Temple Gold Medal
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Joseph E. Temple Fund Gold Medal (defunct) was a prestigious art prize awarded by the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts most years from 1883 to 1968. A Temple Medal recognized the best oil painting by an American artist shown in PAFA's annual exhibition. Recipients included James Whistler, John Singer Sargent, Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins, Robert Henri and Edward Hopper.
Image: Maynard Francis Davis Millet as a War Correspondent 1878
Image: Pearce Peines de Coeur
Image: 'In the Wash house' by Anna Elizabeth Klumpke, 1888
Image: Parton American Art Assn 1892 catalogue p.54
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
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The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) is a museum and private art school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was founded in 1805 and is the first and oldest art museum and art school in the United States.
The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Center City Philadelphia
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts' 1806 building featured in an 1809 engraving
PAFA's 1845 building from a photograph, c. 1870
North River by George Bellows, 1908