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Title: Annual report of the Philadelphia Museum of Art
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Philadelphia Museum of Art Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art. Annual report Pennsylvania Museum of Art. Annual report
Subjects: Philadelphia Museum of Art Art
Publisher: Philadelphia : Philadelphia Museum of Art
Contributing Library: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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and other objects for the Art School which it would not bedifficult to provide, and from the want of which we continually suffer,the School is deprived of simply and solely for want of room. The following changes and additions have been made in the teach-ing force : Mr. Charles E. Dana has for more than a year given regular instruc-tion in Water Color Painting, and too much cannot be said in praisenot only of this instruction itself, which has attracted a considerableclass of special students in addition to those in regular attendance, butof the beneficial results to the School of Mr. Danas untiring servicein its interest of which this work in teaching is only one of many mani-festations. In the untimely death of Mr. Edmund A. Stewardson, Professorof Sculpture, the School has suffered a loss to which it is hard for usto be reconciled. He had not only inspired all who came in contactwith him with that confidence in his professional ability which gave 0 7; 1 m 3J C is;s o zX < X <
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13 authority to his slightest word of advice or criticism, but he had en-deared himself to us all by qualities of mind and heart that were rareindeed. His place in the School has been taken by Mr. Henry Plasschaert,a native of Belgium, and an artist of much ability as well as of un-doubted gifts as a teacher. His training and experience have beensuch as to give to the work of the School still more of an industrialcharacter than has been the case hitherto by emphasizing in a some-what stricter sense the decorative aim which underlies the studies pur-sued. Through the co-operation of the Philadelphia Association of Mas-ter Painters and Decorators, which has appointed a permanent advi-sory committee to assist us, an Evening School of Decorative Paintingwas established on the ist of October. Mr. Nicola DAscenzo, a decorator of much ability and who hadbeen educated in our own School, was appointed instructor, and roomwas found for the new class to begin its work in the building on But-tonw

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