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Salmagundi Club
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| Location: | 47 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York |
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| Coordinates: | 40°44′3″N 73°59′0″W / 40.73417°N 73.983333°WCoordinates: 40°44′3″N 73°59′0″W / 40.73417°N 73.983333°W |
| Built: | 1852 |
| Architectural style: | Anglo-Italianate |
| NRHP Reference#: | 74001275 [1] |
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| Added to NRHP: | July 25, 1974 |
| Designated NYCL: | September 9, 1969 |
The Salmagundi Club, also known as the Salmagundi Art Club, was founded in 1871 in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York City, New York, in the United States. It currently is located at 47 Fifth Avenue. As of 2009, the Salmagundi Club has over eight hundred members.[2]
For nearly 140 years, the Salmagundi Club has served as a center for fine arts and artists, conducting art exhibitions, art classes, demonstrations, and art auctions, and hosting many other events. It is also a sponsor of the United States Coast Guard Art Program (COGAP).[3]
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History
Originally called the New York Sketch Class,[4] and later called the New York Sketch Club,[5] the Salmagundi Club had its beginnings at the eastern edge of Greenwich Village in sculptor Jonathan Scott Hartley's Broadway studio, where a group of artists, students, and friends at the National Academy of Design, which at the time was located at Fourth Avenue and Twenty-third Street,[6] gathered weekly on Saturday evenings.
The club formally changed its name to The Salmagundi Sketch Club in January 1877.[4] The name has variously been attributed to salmagundi,[5] a stew which the group has served from its earliest years, or to Washington Irving's Salmagundi Papers.[7][8]
Growing rapidly, and housed in many temporary locations,[5] the club was at 14 West Twelfth Street[7] for some years. In 1917,[4][5][7] the club purchased the 1852 Irad Hawley brownstone townhouse at 47 Fifth Avenue between East Eleventh and East Twelfth Streets, constructing a large two-story addition in the backyard to house its main art galleries and billiard room. The building was designated a historical landmark [2] by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1969. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.
Members
Members of the Salmagundi Club have included Thomas P. Barnett, Ralph Blakelock, James Wells Champney, William Merritt Chase, Frederick Stuart Church, Charles Dana Gibson, William Hart, Childe Hassam, George Inness, Jr., John LaFarge, Ernest Lawson, Frank Mason, Samizu Matsuki, John Francis Murphy, Howard Pyle, Will J. Quinlan, Harry Roseland, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Barbara Stadtlander, Louis Comfort Tiffany, Edward Charles Volkert, Jack Wemp, Stanford White, Richard C. Pionk, and N.C. Wyeth.
Honorary members [7] have included Paul Cadmus, Schuyler Chapin, Winston Churchill, Buckminister Fuller, Al Hirschfeld, and Thomas Hoving.
In 1894, to raise money for the growing club's library,[4][9] artist members were invited to decorate ceramic mugs, which were then fired by Charles Volkmar, the club potter. The club would host a dinner followed by an auction of the finished mugs.… Over the years, many decorated mugs have been returned to the club and are on exhibit in the library along with the largest collection of used artists' palettes in America.
Club presidents
- Joseph Hartley 1871-1889
- George W. Maynard 1888-1889
- Charles Yardley Turner 1889-1883
- Thomas Moran 1893-1896
- W. Lewis Fraser 1896-1897
- Alexander Theobald Van Laer 1897-1898
- Robert C. Minor 1898-1899
- Alexander Theobald Van Laer 1899-1900
- George H. McCord 1900-1901
- George Inness, Jr. 1901-1903
- J. Scott Hartley 1903-1905
- Alexander T. Van Laer 1905-1908
- Henry B. Snell 1908-1910
- Frank Knox Morton Rehn[10] 1910-1911
- Carleton Wiggins 1911-1913
- Charles Vezin 1913-1914
- F. Ballard Williams 1914-1919
- Emil Carlsen 1919-1920
- J. Massey Rhind 1920-1922
- Hobart Nichols 1922-1924
- W. Granville Smith 1924-1926
- Franklin De Haven 1926-1929
- Bruce Crane 1929-1933
- Louis Betts 1933-1935
- George Elmer Brown 1935-1937
- Frederick W. Hutchinson 1937-1939
- Gordon Grant 1939-1941
- George Lober 1941-1944
- Frederick K. Detwiller 1944-1946
- Henry O' Connor 1946-1947
- Silvio B. Valerio 1947-1949
- Percy Albee 1949-1953
- Russell Rypsam 1953-1955
- Henry Laussucq 1955-1957
- Junius Allen 1957-1959
- A. Henry Nordhausen 1959-1963
- Francis Vandeveer Kughler 1963-1966
- Martin Hannon 1966-1970
- John N. Lewis 1970-1976
- Martin Hannon 1976-1977
- Raymond R. Goldberg 1977-1979
- Richard Clive 1979-1981
- Carl L. Thomson 1981-1983
- Ruth B. Reininghaus 1983-1987
- Edward A. Brennan 1987-1990
- Kenneth W. Fitch 1990-1991
- Robert Volpe 1991-1994
- Richard C. Pionk 1994- 2007
- Claudia Seymour 2007-present
References
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2009-03-13. http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov/natreg/docs/All_Data.html.
- ^ a b c Traditional Fine Arts Organization, Inc (2005). "Salmagundi Club: An American Institution". Description of Dubuque Museum of Art exhibition, part of a two and a half year national tour of museums in eleven cities. http://www.tfaoi.com/aa/5aa/5aa199.htm. "In 1917, with the support of its members, a Fifth Avenue brownstone was purchased and became their permanent home. … and in 1957 was cited for its architectural distinction by both the Society of Architectural Historians and the Municipal Art Society. It is a fitting home for the oldest art club in America."
- ^ "Affiliations". Salmagundi Club website. http://www.salmagundi.org/affiliates.htm.
- ^ a b c d Anne Cohen DePietro (2005). "A Fertile Fellowship: The Rich History of the Salmagundi Club". Traditional Fine Arts Organization, Inc., San Clemente, California, and the Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, New York. http://www.tfaoi.com/aa/5aa/5aa290.htm.
- ^ a b c d Mara McGinnis (Oct 29 – Nov 04, 2003). "130-year-old Village arts club still flourishing". The Villager, Vol. 73, No. 26. http://www.thevillager.com/vilager_26/130yearsoldvillage.html.
- ^ "National Academy School of Fine Arts History". National Academy of Design website. http://www.nationalacademy.org/. "Lemuel Wilmarth was appointed the first full-time instructor in January 1870, by which time the school was located at Fourth Avenue and 23rd Street. Under Wilmarth's leadership, the number of classes and the enrollment increased, and new techniques, such as the quick-sketch, were introduced in response to changing esthetic criteria."
- ^ a b c d Tom Fletcher, with thanks to the Museum of the City of New York. "Salmagundi Club Landmark". New York Architecture Images, exterior and interior. http://www.nyc-architecture.com/GV/GV008SalmagundiClub.htm.
- ^ "Washington Irving". NNDB. http://www.nndb.com/people/815/000031722/. "… a satirical miscellany entitled Salmagundi, or the Whim-Whams and Opinions of Launcelot Langstaff [pseudonym of Washington Irving] and Others, written in conjunction with his brother William and J. K. Paulding."
- ^ William Henry Shelton (November 7, 1898). "Letter to the Editor: Salmagundi Club's Library". The New York Times, Saturday Review of Books and Art, Page BR770, abstract. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9F0CE2D71438E433A2575AC1A9679D94699ED7CF. Full text (PDF) published November 19, 1898.
- ^ "F. K. M. Rehn, Artist, Dies. Ex-President of Salmagundi Club Stricken at Summer Home" (PDF). New York Times. July 8, 1914. http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9407EFD91F39E633A2575BC0A9619C946596D6CF. Retrieved 2009-08-10.
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