Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art
"Since its founding in 1805, America’s oldest art school and museum has been connected to many influential artists. The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia has seen the presence of the Peales, Cecelia Beaux (1855–1942), William Merritt Chase (1849–1916), Mary Cassatt (1844–1926), J. Alden Weir (1852–1919), Daniel Garber (1880–1958), and, inextricably, the controversial instructor Thomas Eakins (1844–1916). Many other artists took part in the academy’s influential annual exhibitions (discontinued in 1969), or their works
... (view more)
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art
"Since its founding in 1805, America’s oldest art school and museum has been connected to many influential artists. The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia has seen the presence of the Peales, Cecelia Beaux (1855–1942), William Merritt Chase (1849–1916), Mary Cassatt (1844–1926), J. Alden Weir (1852–1919), Daniel Garber (1880–1958), and, inextricably, the controversial instructor Thomas Eakins (1844–1916). Many other artists took part in the academy’s influential annual exhibitions (discontinued in 1969), or their works have been collected for the academy’s museum, an unparalleled repository of important American works of art that were originally intended for study purposes, but that accumulated into a significant holding. At the turn of the twentieth century, avant-garde movements did not wholly infiltrate the traditional curriculum of the academy. Even with modernists such as Arthur B. Carles (1882–1952) as instructors, academic training methods focused primarily on draughtsmanship, including drawing from live models and the anatomical studies so steadfastly promoted by Eakins. Nonetheless, since 1920 the academy has hosted important exhibitions of modern art, has acquired the work of established and emerging contemporary artists, and has classically trained some of the twentieth century’s leading modernists, including John Marin (1870–1953), Charles Demuth (1883–1935), John Sloan (1871–1951), Robert Gwathmey (1903–1988), and more recently, artist and director David Lynch (b. 1946)."
(hide)
Examples of Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art at Auction
Artists Associated with Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art — 13 artists:
