Philadelphia Ten
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who exhibited together from 1917 to 1945. The group exhibited annually in Philadelphia and later had traveling exhibitions at other museums throughout the East Coast and the Midwest.
History
All of the members of the Philadelphia Ten attended art school in Philadelphia. The group’s first show was held at the Art Club of PhiladelphiaArt Club of Philadelphia
The Art Club of Philadelphia, often called the Philadelphia Art Club, was a club in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, founded on February 7, 1887, to advance the arts...
in February 1917 and it showcased the work of 11 artists, nine trained at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women (now Moore College of Art and Design
Moore College of Art and Design
Moore College of Art & Design educates students for careers in the visual arts. Moore is an independent college of art and design. Located in the heart of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Moore is the first and only women's visual arts college in the nation, and one of only two in the world...
) and two from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts is a museum and art school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was founded in 1805 and is the oldest art museum and school in the United States. The academy's museum is internationally known for its collections of 19th and 20th century American paintings,...
. More members later joined; in all, 23 painters and seven sculptors participated in the group's exhibitions.
In 1998, the Moore College of Art and Design created a retrospective of the Philadelphia Ten that traveled to museums throughout the country.
Original group
All of the original members were painters.- Eleanor Abrams
- Katharine Marie Barker
- Theresa BernsteinTheresa BernsteinTheresa Ferber Bernstein was an American artist, painter and writer.Bernstein studied with, among others, Harriet Sartain, Elliott Daingerfield, Henry Snell and Daniel Garber at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women. She graduated in 1911 with an award for general achievement...
- Cora S. Brooks
- Isabel Branson Cartwright
- Constance Cochrane
- Mary-Russell Ferrell (Colton)
- Arrah Lee Gaul
- Lucile Howard
- Helen Kiner McCarthy
- Katharine Hood McCormick
Other painters
- Maude Drein Bryant
- Fern CoppedgeFern CoppedgeFern Isabel Coppedge was an American impressionist painter.Born in Decatur, Illinois, she spent much of her life in Pennsylvania where she was associated with the New Hope School of American Impressionism, the Fellowship of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and the Philadelphia Art Alliance,...
- Nancy Maybin Ferguson
- Margaret Ralston Gest
- Sue May Wescott Gill
- Susette Schultz Keast
- Marian T. MacIntosh
- Emma Fordyce MacRaeEmma Fordyce MacRaeEmma Fordyce MacRae, N.A. was an American representational painter. She was a member of the Philadelphia Ten, a group of women artists who worked and exhibited together...
- Mary Elizabeth PriceMary Elizabeth PriceMary Elizabeth Price was an American impressionist painter, born in Martinsburg, West Virginia.She studied at the Pennsylvania School of Industrial Arts as well as the Pennsylvania Academy under William Lathrop and Hugh Breckinridge...
- Elizabeth Wentworth Roberts
- Susan Gertrude Schell
- Edith Longstreth Wood
Other sculptors
- Gladys Edgerley Bates
- Cornelia Van Auken Chapin
- Beatrice Fenton
- Harriet Whitney FrishmuthHarriet Whitney FrishmuthHarriet Whitney Frishmuth was an American sculptor known for her works in bronze.-Life:...
- Genevieve Karr Hamlin
- Joan HartleyJoan HartleyJoan V. Hartley is an American politician. Hartley, a Democrat, has been a state senator from Connecticut since 2001.Hartley, a resident of Waterbury, represents the western half of the city as well as its southern suburbs of Naugatuck and Prospect in the Connecticut Senate.Hartley was born in...
- Mary Lawser