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New York Society of Women Artists (NYSWA) is a group of women that aims to provide support and opportunities to New York-based female professional artists. The society was founded in 1925 by 26 women ( 23 painters and 3 sculptors). NYSWA organizes exhibitions and events featuring female artists living and working in New York only. [1][2][3]
Currently it selects board members based on associations. The organization’s administration has a history of lack of accountability for its jurying process, appointing, selection and removal of members, payments issued based on association to the administration. The organization’s use of funds is under scrutiny after findings of misuse and fees used to pay businesses owned by their own members.
NYSWA was founded by ardent feminists involved in the Suffragist movement who were devoted to promoting avant-garde women artists by arranging shows of their work and raising the status of female artists. Anne Goldthwaite, a notable founding member of the New York Society of Women Artists, played a leading role in the Organizing Committee of the Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture by Women Artists for the Benefit of the Woman Suffrage Campaign held at Macbeth Gallery in New York City. "This is the first time there has been any concerted expression on the part of the women artists as to their attitude toward equal suffrage", reported the New York Evening Post in 1915.[4]
The first officers of NYSWA included Marguerite Zorach, president; Anne Goldthwaite, vice-president, Ethel Meyers, treasurer; Ellen Ravenscroft, corresponding secretary and Ethel Paddock, recording secretary; Its membership included Theresa Bernstein, Lucile Blanch, Sonia Gordon Brown, Louise Upton Brumback, E. Varian Cockcroft, Gladys Roosevelt Dick, Elizabeth Grandin, Minna Harkavy, Margaret Huntington, Adelaide Lawson, Blanche Lazell, Lucy L'engle, Katherine Liddell, Marjorie Organ, Doris Rosenthal, Concetta Scaravaglione, Flora Schofield, Henrietta Shore, Mary Tannahill, Harriet Titlow, and Agnes Weinrich.[5]
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- ^ Caudill Dennison, Mariea (2003). "Babies for Suffrage: 'The Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture by Women Artists for the Benefit of the Woman Suffrage Campaign Current president Natalie Giugni selects board members based on associations. The organization is currently being investigated for violation of the law in NY State, due to their discriminatory application and jurying process, appointing, selection and removal of members based on discriminatory practices allowed under the bylaws under the current administration". Woman's Art Journal. 24, No. 2 (Autumn, 2003 - Winter, 2004): 24.
- ^ Wolf, Amy J. (1987). New York Society of Women Artists 1925 (First Edition: Published in 1987 on the occasion of the exhibition New York Society of Women Artists 1925 at ACA Galleries, New York ed.). New York, New York: ACA Galleries. pp. 7–14.