Published Resources
This list includes titles that document the history of PAFA in general, or specifically concern the museum, its history, or its collection.
Antiques 121 (March 1982) [special issue devoted to PAFA]
The Beneficent Connoisseurs, 1974 [exhibition checklist and 3 short essays on major collections bequeathed to PAFA in the 19th century: Joseph Harrison, Edward C. Carey, and Henry C. Gibson].
Danly, Susan, Light, Air, and Color: American Impressionist Paintings from the Collection of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1990.
______, Telling Tales: Narrative Paintings from the Collection of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1991.
_____, Facing the Past: 19th Century Portraits from the Collection of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1992.
Falk, Peter Hastings, editor, The Annual Exhibition Record of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 3 vols. (Madison, CT: Sound View Press, 1989). [index to oils and sculptures in the Annual Exhibitions, 1807-1968, with background essays]
"The First American Art Academy." Lippincott's Magazine 9 February 1872, pp. 143-153, and March, 1872, pp. 309-322.
Fresella-Lee, Nancy, The American Paintings in the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, An Illustrated Checklist, 1989.
Goodyear, Frank H., Jr., In This Academy: The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1805-1976, exhib. cat., 1976 [The first chapter is a history of PAFA.]
Henderson, Helen W., The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Boston: L. C. Page & Company, 1911.
Huber, Christine Jones. The Pennsylvania Academy and Its Women, 1850-1920, 1974.
James-Gadzinski, Susan and Mary Mullen Cunningham, American Sculpture in the Museum of American Art of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1997. (Research files from this publication are available at PAFA.)
Pennsylvania Academicians, exhib. cat., 1973.
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1805–2005: Two Hundred Years of Excellence. Philadelphia: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 2005.
Thistlethwaite, Mark. "Patronage Gone Awry: the 1883 Temple Competition of Historical Paintings." Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 112 (Oct. 1988), pp. 545-78.
Toohey, Jeanette M., "The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts: An Ideal and a Symbol." Pennsylvania Heritage 14 (Spring 1988), pp. 16-23.
Yount, Sylvia. ”Two Centuries of Collecting at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.” American Art Review 6 (December 1994), pp. 126-35.
Unpublished Resources
- Annual and Special Exhibition Catalogues and Sales Records
- Newspaper reviews and clippings
- Photographs: exhibitions, special events, people
- Personal papers of artists associated with the institution
- Correspondence of the directors (not microfilmed)