American print clubs

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American print clubs In chronological order of foundation.

Year Print club
1866 French Etching Club, NYC
1877 New York Etchers Club, NYC
1880s Boston Etching Club, Boston
1880s Philadelphia Society of Etchers
1880s Cincinnati Etchers Club
1880s Brooklyn Scratchers Club
1881 Society of Painter-Etchers, NYC
1910 Chicago Society of Etchers
1911-12 California Society of Etchers, San Francisco
1914 Printmakers of Los Angeles
1915 Print Club of Philadelphia
1916 Brooklyn Society of Etchers
1917 Painter-Gravers of America
1919 Print Club of Cleveland
1921 Printmakers of Los Angeles becomes Printmakers Society of California
1924 Cincinnati Print and Drawing Club
1928 Northwest Printmakers Society
1930 American Society of Print Collectors, Ohio State University
1930 Print Club of Rochester
1931 Buffalo Print Club
1931 Prairie Printmakers, Wichita, Kansas
1931 Brooklyn Society of Etchers becomes Society of American Etchers
1931 Haden Etching Club
1932 Syracuse {Print Club}
1932 Woodcut Society (Kansas City)
1933 Society of Washington DC Etchers
1933 Print Club of Albany
1933 Honolulu Print Makers
1934 Indiana Society of Print Makers
1934 Washington Etchers
1935 Southern Printmakers Society, Mount Airy, Georgia
1935 Dallas [Print Club]
1937 Lone Star Printmakers
1940 Princeton Print Club
1940-41 Friends of Contemporary Prints
c.1945 Iowa Print Group
1947 Boston Printmakers
1952 Society of American Etchers becomes Society of American Graphic Artists (SAGA)
1955 Bay Printmakers
1962 Los Angeles Printmakers Society
1968 California Society of Etchers and Bay Printmakers merge to form California Society of Printmakers

[edit] References

  • Goddard class syllabus [Goddard, Stephen. History of Art 706, University of Kansas]
  • Kushner, Marilyn S. Genesis of the Twentieth-Century Print Club, pages 82-95, in American Identities: Twentieth-Century Prints from the Nancy Gray Sherrill, Class of 1954, Collection. Wellesley, MA : Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, c2004. 309 pp.
  • Lang, Gladys Engel and Kurt Lang (2001). Etched in Memory: The Building and Survival of Artistic Reputation, Second edition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 437 pp. 
  • Peters, Lisa (July-Aug 1982). "Print Clubs in America". Print Collector's Newsletter 13 (3): 88–91.