 | Theodore Dwight Woolsey - 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 - 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 - 1879 - 530 pages
...that city in 1805, and incorporated the following year. Its object, as stated in its constitution, was " to promote the cultivation of the Fine Arts...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Herbert Baxter Adams - 1901 - 118 pages
...Declaration of Independence was signed. The educational objects of the academy were thus defined: " To promote the cultivation of the fine arts in the...facilitating the access to such standards, and also by occasionally conferring moderate but honourable premiums, and otherwise assisting the studies and exciting... | |
 | Pennsylvania Society of New York - 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...facilitating the access to such standards, and also by occasionally conferring moderate but honorable premiums, and otherwise assisting the Studies and exciting... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Helen Weston Henderson - 1911 - 542 pages
...cementing strength. The pledge of the association as quaintly expressed in the language of the day was : — " To promote the cultivation of the Fine...facilitating the access to such standards, and also by occasionally conferring moderate but honourable premiums, and otherwise assisting the studies and exciting... | |
 | Delphian Society, Chicago - 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...facilitating the access to such standards, and also by occasionally conferring moderate but honorable premiums, and otherwise assisting the studies and exciting... | |
 | Pedro Joseph Lemos - 1924 - 680 pages
...Arts. The object of the association, quaintly and vigorously expressed in the language of the day, was: "To promote the cultivation of the Fine Arts,...Facilitating the access to such Standards, and also by occasionally conferring moderate but honourable premiums, and otherwise assisting the Studies and exciting... | |
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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, and by thus Facilitating the access to such Standards, and also by occasionally... 
