Philadelphia Ten
The Philadelphia Ten, also known as The Ten, was a group of female artists from the United States 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 Philadelphia 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) and two from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. 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.
Members
Original group
All of the original members were 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
Other painters
- Maude Drein Bryant
- Fern Coppedge
- Nancy Maybin Ferguson
- Margaret Ralston Gest
- Sue May Gill
- Susette Schultz Keast
- Marian T. MacIntosh
- Emma Fordyce MacRae
- Mary Elizabeth Price
- Elizabeth Wentworth Roberts
- Susan Gertrude Schell
- Edith Longstreth Wood
Other sculptors
- Gladys Edgerley Bates
- Cornelia Van Auken Chapin
- Beatrice Fenton
- Harriet Whitney Frishmuth
- Genevieve Karr Hamlin
- Joan Hartley
- Mary Lawser