THE PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS BROAD AND CHERRY 5T5. 0 PHILADELPHIA 148th ANNUAL REPORT 1953 Cover: Mother and Son by Daniel Garber. Gift of the artist. The One-Hundr.ed a,nd"Forty-Eighth Annual Report of THE PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY. of the FINE A~lS FOR THE .V,AR . , .f " . ) Presented to the Meeting of the Stockholders of the Academy on February 1, 1954· John F. lewis, Jr•• President Henry S. Drinker . • Vice-President C. Newbold Taylor Treasurer Joseph T. Fraser, Jr. Secretory and Director .' " . { ' BOARD 'OF DIRECTORS . Mrs. Leonard T. Beale '" Arthur C. K~4fmcmn . George B. Roberts *Mrs.Joseph S. Clark, Jr. James P. Magin C. Alison Scully Henry S. Drinker * Frederic R. Mann John Stewart Henry C. Gibson SydneyE_; Martin Robert Strausz-Hupe David M. Gwinn William Clarke Mason C. Newbold Taylor R. Sturgis Ingersoll George P. Orr Sydney l. Wright Howqrd C. Pe!ers!!n • EX-offiCio STANDING COMMITT'EES COMMITTEE ON COi.LECTIONS AND EXHIBITION George B. Roberts, Chairman Mrs. Leonard T. Beale . R. Sturgis Ingersoll Sydney E. Martin COMMITTEE ON fiNANCE C. Newbold Taylor, Chairman John Stewart James P. Magill C. Alison Scully COMMITTEE ON INSTRU.CTION William Clarke Mason, Chairman C. Newbold Taylor Mrs. leonard T. Beale David M. Gwinn COMMITTEE ON CHESTER SPRI,NGS William Clarke Mason, Chairman Sydney E. Martin George B. Roberts COMMITTEE FOR THE 150TH ANNIVERSARY James P. Magill, ChairmQJ1, Finance George ·B., Roberts, Chairman, Exhibition David M. Gwinn, Chairman, Dinner Arthur C. Kaufmann, Chairman, Publicity William Clarke Mason, Chairman, Symposium Ex-officio - The President and The Director SOLICITOR Maurice B. Saul 2 WO:M.EN'.S COMMITTEE . Mrs. leonard T. Beale, C~dirman , Mrs. S. Laurence Bodine Mrs. John F. Lewis, Jr. Mrs . .Alfred G. B. Steel Mrs. Francis T. Chambers Mrs. Morton McMichael Mrs. John F. Steinman Mrs. Emlen P. EHingMrs. Geo':~e B. Roberts Mrs. Boudinot .Stimson Mrs. John A. Griswold Mrs. Julius Rosenwald, II Mrs. Robert Strausz-Hupe Mrs . David M. Gwinn Mrs. Lawrence M. C: Smith . Mrs. Franklin C. Watkins Mrs. Horace B. Hare Mrs. John P. Wheeler Mrs ~ Arthur C. Kaufmann Mrs. Sydney L. Wright STAFF GENERAL Joseph T. Fraser, Jr. • Director and Secretory Charles J. Marsh Assistant to the Secretory Ann O. Evans Secretory to the Director Au~ust Viilu. • Bookkeeper Mabel L. Eiseley • Registrar and Research . Fran,ces M. Vanderpoor Exhibition and Membership Clerk Elizabeth Z. Swenson . Director of Public Relations and Membership SCHOOL.S Idoy and evening' Raymond T. Entenmann . Curator Catherine R. Newbold Secretory to the Curator Martha. K. Schick . Librarian and Sales fACULTY George Hartling *Franklin C. Watkins William Sasagawa Roy C. Nuse John W. McCoy John F. Harbeson Francis .Speight Julius Bloch William M. Campbell Walker Hancock Walter Stuempfig Philip Aliano Roswell Weidner. Hobson Pittman Edmond J. Far:r~s Harry Rosin Morris Blackburn Jock Bookbinder Edward Shenton John Hanlen Theodor Siegl eleave-of.absence 1953-54 .(Summer, Roy C~ Nuse Roswell Weidner . Francis Speight Morris' Blackburn BUILDING Moyfond T; McAyoy, Superintendent 3 RE PO R T " '0 F" T H E OFFICERS AND BOARD OF DIRECTORS In the Annual Report of last year, we stressed our financial ' problems and ' pOinted ' out the recurrent periods in our history when difficulties of this nature wer~ paramount iri'importance. This year, however, we are pleased to~eport certain specific ' instances of good fortune. The, s'ingle ' in~st jmportal1t boon to our finanCial problems was the receipt of a , ~25,OOO.00 appropriation from the City of Philadelphia. We are hopeful ' fhatwe may expect the continuance of this grant. In recognition of it, the Academy now accords ten sc;:holarships per year for our entire course to the best students of the City's pu~lic and parochial schools who wish to avail themselves of the opp~rtunity to study in our schools. The second great encouragement came with the improved enrollment in our schools when we opened our 'Classes in September. Specific data is listed in the School report, but here it shall suffice to say that the incoming ~Iass was more than double the size of that of the Fall of 1952. Although his appointment came too late in the year to influ~nce this improvement in registration, we report the engagement of Raymond T~ Entenmann as the new Curator of our schools; Mr. Entenmann took up his active duties on June 1, 1953 and the Management 'is extremely pleased with his work, which coincides with a , great improvement in the work of and morale in the school. As originally reported last year, the Academy again received the generou,s gift of $10,000.00 from Mrs. Harrison S. Morris, making possible the, continuation of our great Annual Exhibitions of Contemporary American Oil Painting and Sculpture. These exhibitions' are now held as memorials to her late husband, Harrison S. Morris, who was Managing Director of The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts from 1892 to 1905. The Catherwood Foundation again assisted in the finanCing of our 51 st Annual Exhibition ' of Water Colors, " Prints and Drawings, and except for this generous help toat feature could not have been continued . ....;. : Mrs. lucie Washington Mitcheson, a former stockholder, ,of the Academy who died in May; '1952; andhvo former life , members~ Miss Helen E. Shand and Miss Matilda Maulsby, who died in 'June and August, 1953, 4 respectively, each bequeathed' $1000.00; ;to : the Academy. The three legacies have now . been . tumed over -Jo the instituti~n" ~ich is exceed­ ingly grateful to ' receive these gifts fr~mloyal friends. Mrs: Frances Weeks lux has . giv~n the Academy $1000.00, the ~ income from which is to be used as a school prize or p~izes i~ memory of he~ late uncle, the artist, Mr. John R. Conner. This is recorded here with the gratitude ' of the Management. In a building the age of ours; .there is constant need for 'extensive repair and renovation. The most crying present need is for new .entrance. doors and an adequate vestibule. The present doors are obsolete and inade­ quate and need to be replaced with larger; air-tight ones with a more inviting motif. This change will involve construction .and heating adjust­ .ments, which will be very costly, but it is. hoped that the project -may be accomplished ' before we stage our 150th anniversary celebration early .in 195"5. Two , members of 9ur B.oard have already made gener-ous con­ tributions to this end, and these are among the items recorded in '1953. We continue to be gratefuUo the Women's. Committee for their gracious help and encouragement, and also to 9ur loyal . staff who, . though not many in numbers, support the Director and President in all of our activities. We should like particularly to. thank, and also ·to congratulate, the FelloVfship for the exemplC;JrY helpwhichi.t is giving to ' the Academy, especially through support of the special lecture series,. ·andthe. 'motion picture programs. JOSEPH T. FRASER" . JR., Dire,;tor . JOHN · F. LEWIS, JR;, ' President EXHIB'ITIONS THE 148th'ANNUAL EXHIBITION OF OIL PAINTING AND SCULPTURE The 148th Annual Exhibition of Oil Painting and Sculpture was held in the Galleries from, January 25th , through March 1st, with a Private View on Saturday, January 24th, from 9 to 11 P. M. PAINTING JURY SCULPTURE JURY Peppino Mangravite, Chairman William Zoraeh, Chairman Peter Blume Lu Dubie , Stuart Davis Henry Kreis PRIZES AND AWARDS The Painting Jury award,ed the following: , Temple Gold Medal-Rico Lebrun for Figures On The Cross With l.antern (pointing) Jennie Sesnan Gold Medal-Yves Tanguy for IIIimited Sequences , (painting) Carol H. Beck Gold Meda/-Elsie Manville for Yellow Hat (painting) J. Henry Schiedt Memorial Prize-8en Katzman for Two Nudes Belore A Japanese Screen (painting) The Sculpture Jury awarded the following: George' D. Widener Memorial Gold Medal-Anthony Lauck for Monk At Pr.ayer (sculpture) Alfred G. B. Steel Memorial Prize-Nathaniel Kaz for Dance Espa­ gnore (sculpture). Honorable , MEm'io~s in Sculpture-Humbert Albrizio for Kneeling Figure and Marina Nunez del Prado for Cats. The Committee on Exhibition awarded the following: Walter Lippincott Prize-Isabel Bishop for Interlude (painting) Mary Smith Prize-Elsie Manville for Yellow Hat (painting) A Special Jury appointed by the President of the Academy's ' Fellowship awarded: The Fellowship Prize-Jack Bookbinder for Gaiety Theatre, Phila­ delphia (painting) 6 Gallery Talks, sponsored by the -Fellowship, were held at 2:30 P• .M. as follows: January 29th, Benton Spruance; February : 5~h, Harry Rosin; February 1 ~th, Hobson Pittman; February 19th, Dorothy Grafly; February 26th, Walter E. Baum. - Two in the 1952-53 series of five free chamber music concerts were pre­ sented by the Academy as a feature of this Exhibition os follows: January 30th-works for four hands at one piano, by Beethoven, Mozart, Schubert, Debussy, Hindemith and Dvor~k-Ralph Berkowitz -and: Vladimir Sokoloff, pianists; February 27th-sonatas by Schubert, Strauss and -Franck-Jascha Brodsky, violinist, and Vladimir Sokoloff, pianist. ~ Two . in the series of four Meet the Artist evenings, scheduled by the Academy for the 1952-53 season, occurred during this exhibition, as follows: Vaclav Vytlacil, painter, and Peter Blume, painter, on Tuesdays, February 3rd and 17ttl;respectively, at 8:30- P. M. Thee~hibition consisted of 425 works-295 paintings and 130 sculpt~res. The Academy purchased 1 painting each through its Gilpin ~nd Temple Funds, and 7 paintings. through its Lambert Fund. The Sa~uel S. Fleisher Art Memorial purchased 9 paintings, and 8 works were sold privately. The entire 26 works represented the sum of $12,105.00. The total attendance was 13,954. THE FELLOWSHIP ANNUAL EXHIBITION " The Fellowship Annual Exhibition of Oil Painting, Sculpture, Water Colors and Graphics, and the Fellowship-sponsored Exhibition of Student Work, were held in Galleries K, M, and the East Corridor, from March 13th through April 5th, with a Private View on Thursday, March t 2th, from 4 t.O 6 P.