Chicago Society of Etchers

Chicago Society of Etchers was founded in January 1910, the first organization of etchers in the country. There were 20 members to start and by 1930 there were 150 members. Membership extended outside of the United States, including artists from England, France, Italy, Germany, Sweden, India, China and Japan.[1]

Bertha Jaques (seated) on a jury for the Chicago Society of Etchers, 1919; photograph from the archives of the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art

History

In 1909, to popularize the medium of etching, Bertha Jaques and other etchers in Chicago formed the Needle Club, an informal collective of etchers passionate about reintroducing the American public to the art of etching.[2] In 1910 it became the Chicago Society of Etchers. The organization was primarily responsible for showing members’ etchings at the Art Institute of Chicago. It attracted international members and was successful at popularizing etching in 20th-century America.[3] Society members pooled funds for annual prizes for new prints, to be gifted to the Art Institute, and tithed ten percent of their dues to the museum for new print acquisitions. The group disbanded in 1956.[4]

Members

See also

References
  1. "An Exhibition of Etchings" (PDF). The Art Institute of Chicago. 1930. p. 4. Retrieved 17 January 2014.
  2. Joby Patterson, Bertha E. Jaques and the Chicago Society of Etchers, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2002, p. 15
  3. Joby Patterson, Bertha E. Jaques and the Chicago Society of Etchers, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2002 p. 121
  4. Engelbrecht, Theresa Moir. "Inter-Collected: The Shared History of the Print Club and Museum Collection," Art in Print Vol. 7 No. 2 (July-August 2017).
  5. "Miss Norah Hamilton". Illinois Women Artists Project. Archived from the original on 8 February 2018. Retrieved 5 January 2018.

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