Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art

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The Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art (PMSIA), also referred to as the School of Applied Art, was chartered by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania on February 26, 1876 as both a museum and teaching institution. This was in response to the Centennial International Exhibition held in Philadelphia that year.

Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art] Broad & Pine Sts., Philadelphia. Now Hamilton Hall, University of the Arts.
art classrooms, circa 1891

Classes began in Fall 1877, in a building at 312 North Broad Street,[1] and soon expanded into the old Franklin Institute (now the Philadelphia History Museum), at 15 South 7th Street.[2]

In 1893 PMSIA acquired a complex of buildings at Broad & Pine, vacated by the Pennsylvania Institution for the Deaf and Dumb when they moved to Germantown.

In 1938, the two institutions split: the museum became the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the school became the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art.[3] In 1964, the school became independent of the museum and renamed itself the Philadelphia College of Art. After further name changes the school has become the University of the Arts. University of the Arts has retained the property at 342 S. Broad Street.

Notable people[]

The first president of PMSIA was Coleman Sellers II (1827–1907). The first principal of the school was Leslie W. Miller (1848-1931), who remained there for forty years, 1880 through 1920. Maxfield Parrish taught at the school.

Notable students include Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller,[4] Charles Sheeler, Samuel Yellin, Irving Penn, the Brothers Quay, Henry Clarence Pitz, Jerry Pinkney, Jayson Musson, Paul F. Keene Jr., Harold Knerr, Wharton Esherick, Frederick Meyer, and Julian Abele.

References[]

  1. ^ First and Second Reports of the Board of Trustees of the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art, (Philadelphia, 1878).[1]
  2. ^ Fifth Annual Report of the Board of Trustees of the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art, (Philadelphia, 1881), p. 12.[2]
  3. ^ Sixty-second Annual Report of the Philadelphia Museum of Art for the Year Ended May 31, 1938, with the List of Members, 1938
  4. ^ Meta Warrick Fuller : Sculptures from the Studio. Archived 2014-05-12 at the Wayback Machine Danforth Museum of Art. 11 May 2014.

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Coordinates: 39°56′46″N 75°09′58″W / 39.946°N 75.166°W / 39.946; -75.166


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