156th Annual Report for the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

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156th Annual Report for the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

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THE PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE
FINE ARTS

BROAD AND CHERRY STREETS

156th

ANNUAL
196 1

REPORT



PHILADELPHIA

Cover: Purple Vetch and Buttercups by Charles E. Burchfield
Lambert Fund purchase 1961.

The One ·Hundred and Fifty-sixth
Annual Report
of
THE PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS

FOR THE YEAR 1961

Presented to the Meeting of the Stockholders
of the Academy on February 5, 1962.

OFFICERS
President
. Vice President
Treasurer
. Secretary

Frank T. Howard
Alfred Zantzinger
C. Newbold Taylor
Joseph T. Fraser, Jr.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Mrs. leonard T. Beale
John F. lewis, Jr.
Henry S. Drinker
James P. Magill
David Gwinn
Sydney E. Martin
Mrs. Hart McMichael*
J. Welles Henderson
Frank T. Howard (ex officio) Henry S. McNeil
R. Sturgis Ingersoll
John W. Merriam
C. Earle Miller
Arthur C. Kaufmann
Henry B. Keep

Mrs. Herbert C. Morris
George B. Roberts
Henry W. Sawyer, 3rd
John Stewart
C. Newbold Taylor
Franklin C. Watkins
William Coxe Wright
Alfred Zantzinger

Ex Officio
Representing Women's Committee
Mrs. Elias Wolf (to May 23)
Representing Women's Committee
Mrs. John G. Bartol, Jr. (from May 23)
Representing City Council
Mrs. Richardson Dilworth, Fredric R. Mann
Representing Faculty
Francis Speight (to June 12)
. Representing Faculty
John W. McCoy (from June 12)
* Resigned October, 1961.

STANDING COMMITTEES
COMMITTEE ON COLLECTIONS AND EXHIBITIONS

Franklin C. Watkins, Chairman
Mrs. leonard T. Beale
John F. lewis, Jr.
Henry B. Keep
William Coxe Wright

Alfred Zantzinger
Frank T. Howard (ex officio)

COMMITTEE ON FINANCE

C. Newbold Taylor, Chairman

James P. Magill

John Stewart

COMMITTEE ON INSTRUCTION

John W. Merriam, Chairman
George B. Roberts
David Gwinn
James P. Magill
Representing Faculty
Francis Speight (to June)
Representing Faculty
John McCoy (from June)
Representing Women's Committee
Mrs. Elias Wolf (to May 23)
Representing Women's Committee
Mrs. John G. Bartol, Jr. (from May 23)
COMMITTE~

ON PUBLIC RELATIONS

J. Welles Henderson, Jr., Chairman
Arthur Kaufmann
Mrs. Herbert Morris
Fredric R. Mann
Henry W. Sawyer, 3rd
Mrs. Richardson Dilworth
A Representative of the Women's Committee
SOLICITOR

Maurice B. Saul

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5 TA F F
GENERAL
Joseph T. Fraser, Jr.
Director and Secretary
Mabel l. Eiseley
. Assistant Director
Charles J. Marsh
Assistant to the Secretary
Ann Evans
Secretary to the Director
August V. Viilu .
Comptroller
Louise Wallman .
Registrar
Elizabeth Z. Swenson
Director of Public Relations and Membership
E. Elizabeth Fermanis
. Receptionist and Billing Clerk
Frances M. Vanderpool
Exhibitions and Membership Clerk
Sarah Ellen Price
Clerk-Typist
Public Relations
Mrs. Janice Kane (August 28 to October 30)

SCHOOLS
David Sellin .
Roswell Weidner
Mary Carolyn Pitts
Laura J. Greene .
Catherine Newbold (to September 1)
Ethel V. Ashton .

. Administrator
In charge of Evening Program
Assistant to the Administrator
Secretary to the Administrator
Secretary to the Administrator
Librarian

FA C U L T Y (Season of 1961-1962)
Day School
Morris Blackburn
Julius Bloch
Paul A. Greenwood
Walker Hancock
Homer W. Johnson

Ben Kamihira
John W. McCoy
Hobson Pittman
Harry Rosin

Edward Shenton
Francis Speight*
Walter Stuempflg
Franklin C. Watkins
Roswell Weidner

*Leave of absence, one year from September 1st.

Evening School
Morris Blackburn
Thomas Gaughan
Ben Kamihira

Leon Kelly
Jim C. Lueders

Elizabeth C. Osborne
Gerd Utescher
Roswell Weidner

Samuel Maitin

Francis Speight
Roswell Weidner

Summer Day School
Ben Kamihira
Jim C. Lueders

Summer Evening School
Roswell Weidner

Francis Speight

Augmenting the Faculty
William Campbell
Dr. E. J. Farris*

John Guarente

Dr. Abraham J. Rosenfeld
Theodor Siegl

*Deceased (April 13, 1961)

BUILDING
Isaiah J. Sellers, Superintendent

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WOMEN ' S COMMITTEE
Mrs.
Mrs.
Mrs.
Mrs.

Elias Wolf, Chairman (to May 23)
John G. Bartol, Jr., Chairman (from May 23)
Evan Randolph, Jr., Treasurer and Corresponding Secretary (to May 23)
David J. Grossman, Treasurer and Corresponding Secretary (from May 23)

Mrs. lawrance A. Brown, Jr.
Mrs. Francis T. Chambers
Mrs. Joseph Sill Clark, Jr.
Mrs. Bertram D. Coleman
Mrs. Albert M. Greenfield, Jr.
Mrs. A. O. Griswold
Mrs. David Gwinn
Mrs. H. lea Hudson
Mrs. Arthur C. Kaufmann
Mrs. J. H. Ward Hinkson
Mrs. C. Earle Miller
Mrs. Evan Randolph, Jr.

Mrs. George Reath
Mrs. George B. Roberts
Mrs. Herbert F. Schiffer
Mrs. R. Barclay Scull
Miss Anna K. Stimson
Mrs. Boudinot Stimson
Mrs. T. F. Dixon Wainwright
Mrs. Franklin C. Watkins
Mrs. Walter H. West
Mrs. S. S. White, 3rd
Mrs. Elias Wolf
Mrs. Alfred Zantzinger

CONSOLIDATED TREASURER'S REPORT
September 1, 1960, to August 31, 1961
INCOME:
Art Gallery and Exhibitions ....... . .............. . ..... $ 19,848.04
School

.............................. . ...............

Trust Funds

87,158.56
112,253.86

Membership Dues . ........ . ........... . . . .............

18,095.00

City Appropriation ...................... . .. . ..........

25,000.00

Contributions (unrestricted) ......... . ............. . ......

2,653.53

Tota l. ............. . ................ .. ....... . . $265,008.99
EXPENSE:
Art Gallery and Exhibitions ............ . .. . ............ . . $157,004.96
School

................................ . ............. 106,359.01

To ta l ........... . ........ . ........ . .... . . . .... $263,363.97
Ne t Opera ting Surplu s ... . .............. . ....... $
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1,645.02

CONTRIBUTIONS FOR THE CALENDAR YEAR 1961
UNRESTRICTED:
Mrs. James M. R. Sinkler .. ........ ................... $ 1,041.48
Mrs. Herbert C. Morris ........... . .... . ............ .
500.00
489.59
Mrs. Rudolphe M. de Schauensee ................... . . .
John Stewart ...... ... .... .... ...... .......... ... . .
380.00
Women's Auxiliary of Pennsylvania Hospital ........... .
100.00
Marion B. Wood ... .. . ... ... ......... ... ....... . ... .
55.00
Dr. lewis C. Scheffey ............................ . .. .
15.00
5.00
Mrs. Joseph B. McCall .. .. ....... .. ................. .
5.00
louis Snyder .......... . .. .. ....................... .

$ 2,591.07

MISCElLANEOUS:
City of Philadelphia, 1961·62 appropriation .... .. ...... 25,000.00
From thirty.five contributors (including the Sarah and
Nathan Asbell gift of $500) to leo Asbell Memorial
Fund . . .. .. .... ....... ............ .. .... . ....
3,261.00
From one hundred and fifty.five contributors to Raymond
A. Speiser Memorial Fund ...................... .
4,847.14
C. Earle Miller, for retirement fund for staff and faculty . . .
3,000.00
Fellowship, for Fellowship Exhibition .... ... .......... . .
350.00
Frank T. Howard, for Directors' Fund . ...... ... . . . . . .. .
250.00
Welles H. Henderson, Jr., for Directors' Fund ...... . .... .
400.00
C. Newbold Taylor, for Directors' Fund .. ............. .
137.42
George B. Roberts, for Directors' Fund ... .. .... ... ... . .
104.54
Mae Diffenbaugh, for Catherine Grant Prize Fund ..... . .
200.00
200.00
Philadelphia Water Color Club, for 156th Annual Ex . . . . .
100.00
Dr. loren Eiseley, for library Fund ... ......... ....... .
Mabel Gill, for Fellowship Prize . . ..... . ......... . ... . .
50.00

$37,900.10

SCHOOL:
Helen Evans, for Edna Stauffer Prize ................ . .. $
J. Maurice Gray Trust, for Student Prize . . . ........... .
School District of Philadelphia, for ten Board of Education
Scholarships .... . ................ . .. . ........ .
George D. Widener, for Widener Scholarships . ......... .
Women's Committee, for aid to students . . ............. .
Hon . Richardson Dilworth, for aid to student .. .....•...
For photography in the School:
Mrs. Richardson Dilworth .. .. ... .. .. .... . .... . ... .
David Gwinn ........ . .... . ................... .
James P. Magill ... ............... . ......... ... .
J . W. Merriam ..... . .. . . .. . . ... ... . .. ......... .
Marian Higgins, for prize . ... . . . .. ... .. ... .. .. .. .... .
Pesin Foundation, for p rize .... ........ ......... ..... .
Mrs. lambert Cadwalader, for prize ................... .
Frances B. Caplan, for Mindel Caplan Kleinbard Award .. .
David Gwinn, for Eakins' Prize ........... ........... . .
David Gwinn, for student party .. . ..... . . . . . . ....... . .
Mabel Gill, student prize ......... .... .. . ............ .
Philadelphia Foundation, for leona Karp Braverman prize ..

3,000.00
1,550.00
2,000.00
2,007 .50
590.00
50.00
200.00
200.00
200.00
200.00
250.00
150.00
100.00
100.00
100.00
457.86
50.00
60.96
$11,266.32

Total . . ..... . .. . ..... .. .. ... . . .. ... ....... .. . . . . $51,757.49

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REPORT OF THE OFFICERS AND
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
A careful perusal of the Minutes of the meetings of the Board of Directors
for the year 1961 will not bring to light any single dramatic achievement
but will find evidence of a year filled with a multitude of important items
concerned with the life of this venerable place, the major number of which
can be reported as improvements and progress.
One of our first responsibilities is to report changes in the Board of Directors.
In April two new members were added. Mrs. Hart McMichael of Villanova,
who has been such a loyal friend of the Academy over a period of many
years, and whose chairmanship of our Women's Committee was marked by
such ability and success, was particularly welcomed as she joined the group
with which she had sat during her chairmanship. It is unfortunate, however,
that with this announcement of her election and acceptance, we must report
that the Board also accepted, with the utmost reluctance, her resignation,
which came in October. In this interim period Mrs. McMichael had become
Mrs. J. H. Ward Hinkson. The second new member was Mr. C. Earle Miller of
Downingtown.
In the spring of the year there were two other changes which must be
recorded. The Women's Committee officers were changed and Mrs. Elias
Wolf's place was taken by Mrs. John G. Bartol, Jr., as the new chairman.
The Faculty of the Academy also, through election, changed their representative to the Board from Francis Speight to John W. McCoy. At the December
meeting of the Board, Mr. Henry S. McNeil was elected to that body.
Changes have also taken place in the staff. After fifteen years of the most
loyal service, Miss Elizabeth Z. Swenson asked to continue her work on a
partial retirement plan and at the present time has the responsibilities of
membership, secretary of the Women's Committee, and coordinator of the
chamber music concerts. Mrs. Janice Kane was employed on a half-time
basis to carryon the public relations and publicity responsibilities given
up by Miss Swenson. Unfortunately, Mrs. Kane found it impossible to continue
in this post and resigned in November. In December a contract was made
with ihe Beacon Agency, Inc., of which Joseph P. Mclaughlin is president.
Another major adjustment became necessary in the fall when Mrs. Mabel
Eise ley left Philadelphia for approximately a year's stay in California where
her distinguished husband, Dr. Loren Eiseley, is enjoying a Ford grant at
Stanford University. A leave was granted Mrs. Eiseley, a part-time office
helper was authorized, and Miss Sallie Price engaged.
At the request of David Sellin, organizational changes took place in the
School Office . The responsibilities carried by Miss Catherine Newbold as

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secretary were taken over by Mrs. Laura Greene, and shortly thereafter the
School administration force was further augmented by the addition of
Miss Carolyn Pitts on a part-time basis.
Also, Mr. Sellin took over the responsibilities of conducting the classes in
Art History, a subject in which he has been a diligent scholar. This change
dictated the conclusion of our long contract with Mr. Jack Bookbinder. The
most important change in the teaching staff had to do with a year's leave
of absence granted Francis Speight, as he accepted an invitation to be
Artist-in-Residence at East Carolina College, Raleigh, North Carolina, starting
in September. The Academy Board took this action for the timely awarding
of the Academy's Gold Medal of Honor to Mr. Speight at the Cresson Day
exercises.
The School activity can be reported as normal through the Spring Term, and
the award of our many traveling scholarships and prizes occasioned
gratifying honors. Several new prizes established this year will be reported
in more detail in the School account. The returns from invested funds were
improved and the grand total, including the amounts made available for
free tuition scholarships, passed the $40,000 mark.
It should be noted here also that one move was made during the summer
months to solve, in a limited way, our School space problem. The area
occupied by the School Office and adjacent small studio were connected by
a new door to previous studio space, and the School Office was moved to
the south section of the first floor in the area which had been used for
student exhibitions.
Our hopes had been raised in the spring of the year that the property
immediately adjacent on the west side of Burns Street, owned by the
Y.M.C.A., might be acquired for an enlargement of School facilities. In the
fall, however, the Y.M.C.A.'s real estate advisers disapproved, and a new
committee has been formed to search for a solution.
The year's exhibition program was severely handicapped at the start by
most unpropitious weather conditions. A snowstorm of blizzard proportions
dictated the postponement of the opening of our 156th Annual from the
20th to the 26th of January. The reception was held on the postponed date,
but in the midst of a second snowstorm. The inclement weather greatly
affected our attendance at the reception and throughout the exhibition
period, but we are glad to report a total in sales amounting to $12,293.
Very considerable damage was inflicted upon our roof skylights, particularly
those lighting the class rooms, from falling ice and snow. Classes had to be
suspended for several days until repairs were complete.
In the summer our crew did the usual thorough housekeeping, repairs and

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renovations, and with outside help we were able to complete refurbishing
of Gallery F with new lighting, wallcovering, and painting.
The office staff were particularly busied in making plans for the 157th
Annual Exhibition. Word had been received that The Detroit Institute of
Arts could not collaborate with us again owing to a lack of funds, and a
new organizational plan was instituted so that we could stage the show
without outside help. The plan was based somewhat upon an experiment
used a year previously by the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, whereby
a preliminary screening would be accomplished by the examination of
colored slides of both painting and sculpture. To institute such a scheme
meant that plans had to be laid very much in advance of our old program.
The juries were invited in June and the elQborate new prospectus was
mailed directly after labor Day. The fall of the year saw much of the
office force employed with the mechdnics of this new system, but 1962 will
have to report the final record of this new venture.
The Women's Committee saw fit to enlarge their number in the spring, and
embarked upon a very ambitious program which culminated in an Academy
Ball held on November 17th. The galleries were hung with the choicest
examples from our permanent collection. A gala dinner preceded the dance,
and the entire affair was wonderfully successful. The ladies have reported a
most substantial sum by way of profit which will be dedicated to student aid.
The fall exhibition season opened with a _showing of the Academy'S lambert
Collection-three hundred and one paintings collected over a period of
almost fifty years. The year ended with a special exhibition of the oil
paintings of John Sloan.
It must be officially noted in this record that the important American document, the painting entitled Penn's Treaty With the Indians, by Benjamin
West, which had been on loan to Independence Hall for many years, was
returned and is now available for showing in our galleries when our permanent collection is on the walls.
This report will show the gratifying number of individual bequests, and we
are particularly grateful to be able to report once again that the City of
Philadelphia continues to give us financial aid through the generous action
of City Council.
last, but not least, we record our deep gratitude for the exemplary help
from oLJr loyal staff which makes possible our many and diverse activities.
FRANK T. HOWARD, President
JOSEPH T. FRASER, JR., Director

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EXHIBITIONS
THE 156th ANNUAL EXHIBITION. WATER COLORS, PRINTS, AND
DRAWINGS (Private view scheduled for January 20 was postponed to
January 26 because of heavy snow; open to the public January 22 through
February 26.)
In 1902 the Academy began a series of exhibitions in collaboration with
the Philadelphia Water Color Club, but in 1955 the management of the
Academy decided that it would stage but one "annual" each season instead
of the two major shows formerly held each year. This numbered Annual
Exhibition marks the third devoted to water colors, prints, and drawings,
held on alternate years with oils and sculptures.
JURY OF SELECTION

Antonio Frasconi

Ben Shahn

William Than

PRIZES AND AWARDS

Awarded by the Directors of the Philadelphia Water Color Club:
Philadelphia Water Color Club Medal of Award to American Water
Color Society; ·
The ' Pennell Memorial Medal to Gabor Peterdi, for Vertical Rock;
The Dawson Memorial Medal to Chen Chi for "Chuang Tze.
Awarded by Professional Jury:
The Dana Water Color Medal to Bessie Boris for Old Man With Umbrella;
The Alice McFadden Eyre Medal to Charlene Craighead for Silent
Wailing;
Philadelphia Water Color Prize ($200) to Sidney Goodman for Ascension;
Special Drawing Prize ($100) to Philip Evergood for Girl in Swivel Chair
(made available through the Directors' Fund of The Pennsylvania Academy
of the Fine Arts).
Honorable Mentions: Anne Jenkins for Landscape (water color); Gerson A.
Leiber for Meeting (print); Mauricio Lasansky for Vision (print); Marvin
Cherney for Man in Prayer Shawl (drawing).
Number sold: 104. Total $12,293.00.
FELLOWSHIP ANNUAL EXHIBITION (Private view, Friday evening,
March 10; open to the public March 11 through April 9.)
This partly-invited, partly-juried exhibition consisted of work by professional
artists who have attended the Academy's Schools. During this exhibition,
the Fellowship sponsored a Student Show which was on view in the Students'
Gallery on the Main Floor.
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JURIES

Oil
Edna Andrade

Ben Kamihira

Jim Lueders

Paul Froelich

Dan Miller

Water Color and Graphics
Mildred Dillon

Sculpture
Frank Gasparro

Gerd Utescher

AWARDS

Pe rcy M . Owe n s M e morial for a Di s tingu ish e d Pennsylvan ia Arti s t
($250) to Francis Speight.
Ha rrison S. Morris Memorial ($100 divided) to Abraham Hankins for Sea
Motif (print)i Robert Gwathmey for Picking Cotton (water color).
Mary Butle r Memorial Award for any medium ($100) to J. Wallace
Kelly for The Christ's Last Supper (sculpture).
Be rtha H. Goldb e rg Memoria l Awa rd for any medium ($100) to Leah
Rhodes for Rain (oil).
May Audubon Po s t Priz e, oil or sculpture ($50) to Dan Miller for Pittsburgh
(construction -wood).
Ca ro li n e G ibbon s Grang e r M &mo ri al Prize ($50) to Herbert Lautman
for Veteran (oil).
Le ona Karp Braver man M e morial Award ($50) to Edward Fenno Hoffman, III, for Cat (sculpture) .
Mab e l W il son Woodrow Pri ze (Student Show) to John Matt for Con-

tiguity.
Five items were sold from the Fellowship Show and two from the Student
Show.

PHILADELPHIA ART TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION EXHIBITION (April 13
through May 7)
JURY

Charles LeClair
Doris Staffel
Art Te ach ers' Association Award to Ellen C. Dixon.

Roswell Weidner

Honorable Mentions to Suzanne Horvitz, Edwin Heitman, and Ben Segal.
STUDENT EXHIBITION FOR ANNUAL AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS
(May 17 through June 3)
At special exercises held on May 17 a t 4 P.M., it was announced that
fourteen traveling scholarships and other prizes, amounting to $22,700, had
been awarded to students in the Schools of The Pennsylvania Academy of
The Fine Arts. The address was given by Dr. Loren Eiseley, author, anthropologist, and Provost of the University of Pennsylvania. After the address,
the following awards were made on recommendation of the Faculty:
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William Emlen Cresson Memorial European Traveling Scholarships
(est. 1902) ($1,800 each) John Bekavac, David Birnbaum, Thomas J. Ferrell,
Barry Greenberg, Rodger La Pelle, Robert T. Myers, Morel Pagano, Edwin
Sernoff (painters); Nura Petrov (sculptor).
Honorable Mentions: Robert Lee Williams, Margaret Zangerle (painters);
Paul R. Collins (sculptor).

J. Henry Schiedt Memorial Traveling Scholarships (est. 1949) ($1,300
each): Paul Gorka, Seymour Rotman, Robert Taub (painters); Peter Rockwell
(sculptor).
Honorable Mentions: John G. Fairey (painter); H. Reed Armstrong
(sculptor).
Lewis S. Ware Traveling Scholarship (est. 1938) ($1,300): Nina Klymowska (mural decoration).
Skowhegan Scholarships (tuition and board awarded by the Skowhegan
[Maine] School of Painting and Sculpture for study in their school during
the months of July and August): Peter Schnore; Ditta Baron, alternate.
ENDOWED PRIZES

Cecilia Beaux Memorial Prize (est. 1946) ($100): John Formicola.
Honorable Mention: Ditta Baron.
Catherine Grant Memorial Prize (est. 1955) ($100): Paul Gorka.
Honorable Mention: Seymour Rotman.
Lux Prize in Graphics (John Conner Memorial) (est. 1955) ($50): Thomas
James Ferrell.
Packard Zoological Sketch Prizes (est. 1899): Salvatore Rosannio (1 st
prize, $30); Ditta Baron (2nd prize, $20).
Ramborger Prize (est. 1910) ($25): Reeve Schley.
Honorable Mention: Sydnie Shuman.
Edmund Stewardson Prize (est. 1899) ($100): Joseph Schettone.
Honorable Mention: H. Reed Armstrong, Rosemary Edmonston.
Emma Burnham Stimson Prize (est. 1917) ($100): Alexander Hromych
(awarded in November 1960).
Henry J. Thouron Prizes (est. 1903): John Formicola ($50 awarded by the
Faculty); Barton De Palma ($50 awarded by instructor); Edwin Sernoff ($25
awarded by Instructor); Seymour Rotman ($25 awarded by vote of students).
Charles Toppan Prizes (est. 1881): Paul Gorka, Seymour Rotman ($300
each).
Honorable Mention: John Fairey ($100).
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UNENDOWED PRIZES

Lambert a n d Emma W . Cadwa lader Prize (est. 1961) ($100): John
Bekavac.
Honorable Mention: Barton De Palma.
Thomas Eakin s Me mo rial Priz e (est. 1949) ($100): John Be ka vac.
Honorable Mention: Seymou r Rotman .
Gimbel Prize (est. 1958) ($50 in art supplies): Seymour Rotman.
J. Maurice Gray Foundation Pri ze (est. 1961) ($50): Seymour Rotman.
Marion Higg ins Prize (est. 1960) ($200): Seymour Rotman.
Honorable Mentions ($25 each): Louise Sarkisian, Barry Greenberg.
Mind e l Caplan Kl ei nba rd Pri ze (est. 1958) ($25 in art supplies): Margaret
Zangerle.
Ma nayunk Art All iance Pri ze (est. ·1 960) ($50): John Bekavac.
W illiam Cla rke Ma son Prize (est. 1955): Alexander Hromych ($50);
Joseph Schettone ($50).
Pers p e ctive Pri ze (est. 1916): Rebecca Reath ($10); Margaret Zangerle
($10).
Pesi n Prize (est. 1959) ($150): Morel Pagano.
Honorable Mention : Seymour Rotman.
Ph il ad e lph ia Print Club G raphic s Priz e (est. 1953) (A one-year membership in the Club and the use of its workshop facilities): Gordon Jansson.
M. He rb e rt Sym e Prize (est. 1959) ($25): Robert Boyer.
Th e John Wanamaker Wate r Color Prize (est. 1954) ($50 in art supplies):
Edwin Sernoff.
Woodrow Prize in Graph ics (est. 1955) ($50): Lisa Marder.
On Thursday, May 18th, Mr. and Mrs. David Gwinn gave a cocktail party
at the Academy from four until six o'clock, during which the work submi tted in competition for European Traveling Schola rships and other awards
were on exhibition. Fifty-seven works were sold during the exhibition, with
a total of $3,276.50.
THE LAMBERT COLLECTION EXHIBITION (Private view Tuesday evening,
October 10th; open to the public October 11 th through November 8th.)

This exhibition consisted of three hundred and one paintings acqui red by
the Academy over a period of fifty years through the John Lambert, Jr.,
Fund. John Lambert, Jr., who died December 29, 1907, bequeathed a sum
of money to the Academy to establish a fund, the income from which was
to be used to purchase pictures from its annual exhibitions.
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JOHN SLOAN EXHIBITION (November 19th through December 23rd.)
This exhibition consisted chiefly of the oil paintings by John Sloan which
were contained in a recent retrospective exhibition of his work shown at
The Wilmington Society of the Fine Arts, and practically none of this group .
had been previously shown in Philadelphia.
THE PHILADELPHIA WATER COLOR CLUB 44th ANNUAL EXHIBI.
TION (Private view Thursday, November 30, from four to six; open to the
public from November 24 through December 23.) This exhibition consisted
of one hundred forty-seven items, all of which were by members of the
Philadelphia Water Color Club.
JURY OF SELECTION

Chen Chi
Jeanette Kohn
Jerome Kaplan
The following prizes were awarded for the year 1962:

John McCoy, II

The Philadelphia Water Color Prize to Mac S. Fisher for Pond.
The Dana Water Color Medal to Philip Jamison for The Twenty-ninth of
August.
The Alice McFadden Eyre Medal to Romas Viesulas for Le Serpent Qui
Danse.
The Dawson Memorial Medal to Sylvia Bernstein for Fallen Splendor.
The Pennell Memorial Medal to Mildred Schuster Goldman for Of Heaven
and Earth.
The Thornton Oakley Memorial Prize to Don Lord for Interior.
The M. V. Zimmerman Memorial Prize to Marjorie Ruben for Quarry.
Honorable Mention in Water Color to Betty M. Bowes for Roman Forum.

SPECIAL EVENTS
FREE CONCERTS
January 27th. Works by Handel, Bach, and Brahms; Schmuel Ashkenasi,
violinist; Vladimir Sokoloff, pianist.
February 17th. Works by Vivaldi-Respighi, Schubert, Dohnanyi and Zimbalist; Jascha Brodsky, violinist, and Vladimir Sokoloff, pianist.
March 17th. Works by Bach-Vyner, Geminiani, J. S. Bach, Volkmann,
Borresen, Mennini and Copeland; String Virtuosi of Philadelphia, Louis
Vyner, Conductor, Vladimir Sokoloff, pianist, and Lorne Munroe, cellist.
November 3rd. Works by Mozart, Schumann, Shebalin, Beethoven, and
Martinu; Morris Shulik, violinist, Carlton Cooley, violist, and Vladimir Sokoloff,
pianist.
December 8th. Works by J. S. Bach, Brahms, and Debussy; Elsa Hilger,
cellist, Vladimir Sokoloff, pianist.
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GALLERY TALKS (Sponsored by the Fellowship of the Academy)
January 26th. Dorothy Graf1y, critic, editor, publisher of Art in Focus.
February 2nd. Frederick Gill, painter and teacher.
February 9th. Hobson Pittman, painter and teacher.
February 16th. Morris Blackburn, pai nter and teacher.
February 23rd. Raphael Sabatini, painter, sculptor, and teacher.

Feath er Ball. April 23 rd. This evening of dinner and dance was organized
by the W omen's Committee of the Pennsylvania Hospital and as a benefit
for that institution.

TOTAL ATTENDANCE FOR 1961 : 31,290

ACQUIS I liONS
Purchase
Through the Lambert Fund:
Purple Ve tch and Buttercups (wa ter colo r by Charles E. Burchfield)

G if t s
From Mrs. Herbert C. Morris:
Voice in the Wilderness (sculpture) by Kahlil Gibran
From Mrs. Anna M. Huntington:
Idealists (sculpture) by Edward Fenno Hoffman, III
From Henry R. Pemberton:
Shipwreck (painting) by William Trost Richards
From Mrs. Samuel P. Rotan:
Madonna and Child (painting) by Bernardino Luini
From Mrs. Helen Haseltine Plowden:
Landscape (painting) by William S. Haseltine
From Carl Zig rosser:
Seven original drawings for the Leo Asbell Memorial:
Triang le by Federico Castellon
New York Central Park, Spring by Wanda Gag
Bockstein by Adolph Dehn
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Old Daniel by Howard Cook
Equestrians by Alexander Calder
Nude Seated by Gaston Lachaise
Nude by John B. Flannagan

From Dr. and Mrs. Loren Eiseley:
Black Vultures (print) by Janet Turner

From Mrs. Betty M. Melvin:
Man in Prayer Shawl (drawing) by Marvin Cherney

From Mrs. Thomas S. Gates:
Twenty Birds of Mt. Desert Island (portfolio of reproductions) by Carroll Tyson

From Mrs. Walter W. Pollock, Jr.:
Black and Green (water color) by Jose Guerrero

From Mrs. Daniel Garber:
A print press which had belonged to Daniel Garber

Deeds of Gift:
From Mrs. James Beal:
Ten paintings by Jacob Eicholtz:
Conestoga Creek and Lancaster
Henry Clay Eicholtz
Jacob Eicholtz (self portrait)
Mrs. Jacob Eicholtz (Catherine Trissler)
Rebecca Trissler Eicholtz
Rubens Mayer Eicholtz
Mathias Musser
Self Portrait
Self Portrait (with brushes and palette)
Eliza Schaum (Mrs. Frederick Augustus Hall Muhlenberg)

From Mrs. Grier Bartol:
Portrait of Dr. Matthew Grier by Cecilia Beaux

From Mr. and Mrs. Charles P. Hidden:
Portrait of Maior William Popham by Edward Savage
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LOANS
Title

Artist

Walt Whitman

Thomas Eakins

Man Cub

Alexander Stirling Calder

Robert Henri
Jefferson Market
Mr. George Plumstead
Mrs. George Plumstead
Elizabeth Peel
White Horse

John Sloan
Gilbert Stuart

Roswell Weidner

Schuylkill Valley Town

Francis Speight

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Philadelphia Museum College of
Art
Reading (Pa.) Public Museum and
Art Gallery
North Carolina Museum of Art,
Raleigh
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Cameron Booth
Raphaelle Peale
Paulette van Roekens
Rico LeBrun

American Federation of Arts
Baltimore Museum of Art
Artist-for one-man show
University of Southern California

Margaret Wasserman Levy

The Art Alliance, Philadelphia
Lehigh Unive rsity, Bethlehem, Pa.

Horace Pippin

Gaiety Theatre, Philadelphia
Hilltop at High Noon
Autumn Morning

J ack Bookbinder
Charles Burchfield
Robert Craig

On the Susquehanna
Ultra Marine
The Cello Player

Thomas Doughty
Stuart Davis
Thomas Eakins

Walt Whitman
Cat's Cradle in Blue

Ben Shahn

Attack on Fort Fisher

Xanthus Smit h

Dark Sky
Interior
Self-Portrait

John Heliker
William Barnett
Albin Polasek

Vulture of War
Ultra Marine
Fish House Door
Maior Biddle
Beatrice
Craigie's Meadow
Gray River
Taxco
Ephraim Wilson
Twin Birches
Still Life (#1)
La Casa de Dios

Charles Grafly
Stuart Davis
John Peto
Thomas Sully
William S. Kendall
John McCoy
Francis Chapin
Morris Blackburn
Julius Bloch
Willard Metcalf
James Peale
Steve Raffo

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Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
Wilmington (Del.) Society of Fine
Arts

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Benjamin West
Lee Gatch

County Fair

Late Afternoon
Horses
Fox Grapes and Apples
Treat 'em Rough
Buchenwald Cart
Portrait Head of Henry
Drinker
Portrait Head of Henry
Drinker
John Brown Going to His
Hanging

Institution

Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art
Collection, Williamsburg, Va.
Artist-for one-man show
Museum of Art, Ogunquit, Me.
Pocono Art Center, Stroudsburg,
Pa.
Milwaukee (Wisc.) Art Center
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Museum of Modern Art, New York
City
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pa.
Artist-for one-man show
Woodmere Art Gallery, Philadelphia
Fidelity-Philadelphia Trust Co.
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CONSERVATION OF WORKS FROM
THE PERMANENT COLLECTION
The following twelve works received attention during the year from Theodor
Siegl, the Academy's conservator and technical adviser:
Interior of an Iron Foundry by Bass Otis; Sti/l Life by William Weeks Hall;
The Picture Book by Adolphe Borie; Port Ben: Delaware and Hudson Canal
by Theodore Robinson; Return at Six by Walter Stuempfig; Reclining Nude
by Leon Kelley; The French Flag by Abraham Rattner; Roads No. 6 by
Hedda Sterne; Oregon Rocks by George Daniell; Bed Room by John Eddy
Hutchins; The Actor by John Lambert; Portrait by Carolyn Haywood.

SCHOOLS
Two years ago the Director, the Chairman of the Committee on Instruction
and the Faculty Representative outlined some of the more vexing problems
in the school to the future administrator. Basically they involved limitations
in light, space, administration, discipline and order. 1961 saw the solution
of most of those problems.
Studio lighting has been improved by a systematic installation of new lamps
where needed, and replacement of all unsatisfactory lamps. This in turn
increased useable space in the old studios.
New space has been provided as well. Two new northern exposure painting
studios, 1900 square feet, have been made available through a little
juggling. The office was moved out of the splendid studio next to the library,
liberating it for use by advanced students. The small sculpture "Head"
studio was moved across the corridor into the little "Antique" studio which
had been made ready with adequate lighting, sinks and shelves. The studio
vacated by the sculptors then became a painting studio, largely given over
to preliminary students and to still life materials and casts. Cages were
built under the shelves in order simultaneously to display and protect still
life props. All of these studios are working very well.
The criticism sessions that were displaced by several of the moves have
-been adequately housed in the mezzanine studio that has sometimes been
used for lockers or for ceramics.
The only loss by the moves was the student gallery to the east of the
auditorium. That space is now occupied by the office. It is to be hoped a
new way to display student work will be found.
There were changes also in the office staff. Mrs. Laura Greene took over
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the secretarial duties in September, 1961. Hers is the difficult task of
managing the office while acting as registrar, receptionist, and clerk-typist.
She has done exemplary work. A new post, Assistant to the Administrator,
was created and is at present on a part-time basis. Miss Carolyn Pitts took
that job in September, bringing to it an impressive experience in art history,
teaching, administration and museum work. It is largely due to Miss Pitts'
able handling of the model scheduling and booking that there are no
complaints from the models, students or instructors. To the fine group of
professional models that have served us so well in the past have been
added an array of new faces-or figures. That we have raised the model
fee has helped in attracting them, but there is more to it than that. There
is a growing realization that we are a serious school demanding high
professional standards of the models as well as of the students. It is a
good place to work.
Tuition was raised 25% making it $500.00 a year. That still keeps it
well below the cost of lesser institutions, which is recognized but approved
by the administration in the belief that Academy tuition should be as low
as possible. Fortunately we also have a good many free tuition scholarships.
Forty-four per cent of the students enrolled were on full or partial scholarships. Additional tuition grants have been made available through action
taken in 1961 to foreign students applying from abroad.
A new schedule was introduced in 1961. To correspond with the new
trimester system 'of the University of Pennsylvania, the Academy now opens
its school on the day after Labor Day. The Fall Term is completed before
Christmas and the Spring Term in the first week of May. This is more
convenient for the students on the coordinated program, 18% of the
Academy enrollment, and has proven much more satisfactory from the
administrative standpoint. Another convenience introduced was the elimination of the old system for registration of work in favor of a less complicated check in the studios.
The faculty is the mainstay of any school, just as the student body is its
raison d'etre. It is superfluous, therefore, to list the individual efforts of the
Academy faculty on behalf of the students. This is a fine place, however,
to thank faculty members for all assistance and encouragement offered in
the first year of the new administration. It is gratefully acknowledged.
The art history program was put in the charge of the administrator who
gave a series of lectures. These were augmented by guest lecturers. Dr.
Henri Dorra, Dr. William Homer, Dr. Stella Kramrisch, Dr. John McCoubrey,
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David Crownover, Samuel Edgerton, Sheldon Keck, and Eric Sellin were
scheduled to talk on subjects ranging from Albertis Perspective and its
application in the Renaissance to Dada.
Visiting artists scheduled to meet the students for informal discussion included Leonard Baskin (for six visits), Marcel Duchamp, Mauricio Lasansky,
Jacques Lipchitz, Richard Stankiewicz and Adja Yunkers. They brought
something to the students that is immeasurable.
During 1961 a photography campaign was launched. Joseph Nettis, photojournalist, was engaged to record school activities. The results are visible
in the new school catalogues and in four posters. The posters (which were
made possible through the generosity of Mrs. Dilworth and Messrs. Gwinn,
Magill and Merriam) and catalogues have been distributed widely here
and abroad and should sharpen the focus upon the Academy. It is hoped
that the wider distribution of material will bring the expected response.
Special thanks are in order for the donations of still-life material by members of the Women's Committee, and for the Committee's generous assistance to students. Thanks also go to Mrs. Maurice Gray and Miss Helen
Evans for the endowment of student prizes and to others who gave individual prize donations or other benefits to the students. David Gwinn's
cocktail party was very welcome as the school year reached its climax.
More than $22,500. worth of scholarships and prizes were given to the
students at the exercises and about $3,300 was paid for student work
pur"c hased at the exhibition. It is also a pleasure to thank members of the
Zoo board for ticket books, the Academy of Natural Sciences for the trip
to Swiss Pines, the Free Library and the Museum College of Art for surplus
visual aids material, the Museum of Art for the evening dedicated to students and for special considerations on student admissions to exhibitions.
Free materials were made available by the Academy of Music to Nina
Klymowska and David Burgess, P.A.F.A. students, who did a very successful
10' x 40' mural for the Second Student Concert of the 1961-62 season.
There were several changes in the faculty. Francis Speight departed for a
teaching post in North Carolina and Jack Bookbinder left the staff as the
administrator took up the responsibilities of the History of Art course. The
Mural Department was discontinued pending review and reorganization
which left John Hanlen without a studio.
Homer Johnson joined the faculty, instructing the preliminary students in
drawing. Mrs. Barbara Lyons took over the operation of the store and is
a fine addition to the staff.

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The Academy mourned the untimely death of Dr. E. J. Farris who gave so
unselfishly of his time. His work in the anatomy course was carried on by
Dr. Abraham Rosenfeld.
David Sellin
Administrator of the Schools
L IBRARY

Only a general report is practical concerning the activities in the Library.
Accessions by purchase was accomplished within the funds allotted, and
the Librarian acknowledges with gratitude the generous gifts of valuable
books and magazines which have been extremely useful. A normal and
altogether healthy use of the library and its facilities is reported by the
Librarian.

PUBLIC RELATIONS
The Academy enrolled 197 new members in the various classes during 1961
and some members increased their classifications. From both sources we
received approximately $2500 in new funds. In spite of losses through
death, resignation and delinquency, the year ended with a membership of
1897-a net gain of 142 persons over 1960.
Group visits from clubs and schools continued. Several outside organizations
held special events in our galleries. Among them, "The Weeders," a
luncheon; the Arts Council of Philadelphia, one of its lectures; the Emergency
Aid, a luncheon, following which their members and guests attended the
Gallery Talk on the "Annual" by Morris Blackburn; the Women's Auxiliary
of Pennsylvania Hospital, its "Feather Ball"; the Da Vinci Art Association, a
testimonial dinner honoring Dorothy Grafly; St. Peter's Episcopal Church,
a dinner, as a feature of its 200th Anniversary.
In the field of publicity, for the first time the Academy advertised two of its
exhibitions in the programs of the Philadelphia Orchestra and subscribed
, to a half-page advertisement in the program for the Academy of Music
Anniversary Concert and Ball of that year. The Inquirer Magazine "Today"
featured the Academy or those associated with it on three different
occasions: the 156th Annual Exhibition; Ben Kamihira, a former student and
current faculty member; and Charles Willson Peale. The last also included
a full color page of paintings by Peale, under the title "Painter of the
Founders." As of September, the Sunday Bulletin inaugurated its own
magazine and since then has carried two items relating to the Academy:
a sketch and short account of our building; and an article on faculty member
Franklin Watkins, accompanied by color reproductions.
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Not only do we record our appreciation of this cooperation, but thank
Dorothy Grafly for her reviews of our exhibitions and news items in the
Evening and Sunday Bulletins, as well as in her own publication "Art in
Focus"; Ruth Seltzer for her inclusion of those Academy activities suitable
for her column "The Philadelphia Scene," and Judy Jennings, society editorboth also writers for the Bulletin; Kathryn Dunlap, of the Inquirer for her
accounts of the social side of our activity; Dennis Leon and Samuel Singer
of the same paper, for their reviews of our exhibitions and concerts
respectively.
Abner Miller, in his Board of Education television programs, "Exploring the
Fine Arts," gave us two programs on our Annual Exhibition, one featuring
John W. McCoy, the other Leonard Laskin. In connection with the same
Exhibition, Mr. Fraser was interviewed on WQAL-FM.
Severe weather played a rather disastrous role where several of our midwinter activities were concerned. Again, press, radio and television cooperated in helping us get word of cancellations to members and the
public when blizzards made this necessary.
In addition to the foregoing, we are grateful for the many media in various
parts of the countrYi as well as in our own area, which helped us bring the
Academy and its program to the public's attention.
Constant comment from those in our audiences on what Academy concerts
mean to them is indeed "music to our ears." This combination of art and
music is, we believe, a rewarding experience for all who attend. To Mr.
Sokoloff and his associates, the musicians; to Mr. Samuel R. Rosenbaum and
the Recording Industries' Trust Funds; to Mr. Fredric R. Mann and his Foundation; and N. Stetson Company (Steinway representatives) goes our deep
gratitude for their help in making this fine series possible.
Following fifteen years as Director of Public Relations and Membership, I
have found it necessary to reduce my work schedule, and on September
first began gradual retirement from full-time duties. The new part-time
assignment is Director of Membership and Special Events. Other arrangements have been made for the institution's publicity and general promotion.
As I relinquish the full task, I feel no little regret that time did not permit
the accomplishment of many things I should like to have done for the
Academy. But in those projects which were carried through, I want to
register here a word of appreciation to all, either within or without these
venerable walls, who cooperated with me in any way whatsoever.
ELIZABETH Z. SWENSON

Director
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WOMEN ' S COMMITTEE
The Committee's calendar for 1961 opened on January 20th with the
membership subscription dinner before the private view of the 156th Annual
Exhibition. Mrs. Wolf, our chairman, made the arrangements for the dinner,
with Mrs. Lewis, Mrs. Hinkson (the former Mrs. McMichael) and Mrs. Randolph
helping. Mrs. Zantzinger provided flower arrangements for each table.
Members of the Commjttee 'poured coffee and chocolate afterwards, as is
our usual pleasure.
An excellent afternoon lecture by . Benton Spruance on "The Contemporary
Graphic Arts" was given on February 20th for the benefit of the Student
Aid Fund. Mrs. Stimson made the plans for the cocktail party which followed.
In April · we were again able to sponsor the trip to New York which the
students had enjoyed very much the previous year.
In May, Mrs. Wolf closed her busy chairmanship with a party at her house
to which the Committee brought a collection of still-life materials for the
students. Also at this meeting, we decided to renew the flag which had been
donated by Joseph Schindler and which stands in the front hall of the
Academy, this one as a memorial to Mr. Schindler.
In the fall, Drossos Dimitriados, whose entry to this country from Greece was
sponsored by the Committee, arrived and entered the school. This was the
first step of our new program of broadened student aid which had been
decided upon in the spring.
Our next event, also originally planned in the spring, was "The Fine Arts
Ball," held on November 17th. By all reports it was a great success, and it
most certainly was financially. Mrs. Wainwright, helped by Mrs. Brown and
Mrs. Gwinn, produced the attractive decorations. The Academy donated for
our raffle a print of "Election Day at Independence Hall, 1815," by Alexander Lawson, after an oil painting by John Lewis Krimmel. Your chairman
headed the ball committee and was helped in many ways, both great and
small, by the entire Committee and the staff of the Academy.
At the close of the calendar year we had expended $877.00 on needs of the
students, including the New York trip, and had a healthy balance with which
to help students in the future.
CAROLINE S. BARTOL,

Chairman
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THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE P.A.F . A .
The main purpose of the Fellowship, which was organized in 1897, is to
foster a spirit of fraternity among former and present students of the
Academy.
OFFICERS

President

Roswell Weidner.
Roy C. Nuse .

First Vice President

Mabel Woodrow Gill

· Vice President

Mary Townsend Mason

· Vice President

Francis Speight

· Vice President

Franklin C. Watkins

· Vice President

Ethel

v.

Ashton

Elizabeth Eichman

Recording Secretary
Corresponding Secretary

Irene Denney

Treasurer

THE COMMITTEE ON FELLOWSHIP
Mabel W . Gill, Chairman-Treasurer
Irene Denney
Roy C. Nuse
Ethel Ashton
Mary Mullineux
Roswell Weidner
The function of the Committee is to administer the following four funds:
Henry J. Thouron Memorial Fund; Picture Purchase Fund; Special Fund; and
the Mary Butler Memorial Fund, for the benefit of Fellowship members and
present or former students. The Butler Fund now amounts to approximately
$10,000, and its goal is $15,000. There is also an annual gift from
Mrs. John S. Hurlbut in memory of Mrs. Philip S. Collins.
The Committee also endeavors to be useful to both the Fellowship and the
Academy whenever possible. In addition, the Committee is responsible for (1)
the purchase of paintings and sculpture to encourage or assist artists, or
improve the Loan Collection from which works are currently on exhibition in
various institutions; (2) to provide classes usually 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; and
(3) giving a type of financial assistance not permissible from the regular
Fellowship treasury to current and former Academy students which includes
tuition, artists' materials, and living expenses.

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NEW MEMBERS
Enrolled during 1961, including those who increased their classification .

* Benefactor
**Mrs. Samuel P. Rotan

*Fellow
Miss He len Evans

Contributing M e mbers
**Mrs. Howard Wasserman

Mrs. Charles J . Biddle

Sustaining Members
Mrs. Fred e rick H. Schmidt

Mrs. B. Dawson Coleman

Mrs. William Ma xwell Scott, Jr.

**Mrs. Richardson Dilworth

Coun tess Edgardo Sogno Del Vallino

Mrs. Milton Hubschman

Harvey T. Stephens

Leslie P. Hunneman

* *David Supowitz

Francis J. Reidy

** Mrs. Robert R. Titus
Miss Eleanor M. Sykes

** Edgar P. Richardson
George L. Sail

William H. Sylk

Annual Members
Mrs. Harry M. Abraham

Mrs . Theodore R. Fetter

Mrs. Arnold H. Keehn

Mrs. Charles S . Amidon

Mrs. A. Fields

Mrs. John C. Keene

Mrs. Paul Anderson

Kermit Fischer

Mrs . Paul Kendall

Mrs. W . Disston Anderson

Dr. George Ross Fisher, 3rd

Dr. Huldah B. Kerner

Walter G. Arader

Mrs. William Fox

Miss Hannah Kohn

Mrs. Leo Asbell

Mrs. Edward A . Frank

Herbert W. Kramer, Jr.

Mrs. Theodore C. Aylward

Frederic k L. Fuges

Mrs. Eugene A . Krouse

Frederick K. Baker

z.

David N. Balis
Mrs. Ira Winslow Barnes, Jr.

Mrs. Samuel Genel

Mrs. Solomon Kushner

Mrs. Ralph C. Gifford, Jr.

Thomas V. Lefevre

Mrs. Frederick H. Belfield
Richard Benson

H. Garfield

Mrs. David Krumbhaa r

Thomas B. A. Godfrey

Mrs. Irving H. Leopold
Mrs. Herman Levine
Miss Marjorie E. Lyons

Mrs . Maurice W. Biddle

Mrs. Horace W. Gordon
Mrs. Charles C. Harrison, Jr .

Mrs. William L. Blanchard

John

Mrs. John M. Brewster

Dr. Wallace Heaton

Miss Estelle Manfred

Mrs. Edward Cantor

Charles N. Howard
Edgar B. Howard, Jr.

Mrs. Philip A. Manno

Mrs. Charles B. Chadwick

s.

C. Harvey, 3rd

Mrs. Paul Maloney

George W . Crowley, Ir.
Mrs. Philip L. Davidson

Rev . Joseph A. Howell

Howard E. Marick
Ferdinand V. Marzullo, Jr.

Dr. James I. Hykes

Miss Gertrude H. Mauger

Miss Bessie R. Delle tte

Paul M. Ingersoll

Mrs. J . Bartow McCall

Lawrenc e Drake
Miss Virginia MeW. Dunning

Mrs. Marian Jacobs
Mrs. Charles Kambe

Mrs. Will iam S. Merriam

Mrs. Pierre S. du Pont. 3rd

Aaron Hanna Katcher

Mrs. Albert J. Meyerhoff

Mrs . Kendall S. Ewer
Mi ss Emily Exley

Dr. Albert B. Katz

Mrs. Percy E. Miller

Mrs. Georg e E. Kearns

Mrs. Bingham Milne

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Henry McManus

Mrs. Miriam Tindall Smith

Mrs. John W. Moffiy

Mrs. Vincent M. Reed

Miss Dorothy P. Nassau

Mrs. Nora Rehberger

Miss Sarah Anne Gre",ne Smith

Miss Haviland Nelson

Mrs. David H. Roberts

Mrs. T. Frank Smith, Sr.

Mrs. Martin Nemer

Joseph B. Roberts

Dr. G. Gordon Snyder

Mrs. Richard M. Newnham

William H. Roberts, Jr.

Mrs. Charles M. Solomon

Mrs . Charles J. Nicholas

Mrs. Robert C. Robinson

Mrs. Ralph Souder, Jr.

Dr. Leslie Nicholas

George Rochberg

Karl H. Spaeth

Dr. George W. Norris

Mrs. Mary G. Roebling

Mrs. J. Finton Speller
Mrs. V. Evelyn Shaffer Spence

William P. Norris, Jr.

Dr. Harry B. Roitman

Miss Gertrude A. O'Brien

G. E. Rosenau

Mrs. James Spinuzza

Mrs. Jerome A. O'Neill

Mrs. Edwin M. Ross

Mrs. Hirsh Stalberg

Mrs. Perry Otten berg

Mrs. Samuel R. Rossman

Mrs. Frederick Stanger

Paul B. Paalborg

Miss Margaret M. T. Roy

Nicholas N. Stephanoff

Mrs. John H. Packard

Mrs. Morris M. Rubin

Mrs. James H. Stevenson, Jr.

Mrs. L. Rodman Page

Miss Helen A. Russell

Mrs. Markley Stevenson

Mrs. J . B. Riggs Parker

Mrs. A. Jackson Sailer

Antonio Y. Stewart

A. J. Drexel Paul, Jr.

Mrs. Samuel Saks

Dr. Charles H. Stone

Mrs. Henry M. Peddle

Allen D. Sapp

Dr. Charles H. Stone, 3rd

William Hannis Perot

Mrs. Ethel B. Sargeant

J . Pennington Straus

Mrs. Kirk R. Petshek

A. R. Schaevitz

Mrs. William J. Strawbridge

Stewart W. Pike

James H. Scheck

Miss Bonnie Swinehart

Dr. Donald M. Pillsbury

Mrs. Herbert F. Schiffer

Mrs. David Swope, 2nd

Mrs. B. J. Plone

Miss L. Florence Schmidt

Mrs. Elizabeth Titus

Mrs. Henry L. Plummer

Miss Dorothy A. Schreiber

Rev. James A. Trimble

Mrs. John Nevin Pomeroy

Mrs . Robert Fulton Sears

Christopher M. Turman, 3rd

Mrs. Victor Potamkin

Irving R. Segal

Mrs. Herbert Unterberger

Stephen T. Potok

Mrs. Coleman Sellers, 3rd

Mrs. Lyall E. Van Kleeck

Mrs. J . Webb Potts

Miss Elma Seltzer

Mrs. Clarence A. Warden, Jr.

Harold B. Pough

Mrs. John J. Serrell

Charles E. Welch, Jr.

Mrs. Russell C. Pullinger

Miss Esther W. Sharpless

Miss Margaret Welsh

Miss Kathleen Carberry Quinn

Vidor F. Sheronas

Miss Elizabet H. Wilson

Mrs. George Ranes

Mrs. Orlando Shoemaker

Wallace Windus

Robert W. Rea

Edward S. Shulman

Miss Eleanor S. Wistar

Aloysius J. Reagan

Mrs. C. A. Simons

Mrs. Carroll S. Wright

Mrs. George Reath

Victor L. Singer

D. Robert Yarnall, Jr.

G. Ruhland Rebmann, Jr.

Mrs. Meyer Siosberg

Mrs. Joseph M. Zinni

Mrs . Richard O . Recknagel

Miss Caroline H. Smith

* Elected in perpetuity
** I ncreased classification

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MEMBERSHIP CLASSES

Yearly Members

Annual $10.00
Sustaining $25.00
{
Contributing $100.00

Life Member ..... . ................. . .......... . . ... ......... $300
Fellow . . ...................... .. .. ... ............. $1000 to $5000
Patron. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $5000 to $25,000
Benefactor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. $25,000 or more
(Fellows, Patrons and Benefactors are enrolled in perpetuity)

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 crosssection 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 art works purchased from Academy-sponsored professional exhibitions, and have use of the art reference library.

FORM OF BEQUEST
I give, devise and bequeath to The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ _ _ _ _ __ Dollars, in trust, to invest and keep
invested and apply the income to the maintenance of the said Academy.

The Academy is open weekdays (except Mondays) from 10 A.M. to 5 P.M.,
Sundays and Holidays from 1 to 5 P.M. Closed Mondays, New Year's Day,
Good Friday, Memorial Day, Fourth of July, Thanksgiving and Christmas.

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