163rd 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

163rd ANNUAL REPORT

1968

Cover: Space Frame D by Edna Andrade

The One Hundred and Sixty-Third
Annual Report

of

THE 'PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY
OF THE FINE ARTS

For the Year 1968

Presented to the Meeting of the Stockholders
of the Academy on February 3, 1969.

OFFICERS
Frank T. Howard (to May) . . . .. .... . ...... . .... . ....... President
Edgar P. Richardson (from May)
Alfred Zantzinger (to May) .......... . ...... . ..... . Vice President
James M. Large (from May)
C. Newbold Taylor (to May) . ... . ...................... Treasurer
Thomas P. Stovell (from May)
Joseph T. F raser, Jr .. . ..... . . . ................ . ..... . . Secretary

BOARD O F D IRECTORS
Henry S. McNeil

Mrs. Bertram D. Coleman
Robert O. Fickes

John W. Merriam

Francis I . Gowen

C. Earle Miller
Frederick W. G. Peck

David Gwinn
J. Welles Henderson (resigned

Evan Randolph, Jr.
Edgar P. Richardson (ex officio)

in February)

James K. Stone

Frank T. Howard

Thomas P. Stove II

R. Sturgis Ingersoll

C. Newbold Taylor

Arthur C. Kaufmann
Henry B. Keep

Franklin C. Watkins

James M. Large

William H. S. Wells

James P. Magill (Director Emeritus)

Andrew Wyeth

Alfred Zantzinger
Ex officio
Representing Women's Committee:
Mrs. Albert M. Greenfield, Jr., Chairman
Representing City Council:

Representing Faculty:

David Cohen

Jimmy Leuders (to May)

Robert W. Crawford

Louis Sloan (from May)

Joseph L. Zazyczny
Solicitor:
William H. S. Wells, Jr.
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STANDING COMMITTEES
Collections and Exhibitions
James M. Large, Chairman
Mrs. Leonard T. Beale
William H. S. Wells, Jr.
Mrs. Herbert C. Morris
Alfred Zantzinger

Ex officio
Mrs. Elizabeth Osborne Cooper
Mrs. Marjorie Ruben
Mrs. C. Earle Miller
Mrs. Evan Randolph
Jimmy C. Leuders

Finance
Thomas P. Stovell, Chairman
Frank T. Howard
C. Newbold Taylor
Instruction
Ex officio
John W. Merriam, Chairman
Mrs. Albert M. Greenfield, Jr.
William H. S. Wells
(Women's Committee)
Mrs. Bertram D. Coleman
Louis Sloan (Faculty Representative)
M. Wistar Wood (Administrator of Schools)
SPECIAL COMMITTEES
To Recommend a New Director
William H. S. Wells, Chairman
Henry B. Keep

R. Sturgis Ingersoll

Benefactors Roll
James P. Magill, Chairman
Henry S. McNeil

C. Earle Miller
Andrew Wyeth
Joseph T. Fraser, Jr.

Development
James K. Stone, Chairman
Mrs. Bertram D. Coleman
Henry S. McNeil

Robert O. Fickes
Frederick W. G. Peck
Francis I. Gowen

Forward Planning
James M. Large, Chairman
Henry S. McNeil

William H. S. Wells, Jr.
Alfred Zantzinger

Membership
Evan Randolph, Chairman

Alfred Zantzinger

Nominations
Henry B. Keep, Chairman

Frank T. Howard
David Gwinn

Peale Club
John W. Merriam, Chairman
Mrs. Bertram D. Coleman
Mrs. Albert M. Greenfield, Jr.
Professional Membership
Joseph T. Fraser, Jr., Chairman
Homer Johnson

Evan Randolph
Henry B. Keep

Mrs. Marjorie Ruben

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WOMEN'S COMMITTEE

Officers:
Mrs. Albert M. Greenfield, Jr., Chairman
Mrs. Caspar W. B. Townsend, Vice-Chairman
Mrs. Evan Randolph, Treasurer-Secretary

Members:
Mrs. John Grier Bartol
Mrs. Alfred Bendiner
Mrs. Francis T. Chambers
Mrs, Philip L. Davidson

Mrs. Frederick W. G. Peck
Mrs. George Reath
Mrs. J. Pancoast Reath
Mrs. John C. Russell

Mrs. Newlin F. Davis

Mrs. Herbert F. Schiffer

Mrs. John W. Eiman

Mrs. James M. R. Sinkler

Mrs. Francis I. Gowen
Mrs. David J. Grossman

Mrs. C. Randolph Snowden
Mrs. James H. Stevenson, 3rd

Mrs. H. Lea Hudson

Mrs. Boudinot Stimson

Mrs. Arthur C. Kaufmann

Mrs. E. Robert Thomas

Mrs. Edward B. Leisenring, Jr.
Mrs. Howard H. Lewis
Mrs. C. ,Earle Miller

Mrs. William L. Van Alen, Jr.
Mrs. Franklin C. Watkins
Mrs. Walter H. West, Jr.

Mrs. DeWitt C. Morris

Mrs. William P. Wood

Mrs. John S. Newbold

Mrs. Arthur M. Young

Mrs. Theodore T. Newbold

Mrs. Alfred Zantzinger

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STAFF

General
Joseph T. Fraser, Jr. ........................ Director and Secretary
Mabel L. E iseley .............................. .Assistant Director
Dorothy E. Runk ........................ Secretary to the Director
August V. Viilu ................................... Comptroller
R ita Damiano ........................ Assistant to the Comptroller
Louise Wallman ..................................... .Registrar
Diana M. Gray ............................... Assistant Registrar
Susan E. Wood ................................. Public Relations
Charles U. Shellenberger .................... Development Associate
Mildred D. Lavin .................................... Secretary
E. Elizabeth Fermanis .............................. Membership
Frances Vanderpool ............................ Exhibitions Clerk
Anna M. Mang .................................... Receptionist
School
M. Wistar Wood ................................. .Administrator
Roswell Weidner ..................... In Charge of Evening Program
Constance A. Taylor ............ Registrar and Administrative Assistant
Marlene Stein (from August) ........................... Secretary
Ethel V. Ashton ..................................... Librarian
Barbara K. Lyons .................................. Storekeeper
Peale House
M. Wistar Wood ...................... .Administrator of the School
William Dino ........................................ Manager
Marjorie Ruben ............................. .Special Exhibitions
Marjorie E. Loomis. '.......................... Resident Counselor
Rochelle Rappaport .............. Receptionist and Models' Schedules
James J. Lulias ................................. .Superintendent
Peale Club
William Dino ........................................ Manager
John D. Holgate ......................... Assistant to the Manager
Katherine Hayden ....................... • ......... Bookkeeper
Alice Koberlin ......................................... Clerk
Academy Building
Joseph B. Koons ................................ .Superintendent
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FACUL TV (Season of 1968-69)

Day School:

Roswell Weidner

Jimmy C. Lueders

Harry Rosin

Daniel D. Miller

Franklin C. Watkins

Julian Levi

John W. McCoy, 2nd

Louis B. Sloan

John Hanlen

Elizabeth Osborne

Walter Stuempfig, Jr.

Allen Harris

Hobson Pittman

Marshall G lasier

Morris Blackburn

Will Barnet

Homer Johnson

Paul Anthony Greenwood

Karl O. Karhumaa
Jack Levine
Oliver Grimley
Arthur de Costa
Joseph Amarotico
Ben Kamihira
Robert Hale
Kimsou
Martha Zeit

Augmenting the Faculty:

Theodor Siegl, Technical Advisor, Painting Materials and Techniques
Daniel D. Miller, Lecturer in Art History
J. Franklin Shores, Lettering and Perspective
Robert Hale, Anatomy Drawing

Evening School:

Roswell Weidner

Homer Johnson

Joseph Amarotico

Morris Blackburn

Jimmy C. Lueders

Elizabeth Osborne

John Hanlen

. Louis B. Sloan

Daniel Miller

Paul Anthony Greenwood

Arthur de Costa

Oliver Grimley

Adolph T. Dioda

Ben Kamihira

Summer Day Schoo l:

Francis Speight

John Hanlen

Louis B. Sloan

Jimmy C. Lueders

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Oliver Grimley

REPORT OF t HE DIRECTOR
I could wish that my abil ity to write woulc::l give to those who will read this report
a genuine sharing in the life of this venerable place. I am marking the 31 st time
when this yearly survey has been my responsibility. No years have been dull, and
many have been filled with events and developments spelling important services to
the cause of art in America . This past year, 1968, has been no exception to the
years of great importance. Scarcely a month has passed without meaningful activity, and we are certainly reflecting our remarkable world of change.
I must first record the considerable number of changes in our official family. In
January, C. Newbold Taylor, who joined the Academy's Board in 1943 and who
was elected Treasurer in 1949, asked to be relieved of that large and important
responsibility. February marked the effective date of the resignation of J. Welles
Henderson, in order to concentrate his energies to the Maritime Museum, which
he has founded. March saw the election of Thomas P. Stovell to the position of
Treasurer. Impelled by the notice which Frank T. Howard, on the score of ill
health, had given in November . 1967, the Board, in May, elected Dr. Edgar P.
Richardson as President. H is acceptance of this post is conditioned, however, and
is understood to run to a date not beyond January 1970.
Due tribute was paid to Mr. Howard for the nine and one-half years of exemplary
service he had given as President and, at that May meeting, he was elected again to
membership on the Board. Along with this major adjustment in the top office,
Alfred Zantzinger, Vice President from 1960, resigned from that office, but
fortunately retained his place as a member of the Board. James M. Large was duly
elected Vice President, and the Faculty Representative for the ensuing year
became Louis B. Sloan . To complete the record concerning changes in our personnel, Frederick W. G. Peck was duly elected to the Board in June, and Francis I.
Gowen, Robert O. Fickes and Andrew Wyeth were elected in September.
The month of May marked the announcement to the Board by John W. Merriam
that he had purchased the Curtis Publishing Company building at 6th and Walnut
Streets, with intent to make renovations which would convert the major number
of upper floors to valuable office space and, most important, establishing a new
museum of American art in its lower floors an·d basement areas. He expressed his
hope that the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts would cooperate with his
plans and consider moving its entire collection of American paintings, sculpture,
and graphics to this new location on indefinite loan, and that he had made similar
requests of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and also was ambitious to include an
similar material from the other important cultural institutions in the city.
One of Dr. Richardson's first important duties, therefore, involved the appointment of a study committee from the Academy's Board to give this idea thorough
consideration and report its findings to the Board. It developed that advantages
were found in the combining of this appointed group with a similar committee
appointed by George Cheston , President of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. I
quote here from the formal report of our own Committee. After many visits to
the site and numerous meetings and conferences with the representatives from -the

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Philadelphia Museum, the report, over the signatures of the Committee, was
presented to the Board at a regular stated meeting in September:
"It is, therefore, with great reluctance and after long deliberation that your
Committee has come to the conclusion that it cannot recommend to the
Board of Directors that the American collection of the Academy be loaned
to a new museum in the Curtis Building."
Dr. Richardson thanked the Committee and dissolved it, and with the same personnel created
"Forward Planning Committee" to study all aspects of the
Academy. both as a museum and a school, recognizing the current great changes in
the field of Am~rican art and our rightful place in this contemporary world.

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Mr. Merriam requested that a final decision should not be made at this time, but
in December, having received no formal new proposal from Mr. Merriam, · the
Board decided that the Academy's future lay in the development of the Broad
and Cherry Streets building. I believe that I should note that, although an
unfavorable decision was reported in respect to Mr. Merriam's proposal, a genuine
measure of new understanding has been enjoyed between the Philadelphia
Museum and the Academy in probing our common problems. The hope was
expressed several times that ideal ways may develop for more close cooperation.
It is only fair to say that the year could n.ot claim a brilliant first exhibition.
January saw the opening of our 163rd Annual, dedicated to oil painting and
sculpture. Although the same care and attention was given to the organizing, the
show was not our finest and received but lukewarm criticism. An innovation was
tried by having all the entires included by invitation, but even with able a·nd
distinguished professional guidance the result was not up to expectations. We did,
however, purchase advantageously, and several important contemporary items of
painting and sculpture (listed elsewhere) were added to our permanent collection.
A much m'Ore enthusiastic account can be written on the show held in May when
the students competed for European scholarships and other prizes. The caliber of
work from our classrooms made a lively, sound, and laudable exhibition.
The most important single event of the year was a memorial and retrospective
exhibition of lithographs, paintings, and drawings by the late Benton Spruance in
October and November. Not only were we able to thus honor the memory of one
of Philadelphia's most gifted and beloved artists, but the result was roundly
praised and the considerable number of galleries dedicated to the four ·major
phases of his production . were handsomely furnished. There was a splendid
attendance following the important di~ner which opened the private view, and
the sales' record was altogether gratifying. A word of particular commendation
must again be made concerning the series of splendid exhibitions which graced
our two galleries at Peale House. We are just as happy to report continuing
additions in gratifying numbers to our contr ibuting member lists, carrying Peale
Club privileges. Those members and their guests, added to the very conside rable
number of the general public who visit our galleries there on Chestnut Street, all
cont ribute to a very satisfying activity in that quarter.

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This report must also certainly reflect the advantageous innovations which have
come to us. through the dynamic leadership of Dr. Richardson. The following
terse list will give you some idea of the advantages we are enjoying through his
dedication and understanding, as few museums have been privileged with leadership as thoroughly professional and scholarly. His breadth of background brings
thorough understanding to all of our problems. It is through his instigation that
the Quarterly has been launched. A concentrated study by a special committee
has been initiated to find the most appropriate way to memorialize the list of
benefactors who have by gifts and bequests enriched the Academy's life throughout its long history. A checklist of the Academy's Permanent Collection is now in
preparation which we trust will lead to a more permanent record in the near
future, as no catalogue is now in existence in which the Academy's holdings are
recorded. Our Board is being made more knowledgeable through a planned
program whereby each stated meeting is marked by concentration upon some one
of the Academy's major activities. A clear picture is being formed of what our
financial assets are and what they are presently making possible, but also a larger
picture is being painted of the very considerable aspects of the Academy's life
which could be enlarged and improved upon with concentrated effort upon larger
financial support being made available. Most important, is to credit Mr. Stove II
with the rearrangement of our investment portfolio through which it was possible
to take certain capital gains and thereby payoff the two big loans on Peale House,
which had weighed so heavily upon us for the past five years ..
No Annual Report is adequately expressed whhout a particular bow to the
gracious ladies who make up our Women's Committee. Their constant attention
to the many needs of the social and entertainment aspects of our life deserves our
utmost appreciation. Along with many genuine and enthusiastic thanks to the
loyal members of the Academy staff, I add a particular word of thanks and praise
to Vladimir Sokoloff for the exemplary service he has given the Academy over a
period of eighteen years in planning our Chamber Music Concerts.
Last, but not least, we reiterate our gratitude to the City of Philadelphia through
its Council for their support in the amount of $25,000.00; and also to the State
of Pennsylvania, in the amount of $3,000.00.
So much that has been touched upon here is very much more amplified in the
succeeding pages of this Annual Report. I trust that the interest of our many
members, friends, and supporters will be whetted to examine these larger records
in detail. I close with a feeling of satisfaction that the Academy has every reason
to uphold the standards which it has established, and I look forward with confidence to better and better years ahead.
JOSEPH T. FRASER, Jr.
Director

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CONSOLIDATED TREASURER'S REPORT
September 1, 1967 to August 31, 1968

INCOME:
ArtGallery .......................................$

1,649.15

Annual Exhibition .................................

35,067.76

Special & Peale House Exhibitions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..

16,905.80

School .......................................... 263,170.15
Trust Funds ...................................... 168,481.78
Membership Dues. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 151,960.00
Contributions-unrestricted. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..

14,582.69

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

25.,000.00

State Grant. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

2,850.00

Total .......... . ........................... $679,667.33

EXPENSE:
Art Gallery ...................................... $198,740.17
Annual Exhibition .................................

45,247.52

Special & Peale House Exhibitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

39,753.13

School .......................................... 339,114.12
Peale House Deficit .......... :.. . ..................

10,777.84

Total ................................... . .. $633,632.78
NET OPERATING SURPLUS ....................... $ 46,034.55
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CONTRIBUTIONS FOR CALENDAR YEAR 1968

UNRESTRICTED
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Todd ................. $
15.00
Mrs. Lydia D. Taylor ..... ... ..... . .... . . . .
50.00
1,102.04
Miss Katharine Adams .. .. . . .... .. ..... ... .
1,000.00
David Halfer ............ . .. . . ... ....... :
10.00
Mrs. Howard Wagman ....... : ....... . .... .
First Pennsylvania Company ...... . ........ .
300.00
250.00
Mrs. Dora Sanders ..... . . . ...... .. .. . .. .. .
10.00
Mrs. Paul Maloney ....................... .
1,500.00
Eugene Feldman ... . .................... .
100.00
Mr. and Mrs. Rodolph de Schauensee ..... .. . .
Christine Biddle Scull Estate ...... . .... ... . .
1,000.00
100.00
Sidney R. Rosemari Foundation .... . ....... .
1,000.00
Mrs. Francis Boyer ..... . ........ . ....... .
500.00
Francis Boyer ................. . ...... . . .
Sylvia G. and Morris M. Wexler Foundation .. . .
50.00
2,983.44
Anna Warren Ingersoll ............ . .. ..... .
500.00
Claneil Foundation, Inc. . ............... .. .
2.00
Frank Griffith . .... ..... ..... . . . ........ .
Allstate Foundation .......... .. ......... .
500.00
Astri Stromsred . . .. .. : . .. .. .. . . . .. ...... .
10.00
500.00
Dr. Edgar P. Richardson .. ... ..... . . .. .... .
1,000.00
Estate of H. C. Coleman .... . ... . . . ..... . . .
1,000.00
Robert McClean .............. . ...... .. . .
100.00
Lovett Foundation ............ • ..........
50.00
Mrs. Margaret H. Callahan .......... . .... . . .
J. Maurice Gray Trust ... . ..... . . ... ... : .. .
25 .00
DavisWaliace ...... .. ... ... .. . . . ........ .
5.00
25.00
Joseph J. Canty . . .. ..... .. .............. .
Charles E. Merrill Trust . . ..... .. ... . .. .. . . . 25,000.00
Joseph G. Denny, III ..... .. .............. .
25.00
Jean Starks . . ..... . .................... .
4.20
5,000.00
Mrs. J. Carrick Jordan ........... .. ... . . ..•
Miriam Browne Martin, in memory of Jennie
Browne Martin . .. . .. . ..... . ... . .... . . .
5.00
Atwate r Kent Foundation ..... ... ....... . . .
25.00
1,000.00
Independence F ou ndation . . . . ... . . ........ .
1,349.12
Thomas Stove II ....... ..... . . .. . .... . ... .
480.52
Mrs. Herbert C. Morris ...... ... ........ .. . .
H. Lea Hudson .... ... ... .... ......... . . .
500.00
300.00
Evan Randolph .. .... ..... . .. ..... ...... .
Anonymous ............ . .............. . .
500.00
250.00
J. Welles Henderson ...... .. ............ . . .

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Mrs. Sarah Wentz Sinkler ...... .. .......... .
Mrs. Allen S. Gordon .................... . .
Dorothy L. Saunders Trust Fund

500.00
1,000.00
10.00

$ 49,636.32

MISCELLANEOUS
City of Philadelphia, 1968 Appropriation
$25,000.00
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Grant ....... .
3,000.00
Mrs Herbert C. Morris, for Annual Exhibition .. .
581.54
Edgar Scott, for Augustus John Exhibition .... .
300.00
Henry S. McNeil, for Archival work ......... .
2,000.00
Lawrence A. Fleischman, for Archival work ... .
2,000.00
June Denk, in memory of Kenneth Rich, for
Library Fund ......................... .
5.00
Robert Sanborn, in memory of Kenneth Rich, for
5.00
Library Fund ......... ... ... . .... . .... .
Womens' Committee, for guided tours during
2,000.00
exhibition ........................... .
1,000.00
Anonymous, Life Membership for William F. Carr.
William Dino, for Christmas gifts ............ .
1,000.00
C. Earle Miller, for Pension Fund ... ... . .. . . .
2,000.00
Mrs. John Bartol, for concerts ......... . .... .
400.00

$ 39,291.54

SCHOOL
School District of Philadelphia, for Board of
Education scholarships ........ ... ...... . $ 8,700.00
Charles Shellenberger, for needy student ...... .
15.00
Mrs. Emma W. Cadwalader, for Lambert and
Emma W. Cadwalader Fund principal and prize.
8,148.08
Womens' Committee, for needy student . ..... .
350.00
Benjamin D. Bernstein, for Quaker Storage Prize,
in memory of Julius Bloch ........... . .. .
250.00
Drake Press Award Prize in memory of Howard B.
Miller . . ............. ... .. . . . ... . .... .
200.00
Mrs. Mary M. Hudson, for Mary Townsend and
William Clarke Mason Memorial Prize ...... .
200.00
Marion D. Higgins, for prize ............... .
250.00
Kathie E. Syme, for prize . .. . . .... . ....... .
25.00
Mrs. E. B. J. Sklar, for prize, in memory of
George Sklar .... . . . .................. .
100.00
Franklin Shores, for Perspective Prize ........ .
30.00
David Gwinn, for Thomas Eakins Memorial Prize.
100.00

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Mabel W. Gill, for Woodrow Prize in Graphics ...
Christine B. Scull Estate, for William B. Cadwalader Prize ......................... .
Louis S. Fine, for purchase prize .. .......... .
Mr. WilliamM. Campbell, for Perspective Prize . .
Quaker Storage Co., for Karel Mikolas (foreign
student) . . . .......................... .
Philadelphia Museum of Art Scholarship Fund,
for Karel Mikolas .................. . ... .
Mrs. Morley Cassidy, for Bergman Fund principal.
Thouron Fund, for Karel Mikolas ......... . . .
Philip and Ester Klein, for Karel Mikolas ...... .
Widener Foundation, for scholarships ..... .. . .

100.00
250.00
475.00
40.00
300.00
320.00
50.00
150.00
500.00
2,000.00

Total .. . .......................... .

$ 22,553.08
$111,480.94

DONORS TO THE PROGRESS FUND IN 1968
Mr. and Mrs. William P. Wood
Mr. and Mrs. John W. Merriam
Mr. and Mrs. John Grier Bartol
Total $15,446.53

DONORS TO THE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM IN 1968
Mrs. James Fentress
Mrs: Laurence M. C. Smith
Sylvan M. Cohen
Dr. Edgar P. Richardson
Standard Pressed Steel Foundation
David Gwinn
Glenmede Trust Co., Trustee of the Pew
Memorial Trust
Sears, Roebuck and Company
Total $14,291.50

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NEW MEMBERS
Enrolled during 1968 including those who Increased their classification:
Benefactor
*Mrs. John W. Merriam
Patron
*Mrs. Lambert Cadwalader
Fellows
*Miss Katharine Adams
William F. Carr
*Sylvan M. Cohen
*Eugene Feldman
*Mrs. James Fentress
* Lawrence A . Fleischman
David Hafler

* Mrs. Henry Lea Hudson
Mrs. A. Atwater Kent, Jr.
Walter C. Longstreth
* Robert McLean
* Thomas P. Stovell
* C. Newbold Taylor
* William P. Wood

* Increased classificati on
Contributing Members, enrolled during 1968
Dr. James Lowell Ackerman
S. Stanley Alderfer
David R. Allen
Seymour Alpert
Dr. Morton Amsterdam
* Mrs. Paul R. Anderson
Mrs. I rwin Apfel
Isaac L. Auerbach
Jules Axelrod
James W. Barnes
Mrs. Elizabeth F. Barrie
Mrs. J. J. Basch
Richard E. Basile
Jack Bayer
Miss Elizabeth Beath
Miss Elizabeth C. Berrang
Frank W. Betley
David C. Bevan
M iss Jane Bishop
Dr. Paul A. Bishop
Col. Gorham L. Black, Jr.
Warren Blair
Dr. Bernard M. Blum
Marvin Blum
* I ncreased classification

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Miss Olga H. Borch
Albert L. Borkow, Jr.
J. C. Borland
Alfred F. Bracher, Jr.
Dr. Conrad M. Brahin
Mrs. N. Allen Brandriff
Dr. Solomon S. Brav
Robert L. B redt
Oscar Bregman
Dr. Herbert Brilliant
Dr. Samuel Brint
Gerald L. Brodsky
J. Howard Brosius
Mrs. H. Tatnall Brown, Jr.
J. W. Brown
Mrs. Carter R. Buller
Mrs. S. F. Butler
Tillman Cahn
Mrs. Margaret H. Callahan
Roy E. Campbell
H. Kurtz Canby
Miss Mary E. Carr
Carroll H. Chapin
* Mrs. Ralph S. Charlton

George M. Cheston
Mrs. Louis M. Childs, II
Michael V. Chiodo
Mrs. Caye Christian
Hon . Joseph S. Clark
Edwin B. Clarke
James F. Clarke
Dr. D. Walter Cohen
Sydney S. Cohen
Clement Comly, III
Albert Comroe
Mrs. Donald S. Connell
Mrs. Sophie Chandler Consagra
Gilbert N. Cooper
Ben Corson
Fernand Creed
Mrs. Samuel A. Crozer
Robert F. Cushman
Thomas P. Davis
Dr. Frances Dees-Porch
*Mrs. C. Paul Denckla
Harold H. Deutchman
Joseph Devine
Samuel Diamond
Charles A. Dickinson-Marks
Dr. Victor A. Digilio
Park B. Dilks, Jr.
Richard H. Dilsheimer
E. A. Dixon, Jr.
* Mrs. Rita P. Dogole
Eli N. Donsky
Louis B. Dreifus
David S. Dubin
Stanton Dubin
Dr. W. Wallace Dyer
William A. Edwards
Mrs. Arthur Egendorf
Frank E. Elliott
Samuel Ellis, Jr.
Richard A. E nion
* John Evans
Dr. Richard L. Evans
A . Leon Feder
Dr. Francis R. Fejerdy
David H. H. Felix
I. L. Fien

Leon B. Fink
Dr. Arthur First
Morton L. Fishman
John A. Fitler-Ellis
Edward J. Flanigan, 2nd
I. Fleekop
John M. F lynn, 2nd
Mrs. Irvin B. Foster
Miss Jean Francovilla
Aaron S. Frank
Norman I. Frank
Dr. Milton J. Freiwald
Minnis L. Freshour
Irvin Fried
Mrs. Myna Friedland
H. Leonard Fruchter
James W. Gaither
George Davis Gammon, Jr.
* Mrs. Adam E. Geddes
Kenneth W. Gemmill
Dr. Philip Gerber
Merrill H. Gibbs, Jr.
Samuel E. Gilbert
Dr. Harry S. Gilgore
Dr. H. Jay Ginns
S. Regen Ginsburg
Howard M. Girsh
S. S. Glass
Donald J. Goldberg
Frederick Goldman
Robert Goldner
Mrs. Walter A. Goldsmith
Richard A . Goldstine
* Prof. William Gomberg
Mackarness H. Goode
* Mrs. Allen S. Gordon
Harry Gordon
Dr. W. K. Gorham, 3rd
Leon H. Gould
Dr. Benjamin Gouley
* Francis I. Gowen
Rodney H. Green
Harry G. Greenberg
Dr. Samuel M. Greenberg
Seymour W. Greenberg
Edward Greer

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* John T. Grisdale
Milton Gross
Maxwell Hafler
C. Robert Haines
Dr. Steven Hammerman
Michael P. Harakal
Stephen J. Harmelin
Thomas B. Harper, III
Charles E. Harris
Dr. Paul Harrison
Howard O. Hawley
Joseph Head
R. V. Heelan
Herbert Henze
Mrs. Anthony R. Hill
C. S. Hill
Albert Hoffman
Bruce H. Hooper
Mrs. Jane W. Hopf
David A. Horowitz
David Horowitz
Joel Cook Huber
Mrs. Milton Hubschman
Mrs. Charles L. Huston, Jr.
Mrs. Harry Hyman
H. Harry Hyman
Mrs. Leon Jacobs
Robert M. Jacobs
Joseph M. Jacoby
Dr. Ralph A. Jessar
Jay Josephs
Norman J. Kalcheim
Jacob Kalish
The Hon. Harry E. Kalodner
Dr. Albert J. Kaplan
Henry H. Kaplan
Lester Kardon
Richard J. Kates
Millard M. Katz
Seymour Katz
Sol Katz
William A . Kelley, Jr.
Robert L. Kendall, Jr.
* Milton P. King
William Noble Kinnard
Mrs. Milton S. Kochin
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Maurice Kolinsky
Herbert F. Koudela
Mrs. C. Raymond Kraus
Harold E. Krauss
Harvey S. Kronfeld
Jerome Kurtz
Jerome S. Kutner
Jules Kutner
Harold C. Lampe
Dr. Merwyn A. Landay
Robert M. Landis
Herman Lawner
Dr. Gayle K. Lawrence
Mr. Bert Lazar
Herman Lazarus
Mahlon K. Lea
Ralph Lee
Mrs. James F. Leitch
Benjamin W. Lerner
Jay H. Levin
Rubin Levin
Mrs. Herman Levine
Adolph Levis
Wolf H. Levy
Alan M. Lindy
Herbert M. Linsenberg
Ralph R. Lipshutz
Herbert L. Luria
Charles J. McCarthy
Mrs. William M. McCawley
* Mrs. John F. McCloskey
The Hon. John J. McDevitt, 3rd
Kenneth T. MacDonald
John A. McG inley
Patrick J. McGinnis
Charles E. McMenamin
Howard M. Magen
Aaron Maimin
Samuel P. Mandell
Gerard J. Mangone
Bernard J. Marcus
Miss Dorothy C. Marshall
Paul E. Martin
E. Eugene Mason
Guy Mastronardi
William L. Matz

Leon Mazer
Leonard J. Mercer, Jr.
Miss Mary H. Merrick
Mrs. Charles A. Meyer
I. H. Meyers
E. H. Miller
Herbert Miller
Irving Peter Miller
Dr. Sylvester M. Miller
William F. Mills
Stan Milner
Robert B. Mitchell
Herman M. Modell
Dr. A. N. Moghadam
Gerald J. Mongelli
Dr. Alma Dea Morani
Miss Ruth A. Morgan
Austin Morris
Bruce W. Morrison
Donald F. Nardy
Dr. Samuel K.Nash
Dorothy B. Neal
Jerome J. Neff
Dr. Herbert J. Nevyas
Morton Newman
* Mrs. Harry Newmark
Harry Norvick
Miss Gertrude A. O'Brien
* Mrs. A. Douglas Oliver
Walter Orloff
Raymond B. Osborne
Bernard Ostrof
Stanton S. Oswald
Mrs. Thomas T. Oyler
Mrs. E. Devon Pardoe, Jr.
Dr. Beatrice Pearlstine
Mr. Irvin Penner
Mr. Samuel R. Penneys
* N. Ramsay Pennypacker
* Mrs. Isaac Pepp
George Pernet
* Howard C. Petersen
A . M. Peterson
Roland A. Pettit
Erwin L. Pincus
Benjamin Plotnick

Bernard Polen
Dr. Leonard D. Policoff
Miss Martha D. Porter
Franklin Poul
Lawrence Prattis
Mrs. Leon N. Prince
Eli Pritzker
William J. Quirk
Edward A . Rahn
Harold M. Rappeport
Dr. Elkin Ravetz
* Mrs. J. Pancoast Reath
Robert J. Reichlin
Herbert E. Re inheimer
Sidney N. Repplier
Anthony T. Rienzi
Mrs. Charlotte F. Roach
Irwin B. Robbins
* Mrs. Edward Robins
Robert C. Robinson
Miss Dolores M. Roby
* Bertram F. Roland
* G. Frederick Roll
Dr. Max Lee Ronis
* Mrs. Howard D. Rosengarten
Dr. Richard H. Rothman
Dr. J. Eugene Ruben
Mrs. Edward Rubinoff
Nathan Rubinson
Harry A . Rutenberg
Dr. Marvin L. Sachs
David A. Saltzburg
Joel Samuelsohn
Mrs. Jack N. Sandman
Charles P. Sanzare
Leonard Sarner
* Morris W. Satinsky
William P. Schaefer, Jr.
Lester J. Schaffer
* Mrs. Albert W. Schiffrin
Sol D. Schindler
James G. Schmidt
Dr. Seymour Schotz
Dr. Isador Schupack
Arnold D. Schusterman
Benjamin Schwartz

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Milton Schwartz
Samuel Schwartz
Peter H. Sellers
Mrs. Peter H. Sellers
Carl G. Sempier
William E. Senat
Harry J. Sentiff
Raymond L. Shapiro
Samuel Shapiro
Miss Anne M. Shaw
Joseph D. Shein
Dr. Henry A. Shenkin
Miss Patricia M. Sheridan
Mrs. Charles J. Sieber
Edwin B. Siegel
* Mrs. Nathan Silberstein
William Silberman
Dr. Alex Silverstein
Milton F. Simon
Mrs. Ralph L. Sitley
Mrs. George Sklar
Mr. William Stephen Slocum
Robert H. Smith
Dr. Alan I. Snyder
* Dr. Louis A. Soloff
Herbert Somerson
Edward I. Speigel
Mrs. Claud Stanley
Jay M. Stanley
Alfred Steel
Mrs. Joseph F. Stehlik
Bill Stei"n
Burton K. Stein
Dr. Stanley Steinberg
Harvey T. Stephens
Dana G. Stetser
Mrs. Herman Stoffman ·
Leonard Stolker
Benjamin Stoller
Samuel Stonberg
Dr. Sylvan E. Stool
* J. Pennington Straus
Allan Sussel
David T. Sykes
Charles L. Tabas

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Dr. J. Edward Taylor
Miss Elizabeth F. Taylor
Mrs. Robert S. Thanhauser
L. G. L. Thomas
Albert A. Toll
* James W. Toren
Dr. Robert H. Trueman
Arthur Tuchinsky
Mrs. Theodore Vanett
Joseph T. Varello
George C. Vaughan
Rudolf F. Vogeler
Alfred Waber
Mrs. Robert Waelder
The Rev. Robert M. Wainwright
David E. Wasserstrom
Dr. Lennard L. Weber
Clinton J. Weibel
Charles T. Weiland
Joseph Weiner
Morris Weisman
Morris Weiss
* William Henry Welsh, Jr.
Ned White
* Mrs. Vivian M. Wick
Harold Wildstein
James Mark Willcox, Jr.
Miss Irene Williams
Mrs. John S. Williams
Merritt N. Willits, 3rd
*Mrs. David L. Wilson
Robert H. Wilson
Mrs. Peter Winokur
Caspar Wister
Edwin D. Wolf
Mrs. Ida Wolf
Paul A. Wolkin
Dr. Michael I. Wolkowicz
Stanley Wollner
Dr. Henry J. Woloshin
* Mrs. Alan D. Wood
William P. Worth
* Louis Yellin
Albert Zuckerman

Professional Members, enrolled during 1968
Ralph D. Affleck
.Tucker Bobst
Mrs. Quita Brodhead
Joseph Brown
Carl A . Colozzi
Mrs. Edna H. Gass
Mrs. Laura B. Goodman
* Gordon Hendricks
Mrs. B. Jane Johnson
Paul F. Keene, Jr.
* Mrs. Maris Alexander Laverty
Jack Lempert
Frank P. Licini

William F. Loos
Mrs. Mitzi Melnicoff
* Mrs. Robert H. Mundheim
Mrs. Morton Naftulin
Winthrop Neilson
Miss Patricia Pennington
Miss Mary Carolyn Pitts
Ian M. G. Quimby
Walter Reinsel
Mrs. Catherine L. Spina
Mrs. Benton Spruance
Charles Taylor
Mrs. Gerald M. Whitman

Sustaining Members, enrolled dur ing 1968
Dr. George I. Blumstein
* Peter S. Elek
* Mrs. Dennis E. Fay
Mrs. Charles B. Grace
Robert B. Grinnell

Mrs. Robert B. Grinnell
Mrs. William H. Moorhouse, Jr.
* Owen B. Rhoads
Robert E. Sessions

Individual Members, enrolled dur ing 1968
Mrs. Whiting Anthony
Miss Gretchen Anton-Smith
Victor C. Bacigalupi, Jr.
James E. Bailey
Mrs. Balogh
Mrs. Bernard Behrend
Robert Carroll
James P. Connor
Arthur Copeland
Mrs. Edward T. Crossan
Mrs. William S. Crowder
Miss Gloria T. DePaolis
Mrs. Hilda I. Fishman
Mrs. Lawrence J. Fuller
Martin Goldfield
Mrs. Jay Morton Gross
Edmund J. Halber
Mrs. Leopold Hauf, Jr.
Mrs. Joseph Welles Henderson
J. K. Jenney
Mrs. Robert W. Jung
Mrs. Lewis Korn
Miss Anne Marie Laessig

Richard W. Ledwith
Robert F. Maine
Mrs. Robert F. Maine
William R. Martone
Mrs. Robert L. Millikin
Mrs. Morris A. Nossov
Edwa rd D. Ollek
Miss Sylvia K. Olster
Frank J. Owens
Gene H. Pero
Mrs. Elizabeth C. Raleigh
Dr. Ludwig E. Schlitt
Mrs. Robert E. Sessions
Henry Silver
Mrs. Ernest Singerman
Mrs. Helen McC. Southworth
Miss Florence E. Stackhouse
Miss Eleanor M. Tafel
Mrs. Murray F. Thompson
Ernest T. Whitaker, Jr.
Dr. T. G. G. Wilson
Mrs. Robert A . Young

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EXHIBITIONS

THE 163rd ANNUAL EXHIBITION of American Painting and Sculpture
(Subscription D inner, January 17; Members Preview, January 18; open to
the public, January 19 through March 3).
The plan underlying the 163rd Annual Exhibition marks a radical departure from any employed before and is an experiment in organization.
There is no intention that it should become the model for all subsequent
"annuals." The Academy must continue to seek a plan which will most
nearly realize its ideals and be feasible in terms of monetary expenditures
and administrative man-hours. I n the past, all shows have included a
cross-section of invited work from artists of established reputation, and it
also has been possible for any artist known or unknown to submit his or
her work to a professional jury for possible inclusion in this nationally
important exhibition. The Academy regrets that this long familiar,
democratic provision could not be part of the current plan.
I n making a new plan this season, the Academy was acutely conscious of
its double responsibility to emphasize national coverage and local output.
Three painters and three sculptors of substantial reputation, constituting
the Jury of Nominations and Awards, were asked to nominate individually
artists who should be invited to exhibit, and who would, whenever possible, show groups instead of single examples of their work. Through their
advice 31 painters and 14 sculptors were included, and the national scope
represented 143 items.
Philadelphia is unique in having five institutions dedicated to the teaching
of the fine arts. It was natural, then, for the Academy to turn for assistance in selecting local artists to ,her four sister institutions: The Philadelphia College of Art, Moore College of Art, Tyler School of Art (Temple
University), and the School of Fine Arts at the University of Pennsylvania.
Each school assumed responsibility for inviting thirty items from artists in
the Philadelphia area, or artists affiliated with the school concerned. Each
could choose either painters or sculptors, designating single examples or
groups, so long as the number thirty was not exceeded. Through this
aspect of the plan 64 painters and 27 sculptors were included and the
local , scope represented 125 items. The total exhibition numbered 268
items.
Juries of Nomination and Award
Painters: Will Barnet, Arthur Osver, Lee Mullican
Sculptors: Jacques Lipchitz, Theodore Roszak, David Hare
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Prizes and Awards
Joseph E. Temple Gold Medal, to Helen Frankenthaler for painting,
Tobacco Landscape.
Jennie Sesnan Gold Medal, to Manfred Schwartz for painting, Beach
Horizontals.
Carol H. Beck Gold Medal, to Richard Diebenkorn for painting, Large
Woman.
George D. Widener Memorial Medal, to Seymour Lipton for sculpture,
Gateway.
J. Henry Schiedt Memorial Prize ($2,000.00), to Henry Pearson for
pa-inting, Median (triptych).
Alfred G. B. Steel Memorial Prize ($750.00), to James Wines for construction, Yahoo.
Raymond A. Speiser Memorial Prize ($500.00), to Emerson Woelffer for
painting, Pont Neuf.
Walter Lippincott Prize ($600.00), to Will Barnet for painting, Kiesler and
Wife.
Mary S,mith Prize ($300.00), to Edna Andrade for painting,Space Frame D.
Fellowship Prize ($100.00), to Elizabeth Osborne for painting, January
Still Life.
Honorable Mentions in Sculpture: Solitude by Isamu Noguchi; Poto Negro
by Norman Carlberg.
Honorable Mentions in Paintings: Silence by John von Wicht; Grove by
Saliba Douaihy.
Eighteen items were sold at a total of $28,825.00.

FELLOWSHIP ANNUAL EXHIBITION of Oils, Sculptures, Water Colors,
and Graphics (Reception and Private View, March 15; open to the public,
March 16 through April 14). This partly-invited, partly-juried, exhibition
consisted of work by professional artists who have attended the
Academy's Schools.

Juries
Oil
Edna Andrade

Elizabeth Osborne

Water Colors, Drawings and Graphics
Ruth Pleasanton
Naomi Limont
Sculpture
Allen Harris

L.A.D. Montgomery

Oliver Nuse

Karl Karhumaa
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Awards
Percy M. Owens Memorial for a distinguished
($250.00), to J. Wallace Kelly.

Pennsylvania artist

Harrison S. Morris Memorial ($100.00) for water color, to Nancy Wilson
for Big Black Piece.
Mary Butler Memorial ($200.00) for any medium, to Barbara Sosson for

Venus's Fly trap.
Bertha M. Goldberg Memorial ($100.00) for any medium, to Clayton
Anderson for Six Studies after Rubens.
May Audubon Post Prize ($100.00) for oil or sculpture, to Alexander
Hromych for Contemplating Harlot.
Caroline Gibbons Granger Memorial ($100.00) for oil, to Murray Dessner
for Yellow and White Square.
Leona Karp Braverman Memorial ($100.00) for sculpture, to Harold
Kimmelman for Slice.
Mabel Wilson Woodrow Memorial ($100.00) for a student represented in
the show, to Nicholas Feher for Untitled.
Edward Stait Prize ($50.00) for a student judged as best by the Jury, to
Sara Jane Roszak for Composition No.1.
Twenty-three items were sold at a total of $2,750.00.

STUDENT EXHIBITION FOR ANNUAL AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS (May 8 through 26). Mr. Walker Hancock, distinguished sculptor
and member of the Faculty since 1921, was the speaker at the special
exercises held on Wednesday, May 8, 4 o'clock, at which the traveling
scholarships and other school prizes were awarded (listed under School
Report). On the afternoon of May 10, a reception and sale of student
paintings, sculpture, prints and drawings was sponsored by the Academy.
Sixty-nine items were sold during the exhibition at a total of $4,075.00.
Recent acquisitions, and selections from the Academy's Permanent
Collection of painting and sculpture, were exhibited in the galleries
through the summer and until September 29. The galleries were closed
during the month of August.
BENTON SPRUANCE (1904-1967) MEMORIAL AND RETROSPECTIVE EXHIBITION (Subscription Dinner and Members Preview, October
9; open to the public, October 11 through November 24). Paintings,
drawings, and lithog-raphs, numbering 251, representing the four major
periods of his production, 1928 through 1967, were shown in four separate galleries. One hundred thirty-one items were sold at a total of
$11,415.00.

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PEALE HOUSE EXHIBITIONS

AUGUSTUS JOHN and EARLY MODERNS EXHIBITIONS (Private
View and Reception, January 30, from 4 to 6 o'clock; open to the public,
January 31 through March 3). Thirty-three examples of the work of
August John were shown, the greater number from the collection of Mr.
and Mrs. Edgar Scott.
EARLY MODERNS comprised twenty-five examples of the work of
eighteen artists, "pioneers" in the modern style. (The Richard Diebenkorn
and Edna Andrade shows, which opened on December 13, 1967, continued through January 28, 1968.)
ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG PAINTINGS and JAMES E. BREWTON
(1930-1967) MEMORIAL EXHIBITION (Private View and Reception,
March 6, from 5 to 8 o'clock; open to the public, March 7 through April
14). Twenty-one examples of Mr. Rauschenberg's work, comprising oils,
drawings, and lithographs, were shown. Thirty-five oils, drawings, and
other media by James Brewton comprised the memorial exhibition.
LIONEL FEININGER EXHIBITION (Private View and Reception, April
17, 4 to 7 o'clock; open to the public, April 18 through May 26). This
show contained sixty-three items-oils, water colors, and graphics, dating
from 1906 through 1954, and occupied both galleries.
ART COLLECTING PHI LADELPHIA STYLE: SELECTED WORKS
FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION (Private View and Reception,
September 18, from 5 to 7 o'clock; open to the public, September 19
through October 27). Fifty-seven items of painting and sculpture by
forty-four artists, European and American, were exhibited in the two
galleries.
WHARTON ESHERICK EXHIBITION (Private View and Reception,
October 30, from 5 to 7 o'clock; open to the public, October 31 through
December 8). Paintings, sculpture, furniture, and graphics-eighty-four
items in all, were shown in the East and West Galleries and in Peale Club
lounge.
SIDNEY GOODMAN and JOSEPH AMAROTICO EXHIBITIONS (Private
View and Reception on December 11, from 5 to 7 o'clock; open to the
public December 12 through January 26,1969). Eighteen items by Sidney
Goodman, oils, water colors, and graphics were all made available through
the courtesy of Terry Dintenfass Galleries, Inc. Thirty-six oils and various
other media comprised the exhibition of works by Joseph Amarotico, a
member of the Academy Faculty.

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SPECIA L EVENTS
Free Concerts
January 26. Works by Beethoven, Albert Roussel and Hindemith; Lydian
Woodwind Quintet, Vladimir Sokoloff, piano.
March 29. Works by Beethoven, Schubert, Alfredo Casella, Debussy, and
Brahms; Eleanor and Vladimir Sokoloff piano duetists.
November 22. Works by Schubert, Milhaud and Brahms. Kendall Betts,
French horn; Sidney Curtiss, viola; Geoffrey Michaels, violin, Vladimir
Sokoloff, piano. (Owing to the illness of Lauri Sokoloff, who was to
perform this evening, a change in program was made.)
Gallery Talks (sponsored by the Fellowship of the Academy).
January 25. Hobson Pittman, painter and teacher
February 1. Joseph Greenberg, Jr., sculptor and teacher
February 8. Dorothy Grafly, critic, editor, publisher of Art in Focus
February 15. Dennis Cate, Assistant to the 0 irector
February 29. Will Barnet, painter and teacher
ATTENDANCE: Academy, 34,016; Peale House, 31,513. Total: 65,529.

ACQU ISITIONS
By Purchase:
Through the Lambert Fund:

Space Frame D (oil) by Edha Andrade
Systematic Whole 1966 (Iiquitex) by Richard Anuszkiewicz
Narrative (collage) by William Dole
Pasture Scape (oil) by Warren Rohrer
Synopsis 1968 (acrylic) by Joseph Amarotico
Through the Temple Fund:
The Singer (bronze) by David Aronson
Creation (bronze) by Elena Kepa las
Through the Gilpin Fund:

Poto Negro (painted epoxy) by Norman K. Carlberg
Tonal (metal) by Harry Bertoia
Ariadne (nickel-s'ilver) by Theodore Roszak
Th rough the Collection Fund:
2 pen and ink drawings by Edward Shenton
Through the Harrison Earl Fund and gift of the Women's Committee:

Twin Twist (wood) by Wharton Esherick
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By Gift:
From Henry R. Pemberton:
Joseph Pemberton and Ann Galloway Pemberton (oils) attributed by
tradition in the donor's family to John Hesselius
From J. Maurice Gray:
Eleanor S. Gray (bronze bust) by Harry Rosin
From Mrs. Paul Stoudt:
Portrait of Anne Baker Lewis (oil) by Ben Kamihira
From Abner Schreiber, Mrs. I nez Bock and Mrs. Mae Martin in memory of
Oronzio and Tillie Maldarelli:
Triad (wood) by Oronzio Maldarelli
From Roy F. Nichols:
Benjamin Franklin Heads Delegation-Treaty of Peace-Paris, 1783
(bronze plaque) by Paul Manship
From Mrs. Edward M. Cheston:
Mary R. Fox (oil) by Cecelia Beaux
From Mrs. Herbert C. Morris:
Mother and Child (oil) by John Carroll
From the Artist:
The Artist-Piazza San Marco (watercolor) by Ogden Pleissner
From Aronian, Hovsepian, and Stein Co.:
3 Oriental Rugs
Bequest of Estelle Hankins:
21 small oil paintings by Abraham P. Hankins
From the Artist:
Whippet (bronze) by Ralph H. Humes
Bequest of Martha Speiser:
Nude with Blue Cloth (oil) by Milton Avery

CONSERVATION Q.F WORKS FROM
T H E PERMANENT COLLECTION
Twenty-two paintings received attention during the year from Theodor
Siegl and Joseph Amarotico, technical advisor and conservator: Dolley
Madison by Gilbert Stuart, Still Life With Fish by William Merritt Chase,
View of Lancaster by Jacob Eichholtz, Miss Mary McCall by Robert Feke,
The Fox Hunt by Winslow Homer, William Harris Crawford by John
Wesley Jarvis, Abraham Kintzing and Mrs. Abraham Kintzing by James
Peale, Samuel Griffin by Gilbert Stuart, Peter Miercken by Gilbert Stuart.
Jungle in Venezuela by Adolf Dehn, Marine View and Wreck on Shore by
George R. Bonfield, Jersey Shore by Morris Blackburn, Peggy's Cove;
Nova Scotia by Ernest Lawson, Crimson Rambler by Philip L. Hale, Fruit
and Art Objects by William Brown, Girl With Bundle by Elihu Vedder,
Andrew Jackson by Washington Allston, Windy Day by Charles C. Curran,
The Little Plunderers, by George Comegys, Landscape, by Thomas Doughty.

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LOANS
This year a total of forty-seven examples of painting and sculpture we-re
lent from the Permanent Collection to art institutions in the United States
and Mexico; twenty-two art galleries participated in the loan program; and
twelve paintings, one each month, were lent to the Fidelity Bank for
exhibition on the banking floor in their main building at Walnut and
Broad Streets.
Atlantic Richfield Company, Philadelphia:
George Washington (Atheneum) by Gilbert Stuart
Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado:

John Brown Going to his Hanging by Horace Pippin
The Akron Art I nstitute, Akron, Ohio:

Man on Dock
Morning
Helen Henderson all by Charles Demuth
Witte Memorial Museum, San Antonio, Texas:
Three Statues by Dong Kingman
University of Pennsylvania Hospital Antiques Show, Philadelphia:
The Shell Girl by Carl Steinhauser
Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church:
Space Frame D by Edna Andrade
Kirby Art Center, Lawrenceville School, Lawrenceville, N.J.:
Fishermen at San Felice, Circeo by Lucius Crowell
Philadelphia Museum of Art:
John William Wallace by John Neagle
William Tilghman and Richard Peters, Jr. by Rembrandt Peale
David Paul Brown by Henry Inman
National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.:
Self-Portrait (with spectacles) by Charles Willson Peale
Walt Whitman by Thomas Eakins
Bishop William White by Gilbert Stuart
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland:
Poto Negro by Norman Carlberg
American Federation of Arts for exhibition at Whitney Museum of
American Art, New York City:
Hill Valley, Sunrise by John Kensett
Harrisburg Art Association, Harrisburg, Pa.:
Trapper's Trail by Arthur Meltzer
Treat 'em Rough by Paulette Van Roekens
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Exhibition of the XI X Olympic Games, I bero Americana University,
Mexico City:
The Boxers by Joseph Brown
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland:
Self-Portrait (with paintbrush) by Charles Willson Peale
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, Calif.:
Narrative by William Dole
Public Education Association, New York City:
The Young Merchants by William Page (Hirschi and Adler Galleries)
Self-Portrait (in top hat) by Henry Inman (M. Knoedler and Company)
Provident National Bank, Philadelphia:
Arroyo Hondo
Jersey Shore
Taxco all by Morris Blackburn
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City:
Clapboards by Charles Sheeler
Ackland Memorial Art Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill,
N.C.:
Elizabeth Beale Bordley by Gilbert Stuart
Fourth of July in Center Square by John L. Krimmel
Woodmere Art Gallery, Philadelphia
Dress Rehearsal Interlude by Henry Pitz
Suffolk Museum, Long Island, for traveling exhibition:
The Painter's Triumph by William Sidney Mount
University of California Art Galleries, Santa Barbara, Calif.:
Indian Camp-Sunset by Ralph Blakelock
Fidelity Bank, Philadelphia, for "Picture of Month" exhibition:
Taos Plaza in Snow by John Ward Lockwood
Red Table Cover by Albert Serwazi
A Breezy Day by Charles Curran
Nicodemus by Henry O. Tanner
Magic Forest by John Atherton
Hauling by Andrew Wyeth
Gathering Storm Over Philadelphia by Louis Sloan
Sailing in Mist by John Twachtman
Plummers Lilies by Philip Jamison
The Hex Sign by Henry W. Peacock
November by Robert Vonnoh
Mother and Child by Bernardino Luini

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SCHOOLS

During the calendar year of 1968 the schools functioned in much the
same way as in the recent past. The second semester of the 1967-68 year
started on January 4 and ended with Cresson Day on May 8. The new
school year started on September 5 and concluded on December 20.
Enrollments shoyved only minor changes, with approximately 325 in the
Day School, 200 in the Evening School, and 100 in the Summer School.
The degree program, coordinated with the Graduate School of Fine Arts,
at the University of Pennsylvania, continued to interest many Day School
students. This is now a 5-year program, with most of the work during the
first four years done at the Academy, and the fifth year entirely at the
University.
Shortly before the end of the term we lost a valued faculty member, Mr.
George Sklar. A graduate and Yale and teacher at the Moore College of
Art, he was loved and admired by his students here and elsewhere. He was
replaced in the Second Term by Mr. Kimsou, a distinguished Korean artist
who has also taught at the Moore College of Art.
On Cresson Day, May 8, 1968, the following scholarships and prizes were
awarded:
WILLIAM EMLEN CRESSON MEMORIAL EUROPEAN TRAVELING
SCHOLARSHIPS (est. 1902, $2,250 each) to Phyllis Duerr, Charles
Barker, Linda V. Cellini, Clifford Eubanks, James Evans, Nickolai
Sibiriakoff, Joan Marie Weinert (painters); and David Powell (sculptor).
J. HENRY SCHIEDT MEMORIAL TRAVELING SCHOLARSHIPS (est.
1938, $1,600 each) to Robert Ayres, Nick Feher, Harvey Silverman,
Clayton Anderson, Bruce Samuelson.
LEWIS S. WARE TRAVELING SCHOLARSHIP (est 1949, $2,250) to
Mrs. Nancy Ruch Kim.
ASPEN SCHOOL OF CONTEMPORARY ART (working scholarship) to
SusanWard.
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 Susan Ward.

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Endowed Prizes

CECILIA BEAUX MEMORIAL PRIZE (est. 1946, $100) to Joanne
Hoffman.
Honorable Mentions to Rebecca Cooke, Charles Barker, Theodore
Moody and Bruce Samuelson.
FRANCES D. BERGMAN MEMORIAL PRIZE (est. 1966, $100) to
William Schmidt.
LAMBERT AND EMMA WALLACE CADWALADER PRIZE (est. 1961,
$125) to Carolyn Leavy.
Honorable Mention to Robert Maddox, and Linda Miller.
JOHN R. CONNER MEMORIAL PRIZE (est. 1953, $50) to Lawrence
Zucker.
Honorable Mention to Nancy Ballew and Betsy Parks.
CATHARINE GRANT MEMORIAL PRIZE (est. 1955, $200) to Robert
Ayers.
Honorable Mention to Nicholas Coviello, William Omwake, Gail
Ruman and Jerome Schurr.
J. MAURICE GRAY FOUNDATION PRIZE (est. 1961, $50) to Susan
Ward.
Honorable Mention to James Evans, Christine McBriarty and William
Schmidt.
MINDEL CAPLAN KLEINBARD PRIZE (est. 1958, $25 in art supplies)
to William Schmidt.
PACKARD ZOOLOGICAL SKETCH PRIZE (est. 1899) 1st Prize, $50 to
Gail Della Pelle; 2nd Prize, $25 to Cecelia Petrich.
RAMBORGER PRIZE (est. 1910, $35) to Tricia Killian.
Honorable Mention to Ralph Downs and Eveleigh Taylor.
EDNA P. STAUFFER MEMORIAL PRIZE (est. 1961, $100) to Robert
Stauffer.
EDMUND STEWARDSON PRIZE (est. 1899, $100) to Kezia Lechner.
Honorable Mention to Karen Krause and Peppe Nathanson.
EMMA BURNHAM STIMSON PRIZE (est. 1917, $100) to JoAnne
Dumm.
Honorable Mention to Christopher Parks.
HENRY J. THOURON PRIZES (est. 1903) to Robert Magee, $100
awarded by the Faculty; James Yax, 1st Prize, $100, awarded by the
Composition Instructor; Phyllis Kimmel, 2nd Prize, $50, awarded by the
Composition Instructor; Nicholas Coviello and Ralph Downs, $25 each,
awarded by Student Vote.
CHAR LES TOPPAN PR IZES (est. 1881, $200 each) to Leonard Dachille,
Ralph Downs, Hei Myung Choi, Nicholas Coviello and Nancy Wilson.

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Unendowed Prizes
WILLIAM S. BIDDLE CADWALADER MEMORIAL PRIZE (est. 1966,
$250) to Nick Feher.
Honorable Mention ($25 each) to Thomas Hatten and William
Omwake.
DRAKE PRESS PRIZE (est. 1967, $200) to Virginia Maitland.
THOMAS EAKINS MEMORIAL PRIZE (est. 1949, $100) to Francine
Berg Fisher.
Honorable Mention to Leonard Dachille, Leslie Goldstein and
Valentine Panetta.
GIMBEL PRIZE (est. 1958, $50 in art supplies) to Janet McLaughlin.
Honorable Mention to Hei 'Myung Choi.
MARION HIGGINS PRIZE (est. 1960) to Marjorie Bilk and Susan Ward,
$100 each; 2nd Prizes to Marvin Skip Hoffman and Virginia Maitland, $25
each.
MARY TOWNSEND AND WI LLiAM CLARKE MASON PRIZE (est.
1955, $200) to William Hanson ...
PERSPECTIVE PRIZE (est. 1916) to Clifford Lamoree, $50.
PHILADELPHIA PRINT CLUB GRAPHICS PRIZE (est. 1953, a one-year
membership in the Club and the use of its workshop) to Mary Anne
Seymour.
QUAKER STORAGE COMPANY PRIZE (est. 1965, $250) to Fred
Danziger and William Schmidt ($125 each).
M. HERBERT SYME PRIZE (est. 1959, $25) to Fred Danziger.
Honorable Mention to William Schmidt.
JOHN WANAMAKER WATER COLOR PRIZE (est. 1954, $50 in art
supplies) to John Chase.
Honorable Mention to Christine McBriarty.
WOODROW PRIZE IN GRAPHICS (est. 1955, $100) to Gene Shaw.
Honorable Mention to Joseph Guarrera and Virginia Tabor.

Special Prizes (not awarded every year)
LOUIS FINE PURCHASE PRIZE (paintings of Philadelphia Waterfront)
1st Prize of $250 to James Brantley; 2nd Prize of $150 to Charles Frith;
3rd Prize of $75 to Marie Donaldson.
ELEANOR GRAY MEMORIAL PRIZES (sculptors, $500 each) to Harry
Bay ton and Peppe Nathanson.
HENRY C.PRATT MEMORIAL PRIZE IN GRAPHICS to Clifford
Lamoree, $50.
Honorable Mention to Elizabeth Arrasmith and Constance McDonald.
GEORGE SKLAR MEMORIAL PRIZE (life drawing) to Fred Danziger,
$100.
Honorable Mention to Leonard Dachille and Ralph Downs.
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The Summer School program was conducted from the Broad and Cherry
Streets building from June 10 through July 19, 1968. Classes were offered
in Portrait and Life painting and Landscape painting. On Thursdays and
Fridays the Landscape classes met in Fairmount Park, Manayunk or
elsewhere.
The Academy program offers the greatest possible freedom consistent
with good order and preservation of usable records. I t is the pol icy of the
administration to listen carefully to all student suggestions and complaints, and then either take positive action or explain very carefully to
the student why we cannot do what he suggests. This keeps communication open, and we have had no protests or other mass difficulties with our
students.
Throughout the year, the Administrator was assisted and supported by the
School Committee of the Board of Directors under the Chairmanship of
Mr. John W. Merriam and by the Director, Mr. Joseph T. Fraser, Jr. and
by the entire Faculty. The cooperation of all these interested people is
gratefully acknowledged.
M. WISTAR WOOD
Administrator of the Schools

PUBLIC RELATIONS
1968 saw the advent of a new publication for the Pennsylvania Academy
of the Fine Arts-the QUARTER L Y, which will be issued four times a
year to all members of the Fellowship, Members, the Faculty, Stockholders, and other art institutions. It has proven to be a most useful
mailing piece, aiming at keeping its readers informed about the Academy's
current and past activities. I am happy to report that the QUARTERLY
has been very well received.
The original written proposal for a newsletter, the format design, the
policy, the contents, and layout for each issue of the QUARTERLY are
carried out by this office.
In addition to the writing of the QUARTERLY, I have continued to
handle the following: news releases, weekly and monthly listings, radio
and T.V. announcements, photographic coverage of all openings of exhibitions, the arrangements of four chamber music concerts, interviews on
radio and T.V., and special feature articles on shows at the Academy.
Arrangements for all special social events are principally handled by this
office.
News media mailing lists were added to the existing one to expand it
threefold. A new school list was also devised, which promises to prove
most helpful in boosting attendance and interest in the Academy.
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I n the summer of 1968, I tried to get a group tour program organized,
whereby schools, tourist and club groups, and other organizations could,
upon request, be provided with a lecturer for tours through exhibitions at
the Academy. A proposal was made, but various factors hindered the
program from starting until the exhibition year was well underway. It is
my hope that, beginning next fall, with the Academy's first show, the
program can be revitalized, and put into full operation.
The design, layout, and production of the 1968-1969/Calendar of Events
was carried out by this office. Working with Dr. Vladimir Sokoloff, the
1968-1969 Chamber Music Concert Program was printed under my direction.
A Second Class Mailing Permit Number was obtained from the U. S. Post
Office. For the first time, the permit indicia was used on the Chamber
Music Concert Programs which were mailed to Members, etc. The regular
cost per program was a fraction of a cent instead of the regular 6i: for
First Class mail. One can easily see that this mailing permit will save the
Academy a great deal of money.
On the whole, ' I would say this has been a very good year as far as
publicity for the Academy is concerned. But there are larger dreams for
tomorrow to pursue.
SUSAN WOOD
(Mrs. Richard A. Hammel)

Public Relations Director
WOMEN'S COMMITTEE
The Committee had a particularly full and interesting year of activity in
support of the Academy and its functions.
The 163rd Annual Preview was divided into two evenings with the Annual
Dinner, which was slightly smaller than usual, held separately, in order to
give more time to hold a gracious dinner and allow for speakers, as well as
a private viewing. The members' preview the following evening had 902 in
attendance and the Women's Committee received. Mrs. Arthur Kaufmann,
Mrs. H. Lea Hudson, and Mrs. John G. Bartol, Jr., were responsible for
making both evenings memorable. Mrs. E. Robert Thomas coordinated the
floral arrangements.
A most spectacular opening was that associated with the Rauschenberg
exhibition. The Committee sponsored a student discotheque with the
Academy students serving as hosts to art students from the other art
institutes in the city, in conjunction with the Preview, and hired Woody's
Truck Stop to provide the musical background. The students created a
psychedelic atmosphere both with their artistic decor and their fantastic
presence-the attendance was clocked at 2,376 before the Guard gave up!
The press gave this and all other events excellent coverage and many
photographs, and the Rauschenberg opening had the distinction of
receiving five minutes film coverage on KYW-TV.

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As the special program this year, the Women's Committee, headed by Mrs.
Greenfield and Mrs. Russell, sponsored an "Afternoon at the Met"-a
tribute to the Metropolitan Museum of Art which is celebrating its centennial. Mr. Thomas P. Hoving was the main speaker and a tour of the
"French Paintings 1900-1967", as well as a curator guided tour of the
collections was arranged. It was a tremendous success (completely oversubscribed) and featured a trip for 160 on the elegant Penn-Central train,
the Queen Mary, with champagne lunch and cocktails aboard. We hope
this will augur well for future art tours that are being planned for the next
year.
The women of the Committee served as hostesses for all the receptions
held in conjunction with the Peale Gallery openings, with Mrs. Kaufmann
as liaison, and also inaugurated Coffee Receptions to follow the Academy
Gallery Talks under Mrs. Boudinot Stimson. Mrs. John G. Bartol, Jr.,
sponsored the Academy Concert series, which are always well attended.
Mrs. Young and Mrs. Bartol held teas for the students at Peale House and
made purchases for the benefit of the students' living conditions.
The Fall season was opened by the Subscription Dinner held in honour of
the Benton Spruance Memorial Exhibition, on October 9th. It was a
gracious and warm affair with 316 guests. Mrs. David Grossman and Mrs.
H. Lea Hudson were co-chairmen of the dinner.
A special event was the second "Art Trip", this time a salute to Boston on
October 31st. Although it was not the financial nor responsive success of
the Met trip, due probably to the date and the fact that it required air
transport, it was a most rewarding and beautiful day spent among the
treasures of Boston.
This year, the Women's Committee were delighted to be able to financially sponsor the following:
-An Art Trip for the Academy students to New York to see the
Frescoes at the Metropolitan.
-$2000 Docent Lecture Fund.
-$3000 gift towards the purchase of Wharton Esherick's "Twin Twist'~
-Prize for the Fairmount Park Kite Festival.
-Encyclopedia Britannica and $300 worth of fine Art Books for the
Academy Library-courtesy of the Wainwright Memorial Fund, for
which Roswell Weidner designed a handsome bookplate.
The Women's Committee joined with their fellow groups at the Philadelphia Art Museum and the University Museum to form a Hostess
Committee for visiting groups from other cities for art tours. They helped
to welcome St. Louis to the Academy and Philadelphia.
New members elected: Mrs. Alfred Bendiner, Mrs. De Witt C. Morris, and
Mrs. J. Pancoast Reath.
Respectfully submitted
Mrs. Albert M. Greenfield, Jr.

Chairman, Women's Committee
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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
Louis B. Sloan ......... .. .......... .. ......... . ..... President
Roy C. Nuse ............... ... . .. .... . ...... First Vice President
Mabel Woodrow Gill ................... . . . ... .. ... Vice President
Francis Speight .................................. Vice President
Franklin C. Watkins .... ... .............. .. ....... Vice President
Roswell Weidner .. .......................... Active Vice President
Paul Wescott ............................... Active Vice President
Ethel V. Ashton . . ... .. .. . ........... . ....... Recording Secretary
Elizabeth Eichman .............. .. ....... Corresponding Secretary
L. A. D. Montgomery. ; ............................... Treasurer

The Committee on Fellowship
Mabel W. Gill, Chairman-Treasurer
Ethel V . Ashton

Roy C. Nuse

Roswell Weidner

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. I n 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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