0.15 1888 minutes of the new york etching club

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1888 events

• The New York Etching Club held its annual exhibition from January 30 through February 25 at the National Academy of Design and published a catalogue illustrated with original etchings to accompany and record the show.

• Frederick Keppel published Catalogue of the Etched Works of Peter Moran , illustrated with five original etchings by the artist.

• J. Dewing published John Muir’s two-volume Picturesque California and the Region West of the Rocky Mountains from Alaska to Mexico , containing some six hundred original etchings, photogravures and wood engravings.

• The Union League Club in New York City issued the Exhibition Catalogue of the Work of Women Etchers of America . The catalogue listed over five hundred etchings in the show, representing the work of only thirty-six women. Two of these artists, Mary Nimmo Moran and Edith Loring Getchell, were members of the New York Etching Club and between them exhibited some 113 etchings in the show. Future club member Ellen Oakford exhibited over twenty of her prints.
• The Society of American Etchers was formed in June 1888. On November 25, The New York Times reported on a small exhibition held in The Ortgies Gallery, on lower Fifth Avenue in New York City. Fifteen prints were exhibited, all by members of the society, whose stated purpose was to guarantee the size of editions and the merits of the etcher. The Times noted that “…there are about 20 artist members in the new society”; and “Most if not all of the members are of the New York Etching Club.” Exhibitors included Charles A. Platt, Stephen Parrish, Kruseman van Elten, Thomas Moran, Frederick Freer, Charles Yardley Turner, William Sartain, Thomas Waterman Wood, Henry Farrer, James Craig Nicoll, and Mary Nimmo Moran.

• The Second Black&White Exhibition—Etchings Presented by The Art Association of Montreal included work by New York Etching Club members Frederick S. Church, Reginald C. Coxe, Kruseman van Elten, Henry Farrer, Mary Nimmo Moran, Peter Moran, Thomas Moran, Stephen Parrish, and Charles Adams Platt. According to the catalogue for the show, the first Art Association of Montreal exhibition took place in 1881.

• Frederick A. Stokes&Brother published Important New Etchings by American Artists , which included prints by Otto Bacher, Charles Platt, James D. Smillie. William St. John Harper, and relative unknowns C.D. Weldon and J.A. Mitchell. Of particular interest is an extensive essay—"Future of Etching," by Ripley Hitchcock—included with the bound portfolio.

Feby. 24th, 1888

The regular February meeting of the Etching Club was held at the Secy’s Studio on the above date.

Of members there were present, Messrs Church, Cox, Farrer, Hamilton, King, Lathrop, Lauber, McIhenney, Thos. Moran, Nicoll, Platt, Schilling, Share, Shelton, Turner, Twachtman&Wood.

The minutes of last meeting were read and approved. Messrs Kimmel&Voigt’s Bill for printing the plates ($363.”) and Jno. C. Rankins for Printing the Catalogue ($184.80) were audited and ordered paid.