 | Theodore Dwight Woolsey - American literature - 1876 - 524 pages
...original of which is still preserved, providing for the creation of an Art Academy, which was pledged " to promote the cultivation of the Fine Arts in the...works of the first masters in Sculpture and Painting." George Clymer, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, was elected first president of the association... | |
 | Theodore Dwight Woolsey - American literature - 1876 - 508 pages
...original of which is still preserved, providing for the creation of an Art Academy, which was pledged " to promote the cultivation of the Fine Arts in the...works of the first masters in Sculpture and Painting." George Clymer, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, was elected first president of the association... | |
 | Clara Erskine Clement Waters, Laurence Hutton - Artists - 1879 - 532 pages
...city in 1805, and incorporated the following year. Its object, as stated in its constitution, was " to promote the cultivation of the Fine Arts in the...America, by introducing correct and elegant copies of the works of the first masters in sculpture and painting ; by the establishment of a gallery or... | |
 | Almanacs, American - 1885 - 568 pages
...State House, articles of association were signed by seventy citizens, with the object of "promoting" the cultivation of the fine arts in the United States of America. The association was incorporated March 29, 1806, and a supplement to the charter obtained in 1872 provided... | |
 | Pennsylvania Society of New York - Bibliography - 1906 - 244 pages
...objects of the association as stated in the petition for incorporation, dated December 26, 1805, were: "To promote the cultivation of the Fine Arts in the...standards, and also by occasionally conferring moderate but honorable premiums, and otherwise assisting the Studies and exciting the efforts of the Artists gradually... | |
 | Charles Henry Caffin - Painters - 1907 - 420 pages
...in the hands of laymen. Its original object, as set forth in its parchment of incorporation, was: " To promote the cultivation of the Fine Arts in the...facilitating the access to such standards, and also by conferring moderate but honourable premiums, and otherwise assisting studies and exciting the efforts... | |
 | 1908 - 460 pages
...from 18o5, it is the first institution of its kind in this country; and its purpose was to "introduce correct and elegant copies from works of the first masters in sculpture and painting." Even the sanguine temperament uf Peale probably did not foresee that in a hundred years time similar... | |
 | Delphian Society, Chicago - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1913 - 614 pages
...purpose of the Academy is best explained by quoting from the pledge of the association when organized : "To promote the cultivation of the Fine Arts, in the...standards, and also by occasionally conferring moderate but honorable premiums, and otherwise assisting the studies and exciting the efforts of the artists gradually... | |
 | Charles Austin Beard, Mary Ritter Beard - United States - 1927 - 840 pages
...consciousness of the limited conditions of the start, a conviction of the harvest of the future." They proposed "to promote the cultivation of the Fine Arts in the United States of America by introducing current and elegant copies from works of the first masters in Sculpture and Painting and by thus facilitating... | |
 | Robert Luther Duffus - American drama - 1928 - 344 pages
...Columbianum into the Pennsylvania Academy. The purpose, as expressed in the petition for incorporation, was " to promote the cultivation of the Fine Arts in the...Standards, and also by occasionally conferring moderate but honorable premiums, and otherwise assisting the Studies and exciting the efforts of the Artists gradually... | |
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To promote the cultivation of the Fine Arts in the United States of America, by introducing correct and elegant copies from works of the first Masters in Sculpture and Painting... 
