigaard

Morris Berd
WATER

John Foster

COLOR

AND

GRAPHIC

Robert Goldman

Cynthia Koehler

SCULPTURE

Barbara Phillips

Raphael Sabatini
JURY

Stella Drabkin

FOR

STUDENT

EXHIBITION

Vincent Feralli
PRIZES

AND

Joseph Oliver
AWARDS

The Juries awarded the following:
Harrison S. Morris Prize, equally divided-Jack Bookbinder for

Wear, Tear and Tor Pot (water color), an d Rolph Taylor for City Center
(water color}.

Fellowship Gold Medal Award-Allen Harris for Fountain Figure
(sculpture). Honorable Mention to Amelie Zell Felton for Struggle
(sculpture).
May Audubon Post Prize-James C. Lueders for St. Johns (oil).
Caroline Gibbons .Granger Memorial Prize-Homer W. Johnson for
Portrait ofa Girl (oil).
Student Prize-Franklin R. Drake for Portrait (oil).
Student Prize-Barbara Specker for Venice and Montmart (wate r
colo rs).
Honorable Mentions-Nancy J. Wolf for Three Figures (oil)
Marie Martino for Fruit (oil)
Ben Kamihira for Promenade (oil)
. George
color).

Paul Arnold for Landscape (wate r

The Fellowship Exhibition consisted of 96 works by 81 artists; the Student
Ex hibition included 37 works. Ten items were sold representing a sales
value of $881 .00. The total attenda nce was 3760.

MEMORIAL EXHIBITION OF THE WORK OF
JOSEPH T. PEARSON, JR.
A Memorial Exh ibition of the Work of Joseph T. Pearson, Jr., N. A. (1876- 1951) was held in Gallery F- and the West Corridor from March 14th
througl" April 13th, opening with a Private View on Friday, the 14th, frorll
4 to 6 P. M. A total . of 37 oil paintings and 43 drawings were included in
t he exhibition. The total attendance was 5143 .

THE

STUDENT

EXHIBITION

The Student Exhibition held in conjunction with the Competition for the
W illiam Emlen Cresson Memorial European Traveling Scholarships was on
view in Galleries D, E, F, J and the Rotunda from May 15th through June
1 st, opening with exercises for the students and their friends on May 14Jh
a t 4 P. M. An address was made in Gallery F by Mr. Francis Henry Taylor,
Director of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York City, 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
($ 7350 each):
Susan V. Corse
Franklin Ross Drake

Paul S. Kramer
William J. Malloy, Jr.

John W. Gardner, Jr.
Walter K. Hood

James S. Ryan

John L. Massey, Jr.

Charles Vinson

Honorable Mentions with Free Tuition, 7952-53:
Philip E. Fowler
Napoleon V. Gorski, Jr.
Matthew O. Gordon
Charles E. Harpt
Clarence Sherdon
Honorable Mention:
Frank Mancuso

Lewis S. Ware Memorial European Traveling Scholarship ($7350):
Raymond M. Spiller

J. Henry Schiedt Memorial Scholarship ($7200) :
Ben Kamihira

Honorable Mention with Free Tuition, 7952-53:
. Harry Reynolds Thomas
Honorable Mention :
Joan S. Knight

Thomas Eakins Memorial Prize ($700) :
Donald Sa bath
Honorable Mention: Ben Kamihira
Thouron Prizes:
Awarded by the Facul ty ($50) - Ben Kamihira
Awarded by the Students ($25) - Eric J. Ryan, Jr.
Awarded by the Instructor ($50) - Ross Franklin Drake
Awarded by the Instructor ($25) - Thomas E. Yerxa, III
Honorable Mention - Vahan Amadouni
Cecilia Beaux Prize ($700): Walter K. Hood
Honorable Mentions - Ben Kamihira
Paul S. Kramer
Frank Mancuso

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Packard Prizes:
First Prize ($30) -

Philip Lusardi

Second Prize ($20) -

Isami Kashawagi

Perspective Class Prize ($20):
Awarded

by Instructors John F. Harbeson and William M.

Campbell -

C. Dexter Jones

Lila Agnes Kennedy Hill Memorial Prize ($50):
John W. Gardner

-

Ramborger Prize ($25):
George Gordon Russell, Jr.

Toppan Prizes:
First Prize ($300) -

Thomas E. Yerxa, III

Second Prize ($200) - Joan S. Knight
Honorable Mention ($100) - Frank Mancuso

Class Prizes:
Construction ($50) -

Philip Lusardi

Honorable Mentions -

Isami Kashawagi
Marie Martino
Antique Cast Drawing ($50) - William D. Utermohlen, Jr. ·
Honorable Mention - Nicholas Michnya
(:omposition for Sculpture ($50) - John W. Gardner

Giuseppe Donato Prize for landscape painting ($50):
Philip R. Wonson, Jr.

Giuseppe Donato Prize for composition in sculpture' ($50) :
Matthew O. Gordon

Alexander Portnoff Memorial Prize ($50):
Philip E. Fowler

Scholarship, carrying tuition and board, to Skowhegan Summer School,
Skowhegan, Maine -

Mcitthew O. Gordon.

The Stewardson Prize ($100) awarded on March 14th, by a Jury consisting
of Peter Dalton, Oronzio Maldarelli and Sidney Waugh Gordon.
Honorable Mentions ~ Rosalie Kaplin

Matthew O .

Philip E. Fowler

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The Stimson Prize ($100) awarded on November 14th by a Jury consisting
of Beatrice Fenton, Paul Fjeld~, and Harry Rosin - Matthew O. Gordon.
Honorable Mentions - Ann Claiborne
Rosalie Kaplin

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The University of Pennsylvania, in conjunction with the Academy, through
the Co-Ordinated Courses, awarded Bachelor of Fine Arts degrees to the
folJowing:
Matthew O. Gordon
Jane Hayward
John G. Nace

Colette Auriti
John A. Crowley
John W. Gardner
Joy Powell

and Master of Fine Arts degrees to:
Irving Drummond
Carolyn E. Moore
Seymour C. Titone
Total attendance at the Exhibition was 1574.

THE 50th ANNUAL WATER COLOR AND PRINT EXHIBITION
The 50th Annual Water Color and Print Exhibition, held in collaboration
with the Philadelp~ia Water Color Club, with the cooperation of The
Catherwood Foundation, was hung in all of the Galleries with the exception
of Band L, from October 19th through November 23rd, with a Private
View on Saturday, October 18th, from 9 to 11 P. M.
JURY

OF

SELECTION

Chosen by Academy

Louis Bosa

Antonio Frasconi
Hobson Pittman
/

Chosen by Water Color Club

Ogden M. Pleissner
Carl Zi grosser
PRIZES

AND

Walter Reinsel

AWARDS

The Jury of Selection awarded the following:
Philadelphia Water Color Prize -:- William Thon for Contrasts .
Dana Water Color Medal- Jules Kirschenbaum for The Grave Song.

Alice McFadden Eyre Medal -

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Ben Shahn for Phoenix (theorum)

The Directors of the Water Color Club awarded the following :
Pennell Memorial Medal - Misch Kohn for Fisherman (wood e ngraving)
Dawson Memorial Meda/- Frank Duncan fo r jack-in-the-Pulpits
(water color).
Philadelphia Water Color Club Medal of Award - The Catherwood
Foundation. Conferred at the discretion of the Club, upon that individual, or group of individuals, or museum, publisher, dealer, or
corporation, or any other agency whose · si.ncerity of purpose is
recognized in their advancement of art.
Two in the series of Meet the Artist evenings, scheduled by the Academy
for . the 1952-53 season, occurred during this exhibition, as follows:
Jacques Lipchitz, sculptor, and Eugene Speicher, painter, on Tuesdays,
November 4th and 18th, respectively, at 8 :30 P.M .
. On Wednesday afternoons from 4 to 5:30 receptions were held in hono r
of foreign work in the exhibition, as follows: japanese, October 22nd,
Suizan Miki and Elizabeth Gray Vining, guests; French, Belgian, and Swiss,
October 29th, Consuls, Raoul Blondeau, M. Leroux" .a nd Maurice J. Rohrbach, guests; English and Canadian, November 5th, D. H. F. Brickell,
Consul, and Dr. Garfield Duncan, guests; Spanish, November 12th, Luis
- Villalba, Consul; Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, and Swedish, November
19th, Donald E. Hogeland, J. Harry La Brum, Math ias J. Moe and
Maurice A. Hogeland, Consuls .
Gallery Talks, sponsored by the Fellowship, were held at 2:30 P.M., as
follows: October 23rd, John Haigaardi 30th, Frederick Gilli November
6th, Dorothy GraflYi 13th, John Lear; 20th, June Groff.
Two in the 1952-53 series of Five Free Chamber Music Concerts were
presented by the Academy on October 24th and November 21 st, a t
8:30 P.M.
A total of 34 water colors and prints were sold, representing a sales
value of $2591.00. The , Exhibition consisted of 570 items, represe'nti ng
the work of American artists from 31 states and Hawaii, and the following countries: Canada, Belgium, Denmark, England, Finland, France,
Germany, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Japan, Lithuania, Norway, Switzerland, Spain
and Sweden. The total attendance was 7678 .

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EXHIBITION OF ADVERTISING AND EDITORIAL ART
The 18th Annual Exhibition of Advertising and Editorial Art, staged by
The Art Directors' Club of Philadelphia, was held in Galleries E, J, K,
and the Rotunda from December 6th, through January 4th, with a -Private
View on Friday, December 5th, from 4 to 6 P.M. The total . attendance
was 4172.

PHILADELPHIA

ARTIST1S

GALLERY

GALLERY M

Paintings by Alice T. Roberts -

March 4th through 16th

Paintings, Prints and Sculpture by Raphael Sabatini 30th
Paintings and Drawings by Stella Drabkin Paintings by Ben Eisenstat -

March 18th through

April 1 st through 13th

April 15th through 27th

Paintings by Humbert Howard -

April 29th through May 11 th

Paintings and Drawings by Virginia A. McCall January 4th

December 19th through

A total of 12 works were sold from exhibitions in this gallery, representing
a sales value of $1520. The total attendance was 9632.

LITTLE
MAiN

GALLERY
FLOOR

A series of monthly student exhibitions was held throughout the school
year. The student body elected a jury from its own group for each exhibition and that Jury selected the work for, and hung, each exhibition .
A total of 8 works was sold representing a sales value of $185.
TOTAL ATIENDANCE IN THE GALLERIES during 1952: 40,0 19.

ACQUISITIONS
Purci'Jases
Through th e Temple Fund, from the 147th Annual Exhibition:
Ultra-Marine by Stuart Davis (painting)
Through the Gilpin Fund, from the 147th Annual Exhi b ition:
Ug esie by Saul Baizerman (bronze)

Through the Lambert Fund, from the 147th Annual Exhibition:

Florida Chain Gang by Madeline Hewes (painting)
Melons on a Red Floor by William Lester (painting)
Decoy by Hans Moller (painting)

Delicacies by Sara Provan (painting)
Subway by Hubert Mesibov
Through the Committee on Collections, from the 147th Annual Exhibition:

East Wind O\fer Weehawken by Edward Hopper (painting)
Through the Gilpin Fund, from the Annual Fellowship Exhibition:

Bust of Jo Davidson by Dexter Jones (brass)
Through the Committee on Collections:

At the Beach by William Glackens (painting)
The Good Influence by Grant Wood (crayon drawing)

GiHs
Portrait of Hon. Phillip Archelarius by John Paradise (painting), from Mr.
John F. Lewis, Jr.

Portrait of Edward Lownes by John Neagle (painting), from Mrs. George
Macpherson

Winter and Crucifixion by Joseph T. Pearson, Jr. (paintings), from mem.b ers
of his family.

Promenade by Ben Kamihira (painting), from the Comm ittee on Fellowship,
in the name of, the Fellowship
Wood Cutter by Oliver Grimley (pen and ink drawing), from Mr. John F.
Lewis, Jr.

Quaint Street by Walter E. Baum (painting), from Mr. George P. Orr
Oxcart -

Blue Sea by Milton Avery (painting), from Mrs. Herbert Cameron

Morris

The Trumpeter and Peter Stuyvesant by John Quidor (painting), from Mr.
John F. Lewis, Jr.

Portrait of Henrietta Wi/liamina (Smith) Hobart by Isaac W illiams (painting),
from Miss Jessie Ives Rutter

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'Sf. John Beside the Cross by Anthony Lauck (wood sculpture), from The
Fairmount Park Art Association
Autumn Bathers by Michel Eilshemius (painting), from Mr. and Mrs. Law. rence M. C. Smith
Rhapsody in Steel by Francis Criss (painting), purchased and presented
by the following friends: Mr. and Mrs. Louis Fleisher, Mr. and Mrs.
Iso Briselli, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Leyman, Mr. and Mrs. Frederic
Mann, Dr. Gustus Tassman, Mr. and Mrs. William Schumacher, Mrs.
Morris Wenger, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Simon, Mr. and Mrs. Bernard
Stouman, Mr. and Mrs. A. Nobel, Mr. and Mrs. S. S. Neuman, Dr.
and Mrs. Bernard D. Judovich, Mr. Morris W. Satinsky, Mr. and Mrs.
David Bortin, Mr. and Mrs. J. Maurice Gray, Mr. and Mrs. Harry
Buten, Mrs. Livia M. Weber, Miss Emma Feldman, Dr. and Mrs.
Matthew T. Moore, Mr. and Mrs. Ephraim F. Bloch, Mr. Bernard
Davis, and Mr. and Mrs. Raymond A. Spe'i ser.
The Gossips by Hobson Pittman (painting), from Mr. William S. Wassell.
Indian Camp by Ralph Albert Blakelock; View Near Chester Springs by
Elizabeth F. Washington; Scene on the French Coast by James A.
McNeill Whistler; Apple Blossom Time by George Inness (paintings),
the bequests of Mr. J. Mitchell Elliot.
The Hex Sign by Ernest Fiene; Teeming Steel into Ingots by Edward Millman; Apple Tree Near the Village by Doris Lee; The Man Trip by
Fletcher Martin; Flowers from Pennsylvania by Franklin Watkins;
Rittenho'use Square by Paul Sample; Railroad Bridge at Harrisburg,
by Joe Jones; on indefinite loan from The Gimbel Pennsylvania Art
Collection.
Medal of Merit from the National Philatelic Museum in appreciation of
the Academy's offer to present the Deliverance of Leyden by Wittkamp to the Government of The Netherlands .
An electric-fired kiln for the sculpture department of the school, made
possible by the BlythmoIe Corporation, through the good offices of
Mr. James P. Magill.
Two sofas and four chairs toward the furnishing of Gallery N, from
Mr. John F. Lewis, Jr.

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TRANSFERS FROM THE
PERMANENT CO LL ECTION
During the War of 1812, the ship Marquis de Somerueles, flying the
American flag, and carrying in her cargo 21 paintings and 52 prints by
Italian artists destined for The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in
Philadelphia, met a British man-o'-war, was confiscated and tqken to · the
port of Halifax, Nova Scotia. This was a great blow to the young Academy.
Its directors petitioned the Vice-Admiralty in Halifax, which resulted in
Sir Alexander Croke's reply : "Heaven forbid that such an application to
the generosity of Great Britain should ever be ineffectual . . . With real
sensations of pleasure . . . I decree the restitution of the property . . . I I
The paintings and prints were returned ' to Philadelphia by truce ship and
Sir Alexander's decision . became a precedert in international law.
On March 18, 1952, as a result of correspondence carried on for some
time prior by the Academy, the Nova Scotia Museum of Fine Arts in
Halifax, and the U. S. Consul General A. W. Klieforth at Halifax, the
Academy contributed Landscapes, Nos. 7 and 2 by Salvator Rosa (part
of the confiscated shipment) to the Nova Scotia Museum for its permanent
collection, in recognition of an advanced legal decis.ion by their court in
1813 . This was done at an elaborate ceremony attended by represen tatives of the Crown, the Premi·e r, the Chief Justice, and many othe r
officials, including representatives of press and radio. The speeches of
acceptance were broadcast throughout Canada by the Canadian Broad casting Corporation, and re-broadcast to the United Kingdom, Australia
and New Zealand . The broadcasting corporation late r presented the
Academy with a recording of the broadcast.
On January 26th, the Academy also presented the painting Deliverance
of Leyden by Johan Bernard Wittkamp, the large canvas which hung fo r
many years high in the Academy's stairwell, to the Government of The
Ne the rlands, through its Ambassador, Dr. J. H. van Roijen, a t a dinner
a t the Ritz-Carlton Hotel held in connection with The Ne therlands Ce nte nary Exhibition at the National Philatelic Museum.
As it becomes increasing ly evident that the Academy's role is the sponsoring of American art, and since no conditions existed to prohi bit its
d oing so, the Academy was in a position to make these ap propriate
t ransfers of European pain tings from its <;ollectio ns.

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LOAN S
The Peale Museum, Baltimore, Maryland, for exhibition The Peale Family
and the Peale Museum, January 2nd through February 15th, Self Portrait
by James Peale; Self Portrait by Rembrandt Peale; and Self Portrait by
Charles Willson Peale.
State Museum, Trenton, New Jersey, for an exhibition Work of Early New
Jersey Artists, January 13th through March 3rd, The Wright Family by
Joseph Wright.
The Blum Store, Philadelphia, to exhibit in their windows as a featu re of
the publicity program for the 147th Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition, for one week beginning January 25th: Cool Flowers by William
Barnett; God's , Day by Charles Ford McCall; Magic Forest by John C.
Atherson; Austin Hills by Everett F. Spruce; Sidewalk Market by louis Bosa;
Fallen Tree by Max Weber; The Yellow Cup by Humbert Ho~ard; Figure
in Space by Sigmund Menkes; The Clown by Nahum Tschacbasov; City
Patterns by Joseph P. Gualtieri .
The Stagecrafters, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, for one of their presentations, January 16th to 28th, Will!am Crook Rudman by John Neagle and
Lady, Unknown by an unknown ar~ist.
American Academy of Arts and letters, New York City, for exhibition
from February 1 st to March 31 st, Midday Rest in New England by J. '
Alden Weir.
The Atlantic Refining Company" Philadelphia, for its National Engineers'
Week Celebration , and for Washington's Birthday, February 14th to 25th,
Portrait of George Washington by Rembrandt Peale.
The Denver (Colorado) Art Museum, for an exhibition Man at Work,
March 2nd to April ,3 0,th, Painter's Triumph by William Sidney Mount and
Olsen',s Men by Zoltan Zepeshy.
Guggenheim Foundation, New York City, in connectio n with the artist's
a pplication f9r a Guggenheim Fellowship, f rom March 4t h for an indefinite
period, Cool Flowers by William Barnett.

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Grand Central Moderns, New York City, for an exhibition Prize Winning
Portraits, March 11 th through 26th, Majestic Tenement by Arthur Osver.
St. Botolph Club, Boston, Massachusetts, for exhibition March 13th to 26th,
The Lobster Man and Spiral by Walker Hancock.
Baltimore (Maryland) Museum of Art, for an exhibition of the artist's work,
March 18th to April 16th, Composition - October 7950 by Robert
Knipschild.
Mayor's Office, Philadelphia, on April 3rd for an indefinite period, Along
the Schuylkill by David Kornhauser.
The Philadelphia Art Alliance for Exhibition of Gropius and the Bauhaus
Painters, April 4th to May 4th, Possendorf by Lyonel Feininger.
The Powel House in Philadelphia, for a reception there on April 14th,
Portrait of Mrs . Elizabeth Willing Powel by Matthew Pratt.
Fitchburg (Massachusetts) Art Museum for Retrospective Exhibition of the
Work of Catherine Morris Wright, beginning April 27th, Twilight by Mrs.
Wright.
Reading (Pennsylvania) Public Museum and Art Gallery, for exhibition there
from April 27th through June 8th, thirty-six paintings from those recently
acquired by the Academy, by the following artists: Austin, Blackburn,
Braun, Breinin, Brook, Callahan, Carton, Castellon, Coiner, Dinnerstein,
Drew-Bear, Gold, Grant, Gropper, Gualtieri, Hanes, Hanlen, Jackson,
Mattson, Meehan, Murch, Peacock, Raffo, Rank; Richardson, Seligmann,
Soyer, Speight, Spruance, Spruce, Stettheimer, Thomas, Tschacbasov,
Weber, Weiss, and Wilkes .
The Philadelphia Museum of Art, for Leon Karp Memorial Exhibition, in
which The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts collaborated, May 3rd .
through June 1 st, My Wife, by Mr. Karp.
Des Moines (Iowa) Art Center, for an Exhibition of the Work of Louis
Bouche, June 10th to July 16th, Shooting Gallery, by Mr. Bouche.
The Atlantic Refining Company, Philadelphia, for display in their window
on July 4th, Fourth of July in Center Square by John Lewis Krimmel.
The Tiffany Foundation, New York City, for use in competition for scholarship, September 3rd to October 3rd, Promenade by Ben Kamihira; and

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at the Dubin Gallery, Philadelphia, from November 2nd, for a one-ma n
exhibition of Mr. Kamihira's work.
The Tiffany Foundation, New York City, for use in competition for scholarship, September 5th to 16th, Place of Echoes by Martin Jackson.
Lousols (Department .Store), Philadelphia, for ·window 'displays, September
25th through October 7th, the following sixteen paintings:, Black Night ~
Russell's Corners by George C. Auft; Cool Flowers by William Barnett;
Building by Frances E. McMurtrie; Fallen Angels in a Hostile World by
Federico Castellon; Still Life by Jack J. Greitzer; Escape by John G .
Hanlen; Dark Sky by John Heliker; Mother and Child by Stella Drabkin;
Still Life by Emlen Etting; Lark in Latimer Street Looking Out by Margaretta
S. Hinchman; Sanctuary by Alf. J. Stromsted; Canal Bridge by Giovanni
Martino; Self-Portrait by Walter Tandy Murch; Still Life Grape Leaves
by Henry Varnum Poor; Austin Hills by Everett Spruce; Girl Resting by
Max S. Wilkes.
Worcester (Massachusetts) Art Museum, for exhibition from November 6th
to December 14th, Ultra-Marine by Stuart Davis .
The Philadelphia Art Alliance, for a one-man exhibition of the work of
Francis Speight, November 26th through December 28th, Schuylkill Valley
by Mr. Speight.
The Fidelity-Philadelphia Trust Company, Philadelphia, exhibiting one
picture each month in its lobby: 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; Tulips and Anemones by Julius Bloch; The Wright Family by Joseph
Wright; Old Grindstone by Henry McCarter; Sidewalk Market by Louis
Bosa; Figures in a Landscape by William Sidney Mount; Clown with
Folded Arms by Walt Kuhn; Thames River by Earle Horter.

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SCHOOLS
The various activities in our schools, winter (day and evening) and summer,
were successfully conducted through the period of this report. The general
calibre of the work as reported by the F'a culty was satisfactory, although
w e are still feeling . the effects of the considerable decrease in enrollment
which followed the expirat ion of the major number of scholarships enjoyed under the G. I. Bill of Rights. The enrollment of the schools was
a s follows:

Winte r School:

January through May, 1952

169

September 1952 t hrough January 1953

175

Summ e r School: June 22nd through July 31 st

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The six-weeks' summer school, held at Broad and Cher ry Streets, was
f ound to fill a real need for city art students who could not plan for
study at distant places, and continued to be a boon to those members
of our Faculty who served us through that time.
Few changes need be noted in our Faculty. Mr. Franklin Watkins, the
f ortunate recipient of a Fulbright Grant to be painter-in-residence at The
American Academy in Rome, was granted a leave-of-absence for the
school year 1952-53. Unfortunately for Mr. Wat kins, he was not able
to carry his plans forward as originally made and his sailing was delayed,
but our school was the gainer by a considerable number of unscheduled
visits for which we were very grateful. Mr. Harry Rosin also requested a
y ear's leave-of-absence for the same period, and Mr. Charles Rudy was
engaged
was

in

his stead for those two semesters. Mr. Morris Blackburn

engaged

Theodor

Siegl

to instruct a
has continued

new class
his

in the

lectures on

graphic arts,

and Mr.

the chemistry of color,

preparation of grounds, et cetera.
This report should note particularly that, in orde r to make every effort
to maintain the pre-eminent position of our schools, and to be intelligently knowledgeable of practices engaged in elsewhere, a committee
of the Faculty, and the Director of the Academy, visited five of the major
fine arts schools in the East in . the Spring of this year . The result of that
pilgrimage was a rededication to the sound fundamentals of teaching
w hich have been the strength of the Academy through its long and
v enerable history. One excellent idea, however, emerged from the general
o b servations made, and that concerned a more definitely planned first
y ear course in which . a matriculating student would engage, unless he or

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she came with advance credits or standing. The new graphics class was
one of those advantages added to the experience of the new student,
along with another new class titled Introduction to Design taken over by
Mr. Hobson Pittman.
All members of the Faculty cooperated · handsomely in the installation
of this first-year venture, but its final effectiveness cannot be told until
the yea r is over and the results appraised. However, at the time of writing
this report, it is believed that the major points in the new program are
worthy of continuance.
A series of lectures, and some engagements embracing class criticism,
were planned as an adjunct to the school, as well as to the activities of
the galleries. In the month of November, Jacques Lipchitz and Eugene
Speicher lectured and criticized. Eric Newton and Maxim Karolik lectured
in the galleries in December. Vaclav Vytlacil and Peter Blume are scheduled for lecture and criticism in February 1953. The four . visits accomplished can be recorded as being extremely successful, the students finding
the

criticisms of vital

importance, the lectures in the galleries being

splendidly attended, and the visiting celebrities received with great enthusiasm on each occasion. A feature of the artists' visits was their appearance on the Board of Education's television program (WPTZ) the morning
following their visit here. This important asset in our public relations program was under the able direction of Mr. Jack Bookbi~der.
In addition to the magnificent sum represented in the various awards
made by the Academy in May of 1952, we are happy to list others which
went to students currently registered, or having very recently completed
their studies with us : Thomas E. Yerxa, 3rd, and Philip E. Fowler each
won $2000 grants; Ben Kamihira won $1000; Paul Anthony Greenwood
and Leade E. Enders each won $500; from the Louis Comfort Tiffany
Foundation in October. Mr. Yerxa also won the Carl Zabriskie cash award
of $100 from the Annual Exhibition of the Allied Artists of America in
November, and the Bronze Medal at the Da Vinci Society's Tenth Annual
Exhibition.

At

the

latter,

honorable

mention

was

awarded

to Marie

Martino. Ann Eshner and Royal Lewando won First and Second Prizes at
the Fifth Annual Exhibition at the Cheltenham Art Center, with honorable,
mention

going to B.en

Kamihira. Mr. Kamihira . also received' the First

Hallgarten Prize of $300, and James C. Lueders the Third Prize of $100
from the National Academy of Design. Franklin Boggs, now artist-inresidence at Beloit College, Wisconsin, won the top award of $600. in

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addition to a $300 purchase prize in the Fifth Annual Gimbel Art Competition in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in August. Edward Fenno Hoffman, 3rd,

~ailed in June for the Chateau de La Napoule, near Cannes, France,
where, at the invitation of Mrs. Henry Clews, wife of the late sculptor,
he will use that artist's excellently-equipped studio for work over a period
of eighteen months. His wife and children went with him. They will live
at the Chateau.
It should also be noted here that particular honor went to four members
of our faculty within the year. Walter Stuempfig won the $600 Benjamin
Altman Figure Prize in the National Academy of Design's 127th Annual
Exhibition. Walker Hancock's great monument to the War dead of the
Pennsylvania Railroad was unveiled in 30th Street Station in Philadelphia,
and

only a

few

blocks

away another handsome war memorial was

erected for University of Pennsylvania students who lost their lives in the
late War -

a monumental flagpole, with sculptured base by Charles Rudy.

Martin Jackson, of our summer school

f~culty

was awarded a $1000 grant

from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation.
It is important to pay particular attention to the new art education program announced this year, for the first time, through which the Bachelor
of Science in Education Degree (for teaching and supervising art education in the public schools), is presented in collaboration with our long
established

co-ordinated

co,urse

with

the

University of

Pennsylvania's

School of Fine Arts, and now augmented by our affiliation with the Uni-

ve~sity's School of Education. This is a five-year course, the first two years
of which are divided between the University and the Academy. At the
end of the second year, however, the students transfer from the undergraduate co-ordinated program to the School of Education for the remaining three years of the course .
Through the interest of one of our Directors, Mr. James P. Magill, an
electric kiln was installed in the school, thereby giving opportunity to
the sculpture students to acquire the technique and skill of the ceramic
medium, and preparing them to take advantage of the expanding market
for small pieces.
Miss Martha K. Schick reports a continuing active interest in the school
library from which 813 items were withdrawn and returned on loan. Four
books and three photographs were unaccounted for at the end of the
year. The purchase of 81 new books and the receipt of 22 as gifts, is
also recorded.

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PUBLIC

RELAT I ONS

Bringing the fine arts and music together continues to be one of the most
r ewarding activities of this department. In the five free chamber music
concerts held this year in connection with our exhibitions, we have programmed works rarely heard publicly in the city. Attendance and interest
have grown _ as the public has become more aware of these evenings .
Judging from the number who are ready to enter as we open the doors
at 7:30 and use the hour before concert time to see the exhibitions, ou r
guests have a lively interest in both art and music.
Again, we are indebted to the Music Performance Trust Fund of the
American

Phonograph

Industry, in

cooperation with

Local 77 - of the

A merican Federation of Musicians, for providing the musicians' fees; fo
V ladimir Sokoloff for arranging -the programs and for his own disti~­
guished playing; to the various musicians who appeared on t he pr'ograms;
to N . Stetson and Company for lending and tuning the piano each time;
a nd to the f riend of the Academy who underwrote the cost of transporting
t he instrument.
O n Apr il 23rd and 24th, The American Society of Ancient Instruments
came to us for the second consecutive year, this time to present two of
the three c?ncerts in their Twenty-Fourth Annual Festival. It was a pleasure
-to welcome t his unique group to our galleries as they, too, came to present
the rare and seldom-heard in music.
The s-even performances were played to a total of ove r 3000 persons .
This report gives us another opportunity to thank the various publicity
media -

newspapers, periodicals, radio, television, and especially the

art crit ics -

for the excellent cooperatio l} t hey have given us. We believe

we are presenting exhibitions and other events of growing interest to the
public, which accounts for the encouraging increase in attendance ove r

195 1, but -we most happily give part of the credit for this increase to
those listed above for keeping the public so well informed.
And here I should like to mention M r. Jack Bookbinder of our Faculty,
w ho has scheduled Academy faculty members, exhibitors, and students
on many occasions on his regular series of television programs taking
a rt and a rtists to the classrooms of the public schools through his Board
of Education p rograms.

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During the year we have enrolled 143 new members; four members hc:'ve
increased their classifications, and three have sent contributions with their
dues, all of which accounted for $3667 in new funds. We report with
regret the loss of 115 members through death, resignation or delinquency.
The number of stockholders who responded to a letter from the President
inviting them also to become members, was encouraging. However, especially since we will shortly celebrate the institution's 150th birthday, we
hope many more will respond to that invitation. OUJ objective by that time
continues to be 2000 members. We need your help to achieve it.

BUILDINGS
MAIN

BUILDING, BROAD AND CHERRY STREETS
and
ANNEX,

1834

ARCH

STREET

Two very important improvements can be recorded as accomplished in ·
our main building. The major portion of the roof of the Academy is made
of skylights, installed as they were in -1 876 when .the building was erected.
They have long been a source of great trouble, and for the .Iast several
seasons our exhibition floor has been in grave danger of very considerable
damage from leaks. During the past summer, all of the roof area from
the' stairhall west through the central section of the galleries, including
that area over our most important Gallery F, was completely renovated,
the old glass removed, and new installed. All of the r~maining skylights
were given thorough attention so that all immediate danger of leaks is
removed. The improvement in the light in . the galleries under these new
skylights is very remarkable, and it is hoped that, over a period of several
years, all of the remaining old skylights may receive the same attention.
The side walls of the ventilating lantern were thoroughly examined, and
the movable louvres in alternate sections sealed. We believe this will
result in no handicap concerning ventilation, and will insure the saving
of great heat loss in the winter seasons.
With the removal of the great pictures from our stairhall, recorded last
year, it was all the more evident that the walls of that section of the
building would have to have attention. Through the generosity of our
President, this work, was accomplished, and a neutral color painted over
the time-worn stained and ugly red of those walls, and carried completely
to the skylight. This area, thus simplified in color and texture, makes for
an even finer setting of the two Benjamin West paintings in the flanking
galleries.

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Readjustments were made in the school locker rooms, so that the students
now have ample smoking rooms, chiefly furnished with equipment from
the Chester Springs school.
The usual repainting and furbishing was carried on by our own maintena~ce crew during the summer months, both at Broad and Cherry and
at the Annex.

WOMEN1S

COMMITTEE

This Committee lends assistance to the Officers, and to the Board of
Directors, mainly where social activities are concerned.
It arranged receptions in honor of the artists exhibiting in ' the Philadelphia
Artists' Gallery, from 4 to 6 o'clock, as follows: Raphael Sabatini, March
• 21 st; Stella Drabkin, April 4th; Ben Eisenstat, April 18th; and Hum bert
Howard, April 30th. (Receptions for the remaining two exhibitions in that
Gallery were given by the artists, personally: Alice T. Roberts, March
7th; Virginia A. McCall, December 19thl • .
The Committee also arranged a reception in honor of Mr. Eric Newton,
art critic of the London Sunday Times, following his talk at the Academy
on the evening of December 2nd; Mr: and Mrs. George B. Roberts entertained at dinner preceding it. Mr. and Mrs. Leonard T. Beale gave a
reception at their home in honor of Mr. Maxim Karolik, before his talk
at the Academy on the evening of December 16th, and Mr. and Mrs.
John F. lewis, Jr., entertai'ned at dinner.
Several members had small dinner parties before the private views of the
two annual exhibitions.
Mrs. Leonard T. Beale is Chairman.

THE

FELLOWSHIP

The Academy's alumni association is the Fellowship (organized in 18971.
It . presented a program of lectures, demonstrations, and twice weekly
during the winter season, a Croquis Class for its members and Academy
students. Six evening programs of art films were also scheduled - one
each month beginning in November of 1952. These were designed for
Fellowship and Academy members, in addition to Academy students.
It sponsors a Students' Committee whose members are chosen from the
student body with one of the group serving on the Fellowship's Board of

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Managers, 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 1952 it held its Annual Exhibition of Painting, Sculpture and Graphics
from March 7th through April 6th. It sponsored an exhibition of student
work during the same period.
The Fellowship sponsors the Gallery Talks for the Academy's annual
exhibitions, provides the Fellowship Prize of $100 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.
It has a membership of over 600 and an annual income of over $1500.
Mr. Walker Hancock 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; (2) 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 1,1951 to August 31,1952

IN CO M E

Art Gallery and Exhibitions
Philadelphia School
Chester Springs
Trust Funds
Membership Dues
Contributions

$ 23,405.50
52, 140.24
624.50
70,974.75
11,265.00
3,414.00

Total Income

$16 1,823.99

EXPENSE S

Art Gallery and Exhibitions
Philadelphia School
Chester Springs
Loss on Sale of General Fund Investments

$ 103,849.83

Total Expenses
Net Operating Loss

$169,687.44
$ 7 ,863.45

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59,5~6.15

5,191.09
1,110.37

,
CONTRIBUTIONS

fOR

SPECIFIC

PURPOSES

February, 1952 to January, 1953, inclusive
1,000.00
20.00
100:00
90.56
350.00
100.00
20.00
200.00
680.00
5,100.00
5,515.00
500.00
152.50
200.00
10,000.00

Blythmore Corporation, for kiln in School
Morris Blackburn, fo r 147th Annual Exhibition
Giuseppe Donato, for student prizes
HenryS. Drinker, for transportation of piano, 1952-53 Chamber Music Series
Fellowship of the Academy, for Annual Fellowship Exhibition
David M. Gwinn, for Eakins Prize
John F. Harbeson, for Perspective Prize
R. Sturgis Ingersoll, for 147th Annual Exhibition
John F. Lewis, Jr., for furniture, Gallery N .
for 147th Annual Exhibition .
for re-decorating Galleries N, L, and ' B
for "Meet the Artist" evenings .
William Clarke Mason, fo r annual subscriptions and dues
for .the School
Mrs. Anna Whorton Morris, for 148th Annual Exhibition
The Pennsylvanfa Society of Miniature Painters,
for its 50th Annual Exhibition
Mrs. Alexander . Portnoff, for student sculpture prize
·Mrs. A. G. B. Steel, for two prizes at the Annual Flower Show
in Academy's Name
Walter Stuempfig, Jr., for student prize
George D. Widener, for school scholarsh ips

$

Total

$ 26,328 .06

.

CONTRIBUTIONS,

50.00
50.00
150.00
50.00
2,000.00

UNRESTRICTED

Clifford P. Adams
Mrs. W. A. Fuller
Mrs. Albert A. Jackson
Syd~ey E. Martin
C. Alison Scully .
Mrs. A. G. B. Steel
Irving H. Vogel

$

Total
Total Contributions

$ 1,290.54
$27;618.60

5.00
5.00
2.00
478.54
100.00
500.00
200.00

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MEMBERS

Enrolled in the Life and Annual Classes
during 1952
Life Members
- Hale, Miss lena l.
lower, Edward S.

Sellers, Charles C.
Sellers, Mrs. Charles C.
Vogel, Mrs. Irving Horace

- Townsend, Mrs. John Barnes
Turner, Miss Matilda H.

Contributing Member
Marvel, Mrs. Josiah

Sustaining Members
Alexander, Mrs. Donald
- Brown, Alexander
Davis, Miss Eleanor Bushnell

Fearon, Mrs. Charles
Painter, Mrs. H. B.
- Petersen, Howard C.

Potamkin, Mrs. M. P.
Steel, Miss Amanda Fell
Walker, Dr. James Manning

Annual M em bers
Aberle, George F.
Arnett, Miss Eleanor
Armstrong, Mrs. R. W.
I;laird, E. W., 3rd
Ball, Mrs. Thomas Hand
Barker, Joseph P., Jr.
Baum, Russell E.
Beal, Mrs. James H.
Bendiner, Mrs. Sabato
Biddle, Mrs. Clement
Blasband, Alfred
Brody, Mrs. Sol
Brown, Mrs. Charles W.
Brown, Francis Shunk
Bucks, M. Alan
Burt, Struthers
Cary, Mrs. Richard l.
Champlin, Miss Cathleen M.
Chesterman, Francis J.
Clattenburg, Theodore
Cohen, Mrs. Marion K.
Conkling, Mrs. Ira l.
Corkran, Mrs. Woodward W.
Cummins, Richard G.
Cunningham, Miss Hester T.
Dechert, Mrs. Philip
Dill, leonard C., Jr.
Dillingham, Miss Florence

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Dooley, Mrs. J. T.
Du Barry, Joseph N.
Duncan, Dr. Garfield G.
Dwier, Mrs. W. Kirkland
Evans, Mrs. Helen lowden
Fenninger, Mrs. Carl W.
Foster, Mrs. Major B.
Foulkrod, Mrs. John J., Jr.
Funk, Carl W .

Hulme, Mrs. Arthur K.
Hutchinson, Miss Anne Powel
Hyman, John H.

Johnson, Mrs. George Clarence
Joiner, Rev. Franklin

Kimbrough, Mrs. Robe rt A., Jr.
landreth, Symington P.
lapetina, Miss Florence
leas, Mrs. Donald S., Jr.
lewis, Alfred G. Baker
lewis, Mrs. Francis A.
lovatt, George I.
ludwig, Mrs. Henry

Gainsborough, lee
Gaskill, Miss Dorothy
Graham, Mr. Geoffry
Goldman, David
Goldsmith, Mrs. Arthur
Gouge, Mrs. Frederick Hamilton
Green, Robert McCay
Mclean, William 1.,3rd
Grodinsky, Dr. Julius
MacDonald, William F.
Grosholz, Mrs. Richard
Macintosh, Mrs. Hiram P.
Maine, Mrs. Robert F.
Haehnlen, Mrs. Walter l.
Martin, Briton
Haenigsen, Harry W .
Meade, Mrs. George G .
Hahn, Frank E.
Meigs, Mrs. Robert R.
Harbison, Mrs. R. J., Jr.
Mirkil, Mrs. William I.
Hayden, Mrs. Joseph A.
Mitchell, Henry W.
Hopkins, Miss Sarah
Moore I nstitute of Art,
Horwitz, Mrs. Orville
Science and Industry
Hudson, Mrs. M. V. l .
Morgan, Arthur C.



Naeye, Mrs. Isaac
Newlin, Mrs. Earl Mortimer
Niscemi, Mrs. C.
Nixon, Dr. Norman
Oakley, Thornton
Ostheimer, Mrs. Alfred J., 3rd
Platt, Miss Effie A.
Prior, Harris
Ragan, Philip
Richardson, Edgar P.
Richardson~ Mrs. Edgar P.
Rightmyer, Eugene R.
Robins, Mrs. Edward
Rosenau, Mrs. Leo M.
Rosengarten, Mrs. J. Clifford
Rosenwald, Lessing J.

Sadler, Mrs. William P.
Schwartz, Mrs. Anthony
Scull, Mrs. R. Barclay
Seidel, Mrs. Arthur D.
Shelly, Warner S.
Shober, Miss Elizabeth
Shober, Pemberton Hutchinson
Shubin, Max B.
Snyder, Arthur F. F.
Snyder, Mrs. Benjamin L.
Soloff, Mrs. Louis A.
Sparks, Mrs. Lee
Speiser, Raymond
Stallard, John H.
Starr, Edward, Jr.
Stout, Mrs. C. Frederick C.
Strawbridge, Mrs. John, Jr.
Tanaka, Susum u
Tatum, George Bishop

Taylor, C. Newbold
Therman, Dr. Per-Olof
Thresher, Miss Jane E.
Trotter, Miss Elizabeth S.
Van Urk, Mrs. F. T.
Wainwright, Mrs. F. King
Walker, Miss Elizabeth H.
Walton, W. Wyclif
Ward, Charles F., Jr.
Whitaker, James L.
White, Theo B.
. Williams, H. Justice
Wilson, Edgar M.
Wilson, Hamilton W.
Wolf, Morris
Wright, Sydney L.
Zinni, Mrs. Anne Christopher

* Increa sed classification.

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MEMBERSHIP

CLASSES

(Annual $10.00
Yearly Members: ) Sustaining $25.00
(Contributing $100.00
life Member

$300

Fellow

$ 1 000 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 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

0 F

BE QUE S T

give, devise and bequeath to The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine
Dollars, in trust, to invest and keep
Arts
invested and apply the income to the maintenance of the said ·Academy.

The Academy is open weekdays (except Mondays) from 10 A.M. to 5 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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