Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Posted by: unimoggers
N 39° 57.310 W 075° 09.784
18S E 486071 N 4422793
A beautiful building. I hope the next person takes better photographs.
Waymark Code: WM1EAH
Location: Pennsylvania, United States
Date Posted: 04/18/2007
Views: 51
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America's oldest art museum and school, founded 1805 by Peale, Rush, and other artists. Trained here were Thomas Eakins, Mary Cassatt, Maxfield Parrish, John Marin, Charles Demuth and others. Furness and Hewitt designed the Neo-Gothic building, 1876.
Wikipedia ahs a nice page on the Academy. Find it at (
visit link)