Philadelphia Ten
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The Philadelphia Ten, also known as The Ten was a group of female artists from the United States who exhibited together. The group was active 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.
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[edit] 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 Philadelphia in February of 1917 and it showcased the work of eleven artists - nine trained at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women (now Moore College of Art and Design) and two from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Though the group is relatively unknown today, The Moore College of Art and Design created a retrospective of the Philadelphia Ten in 1998, which traveled to museums throughout the country.
[edit] Original members (painters)
- 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
[edit] Other members
Throughout the history of the Philadelphia Ten, new members joined, and a total of 23 painters and 7 sculptors participated in exhibitions
[edit] Painters
- Maude Drein Bryant
- Fern Isabel Coppedge
- Nancy Maybin Ferguson
- Margaret Ralston Gest
- Sue May Wescott Gill
- Susette Schultz Keast
- Marian T. MacIntosh
- Emma Fordyce MacRae
- Mary Elizabeth Price
- Elizabeth Wentworth Roberts
- Susan Gertrude Schell
- Edith Longstreth Wood
[edit] Sculptors
- Gladys Edgerley Bates
- Cornelia Van Auken Chapin
- Beatrice Fenton
- Harriet Whitney Frishmuth
- Genevieve Karr Hamlin
- Joan Hartley
- Mary Lawser
