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By Anonymous Hero, Section Museums
Posted on Mon Jun 2nd, 2003 at 08:03:24 PM GMT
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Contact:
Shelley McCaffrey
(215) 972-2031
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 26, 2003
*Digital Images available
WHAT SOUND DOES AN ELK MAKE?
FAMILY EXHIBITION ACADEMY ANIMALIA CREATED BY THE PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS
PHILADELPHIA• A light-hearted exhibition designed for children and families, Academy Animalia, livens walls of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts this summer. On display Jun. 7-Aug. 31, Academy Animalia is a conglomerate of artworks of animals from the Pennsylvania Academy's collections.
The exhibition offers an opportunity for children to indulge a love of animals, and sparks an interest in discovery (bull elk make a high-pitched call sounding like a flute or high bugle). Zany storyteller Vicky Towne also joins the Pennsylvania Academy at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. Thurs., Aug. 7 for a family performance, "Nitwits, Numbskulls and Noodleheads,” to share stories of silly animals and goofy people.
Included in the exhibition are elephants (Edith McMurtie's The Circus, 1920), elk (Horace Pippin's The Elk, 1945), herons (Frank Benson's Great White Herons, 1933), and other exotic creatures to intrigue young viewers.
In addition to animals not seen in the Pennsylvania wilds, Academy Animalia will also include familiar creatures such as cows (George Caleb Bingham's Pastoral, 1832), oxen (Milton Avery's Oxcart - Blue Sea, 1943), a goat (Victor Higgins' The Widower, 1923) and many more animals of every description.
Academy Animalia at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts continues a series of special features highlighting Academy collections, alumni, history and more. These features include the concurrent patriotic exhibition George Washington: Picturing a Legend (through Sept. 17) and the exhibit of Academy collections Times of Change: Artists' Choices 1913-1945 (Jun. 14, 2003-Apr. 4, 2004), culminating in a grand celebration of the Pennsylvania Academy's 200th Anniversary in 2005 with the opening of the Samuel M. V. Hamilton Building. The new building is currently under construction at Broad & Cherry Streets, adjacent to the historic Furness-Hewitt museum.
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Founded in 1805, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts is America's first art museum and school of fine arts. The Academy collects and exhibits the work of distinguished American artists and is renowned for its reputation in training artists from the United States and, increasingly, from across the world. Notable alumni include Thomas Eakins, Mary Cassatt, Cecilia Beaux, Maxfield Parrish, Robert Henri, Charles Sheeler, John Sloan, Arthur B. Carles, John Marin, and David Lynch. Under the leadership of President Derek A. Gillman, the Pennsylvania Academy is closing the gap toward its $35 million goal for its capital campaign, creating a new campus at Broad and Cherry Streets, that will bring both the Academy museum and art school together for the first time in nearly 40 years.
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