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Pen and Brush Club (also known as Pen + Brush) is an international organization of professional women, writers and artists. Organized in 1897, the women formed themselves into a club of which the object was to be recreation and the promotion of social dialogue. An occasional afternoon "Shop Talk", for members only, affords opportunity for free helpful discussion of professional matters, and a tea is given on Tuesday of each week, to which members may invite their friends informally, while on the first Sunday of every month from October to May, a reception is held in honor of some guest of literary or artistic note. The original location was at 26 West Twenty-second Street,

New York City New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the List of United States cities by population, most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over , New York City is also the L ...

. The Pen and Brush Club operates as a publicly supported not-for-profit organization.

Notable people

Louise Upton Brumback Louise Upton Brumback (January 17, 1867 – February 22, 1929) was an American artist and art activist known principally for her landscapes and marine scenes. Her paintings won praise from the critics and art collectors of her time. Writing ...

(1867-1929), artist and art activist * Ida Josephine Burgess (1855–1934), artist *

Kate Cory Kate Cory (February 8, 1861 – June 12, 1958) was an American photographer and artist. She studied art in New York, and then worked as commercial artist. She traveled to the southwestern United States in 1905 and lived among the Hopi f ...

(1861-1958), photographer and artist * Lillian Cotton (1892–1962), painter *

Mabel Potter Daggett Mabel Potter Daggett (February 14, 1871 – November 13, 1927) was an American writer, journalist, editor and suffragist. Daggett reported from France during World War I, wrote a biography of Queen Marie of Romania, and was active in the woman's ...

(1871-1927), writer, journalist, editor *

Scottie McKenzie Frasier Scottie McKenzie Frasier (1884-1964) was an American teacher, author, newspaper editor, lecturer, and socialite. She became a Women's suffrage in the United States, suffrage advocate while living in New York City and co-founded the Dothan Equal Suf ...

(1884-1964), author, newspaper editor *

Emma Sheridan Fry Emma Sheridan Fry (, Sheridan; pen name, Polly and E. V. Sheridan; October 1, 1864 – December 1936) was an American actor, playwright, and teacher. She started her career as a stage actress and after retiring from that, she became a writer for ...

(1864-1936), actress, playwright, and teacher * Magdalena Gómez (1953-), playwright, poet * Helen Hamlin (1917-2004) was an American author * Emily Nichols Hatch (1871- 1959), painter * Marion Campbell Hawthorne (1870-1945), painter *

Mabel Hewit Mabel Hewit (1903–1984) was an American woodblock print artist, particularly the white-line style of the Provincetown Printers. Early life and education Mabel Amelia Hewit was born in 1903 in Conneaut, Ohio, and was raised in Youngstown, Ohio, Y ...

(1903–1984), woodblock print artist *

Nell Choate Jones Nell Hinton Choate Jones (1879–1981) was an American artist and educator, who painted scenes of the Southern United States in a highly individualized expressionist style. Her style is characterized by the simplification of forms, rhythmic desig ...

(1879–1981), artist *

Janet Cook Lewis Janet Cook Lewis (June 17, 1855 – January 18, 1947) was an American portrait painter, librarian, and bookbinder who specialized in book conservation and restoration. She was known as the "Doctor of Books". Not only was she an experienced librari ...

(1855-1947), portrait painter, librarian, and bookbinder * Betty Waldo Parish (1910–1986), printmaker and painter *

Alethea Hill Platt Alethea Hill Platt (December 31, 1860 – May 23, 1932) was an American artist and educator. Her paintings of rural landscapes in France, England, the Adirondacks, and New England were displayed in about 200 exhibitions at venues including the Na ...

(1860-1932), artist and educator *

Emily Maria Scott Emily Maria Scott (''née'' Spafard; August 27, 1832 – April 9, 1915) was an American artist. The New York Watercolor Club, and the Pen and Brush Club were formed in her studio. She was also a writer of magazine articles. She served as presid ...

(1832-1915), artist *

Martha Simkins Martha E. Simkins (1866–1969) was an American painter, based in Texas, known for her depictions of interiors with figures, still lifes and portraits. She has been called a late-Impressionist-influenced artist. Biography Simkins was born in 18 ...

(1866–1969), painter * Jeanie Oliver Davidson Smith (1836-1925), poet and romancist *

Ida Tarbell Ida Minerva Tarbell (November 5, 1857January 6, 1944) was an American writer, Investigative journalism, investigative journalist, List of biographers, biographer and lecturer. She was one of the leading muckrakers of the Progressive Era of th ...

(1857-1944), writer, investigative journalist, biographer *

Adele Watson Fanny Adele Watson (1873-1947) was an American painter and lithographer. Watson was born on April 30, 1873 in Toledo, Ohio. In 1880 her family moved to Pasadena, California after the death of her father. She studied at the Art Students League o ...

(1873-1947), painter and lithographer

References

External links

Official website
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