Draft:List of Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts people
This is a list of people from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) a private art school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
Notable alumni
[edit]Painting
[edit]- Thomas Pollock Anshutz, painter, educator[1][2]
- Elizabeth Gowdy Baker, portrait painter[3]
- Cornelia Barns, illustrator, political cartoonist, painter, feminist, and socialist
- Bo Bartlett (class of 1980), realist painter
- Walter Emerson Baum (attended 1905 to 1906), painter, founder of the Baum School of Art and the Allentown Art Museum
- Cecilia Beaux, impressionist portrait artist
- Thomas Eakins (class of 1861), realist painter, photographer, sculptor, and educator[4]
- Charles Lewis Fussell, landscape painter[5]
- Daniel Garber (class of 1917), Impressionist landscape painter[6]
- Oliver William Nuse, landscape painter[7]
- Frank Knox Morton Rehn, marine painter[8]
- Charles Morris Young (attended in the 1880s), landscape painter[9]
- Samuel P. Ziegler (class of 1913), printmaker, painter, musician, and educator[10]
Sculpture
[edit]- Frank Gasparro (attended 1930s), Chief Engraver of the United States Mint
- Alumni of PAFA
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Cecilia Beaux -
Frank Knox Morton Rehn
Honorary doctorates
[edit]- Linda Lee Alter (honorary PhD 2013), art collector
Notable faculty
[edit]Painting
[edit]- Thomas Pollock Anshutz, painter, educator[1][2]
- Will Barnet, painter of human figure and animals[11]
- Cecilia Beaux, impressionist portrait artist, first woman to teach art at PAFA
- Hugh Henry Breckenridge, painter, taught from 1894 to 1934[12][13]
- William Merritt Chase, painter, taught from 1896 to 1909[14]
- Thomas Eakins, realist painter, photographer, sculptor, and educator[4]
- Christian Schussele, portrait painter, taught from 1868 to 1879[15][16]
- John Henry Twachtman, impressionist landscape painter
Printmaking
[edit]- Martha Zelt, printmaker; taught from 1968 to 1982[17]
- Faculty of PAFA
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Thomas Pollock Anshutz -
Hugh Henry Breckenridge -
William Merritt Chase -
John Henry Twachtman
List of directors and presidents
[edit]Directors
[edit]- Fairman Rogers, director, 1878 to 1883[18]
- Charles Henry Hart, director, 1882 to 1902[19]
- Harrison S. Morris, director, 1882 to 1905[20]
- George Dunton Widener
- Thomas N. Armstrong III, director, 1971 to 1974[21]
- John Heman Converse
Presidents
[edit]- Henry D. Gilpin, president, 1852 to 1859[22][23]
- Edward Hornor Coates, president, 1890 to 1906[24]
- Edward T. Lewis, president, 2007 to 2009[25][26]
- David R. Brigham, president, 2010 to 2020[27][25]
- Eric Pryor, president, 2022 to present; the first Black president[28][27]
See also
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References
[edit]- ^ a b "Finding Aid to the Thomas Anshutz papers, circa 1870-1942, Digitized Collection". Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved August 9, 2024.
- ^ a b "Thos. P. Anschutz, Noted Artist, Dies". The Philadelphia Inquirer (Obituary). June 17, 1912. p. 4. Retrieved December 20, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Biographical Sketches of American Artists. Michigan State Library. 1916. p. 28 – via Google Books.
- ^ a b "Thomas Eakins, 7/25/1844 – 6/25/1916". Pennsylvania Center for the Book. Retrieved August 9, 2024.
- ^ "Catalogue of the Annual Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Volumes 35-50". 1858–1879.
- ^ "Garber, Daniel". Woodmere Art Museum. Retrieved December 8, 2024.
- ^ "Oliver W. Nuse, 81, taught art at Penn Charter". The Philadelphia Inquirer. April 13, 1995. p. 30. Retrieved December 20, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Rehn, Frank Knox Morton". The National Cyclopedia of American Biography, Being the History of the United States as Illustrated in the Lives of the Founders, Builders, and Defenders of the Republic, and of the Men and Women who are Doing the Work and Moulding the Thought of the Present Time. Vol. 9. J. T. White. 1899. p. 324 – via Google Books.
- ^ "Charles Young's Paintings To Be Shown at Art Club". The Philadelphia Times. March 20, 1901. p. 11. Retrieved December 20, 2024.
- ^ Curlee, Kendall (October 1, 1995). "Ziegler, Samuel Peters". Handbook of Texas Online. Texas State Historical Association.
- ^ "Will Barnet as a Teacher". Portland Museum of Art. August 24, 2020. Retrieved August 9, 2024.
- ^ Tran, Hoang. "Hugh Breckenridge papers: Finding Aid" (PDF). Dorothy and Kenneth Woodcock Archives. The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
- ^ "Hugh Breckenridge (1870 - 1937)". askART.
- ^ "Biographical Note, A Finding Aid to the William Merritt Chase papers, circa 1890–1964". Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved August 9, 2024.
- ^ "Christian Schussele, Artist, Dying". The Philadelphia Inquirer. August 21, 1879. p. 2. Retrieved December 20, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Obituary". The Lancaster Examiner. August 27, 1879. p. 5. Retrieved December 20, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Heller, Jules; Heller, Nancy G., eds. (2013). North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary. Routledge. pp. 597–598. ISBN 978-1-135-63882-5. OCLC 1204979146 – via Google Books.
- ^ "Fairman Rogers, 1833–1900". Biographical Memoirs. National Academy of Sciences. 1909. p. 100.
- ^ "Art and Artists Pass in Review". The Philadelphia Inquirer (Obituary). August 18, 1918. p. 3. Retrieved December 20, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Harrison S. Morris". Press of Atlantic City. April 13, 1948. p. 2. Retrieved December 20, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Grimes, William (June 22, 2011). "Thomas N. Armstrong III, Museum Chief Who Once Led the Whitney, Dies at 78". The New York Times. Archived from the original on April 19, 2023. Retrieved December 20, 2024.
- ^ Johnson, Rossiter; Brown, John Howard (1904). The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans. Norwood, Mass.: The Biographical Society. p. 335.
- ^ Gilpin, Eliza (1860). A Memorial of Henry D. Gilpin. Privately printed. pp. 5–6. ISBN 978-0-7950-1811-4.
- ^ "Edward Hornor Coates". The Philadelphia Inquirer. December 24, 1921. p. 17. Retrieved December 20, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b "The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Announces David R. Brigham as New President and CEO". artdaily.cc. October 5, 2009. Retrieved December 19, 2024.
- ^ "Inside Arts". The Daily Intelligencer. October 28, 2007. p. 33. Retrieved December 20, 2024.
...board of trustees recently announced the appointment of Edward T. Lewis as president...
- ^ a b Flanagan, Sharyn L. (December 9, 2021). "PAFA appoints Eric Pryor as president". The Philadelphia Tribune. Retrieved December 19, 2024.
- ^ "Meet Eric Pryor, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts 1st Black president & CEO". 6ABC Philadelphia. February 15, 2022. Retrieved December 19, 2024.
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