Charcoal Club records
name: label: Creator
content: Charcoal Club (Baltimore, Md.)
label: Names
content: Glutz, I. L. (Ignatius Loyola)
label: Names
content: Sweeney, W. K.
label: Names
content: Zeigler, Lee Woodward, 1868-1952
topic: label: Topic
content: Modernism (Art)
label: Topic
content: Art, Modern -- Maryland -- Baltimore
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Lent for microfilming 1985 and 1996 by the Maryland Historical Society.
creator: label: Creator
content: Charcoal Club (Baltimore, Md.)
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Art club and school.
label: Biographical / Historical
content: Organized in 1883 by a group of art students and friends of art for the purpose of conducting art classes and for holding exhibitions. The exhibitions varied from weekly one-man shows to the annual juried exhibition of Contemporary American art. From 1910 to 1926, this all-American show was the high point of Baltimore's brief art season. It brought paintings by such "modernists" as John Sloan, George Luks, Frank Benson, Robert Henri, Leon Kroll, and Arthur B. Davies to Baltimore for the first time. The club's membership, which remained strictly male until 1963, was composed of painters, sculptors, writers, architects, musicians, and art patrons. In the early twentieth century the club had two hundred members including such prominent men as Governor Albert C. Richie, Ferdinand C. Latrobe, Robert Garrett, Waldo Newcomer, General Felix Agnus, Edwin F. Abell, S. Teakle Wallis, William T. Walters and his son Henry, Ross R. Winans, Dr. A. R. L. Dohme, and Theodore Marburg.
label: Biographical / Historical
content: Aside from serious art exhibitions, the club was known for its practical jokes, smokers, poker nights, wild parties, and spirited battles with the Baltimore Museum of Art.
function: label: Function
content: Arts organizations -- Maryland
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 6 Reels
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1885-1988
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.charclub2
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Reels
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reels 3414-3416 and 5131-5133 available for use at Archives of American Art offices, through interlibrary loan, and at Maryland Historical Society.
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Originals in: Maryland Historical Society.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Minute books, scrapbooks, membership records, correspondence, a sketchbook, treasurer records, and printed material.
label: Scope and Contents
content: REELS 3414-3416: Six minute books, 1888-1965, containing minutes of Board of Directors, Board of Managers, and annual and special meetings of the Charcoal Club; also enclosed are letters, election ballots, President's, Treasurer's and committee reports, financial statements, exhibition invitations, announcements and catalogs, newsletters, and newspapers. Other records include membership lists; a sketchbook containing 9 animal studies by member W.K. Sweeney; and 6 scrapbooks, containing letters, illustrated invitations and dinner menus, exhibition invitations, announcements and catalogs, newspaper clippings, printed material about the Charcoal Club School of Art and events sponsored by the Club, photographs, and memorabilia about I. (Ignatius) L. Glutz (a fictional character created by the Club.)
label: Scope and Contents
content: REELS 5131-5133: Treasurer's reports, 1968-1988; newspaper clippings, 1933-1988; profiles of Charcoal Club members; correspondence regarding a proposed club history book, 1965-1972; minutes, Jan. 1968-Dec. 1987; minutes/scrapbooks, Jan. 1965-Jan. 1968; catalogs of the Charcoal Club School of Art; legal papers, 1885-1937; exhibition announcements and invitations, ca. 1920's-1980's; correspondence of founding member Lee Woodward Zeigler; membership lists and by-laws, and proposals for the constitution, ca. 1930-1986; correspondence regarding the club, ca. 1930's-1980, including letters from Mayor Theodore McKeldin, Grace Trumbull, and Governor Spiro Agnew; and Ignatius Glutz material.