158th 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 • PHILADELPHIA
158th ANNUAL REPORT
1963
Cover: Portrait of Mrs. John 8. Wallace by Thomas Sully
Bequest of Mrs. Willing Spencer
The One Hundred and Fifty-eighth
Annual Report
of
PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS
FOR THE YEAR 1963
Presented to the Meeting of the Stockholders
of the Academy on February 3, 1964
OFFICERS
President
Vice President
Treasurer
. Secretary
Frank T. Howard
Alfred Zantzinger
C. Newbold Taylor
Joseph T. Fraser, Jr.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Mrs. Herbert C. Morris
Evan Randolph, Jr.
George B. Roberts
(resigned in October)
Henry W . Sawyer, 3rd
John Stewart
James K. Stone
C. Newbold Taylor
Franklin C. Watkins
William H. S. Wells
William Coxe Wright
Alfred Zantzinger
Mrs. Leonard T. Beale
Henry S. Drinker (resigned in November
David Gwinn
J. Welles Henderson
Frank T. Howard (ex officio)
R. Sturgis Ingersoll
Arthur C. Kaufmann
Henry B. Keep
James P. Magill (Director Emeritus)
Henry S. McNeil
John W. Merriam
C. Earle Miller
Ex officio
Mrs. John G. Bartol, Jr.
Fredric R. Mann
Roswell Weidner
Representing Women's Committee
Representing City Council
. Representing Faculty
Solicitor
Maurice B. Saul
STANDING COMMITTEES
COMMITTEE ON COLLE C TION S AND
Franklin C. Watkins, Chairman
Mrs. Leonard T. Beale
Mrs. Herbert C. Morris
EXHIBIT I ON S
William H. S. Wells, Jr.
William Coxe Wright
Alfred Zantzinger
COMMITT EE ON FINAN C E
C. Newbold Taylor, Chairman
James P. Magill
John Stewart
COMMITTEE ON INSTRUCT I ON
John W. Merriam, Chairman
George B. Roberts (to October)
David Gwinn
Mrs. John G. Bartol, Jr.
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C. Earle Miller
Arthur C. Kaufman
Roswell Weidner
SPECIAL COMMITTEES
PLANNING COMMITTEE
John W. Merriam, Chairman
J. Welles Henderson, Jr.
Henry S. McNeil
James K. Stone
C. Newbold Taylor
William H. S. Wells
Ex officio
Frank T. Howard
Joseph T. Fraser, Jr.
Alfred Zantzinger
NOMINATIONS COMMITTEE
Henry B. Keep, Chairman
J. Welles Henderson, Jr.
C. Newbold Taylor
WOMEN'S COMMITTEE
Mrs. John G. Bartol, Jr., Chairman
Mrs. David J. Grossman, Treasurer and Corresponding Secretary
Mrs. Evan Randolph, Jr.
Mrs. Lawrance A. Brown, Jr.
Mrs. Francis T. Chambers
Mrs. George Reath
Mrs. Joseph Sill Clark, Jr.
Mrs. Herbert F. Schiffer
Mrs. Albert M. Greenfield, Jr.
Mrs. James M. R. Sinkler
Mrs. David Gwinn
Mrs. J. H. Ward Hinkson
Mrs. H. Lea Hudson
Mrs. Boudinot Stimson
Mrs. Caspar W. B. Townsend
Mrs. T. F. Dixon Wainwright
Mrs. Arthur C. Kaufmann
Mrs. Franklin C. Watkins
Mrs. Erasmus H. Kloman
Mrs. ) Walter H. West
Mrs. C. Earle Miller
Mrs. S. S. White, 3rd
Mrs. Alfred Zantzinger
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STAFF
GENERAL
Joseph T. Fraser, Jr.
Mabel L. Eiseley
Charles J. Marsh (1883-1963)
Dorothy E. Runk
August V. Viilu .
Rita Damiano
louise Wallman
Elizabeth Z. Swenson
E. Elizabeth Fermanis
Frances M. Vanderpool
Harriet P. Broza (to July 1)
SCHOOLS
M. Wister Wood
Roswell Weidner
Nancy W. Dall .
Constance A. Taylor
Ethel V. Ashton .
Mabel Gearhart Cook
LaVerne Delach
Director and Secretary
. Assistant Director
Assistant to the Secretary
Secretary to the Director
Comptroller
Assistant to the Comptroller
Registrar
Director of Membership and Special Events
Receptionist and Billing Clerk
Exhibitions and Membership Clerk
Public Relations
. Administrator
In Charge of Evening Program
Assistant to the Administrator
Secretary to the Administrator
Librarian
Resident Counselor, Peale House
. Receptionist, Peale House
F A C U L T Y (Season of 1963- 1964)
Day School
Morris Blackburn
Ben Kamihira
Paul A. Greenwood
Julian Levi
John Hanlen
Jimmy C. lueders
Walker Hancock
John McCoy
Homer Johnson
Hobson Pittman
Roswell Weidner
Even ing School
Morris Blackburn
Thomas Gaughan
Paul A. Greenwood
Summe r Day School
John Hanlen
John L. Massey
Harry Rosin
Edward Shenton
Louis Sloan
Walter Stuempng, Jr.
Franklin C. Watkins
Homer Johnson
Ben Kamihira
Russell Keeter
Roswell Weidner
Jimmy C. lueders
Louis Sloan
Gerd Utescher
Jimmy C. lueders
Francis Speight
Roswell Weidner
Augmenting the Faculty
William Campbell
Robert B. Ennis
Dr. Henry I. Perlmutter
Theodor Siegl
ACADEMY BUILDING
Isaiah J. Sellers, Superintendent
PEALE HOUSE
James J. Lulias
James R. Knipe .
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Manager
Consultanl
CONSOLIDATED
TREASURER'S
REPORT
September 1, 1962, to August 31, 1963
INCOME:
Art Gal/ery & Exhibitions .. .... . . ........... ... .. .. . . .... $ 14,884.17
School
. . .. . . ... ........ . . .. ..... ... ........... . ... .. 119,132.03
Trust Funds ... ... .. ..... ............ ......... ... . .... 120,137.61
Membership Dues ........................ . .. . .........
19,475.00
Contributions (unrestricted) ...... . . .. ... . ................
1,729.86
City Appropriation ... . .. ..... . . ...... . . .. ... . .........
25,000.00
Total
.......... . ............................ $300,358.67
EXPENSE:
Art Gallery & Exhibitions .. ....... . . .... . ...... .. . . . . ... . $162,11 0.68
School
.................... . . .......... .. . . . ... . ..... 113,516.54
Peale House ........................................ .
Total
47,404.20
...... .... ... ................ . . . ... .... $323,031.42
Net Operating Deficit ........................ $ 22,672.75
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CONTRIBUTIONS FOR THE CALENDAR YEAR 1963
UNRESTRICTED:
Mrs. Rodolphe M. de Schauensee ........... . ....... .. $ 614.86
Dr. and Mrs. Edgar P. Richardson . . ... ...... .. ... . . ..
50.00
Mrs. Thomas S. Gates . . ... .. .. .. .. ... .. ...... . .... .
25 .00
Edith Stix Wasserman.. .. .... . .... . ... .. ........... .
15.00
Margaret C. McCreeny .. .. .. ... . ... . ... . ......... .. _ _ _5_._0_0
$
709.86
MISCELLANEOUS:
City of Philadelphia, 1963 appropriation .. . . ... . ... .... $25,000.00
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania grant. . ...... .. ... . ....
2,031.25
William Coxe Wright, for Directors' Fund...... .. ... . . . .
1,000.00
Fellowship, for Fellowship Exhibition expense...... . ... .
350.00
Mrs. Herbert C. Morris, for Directors' Fund... . .........
200.00
Fidelity·Philadelphia Trust Co., for Haney Foundation
150.00
Award . .. .... .. .. . . . .. .... .. ............. ... .
Dr. and Mrs. Loren C. Eiseley, for Library and Concerts .. .
100.00
100.00
C. Newbold Taylor, for Directors' Fund ..... . ......... .
Philadelphia Foundation, for Leona Karp Braverman
Prize ..... .. . . ... . .. .. ... ....... . .... . .. ... .. _ _. .;3;.;6;';'.;;.6.;;..
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$28,967.88
SCHOOL:
School District of Philadelphia, for 21 scholarships ...... $ 4 ,200.00
Mrs. Emma W. Cadwalade r, for Emma and Lambert
Cadwalader Prize . .. .. ..... . .... . ... . .... . . . .. 4 ,070.00
George D. Widener, fo r Widener Scholarships.. .... .. . .
2,000.00
Mrs. Maurice Gray, for student tuition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
250.00
Jimmy C. Lueders, for student tuition. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
250.00
Mrs. Ann Stokes, for student tuition. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
250.00
Marion ' D. Higgins, for prize .. .............. . . .. .....
250.00
School District of Philadelphia, for student tuition.. . . ..
200.00
John McCoy, for studen t t uition. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
150.00
Mrs. Emma Cadwalader, for prize...... . .... . .. ......
100.00
Elizabeth Geist Ely, for prize. ... .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
100.00
Mabel Gill, for Woodrow Prize......... .. .. .... . . ....
100.00
David Gwinn, for Ea kins Prize ..... .. . . .. ...... . .. ... .
100.00
David Gwinn, for student party...... . .... .. ....... . .
91.93
Arthur C. Kaufmann, for student party ... . ... .. .... . . :
91 .93
John Merriam, for student party. .. .. .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
91 .93
C. Earle Miller, for student party.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
91.93
George B. Roberts, for student party.. . .... . .. . . ... .. .
91.93
Mae Diffenbaugh, for prize...... . ... . . . . .. .. . .......
45.00
Mrs. Herbert Syme, for prize .... .. .. ; ....... .. . . . .. . . _ _. .;2;.;5;';'.;;.0.;;..0
$12,549.65
Total . ... . ..... . . .. . .. .... . . . .... . .. .. ... . ... . $42,227.39
DONORS TO THE PROGRESS FUND:
J . Welles Henderson, Arthur C. Kaufmann, John Stewart, C. Newbold Taylor, Mrs. Leonard
T. Beale, Sordoni Foundation, Mrs. Alfred Zantzinger, Sarah Wentz Sin kle r, Alphin J. and
Alphin W. Cameron Memorial Fund, Frank T. Howard, William Coxe Wright, David J.
Grossman, Joh n W. Merriam, Evan Ra ndo lph, Jr., Alfred Bissell, J a mes P. Magill, Franklin
P. Watkins, Women's CommiHee ................... .. .... .. .. . . .. . Total $87,398.70
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REPORT OF THE OFF I CERS AND
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Few years in the Academy's history have so taxed the energies and dedication of the members of the Board of Directors and the professional staff
as 1963. Before recounting the major problems and activities, changes in
our Board of Directors must be recorded. The two new members of the
Board are William H. S. Wells whose election in January accomplished a
closer relationship with Saul, Ewing, Remick and Saul, the law firm which
has so effectively advised the Academy on legal matters since 1921, and
Evan Randolph, Jr. At his election in October, Mr. Randolph assumed the
important and heavy responsibilities of chairman of the fund drive then
forming.
George Brooks Roberts resigned in September after eighteen years as a
director, and in December, Mr. Drinker's failing health dictated his resignation. Mr. Drinker had served on the Board for forty-three years, twenty-five
of those years as vice president and one as president. Even when circumstances seem to justify them, resignations are always received with sincere
regret.
It is with genuine sorrow that we record the death on November eleventh
of Charles J. Marsh, whose record has perhaps exceeded in length that of
any other Academy employee-he served on the office staff with utmost
devotion for thirty-nine years. We also express regret that the changing
of her home from Philadelphia to New York City necessitated('-"the resignation of Mrs. Stanley Broza, Jr., who had proved herself a most valued staff
member, particularly through her exemplary help to our Women's Committee.
Elsewhere our report lists the new personnel who have joined our ranks
as we inaugurated activities in the property on Chestnut Street, purchased
last year. Indeed, this new project, which has chiefly consumed our extra
energies, is the most important aspect of this year's report. In January a
thorough examination of the newly acquired real estate revealed the
breadth of attention and repair necessary to restore all of the mechanical
services, such as plumbing, heating, wiring and so on. It was decided that
the second and third floors be dedicated to school studios. Two handsome
and well-lighted painting rooms were created on the whole north width
of th~ building by removing the ceiling back to the first structural bay, thus
achieving great ceiling height. The major graphics equipment, including
splendid new additions of presses, work tables, sinks, warmers and the
like, was housed in several spacious rooms in the center of the building.
The south rooms were altered to accommodate classes in modelingi several
smaller rooms provided ideal studios for drawing from the antique and
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for the study of still life. The purpose of all these changes has been to
give the first-year students a department completely adequate for their
beginning technical studies. Since lecture courses in the late hours of each
day continue to be held at Broad and Cherry Streets, the young beginners
are brought into contact with the venerable parent place.
The fifth floor of the Chestnut Street building was handsomely renovated
and furnished to house women students. As expected, however, the number
taking advantage of these quarters was not great during the fall semester
for the reason that the architects and contractors were sorely pushed to
complete even a limited number of housing units by the fourth of September.
On the ground floor, adjacent to a spacious room which provides a dining
area and comfortable student lounge, a modern cafeteria was installed.
The property has been renamed Peale House, in honor of Charles Willson
Peale and the other artist members of his distinguished family.
Coincident with the adjustments recounted, study was begun, with the help
of the architectural firm of Harbeson, Hough, Livingston and Larson, to
determine how the single-width property to the, west of the main building
could be put to maximum use. It was decided to build a new, one-storey
building, contemporary in design, to serve as a lobby and lounge to a
proposed Academy dining club. The dining area, in line with the re-naming
of the main property, will be know as the Peale Club, and will be housed
in new and elegant quarters on the lower Chestnut Street level which previously housed the Chestnut Club. Space and time are not adequate in
this report for full particulars~ nor have details concerning membership in
the Club been completely formulated. It seems clearly indicated, however,
that the dining facilities, and superlative food, will act in a practical way
to support the whole project. With inviting settings indoors and the use
of the attractive garden area for dining in the summer season, delightful
times are in prospect.
Ideal use for those areas not yet completed have been carefully considered. Two large, handsome display galleries with exposure directly on
Chestnut Street, are nearing readiness on the ground floor. An auxiliary
exhibition program will bring that aspect of the Academy's life to the
great audience passing the doors in this new and active environment. Thus
a new chapter in our history is launched.
The Academy has the unique record of never having made a major appeal
to the public for financial aid, but, with the work reported above in progress, a fund drive is now dictated. Loyal and generous support from Philadelphians and from the American art world at large is needed to meet this
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great challenge, and the President, Board, and working committees are
confident of success.
A few of the less dramatic aspects of this year1s activities must find space
in at least a thumbnail sketch. At Broad and Cherry Streets a renovation
project with rewarding results was accomplished by renewing the glass in
both ceiling and roof skylights over Galleries H and I. The resulting
brilliance of the light reveals the urgency of carrying out this project over
all our galleries. The fund drive must insure major attention to our great
Frank Furness building on Broad Streetl as well as provision for renovations to our new Chestnut Street property.
Our very real gratitude continues
generous annual grant of $25 000.
tinues to give modest assistance to
appreciation l an increase from that
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to the City of Philadelphia for the
The State of Pennsylvania also conthe School l and we can record with
source for the current a'cademic year.
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Late in the year the importance of our School received gratifying recognition. The Ford Foundation l in a broad program to give encouragement and
help to independent art and music institutionsl has awarded us a grant
of $55 000. These monies l available over a five-year period l make possible
paid tuition and/or grants-in-aid to worthy and gifted students. The program will be inaugurated by competition in the spring of 1964.
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Warmest thanks and praise are expressed once more to the gracious and
loyal members of our Women/s Committee our exemplary facultyl our loyal
staffl and all those dedicated friends who see the broadening and exciting
new vistas ahead and lend new life and importance to this l the oldest fine
arts institution in the United States.
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FRANK T. HOWARD1 President
JOSEPH T. FRASER1 JR' Director
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EXHIBITIONS
THE 158th ANNUAL EXHIBITION, WATER COLORS, PRINTS, AND
DRAWINGS (reception and private view, Wednesday Evening, January
16th; open to the public, January 18th through March 3rd).
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 fourth devoted to water colors, prints, and drawings,
held on alternate years with oils and sculptures.
JURY OF SELECTION
Adolph Dehn
Sidney Goodman
Romas Viesulas
PRIZES AND AWARDS
Awarded by the Directors of the Philadelphia Water Color Club:
Philadelph ia Water Color Club M ed al of Award , to Andrew Wyeth.
Pennell M emorial Meda l, to Rico LeBrun for Study for Two Prophets.
Dawson M emorial Medal , to W. Emerton Heitland for Waterfront Tank.
Awarded by Jury of Selection:
Philade lphia Water Color Prize ($200), to Jacob Landau for Tragic Hero.
Dana Water Color M eda l, to Bogomir Bogdanovic for Winter Silhouette.
Al ice McFadden Eyre M e dal , to Klindt Houlberg for Winnebago Family.
Honorable Mentions: For the Dawson Memorial Medal, to Robert Laessig
for Sentinels in the Sun; for the Alice McFadden Eyre Medal, to Wanda
Miller Matthews for Paesaggio in Italia and John Solen for Westwood
Village No.2; for the Philadelphia Water Color Prize, to George A.
Nama for Interior No.2.
Number sold: 149; total $13,276.00.
FELLOWSHIP ANNUAL EXHIBITION (reception and private view, Friday
evening, March 15; open to the public March 16th through April 14th).
This partly-invited, partly-juried exhibition consisted of work by professional
artists who have attended the Academy's Schools.
JURIES
Oil
Lois Eaton Dollin
Water Color and Graphics
Christine McGinnis
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Lucius Crowell
A. P. Hankins
Raymond Saunders
Oliver Grimley
Sculpture
Margaret Wasserman Levy
Dexter Jones
AWARDS
Percy M. Owens Memorial for a Distinguished Pennsylvania Artist
($250), to Raphael Sabatini.
Harrison S. Morris Memorial ($100 divided), to John Deckard for Tragic
Jam (drawing); Leon Kelly for Still-Life With the City Flag of Pollensa-7960
(water color).
Mary Butler Memorial Award for any medium ($100), to Robert
Gwathmey for Flowers for the Pulpit (water color).
Bertha H. Goldberg Memorial Award for any medium ($100), to Russell
Keeter for Spiritual Earth (oil).
May Audubon Post Prize for oil or sculpture ($50), to Franklin Watkins
for Sti/l Life (oil).
Caroline Gibbons Granger Memorial Prize for oils ($50), to Peter Buttos
for Window at L' Aiglon.
Leona Karp Braverman Memorial Award for sculpture ($50), to Frank
Gasparro for The Taming of the Minotaur.
Mabel Wilson Woodrow Award for a student represented in the show
($50), to Toshiharu Kitagawa for Pierian Spring (oil).
17 items were sold from the show, totaling $3,195.00.
STUDENT EXHIBITION FOR ANNUAL AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS (May 1 through 26).
At special exercises held on May 1 at 4 P.M. it was announced that fifteen
traveling scholarships and other prizes, amounting to $27,730.00 had been
awarded to students in the Schools of The Pennsylvania Academy of the
Fine Arts. The address was given by Mr. Jacques lipchitz, sculptor, and,
following the address, awards were made on recommendation of the
Faculty.
William Emlen Cresson Memorial European Traveling Scholarships
(est. 1902, $1,800 each), Alan F. Berger, Margaret Anne Goodall, Arthur
W. Jones, Betty Jane Lee, Bruno Melone, Peter D. Schnore, Robert T.
Shepard, Harriet T. Sosson, Thomas N. Toner (painters); Joanne Fertik
(sculptor).
Honorable Mentions (with free tuition for 1963-64): Jerry Fleishman,
James Gadson, Russell Keeter.
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J. Henry Schiedt Memorial Traveling Scholarships (est. 1949, $1,300
each), Douglass Branch, John Formicola, Nina Klymowska (painters); Nura
Petrov (sculptor).
Lewis S. Ware Traveling Scholarship (est. 1938, $1,300), Cynthia Bayer.
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), Barbara Heisman.
ENDOWED PRIZES
Cecilia Beaux Memorial Prize (est. 1946, $100), James Gadson.
Honorable Mention: Auseklis Ozols.
Lambert and Emma W. Cadwalader Prize (est. 1961, $100), James
Stegall.
John R. Conner Memorial Prize (est. 1953, $50), James Ferrell.
Catharine Grant Memorial Prize (est. 1955, $100), James Stegall.
J. Maurice Gray Foundation Prize (est. 1961, $50), Auseklis Ozols.
Honorable Mention: James Gadson.
Packard Zoological Sketch Prize (est. 1899), Siegfried Halus (1 st Prize,
$50.00); Marjorie Gibbon (2nd Prize, $25.00).
Ramborger Prize (est. 1910, $25), Franklin Shores.
Edna Pennypacker Stauffer Memorial Prize (est. 1961, $100), James
Victor.
Edmund Stewardson Prize (est. 1899, $100), Richard Blake (Tyler School
of Fine Arts).
Honorable Mention: Steve Hinkle, Cynthia Bayer.
Emma Burnham Stimson Prize (est. 1917, $100), Mark Jay Oxman.
Henry J. Thouron Prizes (est. 1903), Auseklis Ozols (awarded by the
Facutly, $100). Honorable Mentions: Joan Casanova, Margaret Goodall
Franklin Shores (1st award by Instructor, $100)
Barbara Heisman (2nd award by Instructor, $50.00)
William Adler (Student Vote, $50.00)
Charles Toppan Prizes (est. 1881), Jerry Fleishman, Gail Goodman, James
Havard, Peter Schnore, Marlene Sellers ($200 each).
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UNENDOWED PRIZES
Thomas Eakins Memorial Prize (est. 1949, $100), Alan Berger.
Gimbel Prize (est. 1958, $50 in art supplies), Murray Dessner.
Marion Higgins Prize (est. 1960), John Formicola ($100).
Honorable Mentions: Margaret Goodall, Moe Brooker ($25 each).
Mindel Caplan Kleinbard Prize (est. 1958, $25 in art supplies), Joan
Casanova .
Perspective Prize (est. 1916, $20), Peter Schnore.
Honorable Mention: Noe l Mahaffey.
Philadelphia Print Clu b Gra phics Prize (est. 1953. A one-year membership in th e club and th e use of its workshop facilities), Judy Hyman.
M. Herbert Syme Prize (est. 1959, $25), David Meade.
John W a namaker Water Color Prize (est. 1954, $50 in art supplies),
James Stegall.
Wo o d row Prize in Gra p hics (est. 1955, $50), Marlene Sellers.
On Thursday, May 2, a cocktail party was held in the Academy from four
until six o'clock. The hosts were members of the Committee on Instruction,
carrying on this exemplary annual event established by Mr. and Mrs. David
Gwinn. Student work submitted for European Traveling Scholarships and
other awards were on exhibition. Seventy-two items were sold during the
exhibition, with a total of $3,196.50.
FOUR LARGE MURALS BY BENTON SPRUANCE, commissioned by the
City of Philadelphia for the chapel of the new Detention Center, were
exhibited from September 3rd through the 8th.
DECAD E O F TH E ARMORY SHOW 1910-1920 (reception and private
view, Tuesday Evening, October 1st; open to the public October 2 through
30). Approximately fifty-six items of painting and sculpture comprised this
show, a portion of the "Six.th Loan Exhibition of the Friends ofthe Whitn~_y-_
~~~~~ Am~ica ~,::, JA • ES G O ODWiN- CLONN EY (O~t:2-t-h;~gh ~.
30). The Academy's painting Militia Training, with fourteen preparatory
drawings, lent by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, were on exhibition.
BENJAMIN WEST AND HIS FAMOUS AMERICAN PROTEGES IN
LONDON (September 25 through December 24) opened with a cocktail
party on Wednesday, the 25th, given by Friends of the American Museum
in Britain. Works by William Dunlap, Ralph Earl, Charles Robert Leslie,
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Charles Willson Peale, Rembrandt Peale, Matthew Pratt, Thomas Sully,
Gilbert Stuart, and Joseph Wright, all of whom had studied in West's
studio in London, were on exhibition, as well as works by Benjamin West.
All but one of the fo rty-nine paintings shown were f rom t he Academy's
permanent collection.
PORTRAITS BY GILBERT STUART (November 7 through December 24).
In connection with the West show, twenty-four of the twenty-eight Stuart
portraits in the Academy's collection were exhibited in Gallery K.
PHILADELPHIA WATER COLOR CLUB 46th ANNUAL EXHIBITION
(reception and private view Friday afternoon, November 15; open to t he
public November 16 through December 15). This exhibition consisted of
eighty items by members of the Philadelphia Water Color Club.
JURY OF SELECTION
Benjamin Eisenstat
Mario Coope r N. A.
Robert F. McGovern
The following prizes were awarded for t he year 1964:
Th e Philade lphia Water Color Medal of Award, to Edith Emerson,
Curator of Woodmere Art Gallery.
Th e Philadelph ia Wate r Color Prize, to Henry Pitz for Rocky Beach.
The Dana Wate r Color Me dal , to G ladys Krieger Bloch for Phoenix.
Th e Al ice McFadde n Eyre Medal, to Mitzi Melnicoff for Interior With
Plants and Figures.
Th e Dawson Me morial Medal , to James Kirk Merrick for Vegetation.
The Pe nn e ll M e morial Me dal , to John Muench for Harvest .
Th e Thornton Oakle y Me mo rial Prize, to H. Emerton Heitland, N. A., for
Morning and the River.
The M . V. Zimmerman Memorial Prize, to Philip Jamison for John
Morton's Fish House.
MORTON L. SCHAMBERG (1881-1918 ) RETROSPECTIVE EXHIBITION (November 21 t hrough December 24). This exhibition consisted of
thirty-t hree items-oils, water colors, and one assemblage-the showing
co-incident with t he p ub lica tion of Morton L. Schomberg, a Monograph by
Ben W olf.
CONTEMPORARY PORTRAITURE FROM THE COVERS OF TIME
MAGAZINE (December 5 t hrough 24). App roximately 90 portraits of
people in the news (1 950 through 1963) we re shown.
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SPECIAL EVENTS
A series of three subscription lectures, under the auspices of the Women's
Club, were held at 5:30, Wednesday evenings, in connection with the
exhibition program. On September 16, Lloyd Goodrich, Director of the
Whitney Museum of American Art, spoke on "The Decade of the Armory
Show"; November 6, Charles Merrill Mount, author and painter, "Gilbert
Stuart and His Irish Period"; November 20, Ben Wolf, writer, critic, painter,
"In Search of Morton L. Schamberg."
FREE CONCERTS
January 25. Works by Francaix, Danzi, Barber, Nordoff, and Mozart; Miro
Woodwind Quintet, Dean Miller, flute; Fred Gruenebaum, oboe; loren Kitt,
clarinet; William Winsted, bassoon; William Capps, French horn; Vladimir
Sokoloff, piano.
February 15th. Works by Handel, Chausson, Respighi, and Debussy; Mary
Minott Burgess, mezzo soprano, assisted by Hidetaro Suzuki, and Miwako
Ninomiya, violins; Russell Smith, cello; Clyn Barrus, viola; Vladimir Sokoloff,
piano.
March 22nd. Works by Schubert and Brahms; Vladimir and Eleanor Sokoloff, piano, assisted by Judith Blegen, soprano; Mary Minott Burgess, mezzo
soprano; Vahan Khanzadian, tenor; John Wiseman, baritone.
April 5th. Works by loelliet, Brahms, Hindemith, Villa-lobos, and Haydn;
laurie Sokoloff, flute; David Cole, cello; Peter Serkin, piano.
November 8th. Works by Beethoven, Bloch, and Schumann; Windsor String
Quartet, Morris Shulik and Isadore Schwartz, violins; Sidney Curtiss, viola;
William Stokking, Jr., cello; Vladimir Sokoloff, piano.
December 13th. Works by de Chambonnieres, William Byrde, J. P. Rameau,
Harold Boatrite, Scarlatti, J. S. Bach, and Handel; Temple Painter, harpsichord.
GALLERY TALKS (sponsored by the Fellowship of the Academy).
January 31 st. Ben Eisenstat, painter, illustrator, and teacher.
February 7th. Dorothy Grafly, critic, editor and publisher of Art in Focus.
February 14th. Morris Blackburn, painter, teacher, printmaker.
February 21 st. Hobson Pittman, painter and teacher.
February 28th. Henry Pitz, painter, teacher, writer, illustrator.
TOTAL ATTENDANCE FOR 1963: 39,146
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ACQUISITIONS
By
P u r c ha se
Through the Lambert Fund:
Brooding by Morris Graves. (tempera)
By
G if t
From Mr. and Mrs. James P. Magill:
Sicilian Decorated Cart (drawing) by Alfred Bendiner
French Policeman (drawing) by Alfred Bendiner
Bull Fight (lithograph) by Alfred Bendiner
Fruit on Table (oil) by Thomas Gaughan
Manayunk (oil) by Thomas Gaughan
Antique Shop (oil) by John Kammer
Art Collector's Desk (oil) by Hilbert Sabin
Death of the Minotaur (lithograph) by Benton Spruance
Where's the Dough (drawing) by William Steig
Bequeathed by Eva Halle Fromkes:
Gothic Madonna (oil) by Maurice Fromkes
Bequeathed by Mrs. Willing Spencer:
Portrait of Mrs. John B. Wallace by Thomas Sully
Portrait of The Rev. Robert Blackwell, D.D., by Thomas Sully
From Horace H. F. Jayne:
Portrait of Elizabeth Mathews Jayne by Adolphe Borie
From Mr. and Mrs. David Grossman:
Antique desk
From Francis Cadwalader:
Peasant Girl (oil) by John Lambert
CONSERVATION OF WORKS FROM
THE PERMANENT COLLECTION
Fifteen paintings received attention during the year from Theodore Siegl, the
Academy's conservator and technical adviser: Militia Training by James
Clonney, Table With Fish and Scales by Carlyle Brown, A Peasant Girl by
John Lambert, Jr., Majestic Tenement by Arthur Osver, Mother and Child
by George de Forest Brush, and Shipwreck by William Trost Richards; the
portraits of Benjamin Franklin by Joseph Wright, Lawrence Washington by
Joseph Badger, Col. Constant Storrs by William Jennys, Anna Maria Smyth
by Sarah M. Peale, Walt Whitman by Thomas Eakins; Admiral David Dixon
Porter, The Rev. John Heckewelder, Mrs. Elder and Three Children, and
Self-Portrait, the four last named by Jacob Eichholtz.
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LOANS
Title
The Gossips
The Spinster
Woman With Cat
Mary McCall
Benjamin West
Elizabeth Shewell West
The Wright Family
Purple Vetch With
Buttercups
California Trip
The Woodcarver
Plummers Lilies
Espana
The Turkey
Portrait of the Artist's Wife
Dissecting Room
Portrait of Helen Henderson
In a Garrett
Incense Burner
Becky Sharp
Studio Study
The Tanagra
La Chambre
Country Wedding; Bishop
White Officiating
The Young Merchants
Self-Portrait
The Announcements
Institut ion
Artist
Hobson Pittman
North Carolina Museum of Art
Robert Feke
Matthew Pratt
Joseph Wright
Charles Burchfield
Antonio Frasconi
Oliver F. Grimley
Philip Jamison
Mauricio Lasansky
Arthur B. Carles
Thomas P. Anshutz
Western Savings Fund, Phila.
II
/I
1/
1/
Columbus (Ga.) Museum of Arts
and Crafts
James Graham & Sons, New York
Raymond Saunders
To artist-for National Institute of
Arts and Letters
John L. Krimmel
William Page
William Rush
Martin Henning
Newark (N. J.) Museum
Hauling
Wind Over Weehawken
Apartment Houses
Synthesis
Fairmount Water Works
Autumn Morning, Fairmount
Park
View of Philadelphia
Lark in Latimer Street
Waldron Academy,
Overbrook
Dock Street
Chew House, Germantown
Approach to Modern Art
Philadelphia Orchestra
Terminal Market
The Wall
Julius
John Brown Going to His
Hanging
Nicodemus
Antique cast (male)
/I
/I
(female)
Gathering Storm over
Philadelphia
Craige's Meadow
John McCoy
The Prodigal Son
Russell Cowles
Andrew Wyeth
Edward Hopper
"
Amon Carter Museum of Western
Art, Forth Worth, Texas
University of Arizona, Tucson
/I
II
Dorothy Van Loan
Thomas Birch
Penn Center Art Galleries, Phila.
Tyler School, Temple Univ., Phila.
Robert Craig
James Hanes
Margaretta Hinchman
Virginia A. McCall
Charles Semser
Russell Smith
Alfred Bendiner
Arthur B. Carles
Abraham Hankins
Walter Stuempfig, Jr.
Richmond Barthe
Urban League of Philadelphia
Horace Pippin
Henry O. Tanner
Unknown
Philadelphia Flower Show
/I
Louis Sloan
Artist - for Guggenheim Grant
Competition
Wilmington (Del.) Society of the
Fine Arts
Dartmouth College, Hanover, N. H.
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LOANS (Cont.)
Artist
Title
The Painter's Triumph
William S. Mount
Sextant
Purple Vetch and
Buttercups
Interior
The Tanagra
Marsden Hartley
Institution
Columbus (Ohio) Gallery of Fine
Arts
Corcoran Gallery of Art
Charles Burchfield
Will Barnett
Thomas P. Anshutz
State Univ. College, Buffalo, N. Y.
Artist-Cherry Hill Mall, N. J.
American Federation of Arts Traveling show "The Philadelphia Tradition"
New England Woman
Between the Rocks
Fairmount Water Works
Jersey Shore
Tree of Life
Composition No.6
The Turkey
Still Life: Fish
Walt Whitman
Lowry's Hill
Earthquake at Rabaul
Promenade
Coal Mine
Interior
Craige's Meadow
Matilda Washington
Dawson
Capt. Wilmon Whilldin
Self·Portrait
Anna Maria Hodkinson
Strawberries and Cherries
Apples and Fox Grapes
George Washington
Fish House Door
The Gossips
Morning Paper No. /I
The Juggler
Late Afternoon
Schuylkill Valley Town
Will iam Montgomery
Mrs. William Montgomery
Return at Six
The Wall
Mary McKean Hoffman
James Ross
The Crucifixion
Summer Scene
Dorcas Combing Her Hair
Elizabeth Peel
George Washington at
Princeton
Anna and Margarefta Peale
Still Life # 3
Anna Maria Smyth
Self-Portrait
Fox Grapes and Peaches
George Washington
Avenue of the Americas
Penn's Treaty with the
Indians
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Cecilia Beaux
Thomas Birch
Morris Blackburn
Hugh Breckenridge
Arthur B. Carles
William M. Chase
Thomas Eakins
Daniel Garber
George Harding
Ben Kamihira
Henry McCarter
II
/I
John McCoy
John Neagle
/I
1/
Charles Willson Peale
James Peale
Margaretta Peale
Raphaelle Peale
Rembrandt Peale
John Frederick Peto
Hobson Pittman
Raphael Sabatini
Francis Speight
1/
/I
Gilbert Stuart
Walter Stuempfig, Jr.
II
/I
1/
Thomas Sully
II
/I
Franklin C. Watkins
Roswell Weidner
Benjamin West
Charles Willson Peale
James Peale
Washing ton County Museum of
Fine Arts, Hagerstown, Md.
"
Sarah M. Peale
Rembrandt Peale
Raphaelle Peale
Charles Peale Polk
Chen Chi
Aileo1town (Pa.) Art Museum
Benjamin West
John Wanamaker's Philadelphia
LOANS (Cont. )
Title
Picnic at Bedford Hills
Perce, Canada
II
Artist
Institution
Florine Stettheimer
Paul Gill
Durlacher Brothers Gallery, N. Y.
Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Po.
Woodmere Art Gallery, Philadelphia
Minn~~polis Inst:;ute ~f ~rt
1/
The Wright Family
William Rush
People
Golden City /I
Purple Vetch and
Buttercups
Taos Plaza in Snow
Escape
The Woodcarver
Painting Table No.
Box Number Two·O-Six
Taxco (Mexico)
Jeweler's Window
Studio Window
Place of Echoes
Acorn Squash
Black Night-Russell's
Corners
The Tides
The French Flag
Turkey Knob Farm
Last Supper
Black Boats
Still Life
White Horse
Apple Blossom Time
Architectural Drawings (2)
Black Night-Russell's
Corners
The Painter's Triumph
Clapboards
Petunias
Mumble the Peg
Fourth of July
Along the River
Black Boats
Lark in Latimer Street
Black Afternoon
Waldron Academy;
Overbrook
Anna and Margaretta Peale
Joseph Wright
William Rush
Guy Pene DuBois
Alfred Blaustein
Graham Galleries, New York
Instituto de Alta Cultura, Lisbon,
Portugal
Charles Burchfield
John Ward Lockwood
John Hanlen
Oliver F. Grimley
Walter Redding
Charles Vinson
Morris Blackburn
Benton Spruance
Bradley Walker 10m lin
Martin Jackson
Henry Lee McFee
George C. Ault
Kenneth Callahan
Abraham Rattner
Jessie-Drew Bear
Mark Tobey
Charles Copeland Burg
Preston Dickinson
Lee Gatch
George Inness
Frank Furness
George C. Ault
William S. Mount
Charles Sheeler
Henry Lee McFee
Henry Inman
Constance Richardson
Sarah Blakeslee
Charles Copeland Burg
Margaretta Hinchman
Anna Ingersoll
Montclair (N. J.) Art Museum
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Fidelity-Philadelphia Trust Co.
1/
II
II
1/
Virginia A. McCall
James Peale
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SCHOOLS
The second term of the 1962-63 school year opened on January 2nd, with
213 day and 101 evening students registered. Exercises for scholarships
and awards were held on May 1st, with Mr. Jacques lipchitz giving the
main address. Approximately $30,000 were distributed to students in the
form of overseas traveling scholarships and other prizes.
The Summer School was conducted from June 17th to July 26th. The faculty
included Francis Speight, Roswell Weidner, John Hanlen, Jim Lueders, and
Jack Massey. Landscape, Life, and Portrait courses were offered. Ninetynine students registered for all or part of the Summer School, and 41
requested grades at the end.
When the 1963-1964 school year began on September 3rd, Peale House,
our new annex at 1811 Chestnut Street was in operation. The cafeteria on
the main floor opened under the direction of James Knipe, and the adjoining lounge was instantly popular with first-year students for relaxation and
dining. The second floor was equipped with studios for painting, graphics,
and clay modeling. Rooms were assigned on the third floor for cast drawing, still life, and water color classes.
The residence for women students on the fifth floor was in charge of Mrs.
Mabel G. Cook, with the assistance of Miss LaVerne Delach. The number
of students in residence increased from 13 to 20 before the beginning of
the second term.
Throughout the fall term, approximately 100 new students did most of
their work at Peale House. Certain classes, however, were scheduled for
them at Broad and Cherry Streets.
The school opened with an increase in enrollment from 213 to 253 students
in the Day School, and from approximately 100 to 125 in Evening School.
Mr. Walker Hancock returned, after a year in Italy, as consulting instructor
in sculpture, and Mr. Ben Kamihira, as instructor in life painting, after
spending a year in Spain. Mr. John Hanlen, who had taught in the
Summer School, continued during the fall as instructor in painting, replacing Mr. John McCoy, who shifted to a special program in water color. Mr.
Julian Levi of New York City joined the faculty in September for one day
a week, conducting a croquis class in the morning, and criticism in the
afternoon; Russell Keeter joined the Evening School faculty to instruct in
elementary drawing and painting; and Mr. Robert B. Ennis, as new lecturer
in art history. Mr. Francis Speight, who is now artist in residence at the
East Carolina College in Greenville, N. c., returned to substitute during
November and part of December for Mr. Walter Stuempfig, Jr., while Mr.
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Stuempfig gave a series of lectures at the Birmingham, Alabama, art museum.
Visiting artists who shared their knowledge with our students included
Pietro Carolfi, an expert in casting; Richard Kimball, Director of the
American Academy in Rome; and Julius Bloch, a former instructor on the
faculty.
The sculpture students went to New York City with Mr. Rosin for a day to
visit points of interest, centered around a visit to a bronze foundry, and
Mr. Blackburn took about 50 students to Barnegat Light in Septetmber to
spend a day painting and sketching.
The Rotary Club of Philadelphia had a show of members' interests in
the ballroom of the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel. The Academy booth included
a figure by a sculpture student, and two paintings by students.
A group of Russian artists visited our graphics studios, exhibited examples
of their work, and talked to the students. They were brought to Philadelphia
under the Cultural Exchange program of the U. S. A. and the U. S. S. R.
in connection with an exhibition of Soviet graphic arts at the Commercial
Museum. A successful Halloween party was held in the studios and the
auditorium at Broad and Cherry Streets.
In addition to the traveling scholarships (listed elsewhere in this report) the
Academy awarded ten full, and twenty-five half, paid-tuition scholarships
during the spring term; and eleven full, and twenty-six half, during the
fall term, from funds designated for this purpose-a total of $11,625.00.
From City Council appropriation, sixteen full-paid tuition scholarships were
given for the school year-a total of $8,000.00. The Board of Education
also gave to students in the Academy schools twenty-one part scholarships
of $200.00 each.
To summarize: The year 1963 represents considerable expansion in the
history of the school - the opening of Peale House, with a residence for
women, and a cafeteria, provided for a larger student body without undue
crowding. The traditional freedom within a fine program of instruction
from outstanding artists was maintained.
M. WISTER WOOD
Administrator of the Schoo/:;
LIBRARY
Only a general report is practical concerning the activities in the Library.
Accessions by purchase were made within the funds allotted, and the
Librarian acknowledges with gratitude the generous gifts of valuable books
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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
Membership. The Academy was happy to welcome 197 new subscribers
into its membership during the year. New income from this source, plus
increases in current members' classifications, and some contributions with
dues, amounted to $3,460.00. In addition, four members were enrolled
as Fellows (in perpetuity).
Concerts. If the enthusiasm of our audiences is any gage, the Academy's
concerts are constantly growing in appeal and response. The fourteenth
consecutive season closed on a rather novel note: its performers (all aged 15)
were exceptionally gifted children of distinguished musical parents: Laurie
Sokoloff, flute; David Cole, cello; Peter Serkin, piano . In December, Temple
Painter played what we believe was the first harpsichord recital ever presented in the galleries. Since the programs are itemized elsewhere in this
Report, I shall not go into further detail, except to voice our continued
appreciation to those who help us make them possible: Vladimir Sokoloff,
music director, and the musicians who collaborated with him; the Recording
Industries' Trust Funds; the Fredric R. Mann Foundation; the Women's
Committee of the Academy; and N. Stetson Company (for the loan of
Steinway pianos). It has been our intent from the start that this part of
our annual activity should not be just another series of concerts, but rather
that it should provide the opportunity to bring the best and the rarelyheard in chamber music together with art under what we believe to be
an ideal set of circumstances.
Other Activities. There was a considerable upswing in group attendance
at exhibitions, particularly from the Philadelphia public schools. Much
of this can be attributed to the fact, especially during our Annual Exhibition,
that the Board of Education designated Mrs. Myra Narbonne of its art
department to encourage greater attendance on the part of public
school pupils, and to be on hand when those classes came, to act as guide
and lecturer. However, there was also a goodly increase from out-of-town
schools, and club groups.
During the year, among special events held in the galleries were: a reception
by the Honorable James H. J. Tate, Mayor of Philadelphia, in honor of
Benton Spruance; an evening meeting of the Franklin Inn Club; a dinner
by the Philadelphia Chapter, American Institute of Architects; the Key
Ball by the Women's Auxiliary Committee of Pennsylvania Hospital; a dinner
in honor of Raphael Sabatini under the auspices of the Da Vinci Art
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Alliance; a cocktail party for the American Museum in Britain, sponsored
by a local committee as a feature of Exposition Brittania; and another
by Time Magazine.
It might be interesting to note, as we are in the midst of expanding our
activities, to include a second building (1811 Chestnut Street), that April 22,
1963 was the 87th anniversary of the formal opening in 1876 of our
"Broad and Cherry" building, it being the third one to house the Academy
since its founding in 1805.
ELIZABETH Z. SWENSON
Director of Membership and
Special Events
PUBLICITY
The year 1963 saw a continuation of the arrangement whereby The
Beacon Agency, Inc., handled public relations, publicity and promotion
for the Academy.
Performance of these duties naturally requires close liaison and regular
contact with the Director and members of the Academy's staff. Their
constant cooperation and assistance is hereby gratefully acknowledged.
The main areas of our work during the year included:
(1) General promotion and public relations concerning the institution itself,
such as preparation of news releases, material for articles and other
copy requested by media of public information;
(2) Publicizing, through the many channels of promotion, the various
exhibitions held in the Academy's galleries (in several instances where
special exhibitions were staged at the Academy in cooperation with other
organizations, promotional activities included contact work with such
organizations as the Philadelphia Water Color Club and TIME Magazine);
(3) Attention to happenings in the Schools of the Academy to obtain news
for publicity about current events, students and faculty.
Also, during the latter part of 1963, we negotiated with the Yellow Cab
Company of Philadelphia for the purpose of securing a public service
showing of promotional taxiposters on 100 cabs.
While we know of no yardstick by which to measure the effectiveness of the
Academy's overall publicity program, other than perhaps increasing attendance figures (for example 39,146 in 1963 when the major Annual Exhibition
featured water colors-prints-drawings, compared with 31,290 in 1961 with
the same type of exhibition), the attention of the newspapers, radio and
television, magazines and other print media has been encouraging.
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Space here does not permit a detailed itemization of all tangible forms
in which Academy publicity during the year has been manifest on the local,
regional and national levels. However, we wish to express special thanks to:
The city editors of the Philadelphia daily newspapers; Dorothy Grafly, art
critic of The Bulletin and editor & publisher of Art In Focus; Judy Jennings
and Ruth Seltzer of The Bulletin; and Victoria Donohoe, art critic, and
Katherine Dunlap, society editor, of The Inquirer-for their coverage of art,
cultural and social events at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
THE BEACON AGENCY, INC.
WOMEN ' S COMMITTEE
The year 1963 opened for the Women's Committee with the membership
subscription dinner before the 158th Annual Exhibition of American Water
Colors, Prints, and Drawings. Mrs. Coleman, along with Mrs. Schiffer and
Mrs. Reath, made the arrangements for a very tasty dinner which was
attended by approximately 275, rather more than is usually expected in
a "water color" year. Ladies of the Committee and wives of Board members
presided at the refreshment tables for the private view which followed.
On March first, the Women's Committee sponsored a theater benefit. Miss
Helen Hayes and Mr. Maurice Evans gave a delightful performance in "A
Program for Two Players" and then were escorted to the Academy by
Mr. Gwinn, where a champagne supper-dance was held in the galleries.
Buses were provided to and from the Academy and the theater, thus avoiding some of the inconvenience caused by the rain. Mr. Rubin provided
music for the dancing, Mrs. Wainwright arranged the decorations, and Mrs.
Hinkson kindly supplied a corsage of home-grown orchids for Miss Hayes.
(The proceeds from this party were later donated to the Progress Fund.)
In early May members of the Committee served as hostesses at the party
given by the Committee on Instruction to encourage the sale of student
work shown in the competitions for travel scholarships and other prizes.
For the fall season, the Committee, along with the Board and staff of the
Academy, arranged a series of three lectures to coincide with shows
then current in the galleries. The first was "The Decade of the Armory
Show-1910-1920" by Lloyd Goodrich; the second was by Charles Merrill
Mount on "Gilbert Stuart's Lost Years"; and the final one was "In Search
of Morton Livingston Schamberg" by Ben Wolf. The lectures, given in the
late afternoon, each followed by cocktails, were exceedingly interesting
though not sufficientlty well attended, perhaps due to the hour at which
they were held.
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Throughout the year the Committee continued to interest itself in the needs
of the students and supplied various properties for the still-life classes.
It also contributed a sum toward the cost of the free concerts given at the
Academy. These concerts were exceedingly well attended both by the
students and the general public.
CAROLINE S. BARTOL
Chairman
NEW MEMBERS
Enrolled during 1963, including those who increased their classification.
* Fellows
**Mrs. Leonard T. Beale
** J. Welles Henderson, Jr.
**Mrs. J. Welles Henderson, Jr.
** John Stewart
Life Members
**Mrs. William D. Gordon
Arthur Klein
Mrs. Andries Henrik Schramm, Jr.
Contributing Members
Bernard M. Auer
**Dr. Samuel C. Contakos
James K. Stone
Mrs. James K. Stone
**Alfred Zantzinger
Sustaining Membe rs
Mrs. Henry S. Bromley
James M. Cohen
Walter R. Coley
Mrs. James S. Collins
W. Arthur Dill
Edmond du Pont
Miss Ida Edelson
Alvin M. Ehret, Sr.
**Mrs. John C. Keene
**Mrs. Ward Dix Kerlin
Edward M. K. Klapp
John W . McCoy, 2nd
George A. Robbins
Dr. Jonas B. Robitscher
William A. Schnader
Annual Members
Dr. Fred Alexander
Carl H. Anderson
Miss Gretchen Anton-Smith
Jerome B. Apfel
Mrs. Norman Asher
Mrs. John A!hmead
Jon W. Bean
Mrs. Harry M. Bell
Mrs . D. Jacques Benoliel
Bernard Bernbaum
Clarence E. Bertolet
George P. Bissell, Jr.
Mrs. Alan D. Bleznak
Mrs. Bernard Bloch
Miss Mary A. Boardman
Willard S. Boothby, Jr.
Robinson Bosler
Mrs. John McE . Bowman, Jr.
Mrs. Thomas O. Bretherlon
John A. Brittain
Dr. Robert S. Brodey
Miss R. Jean Brownlee
T. B. Buchholz
Mrs. William B. Bullock
Francis T. Burke
Mrs. W. Atlee Burpee
Mrs. J. Ebert Butterworth
John Butterworth
Dr. Margaret Caball
Edward Cantor
Mrs. lucien B. Carpenter
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Miss Rachel Cartledge
Rear Adm. Robt. W. Cavenagh
Mrs. E. Calvert Cheston
Mrs. John H. Church, Jr.
Maurice L. Clancy
Mrs. Avery B. Clark
Miss Alice W. Clement
Mrs. Charles F. Clement, Jr.
Mrs. George H. Clement
George L. Cohen
Charles T. Coiner
Mrs. Charles J. Cole
Mrs. Henry L. Collins, Jr.
Neil L. Conver
Mrs. Samuel Cooke
Mrs. Robert Copeland
Joseph A. Corcoran
John L. Cornog
Mrs. Walter J. Cowan, Jr.
Mrs. Herman Cutler
Alfred G. Cypress
S. A. Dalton
Mrs. Frank P. Davis
Mrs . Robert Hare Davis
Mrs. William T. Davis
Frank J . Deker
Mrs. Francis J. Delaney
Miss Eileen Denvir
Mrs. Leonard C. Dill
Leonard C. Dill, Jr.
Mrs. Edwin A. Donaghy
Mrs. B. Gould Donohue
Mrs. Walter De C. Douglas
Mrs. Harry C. Doyle
Mrs. Ford B. Draper
Lee F. Driscoll
Mrs. Edward J. Dwyer
Mrs. Ralph Earle, 2nd
Mrs. Samuel P. Eckert
Dr. Anne M. Edelmann
Mrs. Walter E. Egbert
Miss A. Elizabeth Eichman
Mrs. John Eimerbrink
Mrs. Howard E. Eldridge
William Elliott
Herman M. Ellis
Miss Edith Emerson
Mrs. Woodruff J. Emlen
Mrs. John Estey
John Evans
Mrs. Rowland Evans
Dr. Theodore H. Fairbanks
Charles J. Faunce
* Enrolled in perpetuity.
** Increased classification.
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Miss Helen F. Faust
Max Feigenberg
Michael T. Fiorillo
Mrs. Robert F. Fitzpatrick
Mrs. Theodore C. Phillips
Mrs. Thomas C. Pillion
Mrs. S. Soski Piroeff
Robert T. Poole
Morris P. Gallagher
Henry G. Gardiner
David L. German , 3rd
Mrs. Edward S. Gifford, Jr.
Miss Mary Therese Gillen
Mrs. Hyman Gold
Mrs. Michael Goldenburg
Mrs. Melvin S. Gordon
Dr. Edward Gosfield
Mrs. Francis I. Gowen
Mrs. Paul H. Griffith
Evan Randolph, Jr.
Mrs. Edward A. Reed
Mrs. George W. D. Rockett
Mrs. Norman F. S. Russell, Jr.
Henry E. Haught, Jr.
Miss Cynthia Heppenstall
Mrs. Lindsay C. Herkness, Jr.
Mrs. Roy A. Heymann
Mrs. Efrem Hian
Robert W. Hompe
Mrs. De Forest Hurlburd
John S. Hurlburt
Mrs. Nathaniel Jacobson
John K. Jenney
William Jepson
C. Edwin Johnson
Mrs. Herbert E. Joseph
Mrs. Robert Kaye
Mrs. William R. Klaus
Mrs. Erasmus H. Kloman
Mrs. Joseph N. Lansburg
Mrs. Richmond Lattimore
AI Paul Lefton, Jr.
Mrs. Robert F. Lehman
Mrs. Robert P. Levy
Mrs . Aaron Lichtin
J. Grant McCabe
Mrs. Thomas D. McCloskey
Theodore T. Newbold
Dr. Hugh O ' Neill
Miss Mary Dale Owen
Paul E. Paalborg
Mrs. Stanley Packman
Horace A. Paul
Mrs. Leonard C. Peskin
Mrs. Horace Pettit
Herbert W. Salus, Jr.
Mrs. Lewis C. Scheffey, Jr.
Mrs. Philip A. Schoettle
George P. Scurria
J. G. Sheaffer
Richard H. Shryock
William D. Smith
Mrs. Joseph N. Snellen burg
Martin P. Snyder
Mrs. Edmund B. Spaeth
Robert K. Spencer
Mrs. E. Bessie Steinberg
Frank M. Steinberg
Edward Barnett Steinmetz
Mrs. Robert L. Stephenson
Mrs. Bernard Stern
Mrs. Markley Stevenson
Oskar G. Stonorov
Mrs. Bayard T. Storey
Mrs. Harry L. Strube
Miss Geraldine Sydney-Smith
Mrs.
Miss
Mrs.
Mrs.
Samuel Tauder
Joan E. Trainer
Alfred Troncelliti
Stanley C. Tuttleman
Dr. Charles A. W. Uhle
Frederick T. Van Urk
Mrs. Thomas J. Vischer
Mrs. John.W. Watson
Mrs. Mayer L. Weinstein
William Henry Welsh, Jr.
Mrs. W. S. Wilcox
Thomas A. Williams
William B. Wilson
Mrs. William Wolgin
Mrs. Granville Worrell
Curtis Wright, Jr.
Robert Wyndra
Mrs. Alfred G . Zantzinger
Stanley Zeman
THE COMMITTEE ON FELLOWSHIP
Mabel W. Gill, Chairman-Treasurer
Ethel Ashton
Irene Denney
Roy C. Nuse
Roswell Weidner
Mary Mullineux
The function of the Committee is to administer the following funds: Henry J.
Thouron Memorial Fund, Picture Purchase Fund, Special Fund, and the Mary
Butler Memorial Fund for the benefit of Fellowship members, either present
or former students and also the William Clothier Watts Fund, a welcome
gift of $2,000 for aid to students. The Butler Fund, which now amounts to
approximately $12,000, is still short of its goal of $15,000.
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 painting and sculpture to encourage or assist artists,
or to 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 forme r Academy students,
art workers, and Fellowship members.
THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE P.A.F.A.
The main purpose of the Fellowship, which was organized in 1897, is to
fo~ter a spirit of fraternity among former and present Academy students.
OFFICERS
Roswell Weidner.
Roy C. Nuse .
Mabel Woodrow Gill
Mary Townsend Mason
Francis Speight .
Franklin C. Watkins
Paul Wescott .
Ethel V. Ashton .
Elizabeth Eichman
Irene Denney
. Presiden1
. First Vice Presiden1
Vice Presiden1
Vice Presiden1
Vice President
Vice President
Vice President
Recording Secretary
. Corresponding Secretary
. Treasurer
MEMBERSHIP CLASSES
Annual $10.00
Yearly Members
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 a nd 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
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.
BROAD AND CHERRY STREETS • PHILADELPHIA
158th ANNUAL REPORT
1963
Cover: Portrait of Mrs. John 8. Wallace by Thomas Sully
Bequest of Mrs. Willing Spencer
The One Hundred and Fifty-eighth
Annual Report
of
PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS
FOR THE YEAR 1963
Presented to the Meeting of the Stockholders
of the Academy on February 3, 1964
OFFICERS
President
Vice President
Treasurer
. Secretary
Frank T. Howard
Alfred Zantzinger
C. Newbold Taylor
Joseph T. Fraser, Jr.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Mrs. Herbert C. Morris
Evan Randolph, Jr.
George B. Roberts
(resigned in October)
Henry W . Sawyer, 3rd
John Stewart
James K. Stone
C. Newbold Taylor
Franklin C. Watkins
William H. S. Wells
William Coxe Wright
Alfred Zantzinger
Mrs. Leonard T. Beale
Henry S. Drinker (resigned in November
David Gwinn
J. Welles Henderson
Frank T. Howard (ex officio)
R. Sturgis Ingersoll
Arthur C. Kaufmann
Henry B. Keep
James P. Magill (Director Emeritus)
Henry S. McNeil
John W. Merriam
C. Earle Miller
Ex officio
Mrs. John G. Bartol, Jr.
Fredric R. Mann
Roswell Weidner
Representing Women's Committee
Representing City Council
. Representing Faculty
Solicitor
Maurice B. Saul
STANDING COMMITTEES
COMMITTEE ON COLLE C TION S AND
Franklin C. Watkins, Chairman
Mrs. Leonard T. Beale
Mrs. Herbert C. Morris
EXHIBIT I ON S
William H. S. Wells, Jr.
William Coxe Wright
Alfred Zantzinger
COMMITT EE ON FINAN C E
C. Newbold Taylor, Chairman
James P. Magill
John Stewart
COMMITTEE ON INSTRUCT I ON
John W. Merriam, Chairman
George B. Roberts (to October)
David Gwinn
Mrs. John G. Bartol, Jr.
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C. Earle Miller
Arthur C. Kaufman
Roswell Weidner
SPECIAL COMMITTEES
PLANNING COMMITTEE
John W. Merriam, Chairman
J. Welles Henderson, Jr.
Henry S. McNeil
James K. Stone
C. Newbold Taylor
William H. S. Wells
Ex officio
Frank T. Howard
Joseph T. Fraser, Jr.
Alfred Zantzinger
NOMINATIONS COMMITTEE
Henry B. Keep, Chairman
J. Welles Henderson, Jr.
C. Newbold Taylor
WOMEN'S COMMITTEE
Mrs. John G. Bartol, Jr., Chairman
Mrs. David J. Grossman, Treasurer and Corresponding Secretary
Mrs. Evan Randolph, Jr.
Mrs. Lawrance A. Brown, Jr.
Mrs. Francis T. Chambers
Mrs. George Reath
Mrs. Joseph Sill Clark, Jr.
Mrs. Herbert F. Schiffer
Mrs. Albert M. Greenfield, Jr.
Mrs. James M. R. Sinkler
Mrs. David Gwinn
Mrs. J. H. Ward Hinkson
Mrs. H. Lea Hudson
Mrs. Boudinot Stimson
Mrs. Caspar W. B. Townsend
Mrs. T. F. Dixon Wainwright
Mrs. Arthur C. Kaufmann
Mrs. Franklin C. Watkins
Mrs. Erasmus H. Kloman
Mrs. ) Walter H. West
Mrs. C. Earle Miller
Mrs. S. S. White, 3rd
Mrs. Alfred Zantzinger
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STAFF
GENERAL
Joseph T. Fraser, Jr.
Mabel L. Eiseley
Charles J. Marsh (1883-1963)
Dorothy E. Runk
August V. Viilu .
Rita Damiano
louise Wallman
Elizabeth Z. Swenson
E. Elizabeth Fermanis
Frances M. Vanderpool
Harriet P. Broza (to July 1)
SCHOOLS
M. Wister Wood
Roswell Weidner
Nancy W. Dall .
Constance A. Taylor
Ethel V. Ashton .
Mabel Gearhart Cook
LaVerne Delach
Director and Secretary
. Assistant Director
Assistant to the Secretary
Secretary to the Director
Comptroller
Assistant to the Comptroller
Registrar
Director of Membership and Special Events
Receptionist and Billing Clerk
Exhibitions and Membership Clerk
Public Relations
. Administrator
In Charge of Evening Program
Assistant to the Administrator
Secretary to the Administrator
Librarian
Resident Counselor, Peale House
. Receptionist, Peale House
F A C U L T Y (Season of 1963- 1964)
Day School
Morris Blackburn
Ben Kamihira
Paul A. Greenwood
Julian Levi
John Hanlen
Jimmy C. lueders
Walker Hancock
John McCoy
Homer Johnson
Hobson Pittman
Roswell Weidner
Even ing School
Morris Blackburn
Thomas Gaughan
Paul A. Greenwood
Summe r Day School
John Hanlen
John L. Massey
Harry Rosin
Edward Shenton
Louis Sloan
Walter Stuempng, Jr.
Franklin C. Watkins
Homer Johnson
Ben Kamihira
Russell Keeter
Roswell Weidner
Jimmy C. lueders
Louis Sloan
Gerd Utescher
Jimmy C. lueders
Francis Speight
Roswell Weidner
Augmenting the Faculty
William Campbell
Robert B. Ennis
Dr. Henry I. Perlmutter
Theodor Siegl
ACADEMY BUILDING
Isaiah J. Sellers, Superintendent
PEALE HOUSE
James J. Lulias
James R. Knipe .
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Manager
Consultanl
CONSOLIDATED
TREASURER'S
REPORT
September 1, 1962, to August 31, 1963
INCOME:
Art Gal/ery & Exhibitions .. .... . . ........... ... .. .. . . .... $ 14,884.17
School
. . .. . . ... ........ . . .. ..... ... ........... . ... .. 119,132.03
Trust Funds ... ... .. ..... ............ ......... ... . .... 120,137.61
Membership Dues ........................ . .. . .........
19,475.00
Contributions (unrestricted) ...... . . .. ... . ................
1,729.86
City Appropriation ... . .. ..... . . ...... . . .. ... . .........
25,000.00
Total
.......... . ............................ $300,358.67
EXPENSE:
Art Gallery & Exhibitions .. ....... . . .... . ...... .. . . . . ... . $162,11 0.68
School
.................... . . .......... .. . . . ... . ..... 113,516.54
Peale House ........................................ .
Total
47,404.20
...... .... ... ................ . . . ... .... $323,031.42
Net Operating Deficit ........................ $ 22,672.75
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CONTRIBUTIONS FOR THE CALENDAR YEAR 1963
UNRESTRICTED:
Mrs. Rodolphe M. de Schauensee ........... . ....... .. $ 614.86
Dr. and Mrs. Edgar P. Richardson . . ... ...... .. ... . . ..
50.00
Mrs. Thomas S. Gates . . ... .. .. .. .. ... .. ...... . .... .
25 .00
Edith Stix Wasserman.. .. .... . .... . ... .. ........... .
15.00
Margaret C. McCreeny .. .. .. ... . ... . ... . ......... .. _ _ _5_._0_0
$
709.86
MISCELLANEOUS:
City of Philadelphia, 1963 appropriation .. . . ... . ... .... $25,000.00
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania grant. . ...... .. ... . ....
2,031.25
William Coxe Wright, for Directors' Fund...... .. ... . . . .
1,000.00
Fellowship, for Fellowship Exhibition expense...... . ... .
350.00
Mrs. Herbert C. Morris, for Directors' Fund... . .........
200.00
Fidelity·Philadelphia Trust Co., for Haney Foundation
150.00
Award . .. .... .. .. . . . .. .... .. ............. ... .
Dr. and Mrs. Loren C. Eiseley, for Library and Concerts .. .
100.00
100.00
C. Newbold Taylor, for Directors' Fund ..... . ......... .
Philadelphia Foundation, for Leona Karp Braverman
Prize ..... .. . . ... . .. .. ... ....... . .... . .. ... .. _ _. .;3;.;6;';'.;;.6.;;..
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$28,967.88
SCHOOL:
School District of Philadelphia, for 21 scholarships ...... $ 4 ,200.00
Mrs. Emma W. Cadwalade r, for Emma and Lambert
Cadwalader Prize . .. .. ..... . .... . ... . .... . . . .. 4 ,070.00
George D. Widener, fo r Widener Scholarships.. .... .. . .
2,000.00
Mrs. Maurice Gray, for student tuition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
250.00
Jimmy C. Lueders, for student tuition. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
250.00
Mrs. Ann Stokes, for student tuition. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
250.00
Marion ' D. Higgins, for prize .. .............. . . .. .....
250.00
School District of Philadelphia, for student tuition.. . . ..
200.00
John McCoy, for studen t t uition. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
150.00
Mrs. Emma Cadwalader, for prize...... . .... . .. ......
100.00
Elizabeth Geist Ely, for prize. ... .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
100.00
Mabel Gill, for Woodrow Prize......... .. .. .... . . ....
100.00
David Gwinn, for Ea kins Prize ..... .. . . .. ...... . .. ... .
100.00
David Gwinn, for student party...... . .... .. ....... . .
91.93
Arthur C. Kaufmann, for student party ... . ... .. .... . . :
91 .93
John Merriam, for student party. .. .. .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
91 .93
C. Earle Miller, for student party.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
91.93
George B. Roberts, for student party.. . .... . .. . . ... .. .
91.93
Mae Diffenbaugh, for prize...... . ... . . . . .. .. . .......
45.00
Mrs. Herbert Syme, for prize .... .. .. ; ....... .. . . . .. . . _ _. .;2;.;5;';'.;;.0.;;..0
$12,549.65
Total . ... . ..... . . .. . .. .... . . . .... . .. .. ... . ... . $42,227.39
DONORS TO THE PROGRESS FUND:
J . Welles Henderson, Arthur C. Kaufmann, John Stewart, C. Newbold Taylor, Mrs. Leonard
T. Beale, Sordoni Foundation, Mrs. Alfred Zantzinger, Sarah Wentz Sin kle r, Alphin J. and
Alphin W. Cameron Memorial Fund, Frank T. Howard, William Coxe Wright, David J.
Grossman, Joh n W. Merriam, Evan Ra ndo lph, Jr., Alfred Bissell, J a mes P. Magill, Franklin
P. Watkins, Women's CommiHee ................... .. .... .. .. . . .. . Total $87,398.70
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REPORT OF THE OFF I CERS AND
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Few years in the Academy's history have so taxed the energies and dedication of the members of the Board of Directors and the professional staff
as 1963. Before recounting the major problems and activities, changes in
our Board of Directors must be recorded. The two new members of the
Board are William H. S. Wells whose election in January accomplished a
closer relationship with Saul, Ewing, Remick and Saul, the law firm which
has so effectively advised the Academy on legal matters since 1921, and
Evan Randolph, Jr. At his election in October, Mr. Randolph assumed the
important and heavy responsibilities of chairman of the fund drive then
forming.
George Brooks Roberts resigned in September after eighteen years as a
director, and in December, Mr. Drinker's failing health dictated his resignation. Mr. Drinker had served on the Board for forty-three years, twenty-five
of those years as vice president and one as president. Even when circumstances seem to justify them, resignations are always received with sincere
regret.
It is with genuine sorrow that we record the death on November eleventh
of Charles J. Marsh, whose record has perhaps exceeded in length that of
any other Academy employee-he served on the office staff with utmost
devotion for thirty-nine years. We also express regret that the changing
of her home from Philadelphia to New York City necessitated('-"the resignation of Mrs. Stanley Broza, Jr., who had proved herself a most valued staff
member, particularly through her exemplary help to our Women's Committee.
Elsewhere our report lists the new personnel who have joined our ranks
as we inaugurated activities in the property on Chestnut Street, purchased
last year. Indeed, this new project, which has chiefly consumed our extra
energies, is the most important aspect of this year's report. In January a
thorough examination of the newly acquired real estate revealed the
breadth of attention and repair necessary to restore all of the mechanical
services, such as plumbing, heating, wiring and so on. It was decided that
the second and third floors be dedicated to school studios. Two handsome
and well-lighted painting rooms were created on the whole north width
of th~ building by removing the ceiling back to the first structural bay, thus
achieving great ceiling height. The major graphics equipment, including
splendid new additions of presses, work tables, sinks, warmers and the
like, was housed in several spacious rooms in the center of the building.
The south rooms were altered to accommodate classes in modelingi several
smaller rooms provided ideal studios for drawing from the antique and
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for the study of still life. The purpose of all these changes has been to
give the first-year students a department completely adequate for their
beginning technical studies. Since lecture courses in the late hours of each
day continue to be held at Broad and Cherry Streets, the young beginners
are brought into contact with the venerable parent place.
The fifth floor of the Chestnut Street building was handsomely renovated
and furnished to house women students. As expected, however, the number
taking advantage of these quarters was not great during the fall semester
for the reason that the architects and contractors were sorely pushed to
complete even a limited number of housing units by the fourth of September.
On the ground floor, adjacent to a spacious room which provides a dining
area and comfortable student lounge, a modern cafeteria was installed.
The property has been renamed Peale House, in honor of Charles Willson
Peale and the other artist members of his distinguished family.
Coincident with the adjustments recounted, study was begun, with the help
of the architectural firm of Harbeson, Hough, Livingston and Larson, to
determine how the single-width property to the, west of the main building
could be put to maximum use. It was decided to build a new, one-storey
building, contemporary in design, to serve as a lobby and lounge to a
proposed Academy dining club. The dining area, in line with the re-naming
of the main property, will be know as the Peale Club, and will be housed
in new and elegant quarters on the lower Chestnut Street level which previously housed the Chestnut Club. Space and time are not adequate in
this report for full particulars~ nor have details concerning membership in
the Club been completely formulated. It seems clearly indicated, however,
that the dining facilities, and superlative food, will act in a practical way
to support the whole project. With inviting settings indoors and the use
of the attractive garden area for dining in the summer season, delightful
times are in prospect.
Ideal use for those areas not yet completed have been carefully considered. Two large, handsome display galleries with exposure directly on
Chestnut Street, are nearing readiness on the ground floor. An auxiliary
exhibition program will bring that aspect of the Academy's life to the
great audience passing the doors in this new and active environment. Thus
a new chapter in our history is launched.
The Academy has the unique record of never having made a major appeal
to the public for financial aid, but, with the work reported above in progress, a fund drive is now dictated. Loyal and generous support from Philadelphians and from the American art world at large is needed to meet this
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great challenge, and the President, Board, and working committees are
confident of success.
A few of the less dramatic aspects of this year1s activities must find space
in at least a thumbnail sketch. At Broad and Cherry Streets a renovation
project with rewarding results was accomplished by renewing the glass in
both ceiling and roof skylights over Galleries H and I. The resulting
brilliance of the light reveals the urgency of carrying out this project over
all our galleries. The fund drive must insure major attention to our great
Frank Furness building on Broad Streetl as well as provision for renovations to our new Chestnut Street property.
Our very real gratitude continues
generous annual grant of $25 000.
tinues to give modest assistance to
appreciation l an increase from that
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to the City of Philadelphia for the
The State of Pennsylvania also conthe School l and we can record with
source for the current a'cademic year.
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Late in the year the importance of our School received gratifying recognition. The Ford Foundation l in a broad program to give encouragement and
help to independent art and music institutionsl has awarded us a grant
of $55 000. These monies l available over a five-year period l make possible
paid tuition and/or grants-in-aid to worthy and gifted students. The program will be inaugurated by competition in the spring of 1964.
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Warmest thanks and praise are expressed once more to the gracious and
loyal members of our Women/s Committee our exemplary facultyl our loyal
staffl and all those dedicated friends who see the broadening and exciting
new vistas ahead and lend new life and importance to this l the oldest fine
arts institution in the United States.
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FRANK T. HOWARD1 President
JOSEPH T. FRASER1 JR' Director
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EXHIBITIONS
THE 158th ANNUAL EXHIBITION, WATER COLORS, PRINTS, AND
DRAWINGS (reception and private view, Wednesday Evening, January
16th; open to the public, January 18th through March 3rd).
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 fourth devoted to water colors, prints, and drawings,
held on alternate years with oils and sculptures.
JURY OF SELECTION
Adolph Dehn
Sidney Goodman
Romas Viesulas
PRIZES AND AWARDS
Awarded by the Directors of the Philadelphia Water Color Club:
Philadelph ia Water Color Club M ed al of Award , to Andrew Wyeth.
Pennell M emorial Meda l, to Rico LeBrun for Study for Two Prophets.
Dawson M emorial Medal , to W. Emerton Heitland for Waterfront Tank.
Awarded by Jury of Selection:
Philade lphia Water Color Prize ($200), to Jacob Landau for Tragic Hero.
Dana Water Color M eda l, to Bogomir Bogdanovic for Winter Silhouette.
Al ice McFadden Eyre M e dal , to Klindt Houlberg for Winnebago Family.
Honorable Mentions: For the Dawson Memorial Medal, to Robert Laessig
for Sentinels in the Sun; for the Alice McFadden Eyre Medal, to Wanda
Miller Matthews for Paesaggio in Italia and John Solen for Westwood
Village No.2; for the Philadelphia Water Color Prize, to George A.
Nama for Interior No.2.
Number sold: 149; total $13,276.00.
FELLOWSHIP ANNUAL EXHIBITION (reception and private view, Friday
evening, March 15; open to the public March 16th through April 14th).
This partly-invited, partly-juried exhibition consisted of work by professional
artists who have attended the Academy's Schools.
JURIES
Oil
Lois Eaton Dollin
Water Color and Graphics
Christine McGinnis
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Lucius Crowell
A. P. Hankins
Raymond Saunders
Oliver Grimley
Sculpture
Margaret Wasserman Levy
Dexter Jones
AWARDS
Percy M. Owens Memorial for a Distinguished Pennsylvania Artist
($250), to Raphael Sabatini.
Harrison S. Morris Memorial ($100 divided), to John Deckard for Tragic
Jam (drawing); Leon Kelly for Still-Life With the City Flag of Pollensa-7960
(water color).
Mary Butler Memorial Award for any medium ($100), to Robert
Gwathmey for Flowers for the Pulpit (water color).
Bertha H. Goldberg Memorial Award for any medium ($100), to Russell
Keeter for Spiritual Earth (oil).
May Audubon Post Prize for oil or sculpture ($50), to Franklin Watkins
for Sti/l Life (oil).
Caroline Gibbons Granger Memorial Prize for oils ($50), to Peter Buttos
for Window at L' Aiglon.
Leona Karp Braverman Memorial Award for sculpture ($50), to Frank
Gasparro for The Taming of the Minotaur.
Mabel Wilson Woodrow Award for a student represented in the show
($50), to Toshiharu Kitagawa for Pierian Spring (oil).
17 items were sold from the show, totaling $3,195.00.
STUDENT EXHIBITION FOR ANNUAL AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS (May 1 through 26).
At special exercises held on May 1 at 4 P.M. it was announced that fifteen
traveling scholarships and other prizes, amounting to $27,730.00 had been
awarded to students in the Schools of The Pennsylvania Academy of the
Fine Arts. The address was given by Mr. Jacques lipchitz, sculptor, and,
following the address, awards were made on recommendation of the
Faculty.
William Emlen Cresson Memorial European Traveling Scholarships
(est. 1902, $1,800 each), Alan F. Berger, Margaret Anne Goodall, Arthur
W. Jones, Betty Jane Lee, Bruno Melone, Peter D. Schnore, Robert T.
Shepard, Harriet T. Sosson, Thomas N. Toner (painters); Joanne Fertik
(sculptor).
Honorable Mentions (with free tuition for 1963-64): Jerry Fleishman,
James Gadson, Russell Keeter.
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J. Henry Schiedt Memorial Traveling Scholarships (est. 1949, $1,300
each), Douglass Branch, John Formicola, Nina Klymowska (painters); Nura
Petrov (sculptor).
Lewis S. Ware Traveling Scholarship (est. 1938, $1,300), Cynthia Bayer.
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), Barbara Heisman.
ENDOWED PRIZES
Cecilia Beaux Memorial Prize (est. 1946, $100), James Gadson.
Honorable Mention: Auseklis Ozols.
Lambert and Emma W. Cadwalader Prize (est. 1961, $100), James
Stegall.
John R. Conner Memorial Prize (est. 1953, $50), James Ferrell.
Catharine Grant Memorial Prize (est. 1955, $100), James Stegall.
J. Maurice Gray Foundation Prize (est. 1961, $50), Auseklis Ozols.
Honorable Mention: James Gadson.
Packard Zoological Sketch Prize (est. 1899), Siegfried Halus (1 st Prize,
$50.00); Marjorie Gibbon (2nd Prize, $25.00).
Ramborger Prize (est. 1910, $25), Franklin Shores.
Edna Pennypacker Stauffer Memorial Prize (est. 1961, $100), James
Victor.
Edmund Stewardson Prize (est. 1899, $100), Richard Blake (Tyler School
of Fine Arts).
Honorable Mention: Steve Hinkle, Cynthia Bayer.
Emma Burnham Stimson Prize (est. 1917, $100), Mark Jay Oxman.
Henry J. Thouron Prizes (est. 1903), Auseklis Ozols (awarded by the
Facutly, $100). Honorable Mentions: Joan Casanova, Margaret Goodall
Franklin Shores (1st award by Instructor, $100)
Barbara Heisman (2nd award by Instructor, $50.00)
William Adler (Student Vote, $50.00)
Charles Toppan Prizes (est. 1881), Jerry Fleishman, Gail Goodman, James
Havard, Peter Schnore, Marlene Sellers ($200 each).
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UNENDOWED PRIZES
Thomas Eakins Memorial Prize (est. 1949, $100), Alan Berger.
Gimbel Prize (est. 1958, $50 in art supplies), Murray Dessner.
Marion Higgins Prize (est. 1960), John Formicola ($100).
Honorable Mentions: Margaret Goodall, Moe Brooker ($25 each).
Mindel Caplan Kleinbard Prize (est. 1958, $25 in art supplies), Joan
Casanova .
Perspective Prize (est. 1916, $20), Peter Schnore.
Honorable Mention: Noe l Mahaffey.
Philadelphia Print Clu b Gra phics Prize (est. 1953. A one-year membership in th e club and th e use of its workshop facilities), Judy Hyman.
M. Herbert Syme Prize (est. 1959, $25), David Meade.
John W a namaker Water Color Prize (est. 1954, $50 in art supplies),
James Stegall.
Wo o d row Prize in Gra p hics (est. 1955, $50), Marlene Sellers.
On Thursday, May 2, a cocktail party was held in the Academy from four
until six o'clock. The hosts were members of the Committee on Instruction,
carrying on this exemplary annual event established by Mr. and Mrs. David
Gwinn. Student work submitted for European Traveling Scholarships and
other awards were on exhibition. Seventy-two items were sold during the
exhibition, with a total of $3,196.50.
FOUR LARGE MURALS BY BENTON SPRUANCE, commissioned by the
City of Philadelphia for the chapel of the new Detention Center, were
exhibited from September 3rd through the 8th.
DECAD E O F TH E ARMORY SHOW 1910-1920 (reception and private
view, Tuesday Evening, October 1st; open to the public October 2 through
30). Approximately fifty-six items of painting and sculpture comprised this
show, a portion of the "Six.th Loan Exhibition of the Friends ofthe Whitn~_y-_
~~~~~ Am~ica ~,::, JA • ES G O ODWiN- CLONN EY (O~t:2-t-h;~gh ~.
30). The Academy's painting Militia Training, with fourteen preparatory
drawings, lent by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, were on exhibition.
BENJAMIN WEST AND HIS FAMOUS AMERICAN PROTEGES IN
LONDON (September 25 through December 24) opened with a cocktail
party on Wednesday, the 25th, given by Friends of the American Museum
in Britain. Works by William Dunlap, Ralph Earl, Charles Robert Leslie,
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Charles Willson Peale, Rembrandt Peale, Matthew Pratt, Thomas Sully,
Gilbert Stuart, and Joseph Wright, all of whom had studied in West's
studio in London, were on exhibition, as well as works by Benjamin West.
All but one of the fo rty-nine paintings shown were f rom t he Academy's
permanent collection.
PORTRAITS BY GILBERT STUART (November 7 through December 24).
In connection with the West show, twenty-four of the twenty-eight Stuart
portraits in the Academy's collection were exhibited in Gallery K.
PHILADELPHIA WATER COLOR CLUB 46th ANNUAL EXHIBITION
(reception and private view Friday afternoon, November 15; open to t he
public November 16 through December 15). This exhibition consisted of
eighty items by members of the Philadelphia Water Color Club.
JURY OF SELECTION
Benjamin Eisenstat
Mario Coope r N. A.
Robert F. McGovern
The following prizes were awarded for t he year 1964:
Th e Philade lphia Water Color Medal of Award, to Edith Emerson,
Curator of Woodmere Art Gallery.
Th e Philadelph ia Wate r Color Prize, to Henry Pitz for Rocky Beach.
The Dana Wate r Color Me dal , to G ladys Krieger Bloch for Phoenix.
Th e Al ice McFadde n Eyre Medal, to Mitzi Melnicoff for Interior With
Plants and Figures.
Th e Dawson Me morial Medal , to James Kirk Merrick for Vegetation.
The Pe nn e ll M e morial Me dal , to John Muench for Harvest .
Th e Thornton Oakle y Me mo rial Prize, to H. Emerton Heitland, N. A., for
Morning and the River.
The M . V. Zimmerman Memorial Prize, to Philip Jamison for John
Morton's Fish House.
MORTON L. SCHAMBERG (1881-1918 ) RETROSPECTIVE EXHIBITION (November 21 t hrough December 24). This exhibition consisted of
thirty-t hree items-oils, water colors, and one assemblage-the showing
co-incident with t he p ub lica tion of Morton L. Schomberg, a Monograph by
Ben W olf.
CONTEMPORARY PORTRAITURE FROM THE COVERS OF TIME
MAGAZINE (December 5 t hrough 24). App roximately 90 portraits of
people in the news (1 950 through 1963) we re shown.
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SPECIAL EVENTS
A series of three subscription lectures, under the auspices of the Women's
Club, were held at 5:30, Wednesday evenings, in connection with the
exhibition program. On September 16, Lloyd Goodrich, Director of the
Whitney Museum of American Art, spoke on "The Decade of the Armory
Show"; November 6, Charles Merrill Mount, author and painter, "Gilbert
Stuart and His Irish Period"; November 20, Ben Wolf, writer, critic, painter,
"In Search of Morton L. Schamberg."
FREE CONCERTS
January 25. Works by Francaix, Danzi, Barber, Nordoff, and Mozart; Miro
Woodwind Quintet, Dean Miller, flute; Fred Gruenebaum, oboe; loren Kitt,
clarinet; William Winsted, bassoon; William Capps, French horn; Vladimir
Sokoloff, piano.
February 15th. Works by Handel, Chausson, Respighi, and Debussy; Mary
Minott Burgess, mezzo soprano, assisted by Hidetaro Suzuki, and Miwako
Ninomiya, violins; Russell Smith, cello; Clyn Barrus, viola; Vladimir Sokoloff,
piano.
March 22nd. Works by Schubert and Brahms; Vladimir and Eleanor Sokoloff, piano, assisted by Judith Blegen, soprano; Mary Minott Burgess, mezzo
soprano; Vahan Khanzadian, tenor; John Wiseman, baritone.
April 5th. Works by loelliet, Brahms, Hindemith, Villa-lobos, and Haydn;
laurie Sokoloff, flute; David Cole, cello; Peter Serkin, piano.
November 8th. Works by Beethoven, Bloch, and Schumann; Windsor String
Quartet, Morris Shulik and Isadore Schwartz, violins; Sidney Curtiss, viola;
William Stokking, Jr., cello; Vladimir Sokoloff, piano.
December 13th. Works by de Chambonnieres, William Byrde, J. P. Rameau,
Harold Boatrite, Scarlatti, J. S. Bach, and Handel; Temple Painter, harpsichord.
GALLERY TALKS (sponsored by the Fellowship of the Academy).
January 31 st. Ben Eisenstat, painter, illustrator, and teacher.
February 7th. Dorothy Grafly, critic, editor and publisher of Art in Focus.
February 14th. Morris Blackburn, painter, teacher, printmaker.
February 21 st. Hobson Pittman, painter and teacher.
February 28th. Henry Pitz, painter, teacher, writer, illustrator.
TOTAL ATTENDANCE FOR 1963: 39,146
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ACQUISITIONS
By
P u r c ha se
Through the Lambert Fund:
Brooding by Morris Graves. (tempera)
By
G if t
From Mr. and Mrs. James P. Magill:
Sicilian Decorated Cart (drawing) by Alfred Bendiner
French Policeman (drawing) by Alfred Bendiner
Bull Fight (lithograph) by Alfred Bendiner
Fruit on Table (oil) by Thomas Gaughan
Manayunk (oil) by Thomas Gaughan
Antique Shop (oil) by John Kammer
Art Collector's Desk (oil) by Hilbert Sabin
Death of the Minotaur (lithograph) by Benton Spruance
Where's the Dough (drawing) by William Steig
Bequeathed by Eva Halle Fromkes:
Gothic Madonna (oil) by Maurice Fromkes
Bequeathed by Mrs. Willing Spencer:
Portrait of Mrs. John B. Wallace by Thomas Sully
Portrait of The Rev. Robert Blackwell, D.D., by Thomas Sully
From Horace H. F. Jayne:
Portrait of Elizabeth Mathews Jayne by Adolphe Borie
From Mr. and Mrs. David Grossman:
Antique desk
From Francis Cadwalader:
Peasant Girl (oil) by John Lambert
CONSERVATION OF WORKS FROM
THE PERMANENT COLLECTION
Fifteen paintings received attention during the year from Theodore Siegl, the
Academy's conservator and technical adviser: Militia Training by James
Clonney, Table With Fish and Scales by Carlyle Brown, A Peasant Girl by
John Lambert, Jr., Majestic Tenement by Arthur Osver, Mother and Child
by George de Forest Brush, and Shipwreck by William Trost Richards; the
portraits of Benjamin Franklin by Joseph Wright, Lawrence Washington by
Joseph Badger, Col. Constant Storrs by William Jennys, Anna Maria Smyth
by Sarah M. Peale, Walt Whitman by Thomas Eakins; Admiral David Dixon
Porter, The Rev. John Heckewelder, Mrs. Elder and Three Children, and
Self-Portrait, the four last named by Jacob Eichholtz.
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LOANS
Title
The Gossips
The Spinster
Woman With Cat
Mary McCall
Benjamin West
Elizabeth Shewell West
The Wright Family
Purple Vetch With
Buttercups
California Trip
The Woodcarver
Plummers Lilies
Espana
The Turkey
Portrait of the Artist's Wife
Dissecting Room
Portrait of Helen Henderson
In a Garrett
Incense Burner
Becky Sharp
Studio Study
The Tanagra
La Chambre
Country Wedding; Bishop
White Officiating
The Young Merchants
Self-Portrait
The Announcements
Institut ion
Artist
Hobson Pittman
North Carolina Museum of Art
Robert Feke
Matthew Pratt
Joseph Wright
Charles Burchfield
Antonio Frasconi
Oliver F. Grimley
Philip Jamison
Mauricio Lasansky
Arthur B. Carles
Thomas P. Anshutz
Western Savings Fund, Phila.
II
/I
1/
1/
Columbus (Ga.) Museum of Arts
and Crafts
James Graham & Sons, New York
Raymond Saunders
To artist-for National Institute of
Arts and Letters
John L. Krimmel
William Page
William Rush
Martin Henning
Newark (N. J.) Museum
Hauling
Wind Over Weehawken
Apartment Houses
Synthesis
Fairmount Water Works
Autumn Morning, Fairmount
Park
View of Philadelphia
Lark in Latimer Street
Waldron Academy,
Overbrook
Dock Street
Chew House, Germantown
Approach to Modern Art
Philadelphia Orchestra
Terminal Market
The Wall
Julius
John Brown Going to His
Hanging
Nicodemus
Antique cast (male)
/I
/I
(female)
Gathering Storm over
Philadelphia
Craige's Meadow
John McCoy
The Prodigal Son
Russell Cowles
Andrew Wyeth
Edward Hopper
"
Amon Carter Museum of Western
Art, Forth Worth, Texas
University of Arizona, Tucson
/I
II
Dorothy Van Loan
Thomas Birch
Penn Center Art Galleries, Phila.
Tyler School, Temple Univ., Phila.
Robert Craig
James Hanes
Margaretta Hinchman
Virginia A. McCall
Charles Semser
Russell Smith
Alfred Bendiner
Arthur B. Carles
Abraham Hankins
Walter Stuempfig, Jr.
Richmond Barthe
Urban League of Philadelphia
Horace Pippin
Henry O. Tanner
Unknown
Philadelphia Flower Show
/I
Louis Sloan
Artist - for Guggenheim Grant
Competition
Wilmington (Del.) Society of the
Fine Arts
Dartmouth College, Hanover, N. H.
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LOANS (Cont.)
Artist
Title
The Painter's Triumph
William S. Mount
Sextant
Purple Vetch and
Buttercups
Interior
The Tanagra
Marsden Hartley
Institution
Columbus (Ohio) Gallery of Fine
Arts
Corcoran Gallery of Art
Charles Burchfield
Will Barnett
Thomas P. Anshutz
State Univ. College, Buffalo, N. Y.
Artist-Cherry Hill Mall, N. J.
American Federation of Arts Traveling show "The Philadelphia Tradition"
New England Woman
Between the Rocks
Fairmount Water Works
Jersey Shore
Tree of Life
Composition No.6
The Turkey
Still Life: Fish
Walt Whitman
Lowry's Hill
Earthquake at Rabaul
Promenade
Coal Mine
Interior
Craige's Meadow
Matilda Washington
Dawson
Capt. Wilmon Whilldin
Self·Portrait
Anna Maria Hodkinson
Strawberries and Cherries
Apples and Fox Grapes
George Washington
Fish House Door
The Gossips
Morning Paper No. /I
The Juggler
Late Afternoon
Schuylkill Valley Town
Will iam Montgomery
Mrs. William Montgomery
Return at Six
The Wall
Mary McKean Hoffman
James Ross
The Crucifixion
Summer Scene
Dorcas Combing Her Hair
Elizabeth Peel
George Washington at
Princeton
Anna and Margarefta Peale
Still Life # 3
Anna Maria Smyth
Self-Portrait
Fox Grapes and Peaches
George Washington
Avenue of the Americas
Penn's Treaty with the
Indians
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Cecilia Beaux
Thomas Birch
Morris Blackburn
Hugh Breckenridge
Arthur B. Carles
William M. Chase
Thomas Eakins
Daniel Garber
George Harding
Ben Kamihira
Henry McCarter
II
/I
John McCoy
John Neagle
/I
1/
Charles Willson Peale
James Peale
Margaretta Peale
Raphaelle Peale
Rembrandt Peale
John Frederick Peto
Hobson Pittman
Raphael Sabatini
Francis Speight
1/
/I
Gilbert Stuart
Walter Stuempfig, Jr.
II
/I
1/
Thomas Sully
II
/I
Franklin C. Watkins
Roswell Weidner
Benjamin West
Charles Willson Peale
James Peale
Washing ton County Museum of
Fine Arts, Hagerstown, Md.
"
Sarah M. Peale
Rembrandt Peale
Raphaelle Peale
Charles Peale Polk
Chen Chi
Aileo1town (Pa.) Art Museum
Benjamin West
John Wanamaker's Philadelphia
LOANS (Cont. )
Title
Picnic at Bedford Hills
Perce, Canada
II
Artist
Institution
Florine Stettheimer
Paul Gill
Durlacher Brothers Gallery, N. Y.
Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Po.
Woodmere Art Gallery, Philadelphia
Minn~~polis Inst:;ute ~f ~rt
1/
The Wright Family
William Rush
People
Golden City /I
Purple Vetch and
Buttercups
Taos Plaza in Snow
Escape
The Woodcarver
Painting Table No.
Box Number Two·O-Six
Taxco (Mexico)
Jeweler's Window
Studio Window
Place of Echoes
Acorn Squash
Black Night-Russell's
Corners
The Tides
The French Flag
Turkey Knob Farm
Last Supper
Black Boats
Still Life
White Horse
Apple Blossom Time
Architectural Drawings (2)
Black Night-Russell's
Corners
The Painter's Triumph
Clapboards
Petunias
Mumble the Peg
Fourth of July
Along the River
Black Boats
Lark in Latimer Street
Black Afternoon
Waldron Academy;
Overbrook
Anna and Margaretta Peale
Joseph Wright
William Rush
Guy Pene DuBois
Alfred Blaustein
Graham Galleries, New York
Instituto de Alta Cultura, Lisbon,
Portugal
Charles Burchfield
John Ward Lockwood
John Hanlen
Oliver F. Grimley
Walter Redding
Charles Vinson
Morris Blackburn
Benton Spruance
Bradley Walker 10m lin
Martin Jackson
Henry Lee McFee
George C. Ault
Kenneth Callahan
Abraham Rattner
Jessie-Drew Bear
Mark Tobey
Charles Copeland Burg
Preston Dickinson
Lee Gatch
George Inness
Frank Furness
George C. Ault
William S. Mount
Charles Sheeler
Henry Lee McFee
Henry Inman
Constance Richardson
Sarah Blakeslee
Charles Copeland Burg
Margaretta Hinchman
Anna Ingersoll
Montclair (N. J.) Art Museum
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Fidelity-Philadelphia Trust Co.
1/
II
II
1/
Virginia A. McCall
James Peale
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SCHOOLS
The second term of the 1962-63 school year opened on January 2nd, with
213 day and 101 evening students registered. Exercises for scholarships
and awards were held on May 1st, with Mr. Jacques lipchitz giving the
main address. Approximately $30,000 were distributed to students in the
form of overseas traveling scholarships and other prizes.
The Summer School was conducted from June 17th to July 26th. The faculty
included Francis Speight, Roswell Weidner, John Hanlen, Jim Lueders, and
Jack Massey. Landscape, Life, and Portrait courses were offered. Ninetynine students registered for all or part of the Summer School, and 41
requested grades at the end.
When the 1963-1964 school year began on September 3rd, Peale House,
our new annex at 1811 Chestnut Street was in operation. The cafeteria on
the main floor opened under the direction of James Knipe, and the adjoining lounge was instantly popular with first-year students for relaxation and
dining. The second floor was equipped with studios for painting, graphics,
and clay modeling. Rooms were assigned on the third floor for cast drawing, still life, and water color classes.
The residence for women students on the fifth floor was in charge of Mrs.
Mabel G. Cook, with the assistance of Miss LaVerne Delach. The number
of students in residence increased from 13 to 20 before the beginning of
the second term.
Throughout the fall term, approximately 100 new students did most of
their work at Peale House. Certain classes, however, were scheduled for
them at Broad and Cherry Streets.
The school opened with an increase in enrollment from 213 to 253 students
in the Day School, and from approximately 100 to 125 in Evening School.
Mr. Walker Hancock returned, after a year in Italy, as consulting instructor
in sculpture, and Mr. Ben Kamihira, as instructor in life painting, after
spending a year in Spain. Mr. John Hanlen, who had taught in the
Summer School, continued during the fall as instructor in painting, replacing Mr. John McCoy, who shifted to a special program in water color. Mr.
Julian Levi of New York City joined the faculty in September for one day
a week, conducting a croquis class in the morning, and criticism in the
afternoon; Russell Keeter joined the Evening School faculty to instruct in
elementary drawing and painting; and Mr. Robert B. Ennis, as new lecturer
in art history. Mr. Francis Speight, who is now artist in residence at the
East Carolina College in Greenville, N. c., returned to substitute during
November and part of December for Mr. Walter Stuempfig, Jr., while Mr.
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Stuempfig gave a series of lectures at the Birmingham, Alabama, art museum.
Visiting artists who shared their knowledge with our students included
Pietro Carolfi, an expert in casting; Richard Kimball, Director of the
American Academy in Rome; and Julius Bloch, a former instructor on the
faculty.
The sculpture students went to New York City with Mr. Rosin for a day to
visit points of interest, centered around a visit to a bronze foundry, and
Mr. Blackburn took about 50 students to Barnegat Light in Septetmber to
spend a day painting and sketching.
The Rotary Club of Philadelphia had a show of members' interests in
the ballroom of the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel. The Academy booth included
a figure by a sculpture student, and two paintings by students.
A group of Russian artists visited our graphics studios, exhibited examples
of their work, and talked to the students. They were brought to Philadelphia
under the Cultural Exchange program of the U. S. A. and the U. S. S. R.
in connection with an exhibition of Soviet graphic arts at the Commercial
Museum. A successful Halloween party was held in the studios and the
auditorium at Broad and Cherry Streets.
In addition to the traveling scholarships (listed elsewhere in this report) the
Academy awarded ten full, and twenty-five half, paid-tuition scholarships
during the spring term; and eleven full, and twenty-six half, during the
fall term, from funds designated for this purpose-a total of $11,625.00.
From City Council appropriation, sixteen full-paid tuition scholarships were
given for the school year-a total of $8,000.00. The Board of Education
also gave to students in the Academy schools twenty-one part scholarships
of $200.00 each.
To summarize: The year 1963 represents considerable expansion in the
history of the school - the opening of Peale House, with a residence for
women, and a cafeteria, provided for a larger student body without undue
crowding. The traditional freedom within a fine program of instruction
from outstanding artists was maintained.
M. WISTER WOOD
Administrator of the Schoo/:;
LIBRARY
Only a general report is practical concerning the activities in the Library.
Accessions by purchase were made within the funds allotted, and the
Librarian acknowledges with gratitude the generous gifts of valuable books
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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
Membership. The Academy was happy to welcome 197 new subscribers
into its membership during the year. New income from this source, plus
increases in current members' classifications, and some contributions with
dues, amounted to $3,460.00. In addition, four members were enrolled
as Fellows (in perpetuity).
Concerts. If the enthusiasm of our audiences is any gage, the Academy's
concerts are constantly growing in appeal and response. The fourteenth
consecutive season closed on a rather novel note: its performers (all aged 15)
were exceptionally gifted children of distinguished musical parents: Laurie
Sokoloff, flute; David Cole, cello; Peter Serkin, piano . In December, Temple
Painter played what we believe was the first harpsichord recital ever presented in the galleries. Since the programs are itemized elsewhere in this
Report, I shall not go into further detail, except to voice our continued
appreciation to those who help us make them possible: Vladimir Sokoloff,
music director, and the musicians who collaborated with him; the Recording
Industries' Trust Funds; the Fredric R. Mann Foundation; the Women's
Committee of the Academy; and N. Stetson Company (for the loan of
Steinway pianos). It has been our intent from the start that this part of
our annual activity should not be just another series of concerts, but rather
that it should provide the opportunity to bring the best and the rarelyheard in chamber music together with art under what we believe to be
an ideal set of circumstances.
Other Activities. There was a considerable upswing in group attendance
at exhibitions, particularly from the Philadelphia public schools. Much
of this can be attributed to the fact, especially during our Annual Exhibition,
that the Board of Education designated Mrs. Myra Narbonne of its art
department to encourage greater attendance on the part of public
school pupils, and to be on hand when those classes came, to act as guide
and lecturer. However, there was also a goodly increase from out-of-town
schools, and club groups.
During the year, among special events held in the galleries were: a reception
by the Honorable James H. J. Tate, Mayor of Philadelphia, in honor of
Benton Spruance; an evening meeting of the Franklin Inn Club; a dinner
by the Philadelphia Chapter, American Institute of Architects; the Key
Ball by the Women's Auxiliary Committee of Pennsylvania Hospital; a dinner
in honor of Raphael Sabatini under the auspices of the Da Vinci Art
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Alliance; a cocktail party for the American Museum in Britain, sponsored
by a local committee as a feature of Exposition Brittania; and another
by Time Magazine.
It might be interesting to note, as we are in the midst of expanding our
activities, to include a second building (1811 Chestnut Street), that April 22,
1963 was the 87th anniversary of the formal opening in 1876 of our
"Broad and Cherry" building, it being the third one to house the Academy
since its founding in 1805.
ELIZABETH Z. SWENSON
Director of Membership and
Special Events
PUBLICITY
The year 1963 saw a continuation of the arrangement whereby The
Beacon Agency, Inc., handled public relations, publicity and promotion
for the Academy.
Performance of these duties naturally requires close liaison and regular
contact with the Director and members of the Academy's staff. Their
constant cooperation and assistance is hereby gratefully acknowledged.
The main areas of our work during the year included:
(1) General promotion and public relations concerning the institution itself,
such as preparation of news releases, material for articles and other
copy requested by media of public information;
(2) Publicizing, through the many channels of promotion, the various
exhibitions held in the Academy's galleries (in several instances where
special exhibitions were staged at the Academy in cooperation with other
organizations, promotional activities included contact work with such
organizations as the Philadelphia Water Color Club and TIME Magazine);
(3) Attention to happenings in the Schools of the Academy to obtain news
for publicity about current events, students and faculty.
Also, during the latter part of 1963, we negotiated with the Yellow Cab
Company of Philadelphia for the purpose of securing a public service
showing of promotional taxiposters on 100 cabs.
While we know of no yardstick by which to measure the effectiveness of the
Academy's overall publicity program, other than perhaps increasing attendance figures (for example 39,146 in 1963 when the major Annual Exhibition
featured water colors-prints-drawings, compared with 31,290 in 1961 with
the same type of exhibition), the attention of the newspapers, radio and
television, magazines and other print media has been encouraging.
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Space here does not permit a detailed itemization of all tangible forms
in which Academy publicity during the year has been manifest on the local,
regional and national levels. However, we wish to express special thanks to:
The city editors of the Philadelphia daily newspapers; Dorothy Grafly, art
critic of The Bulletin and editor & publisher of Art In Focus; Judy Jennings
and Ruth Seltzer of The Bulletin; and Victoria Donohoe, art critic, and
Katherine Dunlap, society editor, of The Inquirer-for their coverage of art,
cultural and social events at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
THE BEACON AGENCY, INC.
WOMEN ' S COMMITTEE
The year 1963 opened for the Women's Committee with the membership
subscription dinner before the 158th Annual Exhibition of American Water
Colors, Prints, and Drawings. Mrs. Coleman, along with Mrs. Schiffer and
Mrs. Reath, made the arrangements for a very tasty dinner which was
attended by approximately 275, rather more than is usually expected in
a "water color" year. Ladies of the Committee and wives of Board members
presided at the refreshment tables for the private view which followed.
On March first, the Women's Committee sponsored a theater benefit. Miss
Helen Hayes and Mr. Maurice Evans gave a delightful performance in "A
Program for Two Players" and then were escorted to the Academy by
Mr. Gwinn, where a champagne supper-dance was held in the galleries.
Buses were provided to and from the Academy and the theater, thus avoiding some of the inconvenience caused by the rain. Mr. Rubin provided
music for the dancing, Mrs. Wainwright arranged the decorations, and Mrs.
Hinkson kindly supplied a corsage of home-grown orchids for Miss Hayes.
(The proceeds from this party were later donated to the Progress Fund.)
In early May members of the Committee served as hostesses at the party
given by the Committee on Instruction to encourage the sale of student
work shown in the competitions for travel scholarships and other prizes.
For the fall season, the Committee, along with the Board and staff of the
Academy, arranged a series of three lectures to coincide with shows
then current in the galleries. The first was "The Decade of the Armory
Show-1910-1920" by Lloyd Goodrich; the second was by Charles Merrill
Mount on "Gilbert Stuart's Lost Years"; and the final one was "In Search
of Morton Livingston Schamberg" by Ben Wolf. The lectures, given in the
late afternoon, each followed by cocktails, were exceedingly interesting
though not sufficientlty well attended, perhaps due to the hour at which
they were held.
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Throughout the year the Committee continued to interest itself in the needs
of the students and supplied various properties for the still-life classes.
It also contributed a sum toward the cost of the free concerts given at the
Academy. These concerts were exceedingly well attended both by the
students and the general public.
CAROLINE S. BARTOL
Chairman
NEW MEMBERS
Enrolled during 1963, including those who increased their classification.
* Fellows
**Mrs. Leonard T. Beale
** J. Welles Henderson, Jr.
**Mrs. J. Welles Henderson, Jr.
** John Stewart
Life Members
**Mrs. William D. Gordon
Arthur Klein
Mrs. Andries Henrik Schramm, Jr.
Contributing Members
Bernard M. Auer
**Dr. Samuel C. Contakos
James K. Stone
Mrs. James K. Stone
**Alfred Zantzinger
Sustaining Membe rs
Mrs. Henry S. Bromley
James M. Cohen
Walter R. Coley
Mrs. James S. Collins
W. Arthur Dill
Edmond du Pont
Miss Ida Edelson
Alvin M. Ehret, Sr.
**Mrs. John C. Keene
**Mrs. Ward Dix Kerlin
Edward M. K. Klapp
John W . McCoy, 2nd
George A. Robbins
Dr. Jonas B. Robitscher
William A. Schnader
Annual Members
Dr. Fred Alexander
Carl H. Anderson
Miss Gretchen Anton-Smith
Jerome B. Apfel
Mrs. Norman Asher
Mrs. John A!hmead
Jon W. Bean
Mrs. Harry M. Bell
Mrs . D. Jacques Benoliel
Bernard Bernbaum
Clarence E. Bertolet
George P. Bissell, Jr.
Mrs. Alan D. Bleznak
Mrs. Bernard Bloch
Miss Mary A. Boardman
Willard S. Boothby, Jr.
Robinson Bosler
Mrs. John McE . Bowman, Jr.
Mrs. Thomas O. Bretherlon
John A. Brittain
Dr. Robert S. Brodey
Miss R. Jean Brownlee
T. B. Buchholz
Mrs. William B. Bullock
Francis T. Burke
Mrs. W. Atlee Burpee
Mrs. J. Ebert Butterworth
John Butterworth
Dr. Margaret Caball
Edward Cantor
Mrs. lucien B. Carpenter
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Miss Rachel Cartledge
Rear Adm. Robt. W. Cavenagh
Mrs. E. Calvert Cheston
Mrs. John H. Church, Jr.
Maurice L. Clancy
Mrs. Avery B. Clark
Miss Alice W. Clement
Mrs. Charles F. Clement, Jr.
Mrs. George H. Clement
George L. Cohen
Charles T. Coiner
Mrs. Charles J. Cole
Mrs. Henry L. Collins, Jr.
Neil L. Conver
Mrs. Samuel Cooke
Mrs. Robert Copeland
Joseph A. Corcoran
John L. Cornog
Mrs. Walter J. Cowan, Jr.
Mrs. Herman Cutler
Alfred G. Cypress
S. A. Dalton
Mrs. Frank P. Davis
Mrs . Robert Hare Davis
Mrs. William T. Davis
Frank J . Deker
Mrs. Francis J. Delaney
Miss Eileen Denvir
Mrs. Leonard C. Dill
Leonard C. Dill, Jr.
Mrs. Edwin A. Donaghy
Mrs. B. Gould Donohue
Mrs. Walter De C. Douglas
Mrs. Harry C. Doyle
Mrs. Ford B. Draper
Lee F. Driscoll
Mrs. Edward J. Dwyer
Mrs. Ralph Earle, 2nd
Mrs. Samuel P. Eckert
Dr. Anne M. Edelmann
Mrs. Walter E. Egbert
Miss A. Elizabeth Eichman
Mrs. John Eimerbrink
Mrs. Howard E. Eldridge
William Elliott
Herman M. Ellis
Miss Edith Emerson
Mrs. Woodruff J. Emlen
Mrs. John Estey
John Evans
Mrs. Rowland Evans
Dr. Theodore H. Fairbanks
Charles J. Faunce
* Enrolled in perpetuity.
** Increased classification.
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Miss Helen F. Faust
Max Feigenberg
Michael T. Fiorillo
Mrs. Robert F. Fitzpatrick
Mrs. Theodore C. Phillips
Mrs. Thomas C. Pillion
Mrs. S. Soski Piroeff
Robert T. Poole
Morris P. Gallagher
Henry G. Gardiner
David L. German , 3rd
Mrs. Edward S. Gifford, Jr.
Miss Mary Therese Gillen
Mrs. Hyman Gold
Mrs. Michael Goldenburg
Mrs. Melvin S. Gordon
Dr. Edward Gosfield
Mrs. Francis I. Gowen
Mrs. Paul H. Griffith
Evan Randolph, Jr.
Mrs. Edward A. Reed
Mrs. George W. D. Rockett
Mrs. Norman F. S. Russell, Jr.
Henry E. Haught, Jr.
Miss Cynthia Heppenstall
Mrs. Lindsay C. Herkness, Jr.
Mrs. Roy A. Heymann
Mrs. Efrem Hian
Robert W. Hompe
Mrs. De Forest Hurlburd
John S. Hurlburt
Mrs. Nathaniel Jacobson
John K. Jenney
William Jepson
C. Edwin Johnson
Mrs. Herbert E. Joseph
Mrs. Robert Kaye
Mrs. William R. Klaus
Mrs. Erasmus H. Kloman
Mrs. Joseph N. Lansburg
Mrs. Richmond Lattimore
AI Paul Lefton, Jr.
Mrs. Robert F. Lehman
Mrs. Robert P. Levy
Mrs . Aaron Lichtin
J. Grant McCabe
Mrs. Thomas D. McCloskey
Theodore T. Newbold
Dr. Hugh O ' Neill
Miss Mary Dale Owen
Paul E. Paalborg
Mrs. Stanley Packman
Horace A. Paul
Mrs. Leonard C. Peskin
Mrs. Horace Pettit
Herbert W. Salus, Jr.
Mrs. Lewis C. Scheffey, Jr.
Mrs. Philip A. Schoettle
George P. Scurria
J. G. Sheaffer
Richard H. Shryock
William D. Smith
Mrs. Joseph N. Snellen burg
Martin P. Snyder
Mrs. Edmund B. Spaeth
Robert K. Spencer
Mrs. E. Bessie Steinberg
Frank M. Steinberg
Edward Barnett Steinmetz
Mrs. Robert L. Stephenson
Mrs. Bernard Stern
Mrs. Markley Stevenson
Oskar G. Stonorov
Mrs. Bayard T. Storey
Mrs. Harry L. Strube
Miss Geraldine Sydney-Smith
Mrs.
Miss
Mrs.
Mrs.
Samuel Tauder
Joan E. Trainer
Alfred Troncelliti
Stanley C. Tuttleman
Dr. Charles A. W. Uhle
Frederick T. Van Urk
Mrs. Thomas J. Vischer
Mrs. John.W. Watson
Mrs. Mayer L. Weinstein
William Henry Welsh, Jr.
Mrs. W. S. Wilcox
Thomas A. Williams
William B. Wilson
Mrs. William Wolgin
Mrs. Granville Worrell
Curtis Wright, Jr.
Robert Wyndra
Mrs. Alfred G . Zantzinger
Stanley Zeman
THE COMMITTEE ON FELLOWSHIP
Mabel W. Gill, Chairman-Treasurer
Ethel Ashton
Irene Denney
Roy C. Nuse
Roswell Weidner
Mary Mullineux
The function of the Committee is to administer the following funds: Henry J.
Thouron Memorial Fund, Picture Purchase Fund, Special Fund, and the Mary
Butler Memorial Fund for the benefit of Fellowship members, either present
or former students and also the William Clothier Watts Fund, a welcome
gift of $2,000 for aid to students. The Butler Fund, which now amounts to
approximately $12,000, is still short of its goal of $15,000.
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 painting and sculpture to encourage or assist artists,
or to 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 forme r Academy students,
art workers, and Fellowship members.
THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE P.A.F.A.
The main purpose of the Fellowship, which was organized in 1897, is to
fo~ter a spirit of fraternity among former and present Academy students.
OFFICERS
Roswell Weidner.
Roy C. Nuse .
Mabel Woodrow Gill
Mary Townsend Mason
Francis Speight .
Franklin C. Watkins
Paul Wescott .
Ethel V. Ashton .
Elizabeth Eichman
Irene Denney
. Presiden1
. First Vice Presiden1
Vice Presiden1
Vice Presiden1
Vice President
Vice President
Vice President
Recording Secretary
. Corresponding Secretary
. Treasurer
MEMBERSHIP CLASSES
Annual $10.00
Yearly Members
Sustaining $25.00
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Contributing $100.00
Life Member .... . .................... . .. . .... .. .. . .......... $300
Fellow. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1000 to $5000
Patron. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. $5000 to $25,000
Benefactor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. $25,000 or more
(Fellows, Patrons a nd 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
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.