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Concert at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, (painting). Artist:  Stephens, Alice Barber, 1858-1932, painter. Title:  Concert at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, (painting). Other Titles:  Germania Orchestra at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, (painting). Dates:  1891. Digital Reference:  Medium:  Oil on academy board, en grisaille. Dimensions:  18 3/4 x 24 3/4 in. Inscription:  (Lower left:) Alice Barber Stephens/'91 signed Description:  Interior scene of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, looking from the second floor gallery across to an orchestra playing on the opposite side of the center atrium. In the foreground, there are figures seated in the audience and standing in the aisle. In the background, framed by the Academy's Islamic-style arches, are audience members seated facing the orchestra, and below them, others are seated on the stairs leading to the second floor area where the orchestra plays. Subject:  Architecture interior -- Art Building -- Museum Architecture interior -- Art Building -- Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Performing Arts -- Music -- Orchestra Performing Arts -- Theater Figure group Literature -- Harper's Weekly Object Type:  Illustration Painting Owner:  Sewell C. Biggs Museum of American Art, P. O. Box 711, 406 Federal Street, Dover, Delaware 19903 Remarks:  Illustration for "A Quaker City Institution" published in Harper's Weekly 35, no. 1787 (Mar. 21, 1891), pg. 208, with the caption: "Thursday Afternoon with the Germania Orchestra at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts." References:  "The Sewell C. Biggs collection of American Art: a catalogue [volume 2, paintings and sculpture]," Dover, De.: Biggs Museum of American Art, 2001, no. 321. Naeve, Milo M., "150 Years of Philadelphia Painters and Paintings, Selections from the Sewell C. Biggs Museum of American Art," Philadelphia: The Library Company of Philadelphia, 1999. Naeve, Milo M., 2007. Illustration:  Image on file. "The Sewell C. Biggs collection of American Art: a catalogue [volume 2, paintings and sculpture]," Dover, De.: Biggs Museum of American Art, 2001, pg. 379. Naeve, Milo M., "150 Years of Philadelphia Painters and Paintings, Selections from the Sewell C. Biggs Museum of American Art," Philadelphia: The Library Company of Philadelphia, 1999, pg. 35. Note:  The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide. Repository:  Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 Control Number:  IAP 67400013   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Paintings 67400013 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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