#museum at the pennsylvania academy of the fine arts

[egoschwank]

al things considered — when i post my masterpiece #1133

first posted in facebook november 13, 2022

michaelina wautier -- "self-portrait" (ca. 1649)

"we knew nothing about her. as a specialist working in the field, i didn’t know she existed" ... christopher atkins (director of the center for netherlandish art at the museum of fine arts)

"'it’s really pretty amazing,' said atkins, describing how art historians have traditionally focused on male artists from the era. 'how did we miss these things as a field for so long?'" ... malcolm gay

"i wonder if institutions know it is a problem. there is a lot of discussion about women having more exhibitions, so from the outside it seems like we are celebrating women of different ages. but i wonder if institutions realize that there needs to be a lot more work done. maybe they don’t understand how imbalanced it is" ... naima keith (vice president of education and public programs, los angeles county museum of art)

"the explanation that women [are poorly represented because they] have often decided to leave the art world? i don’t believe that for a minute. i think there have been women working hard in the art world forever and if we haven’t seen them, then shame on us" ... brooke davis anderson (director, the museum at the pennsylvania academy of the fine arts)

"i call bullshit on the idea that it takes a while [to see change]. how much more time does it take? if a new generation of art historians and curators have to be resensitized to this then my god, we have amnesia at this point" ... michelle millar fisher, (curator of contemporary decorative arts, museum of fine arts, boston)

"well, first of AL, i probably would fire christopher atkins (the alleged director of the NETHERLANDISH art at the museum of fine arts here in boston) IF he really did not even know that a master from the 'dutch golden age' like wautier even existed" ... al janik

#michaelina wautier #self-portrait #christopher atkins #art historians #center for netherlandish art at the museum of fine arts #boston #malcolm gay #female artists #naima keith #institutions #los angeles county museum of art #brooke davis anderson #museum at the pennsylvania academy of the fine arts #women artists #shame #michelle millar fisher #museum of fine arts #bullshit #al things considered

[garadinervi]

Elizabeth Catlett, Malcolm X Speaks for Us, (linoleum cut), Ciudad de México, 1969, 10 artist's proofs outside an edition of 40 [MoMA, New York, NY. Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA. © Mora-Catlett Family / ARS, NY]

#art #drawing #linoleum cut #elizabeth catlett #malcolm x #moma #the museum of modern art #pennsylvania academy of the fine arts #1960s

[brehaaorgana]

I'm devastated. They just announced that PAFA is closing their college (degree earning programs) after this academic year.

While they're continuing the museum, certificate programs, commitment to K-12 arts programs and continuing education classes —the college and graduate degrees are ending.

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts is the first and oldest art school in the United States. And the college is closing.

So so many famous artists attended or taught at PAFA!! All kinds of them too! Thomas Eakins. Mary Cassatt!!!!! Mike Berenstain (son of Stan and Jan, who took on illustrating the Berenstain Bears!). Apparently David Lynch? Don Martin! Howard Pyle!! Barkley L. Hendricks! James Metcalf, Henry O. Tanner, William Rush, Sarah Peale, Anna Peale, Jessie Willcox Smith, Maxfield Parrish, Henrietta Myers Miller (known professionally as Peter Miller). Thomas Cole. Robert Henri. Cecelia Beaux.

(it is also the first and oldest museum in the US, which thankfully isn't also being closed).

I wish the US funded the arts better. The college deserves to be saved as an iconic and immensely influential american institution, similar to the Smithsonian network of museums — with government funding. Hell, congress people should be FIGHTING to bail out PAFA, sustain it and treat it as a PAFA-Smithsonian arts institute funded by the government. Or SOMETHING. :(

It's going to close after reaching 220 years.

#pafa #art school #art #art history

[mypastnow]

Artist Walter Stuempfig (early 20th Century) from Germantown, Philadelphia, PA. He taught at PAFA, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and spent his time between Philadelphia and Cape May. Stuempfig was a prolific painter whose works number over 1500. His paintings sold steadily; purchasers from his first solo show in New York in 1943 included the Whitney Museum and the Museum of Modern Art. He died fairly young, age 56 in 1970.

#walter stuempfig #vintage #art

[museumelina]

jamie wyeth (1946-), pumpkinhead (self-portrait), 1972, oil on canvas, chadds ford (pennsylvania), brandywine river museum.

is there a work of art that’s any more october than this?

i have loved this portrait ever since laying eyes on it for the first time in 2014, at a retrospective exhibition for the artist hosted at the museum of fine art in boston.

i especially love what jamie wyeth had to say about his self-portrait:

“i sent [the national academy], pumpkinhead and they didn’t want it. They said ‘no, we want a portrait of you’. And I kept saying, ‘well, that is me’.”

#jamie wyeth #pumpkin head #pumpkin #self portrait #autumn #autumn aesthetic #art history #americana #studyblr

[art-that-fucks-you-up-tournament]

SET FOUR - ROUND ONE - MATCH TWO

"Fox Hunt" (1893 - Winslow Homer) / "Tarpaulin" (2018 - Rebecca Belmore)

FOX HUNT: Whenever I see it I want to take an unprepared journey into the forest in the middle of the night and bite anything that moves until I eventually eat a poisonous plant and succumb to a slow and untimely death.

Look at the fox. The desperation. That is something that cannot be so easily replicated, yet is a feeling that has been engraved into my bones. @cups-and-pentacles

TARPAULIN: I saw this piece in Toronto, which references the housing crisis in Canada, that disproportionately affects indigenous people like the artist. The energy it emits it dense - full of grief and anger - and it flooded me with those emotions, especially as I saw most gallery patrons completely ignoring it as they walked by, which was a harsh reflection of how those affected by the housing crisis (and represented by the invisible yet present human form beneath the sculpture) are ignored by society. It's less effective as a static image and really is best experienced in person (@unbelievable-screaming-moth)

("Fox Hunt" is an oil on canvas painting by Winslow Homer. It measures 96.5 × 174 cm (38 × 68½ in) and is located at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

"Tarpaulin" is a ceramic sculpture by indigenous (Anishinaabe) artist Rebecca Belmore. It measures 30 × 70 × 54 in. (76.2 × 177.8 × 137.2 cm) and is currently in the permanent collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. This photo was taken by the submitter!)

#art that fucks you up tournament #polls #atfyu polls #id in alt text #please correct me if there any mistakes on tarpaulin #some of the info was confusing there ie location and material

[random-brushstrokes]

Edith Emerson - Portrait of Violet Oakley (n.d.)

An accomplished painter who also designed murals, stained glass, illustrations, and bookplates, Emerson was the director of Woodmere Art Museum from the early 1940s through her retirement in 1979. Here, she places her life partner, Violet Oakley, at the center of the couple’s vibrantly colored home. Everything in this symmetrical composition directs the viewer’s eyes to Oakley: the blue dishes and vases, the fruit-filled bowl, the candlesticks, the flowered curtains, and the painting in the background. Squarely behind Oakley is a representation of Oakley's painting Il Convito (The Banquet), in which Emerson is dressed as her alter ego, Giovanni.

Emerson and Oakley met at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where Emerson was a student in Oakley’s mural painting class. To Emerson, Oakley was the “most stimulating . . . electrifying teacher, opening up undreamed of possibilities and encouraging every effort. It was exciting, especially to women students as it abolished any sense of inferiority.” The twenty-two-year-old Emerson was highly educated and had traveled widely. She became Oakley’s studio assistant in 1916 and two years later moved into Oakley’s home in Mount Airy. After Oakley’s death in 1961, Emerson established the Violet Oakley Memorial Foundation, which was dedicated to keeping alive her memory and ideals. (source)

#women painters #Edith Emerson #american art #portrait #Violet Oakley

[portraituresque]

Salvatore Pinto (American, 1905-1966), self portrait

Born in Salerno, Italy in 1905, Salvatore Pinto immigrated with his family to America in 1909. He attended the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art (now the University of the Arts) and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and worked in many media including painting, printmaking, photography, theatrical and furniture design.

#salvatore pinto #self-portrait

[pagansphinx]

Daffy Dow n-Dilly • 1908 • Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine

Artist of the Week

Lilian Wescott Hale

(American, 1881-1963)

week of 9/17/23

Home Lessons • 1919 • The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.

When She was a Little Girl • c. 1918 •  Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts

L'Edition de Luxe • 1910

Agnes and her Cat • n/d

A Cup of Tea (for Colliers magazine) • 1909

#lilian wescott hale #art #painting #fine art #art history #19th century art #women in paintings #american artist #american painter #american impressionism #impressionist art #woman painter #farnsworth art museum #flowers in painting #paintings of women #phillips collection #artist of the week #cats in paintings

[mybeingthere]

Andrew Wyeth (United States, 1917-2009)

Henriette Wyeth

Henriette Wyeth, born in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, was the oldest child of the famous illustrator and artist, Newel Convers Wyeth. Her father recognized her exceptional ability to draw by the time she was five. Henriette developed her technique at her father’s side and continued her formal studies at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. By the age of twenty, she was a successful portrait painter, earning numerous commissions.

Though Henriette vowed never to marry a painter, she fell in love with Peter Hurd, a handsome young artist from New Mexico who came to Chadds Ford to study with her father. They were married in 1929 and eventually moved to the Sentinel Ranch in San Patricio, New Mexico, to raise a family and pursue their painting careers.

Henriette is nationally recognized not only for her sensitive and mysterious still-life paintings but also her stunning realist portraits. She captured the personality and mood of her subject and rendered them in her incomparable style. During her career, Henriette received portrait commissions from such notables as Mrs. John D. Rockefeller III, Mrs. Pat Nixon, and Mrs. Helen Hayes.

Her paintings are represented in the permanent collections of the Brandywine River Museum, Pennsylvania; the Los Angeles Athletic Club, California; the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution in Washington; the Roswell Museum and Art Center, New Mexico; the Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico; and the Fine Art Museum, Texas Tech University.

[egoschwank]

al things considered — when i post my masterpiece #1132

first posted in facebook november 11, 2022

george luks -- "the wrestlers" (1905)

"i'll tell you the whole secret! color is simply light and shade. you don't need pink or grey or blue so long as you have volume. pink and blue change with light or time. volume endures" ... george luks

"'the wrestlers' is [...] held at the museum of fine arts, boston [... and] is luks' best-known work. the painting depicts two nude men wrestling. he painted it in order to shock members of the pennsylvania academy of the fine arts whom he called 'pink-and-white idiots'" ... wikipedia

"he is puck. he is caliban. he is falstaff," ... james gibbons huneker (describing george luks)

"have you ever seen a one-legged man trying to dance his way free? if you've ever seen a one-legged man then you've seen me" ... bruce springsteen

"when you live hard and you play hard and burn the candle at both ends ... in this life, you can lose everything you love, everything that loves you. alot of people told me that i'd never wrestle again, they said 'he's washed up', 'he's finished' , 'he's a loser', 'he's all through'. you know what? the only ones gonna tell me when i'm through doing my thing, is you people here. you people here ... you people here. you're my family" ... randy "the ram" robinson

"in the clearing stands a boxer, and a fighter by his trade and he carries the reminders of every glove that laid him down or cut him 'til he cried out in his anger and his shame 'i am leaving, i am leaving', but the fighter still remains" ... paul simon

"luks was found dead in a doorway by a policeman in the early morning hours of october 29, 1933, following a bar-room brawl" ... wikipedia

"(shod foot!)--it's a dangerous weapon (shod foot!)--toe ammunition (shod foot!)--especially size elevens SHHHHHHHHODDDDDDDDDDD FOOT!" ... al janik

#george luks #the wrestlers #light and shade #pink #volume #wikipedia #museum of fine arts #boston #two nude men #wrestling #pennsylvania academy of fine arts #pink-and-white idiots #puck #caliban #falstaff #james gibbons juneker #bruce springsteen #the wrestler #randy the ram robinson #family #paul simon'theboxer #fighter #a bar-room brawl #shod foot #al things considered

[littlefeather-wolf]

See the leaflet The Penn Wampum Belts by Grank Gouldsmith Speck (1925) in our Digital Library to get a sense of what they surmised after acquiring the belt, along with a detailed explanation of how the belts were constructed. November is Native American Heritage Month. The images here are of wampum belts from the Lenape (Delaware). They are believed to be the original belts presented by the Lenape to William Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania, in the 1680s as part of a land sale or treaty. The top one was acquired from William Penn’s descendants in the 1916 by Thea Heye, the wife of George Gustav Heye—noted collector of Native American artifacts and creator of the Museum of the American Indian (which became a part of the Smithsonian in 1989 and still exists as the George Gustav Heye Center in Manhattan). The wampum belt is still part of the collection of the National Museum of the American Indian, though about a third of Heye’s collections have been repatriated. Whether the stories about the treaty between the Lenape and William Penn are true or not, the narrative surrounding this treaty quickly became an important part of the American mythology. There is even a cultivar of the American Elm called “Penn Treaty”—referring to the large elm in Shackamaxon, PA underneath which that they supposedly agreed to the terms of the treaty. (Grafts of the elm were taken before it was felled by a storm in 1810 and though rare, some Penn Treaty elms exist today.) An obelisk stands where the elm once stood, surrounded by Penn Treaty Park (which is itself the topic of a recent book, The History of Penn Treaty Park). Finally, the treaty is the subject of numerous paintings and other decorative works, including earthenware plates, textiles, and paintings in the National Gallery of Art and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (including a well-known one from Benjamin West).

#native american #littlefeather wolf

[thatsbutterbaby]

Peter Paone - Dreams (VI. ARRANGED JUNGLE), 1970.

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Museum

#Peter Paone #Dreams (VI. ARRANGED JUNGLE)

[mypastnow]

Artist Walter Stuempfig (early 20th Century) from Germantown, Philadelphia, PA. He taught at PAFA, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and spent his time between Philadelphia and Cape May. Stuempfig was a prolific painter whose works number over 1500. His paintings sold steadily; purchasers from his first solo show in New York in 1943 included the Whitney Museum and the Museum of Modern Art. He died fairly young, age 56 in 1970.

#walter stuempfig #art #vintage

[museenkuss]

Thomas Eakins: Naked series. Female with dark mask, poses 7,4,5 (ca.1883). Composite albumen print, 8.73125 x 9.525 cm. photos via Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

"Women who were accustomed to disrobe for a painter prudently hesitated to pose in the same way for the painter's camera. Indeed, a couple of the most haunting early photographs of the unclothed figure are those taken by the painter Thomas Eakins of women in his studio, elegant and enigmatic figures who stand at ease with their faces turned resolutely from us, save for one in a black mask and another in a white blindfold."

Mirabelli, Eugene: "Looking and Not Looking: Pornographic and Nude Photography", in: Grand Street (Autumn, 1985), pp. 197-215.

Thomas Eakins: Naked Series. Brooklyn No. 1, Masked Girl (1881-1884). Albumen silver prints, 8 x 20.7cm

"Finding models willing to pose nude for art classes was a perennial problem for Eakins. At the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Philadelphia art school where he taught and served as director from 1882 to 1886, the artist often recruited his students---both male and female---as models. As Eakins's utter frankness in dealing with unclothed figures raised eyebrows from all quarters, many female models chose to wear black masks to hide their identity. Eventually complaints from students who claimed they had been coerced to pose naked contributed to Eakins's forced resignation from the Academy in 1886."

Text and photos via Philadelphia Museum of Art

#thomas eakins #I would've LOVED to see the blindfold ones but haven't found them so far #musenkuss #Art

[mtaartsdesign]

Saya Woolfalk’s “Urban Garden Rail” (2017) at Pennsylvania Av and Van Siclen Av (3) stations are inspired by the transformation of East New York’s vacant lots into cherished local gardens. Many of the unused locations have been reclaimed by the local gardeners, resulting in thousands of pounds of produce that is consumed by the neighborhood residents. In two layers of painted stainless steel panels, Woolfalk depicts figures within the gardens while integrating background patterns from various cultures, seeking to capture the beauty, pride, and intergenerational collaborations embedded in these spaces.

Woolfalk’s large-scale installation “We Emerge at the Sunset of Your Ideology” is on view at the Pennyslvania Academy of the Fine Arts Museum through October as part of the exhibition “Rising Sun: Artists in an Uncertain America” in collaboration with the @aampmuseum.

Photos: Peter Peirce, MTA A&D/Rob Wilson

#mtaarts #publicart #permanent art #metal