Celebrating 160 years & beyond! - Moore College of Art and Design
Celebrating 160 years & beyond! - Moore College of Art and Design
Celebrating 160 years & beyond! - Moore College of Art and Design
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Fall 2008<br />
<strong>Moore</strong><br />
First<br />
1848,first art school<br />
to emphasize commercial<br />
design in its<br />
curriculum.<br />
Changing Lives<br />
At age 16, Charlotte Harding, the<br />
daughter <strong>of</strong> an invalid mother <strong>and</strong> a<br />
skilled iron molder, enrolled in the School<br />
in 1889. Harding became one <strong>of</strong> several<br />
celebrated illustrators whose work appeared<br />
in Harper’s, Ladies’ Home Journal <strong>and</strong> Colliers.<br />
Anna Russell, the daughter <strong>of</strong> a Pullman<br />
porter, arrived at the School on a city<br />
scholarship <strong>and</strong> graduated as the School’s<br />
first African-American student in 1925.<br />
Russell had a successful career in several<br />
fields including rug, wallpaper <strong>and</strong><br />
graphic design. Pulitzer-Prize winning<br />
photographer, Sharon Wohlmuth, class<br />
<strong>of</strong> 1975, credits <strong>Moore</strong> <strong>and</strong> its faculty<br />
with her success.<br />
The School <strong>and</strong> faculty have had immeasurable<br />
impact on the lives <strong>of</strong> Harding,<br />
Russell, Wohlmuth <strong>and</strong> all its graduates.<br />
By 1919 the <strong>College</strong> catalog boasted <strong>of</strong><br />
having graduated, “more than 11,000<br />
women trained in the fine <strong>and</strong> applied<br />
arts.” This number has reached nearly<br />
50,000 today, <strong>and</strong> each graduate has in<br />
turn made her mark on the world.<br />
<strong>Moore</strong> got its name in 1932,when<br />
Joseph <strong>Moore</strong> Jr.,wanting to honor<br />
his parents’ memory by funding a<br />
“practical women’s school,” left a<br />
$3 million bequest.The endowment<br />
created <strong>Moore</strong> Institute <strong>of</strong><strong>Art</strong>,<br />
Science <strong>and</strong> Industry when it<br />
merged with the Philadelphia<br />
School <strong>of</strong> <strong>Design</strong> forWomen.<br />
Subsequently the name was<br />
changed to <strong>Moore</strong> <strong>College</strong> <strong>of</strong><strong>Art</strong><br />
in 1963 <strong>and</strong> then to <strong>Moore</strong><br />
<strong>College</strong> <strong>of</strong><strong>Art</strong> & <strong>Design</strong> in 1988.<br />
Anna Russell, c. 1930.<br />
Top, students painting inWilson Hall, 2007. Above, drawing class, c. 1918.<br />
For more images <strong>of</strong> <strong>Moore</strong>'s history visit www.moore.edu.<br />
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