Resources on the Academy School

Published Resources

NOTE: * Articles preceded by an asterisk have been microfilmed by the Archives of American Art (AAA), see microfilm reel 4320, frames 494-554.
 
 
Bolger, Doreen, "The Education of the American Artist," In This Academy, The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1805-1976, pp. 51-74. [PAFA 1976 exhib. cat.; chapter 1 is a general history of the Academy.]

Chamberlin-Hellman, Maria, Thomas Eakins as a Teacher, Columbia University Ph. D. Dissertation, 1981. [1 copy in PAFA library].

*[Brownell, William], "The Art Schools of Philadelphia." Scribner's Illustrated Monthly Magazine 18, 5 (September 1879), pp. 737-750

Leibold, Cheryl, “Photographic High Jinks at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.” Nineteenth Century 12 (Fall 1993), pp. 2-7.

Leibold, Cheryl, "To Assist and Excite: Art Education at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts," The Unbroken Line: A Suite of Exhibitions Celebrating the Centennial of the Fellowship of the PAFA, 1997, pp. 13-17.

Nygren, Edward J., "The First Art Schools of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts." Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 95, 2 (April 1971), pp. 221-238.

Onorato, Ronald J. “Exciting the Efforts of the Artists: Art Instruction at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts,” in Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1805–2005: Two Hundred Years of Excellence.

Onorato, Ronald J., The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the Development of an Academic Curriculum in the Nineteenth Century, Brown University Ph.D. Dissertation, 1977. [covers the period to 1869; 2 copies in PAFA library].

Quinn, Jim, "Still-Life with Nude, Dowager, and Pork-Chop," Philadelphia Magazine (March 1979), pp. 106-115, 212-222.

*Rogers, Fairman, "The Schools of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts." Penn Monthly 22 (June 1881), pp. 453-62.

*[Shinn, Earl], "The First American Art Academy." Lippincott's Magazine 9 (Feb. and March 1872), pp. 143-153 and 309-321.

[Shinn, Earl], as Sigma, "A Philadelphia Art School." The Art Amateur 10 (January 1884), pp. 30-42.

Weinberg, Ephraim, "The Art School of the Pennsylvania Academy," The Magazine Antiques (March 1982), pp. 690-693. [special issue devoted to PAFA].

 

Unpublished Resources

  • School Catalogues (with reproductions of student art after 1907) have been filmed by the AAA as follows:
    • 1856-70 (Broadsides) reel 4320:618-823
    • 1878-1906 reel P71:870-1034
    • 1907-1939 reels 4320:624 to 4321:555
  • Minutes of the Committee on Instruction (standing committee of the board which supervised the School) filmed: 1856-1894 on reel P47:606-812 and 1895-1939 on reels 4335-4337
  • Student attendance registers and card files: reels 4316-4318
  • Register of Student Prize Winners for 1879-1934: reel 4318
  • Master index to student prizes, by student name, at PAFA (unfilmed)
  • Miscellaneous essays, notes, faculty minutes, and administrative correspondence (unfilmed)