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The National Arts Club at 15 Gramercy Park South New York Ny

Literary/artistic club in New York Metropolis

Coordinates: forty°44′xvi″N 73°59′12″W  /  40.737828°Northward 73.986617°W  / xl.737828; -73.986617

The National Arts Club is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit and members club on Gramercy Park, Manhattan, New York City. It was founded in 1898 past Charles DeKay, an fine art and literary critic of the New York Times to "stimulate, foster, and promote public interest in the arts and to educate the American people in the fine arts". The National Arts Club has several art galleries, and hosts a multifariousness of public programs in all creative areas including theater, literature and music. Although the club is private, many of its events are costless and open to the public.[1]

Since 1906 the organization has occupied the Samuel J. Tilden House, a landmarked Victorian Gothic Revival[2] brownstone at 15 Gramercy Park, side by side door to The Players, a lodge with similar interests. The National Arts Club allows members access to a Gramercy Park central. The Tilden House was designated a New York City landmark in 1966,[iii] and alleged a National Historic Landmark in 1976.[4] [5] [6] It is located in the Gramercy Park Historic District.

History [edit]

Placard on the outside of the building.

A group of friends, all of them involved in architecture, fine art, or civic affairs, discussed the possibility of a new kind of lodge that would comprehend all the arts. The establishment of the Club came at a fourth dimension when American artists were increasingly turning to their own nation rather than exclusively to Europe as a center of work and creativity. Significantly, the club would offering full membership for women at the onset, reflecting their accomplishment in the arts.

The westward parlor of The National Arts Club.

While the group was working out an organizational plan, Charles DeKay, the literary and art critic of the New York Times for 18 years, returned from a diplomatic post abroad. An inspired organizer and entrepreneur, he sent messages to men and women of importance in the New York area likewise equally in metropolitan areas across the country. The response was and so enthusiastic that the club was able to apply to Albany for its charter in 1898. With the application went a list of the officers, Board of Trustees, and members totaling more 1200.

The list included such collectors as Henry Frick, William T. Evans, Benjamin Altman, Jules Bache and Henry Walters. Though not a charter member, J. Pierpont Morgan joined the Club early in its development and later was made an Honorary Vice President. Among the artists of the period, earlier charter members, or those joined in the early on days of the club were Frederic Remington, William Merritt Chase, Robert Henri, and George Bellows.

The club'south first home was a brownstone on Due west 34th Street. Commerce, meanwhile, was moving up from downtown, and the neighborhood of brownstones was irresolute. Spencer Trask, its treasurer, was asked to find the club a new home. He found that 14 and 15 Gramercy Park Southward, the erstwhile habitation of Samuel Tilden, was on the market. Legend has it that he was and so afraid that some other buyer would too find information technology that he put down some money of his own to bind the deal. In 1906, the club acquired the Samuel J. Tilden Business firm.

During the 2006 restoration of the Tilden mansion'southward stoop, the Brazilian New York City artist Sergio Rossetti Morosini has now sculpted a bust of Michelangelo above the front door on the building'south façade.[7]

In 2018, Ben Hartley, an arts ambassador, was appointed executive director of the order.[viii]

Harry Willson Watrous (1857-1940). Some Little Talk of Me and Thee At that place Was. 1905–9. Oil on canvas.

Members [edit]

The National Arts Club is one of the few individual clubs that has admitted women as full and equal members since its inception.

Amongst the distinguished painters who accept been members are Robert Henri, Leon Dabo, Edward Charles Volkert, Frederic Remington, William Merritt Chase, Richard C. Pionk, Chen Chi, Larry Rivers, Louise Upton Brumback, Cecilia Beaux, Will Barnet, Everett Raymond Kinstler, and Michael Cheval. Sculptors have been represented by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Daniel Chester French, Anna Hyatt Huntington and Paul Manship. Many renowned literary figures, including Robert William Service in 1910, W. H. Auden, Mark Twain and Frank McCourt have been members. The National Arts Club is proud of its early on recognition of new media art forms, similar photography, picture and digital media, and counts Alfred Stieglitz as one of its early members. Musicians Victor Herbert and Walter Damrosch were members, as were architects Stanford White, George B. Postal service, and Downing Vaux. George B. Mail service served as the first President of the National Arts Club.

The membership of the National Arts Gild has included three Presidents of the United States: Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson and Dwight Eisenhower along with Senator William A. Clark.[ix]

Permanent Drove [edit]

Equally of 2019, the club holds a permanent collection of 660 works of fine art including paintings, sculptures, and other works on paper. Artists represented in the collection include Daniel Putnam Brinley, Charles Courtney Curran, Daniel Garber, Philip Leslie Hale, Gari Melchers, William McGregor Paxton, Robert Spencer, Harry Willson Watrous, Robert Vonnoh, Everett Longley Warner, Robert Henri, Homer Boss, F. Luis Mora, Eugene Speicher, Jerry Farnsworth, Lamarr Dodd, Birge Harrison, Paul Cornoyer, Malvina Hoffman, Anna Hyatt Huntington, Lee Lawrie, Paul Manship, Victor Brenner, Will Barnet, Chen Chi, Peter Cox, Gary Erbe, Diana Kan, Everett Raymond Kinstler, Greg Wyatt, Carlos Quintana, Kendall Shaw, and Lois Dodd.

In keeping with its goal of supporting research in American art, the club oft loans works from the collection to scholarly exhibitions presented by institutions and galleries such as the Florence Griswold Museum; the Thomas Walsh Gallery, Fairfield University; the Trout Gallery, Dickinson College; the Society of Illustrators, New York; and Berry-Colina Galleries, New York.[10]

In 2019, the order partnered with the Google Cultural Institute to make many pieces from the drove available online.

Medal of Honor [edit]

Since the early 1900s, the society has awarded its prestigious Medal of Honor to exemplary leaders in their corresponding creative fields. Recipients of the accolade include WH Auden, Anthony Burgess, Eudora Welty, Tennessee Williams, Norman Mailer, Saul Bellow, Allen Ginsberg, John Updike, Marguerite Yourcenar, Iris Murdoch, Philip Roth, Salman Rushdie, Arthur Miller, Margaret Atwood, Toni Morrison, Nadine Gordimer, Tom Wolfe, Chinua Achebe, Don DeLillo, Joyce Carol Oates, Martin Amis, Salman Rushdie, John Ashbery, Leonard Bernstein, Alice Tully, Avery Fisher, Amyas Ames and the New York Philharmonic, Frederica von Stade, Benny Goodman, Isaac Stern, James Levine, Plácido Domingo, Itzhak Perlman, Paddy Moloney, Byron Janis, Ilse Bing, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, John Szarkowski, Inge Morath, George Kalinsky, R. Buckminster Fuller, I.M. Pei, Daniel Libeskind, Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill, Robert A. Stern, Eleanor Roosevelt, Salvador Dalí, Chen Chi, Louise Nevelson, Stewart Klonis and The Art Students League, Louise Bourgeois, Robert Rauschenberg, Will Barnet, Christo, Roy Lichtenstein, Dale Chihuly, Chuck Close, James Turrell, James Moody, Ed Ruscha, Spike Lee, Whoopi Goldberg, Richard Dreyfuss, John Turturro, Lynn Redgrave, Olympia Dukakis, Ang Lee, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Claire Bloom, Ellen Burstyn, Patricia Field, Jack O'Brien, Paul Auster, William Ivey Long, Dr. Neil DeGrasse Tyson, and Anna Sui.[eleven]

Exhibitions [edit]

The club hosts a rotating series of public art exhibitions in its galleries.[12] Works by Pablo Picasso, Joan Míro, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, Lissa Rivera, Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, and many other renowned artists have been featured in the space.

Voices of Soho Participating Artists at The National Arts Lodge

In December 2020, the Club presented Voices of the Soho Renaissance, the first exhibition of artwork born out of the calls for social justice which transformed New York City's Soho neighborhood, following the murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor.[13] The testify was followed by What Happened This Summer: ART2HEART, a second exhibition exploring the topic.[14]

Societies within the club [edit]

Several smaller groups have existed within the National Arts Gild:[15]

  • The Discus, a curt-lived eating and debating guild.
  • The Vagabonds, a lunch group of writers, editors, printers, and illustrators. They met on Mondays in the grillroom of the Club. Members included Leon Dabo, Walter Alden Dyer, Henry James Forman, Alexander Harvey, Forbes Lindsay, Mathias Sandor, Harry Peyton Steger, Ryan Walker, Edward Jewitt Wheeler,[sixteen] Theodore Dreiser, Benjamin De Casseres, Marius de Zayas,[17] and Andrew Carnegie, who "humorously deplored the fact that he was not a vagabond".[18] In 1907, Harvey founded their magazine or pamphlet The Bang,[19] [17] which was published weekly until Dec 1917.[20]
  • The Men's Open Table, 1910-1950s, weekly dinners with a speaker.
  • The Women's Open Table

References [edit]

  1. ^ "Home - The National Arts Club". world wide web.nationalartsclub.org . Retrieved June 3, 2019.
  2. ^ "National Arts Club Designation Report" New York Urban center Landmarks Preservation Commission (March 15, 1966)
  3. ^ New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission; Dolkart, Andrew S.; Postal, Matthew A. (2009). Postal, Matthew A. (ed.). Guide to New York City Landmarks (4th ed.). New York: John Wiley & Sons. ISBN978-0-470-28963-i. , p.86
  4. ^ "Samuel J. Tilden House". National Celebrated Landmark summary listing. National Park Service. Archived from the original on June 6, 2011. Retrieved September 18, 2007.
  5. ^ ""Samuel J. Tilden House", September 1975, by Cathy A. Alexander (National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination)" (pdf). National Park Service. September 1975.
  6. ^ "Samuel J. Tilden Business firm--Accompanying ii photos, outside, from 1975 (National Annals of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination)" (pdf). National Park Service. September 1975.
  7. ^ "Archived re-create". www.nationalartsclub.org. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved January eleven, 2022. {{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  8. ^ "Ben Hartley Named Executive Director of New York'south National Arts Gild". September v, 2018.
  9. ^ Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of an American Fortune by Bill Dedman. Ballatine Books Sep 2103
  10. ^ "The Collection - The National Arts Club". www.nationalartsclub.org . Retrieved July 26, 2019.
  11. ^ "History - The National Arts Guild". www.nationalartsclub.org . Retrieved July 25, 2019.
  12. ^ "Exhibitions - The National Arts Social club". world wide web.nationalartsclub.org . Retrieved Apr 30, 2021.
  13. ^ Villager, The (Jan 6, 2021). "Soho street artists exhibiting and continuing to make art | amNewYork". world wide web.amny.com . Retrieved April xxx, 2021.
  14. ^ "Remnants Of Last Summer'due south Violence Following Expiry Of George Floyd Turned Into Fine art Equally Reminder Of Troubling Time". March 9, 2021. Retrieved April xxx, 2021.
  15. ^ "National Arts Club records, 1898-1960", "Historical Note", Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Establishment, [ane]
  16. ^ Who'due south Who in America, 1913, ss.vv.
  17. ^ a b Wendy Wick Reaves, "Marius de Zayas: Spotlight on Personality", chapter iv of Celebrity Caricatures in America, 1998, ISBN 0300074638, p. 74
  18. ^ David Nasaw, Andrew Carnegie, 2007, ISBN 1101201797, p. 697
  19. ^ Who's Who in America, 1914, south.v. Alexander Harvey, p. 1053
  20. ^ Harvard Academy Libraries, catalog record

External links [edit]

  • Official website
  • National Arts Club records at the Smithsonian Athenaeum of American Art

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