The Philadelphia Ten
The Philadelphia Ten, also known as The Ten, was a group of female artists from the United States who exhibited together from 1917 to 1945. The group exhibited annually in Philadelphia and later had traveling exhibitions at other museums throughout the East Coast and the Midwest.
All of the members of the Philadelphia Ten attended art school in Philadelphia. The group’s first show was held at the Art Club of Philadelphia in February 1917 and it showcased the work of 11 artists, nine trained at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women (now Moore College of Art and Design) and two from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. More members later joined; in all, 23 painters and seven sculptors participated in the group’s exhibitions.
The original members included the following eleven women painters:
Eleanor Abrams
Katharine Marie Barker
Theresa Ferber Bernstein
Cora Smalley Brooks
Isabel Branson Cartwright
Constance Cochrane
Mary Russell Ferrell Colton
Arrah Lee Gaul
Edith Lucile Howard
Helen Kiner McCarthy
Katharine Hood McCormick
Additional painters eventually included in the Philadelphia Ten:
Maude Drein Bryant
Fern Isabel Kuns Coppedge
Nancy Maybin Ferguson
Margaret Ralston Gest
Sue May Wescott Gill
Susette Schultz Keast
Marian T. MacIntosh
Emma Fordyce MacRae
Mary Elizabeth Price
Elizabeth Wentworth Roberts
Susan Gertrude Schell
Edith Longstreth Wood
Other sculptors eventually included in the Philadephia Ten:
Gladys Edgerley Bates
Cornelia Van Auken Chapin
Beatrice Fenton
Harriet Whitney Frishmuth
Genevieve Karr Hamlin
Joan Hartley
Mary Lawser
information courtesy of Wikipedia, March 2010.