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NEWS FROM THE PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS // SPRING/SUMMER 2012
Dive Deep: Eric Fischl and the Process of Painting
June 29 – September 30, 2012, Opening Reception: Thursday, June 28, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
Samuel M.V. Hamilton Building
Eric Fischl, Woman Surrounded by Dogs, Detail, 1979-80, Oil on canvas, 65 x 96 inches, Collection of the Hall Art Foundation
Eric Fischl (born 1948) is known for his representational
painting focusing on the American suburban experience.
This exhibition explores Fischl’s rigorous and iterative
creative process and encourages viewers to see the world
through his eyes, with sharpened powers of observation and
insight. Dive Deep: Eric Fischl and the Process of Painting
includes more than ten pivotal canvases dating from 1979 to
the present, each accompanied by a constellation of related
studies in various media—drawings, oil sketches, sculptures,
digital composites, photographs, and prints. Most of the
studies included in this exhibition have never before been
made available for public viewing and provide a revealing
look into the painter’s provocative visual intelligence. Together
these works illustrate Fischl’s process as a synthesis
of astute observation and interpretation.
Fischl’s early working methods paralleled academic
European traditions, which also formed the basis of PAFA’s
tradition. He laboriously made clay maquettes, photographed
them, and then used the photographs as the basis
for sketches that became studies for a painting. Fischl has
also used figures from photographs by Thomas Eakins that
are part of PAFA’s permanent collection as the subjects of
some of his works.
Fischl has now adopted Photoshop, fully integrating
technology into his hybrid processes, adding and removing
figures before arriving at his final composition. The exhibition
will reveal how the artist’s compositional process has
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Photo: Courtesy of Audrey Flack
PAFA RECOgnIzES PAInTER
AnD SCulPTOR AuDREy FlACk
AT COMMEnCEMEnT
Audrey Flack with Self-Portrait as
St. Theresa, 2012
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Distinguished
Alumni Award:
Clarence Morgan
The renowned painter
and public sculptor Audrey
Flack will deliver PAFA’s
Commencement address
this year, and at that
time will also be awarded
an honorary doctorate
degree. Educated at
Cooper union and yale
university, for sixty years
Flack has been a deeply
influential practicing artist.
After studying with the
abstract painter and color
theorist Josef Albers,
she embarked on a body
of abstract expressionist
paintings in the early
1950s, and befriended
the leading artists of that
movement including Jackson Pollock, Willem de kooning,
and Hans Hoffman. Flack earned her reputation as a leading
Photo: linda Johnson
Highly-Anticipated Professional
Debut of PAFA Students at the
111th Annual Student Exhibition
The culmination of the School’s academic calendar, PAFA’s
Annual Student Exhibition (ASE) is a peerless and highlyanticipated
event. Housed in the modern and contemporary
galleries in PAFA’s Samuel M.V. Hamilton Building, the
exhibition is the largest and longest-standing of its kind.
The 111th Annual Student Exhibition, on view May 11
– June 3, will feature works by 130 graduating BFA and MFA
students, and 3rd and 4th year students in the School’s
venerable Certificate Program. Each year, more than
$130,000 in prizes and scholarships are competitively
awarded, including prestigious travel scholarships, exhibition
nominations, and purchase prizes. In 2011, more than 11,000
visitors attended the Annual Student Exhibition and more
than $300,000 of student artwork was sold.
The exhibition is an academic capstone and professional
debut for PAFA’s students, who are given the opportunity to
curate and install their own works. Each of PAFA’s exhibiting
Certificate, BFA, and MFA students receives a personal workspace
during the academic year. Working closely with faculty,
visiting artists, and their peers, students develop a keen
sense of their unique visual sensibilities. The Annual Student
Exhibition is an unrivaled display of these results.
The Women’s Board Preview Party, sponsored by Blick
Art Materials, launches the 111th Annual Student Exhibition
on Thursday, May 10, from 4:00 to 8:30 p.m., co-chaired
by Robin H. Windt of Haverford, and Anne E. McCollum of
Wayne. Preview Party attendees enjoy the first opportunity
to purchase from the wide variety of artwork on display.
The Honorary Chair of the ASE Preview Party is Sally J.
Bellet, Esq., a member of PAFA’s Board of Trustees since
June 2007.
A second honorary position at the Preview Party is newly
established this year: Distinguished Alumnus. The first to receive
the honor is Bill Scott ‘78, a faculty member who studied
at the Academy from 1974 to 1979 and, in 2006, received
the institution’s Distinguished Alumni Award.
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PAFA in
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Founded in 1805, the Pennsylvania Academy of the
Fine Arts (PAFA) is America’s first school and museum
of fine arts. A recipient of the 2005 national Medal
of Arts presented by the President of the united
States, PAFA is a recognized national leader in fine
arts education. nearly every major American artist
has taught, studied, or exhibited at the Academy. The
institution’s world-class collection of American art
continues to grow and provides what only a few other
art institutions in the world offer: the rare combination
of an outstanding museum and extraordinary faculty
known for its commitment to students and for the
stature and quality of its artistic work.
David R. Brigham, President & Chief Executive Officer
John J. Berg, Executive Vice President of Finance and Administration
Jeffrey Carr, Dean of the School of Fine Arts
Melissa A. DeRuiter, Executive Vice President of Development
James Gaddy, Director of Human Resources
Harry Philbrick, The Edna S. Tuttleman Director of the Museum
Heike Rass, Executive Vice President of Marketing and Communications
David Sigman, Acting Director of Admissions and Financial Aid
Anne Stassen, Dean of Students
Andre S.F. van de Putte, Dean of Enrollment
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Board of Trustees
Kevin F. Donohoe, Chair
Herbert S. Riband, Jr., Esq., Vice Chair & Secretary
Thomas N. Pappas, Vice Chair
James C. Biddle, Vice Chair
Thomas L. Bennett, CFA, Treasurer
Anne E. Mccollum, Assistant Secretary
Roger H. Ballou, Assistant Treasurer
Gerald P. Barth
Sally J. Bellet, Esq.
Max N. Berry, Esq.*
Karl Bupp
Donald R. Caldwell, Chair Emeritus
Kenneth Catanella
Charles E. Chase
Lynn Nowicki Clarke*
Jonathan L. Cohen*
Monica Duvall Dilella, M.D.
Paulett Eberhart
John A. Fry
Edward T. Harvey
Anthony A. Ibargüen
Joel M. Koppelman
Marguerite Lenfest
Francis J. Leto
Winston I. Lowe, Esq.
Frances M. Maguire*
Honorary
Dorrance H. Hamilton
Emeritus
Robert L. Byers, Sr.
Barbara L. Greenfield,
Chair Of Emeritus Trustees
Samuel J. Savitz
William A. Slaughter, Esq.
Richard E. Woosnam
Frank Martucci*
Francis P. Newell, Esq.
James E. O’Neill, Esq.
Steven K. Ritter
Gretchen E. Roede
Theodore O. Rogers, Jr., Esq.*
William L. Rulon-Miller
Linda Saligman*
Steven L. Sanders
William H. Schorling, Esq.
Alfred R. Shands, III*
Henry B. du P. Smith
Martha Mcgeary Snider
Julie D. Spahr
Barbara A. Sylk
Robert M. Turner
Richard W. Vague
Debora C. Zug
*National Trustee
Ex officio
David R. Brigham,
President and CEO
Al Gury, Faculty Representative
Nancy Bea Miller, President of
Alumni Association
Alicia A. Sterling, President of
Women’s Board
Gary Steuer, Chief Cultural Officer
of The Office of Arts, Culture
and Creative Economy
Ahmeenah Young, President
& CEO of the Pennsylvania
Convention Center
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letter from the President
The Pennsylvania Academy of
the Fine Arts has recently entered
into two business relationships
that will directly benefit our
students. Blick Art Materials, the
nation’s largest art supplier, has
agreed to operate PAFA’s art supply
store on the sixth floor. Blick
has been a generous supporter
for two years, joining our Business
Partners, sponsoring events, and
donating hundreds of art supplies
and gift cards. In June, they will renovate PAFA’s art
supply store and reopen within just a few weeks. The new
store will sell a mix of Blick items and other brands, and
will vastly expand student and faculty access to materials
by shuttling materials from their much larger Chestnut
Street store. Blick will also bundle materials at the beginning
of each semester at significant discounts to serve
the needs of entire courses. lastly, Blick will carry PAFA
branded sketchbooks, t-shirts, and literature about PAFA’s
programs at their Chestnut Street Store.
Anthropologie, the fashion and décor retailer, has
recently commissioned designs from six PAFA students
and alumnae, whose work will be hand-painted onto denim
and muslin skirts and dresses. Congratulations to current
students Jana Bailey, Heather McMordie, and Amanda
Waguespack, and alumnae Catherine Blinn, lauren
garvey, and Aubrey levinthal for being selected. They
will be recognized by name on hangtags attached to the
garments, along with a few words about PAFA. The design
team at Anthropologie is excited about collaborating with
fine artists in developing these new garments, and the artists
look forward to seeing their work in a new format.
PAFA appreciates the many ways that the business
community supports its mission. A full list of our Business
Partners appears on the back cover. We are much stronger
because of your generosity. <
David R. Brigham
President and CEO
From the Desk of the Museum Director
While late winter and early spring have been warm in
Philadelphia, things have been positively hot at the Museum
due to the enthusiastic response to Henry Ossawa
Tanner: Modern Spirit. PAFA curator Anna Marley has
crafted an extraordinary exhibition which reveals much
about Tanner, the artist, and Tanner, the person, as well
as some fascinating insights into how Tanner’s work and
life fit into — or didn’t — American culture one hundred
years ago. Perhaps even more interestingly, the exhibition
reveals some interesting fault lines in contemporary
American culture.
To me, Tanner’s life story is surprisingly well known
in Philadelphia - the story of a young African American
artist, the son of a prominent pastor, training at PAFA
with the esteemed Thomas Eakins, eventually making
his way to France where he finds sustained professional
success. He also found love, marrying Jessie Macauley
Olssen, whom he painted with great skill, grace, and
whom, it is clear to see, he adored. With Jessie he
fathered a son, Jesse.
And yet the artistic side of the story continues to provoke
our sensibilities. First, it must be said that comparing
Tanner to Eakins is missing the point. Despite Eakins’ early
influence on Tanner’s work, and their long friendship, Tanner’s
work moves in a very different direction. To quote
Eric Fischl, whose work will be mounted this summer
where Tanner’s now hangs, Eakins was a finger painter,
while Tanner was a wrist, and even an arm painter. Think
of the tiny, controlled marks which make up most Eakins
paintings – he was manipulating his brush primarily with
his fingers, building relatively thin layers of paint. One
of the revelations of the Tanner exhibition is seeing how
many ways Tanner manipulates paint, from thin, gauzey
washes to thick impastos, even paint seemingly squirted
out of the tube directly onto the canvas. In his restless experimentation
Tanner seems more akin to Albert Pinkham
Ryder or Ralph Blakelock than to Eakins.
The other great provocation of Tanner’s work is its
overt spirituality. This quality of his work has attracted
new audiences, including many church groups, to come
to the exhibition. It also reminds us that American art
has traditionally been wary of religion. It is one of the
great distinguishing characteristics of American art
Jannalyn Bailey, Seussly, 2012
that it focuses on what’s real — even if the definition
of what’s real keeps changing, from the 19th century
focus on landscape to the late 20th century focus on
popular culture, American artists have born witness to
what is around them. Tanner’s great works bear witness
to precisely what you cannot see around you. His great
themes of resurrection and annunciation are things we
can only imagine, and his greatest theme, light, is not just
the light we see, it is The light.
I am proud that we have presented, in our secular space,
the work of Henry Ossawa Tanner, whose world view was
rooted in faith.
May the dialogue continue! <
Harry Philbrick
The Edna S. Tuttleman Director of the Museum
Henry Ossawa Tanner, The Annunciation, 1898, Oil on canvas, 57 x 71 1/4 in., Philadelphia Museum of Art,
Purchased with the W. P. Wilstach Fund, 1899, W1899-1-1
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upcoming
Exhibitions
A New Look: Samuel F. B. Morse’s
Gallery of the Louvre
August 4, 2012 - April 2013
Historic Landmark Building
A New Look: Samuel F. B. Morse’s Gallery of the Louvre
tells a fascinating tale about art education, mentorship
and practice, and learning from historical art. On
view from August 4, 2012 to April 2013, PAFA’s Morse
installation will set the artist’s famous painting into an
environment that will mirror what is shown in the picture.
The Morse painting, on special loan from the Terra
Foundation of American Art, will be on one side of the
gallery with objects that help provide a broader context
for the themes of artistic practice and identity, while the
other half of the gallery will be hung salon-style with
paintings from PAFA’s collection that highlight the four
academic genres taught and exhibited at PAFA in the first
half of the nineteenth century.
The exhibition will coincide with the demanding copy
class taught at PAFA where students will be encouraged to
select works installed in the Morse room. not only will visitors
encounter a gallery resembling the one depicted by
Morse, but they will witness artists copying historical pictures
in the gallery as is represented by Morse. By making
their copies next to Morse’s painting, PAFA’s students will
show audiences how American artists – whether professional
and famous, or emerging, or still in school – operate
on a continuum of history that traces lessons and knowledge
back to the Renaissance and ages beyond.
Coordinated jointly by Curator of Historical American
Art, Dr. Anna O. Marley, and Senior Curator and Curator of
Modern Art, Dr. Robert Cozzolino, A New Look: Samuel F.
B. Morse’s Gallery of the Louvre will bring history to life.
This exhibition is underwritten by a grant and loan of
artwork by the Terra Foundation for American Art. <
Samuel F. B. Morse, Gallery of the Louvre, 1831-33, Oil on canvas, 73 3/4 x 108 in.,
Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago, Daniel J. Terra Collection, 1992.51
Highly-Anticipated Professional Debut of PAFA Students
at the 111th Annual Student Exhibition
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This year, supporters at the Angel or Philanthropist levels
will have a new opportunity to support student scholarships
by sponsoring a student’s wall. The 4:00 pm Connoisseur
level allows guests to arrive first for a champagne
reception, providing them with an opportunity to see the
exhibition, talk to students and purchase art work prior to
the general opening of the Preview Party at 5:00 pm Additional
entry times include 6:00 and 7:00 pm with tickets
priced accordingly: Philanthropist $1000 (4:00 pm entry),
Connoisseur $500 (4:00 pm entry), Angel $500, Collector
$300 (5:00 pm entry), Patron $200 (6:00 pm entry), and
Friend $100 (7:00 pm entry).
guests enjoy cocktails, hors d’ oeuvres and a light dinner
buffet, along with the early opportunity to purchase
artworks. Valet parking is also provided. For ticket
information for the Preview Party, please visit pafa.org, or
contact Patty Castner at 215-972-0550 or pcastner@pafa.org.
All proceeds, including a percentage of works sold, support
student scholarships at the Pennsylvania Academy of the
Fine Arts. <
PAFA.ORG
RECEnT ACQuISITIOn —
Murder (1942) by Jared French (1905-1988)
By Robert Cozzolino,
Senior Curator and Curator of Modern Art
late last year PAFA acquired Murder (1942) by Jared
French (1905-1988), a masterwork of American Magic Realism.
Scholars have long considered Murder to be one of
French’s finest paintings and among the most important
mid-century modern figurative paintings.
Although he is remembered as an enigmatic artist,
French’s early career followed that of many modernists
whether they worked with the figure or tended towards
abstraction. He associated with more gregarious and
publicly oriented artists for much of his career, though
he avoided the spotlight in favor of a private life. French
attended Amherst College where he studied with Robert
Frost and cultivated a life-long interest in literature. In the
1920s French studied at The Art Students league of new
york where his teachers included Thomas Hart Benton
and Boardman Robinson. There he met Paul Cadmus
(1904-1999) in an etching class and the two became
friends and lovers for many years, traveling to Europe together
in 1926-27 and 1931-33. In the 1930s French worked
for Federal Art Projects and executed a mural for the
Plymouth, PA post office. In 1937 he married the painter
Margaret Hoening and with Cadmus engaged in an ongoing
surrealist-inspired photographic series now known
under the collective name PAJAMA.
In 1940, French’s work took on a more intensely symbolic
character that contrasted with his earlier style that
emulated American Scene painting.
Murder epitomizes this shift and is among the first
paintings in a series called “Aspects of Man” in which the
artists shifted focus from the physical nature of humanity
to a concentration on its inner life. In several paintings
from this series, French painted the human body in a variety
of ways that suggest stages of consciousness, stages
of moral development, and connections to the Jungian
“collective unconscious” that binds humanity together.
Although Surrealism plays a part as a contemporary influence
on the series, another strong visual reference for
French’s figures is the Archaic greek “kouros” sculpture
type representing youthful boys. Venturing an interpretation
of French’s work is always speculative since the artist
left few written clues or interviews about the subject.
However, Murder, painted in one of the most difficult years
of World War II has distinctive details that make a reading
of the painting more powerfully direct than usual. The
figures in the foreground – one lying on his back, arms
stretched out and mouth frozen in a scream, the other
standing over him, hands and wrists red with firey blood
– call to mind Cain and Abel and suggests the dual nature
of humanity. Within us we each have the capacity for good
and evil, creation and destruction, peace and war. Behind
the figures rises an earthen platform on which rows of
men stand saluting with one arm raised on the left, and
PAFA Recognizes Painter and Sculptor
Audrey Flack at Commencement
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artist of the Photorealist movement, painting hyper real
canvases from projected photographs. Her subjects ranged
from press photographs to portraits, still lifes, and the epic
trilogy she called the Vanitas series.
After achieving critical and commercial success, Flack
turned from painting to sculpture in the early 1980s. This
highly unusual mid-career shift required that she learn new
processes, dramatically changing her studio practice, as
well as her professional work. She draws inspiration from
sources as diverse as Bernini, French and English nineteenth-century
sculptors such as Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux
and Alfred gilbert, and Philadelphia sculptor Alexander
Stirling Calder. Flack has earned major commissions for
public works in Rock Hill, South Carolina, Tampa, Florida,
and the Schemerhorn Symphony Center in nashville, Tennessee,
to name a few. In her sculpture, Flack strives to create
modern-day allegories, using ideas drawn from classical
mythology, Jungian psychology, and art history to create
archetypes for a turbulent world. When Flack’s commission
for a major sculpture of Queen Catherine of Braganza for
the Borough of Queens was undermined by political inter-
Jared French, Murder, 1942, Egg tempera on gessoed panel, 17 x 14 1/2 in., John D. Phillips Fund, 2011.24
Within us we each
have the capacity
for good and evil,
creation and destruction,
peace and war.
look away on the right. The allusion here to a Fascist
salute makes Murder the rare American surrealist painting
that examined the collective unconsciousness and the
overt world crisis of war raging at the time.
Murder is the second of French’s works to enter PAFA’s
collection. Earlier in 2011 george Tooker (1920-2011) gave
a gorgeous silverpoint drawing that French made of him
to the collection. Murder will be on view in the Historic
landmark Building beginning in July 2012. <
ests, she successfully fought a legal case under the federal
Visual Artists Rights Act, setting a precedent that will support
future artists.
Flack is currently working with PAFA’s Printmaking
Department to collaboratively produce a print with our
faculty and students, and to launch a new PAFA Press.
This endeavor will result in small editions that bring our
students into contact with important artists and produce
prints to support the activities of the program. We are
pleased to inaugurate this new program with such a
distinguished and generous artist as Audrey Flack.

PAFA In THE nEWS:
Reviews of Henry Ossawa
Tanner: Modern Spirit
The show describes Tanner as a highly acclaimed,
international modern artist who reinvigorated genre
paintings and religious art through innovative artistic
techniques – loose brushwork, evocative colors and a
distinctive mastery of light.
— America Magazine
Tanner became known for unsentimental biblical subjects,
such as lazarus, imagined in terms of diffused, moody
light, stylized color, dense paint and an emphasis on
human emotions.
— Wall Street Journal
Through his ‘narrative suggestion,’ Tanner presents the
total experience of faith – from agonizing doubt to joyous
acceptance – independently of time and space. It is this
transcendence and human touch that truly make Tanner
the ‘Modern Spirit.’
— Bigthink.com
A full appreciation of his paintings will require the
viewer to rethink modernism, moving beyond its typical
avant-garde emphasis on non-figuration.
— Courier Post
Stunning career retrospective exhibition.
— The Philadelphia Tribune
A historically gripping exhibition.
— New York Times
This rewarding, insightful exhibition serves to broaden
and deepen respect for Tanner, an iconic figure in
American art history.
— Antiques and The Arts Weekly
Tanner paintings humanize the holy – With its exhibition
Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit, the Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Arts offers Philadelphians a
splendid chance to consider what this remarkable African
American painter achieved.
— The Philadelphia Inquirer
Tanner deserves to be ranked with other great African-
American cultural figures of the 20th century who
excelled in artistic fields that had been dominated by
Europeans or white Americans. Henry Ossawa Tanner:
Modern Spirit is a magnificent retrospective.
— California Literary Review
PAFA’s exhibition, which places a major retrospective
of Tanner back in the school where he studied from
1879 to 1885, showcases Tanner’s modernism, from the
humble Mary visited by an abstract beam of light to a
shadowy Salome, cloaked in Tanner’s trademark
nocturnal blues.
— Metro
There is only one reason to see this current exhibition
at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts: because
Henry O. Tanner (1859-1937) was an excellent American
artist, and we haven’t had enough opportunity to savor
his work.
— Broadstreetreview.com
With a sense of otherworldly light and atmosphere that
typifies Art nouveau at the turn of the century, it’s a
remarkable work that typifies Tanner’s style, which, by the
1920s, was cause for even the most conservative critics to
acclaim him as one of the leading painters of the era.
— Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
It has taken a few decades and several important
American exhibitions to get Henry Ossawa Tanner, an
African-American painter who spent most of his career in
France, back on the map in the united States, but Henry
Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit should finally give him the
broader recognition he deserves.
-ARTnews
When you think of African American trailblazers in the
art world, there are the Jacob lawrences, Jean Michel-
Basquiats and Romare Beardons, ones who spring to mind
immediately. yet, there was one man who inspired these
aforementioned gentlemen as well as a generation of
many renowned artists, his name, Henry Ossawa Tanner.
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Photo: Denise guerin Images
Record Visitor Turnout for
Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit
Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit, a major exhibition of artwork by African American artist Henry Ossawa Tanner,
opened in January with record attendance, drawing some of the largest crowds in recent exhibition history. The exhibition
also brought diverse audiences to the museum, generating appeal across racial, ethnic, and generational lines.
“Visitors continued to attend in large numbers and many were returning a second time. Tanner’s compelling story
and rich body of work resonate with Philadelphia and beyond,” remarks Harry Philbrick, Edna S. Tuttleman Director
of the Museum.
Showcasing Tanner’s paintings, photographs, sculptures, watercolors, and drawings, Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern
Spirit was organized by PAFA, where the artist studied from 1879 to 1885, and will tour to the Cincinnati Art Museum and
the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
The exhibition contained over 100 works, including 12 paintings that had never been shown in a Tanner retrospective. It
included Tanner’s famed Resurrection of Lazarus, from the collection of the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, a career-making canvas
that earned Tanner his first international praise when it was exhibited in 1897 and which had never crossed
the Atlantic. <
Opening Reception for the Tanner exhibition on January 27.
Tanner Scholar’s Day
March 6, 2012
By Anna O. Marley, Curator of Historical American Art
On a day when the galleries of Henry Ossawa Tanner:
Modern Spirit were closed to the public, a group of approximately
40 professors, curators, conservators, and advanced
graduate students from local, national and international
institutions came together to discuss Tanner’s artwork and
legacy in the physical presence of the art itself. This day
made possible in depth discussions of Tanner’s painting
practice in a way that is not possible in a classroom or regular
symposium session, when scholars and students look
at digital images rather than the works themselves. One
of the most exciting elements of the day was being able to
offer 13 competitive graduate student scholarships so that
the next generation of historians of American art could see
Tanner’s oeuvre first hand, as well as meet and network
with both their peers and established scholars. Particularly
engaging discussions centered on Tanner’s technique and
the problem of how to define “modern” art in relation to
the artist’s body of work.
graduate student and PAFA intern Jeff Richmond-Moll writes, “It was exciting and rewarding to sit in PAFA’s galleries, in
front of Tanner’s paintings, and surrounded by the scholars whose insightful projects on the artist and his era have been
so instrumental in my own studies. learning about Brian Baade and Amber kerr-Allison’s conservation research on Tanner
in front of the artist’s own pictures brought the works to life. It bridged the gap I often invent between an artist’s technical
process and their creative intentions.”
Participating graduate students (see accompanying image) included: la Tanya Autry (university of Delaware), lacey
Baradel (university of Pennsylvania), layla Bermeo (Harvard university), Emilie Boone (northwestern university), Emily
Burns (Washington university in St. louis), Erin Corrales-Diaz (unC Chapel Hill), nika Elder (Princeton university), laura
Hartman (Winterthur/university of Delaware), James Peck (university of Oklahoma), Jeff Richmond-Moll (PAFA), Hélène
Valance (université Paris Diderot), Tashima Thomas (Rutgers university), and Amy Torbert (university of Delaware). The
invited discussion leaders were conservators, Amber kerr-Alison (Smithsonian American Art Museum) and Brian Baade
(university of Delaware), and Professors Renee Ater (university of Maryland) and Camara Holloway
(university of Delaware). <
Photo: Barbara katus
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AluMnI SAlES gAllERy
On Sunday, February 26th, the PAFA Alumni Sales
gallery hosted its first gallery talk. Sande Webster,
former director and owner of the Sande Webster gallery,
discussed her role of promoting the work by African
American artists, followed by a talk by PAFA alum Moe
Brooker, whose work was on view through April.
The next exhibition in the gallery will be work by sculptor
Stephen layne (’94) and painter Carrie Mae Smith
(‘05), April 21-July 22. There will be an artists’ gallery talk
on June 10th in the gallery at 1:00pm.
Stephen layne currently teaches drawing and anatomy
at the Fleisher Art Memorial in Philadelphia. He has
exhibited work with the national Sculpture Society in new
york and in a variety of galleries throughout Philadelphia,
including Wexler gallery, Artist’s House, and gallery Joe.
layne utilizes a variety of materials to create his elegant
and simplistic depictions of the human form.
Before attending PAFA, Carrie Mae Smith took a unique
and unconventional path of travels. She found herself
working in a farm exchange program abroad learning a
variety of culinary traditions and eventually working as
a private chef. Today, her work continues to celebrate
her culinary interests. Smith renders ceramic dishes and
silverware in delicate and exquisite manner.
For more information about the Alumni Sales gallery,
please contact Tish Ingersoll at 215-391-4187 or visit
pafa.edu/alumnigallery. <
PAFA.ORG
Stephen Layne, Philadelphia, 2010, 44”H X 15”W X 9”D, Plaster
“My approach has been predominately formal, engaged with structuring
compositions through use of line, balance, and tonal values as well as being
compelled by the viscous material of paint.” — Carrie Mae Smith ‘05
AluMnI nEWS
New! Free Museum Admission
Offered to PAFA Alumni
We are pleased to announce that since January
2012, all PAFA alumni are invited to visit the galleries
in the Historic landmark and the Samuel M.V. Hamilton
buildings free of charge. Simply check in at the
Visitor Services desk in either building to receive your
complimentary* pass. Please contact alumni@pafa.edu
or 215-972-2077 with any questions about the new
admissions policy.
*Alumni are entitled to one complimentary pass during regular Museum hours.
Stay in the Loop with the
Alumni E-Newsletter!
Each month, we send out an alumni electronic newsletter
which features news from alumni and information
on special events and alumni programming. To join
the mailing list or update your e-mail address, send a
request to alumni@pafa.edu.
To include your news or updates in the Alumni
E-newsletter, send your submission to alumni@pafa.edu
by the 15th of each month to be included in the following
month’s edition.
Please note: PAFA does not share e-mails with third parties.
Revitalized Alumni Association Council
PAFA is pleased to report that a dedicated group of
alumni, headed by nancy Bea Miller Cert. ’91 MFA ’13,
has revitalized the Alumni Association Council. Along
with Miller, members include: Eliza Auth, Jennifer Baker,
Holly Brigham, nancy Citrino, Fred Danziger, Hilarie
Hawley, lesa Chittenden lim, James lynes, David Wilson,
and Elizabeth Wilson.
The Alumni Association Council has been meeting
regularly to find new ways to invite PAFA alumni back to
campus in meaningful ways and foster a sense of community
among the alumni. Some of the initial projects
and initiatives include the recently established policy of
free Museum admission for alumni (see above for more
details), presence at February’s Open Studio night, an
alumni night at the Tanner exhibition, waiving the application
fee for any prospective student referred to PAFA
by an alumnus, and the establishment of the inaugural
Alumni Scholarship (see below for more details).
“We have a truly amazing body of alumni,” says
President Miller. “My goal is for the Alumni Association
Council to help alumni connect with each other and
reconnect with PAFA.” Any suggestions or questions
for the Alumni Association Council may be e-mailed to
alumni@pafa.edu.
Alumni Spotlight: Clarence Morgan
One important recent activity of the Alumni Association
Council is the selection of the annual Distinguished
Alumni Award recipient. This year the Council selected
artist and educator Clarence Morgan (Certificate ’75).
Painter, educator, lecturer and occasional writer, Morgan
has exhibited his work nationally and internationally. His
beautiful abstract painting, City of Tomorrow (2005),
part of the Academy’s collection, is currently on view.
His work is included in the collections of the Cleveland
Art Museum, Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, Walker
Art Center, Minneapolis Art Institute, general Mills,
and university of Alabama, among others. Morgan is a
member of the faculty in the Department of Art at the
university of Minnesota in Minneapolis, where he is a
professor and former chair of the department.
Since the 1970s, Morgan has used pattern, rhythm,
gesture, color, idealized shapes, decoration, and hybrid
forms in his abstract paintings, creating an ever evolving
vocabulary of shapes and forms.
“Clarence Morgan’s powerful and elegant pattern
paintings are visually sophisticated and complex examples
of post-painterly abstraction. His record as an
educator and exhibiting artist is very impressive. We are
pleased to honor his achievements,” says Jeffrey Carr,
Dean of the School.
Past recipients of PAFA’s Distinguished Alumni Award
award include Orit Hofshi, Barkley Hendricks, Edna Andrade,
Sarah McEneaney, Bill Scott, louis Sloan, Arthur
DeCosta and Ben kamihira.
PAFA Alumni Scholarship
new for 2012, we are delighted to announce the
inaugural PAFA Alumni Scholarship. This award will
recognize deserving candidates who are referred by a
PAFA alumnus, with awards ranging up to $5,000 per
academic year.
To be eligible for this award, an applicant must be
nominated by a PAFA alumnus. nominated students
should submit PAFA’s Alumni Application Fee Waiver
along with their complete application.
In order to ensure that these talented and dedicated
Photo: Sean Tucker
Photo: Courtesy of Clarence Morgan
James Brantley, Moe Brooker and Richard Watson at the opening of
Brooker’s exhibition The Evidence of Things Not Seen
Carrie Mae Smith, Coalport Creamer, 2012, 9”X 12”, Oil on Panel
Clarence Morgan, 2012 Distinguished Alumni Award recipient.
students have the opportunity to realize their artistic
potential, PAFA awards over $3 million in scholarships
and financial aid annually. This year, we hope that PAFA
alumni will help us offer the inaugural Alumni Scholarship
by making a gift to help make it possible for a
talented student to attend PAFA.
To make your support go even further, PAFA
received a challenge grant from the Stein/Bellet
Foundation, for which every dollar raised toward
scholarship support, including the Alumni Scholarship,
will be matched, up to $25,000. This challenge
grant represents an incredible opportunity for PAFA to
raise an additional $50,000 in scholarship support, but
we need help from alumni and patrons like you.
To make your gift online, please visit pafa.org/give and
include “Alumni Scholarship” in the note section. you
may also use the enclosed gift envelope or make your
gift over the phone at 215-972-2077.

Photo: Julie Melton
Support PAFA
Give the Gift of PAFA
Share the gift of PAFA membership this spring season.
gift memberships in celebration of Mother’s Day,
Father’s Day, weddings, and graduations are available
at all levels and include a gift box and PAFA mug. gift
memberships may be purchased over the phone through
the Membership Office at 215-972-2077, through the PAFA
website pafa.org/join, or onsite at PORTFOlIO ® .
Make a 100% Tax-Deductible
Gift to PAFA
The generosity of members, volunteers, and donors is
what has allowed PAFA to flourish through the years,
and we rely on your support to ensure that the next
generation will benefit from accessible, innovative, and
inspiring art. We believe that art is significant in all
peoples’ lives, and your support makes it possible for
PAFA to offer critically acclaimed exhibitions, cutting-edge
arts education, and to introduce thousands of children
and adults to the arts each year through our many public
education offerings.
As we approach the end of the fiscal year on June 30,
2012, please consider making a 100% tax-deductible
gift to PAFA to help us reach our goals. gifts of all sizes
are important and help us in our mission to bring together
artists and the public through exceptional teaching
programs, a world-class collection of American art, major
exhibitions, and widely accessible public programs.
In addition to the enclosed gift envelope, we are pleased
to offer the following giving options:
• Online
pafa.org/support
• Gifts of Stock
Please contact the Development Department at
215-972-2077 or giving@pafa.org to arrange a
stock transfer.
THE FInE ART OF EnTERTAInIng —
OuR SPACE IS THE PlACE FOR yOuR nExT SPECIAl EVEnT!
ACCOMMODATIONS…
Two venues in one – a choice of elegant
landmark or lofty contemporary space.
LOCATION…
Across Broad Street from the Pennsylvania
Convention Center and within walking distance
of Philadelphia’s many premier hotels.
CATERING…
PAFA has an exclusive caterer,
Jimmy Duffy & Sons.
TOURS…
Museum Docents are available to
lead tours of our galleries.
• Matching Gifts
If your employer has a matching gifts program, your
support of PAFA could be doubled or even tripled.
Some companies will match contributions from retirees,
spouses, and directors (past and present). Please
see your employer’s human resources department for
matching gift forms and additional information.
• United Way
Simply select donor choice number 14015 to
support PAFA’s Community Outreach Programs
through united Way.
For questions about ways to make a gift to PAFA,
please contact Cecily Macy, Director of Individual giving,
at 215-972-2597 or cmacy@pafa.org.
THANk YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT OF PAFA!
William Trost Richards, After a Rain, Newport, 1875. Watercolor on paper, 3 x 4 1/2 inches. Pennsylvania Academy
of the Fine Arts, Promised Gift of Dorrance H. Hamilton in memory of Samuel M.V. Hamilton, 4.5.2008.
PAFA’s
Peale Circle:
Join Us!
The Peale Circle is PAFA’s leadership level membership
group (starting at $1,000) designed for American art
enthusiasts and connoisseurs alike. The Peale Circle
offers many membership privileges including special
discounts, invitations to preview receptions before
membership openings, and many unique events
throughout the year that explore both historic and
contemporary facets of American culture.
To join the Peale Circle or to upgrade your membership,
please contact, Cecily Macy, Director of Individual giving,
at 215-972-2597 or cmacy@pafa.org or visit pafa.org
and click on giving and Membership. We would love to
welcome you as a new Peale Circle member this year!
EVENT ENHANCEMENT…
PAFA student artists are available
for hire during your event.
PORTFOLIO…
Our store in the Hamilton Building offers a
unique shopping experience.
YOUR RENTAL FEE DOLLARS…
Help fulfill PAFA’s mission of educating
tomorrow’s artists.
DISCOUNTS…
Available to PAFA Business Partners,
and special rates for non-profit organizations
and conventions.
To book your next event contact Judi Garst at 215-972-1609 or jgarst@pafa.org.
upcoming
Members’
Opening
Receptions
PAFA members enjoy year-long benefits including
invitations to exclusive members’ events and exhibition
opening receptions. We are pleased to celebrate the
following upcoming exhibitions with our members:
Dive Deep: Eric Fischl and the Process of Painting
Thursday, June 28, 2012, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
Samuel M.V. Hamilton Building, Fisher Brooks gallery
On view June 29 - September 30, 2012
“A Mine of Beauty”:
Landscapes by William Trost Richards
Friday, September 28, 2012, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
Historic landmark Building, galleries 10 and 11
On view September 29 - December 30, 2012
Frank Furness Centenary Celebration
Thursday, October 4, 2012, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
Historic landmark Building
On view September 29 - December 30, 2012
The Linda Lee Alter Collection of Art by Women
Friday, November 16, 2012, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
Samuel M.V. Hamilton Building, Fisher Brooks
and Annenberg galleries
On view november 17, 2012 – April 14, 2013
Formal invitations to follow.
upcoming
Events
Newport Art Museum & Art Association
100th ANNIVERSARY GALA Weekend Celebration
Friday July 6 to Sunday July 9, 2012
gala on Saturday, July 7
Please join PAFA to celebrate the 100th Anniversary of the
newport Art Museum. We will be loaning an extraordinary
collection of William Trost Richards’ “coupon” paintings to
the exhibition thanks to the generosity of Dodo Hamilton.
Join PAFA in a weekend celebration, including a cocktail
reception on Friday night, the gala on Saturday, and
brunch on Sunday. Space is limited.
Nantucket Weekend
August 2012
Please join PAFA for a fun filled weekend on nantucket.
This is a great opportunity to connect with Peale Circle
friends before the end of summer! Please check your mail
for the invitation. Space is limited.
Invitations to follow.
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William Penn Foundation awards PAFA
$500,000 grant for exhibitions
PAFA has been awarded a grant of $500,000 to support
two upcoming major exhibitions – The Linda Lee Alter
Collection of Art by Women (november 17, 2012 –
April 14, 2013), and a major retrospective of art by David
Lynch taking place in 2014.
“We are deeply grateful to the William Penn Foundation
for this monumental grant for PAFA’s exhibition program—
our largest program grant ever—for the inaugural exhibition
of the Linda Lee Alter Collection of Art by Women and
a retrospective exhibition for artist and filmmaker David
lynch,” said David R. Brigham, PhD, PAFA’s President and
CEO. “The William Penn Foundation is extraordinary in its
willingness to provide strong leadership support, which
then inspires others to contribute.”
As announced in December 2011, Philadelphia artist
and art collector linda lee Alter donated to PAFA her
collection of approximately 400 works of art by women,
spanning the 1920s to the present, in all media and by a
wide range of artists from the well-known to the underappreciated.
In placing her collection with PAFA, lee’s stated
intent was to “help art by women become more visible
and better appreciated,” and to bring forth art by women
to be seen by all. The collection reflects both a diversity
of style and medium, and includes a strong representation
of art by women of color (Americans of Asian, African,
Hispanic, and American Indian ethnicity).
SuMMER HIgHlIgHTS
Master Class with Stuart Shils // June 1, 2 & 3
Immerse yourself in a three-day outdoor painting intensive
with critically acclaimed painter, Stuart Shils
Master Class with Bruce Samuelson // June 23 & 24
Comprehend the vitality and gesture of the human figure,
under the guidance of Bruce Samuelson, acclaimed figurative
painter and draftsman.
PAFA at Historic Yellow Springs – Chester Springs
Studio // June 29 – August 5
Enjoy PAFA classes and workshops in
beautiful Chester County.
Summer Academy for High School Students
July 9 – August 3
The definitive program for talented and motivated young
people intent on a fine arts education: college-level
courses in drawing, painting, sculpture and printmaking,
PAFA.ORG
Ms. Alter’s gift to PAFA, negotiated over several years
by Dr. Brigham and PAFA’s Senior Curator and Curator of
Modern Art, Robert Cozzolino, addressees two key objectives
in PAFA’s strategic plan: “Enhance the art collection
through purchases, gifts,…” and “…reflect the needs of
diverse audiences in our programs and collections.”
PAFA’s exhibition The Linda Lee Alter Collection of Art
by Women will run for seven months – the longest-running
exhibition in recent PAFA memory – on both floors of
PAFA’s Samuel M.V. Hamilton Building (the Fisher Brooks
and Annenberg galleries). As many as 175 works from the
collection will be shown in the exhibition and arranged
thematically (self-portraiture, spiritual reactions to nature,
politics, sexuality, family, and a wide range of landscapes).
David lynch will be the focus of a major exhibition in
2014. lynch’s art is well-known in Europe, but in the u.S.,
he is better known to baby-boom generation museum-goers
acquainted with his works on film (such as Eraserhead,
The Elephant Man, Dune, Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks, Lost
Highway, Mulholland Drive) .
In the late 1960s, David lynch was a student at PAFA’s
School of Fine Arts where he made paintings that gradually
encompassed the moving image – in fact he made
his first film short while a student at PAFA. Since his time
at PAFA, lynch has become known to the general public
more for his provocatively creative, psychologically
Continuing Education Programs
SuMMER 2012 AT PAFA // MAy 21 – AuguST 19
Continuing Education (CE) at PAFA offers art classes and workshops for adults and high school students at all levels of
ability. The summer semester is the largest and most extensive in the CE program, featuring one, six, and twelve-week
courses, weekend workshops and special programs scheduled throughout the summer.
Members at the “Friends” level and above receive a 10% tuition discount on regular courses and workshops!
Stuart Shils, Sun Passing Quickly on Lower West Side Buildings, NY, 2010, monotype: etching ink, oil pastel, graphite on paper, 5 1/2 x 10 1/16 inches, courtesy, Davis and Langdale Gallery, NY
field trips to museums, galleries and artist studios and
portfolio review. Visit www.pafa.edu/SummerAcademy for
more information.
Learning to See: An American View // July 17 – August 2
Presented by the Violette de Mazia Foundation, this
course will introduce students to an objective method for
appreciating art using the educational methods developed
by John Dewey, Dr. Albert C. Barnes and Violette de Mazia.
Summer Academy for Teachers // July 23 - 27
A great opportunity for k-12 educators to advance their
personal work and refresh their teaching with stimulating
ideas amidst a new community of artists and teachers.
For the complete summer schedule, visit pafa.edu/CE,
call 215-972-7632 or e-mail continuinged@pafa.edu.
Photo: Fran ng
Photo: Anthony Ciambella
complex, and surreal motion picture, television, and other
video work, though he has always been an artist who
works in a variety of mediums, including painting, sculpture,
printmaking, photography, and sound.
Through a variety of media, PAFA’s David Lynch: A
Retrospective exhibition will introduce audiences to the
psychologically-rooted imagery in lynch’s artwork and
reveal how it parallels and interlocks with the below-thesurface
complexity of his film and video work. Additional
exhibition-related activities are being planned, including
a David lynch film festival, a scholarly symposium, and
lectures including PAFA’s Art-at-lunch. This exhibition,
lynch’s first retrospective in the u.S., will include approximately
10 large-scale and 15 small-scale paintings, 50
works on paper, 25 lithographs, 50 photographic prints, a
large body of small sketch works from lynch’s notebooks,
and a group of approximately 15 sculptures.
Both exhibition projects will include the publication of a
major scholarly catalogue. <
Bruce Samuelson, 11-1, 15 x 18 in., Oil on wood panel, 2010
Summer Academy for Teachers with instructor Charles Muldowney
Drawing on-location at Boathouse Row

Faculty Spotlight
Peter Van Dyck and Renee Foulks on PAFA’s new Contemporary Programs
Peter Van Dyck
Starting in the fall of 2012, PAFA will add the two new interdisciplinary specializations of
Contemporary Realism and Fine Arts Illustration as part of its existing majors in painting,
drawing, printmaking and sculpture.
PAFA’s Contemporary Realism specialization will provide a rigorous training for figurative
and representational artists by supplementing and focusing a student’s curricular
experience around issues of representation both practical and theoretical. It will entail
personal mentoring, group discussions and critiques and supplemental instructed drawing
sessions. The program will bring together students of all levels to help them organize and
maximize their educational experience with regards to issues of representation.
Peter Van Dyck, PAFA faculty member since 2004, is excited about this new opportunity:
“The Contemporary Realism specialization offers students an alternative to a private studio
school or atelier; while traditional skill training will be the foundation of the program,
the breadth of approaches to art making at PAFA will challenge complacent assumptions
about art and realism and help students to grow both aesthetically and intellectually beyond
the confines of the studio.”
Van Dyck is hopeful that the program will take root over the next five years and create
a group of highly trained, intellectually rigorous artists working in the language of
representation. “This will reinforce PAFA’s position as a premier institution to study these
concerns,” he states.
Van Dyck teaches Perspective Drawing, Cast Drawing, Animal Drawing, and life Painting
in PAFA’s Certificate/BFA programs. Since 2002 he has been painting and exhibiting
his work in Philadelphia, new york and San Francisco. He has had solo shows at Eleanor
Ettinger gallery in new york, the John Pence gallery, The grenning gallery and the Artist’s
House gallery. group shows include Wendt gallery, The More gallery, and The Biggs Museum
of American Art in Dover, Delaware.
The Fine Arts Illustration specialization at PAFA will be part of the skill-based and
discipline-based training in the Fine Arts at PAFA. using existing courses in book arts,
narrative and sequential imagery, digital media and other studio programs, the Fine Arts
Illustration specialty will add courses taught by professional illustrators.
According to PAFA faculty member Renee P. Foulks, “Many traditional Illustration programs
are unable to offer the intense interdisciplinary fine arts grounding that we have
here at the Academy.” Foulks currently teaches courses in life Painting, Portrait Painting,
narrative and Sequential Drawing, and is a Critic in the Certificate/BFA Program. She also
teaches courses in Painting, Drawing/Media and is a Critic in the MFA program.
“The skills and artistic abilities gained in PAFA’s rigorous fine arts programs will be combined
with a new set of experiences,” says Foulks. “Third and fourth year students from
any major may take a new course this fall entitled Illustration Methods. It will be taught
MFA Student laidacker
lead Muralist for
Philadelphia’s largest Mural
As part of the City’s Mural Arts Program, Jon laidacker and fellow PAFA alums Thomas
Walton (‘07), laura Velez (’07) and Charles newman (’08) spent 11 months completing
How Philly Moves, the second largest mural in the world. located at Philadelphia
International Airport, the mural was created by lead muralist laidacker and a team of
seven assistants.
Says Jon laidacker: “PAFA has meant a tremendous amount to all four of us and the
fact that we were able to reflect our training on such a monumental scale gives us an
enormous sense of pride.”
How Philly Moves provides a visually stunning gateway at the Philadelphia International
Airport via a nearly 85,000-square-foot mural incorporating the photographic work
and design of artist Jacques-Jean “JJ” Tiziou. The How Philly Moves mural project also
includes a documentary produced by The Big Picture Alliance and a permanent exhibition
inside the airport’s public space which will provide context for the project as a whole. <
Peter Van Dyck, Ripka Street Porches, 2010 Renee P. Foulks
Renee Foulks, Place of Emergence, Oil on linen, 66 x 76 in., 2001
“The Contemporary Realism specialization
offers students an alternative to a private studio
school or atelier; while traditional skill training will
be the foundation of the program, the breadth of
approaches to art making at PAFA will challenge
complacent assumptions about art and realism
and help students to grow both aesthetically and
intellectually beyond the confines of the studio.”
by children’s book illustrator E.B. lewis, whose paintings have also been shown in gallery and
museum exhibitions. narrative artists from all disciplines and fields (including outstanding contemporary
illustrators) will be invited to lecture and offer workshops. Faculty mentors will hold
group meetings with students to help foster a sense of community and offer support to all who
are committed to the development of narrative.”
Foulks adds: “As the program evolves, we hope to seek additional competition, exhibition,
prize and employment opportunities for all.”
Renee P. Foulks has exhibited her paintings and drawings extensively throughout the united
States, and her work is represented in museum, college, corporate and private collections. Solo
and group shows include venues such as PAFA, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Delaware
Art Museum and the Oglethorpe university Museum of Art in Atlanta, gA. Her commitment to
education includes 20 years at the university of the Arts (Foundation and Illustration) and over
20 years at PAFA.
Foulks’ work will be on view at Haunting Narratives: Detours from Philadelphia Realism, 1935
to Present – a group exhibit at Woodmere Art Museum, May 12 - July 15.
For more information about the Contemporary Realism and Fine Arts Illustration
specializations, visit pafa.edu. <
Photo: Courtesy of Jon laidacker
Jon laidacker working on the How Philly Moves mural.
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Photo: courtesy of PAFA
ADMISSIOnS
Painting the Periphery
The opening reception for Painting the Periphery, featuring works by current PAFA MFA students and recent MFA alumni. The exhibition was curated by
Aubrey levinthal, MFA class of 2011.
In late October 2011, PAFA alumnae Aubrey levinthal
made a visit to Tower Hill School in Wilmington, Delaware.
Aubrey is a recent graduate from PAFA’s MFA Program
(class of 2011), and in September began working with
PAFA as a Seasonal Admissions Associate. In particular,
Aubrey was charged with reinforcing PAFA’s local reputation
through visits, presentations, and portfolio reviews at
nearby high schools.
Tower Hill School is a small, college-preparatory community
with a strong commitment to the arts, a nurturing and
supportive environment for developing artists. What Aubrey
did not know, but would later learn, is that Tower Hill carries
a PAFA connection all its own: the school’s Art Department
Chairperson is PAFA alumnus kirby Smith (Certificate,
1973). kirby, who has been teaching at Tower Hill since
1990, expressed great enthusiasm for Aubrey’s visit.
Over the following months, something remarkable began
111th
Annual
Student
Exhibition
FRIDAY, MAY 11
5 - 8: 30 p.m.
OPENING RECEPTION
Samuel M. V. Hamilton Building
May 11 – June 3
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Nathan Durnin, Procedures, 2011
to grow. nurtured by their alumni connection, kirby and
Aubrey worked in tandem to develop a PAFA-themed exhibition.
The show would be housed in Tower Hill’s gallery
spaces, curated by Aubrey, and reinforced by PAFA’s varied
alumni connections. The resulting exhibition, Painting the
Periphery, opened this March in Tower Hill’s Pierre S. Du-
Pont gallery space.
Painting the Periphery brought together 12 students and
recent alumni from PAFA’s MFA program, all of whom are
working from observation through the distorting lenses of
memory, sensation, and perception.
Painting the Periphery is a testament to our school’s
remarkable community. Developed, organized, and curated
by PAFA alumni, the show highlights our students from
every angle. <
THURSDAY, MAY 10
4 - 8:30 p.m. (ticketed entry times vary)
PREVIEW PARTY
Samuel M. V. Hamilton Building
The Preview Party is a festive event that
kicks off the historic Annual Student
Exhibition, the culminating event in the life
of every degreed or certificate student at
PAFA. Preview Party attendees enjoy the
first opportunity to purchase from the wide
variety of artwork on display.
To purchase tickets, please call
215-972-0550 or email pcastner@pafa.org
FROM THE DESk
OF THE DEAn
By Jeffrey Carr, Dean of the School of Fine Arts
The Annual Student Exhibition, or ASE, is one of the
most treasured of PAFA’s traditions. Everyone knows about
Preview night, hosted by PAFA’s Women’s Board. Preview
night is on the evening before graduation Day, and is one
of the more eagerly anticipated events on PAFA’s social
calendar. Equally popular is the public opening of ASE the
next day which is heavily attended by students, parents,
alumni, patrons, art critics, art dealers and a large and
admiring public.
What is less well known is that the Annual Student
Exhibition is one of the most important educational
experiences for a student completing a course of study.
For students who are exhibiting in the ASE, the
preparations begin in Spring semester, when they learn
about exhibiting and pricing their work, mounting an
exhibition, and how to collaborate with each other to
ensure a successful exhibition. It is an enormous amount
of work for the students and for the faculty and staff who
devote many hours to advice, consolation and cajoling to
make sure each student will succeed in producing their first
professional exhibition.
When the student has successfully completed, selected,
framed, and installed the exhibition on its wall or exhibition
area, the process of awarding the competitive prizes by the
faculty takes place. Prize judging is a noisy and sometimes
contentious process in which the appointed faculty votes
on the awarding of competitive prizes in many categories.
Prizes are awarded during the Prize Ceremony that takes
place at Commencement.
The most coveted prizes are the Travel Awards, many
of which date back to the 19th century. The awarding of
these prizes is only completed after an exhaustive process
of voting and discussion by the appointed faculty. Another
important academic event is the Thesis defense critiques of
the Masters of Fine Arts candidates. By tradition, these take
place in front of the student’s exhibition wall on the second
floor of the museum galleries. Each MFA candidate receives
comments, criticism and congratulations by the graduate
faculty of resident and visiting critics and the students. The
commentary and the observations are a capstone experience
for a demanding and exhaustive course of study for
the MFA students. It is designed to prepare the student to
be a professional artist.
The Annual Student Exhibition serves to bridge the transition
for our students from the intense training they receive
as students to their new lives as practicing and exhibiting
professional artists. <
Ryan Buffington, Savana, Oil on Panel, 2010, Owned
by the artist, currently on view at the Meyer Gallery
The largest and longest-standing of its kind, the
Annual Student Exhibition features more than
1,000 works by PAFA students. Included in last year’s
ASE, Ryan Buffington’s Savana, a painting by
one of the many extraordinary emerging artists.
For more information, visit pafa.edu/ase.

10 PREVIEW
PAFA AnnOunCES
new Curatorial
Internship Program
with Philadelphia
Insurance Companies
As the only program of its kind in the region, PAFA
announced the launch of a new partnership with the
Philadelphia Insurance Companies. The new internship
opportunity allows a PAFA graduate student to curate
administrative offices, halls and common rooms of the
Philadelphia Insurance Companies with artwork by
PAFA students.
James Maguire, chairman of the Philadelphia Insurance
Companies, is a passionate supporter of the arts and
enthusiastically endorses the innovative partnership.
“We are committed to building a lasting alliance with the
community of art educators and students at PAFA.”
Scott Schultheis was selected to curate the first exhibition
at the Philadelphia Insurance Companies. A first-year
MFA student at PAFA, Schultheis grew up in new york and
studied at the university of Rochester before enrolling at
PAFA. During the spring semester, he managed installations
of work by PAFA students.
“It is up to me to put the call out for work, select
approximately 30-40 pieces per submission, transport and
install the work to the Philadelphia Insurance Companies
headquarters, with the help of their maintenance staff.
The exhibition is juried, with the help of a PAFA faculty
member,” says Schultheis. “I am thrilled that Philadelphia
Insurance Companies is fostering the arts this way and
look forward to exposing students’ work to an audience
and an environment that is unique in the realm of
conventional exhibition venues.”
PAFA’s new internship provides students with excellent
opportunities to study and apply important curatorial
and exhibition management practices. Jeffrey Carr,
Dean of the School, acknowledges the importance of the
collaboration. “I am delighted that our students have this
opportunity to exhibit their work at the headquarters of
Philadelphia Insurance Companies. This is another way to
advance the city’s art and culture.”
PAFA President David R. Brigham adds, “The Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Arts is extremely grateful to
James Maguire and the Philadelphia Insurance Companies
for their vision in recognizing the value of fine art in a
corporate environment. This internship and program support
emerging artists while enhancing the office space for
clients and employees alike; everyone benefits.”
PAFA offers unrivaled fine arts training in technical
skills, artistic abilities and studio practice. Advanced students
of all disciplines receive personal studio space and
are invited to exhibit their work in PAFA’s ground-breaking
Annual Student Exhibition, the nation’s oldest and largest
student show. <
“This internship and
program support
emerging artists
while enhancing the
office space for clients
and employees alike;
everyone benefits.”
— PAFA President
David R. Brigham
Photo: Diana Trevisani
Photo: Denise guerin Images
PAFA in Pictures
Below is a selection of events that took place over the past few months,
which celebrate the vibrancy of the school and museum.
Mayor Michael nutter cutting the ribbon to officially open the Tanner exhibition on January 27. Front row (left to right): PAFA President & CEO David R.
Brigham, Mellanie lassiter of PECO, Mayor Michael nutter, PAFA Curator Anna Marley, Museum Director Harry Philbrick. Back row: PAFA Board President
kevin Donohoe, Jeff gordon of PECO, Exelon Foundation President Steve Solomon, and PECO President & CEO Dennis O’Brien.
Tanner gallery Talk
Photo: Denise guerin Images David lynch posing in the Cast Hall.PAFA student Inga Brown enjoying PAFA After Dark: Turned On on March 8th.
Photo: Denise guerin Images
Photo: Sean Tucker
Performance artist Cynthia norton at the opening of her exhibition
Freedom Rings Placed Within on March 2.
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May 6 // Flipbook Flip-out
Flip books are the earliest
form of animation.
Draw your own designs or
characters and discover
the secrets to making them
jump into action or run all
over the page.
May 13 // Bending
the Line
Bend, twist and fold wire
into a one of a kind sculpture
to take home. Experience
the rush of creation
twice in one day as you
try tracing the shadow of
your artwork onto mural sized paper and contribute your
handiwork to an oversized drawing that the whole group
can be a part of.
May 20 // Family Arts Academy Exhibit
Art, art and more art! Come see all of the wonderful creations
made by the Family Arts Academy participants during
the past year. There will be snacks, drinks and music
for you to enjoy while speaking to the next budding artists
of the century.
Please visit pafa.org/faa for future scheduling!
Photo: Patricia Maunder
Family Arts Academy Workshops
Family Arts Academy aims to strengthen initiatives in
family development and art education. It’s also fun!
Whatever shape your family takes, you are welcome to
create and celebrate art with us.
Join us on Sundays, 2:00 – 3:30 pm in the
Historic Landmark Building.
Family Arts Academy at PAFA is funded in part by grants from the national Endowment for
the Arts and from the u.S. Institute of Museum and library Services, with additional support
from: The Victory Foundation, JPMorgan Chase Foundation, The lindback Foundation
Dive Deep: Eric Fischl and the Process of Painting
(Continued from page 1)
moved from the canvas to computer, while the process of
execution – the act of painting – remains central to what
makes his work unique.
Dive Deep: Eric Fischl and the Process of Painting is an
exhibition collaboratively developed by the Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Arts and the San Jose Museum of
Art. The exhibition is co-curated by PAFA’s Edna S. Tuttleman
Director of the Museum, Harry Philbrick, and SJMA’s
Associate Curator, Jodi Throckmorton. <
PAFA
AFTER
DARk:
REAl
WORlD
May 17, 6 - 9 pm
Spend an evening leaving the mundanities
of your own real world behind
and join PAFA instead for a romp
through some of the best new artwork
being produced in the city. Do you
live in a world where puppets are just
Lisa David, Over Broad and Race (2010), oil on board, 30”x50”
for the kids? not anymore! Spiral Q
Puppet Theater will change your mind
with the extreme awesomeness of their puppet performances in the galleries. How about a world in which “good art” is
defined for you? not tonight! grab a ballot form and be part of the real life judging process by casting a vote for your favorite
student artist. And if you wonder how young artists deal with the realities of the “real world” they’re about to enter,
we’ll have them on hand to discuss how they decide what to show and how to price it. For more information about PAFA
After Dark please call Emily Ost at 215-972-2077, email eost@pafa.org or visit pafa.org/afterdark.
PAFA.ORG
PAFA After Dark is funded in part by a grant from the
u.S. Institute of Museum and library Services.
STuDEnT PHOTO ROunDuP
Our students have been busy outside of the classroom. Here’s a sample of some School events.
BASH
Our 4th Annual Winter Bash had a masquerade theme this year. Students danced the night away in a variety of masks
– even a diving mask! – and a good time was had by all!
OPEN STUDIO NIGHT
One of the most successful Open Studio nights on record! 790 people turned out to see what goes on behind
the scenes in PAFA’s private studios. Students cleaned up their studios and decorated their floors –
we’ve never seen the place look so good!
BLOOD DRIVE
The Red Cross returned for a second year and collected almost 50 pints of blood from PAFA students and staff.
This is a great community building event and we hope to make this a yearly tradition!
Adult group Tours
215-972-2069
Alumni Sales gallery
215-391-4187
Business Partners
Program
215-972-2002
Continuing Education
215-972-7632
Development
215-972-2077
Facility Rentals
215-972-1609
Family Programs
215-972-2022
library
215-972-2030
All student photo roundup images courtesy of Meg Wolensky.
How To Reach PAFA
215-972-7600
pafa.org | pafa.edu
Historic Landmark Building
118 north Broad Street on the Avenue of the Arts
Samuel M.V. Hamilton Building
128 north Broad Street on the Avenue of the Arts
Membership
215-972-2077
Museum Front Desk
215-972-2060
PAFA Art Supply Store
215-972-2035
Portfolio ®
215-972-2075
School Admissions
215-972-7625
Volunteer
Opportunities
215-972-2020
Women’s Board
215-972-0550
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PAFA INFORMATION
Museum Hours
Tuesday - Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Sunday 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Admission
(includes the Historic landmark Building)
Adults $15; Senior (60+) and Students with I.D.
$12; youth ages (13-18) $10; Child (12 and under,
excluding groups) FREE.
Admission To Historic Landmark Building
Adults $10, Senior (60+) and Students with I.D.
$8; youth ages (13 - 18) $6; Child (12 and under,
excluding groups) FREE
Portfolio ®
Monday - Saturday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Sunday 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Members receive a 10% discount.
Academy Café
Tuesday - Saturday 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Membership
Members enjoy free admission and other benefits.
For information: 215-972-2077 or
pafa.org/membership
Tours
Tuesday, Thursday, Friday 11:30 a.m. and
12:30 p.m.
Wednesday, Saturday, Sunday 1 and 2 p.m.
Tours are free with admission.
To arrange a group tour for adults, seniors and
school groups, call 215-972-2069.
Website
pafa.org | pafa.edu
Facility Rentals
The Historic landmark Building and Samuel
M.V. Hamilton Building provide elegant
and dramatic settings for entertaining. For
information: 215-972-1609 or rentals@pafa.org.
Photos: Judy Ringold
Summer Fun
Summer Fundamentals Art Camp offers enriching,
creative experiences for campers in PAFA’s historical
galleries, the art studios of the school and around
the city, June 25 – August 10. Week–long fun and
imaginative sessions give campers a chance to
learn new skills, create art work and make new friends.
REGISTRATION IS OPEN!
We are offering new extended hours, new camps
and new discounts. For more information, please visit
pafa.org/camp or call 215-972-2054.
connect with us!
Transportation
The Museum is near the Market East and
Suburban train stations, SEPTA bus and
trolley stops, and PATCO’s High Speed line.
For SEPTA information: 215-580-7800 or
www.septa.org. Discounted parking is available
at adjacent Parkway Corporation parking lots.
Tickets must be validated at the Museum
front desk.
Academic Programs
The Academy offers a four-year Certificate,
Academy BFA, BFA in conjunction with the
university of Pennsylvania, Post-Baccalaureate,
and MFA. For information: 215-972-7625 or
admissions@pafa.edu.
Accessibility
The Samuel M.V. Hamilton Building is accessible
from Broad Street. An accessible entrance
to the Historic landmark Building is located at
lenfest Plaza and Burns Streets. Wheelchairs
are available, and restrooms are accessible.
guided tours are available for people with
physical or mental disabilities, upon request.
• Sign language interpreters are
available for all programs with
prior arrangements.
• listening enhancement systems
are available upon request.
For information: 215-972-2069.
Volunteers
Volunteers receive free, unlimited admission
to the Museum and discounts in both the
Academy Café and Shop. For information:
215-972-2020.
Photo: Denise guerin Images
128 North Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA 19102
SAVE THE DATE
BACCHANAL 2012
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2012
CELEBRATING GREAT FAMILIES OF WINE
For more information contact Judite Morais,
Director of Wine Events at jmorais@pafa.org
PRESEnTIng SPOnSOR
MAJOR SPOnSOR
Business Council Members
Philadelphia Insurance Companies
universal Health Services
Business Associate Members
Anthropologie
Bollinger Insurance
Brandywine Realty Trust
Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney
CDI Corporation
Cross Atlantic Capital Partners, Inc.
Blick Art Materials
Elliot lewis Corporation
FREEMAn’S
Holt logistics, Incorporated
karma
keystone Mercy Health Plan
Metrokids
national Penn Bank
netReach
Parkway Corporation
PECO Energy
Quaker Chemical Corporation
Rago Arts and Auction Center
Saul Ewing
Stradley Ronon
uBS
Non-Profit.org
U.S. Postage
PAID
Philadelphia, PA
Permit No. 2879
This list is complete as of April 11, 2012. We regret any omissions or errors.

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