SCNY Muses & members
Exhibit & Sale
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Location
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Exhibition Hours
Saturday – Sunday | 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Admission
Open to the public
Free to attend
The Salmagundi Club was founded in 1871 as a club of its time. Women were not allowed membership — or even through the door. Occasionally, their work might hang on the walls. In 1893, a group of women artists who had been excluded from clubs like Salmagundi took matters into their own hands. They founded Pen + Brush just around the corner — creating their own space.
For a century, the image of women in American art was largely made by men. Through loans of significant works by the National Museum of American Illustration, this exhibition puts that history on the wall and asks women artists to answer it.
Archival works by Salmagundi members from the era of exclusion are juxtaposed with new juried works by contemporary women artists, same subject, different hands, different authority. This is a show about who gets to define women. For a century, the answer was men. It isn’t anymore.
This is a show about authorship. Who held the brush then, what they chose to see, and what women say when they finally hold it themselves.
