Pen + brush
Pen + Brush is a non-profit organization that supports women in the arts . It was founded in New York in 1894 to promote equal rights for women in the arts. Since 2015 she has been running a gallery for modern art in New York, which is primarily created by women.
history
In 1893 the New York painter and bookbinder Janet C. Lewis and her sister Mary invited a number of women interested in art and literature to form a new group. The purpose of this organization should be mutual improvement, promotion and social interaction with one another. As a name for the group, Lewis suggested The Pen and Brush Club . The first official meeting was held on March 29, 1894 at the Fifth Avenue Hotel . This makes the organization older than any other official women's organization in the United States, as well as most of New York's art institutions, including the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art .
Under the chairmanship of the writer and suffragette Grace Seton , The Pen and Brush , until then a private club, was legally founded in 1912 (Inc.). During the 30-year presidency (from 1913) of the journalist and writer Ida Tarbell , the organization flourished: its members included well-known authors such as Marianne Moore , Margaret Widdemer , Pamela Colman Smith and Pearl S. Buck , and the renowned visual artists Isabel Whitney , Malvina Hoffman , Clara Sipprell and Jessie Tarbox Beals as well as the photographer Jessie Tarbox Beals and two presidential wives, Eleanor Roosevelt and Ellen Wilson .
The association's meetings and exhibitions took place in rented premises until 1923, when The Pen and Brush acquired a 19th-century building on 10th Street in Greenwich Village , not dissimilar to a mansion , with eleven marble fireplaces, a wood-paneled library, and servants' entrance. Forty years later, in 1963, the mortgage on the house was paid off and it was burned in a solemn ceremony. On this occasion, a catalog was created with a list of all previous members, an average of around 400 at the same time.
In 2014, the organization sold its first seat - a decision that many older members disliked - and moved to another building in the Flatiron district , near Madison Square Park , in order to be able to present the works of artists in an appropriate setting on over 500 square meters over two floors . The new domicile is over 100 years old and has been redesigned to keep the industrial structure. It opened on October 8, 2015 with the exhibition Broad Strokes (curated by a man) , in which 15 female artists took part. Since then, the organization has been using the new notation Pen + Brush and is no longer a club with members who had to provide two citizens to be accepted, but functions as a non-profit gallery. The focus is increasingly on women artists without “socio-economic privileges”, for example from poorer countries, apart from the artistic taste of the “elite”. The work of the gallery is feminist and anti-racist, but there will certainly not be a sign on the door stating that all works are inside women, according to the deputy director Dawn Delikat.
In 2018, the first issue of its own literary magazine Pen + Brush In Print was published, which is to appear twice a year in the future. In the same year the gallery showed works by the photographer Lola Flash . In 2019 the organization celebrated its 125th anniversary. The current president is Nette Forné Thomas , artist and former art teacher at Newark Arts High School , and vice president is the African-born author Rashidah Ismaili .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Women Rule at New York's Pen and Brush. In: news.artnet.com. March 5, 2020, accessed on May 9, 2020 .
- ↑ a b c d e Pen + Brush History. In: penandbrush.org. October 23, 2005, accessed May 9, 2020 .
- ^ A b Discover Flatiron: Pen and Brush. In: flatirondistrict.nyc. March 29, 2016, accessed May 9, 2020 .
- ↑ a b Pen + Brush. In: brooklynrail.org. September 6, 2019, accessed May 9, 2020 .