General Resources on Philadelphia Art

The Annual Exhibition Record of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1807-1968, 3 vols., 1989, edited by Peter Hastings Falk, with contributions by Cheryl Leibold, Sound View Press.

The catalogues of the Annual Exhibitions are microfilmed as follows:

1811-1906 on reels P41:290-P43:534

1907-26 on reel 4328:8-1566

1926-55 on reel 4329:9-1434

1955-68 on reel 4330:8-282

Nygren, Edward J., Art Instruction in Philadelphia, 1795-1845, University of Delaware Master's Thesis, 1969. [1 copy in PAFA library.]

Sellin, David, "The First Pose: Howard Roberts, Thomas Eakins, and a Century of Philadelphia Nudes," Bulletin of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, LXX, Spring 1975.

The Pennsylvania Academy and Its Women, 1850-1920, PAFA exhibition, May 3 - June 16, 1974 (title page misprinted "1973").

Philadelphia, Three Centuries of American Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1976 (with entries on over 500 artists).

Who Was Who in American Art, Sound View Press, 1985, and 2001.