Ten American Painters

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The Ten American Painters, generally known as The Ten, resigned from the Society of American Artists in late 1897 or early 1898 to protest the large size and commercialism of that group's exhibitions.

The Ten were Childe Hassam, J. Alden Weir, John Henry Twachtman, Robert Reid, Willard Metcalf, Frank Weston Benson, Edmund Charles Tarbell, Thomas Wilmer Dewing, Joseph DeCamp, and Edward Simmons. When Twachtman died in 1902, William Merritt Chase joined in his place. Abbott Handerson Thayer and Winslow Homer were asked to join the group when it was formed; however, they refused.

All of The Ten were active in either New York City or Boston. All were influenced by Impressionism.