List of American print clubs

This is a list of American artist printmaking societies and print clubs in chronological order of their founding. Note: The purpose of this timeline is to focus on the organization of artist printmakers into societies, and not to focus on clubs of collectors. The distinction between "society" and "club" is not necessarily reflected in the name of the organization nor in the inclusion of an organization in this list.

Year Printmaking society Address Notes
1839 Apollo Association for the Promotion of the Fine Arts New York City, New York [1]
1877 New York Etchers Club New York City, New York [2]
1880s Boston Etching Club Boston, Massachusetts [3]
1880s–1915 Philadelphia Society of Etchers Philadelphia, Pennsylvania [3]
1880s Cincinnati Etchers Club Cincinnati, Ohio
1880s Brooklyn Scratchers Club Brooklyn, New York City, New York
1881 Society of Painter-Etchers New York City, New York
1886 French Etching Club New York City, New York [4]
1888 Society of American Etchers
1909 Needle Club, Chicago
1910–1956 Needle Club incorporated as Chicago Society of Etchers
1912 California Society of Etchers San Francisco, California
1913 New York Society of Etchers
1913 California Society of Etchers/Printmakers' first and second annual exhibitions San Francisco, California
1914 Printmakers of Los Angeles Los Angeles, California
1915 Print Club of Philadelphia Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1916 New York Society of Etchers Brooklyn, New York City, New York becomes Brooklyn Society of Etchers.[3]
1917 Painter-Gravers of America
1919 Print Club of Cleveland[5] Cleveland, Ohio
1921 Printmakers of Los Angeles Los Angeles, California becomes Printmakers Society of California
1924 Cincinnati Print and Drawing Club
1928 Honolulu Printmakers Honolulu, Ohau, Hawaii
1928 Northwest Printmakers Society
1930 American Society of Print Collectors, Ohio State University
1930 Print Club of Rochester Rochester, New York
1931 Buffalo Print Club
1931 Prairie Print Makers Wichita, Kansas
1931 Brooklyn Society of Etchers Brooklyn, New York City, New York becomes Society of American Etchers
1931 Haden Etching Club
1932 Syracuse Print Club
1932 Woodcut Society
1933 Society of Washington DC Etchers Washington, D. C.
1933 Print Club of Albany
1934 Indiana Society of Print Makers
1934 Washington Etchers
1935 Southern Printmakers Society Mount Airy, Georgia
1935 Dallas Print Club Dallas, Texas
1937 Lone Star Printmakers
1940 Princeton Print Club
1940–41 Friends of Contemporary Prints
c.1945 Iowa Print Group
1947 Boston Printmakers Boston, Massachusetts
1952 Society of American Etchers becomes Society of American Graphic Artists (SAGA)
1955 Bay Printmakers merge to form California Society of Printmakers
1962 Los Angeles Printmakers Society Los Angeles, California
1968 California Society of Etchers and Bay Printmakers merge to form California Society of Printmakers
1972 Southern Graphics Council University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina [6]
1991 The Print Club of New York, NYC New York City, New York PCNY website
1992 American Print Alliance
1992 Mid America Print Council MAPC website

References

  1. ^ Peters, Lisa (1982). "Print Clubs in America". The Print Collector's Newsletter. 13 (3): 88–91. ISSN 0032-8537. JSTOR 44131087.
  2. ^ "American Etchers Abroad, 1880-1939". www.tfaoi.com. Brandywine River Museum. 2006. Retrieved 2021-08-19.
  3. ^ a b c Peters, Lisa (1982). "Print Clubs in America". The Print Collector's Newsletter. 13 (3): 88–91. ISSN 0032-8537. JSTOR 44131087.
  4. ^ "Etchers of Paris: 1850-1900". Brooklyn Museum. Retrieved 2021-08-19.
  5. ^ Bradley, Barbara J., ed. (1994). The Print Club of Cleveland: 1969-1994. Cleveland: The Print Club of Cleveland. ISBN 0940717247.
  6. ^ Burk, Teresa. "Research Guides: Atlanta Print Collection: SGC International Print Portfolios". SCAD Libraries. Retrieved 2021-08-19.
  • Engelbrecht, Theresa Moir. "Inter-Collected: The Shared History of the Print Club and Museum Collection," Art in Print Vol. 7 No. 2 (July–August 2017).
  • Fredericks, Stephen A., personal email correspondence with Maryly A. Snow, 2009
  • Goddard class syllabus Goddard, Stephen. History of Art 706, University of Kansas
  • Kushner, Marilyn S. Genesis of the Twentieth-Century Print Club, pages 82–95, in American Identities: Twentieth-Century Prints from the Nancy Gray Sherrill, Class of 1954, Collection. Wellesley, MA : Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, c2004. 309 pp.
  • Lang, Gladys Engel and Kurt Lang (2001). Etched in Memory: The Building and Survival of Artistic Reputation, Second edition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. pp. 437 pp.