0.14 1887 minutes of the new york etching club

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1887 events

• The New York Etching Club held its annual exhibition from January 31 through February 26 at the National Academy of Design, and published a catalogue, illustrated with original etchings, to accompany and record the show.

• A catalogue for the February exhibition and sale of the Stewart collection of art at the American Art Galleries was published in an edition de luxe numbering five hundred copies. In addition to nine photogravure reproductions, the catalogue included fifteen etchings, all reproductions of paintings. The catalogue reproduction editors included New York Etching Club Members Thomas Moran, Frederick S. Church, William M. Chase, R. Swain Gifford, Frederick Dielman, Hamilton Hamilton, William St. John Harper, and C.Y. Turner.

• J. R. W. Hitchcock published Representative Etchings by Artists of Today in America .

• The Boston Museum of Fine Art’s Print Department organized the Exhibition of the Work of the Women Etchers of America , which ran from November through December, 1887.

• White Stokes&Allen published Notable Etchings by American Artists.

January 10th 1887

A special meeting was held at this date in the Secretary’s studio to take action upon a letter from the American Water Color Society given below.

The meeting was called to order by the President at half past four P. M. with the following members present – Messers. Baldwin, Dielman, Farrer, Freer, Thos. Moran, Nicoll, Sabin, Smillie, van Elten, and Wood.

The following letter was read.

To Mr. J. C. Nicoll

Secty New York Etching Club.

Dear Sir.

“At the meeting of the Board of Control this P.M. the following resolution was passed, viz: - “That it is the sense of this meeting the if there is no objection upon the part of the New York Etching Club, it would be to the advantage of both the Etching Club and theWater Color Society to have the etchings hung in the Corridor”

You are requested to lay this proposition before the Club as early as possible, and

kindly inform me of their decision.

Respectfully

(signed) Henry Farrer, Secty.

Mr. Smillie spoke of the circumstances that led to this proposition and argued in its favor. – After considerable discussion which was participated in by most of the members the following resolution was passed unanimously. –

“While we recognize the generous treatment in the past of the American Water Color Society in giving the Etching Club space for its Exhibition we can see no advantage to the club at the present time for hanging etchings in any different place that the one allotted for the purpose by the Water Color Society at its general meeting held in March last.”

After directing the Secretary to communicate this resolution to the Water Color Society the meeting adjourned. As noted earlier in this volume, the New York Etching Club and American Water Color Society often shared closely related executive boards and comparable membership lists. Officers of the New York Etching Club for the 1886/87 year were Henry Farrer, President; and James Craig Nicoll, Secretary and Treasurer. Executive Committee members were Thomas Moran, Frederick S. Church, and Frederick Dielman. Officers of the American Water Color Society for the 1886/87 year were Thomas W. Wood, President; Henry Farrer, Secretary; J. Symington, Treasurer; Frederick S. Church, William H. Lippincott, James D. Smillie and D. W. Tryon.