161st Annual Report for the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

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161st Annual Report for the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

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1966

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Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

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THE PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS
BROAD AND CHERRY STREETS •

PHILADELPHIA

1615t ANNUAL REPORT
1 966

Cover: Seated Woman by Leonard Baskin
Gilpin and Temple Fund Purchase, 1966

The One Hundred and Sixty-first
Annual Report
of
THE PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS

FOR THE YEAR 1966

Presented to the Meeting of the Stockholders
of the Academy on February 6, 1967.

OFFICERS
Frank T. Howard

President

Alfred Zantzinger

. Vice President

C. Newbold Taylor

Treasurer

Joseph T. Fraser, Jr.

Secretary

BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Mrs. Leonard T. Beale

John W. Merriam

(resigned January 1966)

C. Earle Miller

Francis Bosworth

Evan Randolph, Jr.

Mrs. Bertram D. Coleman

Edgar P. Richardson
Henry W. Sawyer, 3rd

David Gwinn

John Stewart

J. Welles Henderson

(resigned May 1966)

Frank T. Howard (ex officio)
R. Sturgis Ingersoll

James K. Stone

Arthur C. Kaufmann

C. Newbold Taylor

Henry B. Keep

Franklin C. Watkins

James M. Large

William H. S. Wells, Jr.

James P. Magill (Director Emeritus)

William Coxe Wright

Henry S. McNeil

Alfred Zantzinger

Ex officio
Representing Women's Committee:
Mrs. George Reath, Chairman
Mrs. Albert M. Greenfield, Jr., Vice Chairman
Representing City Council:

Representing Faculty:

Paul D'Ortona

Hobson Pittman (to May)

Robert W. Crawford

Paul Anthony Greenwood (from May)

Solicitor:
William H. S. Wells, Jr.
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STANDING COMMITTEES
COLLECTIONS AND EXHIBITIONS

Franklin C. Watkins, Chairman

William H. S. Wells, Jr.

Mrs. leonard T. Beale

William Coxe Wright

James M. large

Alfred Zantzinger

By Special Appointment by the President:
Mrs. C. Earle Miller

Mrs. Evan Randolph, Jr.

Mrs. Herbert C. Morris

Ben Wolf

FINANCE

C. Newbold Taylor, Chairman

James P. Magill
John Stewart

INSTRUCTION

John W. Merriam, Chairman

Arthur C. Kaufmann

David Gwinn
Ex officio

James K. Stone

Women's Committee Chairman

Faculty Representative to the Board

SPECIAL COMMITTEES
NOMINATIONS

J. Welles Henderson

Henry B. Keep, Chairman
C. Newbold Taylor
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP

Franklin C. Watkins, Chairman
Ben Wolf

Benton Spruance
Joseph T. Fraser, Jr.

PEALE CLUB

John W. Merriam, Chairman
Mrs. Bertram D. Coleman
J. Welles Henderson

Henry S. McNeil
James Stone
Franklin C. Watkins

William H. S. Wells, Jr.
Appointed by Chairman: Representative of Women's Committee
PROGRESS FUND

James K. Stone, Chairman
Francis Bosworth
J. Welles Henderson

Thomas Stovell
William H. S. Wells, Jr.
Alfred Zantzinger

Ex officio
Frank T. Howard

Joseph T. Fraser, Jr.
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WOMEN'S COMMITTEE
Officers:
Mrs. George Reath, Chairman
Mrs. Albert M. Greenfield, Jr., Vice Chairman
Mrs. Caspar W. B. Townsend, Treasurer-Corresponding Secretary (to May)
Mrs. Walter H. West, Jr., Treasurer-Corresponding Secretary (from May)

Members:
Mrs. John Grier Bartol

Mrs. Evan Randolph

Mrs. Francis T. Chambers

Mrs. Jo·hn C. Russell

Mrs. Joseph Sill Clark, Jr. (resigned)
Mrs. Francis I. Gowen
Mrs. David J. Grossman
Mrs. David Gwinn
Mrs. H. Lea Hudson
Mrs. Arthur C. Kaufmann
Mrs. Edward B. Leisenring, Jr.
Mrs. Howard H. Lewis

Mrs. Herbert F. Schiffer
Mrs. James M. R. Sinkler
Mrs. C. Randolph Snowden
Mrs. Boudinot Stimson
Mrs. E. Robert Thomas

Mrs. T. F. Dixon Wainwright (deceased)
Mrs. Franklin C. Watkins
Mrs. S. S. White, 3rd (deceased)

Mrs. C. Earle Miller

Mrs. William P. Wood

Mrs. Theodore T. Newbold

Mrs. Arthur M. Young

Mrs. Frederick W. G. Peck

Mrs. Alfred Zantzinger

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STAFF
GENERAL
Joseph T. Fraser, Jr. . . . . . .
Mabel L. Eiseley . . . . . . . .
Winthrop Neilson (from September)
Dorothy E. Runk
August V. Viilu
Rita Damiano .
Louise Wallman
Emily R. Haines
Dorothy T. Hirst (from September)
Phyllis K. Bledsoe . . . . . . .
Charles U. Shellenberger (from October)
Florence A. Nuzzo (to October) .
Mildred D. Lavin (from November)
E. Elizabeth Fermanis .
Frances M. Vanderpool
Anna M. Mang

Director and Secretary
· . Assistant Director
· . Special Assistant
Secretary to the Director
. . . . . Comptroller
Assistant to the Comptroller
· . . . . Registrar
. . . . . Public Relations
. . . Secretarial Assistant
Membership and Development
Development Associate
· . . . . Secretary
· . . . . Secretary
· Membership Assistant
Exhibitions Clerk
Receptionist

SCHOOL
M. Wistar Wood
Roswell Weidner.
Constance A. Taylor
Ethel V. Ashton . .
Frances Leone (to July)
Josephine Lustig (from July)
Barbara K. Lyons .

. . . . . . . . . . Administrator
. . . In Charge of Evening Program
Registrar and Administrative Assistant
. Librarian
Secretary
Secretary
Storekeeper

PEALE HOUSE
M. Wistar Wood .
James R. Knipe (to May)
Marjorie Ruben . . . .
Mabel Gearhart Cook (to June)
Marjorie E. Loomis (from August)
Rochelle Rappaport
James J. Lulias .

.. Administrator of the Schools
· . . . Manager
Special Exhibitions
· Resident Counselor
· Resident Counselor
Receptionist and Model Schedules
. . . . . . . . Superintendent

PEALE CLUB
James R. Knipe (to May)
William Dino (from May)
Katherine Hayden
Alice Koberlin. . . . .

Manager
Manager
Bookkeeper
Clerk

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FACULTY (Season of 1966-1967)
Day School
Walker Hancock

Paul Anthony Greenwood

Roswell Weidner

Homer Johnson

Harry Rosin

Jimmy C. Lueders

Franklin C. Watkins

Daniel D. Miller

John W. McCoy, 2nd

Julian Levi

John Hanlen

Louis B. Sloan

Allen Harris
Karl O. Karhumaa
George Sklar
Jack Levine
Ben Wolf
Oliver Grimley

Elizabeth Osborne

Arthur De Costa

Hobson Pittman

Marshall Glasier

Joseph Amarotico

Morris Blackburn

Leon Kelly

Walter Stuempflg, Jr.

Augmenting the Faculty
Theodor Siegl, Technical Advisor, Painting Materials and Techniques
Robert B. Ennis, Lecturer in Art History
J. Franklin Shores, Lettering and Perspective
Winthrop Neilson, Anatomy Drawing

Evening School
Roswell Weidner

Homer Johnson

Adolph T. Dioda

Morris Blackburn

Jimmy C. Lueders

Joseph Amarotico

John Hanlen
Paul Anthony Greenwood

Louis B. Sloan

Oliver Grimley

Arthur De Costa

Celia Finberg

Summer Day School
Roswell Weidner

John Hanlen

Francis Speight

Louis B. Sloan

Jimmy C. Lueders
Oliver Grimley

ACADEMY BUILDING
Joseph B. Koons
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• . . . . . . . • . • . Superintendent

REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR
A single episode in the life of this institution will mark 1966 as a year of
unusual importance, but before going into details relative to this big event,
the Annual Report must first record activities in chronological order and
changes in our official family.
Mrs. Leonard T. Beale resigned from the Board of Directors in January, as
she found it difficult to attend meetings. She has served with great loyalty
and efficiency since 1950, and her presence will be very much missed indeed.
Mrs. Beale has, however, agreed to continue as an active member of the
Committee on Collections and Exhibitions.
In May, John Stewart tendered his resignation, which again marks the end
of a long period of service to the Academy as he joined the Board in 1944.
The Academy is to be congratulated on the election to the Board of Dr.
Edgar P. Richardson in February. He was for many years Director of the
Detroit Institute of Arts and, more recently, Director of the Henry Francis
duPont Winterthur Museum. He is a distinguished scholar and an authority
on the history of American art. His election, then, is of unique significance,
since he is in a position to give us most astute advice.
By action of the Faculty of the School, Anthony Greenwood in the spring
of l~66 became an ex officio member of the Board.
A single addition to the working professional staff is noted with the coming
of Winthrop Neilson on the 1st of September as Special Assistant. Time
will dictate the particular aspects of his activity, as he has enjoyed a broad
background in both art and business.
Continuing the long succession of Annual Exhibitions comprrslng important
cross-sections of American art, the 161 st Exhibition, dedicated to oil painting and sculpture, opened to the public on January 21 st. We are glad to
report good attendance and excellent sales during this event. The year's
special events, recorded elsewhere in this report, consisted of exceedingly
worthy features both at Broad and Cherry Streets and at Peale House
Galleries.
The School Departments have been healthfully active in all aspects. Enrollment was high for winter, summer, and evening classes. The Faculty had
to be augmented to care for more students and to make broader use of
the space in Peale House. The general high quality of the work shown in
the May competitions was gratifying, and the many awards were made with
enthusiasm by the Faculty.

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We take particular satisfaction in reporting the continuance of our Chamber
Music Series, and praise and gratitude are recorded for the exemplary
planning and the superb artistry of Vladimir Sokoloff.
The chief physical renovation and one which is most evident, was the
accomplishing of the cleaning of the exterior of this building at Broad and
Cherry Streets. The dirt and grime which has accumulated since the building's dedication in 1876 has been removed and the great variety of
materials: limestone, marble, sandstone, brick, terra cotta, and colored glass
inserts, are once more revealed in their gay colors. This project was entered
upon with some hesitation and has involved additional work to care for
leaks occasioned by the opening of old stone joints, etc. The general reaction has been one of satisfaction and pleasure. This famous Furness monument takes its rightful place in the general renewal program so happily
progressing in major and important areas of our fair city.
Everything, however, was somewhat overshadowed by the p.lanning and
tremendous activity which accomplished the staging of the great retrospective
exhibition of the work of Andrew Wyeth which opened on October 7th
with a handsome subscription dinner at the Warwick Hotel, and a reception
later at the Academy. The organization of this one feature taxed to the
utmost the time and abilities of our regular staff. The Director received
his chief assistance through the temporary employment of Mrs. Margaret
Fischer, who was of invaluable help. The involvement with the three other
museums to which the exhibit would go-the Baltimore Museum of Art, the
Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, and the Art Institute
of Chicago-added greatly to the complicated details, but the sharing of the
very large expenses involved in such a venture was ohviously of great help.
It is most gratifying to be able to record in this report that the reservations
entertained when this idea was contemplated were quickly dispelled by the
tremendous success accompanying each day of the seven weeks of the
showing. All attendance records were broken and the final figure is listed
at 173,000.
One of the most important aspects of this exhibition was the preparation
and production of an adequate catalog. We were fortunate in employing
the services of Dr. Richardson to write the text. Through the advice and
help of friends of the artist the reproduction of the photographs, both black
and white, and in color, received exceptional attention. Once again, our
expectations were far exceeded in the sales of this handsome book. The
original order was for but 10,000 copies, but by selling over 37,000, we
came very close to exhausting the first edition. To supply the needs of the

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other three museums, a second edition of 100,000 copies was necessary.
Certainly, the Wyeth Exhibition drew most enthusiastic attention to the life
of this Academy, and it is hoped that the excitement, attention and general
support of this institution will be a veritable shot in the arm to a more
important life ahead.
Tribute must be paid at this time to the gallant and loyal support of all
our sp·lendid staff. Everyone within our official family was called on for
the expenditure of energy beyond the regular call of duty, and every
single person rose to the occasion, with a resultant stimulation to our esprit
de corps seldom experienced before.
All of this activity is reflected in the continuing growth of our membership,
and support for the Academy from the Contributing Members group is
evident in greater use of Peale Club. Financial reports are most gratifying
and indicate that we are now approaching the time when our venture in
this new location will be self-sustaining.
The City of Philadelphia continues through its council to support us to the
extent of $25,000, and the State of Pennsylvania in the amount of $3,000,
for which we express our gratitude.
We close this thumbnail sketch of our year's activities with utmost gratitude
and satisfaction for renewed life, support, and success.
JOSEPH T. FRASER, JR., Director

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CONSOLIDATED

TREASURER'S

REPORT

September 1, 1965, to August 31, 1966

INCOME:
Art Gallery ........ . .......... . ....................... $

684.05

Annual Exhibition . . . . . • • . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • . • . . . . . .

40,967.72

Special Exhibitions. . . . . . . . . . . . . • . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..

51,348.08

School ........... . ........................•......... 251,286.83
Trust Funds ....................................••.•... 146,404.58
Membership Dues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • . . . . . . . . . . . • . . . • . • . . . •. 103,100.42
Contributions-Unrestricted ..............•........•.......

15,258.69

City Appropriation .....•...•....•.....•.•.•.•••••.••..

25,000.00

Total ..................................... $634,050.37

EXPENSE:
Art Gallery .......................•........•...••..... $171,547.40
Annual Exhibition ..............•.....••.••.•••.•.•....

46,036.92

Special Exhibitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • . . • . • •.

58,260.03

School . .................•.......................•... 314,083.81
Peale Club ...........................................

53,928.72

Total ..................................... $643,856.88
Net Operating Deficit ............•......... $
10

9,806.51

CONTRIBUTIONS FOR CALENDAR YEAR 1966
UNRESTRICTED
Sarah Wentz Sinkler .••..•.•...••••.•.•••••••••••••• $
H. Lea Hudson .......••...•..••...••.••••••••••••••
Mrs. Thomas S. Gates ..•..........•••..•••••••••••••
Martha M. Freeman .....••••••••..•.•..•..•••••••..•
Mrs. William J. Leavitt ........•.....••.••...••••••••.
Francis Speight .....•.. . ..••...•••.••••••..•...•••••
Eugene Feldman .........•.......•••••. • .••.••••••• •
Pennsylvania Hospital ..........•.•...•..•••.•..•.•.••
Laird and Company . ..... ..••... •.•.• •••••••••.•••••
Mrs. Bertram D. Coleman ......•......••••••..••••••••
Lovett Foundation .......•...••..•.••••.••.........•.
Winifred Boericke .......••• •.. ...•.••..•••.•••••••••
Mrs. Leon Rosenbaum ....•...•..•....•...••.•••.•••••
Leonard Schaffer ...............•.•.••.•.•••••.•• • •••
Leopold Hauf, Jr... ... .. ... ...........••..••..••••••
E. R. Lineaweaver .....•...••........••.•••••••••••••
Independence Foundation ...• ....•••••••••••• •••• •••••
Mrs. L. Talbot Adamson ..............•....•..•.••.•••

1,000.00
200.00
100.00
10.00
1,000.00
20.00
500.00
100.00
747.39
100.00
100.00
15.00
10.00
1,000.00
5.00
150.00
1,000.00
20.00

$ 6,117.39

MISCELLANEOUS
City of Philadelphia, 1966 Appropriation •......•.••.•.• $25,000.00
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Grant..................
3,000.00
200.00
Women's Committee, for concerts .....••........••••• • •
3,100.00
Women's Committee, for carpeting Academy stairway ..• • •.
Women's Committee, toward cleaning of Academy Building 5,000.00
10.00
Frank T. Howard, Academy stock shares for cancellation •..
Fellowship, for Fellowship Exhibition expenses ..• • ••..•••
350.00
Philadelphia Foundation, for Leona Karp Braverman Prize •.
87.85
6,554.26
Catherwood Foundation, for Wyeth catalogue expenses ..•.
Mrs. Shirley Laffer Schlesinger, for Wyeth catalogue expenses 1,000.00
25.00
Dr. and Mrs. Matthew Moore, in memory of Julius Bloch ...•
2,000.00
C. Earle Miller, for Faculty Retirement Fund ...•.•••••••••
150.00
Fidelity-Philadelphia Trust Company, for Haney Prize ..... .
In memory of Mrs. T. F. Dixon Wainwright:
55.00
Union Benevolent Association .......••. ....•.•......•
10.00
Mrs. Emile C. Geyelin .•..•..... .. ••.• ••••.......••
25.00
Margaret Chase Locke ....•........•...•.•••.•.••••
10.00
Helen F. Corson .......•.••..•.•...•.•..••••••..••.
1,074.92
T. F. D'ixon Wainwright ... ..........•...•..••••••.••
Mr. and Mrs. H. Lea Hudson, in memory of Mr. and Mrs.
William Clarke Mason ......•......•.•...•.•••.••••
Vesta Senior Bequest .........•....•.......•• , .•••••••

200.00
359.58

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$48,211.61

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SCHOOL
School District of Philadelphia, for scholarships (First Term,
10; Second Term, 17) ....••..•••••...............•. $ 5,400.00
Lubrizol Foundation, for scholarship for students from Cleveland, 0 . . ....................................... .
1,000.00
Frances D. Bergman Memorial Prize:
Bernard D. Bergman ........••.......•.............
230.00
Mr. and Mrs. Maurice D. Bergman .......•..•...•....•
50.00
Mrs. Beatrice Weiss ...•.••.....•..••••.....••.•••..
50.00
Mr. and Mrs. Manuel Mendelson .•.....•...••.••••..•
50.00
Mr. and Mrs. Morley Cassidy .........•.•......••.. •
50.00
Mrs. J. Maurice Gray, for Eleanor S. Gray Purchase Prize ..
300.00
Mrs. J. Maurice Gray, for Eleanor S. Gray Donated Prize ..
300.00
David Gwinn, for Thomas Eakins Prize .........•...•••
100.00
Emma Wallace Cadwalader, for Lambert and Emma W.
Cadwalader Prize.................................
125.00
Christine Biddle Scull, for William B. Cadwalader Prize. . . •
250.00
John _W. Merriam, for student purchase prize. . . . . . • •• •. • 1,500.00
Benjamin Bernstein, for Quaker Storage Company prize. . . .
250.00
George D. Widener, for Widener Scholarships. . . •. . . .• . .. 2,000.00
Mrs. H. Lea Hudson, for William Clarke Mason Prize. .•• . .
105.00
Mabel D. Gill, for Woodrow Prize......................
100.00
Marion D. Higgins, for Marion Higgins Prize. . . . . . • . . • . . •
250.00
Kathie V. Sime, for M. Herbert Syme Prize. . . . . . • • • . . . . . •
25.00
Hazel C. Bux, student prize in memory of Mamie E. Bux ..• _ _
10_0_._00_

$12,275.00

..... $66,604.00

Total
DONORS TO THE PROGRESS FUND IN 1966
Annenberg Fund, Inc.
Mr. and Mrs. John Grier Bartol
Mrs. Francis Boyer
Mrs. Bertram D. Coleman
First Pennsylvania Banking and Trust Co.
Mr. Jacob Gutman
Mr. and Mrs. J. Welles Henderson
Mrs. M. Dunham Higgins
Miss Anna W. Ingersoll
Mrs. T. Carrick Jordan
Mr. Henry B. Keep

Total:

Mrs. Sydney L. W. Lea
Mrs. Arthur Loeb
H.r. Henry S. McNeil
Mr. and Mrs. John W. Merriam
Mrs. Herbert C. Morris
Mrs. Rodolphe de Schauensee
Miss Eleanor H. Smith
Mr. and Mrs. Caspar Townsend
Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Watts
Mr. and Mrs. George D. Widener
Mr. and Mrs. William P. Wood

$49,226.80

DONORS TO DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM
Anonymous
Mr. Francis Boyer
A. J. & A. W. Cameron Memorial Fund
Mrs. Bertram D. Coleman
Mr. Gerald D. Griffin

Total:

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Mr. and Mrs. J. Welles Henderson
John S. W. Holton Bequest
Mrs. Evan Randolph
Sears Roebuck and Company

$15,255.93

MEMBERSHIP AND DEVELOPMENT
The year of 1966 was marked with encouraging progress in our membership.
88 persons increased their support, primarily by becoming Contributing
members. In addition, 468 new members were enrolled. Funds from these
sources totalled $40,567.39 which, with $63,804.92 from renewals, made
a membership income of $104,372.31. Total Academy membership at the
end of 1966 reached 2,791, representing a net gain for the year of 224
members. The favorable trend in membership has been influenced by the
attractive Peale Club privileges which are extended on an annual basis
to the $100 Contributing and $25 Professional members of the Academy.
It is highly gratifying, also, that 12 individuals made substantial contributions during the year and were elected by the Board of Directors as Fellows
or Patrons with the life privileges of Peale Club.
In November of 1966, the Academy instituted a new Development Program
in the hope of enlisting more substantial financial assistance from foundations, corporations, and individuals. With an initial goal of $1,200,000 to
cover immediate problems, the Development Program constitutes a continuing long-range plan to gain substained help in future years in meeting
our many and diverse requirements as a school and museum. Priorities for
new funds include the clearing of indebtedness related to expanded facilities, increases in staff and faculty salaries, an enlarged faculty, additions
to our permanent collection, student scholarships, the establishment of a
visiting lecture series, expansion of the art library, and rehabilitation of our
storage vaults. In the last two months of 1966, $15,255.93 was contributed
to the Development Program as advance gifts; and 30 foundations and
corporations were contacted for support in various areas of need. In addition, $49,226.80 was received in 1966 as the Progress Fund approached its
final phase.

NEW MEMBERS

PHYLLIS K. BLEDSOE
Director of Membership
and Development

Enrolled during 1966, including those who increased their classification:
Patrons
Malvin Albright (Zissley)
*Walter Annenberg
*Mrs. Charles C. G. Chapltn

*Mrs. Henry R. Hallowell
*Henry R. Hallowell
*Mrs. M. Dunham Higgins

Fellows
*Mrs. Bertram D. Coleman
Gerald G. Griffin
*Henry B. Keep
Mrs. William J. Levitt, Jr.
*Mrs. Thomas H. Lineaweaver
*Increased classification

. *Dr. Matthew T. Moore
Mrs. Lee C. Schlesinger
*Leonard Shaffer
*Mrs. George Strawbridge
*Mrs. Caspar W. B. Townsend

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Contributing Members, enrolled during 1966
Mrs. Carlton Abraham
Herbert J. Adair
Mrs. Edward Lee Altemus
Robert o. Anderson
*Walter G. Arader
*Mrs. Edward C. Arend
Miss Valerie Armstrong
John F. Arndt, Jr.
Walter C. Atkinson, Jr.
Henry McK. Baggs
Augustus S. Ballard
James M. Ballengee
Mrs. Robert I. Ballinger, Jr.
Herbert Barness
*Mrs. George E. Bass
*Mrs. Daniel Moore Bates
Mrs. Harry A. Batten
Adrian Bauer
William S. Baugh
James Beattie, Jr.
*Mrs. Herman Beerman
Stephen Beiter
Mrs. James A. Bentley
*Mrs. Leon L. Berkowitz
Frederick W. Berlinger
Nathan Berman
B. A. Bernard
George Bernstein
Robert Bernstein
Jack R. Bershad
Mrs. Sydney G. Biddle
Thomas L. Bishop
*George P. Bissell, Jr.
John M. Bissell
Daniel Newbold Black, III
*Mrs. P. Brooke Bland
Dr. Edward Bloom
Bennett Blum
Robert A. Bodine
William W. Bodine, Jr.
Rodney T. Bonsai
*Mrs. Charles Bromley
Mrs. Blair Brooke
William Brooks
Michael A. Brown
Antholly N. Bruno
*Increased classification

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Miss Lois Bryan
Mrs. Reginald M. Budd
*E. Lewis Burnham
Ralph A. Carabasi, Jr.
Mrs. Robert M. Carrigan
Morley Cassidy
*Henry M. Chance, II
Woodrow W. Chance
William B. Chapman
*Henry S. Churchill
Dr. Gerald R. Clark
Robert Allan Class
Mrs. H. Michael Cline
Charles D. Close
Hayward H. Coburn
Thomas E. Coe, Jr.
Harvey J. Cohen
Mrs. Ralph M. Cohen
Horace C. Coleman, Jr.
Mrs. William B. Coleman
Abraham Cooper
Anthony Cortigene
Richard S. Crampton
*Mrs. Alexander L. Crawford
The Hon. Thomas J. Curtin
Samuel H. Daroff
*Newlin F. Davis
Mrs. Elmer R. Deaver
William F. Denney, Jr.
Joseph G. Denny, III
Mrs. Howard R. Detweiler
Richardson Dilworth, Jr.
Donald F. Dixon
Stewart E. Doughty
John O . Downey
Mrs. Russell Lee Duval
*Edward J. Dwyer
Gerald L. Eberly
*Milton Edelman
*Victor Eisenberg
Miss Frances M. Elliott
*Herman M. Ellis
*Miss Elizabeth R. England
Mrs. Thomas Erskine
*Mrs. Robert P. Esty
Richard E. Evers

John S. Fair, Jr.
O. L. Fallan
Martin J. Farber
Dr. George E. Farrar, Jr.
*Charles J. Faunce
*Miss Helen F. Faust
Edward Felbin
Dr. H. Allen Fellows
George A. Fernley
Aaron M. Fine
J. Joshua Fish
Louis Flaxenberg
Lawrence A. Fleischman
Louis M. Fleisher
Mrs. Robert H. Fleisher
*Reginald D. Forbes
Leon S. Forman
Charles J . Fowler
Pierre C. Fraley
Raymond G. Frick, Jr.
Dr. Paul H. Fried
Jack Friedland
* Mrs. Helen B. Fritsche
Thomas M. Fry
Mrs. Roland M. Frye
*Carl W. Funk
Mrs. Waldo G. Gamba
*Mrs. George D. Gammon
Stephen S. Gardner
Clifford E. Garner
Frank H. Gelman
*Miss lillian Gest
John W. Gilbert
Mrs. Saul Ginsberg
Ralph Globus
*Mrs. Harold C. Goldman
Mrs. Maurice M. Green
Alvin M. Greenberg
Ernest Greenfield
Dr. Raphael H. Greenstein
*Mrs. Julius Grodinsky
John Gruenberg, 2nd
Miss Rose Rita Haggerty
Maurice Hahn
Calvert Hall
Michael P. Halpert
Peirce A. Hammond, Jr.
Albert M. Hankin

*Mrs. Gordon A. Hardwick
Louis A. Harrison
Mrs. Jean B. Hecht
Mrs. Thomas R. Hedges, Jr.
George W. Heuer, Jr.
C. Clark Hodgson
Clark Thiel Hoffacker
*R. W. Hompe
Samu~ H. Honkkman
*Clement R. Hoopes
Arthur Horton
Mrs. Charles Henry Howe
*Mrs. Clement E. Hoyler
David S. Hudson
William R. Hudson
John B. Huffaker
Donald B. Hurwitz
Nick Ippoliti
David Jacobs
Miss Louise Z. Jaffe
Mrs. Edward S. Johnson
Shelby Jones
The Rev. Theodore F. Jones
Miss Joan l. Josephson
Hubert Kahana
Charles A. Kahaner
Mrs. Ethel B. Kahn
William J. Kane
Joseph Kaplan
Maurice Kaplow
Dr. Albert J. Kaspar
Leon Katz
Dr. Herbert Kean
Messmore Kendall
Thomas H. Kenton, Jr.
*Edward Kesler
*William R. Klaus
Miss Dolores Korman
Mrs. J. M. Korn
Mel R. Korn
*1. H. Krekstein
*Charles Kurz
Samuel H. Landy
Miss Anne Lawton
Mrs. Philip L. Leidy
Mrs. Anne S. Lenox
Herman Levine
William Levinson

*Increased classification

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Mrs. Sophye Levy
Hal Lewis
*Ralph R. Lewis
Nathan Lichtenstein
Howard D. Lieberman
*Mrs. William E. Lingelbach, Jr.
Arthur Bennett Lipkin
Mrs. Arthur Bennett Lipkin
William H. Livingston, Jr.
Mrs. Cole Lyons
Fred N. Lyons
Dr. Joseph F. McCloskey
Mrs. Doris F. McCormick
*Dr. W. B. McKinney
Joseph P. Mclaughlin
Michael C. McManus
Stephen F. McMichael
Lawerence E. MacElree
Gregor Mocfarlan, Jr.
*Mrs. B. H. Mackey
Hillard Madway
Mrs. Robert E. Manley, Jr.
Marcus Manoff
Gerald J. Martin
Lawrence Maslow
C. Singleton Mears
Stephen J. Mehler
Gilbert Miller
Paul F. Miller, Jr.
Eugene J. Minahan
Leo Molinaro
Earl E. Moore
Mrs. Reginald H. Morris
Herman B. Mosler
Miss Myrtle L. Moss
Arthur T. Moyer
Jay P. Murray
Gerald H. Myers
Herbert L. Myers
Mrs. James E. Myers
* Mrs. Isaac Naeye
Edward L. Newberger
Mrs. Arthur A. Niessen
Mrs. William V. B. Nixon
Daniel B. Nodler
James A. Nolen
*Mrs. Joseph L. O'Brien
J. Richard O'Kane
*Increased clossification

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Mrs. Leon J . Obermayer
Jerome E. Ornsteen, Esq.
*H. F. Ortlip
Russell C. Osborne
*Mrs. Perry Ottenberg
*Wheeler H. Page
Morris Passon
M. Eugene Pavitt
Dr. Augustin R. Peale
Barry R. Peril
Harry J. Perry
*Mrs. J. N. Pew, Jr.
Samuel Pierce
S. Soski Pi roeff
Mrs. Gilbert Pleet
Mrs. William Pleet
*Beryl Price
Sidney L. Quitman
Max H. Raab
Max L. Raab
Mrs. Abraham E. Rakoff
Harry N. Rambo
Mrs. Joseph S. Rambo
*Mrs. J . Richard Ranck
R. Stewart Rauch, Jr.
*Mrs. J. Howard Reber
Mrs. Henry Reese
Pace Re ich
Mrs. William W. Rems
Miss Katharine A. Reuss
*Mrs. Walter Rex
*John F. Rich
John L. Ricketts
Dr. Rowland Ricketts
Dr. James D. Ripepi
Dr. Joseph A. Ritter
Bayard H. Roberts
Bill Rodstein
David Barras Rogers
G. Frederick Roll
*Mrs. W. Morrow Roosevelt
Gerald F. Rorer
*A. J. Rosenfeld
*R. H. Rosenfeld
Charles H. Ross
Mrs. Walter M. Rosskam
Frederick G. Roth
Mrs. Edmund Rowland

*Mrs. Lionel F. Rubin
*Mrs. David R. Sablosky
*Mrs. Edwin Sabol
Edmond Sacchetti
Mrs. John B. St. John
Mrs. J. Benson Saks
Lawrence E. Salkin
Natalie I. Salkind, Esq.
James Sands
Dr. Joseph Sataloff
Louis Sauer
*Mrs. F. Carter Schaub
*Mrs. Lewis C. Scheffey, Jr.
Mrs. Milton Schneidman
Dr. Norbert J. Schulz
Mrs. William B. Schwartz
*Mrs. J. Stinson Scott
Simmon J. Seder
Joseph Segal
Nat Segall
Alan M. Shapiro
Mrs. Thomas A. Sheridan
Dr. Charles C. Shober
Morris M. Shuster, Esq.
*Dr. Richard H. Shryock
Dr. Daniel Silverman
Robert L. Silverman
Mrs. John H. Sinberg
Joseph C. Smudin
E. Raymond Snedaker
Mrs. Harry Snellen burg, Sr.
Mrs. Elizabeth M. Snodgrass
Raymond Anthony Snow
Mrs. D. Hays Solis-Cohen
Mrs. Maurice G. Speiser
*1. Orrin Spellman
Dr. I. Ezra Staples
Mrs. Milton S. Stearns, Jr.
Mrs. Irvin Stein
Mrs. Frank M. Steinberg
*Mrs. S. Emlen Stokes

Mrs. A. Wake lee Swartz, Jr.
Robert C. Taber
*Dr. Timothy R. Talbot
*S. A. Tannenbaum
Miss Shirley Tattersfield
*Dr. Per-Olof G. Therman
Alvin W. Thomas
Walter H. Tietze
Joseph J. Tomlin
James W. Toren
F. Arthur Tucker
John E. Van Camp
Frank V. Vannessa
Mrs. Hans U. von Borcke
Harold E. Wagoner
W. Alan Warnick, Jr.
Mrs. Henry W. Weis
Gabriel D. Weiss
*Mrs. Warren M. Wells
*Mrs. Herman E. Wenograd
Robert G. Werden
David D. Wertz
Harold C. Wessel
Mrs. Edward S. Weyl
*Mrs. William White
Robert G. Wilder
Martin J. Whitman
Mrs. Wesley Williams
Richard B. Willis
Charles L. Wilson
George F. Wilson
Miss Shirley Winters
*Robert D. Wold ow
Mrs. Robert B. Wolf
Mrs. J. Harrison Worrall
Stanley Wudyka
Mrs. Elizabeth Greenfield Zeidman
Dr. Nicholas T. Zervas
*Dolph W. Zink
Dr. Sidney Zubrow

*Increased classification

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Professional Members, enrolled during 1966
Arthur R. Abrahams
John Condax
*Paul W. Darrow
Miss Bertha de Hellebranth
Miss Elena de Hellebranth
Miss Ann Eshner
E. George Gransworth
Henry T. Gayley, Jr.
Mrs. Anne T. Goodman
Samuel S. Heller
William A. Hirsch
Mrs. Jerome Kaplan

Mrs. Margaret Wasserman Levy
Mrs. Herbert H. Mohrfeld
Mrs. Samuel C. Newman
Miss Edith Rosenow
*Allan Schmidt
Mrs. Charles M. Solomon
Everett Stahl
Carl Steele
Mrs. Anne Tunis Summy
*Mrs. Otis Walter
Mrs. Robert J. Williams
Ben Wolf

Sustaining Members, enrolled during 1966
*Mrs. L. Talbot Adamson
James Biddle
James Bush·Brown
*Mrs. Carl de Moll
Mrs. Ford B. Draper
Dr. John P. Emich, Jr.
J. Grey Emmons, Jr.
Mrs. W. S. Fishman
*Miss Martha Gable
Henry Gouley
*Mrs. Robert McCay Green

Stanley Gross
Mrs. Benjamin Martin
Charles O'Connor
Mrs. Harry Solomon
Walter E. Stait
Mrs. John Stevens
Mrs. John M. Taylor
Mrs. R. Ellison Thompson
Mrs. Harry F. West
Miss Elizabeth Morris Wi star

Individual Members, enrolled during 1966
Miss Eleanor Margaret Anderson
Mrs. W. Disston Anderson
Miss Eve Asner
Walter Baran
Richard C. Bechtel
Miss Florence P. Bernheimer
Raul Betancourt
Mrs. John-Fred Betz, III
Mrs. E. Jones Bissell
Miss Mary Y. Blakely
Mrs. Richard C. Bond
Mrs. C. Barton Brewster
Alexander B. Brock
Mrs. J. S. Brody
Mrs. Edward Browning
Mrs. Edward Browning, Jr.
Charles P. Buffett
Mrs. Orville Bullitt, Jr.
*Increased cl'assification

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Albert J. Kaplan
Mrs. Marvin Carfrey
Mrs. George T. Cook
Charles Camp Cotton
Francis Criss
Roy B. Davis
Miss Maude T. de Schauensee
William J. Devlin
Miss Rita P. Dogole
Mrs. H. Hoffman Dolan
Mrs. George Drovin
Mrs. Evelyn S. Dyshel
Mrs. Edward Evans
Mrs. Richard L. Ewing
Mrs. J. J. Fleming, Jr.
Bernard Flitter
Mrs. Thomas J. Foy
Mrs. Francis S. Friel

Mrs. Lawrence J. Fuller
Elbert F. Garrett
Robert A. Gaye
Mrs. Albert P. Gerhard
F. l. Gilbert
Dr. M. L. Roy Goff
Mrs. M. l. Roy Goff
Mrs. Shelly Goldberg
Mrs. Arthur N. Goodfellow
Dr. Milton H. Gordon
James Gray, Jr.
Mrs. James R. Gr.oesbeck
Henry Grossman
Mrs. Frances P. Hammond
Miss Jane Hayward
R. Morris Hervey
Mrs. William Hires
Mrs. Marie C. Hodges
Edward Hopkinson, Jr.
Mrs. Morrison C. Huston
Mrs. Teddy Jacobs
Mrs. Leslie Jamison
Mrs. Gilpin R. Jones
Henry W. Jones
Sam Karavan
George C. Keim, Jr.
Dr. Huldah B. Kerner
Mrs. Charles A. Krieger
Mrs. Milton Laden
Miss Anne Marie Laessig
Frank T. Lamey
Mrs. B. Leake
Mrs. Richard W. Ledwith
Mrs. James C. Lightfoot
Mrs. Balduin Lucke
Mrs. Edward N. Ludin
Mrs. John W. Lyons
Robert R. McGoodwin
Edward J. Moloney
Mrs. Knowlton Dodd Montgomery
Mrs. Edward B. Myers
Mrs. Harry B. Newland
Mrs. Beth Odenheimer
Harry B. Ohlenroth
Mrs. A. Douglas Oliver
Miss Margaret Gayley Palmer
Mrs. Justin Pearson
Mrs. Mary D. S. Pearson
Mrs. William l. Peltz

G. Holmes Perkins
Mrs. W. W. Philler
Mrs. William C. Pickett
John Poteat
Mrs. Quentin l. Quinlivan
Mrs. Evan Randolph, Sr.
Mrs. Conyers Read
Mrs. l. Harry Richards, Jr.
Victor Riu
George Edward Robinette
Bertram F. Roland
Mrs. Samuel E. Rosen
Clyde de l. Ryals
Miss Beatrice E. Ryland
Mrs. William Buell Scher
Stanley M. Schlesinger
Reeve Schley, III
Mrs. Marc C. Schoettle
Mrs. Philip Alden Schoettle
Miss Elmo Seltzer
Miss Rita I. Shubin
Miss Guna Smitchens
J. Somers Smith, Jr.
Hugo F. Storelli
Mrs. George L. Storm
Mrs. Francis R. Strawbridge
Carl Tasha
Dr. Gordon l. Tobias
Mrs. Gordon l. Tobias
Mrs. Ellwood J . Turner, Jr.
George F. Tyler, Jr.
Henry J. Walters
Mrs. John H. Ware, 3rd
Mrs. Catherine Wood Webb
Mrs. Herbert K. Webb
Morris L. Weisberg
Mrs. Edna S. Weiss
Lt. Colonel Jean Wiener
Mrs. Robert W. Wiley
Arthur S. Williams
Thomas A. Williams
David P. Willis
G. H. Woodroffe
Mrs. Charles C. Wriggins
Louis Yellin
Raymond Zakroff
Mrs. Helen May Ziegler
Mrs. Albert Zimmerman

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EXHIBITIONS
THE 161st ANNUAL EXHIBITION of Oil and Sculpture (Reception and
Private View, January 19; open to the public, January 21 through March 6).
The Academy was honored to present another Annual Exhibition, the 161 sf
in its long series, designed to support American art and to give Philadelphia
a distinguished contemporary exhibition chosen by professionally active
artists. Consisting of oil painting and sculpture, the plan has been similar
to that of the 157th and 159th, The chairmen of the juries are responsible
for inviting work from artists of such national reputation as to merit inclusion without preliminary submission to jury action. The chairmen, accompanied by the Director of the Academy, made eighty-five calls on authorized
dealers.
Artists not invited by the jury chairmen were asked to submit colored slides,
rather than to pack and ship original works, a provision calculated to reduce
expenses. At the sessions devoted to the projection and review of the slides
submitted, the Academy's Director and at least three members of our
current faculty were in attendance, with seven men participating in the final
viewing. Artists whose slides successfully passed this preliminary judging
were asked to send, at their own expense, the original work (196 paintings
and 147 sculptures) represented. As on previous occasions, final decisions
were made by the professional juries. In alt over 5,000 works were examined either by slide or through visits made by jury chairmen.
Dedicated to the purpose of serving artists and the community, the Academy
studies the results of each exhibition with respect to the plan of organization employed in the hope of finding better ways to discover and encourage
significant contemporary American art.
JURIES

OF

SELECTION

Painters

AND

AWARD

Jack Levine, Chairman
Karl Knaths

John Heliker
Sculptors

Harry Bertoia, Chairman
Bruno Lucchesi

Milton Hebald
PRIZES AND

AWARDS

Joseph E. Temple Gold Medal, to George L. K. Morris for painting,
Charybdis, 1965.
Jennie Sesnan Gold Medal, to Leon Goldin for painting, Yellow Field
With Lupines.
Carol H. Beck Gold Medal, to Ben Benn for painting, Velida.
George D. Widener Gold Medal, to Leonard Baskin for wood sculpture,
Seated Woman .
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J. Henry Schiedt Memorial Prize ($2,000), to Arthur Osver for painting,
Blue Janus.
Alfred G. B. Steel Memorial Prize, to Robert I. Russin for sculpture, From
the Song of Songs.
Raymond A. Speiser Memorial Prize ($500), to Lennart Anderson for
painting, Standing Nude.
Walter Lippincott Prize ($600), to John William Reilly for painting,
King II.
Mary Smith Prize ($300), to Mitzi Melnicoff for painting, Children's Hour.
Fellowship Prize ($100), to Jimmy C. Lueders for painting, Ride the Red.
HONORABLE

MENTIONS IN

SCULPTURE

Elliot Offner for Auschwitz: Study No.4; Albert Jacobson for Standing on the
Corner Watching the Girls Go By; Murray Zucker for Figurehead.
HONORABLE MENTIONS

IN

PAINTING

Paul Gorka for Th~ Circle of the Sphere.
Number sold: 19. Total $35,025.00.
FELLOWSHIP ANNUAL EXHIBITION (Reception and Private View,
Wednesday evening, March 23; open to the public March 25 through
April 24).
Partly-invited, partly-juried, this exhibition consisted of work by professional
artists who have attended the Academy's Schools.
JURIES

OIL

John Reilly
WATER

COLOR

Warren Rohrer
AND

Louis Sloan

GRAPHICS

Martha Zeit

Jeanette Kohn

Dan Miller

SCULPTURE

Evangelos Frudakis

Frank Gasparro

AWARDS

Percy M. Owens Memorial for a Distinguished Pennsylvania artist
($250) to Ben Kamihira
Harrison S. Morris Memorial ($100 divided), to John Formicola for
Toaster-Silex, and Ida Herma for Carnival at 2 A.M.
Mary Butler Memorial for any medium ($100), to Joseph Amarotico for
Large Architectural Fantasy.
Bertha M. Goldberg Memorial for any medium ($100), to Tom Ewing
for Untitled.
May Audubon Post Prize for oil or sculpture ($100), to J. Wallace Ke"y
for The Four Horsemen (sculpture).
Caroline Gibbons Granger Memorial for oil ($100), to Peter Holod for
Mike.
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Leona Karp Braverman Memorial for sculpture ($100), to Sidney Simon
for Oedipus as a Young Boy.
Honorable Mention: Siegfried Halus for Moon Head.

Mabel Wilson Woodrow Memorial for a student represented in the
show to Toshiharu Kitagawa for Stones in the Garden.
Abraham Hankins Memorial (U. S. Bond, $100), to Benton Spruance
for The Candles.
15 Items, totaling $1,335.00, were sold from the show.
THE LEONARD BASKIN EXHIBITION OF SCULPTURE AND DRAWING opened with a reception on the afternoon of March 29 and continued
through April 24. Twenty-one items were shown consisting of ink drawings,
metal and wood sculptures.
STUDENT EXHIBITION FOR ANNUAL AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS (May 4 through May 22). Special exercises were held at 4 o'clock
on the afternoon of May 4, and the address was given by Mr. Livingston L.
Biddle, Jr., Deputy Chairman for the National Endowment for the Arts. (The
list of awards and scholarships will be found under School Report.)
A reception sponsored by the Academy, and a sale of student work submitted to the competition, was held on the afternoon of Friday, May 6,
from 4 until 6 o'clock. Seventy-one items were sold during the exhibition
totaling $4,285.00.
During the summer months, paintings and sculpture from the Permanent
Col/ection were exhibited in the gal/eries.
ANDREW WYETH EXHIBITION OF TEMPERAS, WATER COLORS,
DRY BRUSH AND DRAWINGS (Private View, October 8, from 10 A.M.
to 12 Noon; opened to the public 2 o'clock of the same day, and continued
through November 27). Shown were two hundred and twenty-three paintings
and drawings, one of which arrived too late to be included in the catalogue.
This exhibition was organized by the Academy, and it is being shown in
the Baltimore Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
City, and the Art Institute of Chicago, where it continues through June 4,
1967. Attendance: 173,000.
FUND FOR FLORENCE ARTISTS, EXHIBITION AND SALE, December 9
through the 18th, sponsored by the Philadelphia Chapter of Artists Equity
Association, Inc., on behalf of the artists of flood-ravaged Florence, Italy.
104 works of art, contributed by leading professional artists of the Philadelphia area, were sold, and approximately $10,000.00 was realized from
the benefit.
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PEALE HOU SE EXHIBITIONS
PAINTINGS BY HORACE PIPPIN AND SCULPTURE AND DRAWINGS
BY ANTHONY GREENWOOD (Private View and Tea, January 26, from
4 to 6 o'clock; open to the public, January 27 through March 6). The
twenty-five paintings by Horace Pippin were hung in the West Gallery;
most of them were lent through the courtesy of private collectors. Eighteen
sculptures and one group of drawings comprised the AnthollY Greenwood
show, which was hung in the East Gallery.
PAINTINGS BY WILLIAM HARNETT AND JOHN FREDERICK PETO;
PAINTINGS, DRAWINGS, AND PRINTS BY MORRIS BLACBURN
(Private View and Tea, March 9, from 4 to 6 o'clock; open to the public,
March 11 through April 17). Thirteen Harnetts and eighteen Petos were
hung in the West Gallery; twenty-nine items by Mr. Blackburn were on
the walls of the East Gallery.
PAINTINGS AND DRAWINGS BY EDWIN DICKINSON AND HOMER
JOHNSON (Private View and Tea, April 20, 4 to 6 o'clock; open to the
public, April 21 through May 29). The West Gallery was hung with
twenty-four items by Mr. Dickinson; the East Gallery, with twenty-six
examples of Mr. Johnson's work.
During the summer months, the two galleries were hung with paintings
from the Academy's Permanent Collection.
PAINTINGS, SCULPTURE, AND GRAPHICS BY ABRAHAM RATTNER
(Private View and Tea, September 21, from 4 to 6 o'clock; open to the
public, September 22 through October 30). Thirty-seven examples of Mr.
Rattner's work were shown in the West and the East Gallery.
PAINTINGS AND SCULPTURE BY FORMER CHAIRMEN OF JURIES
FOR ANNUAL EXHIBITIONS AND PAINTINGS BY MARGARET GEST
(1900-1965). (Private View and Reception, November 2, from 4 to
6 o'clock; open to the public, November 3 through December 11). Twentythree examples of the work of Harry Bertoia, Julian levi, Jack levine,
Arthur Osver, Oronzio Maldarelli (1892-1963), Henry Varnum Poor, Theodore
Roszak, Franklin C. Watkins and William Zorach (1887-1966) were on
exhibition in the West Gallery.

The Memorial Exhibition of paintings by Margaret Gest (thirty-eight examples) occupied the East Gallery.
CONSTRUCTIONS, WATERCOLORS AND WOODCUTS BY DAN
MILLER AND PAINTINGS BY ARTHUR B. CARLES (1882-1953).
(Private View and Reception, December 14, from 4 to 6 o'clock; open to
the public, December 15 through January 29, 1967.) The exhibition of Mr.

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Miller's work consisted of twenty-four examples, lent through courtesy of
The Arnold Finkel Gallery. Fifteen paintings by Arthur Carles were shown.
Forty-three items were sold from the various shows, a total of $35,215.00.

SPECIAL EVENTS
FREE CONCERTS

January 28. Works by Vaughan-Williams, Bohuslav Martinu, Faure and
Schubert; Young Uck Kim and Yumi Ninomya, violins; Geoffry Michaels,
viola; James Holesovsky, cello; Thomas Brennand, bass; Jonathan Rigg,
tenor; Vladimir Sokoloff, piano.
February 25. Works by Vivaldi-Res pig hi, Beethoven, Prokofieff and Strauss.
Geoffry Michaels, violin; Vladimir Sokoloff, piano.
April 1. Works by Schubert, Platti, Debussy, Poulenc, Hindemith, Brahms
and Mendelssohn. Vladimir and Eleanor Sokoloff, piano; Laurie Sokoloff,
flute.
No concerts were scheduled for the fall and early winter because of the
Academy being open to the public until 10 o'clock on Friday evenings during
the Wyeth Exhibition.
GALLERY TALKS (sponsored by the Fellowship of the Academy).

January 27. Jack Bookbinder, painter, Director of Division of Art Education,
Board of Education.
February 3. Martin Jackson, painter, teacher.
February 10. Hobson Pittman, painter, teacher.
February 17. Morris Blackburn, painter, teacher.
February 24. Dorothy Grafly, critic, editor and publisher of Art in Focus.
March 3. Allen Harris, sculptor, teacher.
The Academy receives many requests each year from outside charitable
groups for the use of our galleries for special meetings or fund-raising events
and is pleased to extend this privilege when our exhibition schedule permits.
During 1966, we welcomed the following:
The Junior League Annual Dinner; The Forget-Me-Not Ball of the Child
Guidance Clinic of Delaware County; The Philadelphia Waltz Evening for
the benefit of Hahnemann Hospital; The Museum Council luncheon; and the
Key Ball for the benefit of the Pennsylvania Hospital.
ATTENDANCE: Academy, 21 t085; Peale House, 30,051. Total 241,136.

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ACQUISITIONS
By Purchase
Through the Lambert Fund:
Human Elements (oil) by Russell Keeter

Two/Four, Atlantic City (mixed media) by Thomas Ewing
The Circle of the Sphere (oil) by Paul Gorka
Interlocking Shadows (tempera) by Julian Stanczak
Through the Gilpin and Temple Funds:
Seated Woman (wood sculpture) by Leonard Baskin

By Gift
From Mrs. H. Lea Hudson:
Polly (oil) by Alice Kent Stoddard
From Mrs. Herbert Morris:
Browns and Reds (oil) by Jose Guerrero
From Mrs. James Beal:
Self-Portrait (oil) by Jacob Eichholtz
From Ivan LeLorraine Albright:
Called to Supper and Quoits (oils) by Adam Emory Albright
From Malvin Marr Albright (Zsissly):
The Trail of Time is Dust (water color) by Malvin Marr Albright (Zsissly)
From Dr. and Mrs. Matthew T. Moore:
Newsman (oil) by Gerhard Reinhardt
From Hobson Pittman:
Anniversary (the Return) (oil) by Hobson Pittman
From Michael Ayaso:
Sombra Celestial (print) by Michael Ayaso
From Henry W. Sawyer, III:
Four Seasons (print portfolio) by Harold Altman
From Mrs. Charles Bregler:
Delaware River Scene (oil sketch) by Thomas Eakins
From Mrs. Samuel P. Rotan:
Two 16th century Flemish tapestries

By Bequest
Of Vera Segal Sterne:
Misty Day (oil) by Maurice Sterne

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CONSERV ATION OF WORKS FROM
THE PERMANENT COLLECTION
Twelve paintings received attention during the year from Theodor 5iegl, the
Academy's conservator and technical adviser: Portrait of a Young Girl by
Francis M. Drexel, Portrait of Thomas Birch, attributed to John Neagle, The
Favorite Falcon by Thomas Hovenden, James Peale and His Family by James
Peale, Portrait of James Claypoole by Charles Willson Peale, Fourth of July
in Centre Square by John lewis Krimmel, Called to Supper and Quoits by
Adam Emory Albright, Ephraim Wilson by Julius Bloch, The Artist in His
Museum by Charles Willson Peale, Still Life, Arrangement of Grapes by
James Peale, Portrait of George Washington by Charles Peale Polk.

LOANS
During the year, twenty-nine art institutions, from Maine to California and
Canada, borrowed forty-three paintings and sculptures from the Academy's
Permanent Collection to enrich their exhibitions. In addition, two were lent
to the American Federation of Arts for traveling exhibitions, usually of one
year's duration, and the Fidelity-Philadelphia Bank arranged for twelve
paintings for their "Picture of the Month" series on the banking floor-in all
sixty-one items.
Title
Old King Cole

Artist
Maxfield Parrish

Institution
George Walter Vincent Smith Art
Museum, Springfield, Mass.
Syracuse University, Syracuse, N. Y.

James Hamilton

Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, N. Y.

The Willow Tree

Roswell Weidner

William Penn Memorial Museum,
Harrisburg, Pa.

Olsen's Men

Zoltan Sepeshy

Lowe Art Center, Syracuse University, Syracuse, N. Y.

The Ancient Mariner
Old Ironsides

Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Mich.
North River

George Bellows

Gallery of Modern Art, N. Y. C.

Gathering Storm Over
Philadelphia

Louis Sloan

Fleischer Art Memorial, Philadelphia

Battle of Lake Erie

Thomas Birch

Philadelphia Maritime Museum

Between the Rocks
Fairmount Water Works
Falls of Niagara
(miniature)

William Birch

Portrait of Thomas Birch

Attributed to John Neagle

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LOANS (Cont.)
Title

Institution

Artist
Ernest Roth

Philadelphia Art Alliance

The Young Merchants

William Page

Corcoran
D. C.

Possendorf I

Lyonel Feininger

Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena,
Calif.

The Provost's Tower
The University Museum

Gallery,

Washington,

Milwaukee Art Center, Milwaukee,
Wis.
Batlimore Museum of Art, Baltimore
Great Oak of Ornans

Gustave Courbet

Wildenstein Galleries, N.Y.C.

Frances Anne Kemble

Thomas Sully

University Hospital Antiques Show,

General Donatieu
Rochambeau

Charles Peale Polk

Valley Forge State Park, the Bake
House Museum

The Falcon

Thomas Hovenden

Conshohocken Art League, Conshohocken, Pa.

Philadelphia

Peonies
The Birth of Venus

Alexandre Cabanel

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Still Life: Fish

William Merritt Chase

American Federation of Art, N.Y.C.

At the Beach

William Glackens

The Fox Hunt

Winslow Homer

Bowdoin College Museum of Art,
Brunswick, Maine

John Brown Going to His
Hanging

Horace Pippin

Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute,
Pittsburgh, Pa.

1/

Corcoran
D. C.

Gallery,

Washington,

Sailing in Mist

John Twachtman

Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati,
Ohio

Gladio/as

Charles Demuth

William Penn Memorial Museum,
Harrisburg, Pa.

Interior With Doorway

Richard Diebenkorn

Whitney Museum of American Art,

The Soda Fountain

William Glackens

Morning
Man on Dock
Helen Henderson
(lithograph)

N. Y. C.
The Fox Hunt

Winslow Homer

Anna Gibbon Johnson

John Neagle

Miss Eliza Leslie

Thomas Sully

Comedy

William Rush

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LOANS (Cont.)
Title

Artist

Institution

Tragedy

William Rush

Whitney Museum of American Art,

Peggy's Cove

Ernest Lawson

National Gallery
Ottawa

Henry O. Tanner

Howard

N. Y.C.
of

Canada,

Fort George Hill; Morning
Nicodemus

University,

Washington,

D. C.
The Soda Fountain

William Glackens

City Art Museum, St. Louis, Mo.
Whitney Museum of American Art,
N. Y. C.

Oakdale Avenue at Night

Aaron Bohrod

Madison Art Center, Madison, Wis.

Girl at Piano

Theodore Robinson

Fidelity-Philadelphia Trust Co.

End of the 14th Street
Crosstown Line

Reginald Marsh

Landscape No.3

Thomas Doughty

Horses

Cameron Booth

Fairmount Park Waterworks

Thomas Birch

The Gossips

Hobson Pittman

Sidewalk Market

Louis Bosa

Lighthouse

Morris Kantor

Acorn Squash

Henry Lee McFee

Dried Flowers

Alice Riddle Kindler

Dark Hollow

John Folinsbee

My House in Winter

Charles Morris Young

SCHOOLS
The major school activities being carried on through the fall and winter of
each season makes the reporting somewhat difficult in a record which is
measured by the calendar year. In the last several years the situation has
been somewhat eased in that our semester dates have been adjusted to
agree with the University of Pennsylvania's, with whom we coordinate, and
the second semester of each winter does begin on January 1st. The result,
however, must be a report of the last semester of one year and the first
semester of the next.
The single most important aspect of our school life, which demanded attention, had to do with the size of enrollment. It was natural to allow the size
of the Schools to be enlarged when space became available with the
purchase of the old Belgravia Hotel, which became our Peale House. It soon
became evident with this expansion that the very much enlarged student
body dictated a larger faculty, as wei" because the system employed over

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many years had to do primarily with the contact enjoyed between one
student and one instructor. As there is actually a limited number of artists
with national or international recognition residing in Philadelphia at the
present time, those of Academy caliber are necessarily few. This combination
of circumstances diCtated the curtailment of new admissions in January of
1966. It is gratifying to report, however, that the School progressed on an
even keel and, at the time of the competitions in early May, there were
more students eligible to compete and a much larger volume of work to
be judged. The following record will show how great were the boons which
the Academy had in its gift.
At the special exercises held in the afternoon of May 4 fifteen traveling
scholarships and other prizes, amounting to $32,355.00, were awarded to
students in the Schools of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. On
recommendation of the Faculty the following awards were made:
WILLIAM EMLEN CRESSON MEMORIAL EUROPEAN TRAVELING
SCHOLARSHIPS (est. 1902, $2,000 each) to Robert Barfield, Bertin B.
Esteves, Barclay Hendricks, Paul H. Kane, Alvern A. Lostefter, James W.
Mastrocola, Robert Moreck, Barbara Sosson (painters); Michael J. Williams
(sculptor).

J. HENRY SCHIEDT MEMORIAL TRAVELING SCHOLARSHIPS (est.
1938, $1,450 each) to Murray Dessner, Nancy Grigsby, John E. Jonik, David
C. Meade.
LEWIS S. WARE TRAVELING SCHOLARSHIPS (est. 1949, $1,450) to
Barbara Heisman and Barbara Petrofsky.
SKOWHEGAN SCHOLARSHIP (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) to Scott Wilson.

ENDOWED PRIZES
Cecilia Beaux Memorial Prize (est. 1946, $100) to Estelle Rosen,
Honorable Mentions to Barbara Heisman, Barkley Hendricks and James
Lloyd.

John R. Conner Memorial Prize (est. 1953, $50) to Henry Widmaier,
Honorable Mention to William Schmidt.

Catharine Grant Memorial Prize (est. 1955, $200) to Bertin Esteves,
Honorable Mentions to Edward Casaceli and William Schmidt.

J. Maurice Gray Foundation Prize (est. 1961, $50) to David C. Meade,
Honorable Mention to Ross Merrill.

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~ackard Zoological Sketch Prize (est. 1899), lst Prize, $50, to Phyllis
Kimmel; 2nd Prize, $25, to Claire Layden.

Ramborger Prize (est. 1910, $35) to Alexandra K. Coleman.
Edna Pennypacker Stauffer Memorial Prize (est. 1961, $100) to Robert
Barfield.
Edmund Stewardson Prize (est. 1899, $100) to Barry Johnston.
Emma Burnham Stimson Prize (est. 1917, $100) to Mabel Jones.
Henry J. Thouron Prizes (est. 1903) to Barbara Heisman ($100 awarded
by the Faculty); Christopher Moe ($100, lst Award by the Instructor); Barkley
Hendricks and Nicholas Feher (2nd Award by the Instructor, $25 each); Noel
Mahaffey ($50 by Student Vote).
Charles Toppan Prizes (est. 1881) to Robert Betof, Edward Casaceli, Norris
Clements, Alvern A. Lostetfer, Jr., William Riley, Nicholai Sibiriakoff ($200
each).

UNENDOWED PRIZES
Frances D. Bergman Memorial Prize (est. 1966, $100) to Martha Loomis.
Lambert and Emma Wallace Cadwalader Prize (est. 1961, $125) to
Richard R. Childers, Jr.,

Honorable Mentions to John H. Cresson and Gilbert D. Lewis.
William Biddle Cadwalader Memorial Prize (est. 1966, $250) to Noel
Mahaffey,

Honorable Mentions to Paul Kane, David Lynch, John Luton and Siegfried Halus.
Thomas Eakins Memorial Prize (est. 1949, $100) to Alvern A. Lostetfer, Jr.
Honorable Mentions to Carol Cervony and Ransom Gaymon.
Gimbel Prize (est. 1958, $50 in art supplies) to Robert W. Bauer.
Eleanor S. Gray Purchase Prize (est. 1965, $300) to Murray Dessner.
Marion Higgins Prize (est. 1960) to Edmund A. Morais ($200),

Honorable Mentions to Barbara Sasson and Barbara Yochum ,($25 each).
Mindel Caplan Kleinbard Prize (est. 1958, $25 in art supplies) to Robert
Moreck.
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Mary Townsend and William Clarke Mason Prize (est. 1955, $200)
to Mary S. Zityniuk.
Perspective Prize (est. 1916, $20) to Loretta DiChiacchio.
Philadelphia Print Club Graphics Prize (est. 1953. A one-year membership in the Club and the use of its workshop) to Mary Ann Seymour.
Quaker Storage Company Prize (est. 1965, $250) to Ross Merrill,
Honorable Mention to William Martone.
M. Herbert Syme Prize (est. 1959, $25) to Clayton Anderson.
John Wanamaker Water Color Prize (est. 1954, $50 in art supplies) to
Ross Merrill.
Woodrow Prize in Graphics (est. 1955, $100) to David Umholtz,
Honorable Mention to Carol Staub.

5 PEe I ALP R I Z E5 (not awarded every year):
John W. Merriam Purchase Prize ($1,500) to Clayton Anderson.
Aspen School of Contemporary Art to Linda Miller, working scholarship.
Summer School enrollment was gratifying and the usual six weeks of activity
were amply cared for by a splendid faculty. September 6 saw the School
reopen and, once again, restraint was put upon the number of new enrollments, every effort being exercised to choose only those of the greatest
promise and whose previous records were exemplary. The dormitory system
in Peale House was fully used with forty girls in residence.
The Ford Foundation scholarships added to our own endowments enabled
us to grant financial aid to approximately 75 deserving students. This figure
includes those who returned to the Academy after their three months of
travel and study in Europe under our European Traveling Scholarship grants.
Heavy enrollment developed in the evening classes with special emphasis
on the Graphics Department for which there seemed to be increasing
demand.
With the cooperation and interest of our exemplary Faculty and the Committee on Instruction, a successful year came to its close <;m December 31 st.
M. WISTAR WOOD
Administrator of the Schools

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PUBLIC RELATIONS
The year 1966 was a record one for Public Relations for the Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Arts. Due to the Andrew Wyeth Exhibition in the fall
more people found their way to the Academy than in anyone year in its
illustrious history. The firm of lewis and Gilman handled public relations
for this exhibition, servicing the mass media, and the show received wide
national coverage. My department was the on-the-spot area where inquiries
were answered. The Women's Committee arranged for the preview dinner
and reception and it was a large task compiling invitation lists, deciding
on complimentary guests, and handling finances.
The Women's Committee started the year by having a large, successful
benefit of the premiere of Doctor Zhivago at the Boyd Theatre. The Women's
Committee made all arrangements for the subscription dinner at the Peale
Club and the premiere, and I assisted them wherever possible. The event
was a financial success and excellent public relations.
Publicity was arranged for the regular Academy and Peale House shows.
The 161st Annual Exhibition in January received good coverage. Winners
of awards in the school competitions, particularly Cresson Day, were announced in the Philadelphia newspapers and in the winners' home town
papers. Weekly and monthly listings of all our events were sent regularly
to all appropriate publications.
I continued to assist Dr. Vladimir Sokoloff with arrangements and promotion
for the Chamber Music Concerts. The complete programs and performers
are listed under Special Events. The Concerts are popular and bring the
general public to see our current exhibitions. Concerts were not held in the
fall during the Wyeth Exhibition as the Academy was open to the public
on Friday evenings until ten o'clock and the overflow crowds would have
made seating impossible.
I assisted the Women's Committee by serving as Recording Secretary at their
monthly meetings, and also handled reservations for their events.
Miss Dorothy T. Hirst joined the staff in September to assist with the Wyeth
Dinner. She has remained to take care of Wyeth catalog orders and inquiries. Her assistance has been invaluable to this department.
Public Relations is more important than ever and we have many future plans
to continually promote the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
EMilY R. HAINES (Mrs. Harold A. Haines, Jr.)
Director of Public Relations

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WOMEN'S COMMITTEE
I think it might be safe to say that the Women's Committee of the Academy
of the Fine Arts has had a busy year. The Benefit given on the opening
night of Dr. Zhivago was beautifully run by Mrs. Boudinot Stimson and
Mrs. Walter West, and, to their great credit, was extremely successful
financially. I have not the space to name all the members of the Women's
Committee who worked so hard on this Benefit, but I hope they all know
how grateful I am for this team effort.
Early in October, when Andrew Wyeth's paintings graced the walls of the
Academy, the Women's Committee in the persons of Mrs. John Russell and
Mrs. Evan Randolph, undertook to run a sales desk in connection with the
exhibition. This proved to be a complicated and demanding enterprise and
they have our sincere thanks for long hours of tiring work and for the
gratifying results.
The Committee also sponsored a dinner for 599 people on the night before
the opening of the exhibition. Owing to an employees' strike at the Bellevue
Hotel, the dinner was held instead at the Warwick. On two days' notice that
hotel served a very fine dinner and deserves the gratitude of everyone
connected with that lovely party.
Mrs. David Grossman deserves our gratitude for her splendid work on the
Wyeth Dinner and the various openings at the Peale House.
At this point, I want to thank Mrs. E. Robert Thomas and her Committee
for the elegant and tasteful decorations which they have produced for all
our projects. Special mention should be made of the Zhivago invitations,
which were so imaginative and so eye-catching.
Due to the efforts of the Women's Committee we have been able to help
defray the expense of the cleaning of the outside of the Academy Building
and to buy the red carpet for the front stairs. We are also helping to pay
for the refurbishing of the Record Room, and have allocated money toward
some needed items at Peale House.
Our great desire is to provide additional stimulating lectures or classes for
the students and we hope this dream will come true sometime in the near
future.
We have, during the course of this eventful year, lost a devoted friend and
member of our Committee, Mrs. Dixon Wainwright, and we think of her
often and with gratitude for the years that the Academy benefited from
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generous sum of money to the Women's Committee which we propose to
use for the purchase of art books for the Library at Broad and Cherry
Streets. We expect to add to this fund as time goes on and each book will
contain a bookplate bearing her name.
Mrs. Arthur Young and her Committee have worked hard to make the Peale
House rooms comfortable for the students, and the results of their efforts
can be seen on every side.
I cannot finish this report without thanking Mrs. Haines for her splendid
secretaryship and her ability to remember all the things that the Chairman
finds so easy to forget, and Miss Hirst for her help in times of stress.
Respectfully submitted,
ISABEL D. REATH, Chairman
(Mrs. George Reath)

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

OFFICERS
Roswell Weidner

. . . . President

Roy C. Nuse . .

First Vice President

Mabel Woodrow Gill

Vice President

Francis Speight .

Vice President

Benton Spruance

Vice President

Franklin C. Watkins

Vice President

Paul Wescott .

Vice President

Ethel

v.

Recording Secretary

Ashton

Elizabeth Eichman

Corresponding Secretary

l. A. D. Montgomery

Treasurer

THE COMMITTEE ON FELLOWSHIP
Mabel W. Gill, Chairman-Treasurer
Roy C. Nuse

Ethel V. Ashton
Roswell Weidner

Irene Denney

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 for
aid to students.
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, in order to give study opportunities for the youth of those neighborhoods, as well as teaching experience and income for present and/ or
former Academy students; and (3) giving a type of financial assistance,
not permissible from the regular Fellowship treasury, to current and former
Academy students, art workers, and Fellowship members.

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MEMBERSHIP CLASSES
ANNUAL
Individual .........................•....••..••.•• $

10.00

Sustaining ............ . .............•••...•.....•

25.00

Professional Artist ................•...•.•....•..••
Contributing ........... . ........•......•.•..•..•.

25.00}With Peale Club
100.00
privileges

LIFE
Fellow .................... $1000 to $5000

}With the lifetime privilege of Peale
Club for the member and renewal of
Patron .......•...••••..•.. $5000 to $25000 CI b "1
II f h b d
U
PriVI eges annua Y or
us an
Benefactor .....•....•..... over $25000
or wife of the member.

A membership in the Academy helps to support the oldest art institution in the country. Founded
in 1805, its ori~in dates from the initial efforts begun in 1791 by Charles Willson Peale to
organize a school for the fine arts in Philadelphia.
The Academy school has trained many distinguished American painters, sculptors, and graphic
artists, and its students of today rank with the best.
In its galleries are held two of America's major annual art exhibitions: Paintings and Sculpture,
and Water Colors and Prints on alternate years; special exhibitions; and the Academy's permanent collection, representing a cross-section of Americ:an art from the early eighteenth century through its c:urrent acquisitions.
Peale House, the Ac:ademy annex at 1811 Chestnut Street, serves as housing and additional
studio space for students, and contains two splendid public galleries for special exhibitions.
Peale Club, located at 1819 Chestnut Street, offers singular privileges to Contributing and
Professional members, and those in higher classes, by providing the ultimate in attractive surroundings for luncheon and dinner in the spacious dining rooms, with adjoining bar, and in the
lovely outdoor garden and terrace.
All members receive notices of Academy activities (concerts, lectures, motion pictures), invitations to private views at both the Academy and Peale House, catalogues, the Annual Report!
and the privilege of using the art reference library. In addition, members, enrolled before
the opening of any exhibition, receive a 5% discount on all works of art purchased at an
Academy exhibition, except at a student show.
-The Academy is open weekdays (except Mondays) from 1-0 A.M. to 5 P.M., Sundays and some
Holidays from 1 to 5 P.M. Closed Mondays, New Year's Day, Good Friday, Memorial Day,
Fourth of July, Thanksgiving and Christmas.

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