Water Color Club administrative record book
name: label: Creator
content: Water Color Club (Boston, Mass.)
label: Names
content: New England Watercolor Society
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- Massachusetts -- Boston
label: Topic
content: Painting, Modern -- 19th century -- Massachusetts
label: Topic
content: Painting, Modern -- 20th century -- Massachusetts
label: Topic
content: Watercolor painting -- Massachusetts -- Boston
label: Topic
content: Women artists
label: Topic
content: Women painters
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Record book was purchased from Peterborough Used Books and Prints, Peterborough, New Hampshire.
creator: label: Creator
content: Water Color Club (Boston, Mass.)
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Art society. Formed in Boston, 1887, by a group of women artists for the purpose of holding annual exhibitions and sales of their works. Among the leading women artists represented were: Elizabeth Boott Duveneck, Lilian Westcott Hale, Laura Coombs Hills, and Sarah Wyman Whitman. Men were admitted in 1896, including Maurice Prendergast, John LaFarge, Edmund Tarbell, Frank Benson and Charles Woodbury. This volume is the only exisitng record of the Club for that period. The organization continues today as the New England Watercolor Society.
function: label: Function
content: Arts organizations -- Massachusetts
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.2 Linear Feet ((1 v. on partial microfilm reel))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1887-1916
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.watecolo
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reel 4130 available at all Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Administrative record book of the Water Color Club including minutes of meetings, constitution and by-laws, sales records containing artists' names and prices, treasurers' reports, members' lists, an exhibition invitation, and blank season exhibition tickets.