Call For Entry
Reminder….Please join us for our next open juried show at the historic
The Philadelphia Sketch Club
2017 Annual Domenic DiStefano Memorial Works on Paper Exhibition
- January 6th – 28th, 2017
- Enter online HERE
- See Prospectus Works on Paper Prospectus 2017
- Entry Deadline: Sunday Dec 18, 2016 at Midnight
- Notification: Dec 21, 2016
- Delivery: Weds Dec 28, and Friday. Dec. 30, 2016 1-5 PM
- Reception: Sunday Jan 15, 2017 2-4 PM where cash awards and PSC medal will be presented to the winners
- Pickup: Jan 29 and Feb 1, 2017
- Chair : Lauren Sweeney (ljsweeney1@verizon.net)
- Faad Ghoraishi , PSC Exhibition Chair
“The Sketch Club responded to the educational needs of the arts community in the early 1870’s when the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts was awaiting completion of its new building and was without instructional facilities. Under the auspices of the Club, life drawing classes were conducted with Thomas Eakins as instructor. Lectures on anatomy were also delivered. When the Academy opened its new building in 1876, Eakins, an honorary member of the Club, volunteered to take over its life classes, undoubtedly utilizing his teaching experiences gained at the Sketch Club. By 1894 the Sketch Club had 400 active members, including many instructors at the Academy. Thomas P. Anshutz, who succeeded Eakins at the Academy, was President of the Club from 1910 until his untimely death in 1912. When World War I forced the world famous illustrator and etcher Joseph Pennell to leave Europe, he returned to Philadelphia and served as President of the Club in 1921.” – The Philadelphia Sketch Club
Biography Domenic DiStefano
“Domenic B. DiStefano (1924-2011)
Born in Provincetown, Massachusetts, Domenic DiStefano was especially known for his marine and landscape watercolors of Cape Ann, Massachusetts. During most of his career he lived and taught in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania; but he spent his summers painting and conducting workshops in Rockport and Gloucester, Massachusetts.
A Dolphin Fellow of the American Watercolor Society and a member of the Salmagundi Club in New York City, he was also a long-time member and past president of the Philadelphia Sketch Club and a member of the Rockport Art Association and the North Shore Art Association
Information provided by Patricia Morfesis, a family friend.” – AskArt
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