SAL record control number: 140008 ;

Record level: Item ;

Record type: Movable work ;

Work title: Salmagundi Club get together dinner (October 31, 1911) [from collection database] ;

Alternate work titles:
2022 : Salmagundi Club get together dinner (October 31, 1911) [from collection database] ;

Work date: 1911 [from collection database] ;

Work creator: (Walter) Harrison Cady (1877-1970) [RA 1908-1970] ;

Work medium: Printed poster ;
Work dimensions: 20-1/4 x 15-1/8 inches [unframed] | 22-3/8 x 17-1/4 x 5/8 inches [framed] ;

Inscribed / signed front:
Location: At lower right.
Dated?: No.
Text: ‘HARRISON CADY’.

Verso: [none] ;

SAL category: Works on paper ;
SAL sub-category: Poster ;

Archives of American Art subjects:
Art
Art — American
Art ― Private collections ― New York (State)
Art ― Private collections ― New York (State) ― Salmagundi

Description of work:

Provenance:
1911 SCNY, accession #2007.157 ;
1911 (Walter) Harrison Cady (1877-1970) [RA 1908-1970], the artist .

Exhibition history:
2022 SCNY Bump in the night : Halloween themed works from the collection October 17 – November 19.

References / citations:
– Collection list accession #2007.157.
– Collection list accession #G-16.

Notes:
The poster bears 42 signatures of dinner attendees. The Get-Together Dinner, which kicked off the Club’s season was generally held near or on the evening of October 31. The New York Times covered the festivities of the 1914 Dinner with the following article: ARTISTS HALLOWEN DINNER. Salmagundi Club Celebrates Opening of Autumn Season. Within the gallery of the Salmagundi Club at 14 West Twelfth Street more than 150 artists and members of the club assembled at the annual “Get Together Dinner” last night, and the setting for the event suggested a grotto of the Ice King, with grinning jack-o-lanterns made from pumpkins suspended amid the frost-like streamers and corn stalks and ears of corn, on Halloween. On the tables the decorations included Autumn leaves, and witches with broomsticks in hand were represented on yellow papers, everything pertaining to the spirit to the spirit of a Halloween party. Frederick Ballard Williams, President of the Salmagundi Club, was toast master, and during the festivities introduced Poultney Bigelow as speaker of the evening. There was music, and songs were rendered by members of the artist band to celebrate the opening of the Autumn season. (New York Times, November 1,1914, pg. 17) See also accession #2007.437 for the drawing by Charles S. Chapman for the Halloween Get-Together Dinner.

Document information

Document permalink:
http://salmagundi.org/artwork/?p=140008

Digital-born document number:
SAL.2022.140008

Record birth date:
September 25, 2022

Last updated: July 12, 2023 at 11:36 am