Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
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The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, founded in 1805, is America's oldest school of fine arts and museum. The collection represents of the nation's most distinguished repositories of American art, including works by 19th-Century masters such as Charles Willson Peale, Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins and Mary Cassatt, as well as modern masters Edward Hopper, Georgia O'Keeffe, Jacob Lawrence and Frank Stella. The collection continues to grow with the acquisition of works by major contemporary artists.
The Academy's two buildings are located on the Avenue of the Arts at Broad and Cherry streets, the original building was designed in 1876 by Frank Furness and George Hewitt and is a National Historic Landmark. The recently opened Samuel M.V. Hamilton Building, designed by Dagit Saylor Architects, houses the post-World War II collection and the majority of the school's studios and offices.
Foyer with Benjamin West's Death on the Pale Horse
Photo: Rick Echelmeyer |
The School offers a Certificate program, a Master of Fine Arts degree program, a coordinated Baccalaureate of Fine Arts degree program in conjunction with the University of Pennsylvania, and a Post-Baccalaureate program in painting, printmaking, drawing, and sculpture.
Thomas Eakins, Portrait of Dr. Samuel D. Gross,
(The Gross Clinic),
1875, oil on canvas, 96 x 78 inches.
Gift of the Alumni Association to Jefferson Medical College in 1878 and purchased by the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 2007 with the generous support of more than 3,400 donors, 2007.2
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