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Philadelphia Ten
The Philadelphia Ten, also known as The Ten, was a group of American female artists who exhibited together from 1917 to 1945. The group, eventually numbering 30 painters and sculptors, exhibited annually in Philadelphia and later had traveling exhibitions at museums throughout the East Coast of the United States, East Coast and the Midwestern United States, Midwest. Purpose The Philadelphia Ten was formed to help women who wanted to move beyond the role of hobbyists, as they were commonly viewed in the early 20th century, to be accepted as professional artists. For example, one of the objectives of the group was to give women the ability to control how their work was exhibited. They could limit the number of participants in shows and allow each one to exhibit a larger number of pieces than was typically possible in a juried competition. In addition, the group provided a supportive environment for their creativity, with discussion forums, access to models and professional instruct ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philadelphia
Philadelphia, often called Philly, is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the sixth-largest city in the U.S., the second-largest city in both the Northeast megalopolis and Mid-Atlantic regions after New York City. Since 1854, the city has been coextensive with Philadelphia County, the most populous county in Pennsylvania and the urban core of the Delaware Valley, the nation's seventh-largest and one of world's largest metropolitan regions, with 6.245 million residents . The city's population at the 2020 census was 1,603,797, and over 56 million people live within of Philadelphia. Philadelphia was founded in 1682 by William Penn, an English Quaker. The city served as capital of the Pennsylvania Colony during the British colonial era and went on to play a historic and vital role as the central meeting place for the nation's founding fathers whose plans and actions in Philadelphia ultimately inspired the American Revolution and the nation's inde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Modernism
Modernism is both a philosophy, philosophical and arts movement that arose from broad transformations in Western world, Western society during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The movement reflected a desire for the creation of new forms of art, philosophy, and social organization which reflected the newly emerging industrial society, industrial world, including features such as urbanization, architecture, new technologies, and war. Artists attempted to depart from traditional forms of art, which they considered outdated or obsolete. The poet Ezra Pound's 1934 injunction to "Make it New" was the touchstone of the movement's approach. Modernist innovations included abstract art, the stream-of-consciousness novel, montage (filmmaking), montage cinema, atonal and twelve-tone music, divisionist painting and modern architecture. Modernism explicitly rejected the ideology of Realism (arts), realism and made use of the works of the past by the employment of reprise, incorpor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katharine Hood McCormick
Katherine Hood McCormick (1882-1960), was an American painter known for her watercolors and wood block prints. She was an original member of the Philadelphia Ten. Biography McCormick was born in 1882 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She attended the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, studying under Henry McCarter, and Fred Wagner. She continued her training at Drexel Institute in Philadelphia, and then at the School for Social Research in New York City. Throughout her career McCormick exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia and the National Academy of Design in New York. In 1917 she participated in the first exhibition of the Philadelphia Ten at the Art Club of Philadelphia. McCormick was a member of the Philadelphia Ten, the American Color Print Society, and the Provincetown Printers Provincetown Printers was an art colony in Provincetown, Massachusetts during the early 20th-century of artists who created art using woodblock printing techniq ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Kiner McCarthy
Helen Kiner McCarthy (1884–1927), was an American painter. She was an original member of the Philadelphia Ten. Biography McCarthy was born in 1884 in Poland, Ohio. In 1904, she began her studies at the Philadelphia School of Design, studying under Elliott Daingerfield, and Henry B. Snell. She graduated in 1909. After graduation, she shared a Philadelphia studio with Mary-Russell Ferrell Colton for several years and then with Edith Lucile Howard. From 1910 through 1926, McCarthy exhibited her work at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Plastic Club, and the National Association of Women Artists. In 1917, she participated in the first exhibition of the Philadelphia Ten at the Art Club of Philadelphia The Art Club of Philadelphia, often called the Philadelphia Art Club, was a club in Philadelphia, founded on February 7, 1887, to advance the arts. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucile Howard
Edith Lucile Howard (1885–1959) was an American landscape artist. She was born in Bellow Falls, Vermont, and died of cancer in Moorestown, New Jersey, in 1959. Philadelphia Ten Edith Howard was a founder and member of the Philadelphia Ten. The Philadelphia Ten was exclusive to women artist and sculptors, active from 1917 to 1945. A partial list of members includes, Eleanor Abrams, Katharine Marie Barker, Theresa Bernstein, Cora S. Brooks, Isabel Branson Cartwright, Constance Cochrane, Mary-Russell Ferrell Colton, Arrah Lee Gaul, Lucile Howard, Helen Kiner McCarthy, Katharine Hood McCormick, Maude Drein Bryant, Fern Coppedge, Nancy Maybin Ferguson, Margaret Ralston Gest, Sue May Gill, Susette Schultz Keast, Marian T. MacIntosh, Emma Fordyce MacRae, Mary Elizabeth Price, Elizabeth Wentworth Roberts, Susan Gertrude Schell, Edith Longstreth Wood, Gladys Edgerly Bates, Cornelia Van Auken Chapin, Beatrice Fenton, Harriet Whitney Frishmuth, Genevieve Karr Hamlin, Jo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arrah Lee Gaul
Arrah Lee Gaul (1888-1980), was an American painter. She was the first woman to have a solo exhibition at the Philadelphia Art Club. Gaul was the official artist of the Philadelphia Sesqui-Centennial and an original member of the Philadelphia Ten. Biography Gaul was born in 1888 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She attended the Philadelphia School of Design, studying under Elliott Daingerfield, and Henry B. Snell. Gaul pursued additional studies at the University of Pennsylvania before returning in 1921 to teach at the Philadelphia School of Design and she eventually became the head of the art department there. In 1917 she participated in the inaugural exhibition of the Philadelphia Ten. She also exhibited nationally at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the National Academy of Design in New York. She was the first woman to have a solo exhibition at the Philadelphia Art Club. Internationally, she exhibited at Beaux Arts Gallery in London ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary-Russell Ferrell Colton
Mary-Russell Ferrell Colton (March 25, 1889 – July 26, 1971) was an American artist, author, educator, ethnographer, and curator. She is one of the principal founders of the Museum of Northern Arizona. She was a member of the Philadelphia Ten, exhibiting at the group's annual shows from 1926 to 1940. She was also a member of the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors, the American Watercolor Society, and the American Federation of Arts. She is known for her advocacy of the arts, Native American rights, and women's rights. For her advocacy of Native American arts, she received a certificate of appreciation from the United States Department of the Interior, Indian Arts and Crafts Board in 1935. In 1982, she was inducted into the Arizona Women's Hall of Fame. Personal background Mary-Russell Ferrell was born on March 25, 1889, in Louisville, Kentucky. She is the daughter of Joseph and Elise (née Houston) Ferrell. Her father was known as one of the first Ang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Constance Cochrane
Constance Cochrane (1888-1962), was an American painter. She was an original member of the Philadelphia Ten. Biography Cochrane was born in 1888 at the United States Navy Yard in Pensacola, Florida. She attended the Philadelphia School of Design, studying under Elliott Daingerfield, and Henry B. Snell. After completing her studies Brooks set up a studio in Philadelphia. Between 1921 and 1927 Cochrane lectured at the Philadelphia School of Design. She was an original member of the ''Philadelphia Ten''. She was also a member of the Philadelphia Art Alliance and the National Association of Women Artists. Coming from a naval family, Brooks was known for her seascapes. In 1921 she began visiting Monhegan, Maine Monhegan () is an island in the Gulf of Maine located in Lincoln County, Maine, United States. A plantation, a minor civil division in the state of Maine falling between unincorporated area and a town, it is located about off the mainland. Th ..., eventually building ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isabel Branson Cartwright
Isabel Parke Branson Cartwright (September 4, 1885 – June 7, 1966) was an American artist born in Coatesville, Pennsylvania. Cartwright attended the Philadelphia School of Design for Women. In 1906, she won the 'Alumnae Award', a European fellowship allowing her to go abroad for a year. This enabled her to study with Frank Brangwyn, a figure painter in London, for a year, and to travel to Holland, France, and Italy. Other teachers included Elliott Daingerfield and Henry B. Snell. In November 1910, she married John Reagan Cartwright in El Paso, Texas. They moved to Terrell, Texas until her husband's death in 1917. She went on to have one-woman art shows in San Antonio and Fort Worth, Texas. After her Texas period, Isabel Cartwright returned to Philadelphia where she joined the Philadelphia Ten. Considered one of the mainstays of the group, she exhibited in all sixty-five shows that it held, over a twenty-eight year span from 1917 to 1945. Cartwright had a house in the 1940s on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cora S
Cora may refer to: Science * ''Cora'' (fungus), a genus of lichens * ''Cora'' (damselfly), a genus of damselflies * CorA metal ion transporter, a Mg2+ influx system People * Cora (name), a given name and surname * Cora E. (born 1968), German hip-hop artist * Sexy Cora or Carolin Ebert (1987–2011), German actress, model, singer Places United States * Cora, Illinois * Cora, Kansas * Cora, Missouri * Cora, West Virginia * Cora, Washington * Cora, Wyoming Other places * Cora (Ancient Latin town), an ancient town in Latium (Italy) * Cori, Lazio, Italy Other uses * 504 Cora, a metallic asteroid from the middle region of the asteroid belt * Cora (hypermarket), a retail group of hypermarkets in Europe * Cora (instrument), an alternative spelling of the West African musical instrument Kora * ''Cora'' (opera), a 1791 opera by Étienne Méhul, libretto by Valadier * Cora (restaurant), a Canadian chain of casual restaurants * Cora (rocket), a French rocket * ''Cora'' (1812 ship), a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theresa Bernstein
Theresa Ferber Bernstein-Meyerowitz (March 1, 1890 – February 13, 2002) was an American artist and writer born in Kraków, in what is now Poland, and raised in Philadelphia. She received her art training in Philadelphia and New York City. Over the course of nearly a century, she produced hundreds of paintings and other artwork, plus several books and journals. Bernstein and her husband William Meyerowitz, who was also an artist, lived and worked in Manhattan and Gloucester, Massachusetts. She painted portraits and scenes of daily life, plus reflections of the major issues of her time, in a modern style that evolved from realism to expressionism. She was active in several art associations and promoted her husband's work as well as her own. Her artworks are found in dozens of museums and private collections in the United States and abroad. She remained active all her life and was honored with a solo exhibition of 110 art works to celebrate her 110th birthday. Bernstein also aut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katharine Marie Barker
Katherine Barker Fussell née Barker (1891 - 1984), was an American painter. She was an original member of the Philadelphia Ten. Biography Barker was born in 1891 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She attended the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, studying under Philip Leslie Hale, Thomas Anshutz, Emil Carlsen, Robert Vonnoh, and Cecilia Beaux Eliza Cecilia Beaux (May 1, 1855 – September 17, 1942) was an American society portraitist, whose subjects included First Lady Edith Roosevelt, Admiral Sir David Beatty and Georges Clemenceau. Trained in Philadelphia, she went on to study in .... In 1917 Barker was included in the Philadelphia Ten's inaugural exhibition. In 1922 Barker married Howard Fussell with whom she had three children. After her children began school she resumed painting, specializing in still lifes, landscapes, and portraits. Barker died in 1984. References 1891 births 1984 deaths 20th-century American women artists Artists from Pennsylvania Pennsy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
