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Ladies Art Association (New York, N.Y.)
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Held at: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College [Contact Us]500 College Avenue, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania 19081
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Founded in 1867 and incorporated in 1877, the Ladies Art Association of New York worked to promote the interests of women artists. At first the members met monthly. In 1872 the Association entered the field of education by offering art industrial training to teachers. In 1881 it established an art studio for women. While not a Quaker organization, many of its members and officers were Friends. These included Alice Donlevy, E.C. Fields, Gulielma Fields, Margarita Willets Harrison, and Jane Russell.
Printed and manuscript documents referring to the Association. The correspondence is primarily of Alice Donlevy, arranged chronologically. Her letter of 5/8/1914, gives a history of the organization and her part in it.
The collection is organized into 3 series. The series are:
- Constitution
- Publicity
- Correspondence
For current information on the location of materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Microfilmed in 1985 by the Smithsonian Institution (Archives of American Art, Philadelphia Project).
Available on microfilm in the library: Org-L
Gift of Alice Donlevy, ca. 1945
Organization
Subject
- Adult education of women -- New York (State) -- New York
- Art -- New York (State) -- New York
- Art -- Study and teaching -- New York (State) -- New York
- Women -- New York (State) -- New York -- Societies and clubs
- Women -- Education -- New York (State) -- New York
- Art -- New York (State) -- New York
- Art -- New York (State) -- New York -- Societies, etc
- Women -- New York (State) -- New York -- Societies, etc
- Women artists -- United States
- Quaker women -- Social life and customs
- Quaker artists
- Quaker women -- Education -- New York (State) -- New York
- Publisher
- Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
- Finding Aid Author
- FHL staff
- Finding Aid Date
- 2002
- Sponsor
- Encoding made possible by a grant by the Gladys Kriebel Delmas Foundation to the Philadelphia Consortium of Special Collections Libraries
- Access Restrictions
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Access is through microfilm (FHL Film Org-L)
- Use Restrictions
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Collection Inventory
Including list of members and a petition to the Congress of the State of New York for state aid, all arranged chronologically.
Handwritten correspondence primarily of Alice Donlevy arranged chronologically. Her letter of 5/8/1914, gives a history of the organization and her part in it.