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THE PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE
FINE ARTS
BROAD AND CHERRY STS.
•
151st ANNUAL REPORT
1956
PHILADELPHIA
Cover: Seabird and Fish by Koren Der Haraotian
Temple Fund Purchase 1956
The One-Hundred and Fifty-first
Annual Report
of
THE PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY of the FINE ARTS
FOR THE YEAR
1956
Presented to the Meeting of the Stockholders
of the Academy on February 4, 1957
OFFICERS
President
Vice-President
Treasurer
Secretary and Director
John F. Lewis, Jr.
Henry S. Drinker
C. Newbold Taylor
Joseph T. Fraser, Jr.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Mrs. Leonard T. Beale
*Mrs. Richardson Dilworth
Henry S. Drinker
David Gwinn
R. Sturgis Ingersoll
Arthur C. Kaufmann
*Mrs. E. Hart McMichael
James P. Magill
*Fredric R. Mann
Sydney E. Martin
William Clarke Mason
George P. Orr
Howard C. Petersen
George B. Roberts
John Stewart
C. Newbold Taylor
Sydney L. Wright
• Ex-officio
STANDING COMMITTEES
COMMITTEE ON COLLECTIONS
AND EXHIBITION
George B. Roberts, Chairman
Mrs. Leonard T. Beale
R. Sturgis Ingersoll
Sydney E. Martin
COMMITTEE ON FIN ANCE
John Stewart
C. Newbold Taylor, Chairman
James P. Magill
COMMITTEE ON INSTRUCTION
William Clarke Mason, Chairman
C. Newbold Taylor
Mrs. Leonard T. Beale
David Gwinn
SOLICITOR
Maurice B. Saul
WOMEN1S COMMITTE.E
Mrs.
Mrs.
Mrs.
Mrs.
Mrs.
Mrs .
Mrs.
Mrs.
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Mrs. E. Hart McMichael, Chairman
John G. Bartol, Jr.
Mrs . H. Lea Hudson
Mrs.
Miss
Leonard T. Beale
Mrs. Arthur C. Kaufmann
Mrs .
Francis T. Chambers Mrs. John F. Lewis, Jr.
Joseph S. Clark, Jr.
Mrs.
Mrs. Samuel W. Pray
Mrs.
Richardson Dilworth Mrs. George B. Roberts
Emlen P. Etting
Mrs. Julius Rosenwald, -II
Mrs.
John A. Griswold
Mrs. R. Barclay Scull
Mrs.
David Gwinn
Mrs. Lawrence M. C. Smith Mrs.
John F. Steinman
Anna K. Stimson
Boudinot Stimson
Robert Straus z-Hupe
Franklin C. Watkins
Walter H. West
Elias Wolf
Sydney L. Wright
STAFF
GENERAL
Joseph T. Fraser, Jr.
Mabel L. Eiseley
Charles J. Marsh
Ann Evans
August Viilu
E. Elizabeth Fermqnis
Frances M. Vanderpool
Elizabeth Z. Swenson .
. Director and Secretary
Assistant Director
Assistant to the Secretary
Secretary to the Director
Comptroller
Receptionist
Exhibition and Membership Clerk
. Director of Public Relations
and Membership
SCHOOLS
(day and evening)
Raymond T. Entenmann
Catherine R. ' Newbold
Martha K. Schick .
. Curator
Secretary to the Curator
Librarian
FACULTY .
George Harding
Francis Speight
*Walker Hancock
Roswell Weidner
Harry Rosin
Edward Shenton
Franklin C. Watkins
*John W. McCoy
Julius Bloch
Walter Stuempfig
Hobson Pittman
Morris Blackburn
John Hanlen
tOaniel Garber
tRoy C. Nuse
William M. Campbell
Philip Aliano
Edmond J. Farris
Jack Bookbinder
Peter Suffredini
Theodor Siegl
Wallace Peters
:j:Ben Kamihira
:j:Jim C. lueders
:j:James S. Hanes
J. Stephen lewis
George J. Kreier, Jr.
§Henry Peacock
Allen Harris
• Leave of absence 1956·57
tProfessional Adviser
:tAssistants in evening school
§Substitute 1956·57
( Summer)
Francis Speight
Roswell Weidner
Morris Blackburn
Wallace Peters
Jim C. lueders
BUILDING
Isaiah J. Sellers, Superintendent
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REPORT OF THE OFFICERS AND
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
In writing the Report for this year, 1956, following that in which we recorded our great 150th Anniversary celebration, we cannot, of course,
report activities comparable in importance. However, the life of the Academy has gone on with great vitality and the renown of that celebration
is a continuing boon.
The single most important event in 1956 was the exchange of material
between the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Academy. It had been
evident for many ,years that the Academy was not completely fulfilling
its obligation to its print collection. That collection, made up chiefly
through three large
bequ~sts
from John S. Phillips, John T. Morris and _
John Frederick Lewis, numbers something over 67,000 items, the g-reat
majority of which are European. As the Academy's print collection numbers so little American work, it has had limited usefulness to this institution, which is dedicated to American art. As the Academy has been,
and still is, without means to give the collection the necessary curatorial
attention and care, it seemed desirable to arrange a transfer which would
accomplish more ideal relationships between two sister institutions and,
at the same time, achieve a very real professional objective. Philadelphia
is fortunate to have one of the great world print authorities in Carl
Zig rosser, Associate Director of the Philadelphia Museum.
Conditions surrounding the bequests prohibited any change of title. This
same condition applied to a number of items of Americana in the Philadelphia Museum. It was therefore agreed that our print collection should
be transferred to the Museum on indefinite loan and, in return, items of
American origin which would be useful to us would be transferred to us
on the same basis. In addition to this actual physical transfer, which
could not accomplish a balance of like values, the Museum will return
to the Academy all of the American items in its print collection with a
completely new index. Thus, with /the American items returned in exemplary order, the Academy can build in the categories of prints, drawings
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and water colors which have, up to this time, been almost neglected,
although such collecting is a very worthy objective under our American
dedication. The list of paintings and sculpture moved from the Museum
to the Academy will be given later in this Report. We look with great
pride and satisfaction at this transaction, which sets an example throughout our nation concerning ideal cooperation between sister institutions to
forward the highest professional standards and exemplary use of material.
Another transaction having great bearing on the physical situation in our
School was the sale, within the year, of our property: at 1834 Arch Street.
This old private residence had served the Academy for over thirty years as
the building in which our portrait and still-life classes were held. There
had always been grave handicaps concerning the distance our students
had to travel in all kinds of weather to work in these studios. The old
house had reached that point where it needed major renovations, and
its heating and plumbing systems were at the end of their usefulness.
This property is in an area which, though long blighted, is now on the
upgrade chiefly because of the tremendous improvements in the central
city area. The sale, therefore, was made at a time which seemed financially
advantageous. The giving up of this property, however, forced all of our
classes into the building at Broad and Cherry Streets. The return of excellent enrollment in the last two or three ' years means that our physical
plant is being used quite beyond its ideal capacity. There is no doubt
that some plan for better housing of our School cannot be put far into
the future as, most certainly, it is the vital lifestream of our existence.
Once again, we are happy to report the continuance of the City of Philadelphia's annual appropriation of $25,000.00. As ex-officio member of
our Board, Mrs. Joseph S. Clark, Jr., was replaced by Mrs. Richardson
Dilworth.
This Report also gives us ideal opportunity to pay particular tribute to the
members of our loyal staff who, though small in number, give generously
of their abilities to carryon our ambitious program. We must report, with
regret, the resignation in the summer of Mr. Mayland T. McAvoy who, as
Sl!perintendent of our building, served the Academy with utmost diligence
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from 1934 to 1956. We are fortunate to be able to report, however, that
Mr. Isaiah J.Seliers, for many years Mr. McAvoy's assistant, has assumed
larger responsibilities and is making a most exemplary record .
We are. ~ver conscious of the tremendous importance of the make-up of
our faculty, and we should like to close this Report with a tribute to all
of those men who have made the Academy's illustrious history, but particularly to those who presently serve us. We are sure that no other school of
the fine arts in the United States can boast of a finer faculty of creatively
active professional artists.
JOHN F. LEWIS, JR., President
JOSEPH T. FRASER, JR., Director
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EXHIBITIONS
THE 1 51 st ANNUAL EXHIBITION OF
OIL PAINTING AND SCU,LPTURE
The 151 st Annual Exhibition of Oil Painting and Sculpture, made ,up entirely by invitation, opened with a Private View on Saturday, January 21 st,
in the galleries of the Academy, and continued through February 26th.
The 61 invited artists were chosen by the Academy's faculty, each member
submitting a list of artists whose work he considered to be of important
exhibition caliber. (The resulting choices represent the names receiving the
greatest group support). Three artists from our faculty were similarly
chosen by their own group to act as the Jury of Award. As a bow to our
fifteen faculty members, Gallery M was reserved in order to show one
example of the work of each, selected by the artist himself. Most of the
180 paintings and 59 sculptures included in the exhibition were shown
for the first time in Philadelphia.
PROFE SS IO NA L J U RY O F AW ARD
Hobson Pittman
Harry Rosin
Franklin Watkins
PR I ZES A ND A W ARDS
Awarded by Jury of Award:
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Temple Gold Meda/---:- Ben Shahn for Chicago (painting).
J. Henry Schiedt Memorial Prize ($3~0) - Ivan le lorraine Albright
for There is Man in God (painting).
Honorable Mentions in PaintingStuart Davis for Colonial Cubism
Jack levine for The Judge
Sigmund Menkes for Still Life with Blue Vase
George D. Widener Memorial Gold Meda/- Theodore Roszak for
Hound of Heaven (sculpture!;
Alfred G. B. Steel Memorial Prizr ($300) - Jacques lipchitz for
Mother and Child (sculpture).
Honorable Mention in SculptureOronzio Maldarelli for Nahomi
Awarded by Academy's Committee on Exhibition:
Walter Lippincott Prize ($300)-Max Weber' for The Comb (painting).
Ten works totaling $17,732.54 were sold during the exhibition. The total
attendance was 10,881.
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FELLOWSHIP EXHIBITION
The partly-invited, partly-juried Fellowship Annual Exhibition of Oil Painting, Sculpture, Water Colors and Graphics which comprised some 160
items, opened in the galleries of the Academy with a Private View on
March 8th, and continued through April 8th. Two other shows, both
Fellowship-sponsored, and consisting of an Exhibition of Student Work
and a Memorial Exhibition of Sculpture by Yoshimatsu Onaga (a former
Academy student), were also on view during this period.
JURIES FOR FELLOWSHIP EXHIBITION
OIL PAINTING
Jane Piper
Henry Peacock
Thomas Yerxa
WATER COLORS AND GRAPHICS
Eleanor Arnett
Thomas Meehan
Benton Spruance
SCULPTURE
J. Wallace Kelly
Edward F. Hoffman, 3rd
PRIZES AND AWARDS
The Juries awarded the following:
Harrison S. Morris Prize divided -
Sam Fried for Four Actors (water
color! $50.00; Oliver Nuse for Dragger (gouache) $50.00
Honorable Mentions: Morris Blackburn for Fish Out (engraving and
etching) and Homer Johnson for Mother and Child (gouache).
Fellowship Gold Medal Award ($50.00) - Angelo Frudakis for Por-
trait of a Woman (direct carving on marble).
May Audubon Post Prize ($50.00) - Julian Levi for Stay Sail (oil).
Caroline Gibbons Granger Memorial Prize ($50.00) - Norman Carton for High Noon (oil).
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Student Prizes ($25.00 each) - John Matsui Hori for Winter Day
(painting); Leonard Agrons for Caryatid (sculpture).
Honorable Mentions: Jerome Shore for Zanathan (print); Vahan Amadouni for Emotions (painting).
Six works, amounting to $649.00, were sold, and the total attendance
was 3,060.
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PHILADELPHIA ARTISTS1 GALLERY
Two young painters, Ben Kamihira and Jim C. Lueders (both forme r
Academy students), were honored with one-man exhibitions, opening
with a Private View on March 16th, in the Philadelphia Artists' galleries
of the Academy, and closing on April 8th. The exhibitions, comprised
entirely of oils, included still lifes, landscapes, figure studies and figure
paintings. Two works (one by each artist), totaling $500.00, were sold.
The total attendance was 2,140.
In conjunction with the Reginald Marsh Exhibition (discussed later in this
Report), the Academy also staged during the same period - November
30th through December 30th - two one-man shows of the work of Henry
Mitchell and Paul A. Greenwood, both Philadelphia sculptors. Six works,
amounting to $383 .00, were sold, and the combined attendance for all
three shows was 1,522.
PHILADELPHIA ART . TEACHERS 1 ASSOCIATION
EXHIBITION
The Philadelphia Art Teachers' Association Exhibition was on view in the
galleries from April 13th through April 29th,, ' and consisted of fifty-two
items. The Academy's recent acquisitions were also shown in Galleries A
and M during the same period.
The Jury of Award, made up of Abraham Hankins, Jane Piper and Herman
Gundesheimer, awarded the following:
Art Teachers' Association Plaque - Marion Cohee
Honorable Mentions - Hester Cunningham
Patricia Evans
Thomas J. Gaughan
Mary Marshall Flower Award -
Frederick Gill
O~e item, amounting to $49 .00 was sold. The total attendance was 1,040.
THE STUDENT EXHIBITION
Twenty Traveling Scholarships and other prizes totaling $27,650.00 were
awarded to students of The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts by the
Chairman of its Committee on Instruction, William Clarke Mason, at special
exercises held on May 16th at 4 P.M. After the address, given this year by
Abr,aham Rattner, an Academy alumnus and recipient of a Cresson Travel-
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ing Scholarship in 1920, the following awards were made on recommendation of the Faculty:
William Emlen Cresson Memorial European Traveling Scholarships,
(Est. 1902) ($1400 each):
Painting;
Vahan Amadouni
Harry Eng
Gwendolyn Gimple
William McK. Hoffman
A. John Kammer, Jr.
Sculpture: Francis Acquaye
June K. Niblock
Thomas Parish
Hilbert S. Sabin, Jr.
Raymond Saunders
Walter C. Thomas, Jr.
Lewis S. Ware Memorial European Traveling Scholarship, (Est. 1938)
($1400 each):
Sculpture: Carlo Travaglia
J. Henry Schiedt Memorial Traveling Scholarships, (Est. 1949)
($1200 each):
Painting:
Donald H. Abrams
David K. De Long
John W. Reilly
Eric J. Ryan, Jr.
Louis B. Sloan
William C. Utermohlen, Jr.
Mural Decoration:
Lorraine Malach
John R. Manning
Honorable Mention: Phoebe Hwang
Charles Toppan Prizes (Est. 1882):
First Prize ($300) - Donald H. Abrams
Second Prize ($200) - Howard Kerwick
Packard Prizes (Est. 1899):
First Prize ($30) - Sally Laird
Second Prize ($20) - Daniel D. Miller
Honorable Mentions - Hilbert S. Sabin
Barbara Brown
Stewardson Prize (Est. 1901) ($100), awarded on March 16th by a
Jury of Sculptors consisting of Carl Schmitz and Raphael Sabatini to
Francis Acquaye; Honorable Mentions to Newtown A. Harrison;
Michael Piper.
Henry J. Thouron Prizes (Est. 1903):
Awarded
Awarded
Awarded
Awarded
Awarded
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the Faculty ($50) - John R. Manning
Instructors ($50) - A. John Kammer, Jr.
Instructors ($25) - Gunnar W. Zorn, Jr.
Students ($25) - Mimi Boynton
Students ($25) - Louis Faracchio
Ramborger Prize (Est. 1911) ($25) - Millicent Krouse
Honorable Mention - Christine McGinnis
Stimson Prize (Est. 1917) ($100), awarded on November 16th by a
Jury composed of Jean de Marco, to Sally Laird.
Thomas Eakins Memorial Prize (Est. 1951) ($100) Raymond
Saunders
Honorable Mentions - Dorothy Grant
Eva Odlivak
John W. Reilly
Victor Lasuchin
Darwin L. Au
Lila Agnes Kennedy Hill Memorial Prize (Est. 1952) ($50) Travaglia
Carlo
The Print Club's Graphics Prize (Est. 1953), consisting of one year's
membership in the Club, and the use of its workshop facilitiesMillicent Krouse
Honorable Mention - Edward G. Reustow
The John Wanamaker Store Water Color Prize (Est. 1954), consisting
of art materials to the value of $50 - Herbert Lautman
Honorable Mention - Louis Faracchio
Lux Prize in Graphics (Est. 1955 in memory of John R. Conner) ($50)
Gary D. Decker
Catharine Grant Memorial Prize (Est. 1955) ·($100) Raymond
Saunders
Honorable Mentions ($50 each) -'- Eva Odlivak
Louis Sloan
Class Prizes:
Construction ($25) - Dorothy Grant
Honorable Mentions - Millicent Krouse
John W. Chumley
Antique Cast Drawing ($25) - Lawrence Glasson
Honorable Mention - Linda M. Downum
Perspective Class Prize ($20), awarded by William M. Campbell - Edward G. Reustow
Honorable Mention - June K. Niblock
Evening School Prize for Portrait ($25) - Henry Kloczynski
Evening School Prize for Life ($25) - Walt~r Novoshielski
35 works, amounting to $2,400.00, were sold. 1,418 people attended
the exhibition, which opened on May 16th and closed on June 3rd.
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LIVING ' PHILADELPHIA ARTISTS' EXHIBITION
Special honor was paid local artists by the Academy as it opened an
Exhibition of P~inting and Sculpture by Living Artists in the Philadelphia
Area Represented in the Academy's Permanent Collection on October 20th,
following a Private View on October 19th. Each artist was represented by
two works; one from the Academy's permanent collection, and one of his,
or her, own choice. This exhibition continued through November 18th.
Sales amounted to $4,245.00, and the total attendance was 3,943.
REGINALD MARSH RETROSPECTIVE MEMORIAL EXHIBITION
Fo"owing the death of Reginald Marsh in 1954, the Whitney Museum of
American Art assembled an exhibition of 160 examples of his prodigious
output of paintings, water colors, drawings, graphics, plus photographs
of studies for his murals in the Post Office Building in Washington, and
the New York Custom House. The exhibition opened there in 1955, and
since then about half of it traveled across the country to several important
museums. This exhibition had its final showing at the Academy, where it
opened with a Private View on November 30th, continued through December 30th, and was then returned to the Whitney Museum.
SPECIAL EVENTS
The following special events took place in -the Academy during the calendar year 1956:
COSMOPOLITAN and FRANKLIN INN CLUBS
February 17th
CONCERTS January 27th
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Members of the Cosmopolitan Club and the
Franklin Inn Club held a joint meeting in the
galleries in the evening.
8:30 P.M.
Works by Haydn, Mozart, Ravel and Blochperformed by the Philadelphia Chamber Players;
Jacob Krachmalnick, Veda Reynolds, violinists;
Harry Zaratzian, violist; Lome Munroe, cellist;
Vladimir Sokoloff, pianist.
Works for Four Hands at One Piano by Mozart,
Schubert, Mendelssohn, Debussy and DvorakEleanor and Vladimir Sokoloff, pianists.
March 23rd
Works by Locatelli, Vitali, Castaldi, Mennini,
Elgar and Holst - String Virtuosi of Philadelphia, Louis Vyner conductor.
November 16th Sonatas by Bach, Handel and Hindemith - Kenton Terry, flute; Vladimir Sokoloff, piano .
All of the concerts were free to the public, and the programs were presented by the Academy in collaboration with the Music Performance Trust
Fund of the American Phonograph Industry, and through the courtesy of
Local 77, American Federation of Musicians. Miss Elizabeth Z. Swenson,
the Academy' s Director of Public Relations, and Mr. Vladimir Sokoloff
cooperated, once again, in planning these concerts.
GALLERY TALKS - 2:30 P.M.
Dorothy Grafly, critic, publisher
January 25th
February 2nd
John W. McCoy, painter, teacher
February 9th
Hobson Pittman, painter, teacher
February 16th
Morris Blackburn, painter, teacher
February 23rd
Harry Rosin, sculptor, teacher
November 8th
Dorothy Grafly, critic, publisher
LECTURES - 8: 15 P.M. (Six evenings, devoted to "Understanding
and Enjoyment of Art," were presented by the Academy as a feature
of its evening school program; Jack Bookbinder, moderator):
October 30th
Henry Mitchell
November 13th
Robert Gwathmey
November 27th
Francis Speight
December 4th
Wharton Esherick
December 11 th
Martin Jackson
December 18th
Alden Wicks
TOTAL ATIENDANCE IN THE GALLERIES DURING 1956: 27,522
February 24th
ACQUISITIONS
All of the details concerning registering purchases and gifts, as well as
those required for each loan were taken care of by the Assistant Director,
Mabel L. Eiseley. They were as follows:
Purcha se s
Through the Lambert Fund : Buchenwald Cart (painting) by Rico lebrun.
Through the Gilpin and lambert Funds: Medicine Show (painting) by Jack
Levine.
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Through the Te~ple Fund: Seabird and Fish (sculpture) by Koren der
Harootian.'
Through the Collections Fund: Portrait of Mr. Alfred G. B. Steel (oil) by
Sue May Gill. (The acquisition of this painting completed the Acad-.
emy's collection of portraits of all of its former Presidents).
Strong Man, <;Iown and Dancer (oil) by Everett Shinn.
Comestibles .(oil) by Dorothy Dennison Butler.
The Committee on Collections wishes to report the sale of the Portrait of
Lord Baltimore, by an Unknown Artist, to the Louis and Henrietta Blaustein
Foundation, Baltimore, Maryland. (This' portrait was eventually presented
to the Peale Museum, Baltimore, Maryland).
Gifts
Trees (oil) by Morris Kantor; Puerto Cortez, Gnarled Tree, Meadows and
Sky, Beach at Nantucket and Thicket (water colors), all by Mary
Hinchman Le Boiteaux; Sunflowers (color print) by Luigi Rist; Upland
Country (wood block) by Herbert Pullinger; Trees and Sky (lithograph)
by Stowe We~genroth; Flowers in Glass Jar (oil) by Arthur Carles:
all from Mrs. Thomas E. Drake (from a collection bequeathed to her
by her aunt, the late Margaretta S. Hinchman).
Boats, St. Pierre, Canada; Perce, Canada; and On the Morris River (water
colors) all by Paul Gill, from his wife Mrs. Sue May Gill.
Portrait of Edith Lisee; Seascape # J ; Seascape #2; all by Kent Wetherill;
Battersea Bridge .by Daniel Garber; Jersey Beach by Blossom Farley;
Gloucester by Everett L. Warner (all oil paintings), from Mrs. S. S.
White,3rd.
Quest (wood carving) by William S. Kendall, from the artist's wife. (This
item had been on deposit at the. Academy for a number of years
prior to its presentation).
Sir Joshua Reynolds and His Works (book) by William Cotton, from Dr.
Burton Chance.
Three photographs of the Academy's galleries, circa 1890, from Mr. Frank
S. Stone.
Portrait of William Beckford (oil) by Joseph Wright, from Mrs. R. Barclay
Scull. "
Moby Dick (oil) by Henry McCarter~ from Mrs. Morris Wenger.
' Admission card for a student party held in the Academy in 1894, from
Mr. James E. Grabitz.
Deed to the Academy's original property, from Mr. Ben Wolf.
Three Figures by Frederick Ca~te'llon; liEastef" of Tuscaloosa, Alabama by
, Howard Cook; Park at Coburg by Adolf Dehn; Old H,?use in Con14
nedicut by Wanda Gag; Bavarian Landscape by Andre Ruellan (all
original drawings); Dancing Goat (wood sculpture), all from Mr. Carl
Zigrosser:
Portrait of the Artist's Wife (oil) by Thomas P. Anshutz, from the artist's
son, Mr. Edward R. Anshutz. (This painting was part of the Academy's
150th Anniversary Exhibition in 1955, and among the works which
went to Europe)
Bequest of the late Helen W. Henderson of Pastel Portrait and Oil Portrait,
both of the late Miss Henderson, and both by Thomas P. Anshutz.
Sun, Sea and Sky (oil) by George Constant, from the Shilling Fund through
the kind offices of Mr. Walter Pach and Mr. Hugo Robus.
Devotion (oil) by Harry W. Watrous from Mr. Russell C. Graef in memory
of his wife, Jennie M. Graef.
Copy of an Academy Catalogue of 1870 from Mr. George l. Howe.
The following is a list of the works received, on indefinite loan, from the
Philadelphia Museum of Art. This transaction is discussed in detail in the
front part of this book under Report of the Officers and Board of Directors:
Still Life (oil) by William M. Harnett
. Sextant (oil) by Marsden Hartley
Still Life with Fish (oil) by Marsden Hartley
New Mexico Landscape (oil) by Marsden Hartley
Tyrol Series, No.7 (water color) by John Marin
Untitled II (Sea and Rocks) (water color) by John Marin
Red Hills and Bones (oil) by Georgia O'Keeffe
Peach and Glass (oil) by Georgia O'Keeffe
Tragedy (wood sculpture) by William Ru~h
Comedy (wood sculpture) by William Rush
Wisdom (wood sculpture) by William Rush
Justice (wood sculpture) by William Rush
LOANS
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, for a Retrospective
Exhibition of the work of Charles Burchfield, January 10th through February 26th, the work to be circulated under the spons.orship of the Whitney
Museum for one year thereafter, End of the Day.
Rhode Island School of Design, Rhode Island, for an exhibition of works
by Edward Hopper and John Corbino, from March 7th through March 28th,
East Wind over Weehawken by Edward Hopper, and Bather's Picnic by
John Corbino; also, for an exhibition from November 28th, 1956, through
January 2nd, 1957, The Great Oak of Ornans by Gustave Courbet.
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Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama, for an exhibition from
January 15th through February 11 th, Colonel Isaac Franks by Gilbert
Stuart.
Paul Rosenberg Gallery, New York City, for an exhibition of the work of
Gustave Courbet, from January 16th through February 11 th, The Great
Oak of Ornans.
The Peale Museum, Baltimore, Maryland, for an exhibition from February
12th through April 15th, Lord Cecil Calvert Baltimore (Second) by an Unknown Artist; Ariadne . by John Vanderlyn.
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia, for an exhibition of
portraits of the eight Virginia-born Presidents of the United States, from
January 19th to February 22nd, as a feature of the celebration of
"Virginia Heritage Month," James Monroe by Gilbert Stuart.
The American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, for its Benjamin Franklin
Anniversary Exhibition, from January 4th to April 20th, Benjamin Franklin
by Charles Willson Peale, Benjamin Franklin (mezzotint) by Titian Peale,
and Benjamin Franklin by David Martin.
The Artists' Gallery, New York City, for an exhibition from September 10th
through October 6th, Ugesie by Saul Baizerman; also, Still Life with
Green Bowl by Nicholas Vasilieff.
The Triton Press, New York City, for one month beginning March 9th, to
make a collotype photograph for inclusion in a limited edition of reproductions of the artist's work, Young America by Andrew Wyeth.
Venice Bienniale, from June 1 st through Odober 1 st, Arrival in New York
by William Thony.
Philadelphia Art Alliance 'Circus' Exhibition, during May, Medicine Show
by Jack Levine; Clown with Folded Arms by Walt Kuhn.
Cerebral Palsy Residence Home, Overbrook, Pennsylvania, from February
for an indefinite period, View of Chester Springs by Elizabeth F. Washington.
Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, Texas, for an exhibition from Odober
1 st to November 11 th, James Monroe and Mrs. James Madison (1804)
both by Gilbert Stuart.
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, for an exhibition titled liThe
Venetian Tradition," from November 9th, 1956, through January 1 st,
1957, Ariadne Asleep in the Island of Naxos by John Vanderlyn.
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, for an exhibition from
September 6th through October 3rd, and following that to the Cincinnati
Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio, for an exhibition from October 10th
through November 6th, Apples and Fox Grapes by Raphaelle Peale.
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Wilmington Society of the Fine Arts, Wilmington, Delaware, for an exhibition from OCtober 7th through November 4th, Midday Rest in New
England by J. Alden Weir; Mr. and Mrs. John W. Field by John Singer
Sargent; The 'Cello Player by Thomas Eakins; New England Woman by
Cecilia Beaux; North River by George Bellows.
Strawbridge & Clothier, Philadelphia, for window display during International Museum Week, from October 7th through October 14th, Deli-
cacies by Sarah Provan.
Atheneum of Philadel'p hia, from July 9th, for an indefinite period, Last
Sigh of the Moor by Peter Rothermel; Dead Game and Fruit; Dead Game
and Dog; Boar Hunt, all by Frans Snyder.
The Cosmopolitan Club, Philadelphia, from September 14th and November
30th, respectively, for an indefmite period, Dried Flowers by A. R. Kindler
and The River by Doris Kunzie .
The Wildenstein Gallery, New York City, for an exhibition for the benefit
of the blind, from October 31 st through December 1st, Birth of Venus by
Alexandre Cabane!.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. c., for an exhibition of the wor k
of George Bellows, from January 12th through February 17th, 1957 , North
River.
The Fidelity-Philadelphia Trust Company, one
p~inting each month for t heir
"Picture of the Month" exhibition of works from the Academy's permanent
collection.
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, for an exhibition there first, and
later overseas, under the auspices of the United States Information Agency,
from November 28th, 1956, through April, 1958, The Tides by Kenneth
Callahan.
Mabel L. Eiseley
CONSERVATION O F WORKS FROM
PERMAN ENT COLLECT I ON
The following twenty-one works from the permanent collection received
conservation attention during the year from Theodor Sigel, the Academy's
conservator and technical adviser:
A Little Girl by Cecilia Beaux
Still Life by William M. Chase
Prodigal Son by Russell Cowles
New Jersey Beach by Richard E. Farley
Autumn in Rockport by Helen Horter
Black Afternoon by Anna Warren Ingersoll
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Still Life by Jean Knox
End of 74th Street Crosstown Line by Reginald Marsh
Vase of Flowers by A. H. Maurer
Miss Anna Gibbon Johnson by John Neagle
Matilda Washington Dawson by John Neagle
Phillip Archelarius by John Paradise
The Artist in His Museum by Charles Willson Peale
George Washington at Princeton by Charles Willson Peale
Patrick Henry Before the House of Burgesses by Peter Rothermel
Hilah by Henry Rothman
Juggler by Raphael Sabatini
Boar Hunt by Frans Snyder
Eliza Willing Spring Peters by Thomas Sully
Portrait of James Madison by Unknown Artist
Companion of the Studio by Robert William Vonnoh
SCHOOLS
Increased enrollment can be reported in all departments in the Day,
Evening and Summer Schools. While it is gratifying to report a large
student body, we must register the fact that the studios are taxed almost
beyond their physical capacity, and the faculty is burdened with very
heavy responsibilities in giving individual attention to these many students.
The painting department continues with our critics carrying on their weekly
work. Mr. Pittman returned from Europe in December after using his
Guggenheim Award in travel and study in Spain, Italy and Greece. Mr.
Watkins has served on juries of Guggenheim, Fulbright and American
Academy in Rome awards to promising students . Mr. Stuempfig had a oneman show at Durlacher Brothers in November. Mr. Speight and Mr.
Weidner had one-man shows at the Community Art Center, Miami
Beach, Florida. Julius Bloch has been busy with portrait commissions in
addition to his regular studio work. John McCoy was granted a year's
leave of absence, commencing in the fall of 1956, to carryon a more
intensive creative painting schedule. The Mural Department, under the
direction of George Harding, assisted by John Hanlen, has been very
active in creating large scale murals for local sites. The Illustration Department, under the continued leadership of Edward Shenton, has added
a new assistant instructor in Richard Baldwin. Mr. Baldwin, a former
student, now working for N. W. Ayer, teaches advertising illustration,
and Mr. Shenton works with the students in literary illustration. The
Sculpture Department continues to grow under the guidance of Harry
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Rosin . Mr. Rosin is in the midst of the final plans for the erection of the
memorial to Connie Mack. Walker Hancock is enjol'ing study and work
as Sculptor-in-Residence at the American Academy in Rome, and will
return in the fall of 1957. Char les Rudy has been instructing in the department of stone and wood carving. J. Stephen Lewis, in his evening
studio, also has instructed the day students in sculpture in direct carving.
A significant addition to our sculpture department has been Dr. George
Kreier, Jr., who has been working with our students in casting work in
plastic as well as plaster. We feel that it is worth while for our students
to work with this unique medium in the early stages of its development.
Students of special merit from our public and parochial schools continue
to enjoy study here under funds from the City Council granted to the
Academy. Two City Council Scholarship students were awarded Cressons
in 1956.
After the Cresson competition and awards, the work of students from
the competition was sold because of the interest of Mr. and Mrs. David
Gwinn who, on May 18th, entertained friends of the Academy in the
exhibition galleries. This was the most successful party to date and 35
works of students were purchased, representing $2400 .00.
The Evening School of the Academy was organized under a new system
in _September of 1956. In the past, it was necessary for the students to
pay for five nights per week even though they did not intend to use all
five nights. Under our new system the students may enroll for one evening,
or up to five evenings. We continue to offer life and portrait models for
the students and the studio in carving for the sculptors. Our enrollment
more than tripled under the new system, and more day students take
advantage of the night school. Much of the credit fqr this reorganization
should go to Roswell Weidner.
We also had a series of six evenings with "Art and the Artist" as a special
subscription feature of our new evening program. The series, under the
skillful direction of Jack Bookbinder as moderator, brought into our galleries an entirely new group of local people. Because of the success of
this series another is planned for the fall of 1957.
Through the generosity of one of our Directors, the Faculty was enabled
to present $25.00 prizes to outstanding members of each studio at the
end of the first semester to encourage the work in each studio. The
same awards will also be available in 1957.
Wanamaker Store held a show of the work of present students, and
In the spring of 1956 the American Federation of Arts sponsored a traveling show of work of recent art school graduates entitled "Forecast." The
only awards went to three of our students - Gordon Russell, Thomas
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Yerxa and William Scharf. The Federation also sent a show of recent
graduates' work to leading art schools here and abroad - Jim lueders
had several of his paintings included in this show. In December, the John
Wanamaker Store held a show of the work of current students, and
various other smaller shows were held during the year in small galleries
in and around Philadelphia. Another former student, Gerard Negelspach,
was granted a scholarship to study in Mexico City by the Institute of International Education. Shows of student work continue to attract attention in
. the small gallery on the first floor.
Included in another section of the Annual Report are details of some
$27,000.00 in prizes and awards that went to our present students during 1956.
L ibr a r y
Books and clippings withdrawn
Accessions
1,421
55 by purchase
8 as gifts .
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Raymond T. Entenmann, Curator.
PUBLIC RELAY'IONS
During the current calendar year, the Academy enrolled 206 new members: 192 annual, 10 sustaining, 1 contributing, and 3 life. Twelve members increased their classifications; others sent contributions, with dues, all
amounting to $4485.00 in new funds, $1265.00 of which resulted from
the twelve increased rates.
While our membership has more than doubled in the past ten years, it
has not yet reached the goal of 2000 which we had hoped it would attain
by 1955. Many current members do keep us very much in mind with suggestions for new ones. We appreciate this. We cannot have too many
actively interested friends, and we might also keep in mind that funds
from this source have become an increasingly important part of our
annual income.
Four excellent programs of chamber music (recorded elsewhere in this
Report) were presented during this, our eighth consecutive season of these
events, and the seventh under the able musical direction of Vladimir
Sokoloff, as a project of this department. They must have partial financial
support outside the Academy budget. We again record our appreciation
not only to the musicians but to the other friends who made these events
possible.
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As we look through our press-clipping books, and the list of radio o r television announcements and appearances, we realize that there have b een
many occasions for considerable joy as the result of some particul arl y
fine review, informative news or photographic story. It seems but natura l
that our spirits should be lifted then as these direct contacts with the public
have much to do with upswings in gallery attendance.
However, with the reduction, over the past few years, in the number of
daily and Sunday newspapers published in PhiladelphLa, the task of keeping the general public informed of our activities (members receive. direct
notices) has become increasingly difficult. The higher costs of newsprint
and services to those papers which continue to function often has meant
curtailed space for news or reviews of cultural events. If is really for the
purpose of enriching the cultural side of the readers' lives that an institution such as our own exists. Therefore, the value of cooperation f rom the
various publicity media - press, periodicals, radio, television - however curtailed, can hardly be over-estimated. We never cease to be very
grateful when it comes, for these agents of communication have been and
must continue to be the real liaison between the Academy and the public.
This department also continues its efforts to cooperate with all departments of the Academy - galle ; ies, schools, Women ' s Committee, Fellow ship, et cetera -
in all activities that require it.
Elizabeth Z. Swenson
BUILDINGS
MA IN BUILDINGS , BROAD AND CHERRY STREETS
The moving of our prints, chiefly from the room on the north side of our
building which houses our School Office, has made alterations possible in
that section. The result is a greatly improved and more cheerful office, and
an additional classroom . We must, however, look at this classroom as a
temporary adjustment which has relieved something of the space pressure
in our School Department, but which is for from ideal. It will, we hope,
be a temporary arrangement which may be bettered in the future .
In addition to the improvements to the School Office area, we accomplished the refurbishing of the central gallery area and the Main Office.
WOMEN1S COMMITTEE
The first event this year under our auspices was a Subscription Party held
at the Academy on Friday afternoon, Febru~ry 10th, from 4 to 6:30, a s
a feature of the 151 st Annual Exhibition of Oil Painting and Sculpture.
Tea and cocktails were served for $2.50 each subscription . The response
was very gratifying and a good number attended .
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On March 16th, members of the Committee were hostesses at the tea and
private view of exhibitions by two young painters - Ben Kamihira and
Jim C. Lueders - iii the Philadelphia Artists' Galleries.
Nothing that this Committee has done since its inception in 1950 has received more enthusiastic approval than the Tour of Nine Artists' Studios in
the New Hope Area held on May 23rd. Tickets were sold for $5 per
person, exclusive of transportation and luncheon, for the benefit of our
Student Aid Fund. There was a splendid diversity both in the work each is
known for as well as in the studios of the artists visited: Daniel Garber,
Charles Child, Alden Wicks, John Folinsbee, Paul Froelich and Louise
Pershing (also a dealer), all painters; Harry Rosin, sculptor; Valentine
D'Ogries, stained glass artist; George Nakashima, contemporary furniture designer. Studios were open from 11 to 4 o'clock and a gracious
welcome was given all who visited them. The various eating places in the
area were alerted for extra visitors that day. Reports indicate that the
guests seemed well distributed among them and were satisfactorily provided for. Advance publicity and ticket sales were both good, but we
had not quite expected the rush for tickets that took place on the day
of the Tour. Regular ticket supplies were soon exhausted in several
studios and substitutes had to be improvised. A substantial sum was
realized to be used for the assistance of those among our students who
have emergency needs. We are still receiving inquiries as to when we
will arrange another Tour - even being urged to ' do so soon.
We collaborated with the Women's Committee of the Philadelphia Museum
of Art on November 16th from 4:30 to 6:30 when the Museum and the
Academy opened an exhibition Great Prints 1440-1940 from the large
collection transferred to the Museum by the Academy on long-term loan.
The Retrospective Memorial Exhibition of Paintings and Graphics by Reginald Marsh, and exhibitions by sculptors Paul A. Greenwood and Henry
Mitchell, the latter two in the Philadelphia Artists' Galleries, were opened
on November 30th from 4 to 6 o'clock. Again, Committee members were
hostesses.
For the private views of the Academy's two major exhibitions of the year,
members of the Committee presided at the refreshment tables.
The Committee is taking an increasingly active interest in the welfare of
the Academy's students. A sub-committee has been formed consisting of
Mrs. Elias Wolf, chairman, Mrs. John G. Bartol, Jr., and Mrs. Lawrence
M. C. Smith to carryon this very important work.
The following were elected members of the Committee during the year:
Mesdames John G. Bartol, Jr., Richardson Dilworth, H. Lea Hudson, Samuel
W. Pray, R. Barclay Scull, Elias Wolf, and Miss Anna K. Stimson.
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THE FEL.LOWSHIP
The Fellowship (Alumni) was organized in 1897, principally to foster a
spirit of fraternity among former and present students of the Academy in
the interests of art.
An important annual event is its exhibition, which, in recent years, has
become national in scope. This year, the works of a number of former
Academy students, who have become outstanding artists, were included.
As is customary, a token payment of $350.00 was made fo the Academy
for the use of its Galleries and attending services.
During the Exhibition of Living Philadelphia Artists, on November 8th, at
2:30 P.M., Dorothy Grafly gave an interesting talk. This event was arranged by the Fellowship.
Several student representatives served with the Board of Managers to
help keep the Board informed concerning the welfare and needs of students. Recommendations were made to students for teaching positions
and for other opportunities.
Mr. Walker Hancock was President until the election of May 7 th, 1956, '
when Mr. Roswell Weidner assumed office.
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, 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 a rtists, or
improve the Loan Collection from which works are currently on exhibition
in many 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 Gold Medal Award in the Annual Fellowship
Exhibitions.
Mrs. A. Bruce Gill is Chairman and Treasurer.
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CONSOLIDATED TREASURER1S REPORT
September 7, 7955 to August 37, 7956
IN COME
Art Gallery and Exhibitions
$ 28,748.03
School
50,857.09
Trust Funds
81,990.60
Membership Dues .
15,720.00
City Appropriation
25,000.00
Total
$202,315.72
EXPENSES
Art Gallery and Exhibitions
$129,745.74
School
77,193.82
$206,939.56
Total
Net Operating Loss
$
4,623.84
$
5,619.86
A PPEND IX
Contributions (unrestricted)
Profit on sale of General Fund Investments
1,002.84
Profit on sale of Arch Street property
4,562.52
Total
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.
$ 11,185.22
CONTRIBUTIONS FOR TH E CALENDAR YEAR 1956
Unrestricted:
$
Mr. James P. Magill .
Eli zabeth R. R. Howell
Dr. Clifford B. Farr
Sydney E. Martin .
Mrs. Francis J. Scott
574.86
15.00
10.00
300.00
25.00
$
924.86
Miscellaneous:
James P. Magill -
Benton Spruance Ex. Preview
Mrs. Henry V. Greenough Alfred G . B. Steel .
Academy Fellowship -
Annual
Exhibition
.
Emmanuel Klein -
Walter E. Baum Memorial
Joseph G. Butler -
purchase of paintings for
permanent collection
Mrs. Herbert C. Morris Anna K. Stimson -
concerts
.
1 share of Academy stock
William Clarke Mason -
165.00
purchase of portrait of
dues
500.00
350.00
5.00
500.00
73.32
12.50
199.50
$ 1,805.32
School :
Student Aid Fund:
Anonymous
Anonymous
Anonymous
Mrs. Herbert C. Morris
Mrs. James H. Beal .
Edward D. Balken
Girard Trus t Corn Exchange Bank
Student Welfare Council
Anonymous
Rothschild Foundation
Women's
Committee
Mrs. Lionel F. Levy .
George D. Widener - Scholarships
Mabel Gill- Mabel Wilson Woodrow Prize
Walter Stuempfig Mae Diffenbaugh Prize
Sculpture Prize
Principal of Catharine Grant
Fund
David Gwinn -
Eakins Student Prize
David Gwinn -
Student Party
Anonymous - Student Travel Scholarships
William Clarke Mason - Photographic enlarger
Total
299.86
50.00
50.00
100.00
100.00
].(l0.00
150.00
175.00
300.00
800.00
134.74
300.00
2,000.00
50.00
50.00
William Clarke Mason -
Night School Prizes .
William Clarke Mason -
Catharine Grant Memorial Prize
William Clarke Mason -
Honorable Mentions
500.00
100.00
391.38
3,000.00
186.75
120.00
100.00
500.00
$ 9,557.73
$12,287.91
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NEW MEMBERS
Enrolled during 7956, including those
who increased their classification
* Patron
" Miss Fanny Travis Cochran
* Fe llows
Miss Mae Diffenbaugh
" Mrs. Thomas E. Drake
Henry S. Drinker
" David Gwinn
"Mrs.
"Mrs .
"Miss
" Mrs.
Herbert C. Morris
R. Barclay Scull
Anna Katherine Stimson
Morris Wenger
Life Members
" Mrs.
., Mrs.
Mrs.
" Mrs.
Donald Alexander
Thomas Graham
Lionel Levy
Howell Pollock
" Joseph Kennard Skilling
Paul Wescott
Mrs. Paul Wescott
Contributing Member
Miss Mary A. Ru msey
Sustaining Members
" Mrs. J. Aubrey McCurdy
Crawford C. Madeira
Philadelphia Water Color Club
" Mrs. S. Emlen Stokes
Mrs. Harold E. Tippett
" Mrs. Harry S. Valentine
" Mrs. C. Newbold Welsh
** Ralph W. Whitaker
Mrs. Charles Henry Woodward
' .' Alfred Bendiner
" Mrs. Henry H. Bonnell
William H. Bulkeley
"Roy B. Davis
Mrs. W. Oakley Hermance
Mrs. Frederick S. Kirk
Charles H. Krumbhaar, Jr.
Mrs. Lewis J. Laventhol
William J. McCarthy, Jr.
Annual Members
Abel, Mrs. Alex
Allen, Mrs. Clifford P., Jr.
Anthony, Mrs. W.
Bard, Miss Sara
Barth, Miss Amy
Basyl, Arthur W. L.
Bentz, Charles
Berkowitz, Leon
Berkowitz, Mrs. Leon
Bettison, Mrs. Lindley Smyth
Bongartz, Richard R.
Bortin, George
Buehler, C. Jones
Buskey, F. A.
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Canaday, John E.
Cannon, Mrs. Arthur R.
Clarke, Dr. Francis P.
Cochran, Mrs. W . O.
Cohen, Mrs. Morton
Costanza, John
Dallett, Mrs. Francis J .
Dowland, Miss Edna
Dugan, Miss Ann
Dull, Christian L.
Dunn, Mrs. T. Evans, Jr.
Outten, Mrs. Eugene
Eddy, Mrs. P. D., Jr.
Egnal, Michael H.
Evans, Harold
Evans, Louis
Evans, Mrs. William W.
Fife, Mrs. Charles A.
Fischer, Mrs. Kermit
Fugett, Joseph R., Jr.
Furness, George Wood
Geesey, Titus C.
Gibson, Philip R.
Gillen, Miss Mary T.
Glendening, Frank S.
. Goldman, Herman
Gravdahl, Mrs. Ragnvald
Guibor, Charles
Hamilton, Mrs. John H.
Hannum, Mrs. Edward T.
Harbeson, Paul C.
Harnwell, G. P.
Harootunian, Berj
Hatling , Mrs. Kenneth
Heller, Mrs. Harry
Herring, Mrs. James M.
Horstmann, Francis X.
Huber, Mrs. Thomas W.
Hudson, Mrs. H. Lea
Hug hes, Mrs. Joseph
Hunter, Barton H.
Ingber, Mrs. David A.
Ireland, Mrs. George
Jenkins, Mrs. H. Laurence
Johnson, Charles M.
Jones, Miss Helen M.
Kahn, Louis I.
Kaiser, Mrs. Paul R.
Kaplan, Mrs. David
Katze , Mrs. Alma
Kendrick, Richard
Kirschbaum, Alan B.
Klauder, Miss Anna Marie
Klauder, Miss Kathryn L.
Klebanoff, Benjamin
Kline, Mrs. Lawrence C.
Kramrisch, Dr. Stella
Krell, Mrs. Edna Hill
Kurtz, Charles
Kynett, H. H.
Lawrence, Miss Gladys C.
Lee, P. Blair
Lefferts, Mrs. Walter
Lehr, Mrs. Carl B.
leidner, Mrs. Milton
Leopold, Dr. Irving H.
Levy, Lou is E.
Levy, Miss Violet I.
Lewis, Mrs. Eugene John
Liss, Leonard
Livingston, J. A.
Lizars, Mrs. Rawson Goodsir
Low, Mrs. Howe
Lowenstein, Emanuel D.
Lucas, Miss Caroline Louise
Lukens, Mrs. William W.
Luria, Mrs. Herbert l.
Lutman, Mrs. Fran k C.
Lutz, Herbert B.
Mackey, B. H.
MacNeill, Henry T.
Magaziner, Mrs. Louis
Mancill, Frank H.
Manganaro, Mrs. Richard H.
Materi, Mrs. Joseph
Mathewson, Mrs. R. W.
Maury, Mrs. Austin G.
McKenna, Joseph G.
Meanor, Edward D.
Measuroll, Mrs. Davie;! W.
Meisler, Dr. Edward C.
Merriam, Mrs. John W.
Meyer, Martin T.
Mitchell, Mrs. Allan G .
Moffett, Mrs. Warren
Mohrfeld, Mrs. Herbert H.
Montague, Mrs. Harry
Montgomery, D. Cortlandt
Morrell, C. Michael
Moss, Mrs . Emanuel
Moss ; Mrs. Joseph
Moyerman, Samuel
Muller, Mrs. John H.
Myers, Dr. David
Myers, Mrs. Edwa rd B.
Nicholas, Mrs. Frederick S.
Nock, Miss Anna W.
Norman, Mrs. Paul D.
Norris, Mrs. Charles c., Jr.
O'Brien, Mrs. Joseph l.
O'Neill, Wesley R. M.
Pearson, Charles H.
Pearson, Mrs. Joseph T.
Pennell, Mrs. H. Barrett
Pew, Mrs. John G., Jr.
Phelps, Mrs. William E.
Polin, Dr. Claire
Pollock, Edwin Morgan
Pomerantz, Benjamin
Pray, Mrs. Samuel W.
Prichett, Mrs. Peter
Reed, Mrs. Edward A.
Richman, Stanley l.
Ri m mel, Mrs. Charles c., Jr.
Roberts, Mrs. Frederick M.
Rockey, Mrs. Charles Snowden
Rogers, Mrs. Theodore O.
Ross, Miss Sophia l.
Sanford, David H.
Sanson, Aaron I., 3rd
Satinsky, I. Erwin
'Schaffer, Harry
Schaffer, Miss Sophia R.
Scull, Mrs. Theodore C.
Segall, Miss Gloria F.
Sessions, Mrs. Robert E.
Seymour, Mrs. Frank E.
Shaw, Mrs. Howard D.
Shipkin, Irving
Simes, Henry S.
Sipley, Dr. Louis W.
Slade, Dr. David
Siagen, John A.
Sliwinski, Richard J.
Smith, Miss Carolyn F.
Smolens, Maxwell
Snyder, Mrs. Eli
Sordoni, Mrs. A. J., Jr.
Stasinski, Joseph
Stevens, Lawrence M.
Stewart, Miss Susan B.
Stokes, Mrs. Francis J.
Stone, Mrs. A. G.
Storm, Mrs. G. l.
Suckle, William V.
Sullivan, Joseph H.
Taft, Mrs . W . Allen, Jr.
Thayer, Mrs. Harry E. T.
Thompson, Rodman E., Jr.
Tittman, Mrs. George F.
Troth, Mrs. Celeste H.
Tumen, Dr. Henry
Vassalo, Anthony J.
Vinicoff, Paul J.
Walter, Mrs. Otis
Warner, Dr. Miriam
Weber, Mrs. Livia Mann
Weisberg, Mrs. Samuel
West, Mrs . Grace B.
Wexler, Morris M.
White, Mrs. William
Wiggins, Norman S.
Wiley, Mrs. Ethel M.
Wilson, Dr. Elizabeth D.
Wood, William P.
Wright, Mrs. Harrison B.
Yasinow, Dr. J. B.
Zachary, Frank
• Elected in perpetuity
• ' Classification increased
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MEMBERSHIP
Year ly 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 Benef a c;to rs a re enrolled in perpetuity.)
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oldest art · institution in the country and one of the most important in the
community and the nation. Founded in 1805 and chartered in 1806, its
origin actually dates from the efforts made in 1791 by Charles Willson
Peale to organize a school for the fine arts in Philadelphia.
In the Academy's schools, many distinguished American painters, sculptors
and illustrators have been trained, and its students of -today rank with
the best.
In its galleries are shown two of America's major annual art exhibitions;
American Painting and Sculpture; Water Colors and Prints; other special
exhibitions; and the Academy's permanent collection, representing a
cross-section of American art from the early eighteenth century through
its current acquisitions.
Members receive notices of all activities (concerts, lectures, motion pictures), invitations to private views, catalogues of exhibitions and schools,
the Annual Report, a discount on a rt works purchased from Academysponsored professional exhibitions, and have use of the art reference
library.
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FINE ARTS
BROAD AND CHERRY STS.
•
151st ANNUAL REPORT
1956
PHILADELPHIA
Cover: Seabird and Fish by Koren Der Haraotian
Temple Fund Purchase 1956
The One-Hundred and Fifty-first
Annual Report
of
THE PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY of the FINE ARTS
FOR THE YEAR
1956
Presented to the Meeting of the Stockholders
of the Academy on February 4, 1957
OFFICERS
President
Vice-President
Treasurer
Secretary and Director
John F. Lewis, Jr.
Henry S. Drinker
C. Newbold Taylor
Joseph T. Fraser, Jr.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Mrs. Leonard T. Beale
*Mrs. Richardson Dilworth
Henry S. Drinker
David Gwinn
R. Sturgis Ingersoll
Arthur C. Kaufmann
*Mrs. E. Hart McMichael
James P. Magill
*Fredric R. Mann
Sydney E. Martin
William Clarke Mason
George P. Orr
Howard C. Petersen
George B. Roberts
John Stewart
C. Newbold Taylor
Sydney L. Wright
• Ex-officio
STANDING COMMITTEES
COMMITTEE ON COLLECTIONS
AND EXHIBITION
George B. Roberts, Chairman
Mrs. Leonard T. Beale
R. Sturgis Ingersoll
Sydney E. Martin
COMMITTEE ON FIN ANCE
John Stewart
C. Newbold Taylor, Chairman
James P. Magill
COMMITTEE ON INSTRUCTION
William Clarke Mason, Chairman
C. Newbold Taylor
Mrs. Leonard T. Beale
David Gwinn
SOLICITOR
Maurice B. Saul
WOMEN1S COMMITTE.E
Mrs.
Mrs.
Mrs.
Mrs.
Mrs.
Mrs .
Mrs.
Mrs.
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Mrs. E. Hart McMichael, Chairman
John G. Bartol, Jr.
Mrs . H. Lea Hudson
Mrs.
Miss
Leonard T. Beale
Mrs. Arthur C. Kaufmann
Mrs .
Francis T. Chambers Mrs. John F. Lewis, Jr.
Joseph S. Clark, Jr.
Mrs.
Mrs. Samuel W. Pray
Mrs.
Richardson Dilworth Mrs. George B. Roberts
Emlen P. Etting
Mrs. Julius Rosenwald, -II
Mrs.
John A. Griswold
Mrs. R. Barclay Scull
Mrs.
David Gwinn
Mrs. Lawrence M. C. Smith Mrs.
John F. Steinman
Anna K. Stimson
Boudinot Stimson
Robert Straus z-Hupe
Franklin C. Watkins
Walter H. West
Elias Wolf
Sydney L. Wright
STAFF
GENERAL
Joseph T. Fraser, Jr.
Mabel L. Eiseley
Charles J. Marsh
Ann Evans
August Viilu
E. Elizabeth Fermqnis
Frances M. Vanderpool
Elizabeth Z. Swenson .
. Director and Secretary
Assistant Director
Assistant to the Secretary
Secretary to the Director
Comptroller
Receptionist
Exhibition and Membership Clerk
. Director of Public Relations
and Membership
SCHOOLS
(day and evening)
Raymond T. Entenmann
Catherine R. ' Newbold
Martha K. Schick .
. Curator
Secretary to the Curator
Librarian
FACULTY .
George Harding
Francis Speight
*Walker Hancock
Roswell Weidner
Harry Rosin
Edward Shenton
Franklin C. Watkins
*John W. McCoy
Julius Bloch
Walter Stuempfig
Hobson Pittman
Morris Blackburn
John Hanlen
tOaniel Garber
tRoy C. Nuse
William M. Campbell
Philip Aliano
Edmond J. Farris
Jack Bookbinder
Peter Suffredini
Theodor Siegl
Wallace Peters
:j:Ben Kamihira
:j:Jim C. lueders
:j:James S. Hanes
J. Stephen lewis
George J. Kreier, Jr.
§Henry Peacock
Allen Harris
• Leave of absence 1956·57
tProfessional Adviser
:tAssistants in evening school
§Substitute 1956·57
( Summer)
Francis Speight
Roswell Weidner
Morris Blackburn
Wallace Peters
Jim C. lueders
BUILDING
Isaiah J. Sellers, Superintendent
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REPORT OF THE OFFICERS AND
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
In writing the Report for this year, 1956, following that in which we recorded our great 150th Anniversary celebration, we cannot, of course,
report activities comparable in importance. However, the life of the Academy has gone on with great vitality and the renown of that celebration
is a continuing boon.
The single most important event in 1956 was the exchange of material
between the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Academy. It had been
evident for many ,years that the Academy was not completely fulfilling
its obligation to its print collection. That collection, made up chiefly
through three large
bequ~sts
from John S. Phillips, John T. Morris and _
John Frederick Lewis, numbers something over 67,000 items, the g-reat
majority of which are European. As the Academy's print collection numbers so little American work, it has had limited usefulness to this institution, which is dedicated to American art. As the Academy has been,
and still is, without means to give the collection the necessary curatorial
attention and care, it seemed desirable to arrange a transfer which would
accomplish more ideal relationships between two sister institutions and,
at the same time, achieve a very real professional objective. Philadelphia
is fortunate to have one of the great world print authorities in Carl
Zig rosser, Associate Director of the Philadelphia Museum.
Conditions surrounding the bequests prohibited any change of title. This
same condition applied to a number of items of Americana in the Philadelphia Museum. It was therefore agreed that our print collection should
be transferred to the Museum on indefinite loan and, in return, items of
American origin which would be useful to us would be transferred to us
on the same basis. In addition to this actual physical transfer, which
could not accomplish a balance of like values, the Museum will return
to the Academy all of the American items in its print collection with a
completely new index. Thus, with /the American items returned in exemplary order, the Academy can build in the categories of prints, drawings
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and water colors which have, up to this time, been almost neglected,
although such collecting is a very worthy objective under our American
dedication. The list of paintings and sculpture moved from the Museum
to the Academy will be given later in this Report. We look with great
pride and satisfaction at this transaction, which sets an example throughout our nation concerning ideal cooperation between sister institutions to
forward the highest professional standards and exemplary use of material.
Another transaction having great bearing on the physical situation in our
School was the sale, within the year, of our property: at 1834 Arch Street.
This old private residence had served the Academy for over thirty years as
the building in which our portrait and still-life classes were held. There
had always been grave handicaps concerning the distance our students
had to travel in all kinds of weather to work in these studios. The old
house had reached that point where it needed major renovations, and
its heating and plumbing systems were at the end of their usefulness.
This property is in an area which, though long blighted, is now on the
upgrade chiefly because of the tremendous improvements in the central
city area. The sale, therefore, was made at a time which seemed financially
advantageous. The giving up of this property, however, forced all of our
classes into the building at Broad and Cherry Streets. The return of excellent enrollment in the last two or three ' years means that our physical
plant is being used quite beyond its ideal capacity. There is no doubt
that some plan for better housing of our School cannot be put far into
the future as, most certainly, it is the vital lifestream of our existence.
Once again, we are happy to report the continuance of the City of Philadelphia's annual appropriation of $25,000.00. As ex-officio member of
our Board, Mrs. Joseph S. Clark, Jr., was replaced by Mrs. Richardson
Dilworth.
This Report also gives us ideal opportunity to pay particular tribute to the
members of our loyal staff who, though small in number, give generously
of their abilities to carryon our ambitious program. We must report, with
regret, the resignation in the summer of Mr. Mayland T. McAvoy who, as
Sl!perintendent of our building, served the Academy with utmost diligence
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from 1934 to 1956. We are fortunate to be able to report, however, that
Mr. Isaiah J.Seliers, for many years Mr. McAvoy's assistant, has assumed
larger responsibilities and is making a most exemplary record .
We are. ~ver conscious of the tremendous importance of the make-up of
our faculty, and we should like to close this Report with a tribute to all
of those men who have made the Academy's illustrious history, but particularly to those who presently serve us. We are sure that no other school of
the fine arts in the United States can boast of a finer faculty of creatively
active professional artists.
JOHN F. LEWIS, JR., President
JOSEPH T. FRASER, JR., Director
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EXHIBITIONS
THE 1 51 st ANNUAL EXHIBITION OF
OIL PAINTING AND SCU,LPTURE
The 151 st Annual Exhibition of Oil Painting and Sculpture, made ,up entirely by invitation, opened with a Private View on Saturday, January 21 st,
in the galleries of the Academy, and continued through February 26th.
The 61 invited artists were chosen by the Academy's faculty, each member
submitting a list of artists whose work he considered to be of important
exhibition caliber. (The resulting choices represent the names receiving the
greatest group support). Three artists from our faculty were similarly
chosen by their own group to act as the Jury of Award. As a bow to our
fifteen faculty members, Gallery M was reserved in order to show one
example of the work of each, selected by the artist himself. Most of the
180 paintings and 59 sculptures included in the exhibition were shown
for the first time in Philadelphia.
PROFE SS IO NA L J U RY O F AW ARD
Hobson Pittman
Harry Rosin
Franklin Watkins
PR I ZES A ND A W ARDS
Awarded by Jury of Award:
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Temple Gold Meda/---:- Ben Shahn for Chicago (painting).
J. Henry Schiedt Memorial Prize ($3~0) - Ivan le lorraine Albright
for There is Man in God (painting).
Honorable Mentions in PaintingStuart Davis for Colonial Cubism
Jack levine for The Judge
Sigmund Menkes for Still Life with Blue Vase
George D. Widener Memorial Gold Meda/- Theodore Roszak for
Hound of Heaven (sculpture!;
Alfred G. B. Steel Memorial Prizr ($300) - Jacques lipchitz for
Mother and Child (sculpture).
Honorable Mention in SculptureOronzio Maldarelli for Nahomi
Awarded by Academy's Committee on Exhibition:
Walter Lippincott Prize ($300)-Max Weber' for The Comb (painting).
Ten works totaling $17,732.54 were sold during the exhibition. The total
attendance was 10,881.
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FELLOWSHIP EXHIBITION
The partly-invited, partly-juried Fellowship Annual Exhibition of Oil Painting, Sculpture, Water Colors and Graphics which comprised some 160
items, opened in the galleries of the Academy with a Private View on
March 8th, and continued through April 8th. Two other shows, both
Fellowship-sponsored, and consisting of an Exhibition of Student Work
and a Memorial Exhibition of Sculpture by Yoshimatsu Onaga (a former
Academy student), were also on view during this period.
JURIES FOR FELLOWSHIP EXHIBITION
OIL PAINTING
Jane Piper
Henry Peacock
Thomas Yerxa
WATER COLORS AND GRAPHICS
Eleanor Arnett
Thomas Meehan
Benton Spruance
SCULPTURE
J. Wallace Kelly
Edward F. Hoffman, 3rd
PRIZES AND AWARDS
The Juries awarded the following:
Harrison S. Morris Prize divided -
Sam Fried for Four Actors (water
color! $50.00; Oliver Nuse for Dragger (gouache) $50.00
Honorable Mentions: Morris Blackburn for Fish Out (engraving and
etching) and Homer Johnson for Mother and Child (gouache).
Fellowship Gold Medal Award ($50.00) - Angelo Frudakis for Por-
trait of a Woman (direct carving on marble).
May Audubon Post Prize ($50.00) - Julian Levi for Stay Sail (oil).
Caroline Gibbons Granger Memorial Prize ($50.00) - Norman Carton for High Noon (oil).
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Student Prizes ($25.00 each) - John Matsui Hori for Winter Day
(painting); Leonard Agrons for Caryatid (sculpture).
Honorable Mentions: Jerome Shore for Zanathan (print); Vahan Amadouni for Emotions (painting).
Six works, amounting to $649.00, were sold, and the total attendance
was 3,060.
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PHILADELPHIA ARTISTS1 GALLERY
Two young painters, Ben Kamihira and Jim C. Lueders (both forme r
Academy students), were honored with one-man exhibitions, opening
with a Private View on March 16th, in the Philadelphia Artists' galleries
of the Academy, and closing on April 8th. The exhibitions, comprised
entirely of oils, included still lifes, landscapes, figure studies and figure
paintings. Two works (one by each artist), totaling $500.00, were sold.
The total attendance was 2,140.
In conjunction with the Reginald Marsh Exhibition (discussed later in this
Report), the Academy also staged during the same period - November
30th through December 30th - two one-man shows of the work of Henry
Mitchell and Paul A. Greenwood, both Philadelphia sculptors. Six works,
amounting to $383 .00, were sold, and the combined attendance for all
three shows was 1,522.
PHILADELPHIA ART . TEACHERS 1 ASSOCIATION
EXHIBITION
The Philadelphia Art Teachers' Association Exhibition was on view in the
galleries from April 13th through April 29th,, ' and consisted of fifty-two
items. The Academy's recent acquisitions were also shown in Galleries A
and M during the same period.
The Jury of Award, made up of Abraham Hankins, Jane Piper and Herman
Gundesheimer, awarded the following:
Art Teachers' Association Plaque - Marion Cohee
Honorable Mentions - Hester Cunningham
Patricia Evans
Thomas J. Gaughan
Mary Marshall Flower Award -
Frederick Gill
O~e item, amounting to $49 .00 was sold. The total attendance was 1,040.
THE STUDENT EXHIBITION
Twenty Traveling Scholarships and other prizes totaling $27,650.00 were
awarded to students of The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts by the
Chairman of its Committee on Instruction, William Clarke Mason, at special
exercises held on May 16th at 4 P.M. After the address, given this year by
Abr,aham Rattner, an Academy alumnus and recipient of a Cresson Travel-
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ing Scholarship in 1920, the following awards were made on recommendation of the Faculty:
William Emlen Cresson Memorial European Traveling Scholarships,
(Est. 1902) ($1400 each):
Painting;
Vahan Amadouni
Harry Eng
Gwendolyn Gimple
William McK. Hoffman
A. John Kammer, Jr.
Sculpture: Francis Acquaye
June K. Niblock
Thomas Parish
Hilbert S. Sabin, Jr.
Raymond Saunders
Walter C. Thomas, Jr.
Lewis S. Ware Memorial European Traveling Scholarship, (Est. 1938)
($1400 each):
Sculpture: Carlo Travaglia
J. Henry Schiedt Memorial Traveling Scholarships, (Est. 1949)
($1200 each):
Painting:
Donald H. Abrams
David K. De Long
John W. Reilly
Eric J. Ryan, Jr.
Louis B. Sloan
William C. Utermohlen, Jr.
Mural Decoration:
Lorraine Malach
John R. Manning
Honorable Mention: Phoebe Hwang
Charles Toppan Prizes (Est. 1882):
First Prize ($300) - Donald H. Abrams
Second Prize ($200) - Howard Kerwick
Packard Prizes (Est. 1899):
First Prize ($30) - Sally Laird
Second Prize ($20) - Daniel D. Miller
Honorable Mentions - Hilbert S. Sabin
Barbara Brown
Stewardson Prize (Est. 1901) ($100), awarded on March 16th by a
Jury of Sculptors consisting of Carl Schmitz and Raphael Sabatini to
Francis Acquaye; Honorable Mentions to Newtown A. Harrison;
Michael Piper.
Henry J. Thouron Prizes (Est. 1903):
Awarded
Awarded
Awarded
Awarded
Awarded
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by
by
by
by
the Faculty ($50) - John R. Manning
Instructors ($50) - A. John Kammer, Jr.
Instructors ($25) - Gunnar W. Zorn, Jr.
Students ($25) - Mimi Boynton
Students ($25) - Louis Faracchio
Ramborger Prize (Est. 1911) ($25) - Millicent Krouse
Honorable Mention - Christine McGinnis
Stimson Prize (Est. 1917) ($100), awarded on November 16th by a
Jury composed of Jean de Marco, to Sally Laird.
Thomas Eakins Memorial Prize (Est. 1951) ($100) Raymond
Saunders
Honorable Mentions - Dorothy Grant
Eva Odlivak
John W. Reilly
Victor Lasuchin
Darwin L. Au
Lila Agnes Kennedy Hill Memorial Prize (Est. 1952) ($50) Travaglia
Carlo
The Print Club's Graphics Prize (Est. 1953), consisting of one year's
membership in the Club, and the use of its workshop facilitiesMillicent Krouse
Honorable Mention - Edward G. Reustow
The John Wanamaker Store Water Color Prize (Est. 1954), consisting
of art materials to the value of $50 - Herbert Lautman
Honorable Mention - Louis Faracchio
Lux Prize in Graphics (Est. 1955 in memory of John R. Conner) ($50)
Gary D. Decker
Catharine Grant Memorial Prize (Est. 1955) ·($100) Raymond
Saunders
Honorable Mentions ($50 each) -'- Eva Odlivak
Louis Sloan
Class Prizes:
Construction ($25) - Dorothy Grant
Honorable Mentions - Millicent Krouse
John W. Chumley
Antique Cast Drawing ($25) - Lawrence Glasson
Honorable Mention - Linda M. Downum
Perspective Class Prize ($20), awarded by William M. Campbell - Edward G. Reustow
Honorable Mention - June K. Niblock
Evening School Prize for Portrait ($25) - Henry Kloczynski
Evening School Prize for Life ($25) - Walt~r Novoshielski
35 works, amounting to $2,400.00, were sold. 1,418 people attended
the exhibition, which opened on May 16th and closed on June 3rd.
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LIVING ' PHILADELPHIA ARTISTS' EXHIBITION
Special honor was paid local artists by the Academy as it opened an
Exhibition of P~inting and Sculpture by Living Artists in the Philadelphia
Area Represented in the Academy's Permanent Collection on October 20th,
following a Private View on October 19th. Each artist was represented by
two works; one from the Academy's permanent collection, and one of his,
or her, own choice. This exhibition continued through November 18th.
Sales amounted to $4,245.00, and the total attendance was 3,943.
REGINALD MARSH RETROSPECTIVE MEMORIAL EXHIBITION
Fo"owing the death of Reginald Marsh in 1954, the Whitney Museum of
American Art assembled an exhibition of 160 examples of his prodigious
output of paintings, water colors, drawings, graphics, plus photographs
of studies for his murals in the Post Office Building in Washington, and
the New York Custom House. The exhibition opened there in 1955, and
since then about half of it traveled across the country to several important
museums. This exhibition had its final showing at the Academy, where it
opened with a Private View on November 30th, continued through December 30th, and was then returned to the Whitney Museum.
SPECIAL EVENTS
The following special events took place in -the Academy during the calendar year 1956:
COSMOPOLITAN and FRANKLIN INN CLUBS
February 17th
CONCERTS January 27th
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Members of the Cosmopolitan Club and the
Franklin Inn Club held a joint meeting in the
galleries in the evening.
8:30 P.M.
Works by Haydn, Mozart, Ravel and Blochperformed by the Philadelphia Chamber Players;
Jacob Krachmalnick, Veda Reynolds, violinists;
Harry Zaratzian, violist; Lome Munroe, cellist;
Vladimir Sokoloff, pianist.
Works for Four Hands at One Piano by Mozart,
Schubert, Mendelssohn, Debussy and DvorakEleanor and Vladimir Sokoloff, pianists.
March 23rd
Works by Locatelli, Vitali, Castaldi, Mennini,
Elgar and Holst - String Virtuosi of Philadelphia, Louis Vyner conductor.
November 16th Sonatas by Bach, Handel and Hindemith - Kenton Terry, flute; Vladimir Sokoloff, piano .
All of the concerts were free to the public, and the programs were presented by the Academy in collaboration with the Music Performance Trust
Fund of the American Phonograph Industry, and through the courtesy of
Local 77, American Federation of Musicians. Miss Elizabeth Z. Swenson,
the Academy' s Director of Public Relations, and Mr. Vladimir Sokoloff
cooperated, once again, in planning these concerts.
GALLERY TALKS - 2:30 P.M.
Dorothy Grafly, critic, publisher
January 25th
February 2nd
John W. McCoy, painter, teacher
February 9th
Hobson Pittman, painter, teacher
February 16th
Morris Blackburn, painter, teacher
February 23rd
Harry Rosin, sculptor, teacher
November 8th
Dorothy Grafly, critic, publisher
LECTURES - 8: 15 P.M. (Six evenings, devoted to "Understanding
and Enjoyment of Art," were presented by the Academy as a feature
of its evening school program; Jack Bookbinder, moderator):
October 30th
Henry Mitchell
November 13th
Robert Gwathmey
November 27th
Francis Speight
December 4th
Wharton Esherick
December 11 th
Martin Jackson
December 18th
Alden Wicks
TOTAL ATIENDANCE IN THE GALLERIES DURING 1956: 27,522
February 24th
ACQUISITIONS
All of the details concerning registering purchases and gifts, as well as
those required for each loan were taken care of by the Assistant Director,
Mabel L. Eiseley. They were as follows:
Purcha se s
Through the Lambert Fund : Buchenwald Cart (painting) by Rico lebrun.
Through the Gilpin and lambert Funds: Medicine Show (painting) by Jack
Levine.
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Through the Te~ple Fund: Seabird and Fish (sculpture) by Koren der
Harootian.'
Through the Collections Fund: Portrait of Mr. Alfred G. B. Steel (oil) by
Sue May Gill. (The acquisition of this painting completed the Acad-.
emy's collection of portraits of all of its former Presidents).
Strong Man, <;Iown and Dancer (oil) by Everett Shinn.
Comestibles .(oil) by Dorothy Dennison Butler.
The Committee on Collections wishes to report the sale of the Portrait of
Lord Baltimore, by an Unknown Artist, to the Louis and Henrietta Blaustein
Foundation, Baltimore, Maryland. (This' portrait was eventually presented
to the Peale Museum, Baltimore, Maryland).
Gifts
Trees (oil) by Morris Kantor; Puerto Cortez, Gnarled Tree, Meadows and
Sky, Beach at Nantucket and Thicket (water colors), all by Mary
Hinchman Le Boiteaux; Sunflowers (color print) by Luigi Rist; Upland
Country (wood block) by Herbert Pullinger; Trees and Sky (lithograph)
by Stowe We~genroth; Flowers in Glass Jar (oil) by Arthur Carles:
all from Mrs. Thomas E. Drake (from a collection bequeathed to her
by her aunt, the late Margaretta S. Hinchman).
Boats, St. Pierre, Canada; Perce, Canada; and On the Morris River (water
colors) all by Paul Gill, from his wife Mrs. Sue May Gill.
Portrait of Edith Lisee; Seascape # J ; Seascape #2; all by Kent Wetherill;
Battersea Bridge .by Daniel Garber; Jersey Beach by Blossom Farley;
Gloucester by Everett L. Warner (all oil paintings), from Mrs. S. S.
White,3rd.
Quest (wood carving) by William S. Kendall, from the artist's wife. (This
item had been on deposit at the. Academy for a number of years
prior to its presentation).
Sir Joshua Reynolds and His Works (book) by William Cotton, from Dr.
Burton Chance.
Three photographs of the Academy's galleries, circa 1890, from Mr. Frank
S. Stone.
Portrait of William Beckford (oil) by Joseph Wright, from Mrs. R. Barclay
Scull. "
Moby Dick (oil) by Henry McCarter~ from Mrs. Morris Wenger.
' Admission card for a student party held in the Academy in 1894, from
Mr. James E. Grabitz.
Deed to the Academy's original property, from Mr. Ben Wolf.
Three Figures by Frederick Ca~te'llon; liEastef" of Tuscaloosa, Alabama by
, Howard Cook; Park at Coburg by Adolf Dehn; Old H,?use in Con14
nedicut by Wanda Gag; Bavarian Landscape by Andre Ruellan (all
original drawings); Dancing Goat (wood sculpture), all from Mr. Carl
Zigrosser:
Portrait of the Artist's Wife (oil) by Thomas P. Anshutz, from the artist's
son, Mr. Edward R. Anshutz. (This painting was part of the Academy's
150th Anniversary Exhibition in 1955, and among the works which
went to Europe)
Bequest of the late Helen W. Henderson of Pastel Portrait and Oil Portrait,
both of the late Miss Henderson, and both by Thomas P. Anshutz.
Sun, Sea and Sky (oil) by George Constant, from the Shilling Fund through
the kind offices of Mr. Walter Pach and Mr. Hugo Robus.
Devotion (oil) by Harry W. Watrous from Mr. Russell C. Graef in memory
of his wife, Jennie M. Graef.
Copy of an Academy Catalogue of 1870 from Mr. George l. Howe.
The following is a list of the works received, on indefinite loan, from the
Philadelphia Museum of Art. This transaction is discussed in detail in the
front part of this book under Report of the Officers and Board of Directors:
Still Life (oil) by William M. Harnett
. Sextant (oil) by Marsden Hartley
Still Life with Fish (oil) by Marsden Hartley
New Mexico Landscape (oil) by Marsden Hartley
Tyrol Series, No.7 (water color) by John Marin
Untitled II (Sea and Rocks) (water color) by John Marin
Red Hills and Bones (oil) by Georgia O'Keeffe
Peach and Glass (oil) by Georgia O'Keeffe
Tragedy (wood sculpture) by William Ru~h
Comedy (wood sculpture) by William Rush
Wisdom (wood sculpture) by William Rush
Justice (wood sculpture) by William Rush
LOANS
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, for a Retrospective
Exhibition of the work of Charles Burchfield, January 10th through February 26th, the work to be circulated under the spons.orship of the Whitney
Museum for one year thereafter, End of the Day.
Rhode Island School of Design, Rhode Island, for an exhibition of works
by Edward Hopper and John Corbino, from March 7th through March 28th,
East Wind over Weehawken by Edward Hopper, and Bather's Picnic by
John Corbino; also, for an exhibition from November 28th, 1956, through
January 2nd, 1957, The Great Oak of Ornans by Gustave Courbet.
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Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama, for an exhibition from
January 15th through February 11 th, Colonel Isaac Franks by Gilbert
Stuart.
Paul Rosenberg Gallery, New York City, for an exhibition of the work of
Gustave Courbet, from January 16th through February 11 th, The Great
Oak of Ornans.
The Peale Museum, Baltimore, Maryland, for an exhibition from February
12th through April 15th, Lord Cecil Calvert Baltimore (Second) by an Unknown Artist; Ariadne . by John Vanderlyn.
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia, for an exhibition of
portraits of the eight Virginia-born Presidents of the United States, from
January 19th to February 22nd, as a feature of the celebration of
"Virginia Heritage Month," James Monroe by Gilbert Stuart.
The American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, for its Benjamin Franklin
Anniversary Exhibition, from January 4th to April 20th, Benjamin Franklin
by Charles Willson Peale, Benjamin Franklin (mezzotint) by Titian Peale,
and Benjamin Franklin by David Martin.
The Artists' Gallery, New York City, for an exhibition from September 10th
through October 6th, Ugesie by Saul Baizerman; also, Still Life with
Green Bowl by Nicholas Vasilieff.
The Triton Press, New York City, for one month beginning March 9th, to
make a collotype photograph for inclusion in a limited edition of reproductions of the artist's work, Young America by Andrew Wyeth.
Venice Bienniale, from June 1 st through Odober 1 st, Arrival in New York
by William Thony.
Philadelphia Art Alliance 'Circus' Exhibition, during May, Medicine Show
by Jack Levine; Clown with Folded Arms by Walt Kuhn.
Cerebral Palsy Residence Home, Overbrook, Pennsylvania, from February
for an indefinite period, View of Chester Springs by Elizabeth F. Washington.
Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, Texas, for an exhibition from Odober
1 st to November 11 th, James Monroe and Mrs. James Madison (1804)
both by Gilbert Stuart.
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, for an exhibition titled liThe
Venetian Tradition," from November 9th, 1956, through January 1 st,
1957, Ariadne Asleep in the Island of Naxos by John Vanderlyn.
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, for an exhibition from
September 6th through October 3rd, and following that to the Cincinnati
Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio, for an exhibition from October 10th
through November 6th, Apples and Fox Grapes by Raphaelle Peale.
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Wilmington Society of the Fine Arts, Wilmington, Delaware, for an exhibition from OCtober 7th through November 4th, Midday Rest in New
England by J. Alden Weir; Mr. and Mrs. John W. Field by John Singer
Sargent; The 'Cello Player by Thomas Eakins; New England Woman by
Cecilia Beaux; North River by George Bellows.
Strawbridge & Clothier, Philadelphia, for window display during International Museum Week, from October 7th through October 14th, Deli-
cacies by Sarah Provan.
Atheneum of Philadel'p hia, from July 9th, for an indefinite period, Last
Sigh of the Moor by Peter Rothermel; Dead Game and Fruit; Dead Game
and Dog; Boar Hunt, all by Frans Snyder.
The Cosmopolitan Club, Philadelphia, from September 14th and November
30th, respectively, for an indefmite period, Dried Flowers by A. R. Kindler
and The River by Doris Kunzie .
The Wildenstein Gallery, New York City, for an exhibition for the benefit
of the blind, from October 31 st through December 1st, Birth of Venus by
Alexandre Cabane!.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. c., for an exhibition of the wor k
of George Bellows, from January 12th through February 17th, 1957 , North
River.
The Fidelity-Philadelphia Trust Company, one
p~inting each month for t heir
"Picture of the Month" exhibition of works from the Academy's permanent
collection.
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, for an exhibition there first, and
later overseas, under the auspices of the United States Information Agency,
from November 28th, 1956, through April, 1958, The Tides by Kenneth
Callahan.
Mabel L. Eiseley
CONSERVATION O F WORKS FROM
PERMAN ENT COLLECT I ON
The following twenty-one works from the permanent collection received
conservation attention during the year from Theodor Sigel, the Academy's
conservator and technical adviser:
A Little Girl by Cecilia Beaux
Still Life by William M. Chase
Prodigal Son by Russell Cowles
New Jersey Beach by Richard E. Farley
Autumn in Rockport by Helen Horter
Black Afternoon by Anna Warren Ingersoll
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Still Life by Jean Knox
End of 74th Street Crosstown Line by Reginald Marsh
Vase of Flowers by A. H. Maurer
Miss Anna Gibbon Johnson by John Neagle
Matilda Washington Dawson by John Neagle
Phillip Archelarius by John Paradise
The Artist in His Museum by Charles Willson Peale
George Washington at Princeton by Charles Willson Peale
Patrick Henry Before the House of Burgesses by Peter Rothermel
Hilah by Henry Rothman
Juggler by Raphael Sabatini
Boar Hunt by Frans Snyder
Eliza Willing Spring Peters by Thomas Sully
Portrait of James Madison by Unknown Artist
Companion of the Studio by Robert William Vonnoh
SCHOOLS
Increased enrollment can be reported in all departments in the Day,
Evening and Summer Schools. While it is gratifying to report a large
student body, we must register the fact that the studios are taxed almost
beyond their physical capacity, and the faculty is burdened with very
heavy responsibilities in giving individual attention to these many students.
The painting department continues with our critics carrying on their weekly
work. Mr. Pittman returned from Europe in December after using his
Guggenheim Award in travel and study in Spain, Italy and Greece. Mr.
Watkins has served on juries of Guggenheim, Fulbright and American
Academy in Rome awards to promising students . Mr. Stuempfig had a oneman show at Durlacher Brothers in November. Mr. Speight and Mr.
Weidner had one-man shows at the Community Art Center, Miami
Beach, Florida. Julius Bloch has been busy with portrait commissions in
addition to his regular studio work. John McCoy was granted a year's
leave of absence, commencing in the fall of 1956, to carryon a more
intensive creative painting schedule. The Mural Department, under the
direction of George Harding, assisted by John Hanlen, has been very
active in creating large scale murals for local sites. The Illustration Department, under the continued leadership of Edward Shenton, has added
a new assistant instructor in Richard Baldwin. Mr. Baldwin, a former
student, now working for N. W. Ayer, teaches advertising illustration,
and Mr. Shenton works with the students in literary illustration. The
Sculpture Department continues to grow under the guidance of Harry
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Rosin . Mr. Rosin is in the midst of the final plans for the erection of the
memorial to Connie Mack. Walker Hancock is enjol'ing study and work
as Sculptor-in-Residence at the American Academy in Rome, and will
return in the fall of 1957. Char les Rudy has been instructing in the department of stone and wood carving. J. Stephen Lewis, in his evening
studio, also has instructed the day students in sculpture in direct carving.
A significant addition to our sculpture department has been Dr. George
Kreier, Jr., who has been working with our students in casting work in
plastic as well as plaster. We feel that it is worth while for our students
to work with this unique medium in the early stages of its development.
Students of special merit from our public and parochial schools continue
to enjoy study here under funds from the City Council granted to the
Academy. Two City Council Scholarship students were awarded Cressons
in 1956.
After the Cresson competition and awards, the work of students from
the competition was sold because of the interest of Mr. and Mrs. David
Gwinn who, on May 18th, entertained friends of the Academy in the
exhibition galleries. This was the most successful party to date and 35
works of students were purchased, representing $2400 .00.
The Evening School of the Academy was organized under a new system
in _September of 1956. In the past, it was necessary for the students to
pay for five nights per week even though they did not intend to use all
five nights. Under our new system the students may enroll for one evening,
or up to five evenings. We continue to offer life and portrait models for
the students and the studio in carving for the sculptors. Our enrollment
more than tripled under the new system, and more day students take
advantage of the night school. Much of the credit fqr this reorganization
should go to Roswell Weidner.
We also had a series of six evenings with "Art and the Artist" as a special
subscription feature of our new evening program. The series, under the
skillful direction of Jack Bookbinder as moderator, brought into our galleries an entirely new group of local people. Because of the success of
this series another is planned for the fall of 1957.
Through the generosity of one of our Directors, the Faculty was enabled
to present $25.00 prizes to outstanding members of each studio at the
end of the first semester to encourage the work in each studio. The
same awards will also be available in 1957.
Wanamaker Store held a show of the work of present students, and
In the spring of 1956 the American Federation of Arts sponsored a traveling show of work of recent art school graduates entitled "Forecast." The
only awards went to three of our students - Gordon Russell, Thomas
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Yerxa and William Scharf. The Federation also sent a show of recent
graduates' work to leading art schools here and abroad - Jim lueders
had several of his paintings included in this show. In December, the John
Wanamaker Store held a show of the work of current students, and
various other smaller shows were held during the year in small galleries
in and around Philadelphia. Another former student, Gerard Negelspach,
was granted a scholarship to study in Mexico City by the Institute of International Education. Shows of student work continue to attract attention in
. the small gallery on the first floor.
Included in another section of the Annual Report are details of some
$27,000.00 in prizes and awards that went to our present students during 1956.
L ibr a r y
Books and clippings withdrawn
Accessions
1,421
55 by purchase
8 as gifts .
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Raymond T. Entenmann, Curator.
PUBLIC RELAY'IONS
During the current calendar year, the Academy enrolled 206 new members: 192 annual, 10 sustaining, 1 contributing, and 3 life. Twelve members increased their classifications; others sent contributions, with dues, all
amounting to $4485.00 in new funds, $1265.00 of which resulted from
the twelve increased rates.
While our membership has more than doubled in the past ten years, it
has not yet reached the goal of 2000 which we had hoped it would attain
by 1955. Many current members do keep us very much in mind with suggestions for new ones. We appreciate this. We cannot have too many
actively interested friends, and we might also keep in mind that funds
from this source have become an increasingly important part of our
annual income.
Four excellent programs of chamber music (recorded elsewhere in this
Report) were presented during this, our eighth consecutive season of these
events, and the seventh under the able musical direction of Vladimir
Sokoloff, as a project of this department. They must have partial financial
support outside the Academy budget. We again record our appreciation
not only to the musicians but to the other friends who made these events
possible.
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As we look through our press-clipping books, and the list of radio o r television announcements and appearances, we realize that there have b een
many occasions for considerable joy as the result of some particul arl y
fine review, informative news or photographic story. It seems but natura l
that our spirits should be lifted then as these direct contacts with the public
have much to do with upswings in gallery attendance.
However, with the reduction, over the past few years, in the number of
daily and Sunday newspapers published in PhiladelphLa, the task of keeping the general public informed of our activities (members receive. direct
notices) has become increasingly difficult. The higher costs of newsprint
and services to those papers which continue to function often has meant
curtailed space for news or reviews of cultural events. If is really for the
purpose of enriching the cultural side of the readers' lives that an institution such as our own exists. Therefore, the value of cooperation f rom the
various publicity media - press, periodicals, radio, television - however curtailed, can hardly be over-estimated. We never cease to be very
grateful when it comes, for these agents of communication have been and
must continue to be the real liaison between the Academy and the public.
This department also continues its efforts to cooperate with all departments of the Academy - galle ; ies, schools, Women ' s Committee, Fellow ship, et cetera -
in all activities that require it.
Elizabeth Z. Swenson
BUILDINGS
MA IN BUILDINGS , BROAD AND CHERRY STREETS
The moving of our prints, chiefly from the room on the north side of our
building which houses our School Office, has made alterations possible in
that section. The result is a greatly improved and more cheerful office, and
an additional classroom . We must, however, look at this classroom as a
temporary adjustment which has relieved something of the space pressure
in our School Department, but which is for from ideal. It will, we hope,
be a temporary arrangement which may be bettered in the future .
In addition to the improvements to the School Office area, we accomplished the refurbishing of the central gallery area and the Main Office.
WOMEN1S COMMITTEE
The first event this year under our auspices was a Subscription Party held
at the Academy on Friday afternoon, Febru~ry 10th, from 4 to 6:30, a s
a feature of the 151 st Annual Exhibition of Oil Painting and Sculpture.
Tea and cocktails were served for $2.50 each subscription . The response
was very gratifying and a good number attended .
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On March 16th, members of the Committee were hostesses at the tea and
private view of exhibitions by two young painters - Ben Kamihira and
Jim C. Lueders - iii the Philadelphia Artists' Galleries.
Nothing that this Committee has done since its inception in 1950 has received more enthusiastic approval than the Tour of Nine Artists' Studios in
the New Hope Area held on May 23rd. Tickets were sold for $5 per
person, exclusive of transportation and luncheon, for the benefit of our
Student Aid Fund. There was a splendid diversity both in the work each is
known for as well as in the studios of the artists visited: Daniel Garber,
Charles Child, Alden Wicks, John Folinsbee, Paul Froelich and Louise
Pershing (also a dealer), all painters; Harry Rosin, sculptor; Valentine
D'Ogries, stained glass artist; George Nakashima, contemporary furniture designer. Studios were open from 11 to 4 o'clock and a gracious
welcome was given all who visited them. The various eating places in the
area were alerted for extra visitors that day. Reports indicate that the
guests seemed well distributed among them and were satisfactorily provided for. Advance publicity and ticket sales were both good, but we
had not quite expected the rush for tickets that took place on the day
of the Tour. Regular ticket supplies were soon exhausted in several
studios and substitutes had to be improvised. A substantial sum was
realized to be used for the assistance of those among our students who
have emergency needs. We are still receiving inquiries as to when we
will arrange another Tour - even being urged to ' do so soon.
We collaborated with the Women's Committee of the Philadelphia Museum
of Art on November 16th from 4:30 to 6:30 when the Museum and the
Academy opened an exhibition Great Prints 1440-1940 from the large
collection transferred to the Museum by the Academy on long-term loan.
The Retrospective Memorial Exhibition of Paintings and Graphics by Reginald Marsh, and exhibitions by sculptors Paul A. Greenwood and Henry
Mitchell, the latter two in the Philadelphia Artists' Galleries, were opened
on November 30th from 4 to 6 o'clock. Again, Committee members were
hostesses.
For the private views of the Academy's two major exhibitions of the year,
members of the Committee presided at the refreshment tables.
The Committee is taking an increasingly active interest in the welfare of
the Academy's students. A sub-committee has been formed consisting of
Mrs. Elias Wolf, chairman, Mrs. John G. Bartol, Jr., and Mrs. Lawrence
M. C. Smith to carryon this very important work.
The following were elected members of the Committee during the year:
Mesdames John G. Bartol, Jr., Richardson Dilworth, H. Lea Hudson, Samuel
W. Pray, R. Barclay Scull, Elias Wolf, and Miss Anna K. Stimson.
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THE FEL.LOWSHIP
The Fellowship (Alumni) was organized in 1897, principally to foster a
spirit of fraternity among former and present students of the Academy in
the interests of art.
An important annual event is its exhibition, which, in recent years, has
become national in scope. This year, the works of a number of former
Academy students, who have become outstanding artists, were included.
As is customary, a token payment of $350.00 was made fo the Academy
for the use of its Galleries and attending services.
During the Exhibition of Living Philadelphia Artists, on November 8th, at
2:30 P.M., Dorothy Grafly gave an interesting talk. This event was arranged by the Fellowship.
Several student representatives served with the Board of Managers to
help keep the Board informed concerning the welfare and needs of students. Recommendations were made to students for teaching positions
and for other opportunities.
Mr. Walker Hancock was President until the election of May 7 th, 1956, '
when Mr. Roswell Weidner assumed office.
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, 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 a rtists, or
improve the Loan Collection from which works are currently on exhibition
in many 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 Gold Medal Award in the Annual Fellowship
Exhibitions.
Mrs. A. Bruce Gill is Chairman and Treasurer.
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CONSOLIDATED TREASURER1S REPORT
September 7, 7955 to August 37, 7956
IN COME
Art Gallery and Exhibitions
$ 28,748.03
School
50,857.09
Trust Funds
81,990.60
Membership Dues .
15,720.00
City Appropriation
25,000.00
Total
$202,315.72
EXPENSES
Art Gallery and Exhibitions
$129,745.74
School
77,193.82
$206,939.56
Total
Net Operating Loss
$
4,623.84
$
5,619.86
A PPEND IX
Contributions (unrestricted)
Profit on sale of General Fund Investments
1,002.84
Profit on sale of Arch Street property
4,562.52
Total
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.
$ 11,185.22
CONTRIBUTIONS FOR TH E CALENDAR YEAR 1956
Unrestricted:
$
Mr. James P. Magill .
Eli zabeth R. R. Howell
Dr. Clifford B. Farr
Sydney E. Martin .
Mrs. Francis J. Scott
574.86
15.00
10.00
300.00
25.00
$
924.86
Miscellaneous:
James P. Magill -
Benton Spruance Ex. Preview
Mrs. Henry V. Greenough Alfred G . B. Steel .
Academy Fellowship -
Annual
Exhibition
.
Emmanuel Klein -
Walter E. Baum Memorial
Joseph G. Butler -
purchase of paintings for
permanent collection
Mrs. Herbert C. Morris Anna K. Stimson -
concerts
.
1 share of Academy stock
William Clarke Mason -
165.00
purchase of portrait of
dues
500.00
350.00
5.00
500.00
73.32
12.50
199.50
$ 1,805.32
School :
Student Aid Fund:
Anonymous
Anonymous
Anonymous
Mrs. Herbert C. Morris
Mrs. James H. Beal .
Edward D. Balken
Girard Trus t Corn Exchange Bank
Student Welfare Council
Anonymous
Rothschild Foundation
Women's
Committee
Mrs. Lionel F. Levy .
George D. Widener - Scholarships
Mabel Gill- Mabel Wilson Woodrow Prize
Walter Stuempfig Mae Diffenbaugh Prize
Sculpture Prize
Principal of Catharine Grant
Fund
David Gwinn -
Eakins Student Prize
David Gwinn -
Student Party
Anonymous - Student Travel Scholarships
William Clarke Mason - Photographic enlarger
Total
299.86
50.00
50.00
100.00
100.00
].(l0.00
150.00
175.00
300.00
800.00
134.74
300.00
2,000.00
50.00
50.00
William Clarke Mason -
Night School Prizes .
William Clarke Mason -
Catharine Grant Memorial Prize
William Clarke Mason -
Honorable Mentions
500.00
100.00
391.38
3,000.00
186.75
120.00
100.00
500.00
$ 9,557.73
$12,287.91
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NEW MEMBERS
Enrolled during 7956, including those
who increased their classification
* Patron
" Miss Fanny Travis Cochran
* Fe llows
Miss Mae Diffenbaugh
" Mrs. Thomas E. Drake
Henry S. Drinker
" David Gwinn
"Mrs.
"Mrs .
"Miss
" Mrs.
Herbert C. Morris
R. Barclay Scull
Anna Katherine Stimson
Morris Wenger
Life Members
" Mrs.
., Mrs.
Mrs.
" Mrs.
Donald Alexander
Thomas Graham
Lionel Levy
Howell Pollock
" Joseph Kennard Skilling
Paul Wescott
Mrs. Paul Wescott
Contributing Member
Miss Mary A. Ru msey
Sustaining Members
" Mrs. J. Aubrey McCurdy
Crawford C. Madeira
Philadelphia Water Color Club
" Mrs. S. Emlen Stokes
Mrs. Harold E. Tippett
" Mrs. Harry S. Valentine
" Mrs. C. Newbold Welsh
** Ralph W. Whitaker
Mrs. Charles Henry Woodward
' .' Alfred Bendiner
" Mrs. Henry H. Bonnell
William H. Bulkeley
"Roy B. Davis
Mrs. W. Oakley Hermance
Mrs. Frederick S. Kirk
Charles H. Krumbhaar, Jr.
Mrs. Lewis J. Laventhol
William J. McCarthy, Jr.
Annual Members
Abel, Mrs. Alex
Allen, Mrs. Clifford P., Jr.
Anthony, Mrs. W.
Bard, Miss Sara
Barth, Miss Amy
Basyl, Arthur W. L.
Bentz, Charles
Berkowitz, Leon
Berkowitz, Mrs. Leon
Bettison, Mrs. Lindley Smyth
Bongartz, Richard R.
Bortin, George
Buehler, C. Jones
Buskey, F. A.
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Canaday, John E.
Cannon, Mrs. Arthur R.
Clarke, Dr. Francis P.
Cochran, Mrs. W . O.
Cohen, Mrs. Morton
Costanza, John
Dallett, Mrs. Francis J .
Dowland, Miss Edna
Dugan, Miss Ann
Dull, Christian L.
Dunn, Mrs. T. Evans, Jr.
Outten, Mrs. Eugene
Eddy, Mrs. P. D., Jr.
Egnal, Michael H.
Evans, Harold
Evans, Louis
Evans, Mrs. William W.
Fife, Mrs. Charles A.
Fischer, Mrs. Kermit
Fugett, Joseph R., Jr.
Furness, George Wood
Geesey, Titus C.
Gibson, Philip R.
Gillen, Miss Mary T.
Glendening, Frank S.
. Goldman, Herman
Gravdahl, Mrs. Ragnvald
Guibor, Charles
Hamilton, Mrs. John H.
Hannum, Mrs. Edward T.
Harbeson, Paul C.
Harnwell, G. P.
Harootunian, Berj
Hatling , Mrs. Kenneth
Heller, Mrs. Harry
Herring, Mrs. James M.
Horstmann, Francis X.
Huber, Mrs. Thomas W.
Hudson, Mrs. H. Lea
Hug hes, Mrs. Joseph
Hunter, Barton H.
Ingber, Mrs. David A.
Ireland, Mrs. George
Jenkins, Mrs. H. Laurence
Johnson, Charles M.
Jones, Miss Helen M.
Kahn, Louis I.
Kaiser, Mrs. Paul R.
Kaplan, Mrs. David
Katze , Mrs. Alma
Kendrick, Richard
Kirschbaum, Alan B.
Klauder, Miss Anna Marie
Klauder, Miss Kathryn L.
Klebanoff, Benjamin
Kline, Mrs. Lawrence C.
Kramrisch, Dr. Stella
Krell, Mrs. Edna Hill
Kurtz, Charles
Kynett, H. H.
Lawrence, Miss Gladys C.
Lee, P. Blair
Lefferts, Mrs. Walter
Lehr, Mrs. Carl B.
leidner, Mrs. Milton
Leopold, Dr. Irving H.
Levy, Lou is E.
Levy, Miss Violet I.
Lewis, Mrs. Eugene John
Liss, Leonard
Livingston, J. A.
Lizars, Mrs. Rawson Goodsir
Low, Mrs. Howe
Lowenstein, Emanuel D.
Lucas, Miss Caroline Louise
Lukens, Mrs. William W.
Luria, Mrs. Herbert l.
Lutman, Mrs. Fran k C.
Lutz, Herbert B.
Mackey, B. H.
MacNeill, Henry T.
Magaziner, Mrs. Louis
Mancill, Frank H.
Manganaro, Mrs. Richard H.
Materi, Mrs. Joseph
Mathewson, Mrs. R. W.
Maury, Mrs. Austin G.
McKenna, Joseph G.
Meanor, Edward D.
Measuroll, Mrs. Davie;! W.
Meisler, Dr. Edward C.
Merriam, Mrs. John W.
Meyer, Martin T.
Mitchell, Mrs. Allan G .
Moffett, Mrs. Warren
Mohrfeld, Mrs. Herbert H.
Montague, Mrs. Harry
Montgomery, D. Cortlandt
Morrell, C. Michael
Moss, Mrs . Emanuel
Moss ; Mrs. Joseph
Moyerman, Samuel
Muller, Mrs. John H.
Myers, Dr. David
Myers, Mrs. Edwa rd B.
Nicholas, Mrs. Frederick S.
Nock, Miss Anna W.
Norman, Mrs. Paul D.
Norris, Mrs. Charles c., Jr.
O'Brien, Mrs. Joseph l.
O'Neill, Wesley R. M.
Pearson, Charles H.
Pearson, Mrs. Joseph T.
Pennell, Mrs. H. Barrett
Pew, Mrs. John G., Jr.
Phelps, Mrs. William E.
Polin, Dr. Claire
Pollock, Edwin Morgan
Pomerantz, Benjamin
Pray, Mrs. Samuel W.
Prichett, Mrs. Peter
Reed, Mrs. Edward A.
Richman, Stanley l.
Ri m mel, Mrs. Charles c., Jr.
Roberts, Mrs. Frederick M.
Rockey, Mrs. Charles Snowden
Rogers, Mrs. Theodore O.
Ross, Miss Sophia l.
Sanford, David H.
Sanson, Aaron I., 3rd
Satinsky, I. Erwin
'Schaffer, Harry
Schaffer, Miss Sophia R.
Scull, Mrs. Theodore C.
Segall, Miss Gloria F.
Sessions, Mrs. Robert E.
Seymour, Mrs. Frank E.
Shaw, Mrs. Howard D.
Shipkin, Irving
Simes, Henry S.
Sipley, Dr. Louis W.
Slade, Dr. David
Siagen, John A.
Sliwinski, Richard J.
Smith, Miss Carolyn F.
Smolens, Maxwell
Snyder, Mrs. Eli
Sordoni, Mrs. A. J., Jr.
Stasinski, Joseph
Stevens, Lawrence M.
Stewart, Miss Susan B.
Stokes, Mrs. Francis J.
Stone, Mrs. A. G.
Storm, Mrs. G. l.
Suckle, William V.
Sullivan, Joseph H.
Taft, Mrs . W . Allen, Jr.
Thayer, Mrs. Harry E. T.
Thompson, Rodman E., Jr.
Tittman, Mrs. George F.
Troth, Mrs. Celeste H.
Tumen, Dr. Henry
Vassalo, Anthony J.
Vinicoff, Paul J.
Walter, Mrs. Otis
Warner, Dr. Miriam
Weber, Mrs. Livia Mann
Weisberg, Mrs. Samuel
West, Mrs . Grace B.
Wexler, Morris M.
White, Mrs. William
Wiggins, Norman S.
Wiley, Mrs. Ethel M.
Wilson, Dr. Elizabeth D.
Wood, William P.
Wright, Mrs. Harrison B.
Yasinow, Dr. J. B.
Zachary, Frank
• Elected in perpetuity
• ' Classification increased
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MEMBERSHIP
Year ly 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 Benef a c;to rs a re enrolled in perpetuity.)
A membership in the Academy helps to support and affiliates you with the
oldest art · institution in the country and one of the most important in the
community and the nation. Founded in 1805 and chartered in 1806, its
origin actually dates from the efforts made in 1791 by Charles Willson
Peale to organize a school for the fine arts in Philadelphia.
In the Academy's schools, many distinguished American painters, sculptors
and illustrators have been trained, and its students of -today rank with
the best.
In its galleries are shown two of America's major annual art exhibitions;
American Painting and Sculpture; Water Colors and Prints; other special
exhibitions; and the Academy's permanent collection, representing a
cross-section of American art from the early eighteenth century through
its current acquisitions.
Members receive notices of all activities (concerts, lectures, motion pictures), invitations to private views, catalogues of exhibitions and schools,
the Annual Report, a discount on a rt works purchased from Academysponsored professional exhibitions, and have use of the art reference
library.
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The Academy is open weekdays (except Mondays) from 10 A.M. to 5 P.M.;
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