Woman's Art Club of New York
The Woman's Art Club of New York was an organization designed to promote and market works of art by women. He organized annual art exhibitions, giving women artists the chance to make a name for themselves in the male-dominated art scene. The club was founded in New York in 1890 and existed under that name until 1913, when it was renamed the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors . Its current successor organization is the National Association of Women Artists .
history
The Woman's Art Club of New York was founded in 1890 by Anita C. Ashley , Adele Frances Bedell , Elizabeth S. Cheever , Grace Fitz-Randolph and Edith Mitchel Prellwitz . Similar associations that already existed in other places, such as Paris, served as a model. The club had its office in Manhattan . His goal was to create a space for women in which they could have their works of art examined by women without being exposed to the sexism of the art world, in which works of art were mostly valued by male artists. Unlike art schools for women, the Woman's Art Club of New York was not about imparting knowledge and techniques, but about public relations and networking.
The Woman's Art Club of New York held an exhibition each year, mostly of the artwork of its members. Artists could submit their works, which were then selected by a jury. In 1890 the first exhibition took place at the Berkeley Athletic Club . In its third exhibition in 1892, almost 300 works of art were exhibited, including paintings , drawings and etchings .
Artists from the USA as well as from other countries could become members; among others the club had members from the Netherlands and France. For example, Mary Cassatt , who lived in Paris, exhibited her etchings of mothers and children influenced by Japanese art at the third exhibition of the Woman's Art Club of New York. Even Suzanne Valadon , Rosa Bonheur and Cecilia Beaux participated in exhibitions of the club.
Members included painters Ruth Payne Burgess , Emma Lampert Cooper , Jenny Eakin Delony , Claude Raguet Hirst , Dora Wheeler Keith , Rhoda Holmes Nicholls , Clara Weaver Parrish , Amanda Brewster Sewell , Louise Cox and M. Jean McLane, and the sculptors Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney and Anna Hyatt Huntington .
Works of art by well-known members
Self-portrait by Amanda Brewster Sewell (1904)
Self-portrait by Rhoda Carleton Holmes Nicholls
Portrait of a Young Woman by Ruth Payne Burgess (1915)
May Flowers by Louise Cox (1911)
Tea Time by Jean McLane (1905)
Arkansas Made by Jenny Eakin Delony (1896–1900)
Isolde by Clara Weaver Parrish
The Bookworm's Table by Claude Raguet Hirst ( ca.1890 )
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Web links
- History of the successor organization National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors
- Exhibition review with descriptions of numerous pictures in the New York Times on February 26, 1892
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d http://www.thenawa.org/nawa-history/
- ↑ a b c d e f The Woman's Art Club . In: The New York Times , February 26, 1892. Retrieved August 4, 2016.
- ^ Club Women of New York. Mail and Express Company, 1906, p. 127.
- ↑ Biographies of the founding members of the Rochester Art Club ( Memento of the original from September 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed August 4, 2016.
- ^ Who's Who in Illinois . Roosevelt & Larkin, Chicago 1947, p. 390.
- ^ Christine Crafts Neal: Claude Raguet Hirst. Her (Still) Life Story . In: Woman's Art Journal . 23, No. 1, 2002, pp. 11-16. doi : 10.2307 / 1358962 .
- ^ The Fine Arts. The Woman's Art Club. In: The Critic, Vol. 24, 1894, p. 137.
- ^ Adam Bunge: Arts & Decoration. Vol. 1, 1911, p. 302.
