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----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Please note that this exhibition will be running during the ARLIS conference in Philadelphia in March. ------------------ "The Philadelphia Ten, 1917-1945: A Women's Artist Group" An exhibition in the Paley/Levy Galleries Moore College of Art and Design 20th Street and the Parkway, Philadelphia PA 19103 January 23 through March 15, 1998 Plus: "Ten Makes Thirty" a slide lecture about this remarkable group of women artists. Firday January 23 at 5:30 pm (prior to the opening reception) ALSO: Book signing and Reception In conjunction with the Moore College Multicultural Student Union, the galleries will host a book signing for PRIDE, a new novel by Lorene Cary, author of BLACK ICE and THE PRICE OF A CHILD (date and time to be announced). ---------------------------------------------------- An exhibition of The Philadelphia Ten will be on view at moore Colleg of Art and Design from January 23 through March 15, 1998. This exhibition, featuring 75 paintings and 15 sculptures by members of this group of outstanding women artists, has been planned in celebration of the 150th anniversary of the founding of Moore College of Art and Design. After the exhibition closes at Moore, it will travel to several venues, including the Westmoreland Museum in Greensburg, PA (May 10-July 12, 1998); the Old Jail Museum in Albany, TX (January 23-March 20, 1999); the Concord Art Association in Concord, MA (April 16, June 11, 1999); and the James A. Michener Museum of Art in Doylestown, PA (July 10-October 3, 1999). A unique and progressive group of women painters and sculptors calling themselves "Ten Philadelphia Painters" and later "The Ten" exhibited together between 1917 and 1945, at first annually in Philadelphia and later with traveling exhibitions at major museums and galleries on the east coast and in the midwest. All studies art in the schools of Philadelphia and all but three of the original ten were graduates of the Philadelphia School of Design for Women (PSDW), now known as Moore College of Art and Design. The group first became recognized in 1917, althought some had previously exhibited together. Little known today, the work of these twenty-three painters and seven sculptors was well-regarded, widely shown and aggressively collected in its time. Regularly included in the exhbitions of The Ten were haunting and luminous landscapes by Arizona painter MARY RUSSELL FERREL COLTON; gold-leaf ornamented paneled screens by M. ELIZABETH PRICE; lyrical and dramatic views of Ireland by PSDW faculty member LUCILE HOWARD; painterly seascapes by CONSTANCE COCHRANE; intimate and endearing portraits by ISABEL BRANSON CARTWRIGHT; and striking, topical paintings by New York based artist THERESA BERNSTEIN, who, at age 107, will attend the opening reception at Moore on January 23. Beginning in 1926, their exhibitions also included work by a small number of sculptors, including HARRIET FRISHMUTH, BEATRICE FENTON, and GRACE EDGERLY BATES. Four of the approximately thirty women who exhibited at one time with The Ten were the mainstays--Isabel Branson Cartwright, Constance Cochrane, Lucile Howard, and M. Elizabeth Price. While none of The Ten were radical feminists, each made an independent career for herself as a practicing artist, and contrary to the prevailing custom, many retained their maiden names. The first retrospective of the Philadelphia Ten has been organized by Dr. Page Talbott, consulting curator and director of the 150th Anniversary Programs at Moore College of Art and Design, and Dr. Patricia Tanis Sydney, independent curator and formerly curator of collections at the James A. Michener Museum. It will feature works from over fifty private and public collections. The exhibition and illustrated catalog on the work of these women are destined to attract wide interest on a local and national scale. On the evening of the opening reception, Dr. Talbott will present "Ten Makes Thirty", a slide lecture about this remarkable group of women. In honor of Women's History Month, the galleries and the Multicultural Student Union will present a book signing for PRIDE, a new novel by Philadelphia writer Lorene Cary, author of BLACK ICE and THE PRICE OF A CHILD. PRIDE tells the story of four strong-willed and accomplised black women who learn loss and triumph as addiction, maternal passion, betrayal and violence transform their lives. ------------- The Galleries at Moore are open to the public, free of charge. Tuesday through Friday from 10am to 5pm, Saturday and Sunday 12 noon to 4pm. For more information, please telephone Molly Dougherty, assistant director for public programs, at 215-568-4515, ext. 1140 or contact Page Talbott at [log in to unmask]