New York Society of Women Artists

New York Society of Women Artists (NYSWA) is a group of women that aims to provide support and opportunities to New York-based female professional artists. The society was founded in 1925 by 26 women ( 23 painters and 3 sculptors). NYSWA organizes exhibitions and events featuring female artists living and working in New York only. [1][2][3]

NYSWA was founded by ardent feminists involved in the Suffragist movement who were devoted to promoting avant-garde women artists by arranging shows of their work and raising the status of female artists. Anne Goldthwaite, a notable founding member of the New York Society of Women Artists, played a leading role in the Organizing Committee of the Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture by Women Artists for the Benefit of the Woman Suffrage Campaign held at Macbeth Gallery in New York City. "This is the first time there has been any concerted expression on the part of the women artists as to their attitude toward equal suffrage", reported the New York Evening Post in 1915.[4]

The first officers of NYSWA included Marguerite Zorach, president; Anne Goldthwaite, vice-president, Ethel Meyers, treasurer; Ellen Ravenscroft, corresponding secretary and Ethel Paddock, recording secretary; Its membership included Theresa Bernstein, Lucile Blanch, Sonia Gordon Brown, Louise Upton Brumback, E. Varian Cockcroft, Gladys Roosevelt Dick, Elizabeth Grandin, Minna Harkavy, Margaret Huntington, Adelaide Lawson, Blanche Lazell, Lucy L'engle, Katherine Liddell, Marjorie Organ, Doris Rosenthal, Concetta Scaravaglione, Flora Schofield, Henrietta Shore, Mary Tannahill, Harriet Titlow, and Agnes Weinrich.[5] Former members, Susana Aldanondo.

Exhibitions

Brooklyn Museum Exhibition: Paintings, Sculpture & Prints by the New York Society of Women Artists & the Society of Swedish Women Artists, 1931-1932

• Exhibition at Queens College, New York (2023)
• Women’s History Month at the Steinberg Museum, Long Island, New York (2024)
• Memory Exhibition - Taller Boricua, East Harlem, New York (2021)
• Brooklyn Museum Exhibition of 1931
• The Primacy Of Color III, Carriage Barn Arts Center (June 2017)[1]
• ART & SOUL, Prince Street Gallery (July 2018)[6]
• Between The Lines, Blue Mountain Gallery (July 2019)[7]
• Taller Boricua Gallery Exhibition (March 2021)[8]
• Evolution/Revolution, Taller Boricua Gallery (May 2022)[9]

See also

• Society of Women Artists

References

1. "'Primacy of Color III' Exhibit at Carriage Barn Arts Center".
2. "NY Society of Women". juliehellergallery. Retrieved November 19, 2019.
3. "New York Society of Women Artists Present 'Insight in Sight' at Art League of Long Island". Hamptons Art Hub. September 21, 2018. Retrieved November 19, 2019.
4. Caudill Dennison, Mariea (2003). "Babies for Suffrage: 'The Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture by Women Artists for the Benefit of the Woman Suffrage Campaign". Woman's Art Journal. 24, No. 2 (Autumn, 2003 - Winter, 2004): 24.
5. Wolf, Amy J. (1987). New York Society of Women Artists 1925 (First Edition: Published in 1987 on the occasion of the exhibition New York Society of Women Artists 1925 at ACA Galleries, New York ed.). New York, New York: ACA Galleries. pp. 7–14.
6. "The New York Society of Women Artists: ART & SOUL". Prince Street Gallery. June 17, 2018. Retrieved November 19, 2019.
7. "New York Society of Women Artists". Blue Mountain Gallery. May 13, 2019. Retrieved November 19, 2019.
8. Boricua, Taller (March 2021). "The New York Society of Women Artists: Women on the Edge of Time".
9. Boricua, Taller (May 2022). "Evolution/Revolution: The New York Society of Women Artists".