The Salmagundi Club was founded in 1871 as a club of its time. Women were not allowed membership or even through the door, though occasionally, their work may 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.