| Book Reviews | The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 131.2

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Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts: 200 Years of Excellence. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. 312 pp. Illustrations, notes, time line. Cloth, $80; paper, $60.)

The basic historical facts regarding the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts are familiar to most culturally aware Philadelphians: its status as the first art school and oldest museum building in the United States (and thus the first to turn two hundred); its renown as the home of famous students and teachers such as the Peales, Sully, Eakins, Henri, and Goodman; its acclaim for acquiring and exhibiting premier examples of American art; and its strong presence on North Broad Street in the extraordinary Landmark Building designed by Frank Furness and George W. Hewitt at the time of the centennial. In recent years their acquisition of the stunning Parish/Tiffany favrile glass mural Dream Garden, housed in the Curtis Building, and their expansion across the street into the Samuel V. Hamilton Building have been well-documented.

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